Hacker News: zeagle

New comment by zeagle in "US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29"

zeagle — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:23:50 +0000

He doesn't want a deal for the US, he wants to personally profit from it.

New comment by zeagle in "Jellyfin 12.0"

zeagle — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:44:55 +0000

Does it do bitstream DTS and DV on Apple TV? If so maybe I’ll have to try. Also am I going old or is the whole join our discord to see what it’s about/download is the new norm on the web? My click through rate on that is about 0.

New comment by zeagle in "The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor"

zeagle — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:39:14 +0000

Interesting using the iPad that way for productivity.

It's too bad there isn't a 3:2 OLED (and if there is let me know). I shelled out for a AW3225QF OLED 4k at 240hz and it is beautiful... I would love to get a proper OLED side monitor for the blacks and contrast but instead stick with my Dell U24 as replacing it seems silly.

New comment by zeagle in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

zeagle — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:47:39 +0000

The average American suffers being hated for this government and I say this currently sitting in a town filled with fly in rich American tourists to keep it alive. IMO the only retaliatory pain point for Americans to start to care will be taxing discounted oil, electricity, fertilizer, and transits of everything to Alaska. But they’ll just blame rather than support Canada. I don’t like Doug Ford or his policies but hopefully he brings up the electricity thing again as leverage because it won’t happen in the other sectors given AB separatism and SK being, well, SK.

New comment by zeagle in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

zeagle — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:38:51 +0000

I do the same with Debian. An old 3079 nvidia card for the server, docker for most service, and the onboard amd onboard discrete gpu passed through to a blueiris vm. Power is a bit higher but I’m fine with the flexibility and lack of vendor lock in and upgrade paths. If it dies any zfs machine could mount those drives.

New comment by zeagle in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

zeagle — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:33:57 +0000

I held off buying an apple TV mainly cause I don't want to purchase Infuse for DV/HDR/Atmos content. Is there a decent client otherwise?

New comment by zeagle in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

zeagle — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:07:35 +0000

I have no conflict of interest and feel bad for you if you've wasted time on it, but for anyone else who is considering trying it I have literally have had no issues with mine including setting up nvidia hw transcoding on a debian nas. Only thing I can think of is briefly the android tv client lagged on a major version RC so was incompatible till it updated on my box. I have to check the change log sometimes because of how seamless updating has been (kind of like paperless-ngx and immich as another plug!).

New comment by zeagle in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

zeagle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:31:35 +0000

I would really disagree as a physician that's used a lot of random crap stethoscopes when I don't have one or in an iso room. Those disposable ones are different in what they pick up, some findings are louder others not detectable. Sure I can pick up some stuff like rubs and systolic murmurs but you aren't going to get more subtle findings like diastolic murmurs and fine crackles. Probably a combination of certain frequencies responding and also me being used to mine.

New comment by zeagle in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

zeagle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:28:52 +0000

My first stephoscope lasted about 10 years until the tubing became brittle and started cracking. It's the oil on your skin that does it apparently. It went through a couple diaphragms and I lost an ear piece but used a replacement one.

New comment by zeagle in "Blurry iPhone Text Picture Problem: Is There an Easy Solution I'm Missing?"

zeagle — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:13:12 +0000

Interesting the first comment on the post suggesting a Android phone. Ironically I went the other way and switched to an iPhone because it did a better job of text than my pixel 6 or 7 due to spherical aberration scanning receipts and I got fed up. Then stuck with the ecosystem. I guess grass is just always greener on the other side from small compact cameras and optics on these devices. Best solution seemed to be 2x zoom with a bit of distance.

New comment by zeagle in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

zeagle — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:17:41 +0000

Yeah and they could hire a professional driver or a engineer and IPO for billions a life sized driving AI powered crypto robot too. Look, like clearly google + ctrl-v scripting or running an one click deployment exe on your computer on a whim is different than physically ordering/picking up something and then installing it into a vehicle?

New comment by zeagle in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

zeagle — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:30:13 +0000

Simplest example: a driver could probably disable attentive driving checks by pasting a script in from a web search in a few minutes. Nothing like an inattentive 3750 lbs weapon.

New comment by zeagle in "AirPods Max 2"

zeagle — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:53:11 +0000

Exactly. Look at something like the Sony XM5s that have a defective design that breaks in a light wind. There a class action against them for the crap they pulled and refusal to warranty. Not that I’m bitter at them or anything.

New comment by zeagle in "FrameBook"

zeagle — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:53:11 +0000

I would imagine battery life would be poor vs an eReader. In case you seek the same: I used a boox onyx (12"?) and OK overall. Issues IMO were the display is very fragile & did it in in the end despite a case and pocket in the bag, color was a bit of gimmick, most importantly the resolution was not good enough read journals/PDFs/stuff like the guardian weekly via libby crisply without zooming in... but the rest was decent. I switched to a kindle scribe I got for 1/3 the price after but it can't read the guardian or anything like that unfortunately like an android tablet. So just a bulky eReader with meeting notes there. If it even just showed my daily calendar I’d be happy.

New comment by zeagle in "FrameBook"

zeagle — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:50:35 +0000

This is pretty impressive! I'm always impressed with what one can 3D print to fit commercial products into a previous case! Modifying to fit the larger webcam module, battery in that way was neat too. Does the display connect via framework's cable without modification? I have an old motherboard running headless I was thinking of resurrecting but if I need to hook up a USC-C display.

New comment by zeagle in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

zeagle — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:08:30 +0000

I'd take that election atmosphere and then recognize Canadians are living in a charged environment with cost of living/quality of life/economy changing and uncertainty. Many Canadians see Trump & his with the de facto support he has (in that nothing has been done about it despite posturing) as a threat and root cause of much of it. Not all of that's true or due to him or the US. But it means nobody down there will meaningfully protect Canada with his threats/economic war if they can't even block his domestic chaos. Folks are happy to see other folks and appreciate visitors but they also recognize a threat. Just like in America. So agree why publicize foreign political views.

Perhaps in the white vs black experience lens that most of my US friends seem to see every world conflict through to relate to their own history (wild conversations about Middle Eastern politics there being racial), it's like wearing something racially inflammatory to the wrong neighbourhood. If one's blowing $$,$$$ on bespoke fly in tourism you can probably get away with it with a polite topic change as tourism keeps food on the table, but park a Trump sticker on a residential street I'd be surprised if even in the nicest neighbourhood there isn't some damage to it. Likely from a teenager goofing off with friends in the current environment.

To the second individually most Americans are nice in my experience, if you are seen as a person and not anonymous in the crowd. I've had a family member get a rifle leveled at them for stepping over a property line in the US where clearly they weren't seen as a fellow human... what can I say to that or the normalization of it.

New comment by zeagle in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

zeagle — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:43:22 +0000

No, most people recognize a government isn’t reflective of individual people and are kind. If anything you’ll be more likely to be let in on the road if you are in the wrong lane assuming you don’t know where you are going. Having said that I wouldn’t wear/sticker political messaging, namely Trump and MAGA given current realities, but really of any type.

New comment by zeagle in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

zeagle — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:23:10 +0000

Is it different on Windows from MacOS? I have AI features disabled on firefox 148.0 and my options on an image are a reasonable list of Open Image in New Tab, Save Image As..., Copy Image, Copy Image Link, Email Image, Set Image as Desktop Background..., Take Screenshot, Inspect Accessibility Properties, Inspect (Q) and two related to extensions that are my choice (Block Element..., Bitwarden). For links I get the Open in (...) options. If I enable AI features I get one extra menu. And very niche to disable print.enabled so you can't print from your browser?

New comment by zeagle in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

zeagle — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:27:30 +0000

That’s a perspective I hadn’t considered. Although the whole thing stinks of middlemen extracting all the profit between producers and consumers e.g. ag sector by the laws won’t catch up or even force integration. Thanks!

New comment by zeagle in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

zeagle — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:30:34 +0000

For sure. There are many billions and brilliant engineers propping up AI so they will win any cat and mouse game of blocking. It would be ideal if sites gave their data to IA and IA protected it exactly from what you say. But as someone that intentionally uses AI tools almost daily (mainly open evidence) IMO blame the abuser not the victim that it has come to this.