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sciencerobot commented on USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)   overengineer.dev/blog/202... · Posted by u/pabs3
geor9e · a month ago
USB-PD hubs are very annoying. Devices with no battery on a hub (Raspberry Pi etc) will just get hard rebooted if anything else gets plugged into the same hub. I looked at a lot of hubs and they all behaved this way. They all cut power to everything, then re-negotiate the power allowance each device gets from the shared wattage, every time anything new connects. I could not find a hub that honored existing power contracts and gave new devices the remainder. My guess is the average customer expect the newest plugged in device to get max power (at the expense of everything else) or they return it to the store thinking it's broken.
sciencerobot · a month ago
I’m not sure if it’s a USB-PD hub but Jeff Geerling posted a video about a USB-C charger that doesn’t suffer from the renegotiation issue https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dG2v4FHwJjE
sciencerobot commented on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared   theverge.com/meta/694685/... · Posted by u/pier25
geor9e · 2 months ago
Hacker News users keep getting worked up about opt-in services they don't want to opt in to.
sciencerobot · 2 months ago
I don’t use meta products. Photos of me are on the camera rolls of people who do.
sciencerobot commented on Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market   swapfest.berlin/... · Posted by u/mirshko
piperswe · 6 months ago
* Silicon Valley -- Electronics Flea Market, https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/
sciencerobot · 6 months ago
I started going to these last year and they’re great. People selling rackmount servers off the beds of pickups, bins full of spinning rust HDDs, everything you need to make a garbage homelab.

The first one of 2025 is on March 9th.

sciencerobot commented on Pi-hole v6   pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tkuraku
google234123 · 6 months ago
Good way to teach other members of your house to use VPNs to bypass your censorship regime
sciencerobot · 6 months ago
meta and X are both heavily censored so I guess it's censors all the way down?
sciencerobot commented on Better Dotfiles   iamdan.me/better-dotfiles... · Posted by u/dansalias
b3lm0nt · a year ago
I use Gary Bernhardt's (non)-method, quoted here:

IMO you don't need a special tool to manage your home directory / dotfiles. Git is the tool. Your home directory is a repo with a .git directory like any other repo. No other tools; no symlinks; nothing else. Commit what you want and gitignore the rest. I've done this since 2008.

Never had a problem with it.

sciencerobot · a year ago
I switched to this method after using symlinks for years. This guide was helpful: https://queensidecastle.com/guides/tracking-your-home-direct...
sciencerobot commented on It's true. Your devices are listening to you   cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg... · Posted by u/tempestn
sciencerobot · 2 years ago
~Where is their CCPA request form?~ Nowhere in California is listed under "Markets"
sciencerobot commented on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight   jamesbvaughan.com/southwe... · Posted by u/jamesbvaughan
sciencerobot · 2 years ago
Just make sure to never send a PATCH request
sciencerobot commented on Show HN: imessage-exporter, a CLI app and library   github.com/ReagentX/imess... · Posted by u/css
sciencerobot · 2 years ago
Your entire digital life stored by clouds you have no control over is the norm. Being able to keep a local copy should be a fundamental right.
sciencerobot commented on WebContainer API   webcontainers.io/... · Posted by u/mingw__
helb · 3 years ago
Blocked by what?
sciencerobot · 3 years ago
Enterprise firewall

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