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paco3346··on Reverse-Engineering the LCD Display Interface of the Nest 2nd Gen Thermostat
The display itself is round, although the module is a square with trapezoidal corners.

This is odd because you get the intended shape but not the benefit of the shape. There are plenty of displays that are actually round, such as for smart watches.

I'm curious if Google did this for cost and had decided on a larger bezel from the start.

paco3346··on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
I'm on Plus and only have 5
paco3346··on Nvidia RTX 5880 Ada 48GB Professional GPU Launched
They don't perform poorly, necessarily, just differently. It has to do with the workload and feature set.

I run an A6000 for a live video mixer. It barely touches the RAM and does nothing with the RTX cores but absolutely chews up the CUDA cores.

I also run a quadro sync card that allows the GPU to be genlocked (vsync for the video world) with the rest of the studio.

A feature that I don't use but that's also offered- you can connect multiple GPUs across multiple systems and have them all be frame synced to each other this creating a single output without tearing.

paco3346··on Tell HN: Goodbye HTML Gmail
This isn't about html content in emails, it's about the legacy non-SPA version of the Gmail web client.
paco3346··on Arguments against IDEs
I think this is an important distinction. I've seen many coworkers who laugh at my JetBrains IDE while claiming that their 'text editor' is better as they load it up full of plugins thus turning it into an IDE.

My general takeaway about the dev community is this- stop giving a crap about what other people are doing. If you find a tool that fits your needs and that you like then I'm delighted for you. Ask others if you want to learn but stop telling others they're wrong for having their own preferences.

paco3346··on Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration
Awesome, I've been using the wESP (https://wesp32.com/) for most things but I like the size (and price point) of these.

Granted, they fit different use cases as the wESP has more I/O exposed but is quite a bit larger.

paco3346··on Remote workers are increasingly less productive, anxious, depressed and lonely
I've worked remotely since 2016.

A few of my takes on it:

How conducive an org's culture & policies are to remote work has a direct impact on remote workers. (Companies who were quickly forced into remote work at the start of the pandemic all fired a shotgun from 100 yards and hit the target everywhere. Those who hit the middle realized that remote work had its upsides. Those who missed reinforced their own bias against remote work and dug in their heels.)

Each team's implementation of these policies can vary which gives a member on one team a great experience and a another team a miserable one.

Remote workers all have different social needs. If you're lucky, your team fits your's. If you're not, your potential office BFF may be on a different remote team and you'll never meet them.

I spent 2016-2022 at the same org who was 50% remote and it was great. Early 2022 I moved to a new org and my team never spoke outside morning stand-ups and I hated it. I've now chosen a hybrid position where it's 95% up to me when I'm in office and it's been the perfect fit.

YMMV, not all orgs will do remote well. Not all workers will do remote well. Let's stop demonizing the other side and realize there is no single answer.

paco3346··on Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE
I used EasyEDA for a while because I liked the interface but after coming back to KiCAD a few times it had gotten good enough that I didn't look back. That was 3 years ago now.
paco3346··on Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
You can but the issue is that if the caller _thinks_ it can reach it over IPv6 it'll never send the IPv4 unicast packet which means the server won't wake.
paco3346··on YouTube is giving Premium subscribers higher-quality video than everyone else
Agreed. The ability to just have all ads be non-existent on every platform is super nice.

Yes, on desktop I can use an ad blocker but that doesn't solve the app or smart tv usage.

paco3346··on Ask HN: Do you have GPT-4 access?
I, too, pay for plus access. It's completely worth it for the myriad of random tasks/questions I throw at it.

I can think of 1 occasion I needed some C code for parsing UDP packets. I copy & pasted the unformatted pdf contents of the spec and told GPT "I need code for parsing this". It made a struct, a method for parsing, and wrapping code to use it all of which was 100% accurate/usable. Such a huge time saver.

paco3346··on You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi
As someone who does a lot of work with non-profits who typically can't afford having a technical person on site/staff I'm really curious what type of self-service IT support services can come from self hosted LLMs.

I'd love to be able to feed all my documentation about a network layout into one and be able to get answers about it.

paco3346··on Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop
Ya, DisplayLink
paco3346··on Cities: Skylines II
I have always wanted something like this but on an even more in-depth scale.

Let people playing game dev tycoon represent how successful a local business is. Let someone playing a GTA-like game be part of a police chase. Allow truck simulator players to be part of freeway traffic.

Obviously this would be extraordinarily difficult to pull off well, but I can dream.

paco3346··on Cities: Skylines II
I feel like it works well but supports so few mods that it's limiting.
paco3346··on Google's Stadia Cloud Gaming Platform Shuts Down Today
On an encouraging note though: Google did end up releasing a tool to turn the controllers into regular ol' Bluetooth controllers so that they don't turn into piles of e-waste.

https://stadia.google.com/controller/

paco3346··on Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?
DriveDroid- an Android application that allows mounting disc images and causes the phone to appear as an external optical drive or USB flash drive.

I essentially keep an Arch and Windows 10 boot disc on me at all times.

You can also create blank images and it'll act as a flash drive.

paco3346··on WordPress is 20 years old
Laravel is doing just as much to keep it alive.
paco3346··on Ask HN: What software was used to make 90s cutscenes?
Ha, that's how I was introduced to 3dsmax as well.
paco3346··on Ask HN: What software was used to make 90s cutscenes?
This is what Red Storm Entertainment (Tom Clancy's game studio) used for their late 90s / early 2000s games.
paco3346··on Productivity Blocker
This is the opposite- it's for blocking access to productive sites thereby helping you procrastinate.
paco3346··on Rackspace Cloud Office suffers security breach
Slightly different reason to change the title: I first read it as though the physical office was breached.
paco3346··on JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
So why not say that? When I see a tool or service make a claim as simple as "JSON SUCKS" it makes me think I'm not the target audience.

I can read a 10 like file without a parser. What I don't like is 7 layers deep, nested, 890 lines long.

paco3346··on Nvidia Reveals RTX 6000 with 48GB GDDR6 ECC Memory
Although an small audience, this is exactly the kind of card that live video processing (IMAG) needs. Software such as Hippotizer, Pandora's Box, Resolume, and vMix rely heavily on GPU.
paco3346··on Banning phones in school has dramatic results
Wait, phones weren't already banned? I'm actually surprised by that. 15 years ago when I was in school they were already banned.

What changed?

paco3346··on Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount (2018)
This is absurdly ridiculous, I love it.

Despite the low resolution, bit depth, lack of color, and dithering, I like how using a better lens can make the seagull picture somewhat aesthetically pleasing.

paco3346··on Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
And that place is? Not saying I disagree, this just feels like an incomplete thought.
paco3346··on Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
Hey, I just came from the company that hosts that dealer website!

The amount of money that dealerships pour into SEO and advertising is unreal. They also chase every single thing that Google says with complete abandon. (Remember AMP? ya, that was something we chased because dealers asked us to and then forgot about 12 months later.)

I realize this is about Google but I think there will always be a struggle until everyone can boycott playing the game and I just don't see that happening.

paco3346··on What are your most used self-hosted applications?
I'll second this one. It's also very good at self-updates for being a self-hosted application.
paco3346··on Infinite Mac
What browser/OS are you on? The LED doesn't blink for me on macOS with Chrome.

Edit: it seems like it's the HDD activity light? It blinks during boot.

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