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Krisjohn··on ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license
Yeah, my key still works on the current version.
Krisjohn··on Over 40% of the latest YC batch are AI/ML startups
Is there still gold to be had, or are they just enriching the shovel-sellers?
Krisjohn··on I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
I use Plexamp with a Wireguard tunnel back home. Biggest upgrade to my in-car music listening in years.
Krisjohn··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
I have a 60% without arrow keys and I really miss them. I think in part because the built-in Fn arrow functionality on that keyboard is UJHK (Up-Down-Left-Right). If it's not vi's KJHL (Up-Down-Left-Right), I can never remember it. My daily driver is a 60% with arrow keys - The CoolerMaster SK622. I tried some larger Fekir ones wit arrow keys and function keys, but I find it better to have a smaller keyboard and a Stream Deck.

I moved down from a Logitech G19 to the current configuration. The ergonomics are much better with a smaller keyboard if your desk space is limited.

Krisjohn··on Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug Limits
"he sometimes buys a smaller quantity of double-strength pain pills for his patients to cut in half."

Yeah, that's potentially very dangerous. Drugs have different release rates, and sometimes have a coating to control when first release starts.

Krisjohn··on LTT YouTube channel has been compromised, account suspended
Jeez, there's like 21 pages of noise after that comment in the 9 hours since it was posted.
Krisjohn··on The collapse of companies like SVB is triggering demand for corporate merch
Some of this is going into the background of interview videos to back up the claims people make of having worked at places that no longer exist and can't be verified.
Krisjohn··on That plum job listing may just be a ghost
Staff that will burn thousands of combined hours of other people in order to save themselves a day or two are a HUGE RED FLAG! Businesses that think that is perfectly reasonable are toxic AF.
Krisjohn··on Bitcoin hits $28k as uncertainty surrounds banks
People investing in Bitcoin due to banking problems are like people who avoid voting for a racist uncle by voting for Darth Vader.

Let's take a system collapsing due to lack of regulation and move to the wild west of finance. Genius.

Krisjohn··on Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
I prefer this.

I recently created two screen shots to show what different applications were displaying from the same database. A old school windows app with a dense UI vs a "modern" app. The image from the newer app was three times the height and there was no way to change it to any other view.

I prefer apps that wouldn't look out of place running on Windows 3.11. There was a certain sense of efficiency that's been lost.

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Krisjohn··on Non-Compete Clause Rule (NPRM)
That is very, very far from the typical experience, assuming it's even real.
Krisjohn··on Google search for a local restaurant returns scammer’s ad as top result
I really must get a good bookmark manager going again.
Krisjohn··on Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?
ADHD medication shortages are a reoccurring theme on reddit.com/r/shortages with a common recommendation being a doctor-assisted reduction in dose in order to build up a stock of the drug.

This is not strictly an answer to your question, sorry, but I still hope it helps.

Krisjohn··on You Need at Least $3M in Savings to Live Comfortably in Retirement
Only another $2.9m to go
Krisjohn··on Apple fires hundreds of contract workers, previously assured jobs were safe
That's a generous description. It reads like AI junk and feels untrustworthy.
Krisjohn··on NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails
What about the open redirect?
Krisjohn··on I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one
Between "iOS" and "System Data" my original 16GB SE doesn't have enough space to do an OS update even if I uninstall every last app on it. My 3rd gen Apple Watch is also full of "other" and will need to be factory reset and re-paired again to keep going.

Apple know they're ruining old devices by not cleaning up temp files, they just don't care.

Krisjohn··on Dell to layoff 6,650 employees as demand for PCs plummets
We can't get customers to replace equipment. Businesses appear to be intending to run everything into the ground and expect us to just keep fixing stuff forever. We're considering an emergency billing rate, when a customer has a predictable failure we've warned them about. Meanwhile, any project that requires new hardware might as well be abandoned.

Dell thinks it's bad now? It's only getting worse.

Krisjohn··on Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to find quality Windows apps?
Do you need to sync between multiple devices and/or platforms?
Krisjohn··on The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
Billionaires not a billion times smarter than someone with a dollar to their name, news at 11.
Krisjohn··on Is remote work bad for the economy?
I would suggest that the current economic crises are a massive ocean swell on which WFH is a tiny ripple.

Are some city cafes likely to go under because people aren't coming into the office? Probably.

Are people being forced to eliminate every single discretionary expense so they can pay their bills and eat in the same month? Yes, absolutely. Are some households only surviving because WFH is letting them avoid transport expenses, and reduce food costs? Also yes.

Our mortgage + insurances + rates + mobile/internet + utilities + basic food = almost what we're bringing in this month. And the last payment on the bathroom reno we started five interest rate rises ago will probably be due this month too.

So, define "economy". This bit of the economy would probably run out of money to put fuel in the car if I couldn't work from home.

Krisjohn··on “In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be wiped”
> Why "wipe" them? That seems unnecessarily punative.

You're proposing to remove the devices from the cloud management service, probably including admin lockouts and anti-malware software, but leaving all the data on them?

Krisjohn··on “In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be wiped”
Surely no senior management would increase the financial burden on a department or branch without also increasing its budget, right? Right?
Krisjohn··on “In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be wiped”
At a particular point the author specifically indicates that for the sake of reducing stuff that many readers might find uninteresting or too frequent, they will be condensing larger posts.

> Alright, things are moving faster now, so I might condense-toot to avoid pollution.

But I guess the chronically online need something to complain about.

Krisjohn··on UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
"expected"? So the rest of the world is just going to be surprised?
Krisjohn··on 'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening
The fallout from decades of gutting of anti-monopoly legislation and the failure to enforce what's left is creating a cost of living crisis so bad that we've almost forgotten the housing crisis caused by decades of policy designed to drive up house values combining with decades of policy to suppress wages.
Krisjohn··on WTF with high school questions?
Is this evidence that the applicant is bad, or good?

This story is real, but I understand if you don't believe it: The year I finished school, all but one of my school's English Lit students failed the state exam (TEE). The only one that passed was the guy coming bottom of the class.

Krisjohn··on About Security Keys for Apple ID
If the service offers something other than a QR code that you did something with other than just adding into a one-way Authenticator, sure.

I have a couple of TOTPs trapped on crappy apps because I didn't care at the time and can't easily refresh them. However, now I use apps that parse the QR code and store the config in an exportable way.

As we change every damn password in our company LP account, moving it to Bitwarden at the same time, we will implement TOTP MFA wherever we can. If you screenshot the QR code and load it into the accound with the app, all the team with access can use it. It's our next best step. (Once the boss gets the new account sorted.)

Krisjohn··on About Security Keys for Apple ID
Get a pouch for your water bottle that has a pocket for your keys.
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