Nice try profiling this supreme summit of smartypants, but you're no match for our collective IQ ;)
Readit Newsbronlund commented on Out of curiosity: what kind of people use this "forum" (I mean Hacker News)? · Posted by u/adinhitlore
> To give a bit of context; I can sit in a Teams meeting using compressors and saturators and whatnot to make the audio better and put any amount of VST plugins in the chain on my own microphone.
DJ Screw has joined the meeting
XD
I love Audio Hijack, and I do use Loopback and SoundSource as well. Windows users love to complain about the fact that we have to pay for this stuff, but forget to mention that no amount of money can give you half of the same functionality on their preferred platform.
I guess you can do some of it using a Windows port of JACK Audio or something, but this isn't trivial to get working - and would still pale in comparison. Why it still is so difficult to route audio in Windows is beyond me.
To give a bit of context; I can sit in a Teams meeting using compressors and saturators and whatnot to make the audio better and put any amount of VST plugins in the chain on my own microphone. At the same time I can mix the output from an ambient track from Spotify with audio from liveatc.net and stream the whole thing to an Icecast server while ripping everything to a file.
Trying to do the same thing on Windows will just drive you insane.
bronlund commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
> some may argue that this was a good thing
I don't think anyone was arguing this - Pebble simply went bankrupt. FitBit just bought some of their IP/assets I think. There was no expectation of them buying it and continuing support or development.
Some say that if FitBit hadn't bought them, the Kickstarter supporters that still hadn't received their devices, wouldn't gotten their money refunded from Pebble.
If this is true or not, I have no idea.
bronlund commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
I thought Fitbit bought them out and then after the sale announced that they were shutting it down instead of doing anything with it. I’m happy to be proven wrong if this isn’t the case.
They did. Google bought FitBit in 2019 and released the source code to PebbleOS in 2025.
bronlund commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
I'm a bit lost here, and to be fair my memory from that long ago is a bit hazy... but I was a initial Pebble kickstarter and also got whatever the metal one was called.
They were totally fine products, I enjoyed using them. I am no longer using them, but such is the nature of consumer gadgetry.
I don't recall getting rogered at any point in that process?
I too was part of the initial Kickstarter and I had both the first and the second version.
When FitBit bought Pebble in 2016, some may argue that this was a good thing, the development of the watch and the OS just stopped - it was dead. FitBit had no intention of keeping the Pebble and just wanted to implement the software into it's own ecosystem.
Google bought FitBit in 2019 and released the source code for PebbleOS this year - but that is kind of late now, isn't it?
bronlund commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
Maybe. I still enjoyed my Pebble till it died. I think I will enjoy the new one just as much.
The first Pebble was kind of cutting edge when it came in 2013 and it looked awesome. This new one looks like an electronic tag and is just a medium priced smartwatch with limited capabilities.
bronlund commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
Why would anyone support this knowing how it went the last time?
Eric isn't in this because he want you to have a better watch, he is in this so he can sell you out at the first opportunity. It may not be FitBit or Automattic this time, but that's just what he does.
bronlund commented on Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser status.postman.com... · Posted by u/laurensr
The most absurd limitation in Postman is a limit on how many times your team can run a collection.
Locally, on their machine.
Let that sink in: on YOUR LOCAL machine.
https://learning.postman.com/docs/collections/running-collec...
Yeah, it's ridiculous. Specially when there are good or even better alternatives out there.
Postman was awesome back in the days, but now it's just slow, bloated and too complicated for 99.9% of use cases. It has become the Microsoft Word of API development platforms.
bronlund commented on Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser status.postman.com... · Posted by u/laurensr
Is that the only thing you can do - test or debug APIs? If so, finally you can do things you couldn't before - perhaps improve productivity by writing some scripts or researching alternatives if your job is really mission critical on postman.
I believe one of the selling points are the shared collections. So you have all the secrets and endpoints and whatever in collections that you share amongst a team. Now, noone has access to any of this and the hassle to set this up locally is way worse than you would think. Specially in large organisations.
So yeah, there are probably several companies looking for alternatives right now :)