yoshamano (u/yoshamano)

yoshamano commented on TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx

yoshamano · 7 months ago

I'm still running TrueNAS Core, but I'm in the process of moving to the Community Edition. I'm doing a wholesale backup data, start from scratch, restore data to fix some initial choices in my zpool I wasn't happy with.

I'm dreading setting up Plex and Syncthing again so I've been dragging my feet. Seeing the comment about dreading each update isn't exactly lifting my feet out of the dirt.

yoshamano commented on The Tandy Corporation abortretry.fail/p/the-tan... · Posted by u/rbanffy

PaulHoule · 9 months ago

One thing I always found weird about Radio Shack was that, even though ham radio was a lynchpin of hobby electronics, Radio Shack never sold ham radio gear. I mean, they'd sell you a 10-pack of resistors for $1 but they would never sell a transceiver or antenna -- which I think would have been much higher margin than those resistors.

yoshamano · 9 months ago

They did for a time. I have a Radio Shack 10 meter mobile radio I picked up from an estate sale.

https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=288

yoshamano commented on The $1,999 Liberty Phone Is Made in America. Its Creator Explains How wsj.com/tech/personal-tec... · Posted by u/awongh

saulpw · 9 months ago

Purism is a scam company. I preordered their Librem phone in 2017 and waited YEARS for it to be ready. When I finally gave up and asked for a refund--which they had allowed per their original terms--I was told I had to wait until my spot came up in the shipping queue to receive it. When my spot came up a few more years later (!), they refused to refund it and instead offered me "store credit". They had scrubbed the original terms from their website (the Internet Archive had receipts though).

And this is completely beside the fact that the phone was actually unusable for day-to-day usage, for multiple reasons. I'm not sure if they ever fixed those issues on that phone, and now they're selling another overpriced piece of junk. No thanks, Purism the company cannot die fast enough.

yoshamano · 9 months ago

I decided to receive my Librem 5 I ordered in August of 2019 and shipped in April 2023. From the reports by the people who received the first non-test batches of phones (the "Evergreen" batch), I knew this was never going to be a daily driver. Their software team just isn't up to the task of pounding a Linux system into the shape of what people expect from a cellphone. The type of person who is using this daily only needs phone and SMS, charges it most of the day (or carries extra batteries), and can contort the rest of their needs into a ten year old hardware platform with immature display support. So mine just sits in my drawer of curiosities.

yoshamano commented on Android 16 is here blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/nsriv

throwanem · 9 months ago

For #2, I wonder if you're aware of Planet Computers: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/devices/products/c...

yoshamano · 9 months ago

The issue with Planet Computer's Linux support is the lack of it. They all rely on custom kernels using Android drivers and libhybris to function. For both the Cosmo Communicator and Gemini PDA they glue together a bootable version of Debian, tick the checkbox for "it runs Linux" and then call it a day.

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php more of a historical collection of stories than an active forum about Planet Computer's devices.

yoshamano commented on Hotline for modern Apple systems github.com/mierau/hotline... · Posted by u/tonymet

esafak · a year ago

Did it have any interesting features that are not available in today's products?

yoshamano · a year ago

Kind of. It was kind of like a community in a box. The server and client software were dead simple to use and could be run off of a potato. You would get a message board, live chat, and file sharing all in one package. Servers could be advertised on a Tracker that could be queried from within the client. I was a Windows and BeOS user at the time and spent a fair amount of time bumming around anime and music themed servers. Also ran into one or two servers with big "Coast To Coast AM" vibes. Fun times.

yoshamano commented on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson sportingnews.com/us/boxin... · Posted by u/storf45

yoshamano · a year ago

I did some VPN hopping and connecting to an endpoint in Dallas has allowed me to start watching again. Not live though, that throws me back into buffering hell.

yoshamano commented on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore howtogeek.com/my-windows-... · Posted by u/doctorshady

Uvix · 2 years ago

If you have Pro, you don't even need the Samba server, you can just edit group policy locally.

yoshamano · 2 years ago

True, but I want to be able to join a computer to my domain and everything gets applied automatically.

The absurdity being the creation of an enterprise environment to use enterprise tools to shape a personal computer into something that closely resembles an experience you used to get out of the box 15 years ago.

To build a castle so as not to be treated like livestock.

yoshamano commented on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore howtogeek.com/my-windows-... · Posted by u/doctorshady

silverquiet · 2 years ago

About a year ago I dumped Windows from my personal PC for good. I ran a Linux desktop at work for a decade, but my Steam collection get me with at least a bit of a tether to Microsoft. But Valve finally made Linux gaming a reality. I hope more people can make the switch someday because I'm quite happy with the system (Pop!_OS is my distro of choice these days).

yoshamano · 2 years ago

That's what finally gave me the confidence to switch to Linux a year ago. I'm running Manjaro on my main system and Valve's efforts in improving WINE/creating Proton have been fantastic. The amount of games that "just work" has been nothing short of amazing.

yoshamano commented on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore howtogeek.com/my-windows-... · Posted by u/doctorshady

yoshamano · 2 years ago

For the past few years I've had this thought in the back of my head . If I use a Samba server as a domain controller, how much cruft and hostility can I shave off a standard Windows 11 Pro installation with GPOs. I keep kicking around the idea of trying to do it as an exercise in absurdity.

yoshamano commented on Introducing Kagi Search's New Design kagi.com/changelog#3750... · Posted by u/moojacob

mandeepj · 2 years ago

> a bunch of HN comments that boiled down to "trust me, it's worth it."

What happened to Duck Duck Go?

yoshamano · 2 years ago

Nothing.

Its still there and still my goto search engine when I'm not on one of my personal devices.

I just prefer Kagi now because I pay for it so I'm their customer not their product. I also like the configuration options Kagi offers.