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cramcgrab··on Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
Stop taking drugs, get out and enjoy life. It’s really pretty simple. Most of society works that way.
cramcgrab··on Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
From the announcement it’s a lot of unnecessary philosophical moves and less innovation moves. I like innovative Linux, but that’s just my opinion.
cramcgrab··on Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
Nuclear drones!
cramcgrab··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
When you think about it, lots of Linux and Unix devices.
cramcgrab··on Worst of breed software
Oracle? Is that you?
cramcgrab··on Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
How appropriate
cramcgrab··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
Great news!
cramcgrab··on How did TVs get so cheap?
Ai spyware.
cramcgrab··on Eat Real Food
You can eat what you want, I’m eating real food. Good luck!
cramcgrab··on Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect
Portland is the best! Now if they can ban gas cars that would be great!
cramcgrab··on Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension
Don’t copy that floppy!
cramcgrab··on Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
I’ve been using Wayland exclusively for about 2 years. It’s great. And when it’s not it gets fixed. X11 isn’t a project anymore, it’s a nightmare of empty meetings and discussions, no coders.
cramcgrab··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Yay more political posts on the techie news site. Closing the tab for the weekend this time.
cramcgrab··on FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
You always want to boot from simple. Zfs is great for additional volumes. Great work by the author.
cramcgrab··on Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Trees!
cramcgrab··on Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
Gotta love Electrek and Fred Lambert, he’s managed to lose a crap-ton of money on Tesla stock. What a total loser. I always read his stuff and think the opposite, that’s the safe bet.
cramcgrab··on Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server
Love the Mac emulator, what do they use for that?
cramcgrab··on High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects
AI is great!
cramcgrab··on LVM Thin Provisioning (2016)
Zfs thin is way better, adjusts on the fly and can handle things like dedupe and compression. Lots of good things in zfs because it’s the filesystem and the volume manager.
cramcgrab··on Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery
That’s fine but it’s only for the first bunch of cycles, after that it’s way worse than standard lion batteries.
cramcgrab··on Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades
It’s trivial to ask an AI to answer that. Well, I guess we know it’s not an AI generated article!
cramcgrab··on Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)
Wow! Writing photoshop while a phd student at Michigan! Wish current students would do some code
cramcgrab··on CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
I just plant trees. Have a ton of land in NY, just doing my part.
cramcgrab··on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
So sad, we used to innovate and stay one step ahead of them. That’s how wealth is created.
cramcgrab··on Arduino UNO Q bridges high-performance computing with real-time control
Let’s see where they are in a few years.
cramcgrab··on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
Apparently no engineers here anymore, all armchair politicians.
cramcgrab··on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
I’d say everybody moving off NIST boulder NTP.
cramcgrab··on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
Actually DOGE involvement at the highest level would have resulted in Tesla solar and Tesla powerwall battery backups.
cramcgrab··on NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models
Apparently it seems to be impossible with these files and the best AI right now to answer the simple question, will it rain in midtown Manhattan tomorrow?
cramcgrab··on More than 100 rally against data centers at Michigan Capitol
Since the population is around 112k-114k people that would be around 111,900 people didn’t rally on the low end.
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