thejml
@thejml@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs 6 hours ago:
“People’s Republic of China”
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 1 day ago:
Not to excuse that POS, but more on how we got here: You have a product that only makes money when people actively use it. How do you increase your ROI? Make people want to use it and want to use it longer. Do that by making it more interesting, more relevant, more stimulating and appear bottomless so people can use it as long as possible.
Addiction for EVERYONE is the only way FB continues to increase revenue. We just single out Children because they are most easily influenced and impacted.
- Comment on I made a pretty video about the Centauri Carbon 2 days ago:
What would be the benefit of designing them so the nozzle isn’t replaceable? There are some filaments (i.e. carbon fibre) that are super rough on nozzles and require regular maintenance/replacement.
- Comment on Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval 5 days ago:
Calm Down there, Ted Faro.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 1 week ago:
That wave looks like a tsunami…
- Comment on Do NOT buy Creality 1 week ago:
This is sad to hear. I have an Ender 3 Pro that has been nothing short of a workhouse for 6.5 years now. I’ve upgraded a few parts here and there as thats kinda the fun. Dual Z motors 2 yrs after, upgraded the hot end to a direct extrusion one a year or so after that so I could print TPU. Just Got the silent motherboard about a year ago. Solid as a rock. A friend got the CR-10 shortly after, same luck.
With all the issues and sketchy closed source madness Prusa and Bamboo are having, i was tempted to upgrade to a much larger Creality unit, but I guess I’ll rethink or wait on that now.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 1 week ago:
While you’re probably right about the younger generation, there’s currently a huge movement away from cable and a million online streaming services and back to OTA. It’s why the antenna I bought 15 yrs ago now costs 5x what it did then.
My wife and I dropped cable 13yrs ago now and between the OTA, free streaming like Twitch and YouTube, and such, and buying physical BluRays we haven’t missed it.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 1 week ago:
Lets be honest, going to the arena sucks. Especially for a game like football where you will almost certainly be crazy far away from any action. I’ve gone to a few and outside the “it was cool to say you were there” part, I’d rather just watch it on TV. Net even taking the cost into account.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
100%. But the post i was responding to was talking about recovering a failed array from other copies, not locally.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
True, but that’s going to really be pushing your network links just to recover. Realistically, something like ZFS or a RAID-6 with extra hot spares would help reduce the risks, but it’s still a non trivial amount of time. Not to mention the impact to normal usage during that time period.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 weeks ago:
Rebuild time is the big problem with this in a RAID Array. The interface is too slow and you risk losing more drives in the array before the rebuild completes.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, i do on mine, but can’t do that on the built in keyboard in a laptop!
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 2 weeks ago:
Dang it, I’m already boycotting them because i want to actually own my media and support local businesses and a bunch of other reasons, how am I supposed to boycott them harder to include capitulation to Trump?!
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 2 weeks ago:
I prefer it, however there are apps for Mac to remap it if you like. I use Karabiner to remap my Capslock to Escape. I have Capslock and moving the escape key there is much more ergonomic and where i have it on my custom mechanical keyboards.
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 2 weeks ago:
Can’t we just go back to native installs?
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a 43" 4k Gigabyte Aorus display. 144hz+freesync, dual hdmi+usb-c+DP with a hub and all that. It’s IPS, they had an OLED but it was 48" and more money than I could justify at the time.
Definitely recommend, but 8k would be so much better. I know this article is primarily “no 8k TVs” but the panels are used across many segments and I fear they will no longer have manufacturering setup for 8k for desktop use either at this rate.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 3 weeks ago:
This is literally how our corporate network is setup. You MUST be on vpn or you cant get to anything. Makes the access permissions super simple. Prior to this setup there were authorization settings that differed between on-prem/off, on vpn or off, which office you were in, etc. now they just deny all unless you vpn in and then it uses your vpn account to validate access there, in one place. Saved a lot of headaches.
- Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Add another two zeros and then its a more positive story.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
When I started work at a new location last year the EV charging section of the parking lot was almost exclusively Teslas. Year later and its much more mixed. I regularly see Porsches, BMWs, Polestars, Mustang EVs, and a few Ioniq’s and a Rivian.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Totally Tubular
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 3 weeks ago:
I actually started doing that. It’s a living document, shared with others. It’s the best solution I’ve come up with. Knowing whether or not I can convey enough info to make it usable and able to be followed for a less technical person like other family members drives my adoption of software/hardware solutions.
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 3 weeks ago:
It’s the theoretically part that i haven’t figured out. I know none of my family members would have any idea what to do with anything. I feel like All the Data will just be lost when i go… which is a huge issue as everything moves to digital.
- Comment on Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock 3 weeks ago:
Rather than looking at this incident as a huge operational security failure associated with using a massive commercial surveillance system, police see this as something that puts their officers directly in harm’s way.
Why not both?
- Comment on Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline 3 weeks ago:
But thats less because of AI specifically, and more because it’s that governments are pushing for something that the people don’t want.
You could replace AI in that sentence with anything the people don’t want, didn’t ask for, or are explicitly against, and it would still be true.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 4 weeks ago:
He just wants it ti deflect from the Epstein Files.
- Comment on Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox 4 weeks ago:
I think we should go back to Netscape.
You know, like Landscape or Manscape, this is Netscape, where it automatically trims out all the AI, Trackers and Ads.
- Comment on Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos 5 weeks ago:
I’d rather new software versions were only released when there was a solid reason. A slow meaningful, well tested release cadence is generally a sign of more mature and stable software.
- Comment on X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage 5 weeks ago:
I stopped when it became X. However it was full of racist, bigotry and hatred before then as well.
I used it to keep up with some content creators and tech companies but I did so by getting an API key and running a cli that only pulled down messages from who I followed. Made it much more bearable and useful.
Since the Xittification, API keys are expensive and I’ve either followed them elsewhere, or mostly just given up. Some dropped it, but when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it’s hard to lose that audience.
I used to like Twitter when it started, following people and small companies/communities was super easy and the 140char limit nice and terse for both the posters and the ones following. Then it shat the bed and then it got bought out and while some still post there because of followers, most have left or just disappeared.
- Comment on X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage 5 weeks ago:
Time for a pull request to remove it!
- Comment on Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit 5 weeks ago:
Jan 14, 2026 – Looks like SparkFun (Nate) is trying to drag Limor and I on hackernews, here is the post and discussion. And… Paul maker of “teensyduino” for the Arduino-compatible teensy, emailed and said there is “concern” about us saying teensy-compatible for the future unreleased unnamed open source alternative.
That not cool, bro.