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cjaackie··on Apple to Launch 'MacBook Ultra' with These Six New Features
1. OLED Display - first MacBooks with an OLED display

2. Touch Screen capabilities

3. Dynamic Island instead of a notch

4. M6 Pro and M6 Max: powered by Apple's next-generation M6 Pro and M6 Max chips

5. Thinner Design as compared to the MacBook Pro

6. Built-in cellular connectivity

cjaackie··on Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
The author mentions not being able to get the connector in single digit quantities, seems pretty specialized.
cjaackie··on Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?
This is the correct answer, routing between subnets is how it’s suppose to work. I think there are some edge cases like DR where it seems like stretching L2 might sound like a good idea, but it practice it gets messy fast.
cjaackie··on Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage
I think the tech stack is interesting, don’t agree with OP tasteless choices here (hitler basically) and still, think the work is implemented well -especially iMessage integration.
cjaackie··on Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage
from OP comment history:

> So I’ve always had this weird obsession with building my own iMessage agent - like, imagine your own bot living inside your iPhone, sending messages, replying smartly, maybe even trolling your friends a little Then I found out companies like Linq Blue and SendBlue (both YC) charge over $1000/month just to do this. Yeah, no thanks. So I built it myself. iMessageKit is an open-source TypeScript SDK that lets you send and operate iMessages programmatically. Texts, photos, even RCS messages - all through a clean, strongly typed API. Now I can build iMessage bots and automations without burning cash, and honestly, it feels great to beat the paywalls. Would love feedback & ideas! GitHub(ur star would be rly helpful): https://github.com/sg-hq/imessage-kit

cjaackie··on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
I’m wondering about how ethical it is to load down a resource in this way, open to opinions. There is a mention “I didn’t hammer down the servers” but what does that really even mean? The site isn’t being used as intended and just curious how other people feel about that.
cjaackie··on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
cjaackie··on Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
They mentioned the cluster being used enterprise drives, I can see the desire to save money but agree, that is going to be one expensive mistake down the road.

I should also note personally for home cluster use, I learned quickly that used drives didn’t seem to make sense. Too much performance variability.

cjaackie··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
underrated comment, probably the way to go with an older chip and under 1k volumes.
cjaackie··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
No, it’s there because the battery can’t hold enough charge for the ratio of vape liquid they put in it. So you get 2-3 full charges and it runs out of liquid.
cjaackie··on Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Alone. By Stand-Up-Paddleboard
This was my question too, my bet is support from a vessel and so this whole thing is kind of silly.
cjaackie··on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
I haven’t seen the real answer that I suspect here - the build servers are that one dual socket AMD board which runs open firmware and has no ME/PSP .
cjaackie··on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections
Sounds like maybe a positive spin on the erosion of the fundamental building blocks of our democracy. This to me is a strange take, if I’m reading that correctly, what do you mean by it?
cjaackie··on Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout
True [x] independence in even a small capacity has a value beyond just money.

..water.. ..food.. ..housing.. ..information..

I get what you are trying to conveying, I just wanted to highlight the semantic generality of the statement if it stands alone.

cjaackie··on Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
This is a labor of love, there’s no way the 15+ hours would be worth it commercially.I think it’s cool and if you start looking at things like this as a business idea they get unfun really fast.
cjaackie··on Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
Agree, but this is bike shedding, like there’s so much more to worry about for these fellas!
cjaackie··on What happens when clergy take psilocybin
Found what I think is probably the video if anyone else is interested:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pif-1bTmQZc

cjaackie··on Layoffs Don't Work
Shareholders are expecting layoffs now, it’s kind of sickening.
cjaackie··on Layoffs Don't Work
Could I be missing something, but are you seriously promoting layoffs? You must be trolling by using twitter as functional example of why they work? I think sometimes I miss sarcastic tones and I really hope i did with this one
cjaackie··on The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
I remember when someone adapted the Chromebook Pixel display as a standalone monitor [0]. I’m sure it made the rounds here. I was almost tempted to do it myself because, at the time, it was a nice 4:3 screen. I couldn’t , the Chromebook Pixel was too beautiful to hack up.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2015/05/02/excruciating-quest-turns-chr...

cjaackie··on The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
fun to see the ‘write protection’ screw and think back to my toshiba chromebook, it also got coreboot thanks to Mr. Chromebox. Linux never ran quite right on the eMMC sadly…
cjaackie··on The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
Yes I see what you mean, with hobbies sometimes better costs is equal to better quality (probably not in a linear sense). Records are not that, but ig there’s other examples like old cars that fit the same profile. Really the root question might be, what is better quality? There’s definitely a quality of experience with physical media that there isn’t an analog to in the digital world. I’m sure there are other examples on both sides.
cjaackie··on The Housing Theory of Everything (2021)
This is an interesting point that I’ve seen play out as you described. It was the parents of an acquaintance of mine, and they did choose the downsize option because they were getting too old for the upkeep of a whole house and niceties it brings such as having the hotel like amenities of a doorman. Then there’s the point of choosing new vs. old stock, agreed there is a higher demand, thus it demands higher cost.
cjaackie··on Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
Sorry there’s nuance missing here, I might personally not have any records, but I understand how some people must enjoy it and I can’t judge them. This reads more like ‘not for me, not for thee’ syndrome.
cjaackie··on The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
hobbies are spending money irrationally for joys or pleasures of the act of doing that hobby, no always about a business plan, do you have any?
cjaackie··on Wi-Fi 7 Overview (2024)
WISP (wireless isp) operators have all sorts of neat directional gear that iirc is 900MHz because of the distance they can cover with it.
cjaackie··on Wi-Fi 7 Overview (2024)
It’s hard to see the value of a wired network, but there are about a million. As other commenters have pointed out, most of the scenarios are more than one access point and thicker walls / building materials.
cjaackie··on The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks
The thing is - and I tried finding out without success - that it’s likely an off the shelf either Realtek or Broadcom WiFi chipset in the PSP that Sony probably omitted features on for stability reasons. Sounds like maybe these folks made it happen :) amazing to see
cjaackie··on DOS live USB image with tools for writers
I think they are way too small for like any comfortable typing, maybe not for very small hands perhaps.
cjaackie··on Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
I think this is the way, just don’t give it wifi access! Fun story, my sony has android tv and can play MKV files off a flash drive (eg. a non-streaming tv show), but the built in player is horrible (drops frames?). Turns out I was able to find the right version of VLC player and adb the apk over the Ethernet port! Really worked a treat.

This avoided connecting it to wifi, but I still got what I wanted out of it.

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