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jd3 commented on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product   simonberens.com/p/lessons... · Posted by u/sberens
ApolloFortyNine · 12 days ago
How did you find factories, and trustworthy ones at that, at all? I know you mentioned just being happy that the factory existed at all, but I'm doubting you just found someones email and then wired them cash?

Previous experience? Or you know someone? To me that always seems like 90% of the battle with manufacturing.

jd3 · 12 days ago
I stopped reading when I realized it wasn't a deep dive into the most interesting question I had, which is the technical hardware design process and finding a factory to actually take your design and manufacture it.
jd3 commented on What's up with all those equals signs anyway?   lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
rurban · 13 days ago
Also gmane. The once popular mailing lists search site.
jd3 · 12 days ago
I discovered X-Face[0] through gmane! Such a blast from the past.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face

jd3 commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe   noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai
jd3 · a month ago
I noticed this and modified the .car to just make window corners sharp. It looks a bit jarring, but functionally speaking, it feels like a big improvement.
jd3 commented on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)   anders.unix.se/2015/12/10... · Posted by u/turrini
munchler · 2 months ago
I think you mean 2002, not 2022.
jd3 · 2 months ago
Thanks, typo; updated.
jd3 commented on Asbestosis   diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/zeristor
jd3 · 4 months ago
My mom's father died in his early 30's while working as an engineer for Mack Trucks in Hagerstown, Maryland in the '50s and '60s and my mom, to this day, attributes his rapid health decline to mesothelioma/industrial asbestos exposure.
jd3 commented on I only use Google Sheets   mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga
TrackerFF · 4 months ago
One thing I've learned: Never (ever) make yourself reliant/dependent on Google products. If you do get banned / locked out, it is the most AI-Kafkaesque process imaginable to regain access. And you could stay locked out for years.

I use Google sheets myself from time to time, but I regularly do backups of the sheets I'm working on, or anything important I have access to. I've been in the hole before, for reasons I still do not understand, and it was one of the most frustrating "customer support" processes I've ever experienced, and it took years.

jd3 · 4 months ago
We bought a Google Workspace subscription for a building I help manage and I was shocked when I found out that you can't archive emails for discovery/legal purposes unless you buy a more expensive subscription that has access to the "vault."

We already pay nearly $90/mo for 6 seats!

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jd3 commented on Plugin System   iina.io/plugins/... · Posted by u/xnhbx
jd3 · 5 months ago
Tried using the "Online Media" built-in plugin for a couple of trivial test cases — Youtube and archive.org — the former worked, while the latter failed, so I disabled it and switched back to yt-dlp in

  Settings => Network => Enable youtube-dl => Custom youtube-dl path => "~/.local/bin/"
because I installed yt-dlp globally through uv

  uv tool install yt-dlp

u/jd3

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