darkstar999 (u/darkstar999)

darkstar999 commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat

Andrex · 14 days ago

The Maverick used to be the truck but they've jacked it by like almost twice the price since debut. With so much "upmarket momentum" the e-F150's days were numbered.

Now I'm sitting here wondering when we'll get another small Ford truck again. This same exact story played out with the Ranger and the decades without a smaller option sucked then too.

darkstar999 · 14 days ago

They've jacked the base price up from ~21k to ~27k. Certainly not almost twice the price.

darkstar999 commented on Gov Shutdown: US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to food banks old.reddit.com/r/worldnew... · Posted by u/wslh

mikeweiss · 2 months ago

I hope this isn't true. Not only is it wrong it would be so embarrassing.

darkstar999 · 2 months ago

It's true.

https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance#:~:tex...

edit: they have removed it in the minute since I posted this comment?

Archive.org still has it (see the section at the bottom "Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags"): https://web.archive.org/web/20251105103925/https://home.army...

darkstar999 commented on I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack leshicodes.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/starkparker

JimmaDaRustla · 4 months ago

CTRL+F for "lidarr"

Close tab

Lidarr is not in any way a solution for music collection.

darkstar999 · 4 months ago

If you substitute just that one section with ripping CDs/vinyl you own it's still interesting.

darkstar999 commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709

fires10 · 6 months ago

I do not understand the claim the Fed is not a government agency?

darkstar999 · 6 months ago

> Although an instrument of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System considers itself "an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the president or by anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by Congress, and the terms of the members of the board of governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

darkstar999 commented on Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical) · Posted by u/AJTSheppard

raverbashing · a year ago

So, to generate a random bitcoin key, that's how many coin tosses or die tosses?

darkstar999 · a year ago

The video says 128 cycles. Each cycle is 30 seconds, so it would take 64 minutes.

darkstar999 commented on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative) usebruno.com/... · Posted by u/ulrischa

hk__2 · 2 years ago

https://www.usebruno.com/pricing

Bruno is not free. It has a free version, but you can pay to have more features.

darkstar999 · 2 years ago

The pay plan is "pre-order", the features don't exist yet.

darkstar999 commented on I forked SteamOS for my living room PC iliana.fyi/blog/build-you... · Posted by u/muterad_murilax

jokethrowaway · 2 years ago

Interesting read! The A/B upgrade sounds a bit overkill, you can always just pop up a live distro or install a recovery system (on an old version) in a partition in case something goes wrong.

I recently moved to Arch after a few years of NixOS (preceded by years of Arch) and I think the fears of the author are misplaced.

Arch is definitely a very serious and mature distro and I'd trust them more than Valve.

The quality of the packages available for Arch is what made me move from NixOS. The main repos are updated really fast and AUR has a lot of useful packages.

darkstar999 · 2 years ago

No way steam deck users should be expected to boot a live distro to fix a botched upgrade. It needs to be seamless and behind the curtain.

darkstar999 commented on The midwit home dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/stacktrust

dingnuts · 2 years ago

I have a smart lock from Schlage that has all the features you just described, but also ZWave and so can be controlled over HomeAssisstant. We can both tell our friend a code to get in, but I can revoke a code remotely if I ever need to.

I also never get locked out. Usually I key myself in with the keypad, and there's a normal key slot too. It's also powered by a 9V -- but will also indicate to HomeAssistant what the battery level is

The key isn't that connectivity is bad, the key is that it should degrade gracefully when the more advanced features fail. Wireless is down? Can't unlock with my phone, but I can still use the keypad. Battery is dead? I can still use my physical key.

darkstar999 · 2 years ago

I’m interested in this. Does this require a hardware zwave controller or does the lock talk directly to home assistant?

darkstar999 commented on Hackers claim it only took a 10-minute phone call to shut down MGM Resorts engadget.com/hackers-clai... · Posted by u/jimt1234

TylerE · 2 years ago

It's Vegas. Anyone THAT uncomfortable with alcohol has no business being in town, because it's EVERY where.

darkstar999 · 2 years ago

Well a lot of people go there on business.

darkstar999 commented on Arduino raises $22M Series B round blog.arduino.cc/2023/09/0... · Posted by u/marc__1

lexicality · 2 years ago

Sounds to me like another nail in the coffin for Arduino as a useful tool for hobbyists.

That said I stopped buying Arduinos years ago and started buying super low cost ESPs from China and I think most other people did too so I guess it's not going to be a huge blow

darkstar999 · 2 years ago

How is that a nail in the coffin?

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KarmaCake day2167October 19, 2011View Original