janandonly's comments

On: Bitcoin mining firm Canaan pilot uses waste heat from mining to grow tomatoes

[janandonly]

This isn’t new. In fact, one could argue that heating is the core business and as a side effect some older ASICs also mine some bitcoins.

On: Sergey Brin's Unretirement

[janandonly]

I am 1,5 years into a break. Haven’t had time to feel bored yet. But I do look forward to a 9-5 job again, just for the structure it provides.

[kshacker → janandonly]

If you can afford it, why get back? Now after a dozen years I am bored of my 9-5 but running the race to make my FIRE numbers plus provide some cushion for my son with disabilities but if I had a choice I would quit again ( but I am much older now )

On: Hindi, not a national language: Court (2010)

[janandonly]

And English isn’t the USA official language.

On: Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks by Major Distributor

[janandonly]

I misread this article. At first I thought all publishers would stop making paperbacks.

On: A way to do an open and permissionless mesh network

[janandonly]

How does Fistjaf always know how to tickle my interests?

On: Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers

[janandonly]

I came here to read about fraud with honey, you know, the bees-spit-and-flowers-sperm sugary stuff.

I hear there is lots of fraud where bees honey is mixed with sugars and sold off as “honey”.

I’m disappointed this is about a browser plugin that no body in their right mind should be using at all.

On: Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices

[janandonly]

I forgot that this was a problem for some. I’ve been op iPad iPhone and macOS for too long it guess.

[imgopaal → janandonly]

yup, thats still a nightmare for a lot of people

On: Is gravity evidence of a computational universe?

[janandonly]

There is no experimental evidence , just an interesting idea .

> Whether the universe is indeed a computational construct remains an open question, but the entropic nature of gravity provides compelling evidence that information is a fundamental component of physical reality and data com- pression drives physical processes in the universe.

On: The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)

[janandonly]

My mother is almost 80, bless her heart.

I gave her an iPad Owh, 10 years ago? And I’ve never had to troubleshoot her system ever again. No spyware. No viruses. Nothing.

The worst that happened recently is that the Starlink antenna had te be realigned after a particularly heavy wind blew it off the roof almost. Oh and her printer needed new toners after printing for x years without problems.

[intrasight → janandonly]

Printer model?

[pepoluan → intrasight]

Why, you want to buy a new printer?

If you want inkjets, buy those with ink tanks. More expensive up front, but operating cost is so cheap. And no more "you have to replace a whole cartridge just because Magenta is low"; if Magenta is low, buy a bottle of Magenta, and fill.

For laser printers, buy those whose toner cartridges are separate from the drum, and those whose toner cartridges can be reset mechanically. And refillable.

My go-to brand for printers is Brother, btw.

[devilbunny → intrasight]

A classic that's still true:

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...

Mine is... 15+ years old? I replaced the toner once. And it doesn't have Ethernet or WiFi, so I bought Printopia for my iMac (to which it's attached) to enable AirPrint.

On: I Need to Talk About the Weirdest Part of Epstein's Emails–Besides the Obvious

[janandonly]

Indeed writing carelessly with disregard for formatting, grammar and punctuation, is something only for the highly powerful and rich, or for the extremely dyslexic and dumb.

Makes one wonder, even if this guy was rich, was he maybe very dumb? And/or dyslexic?

He must at the very least have been a sociopath to not care about all the lives he ruwend.

But a sociopath is very capable of looking sincere and pretending to not know about the hurt done to others. To me it seems more like he was a narcissist.