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Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:44PM (#50095797)
Native apps connecting to the OpenCode server is a great way to run sessions on remote hosts!

I wish Claude Code would adopt the same model. The desktop app deploys a separate engine that restarts and clobbers long-running sessions upon reconnect (Remote Control is their recommended solution but requires a Claude.ai account).

I’ve been vibe coding a native macOS Claude Code app that spawns a server that wraps Claude Code on remote hosts, but the UX and features are always lagging behind.

Re:ChatGPT Work on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:25PM (#48850345)
Sad, I liked that ChatGPT had a native app on macOS. I don’t understand why OpenAI and Anthropic have to rely on vending universal apps when their whole MO is code being dirt cheap.
Just canceled my subscription! I immediately received an email with the subject “We’d love your feedback on why you canceled your ChatGPT plus subscription” and a link to a survey.

I linked to https://notdivided.org/ as the reasoning why.

As far as I’m aware, Xfinity fiber customers have to use the provided “Xfinity Wi-Fi Gateway” and cannot enable bridge mode.

If anyone knows a way around this, please share! I want to connect my Xfinity ONT directly to my UniFi router.

> The crash is Marine's third in several weeks

Should be “the Marines’ third.” I don’t mean to be a stickler, but for a moment I thought this one pilot was crashing a plane a week!

Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:30PM (#41523292)
Rate limited to 30 messages per week for ChatGPT Plus subscribers at launch: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/
In my much shorter 5 years, I’ve seen devs exclusively using Apple hardware.

And in my team, our dev environment has become increasingly local!

Now that porting between MVNOs with eSIM is free and dead simple, I can’t think of a reason to stick with the big 3 carriers.

The MVNO I stuck with even has a slick way to port between networks!

They do also charge (dearly) for usage.
My concern comes from my own naïveté. I don’t know enough about flying to know how concerned I should be.

Hearing there’s a storm that affects navigation is an eyebrow-raiser, especially when sitting at an airport gate like I am.

I’m surprised how “cheap” the Manhattan Project and Apollo Program were.

It’s bizarre we put people on the Moon in the ‘60s for an amount of money similar to Apple’s recent stock buybacks.

Re:Improve Writing (AI) for Apple Notes? on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @01:06AM (#40128695)
I’m a huge fan of Raycast for everything.

The AI plugin included in the Raycast Pro subscription [0] can be configured with some neat “improve writing on whatever is highlighted” features.

[0]: https://www.raycast.com/pro

Re:Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls – Paywalled on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @11:43AM (#40053504)
Apple News+ is trying to be that. I get it through my Apple One family plan.

The home page is shamefully Trump spam and tabloid garbage, but the magazine section isn’t terrible. I read The Atlantic and The New Yorker frequently on it.

I wish headlights + taillights were required to be always on, or at least on by default.
Re:Welcome to the VAIO Library on Sunday April 07, 2024 @12:44PM (#39961930)
The VPCSB [0] had a switch at the top that could manually switch between integrated graphics for better battery, or discrete graphics for better performance. It always felt cool turning it on before gaming.

[0] https://vaiolibrary.com/index.php/VPCSB

Re:World Backup Day on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:34PM (#39886198)
They might have meant rclone: https://rclone.org/
Even in dense US cities, being on two wheels is dangerous.

Many people buy a car for safety, which ends up making the road even more dangerous!

(To clarify, I’m not taking a jab at people looking out for their personal safety.)

Re:D2 Playground on Sunday March 24, 2024 @01:32PM (#39808709)
The proprietary layout engine is named TALA. IMO the docs are pretty transparent about TALA being closed source and behind a paywall.

TALA docs: https://d2lang.com/tour/tala/

TALA product page: https://terrastruct.com/tala/

Seems like an odd revive since International Scouts are relatively unknown outside enthusiast groups.
Another great (and free!) option is Mullvad’s ad-blocking DNS over TLS or HTTPS.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:06PM (#39243597)
Anecdotal, but since I started cycling I’ve noticed an absurd amount of cars have license plate tabs that have been expired for years. There’s even a Porsche Taycan in my apartment that’s been driving without plates for over a year.

It doesn’t seem like registration is enforced in any meaningful way.

You might be interested in Orion Browser [0] which is WebKit based and can install Firefox and Chrome extensions.

[0] https://kagi.com/orion/

Re:FAA grounds B737 Max 9 for the time being on Saturday January 13, 2024 @12:19PM (#38982095)
Are you thinking of Boom Supersonic?

I know next to nothing about aviation or economics, but my gut feeling is a plane with ~80 seats for international flights will be expensive.

https://boomsupersonic.com/

Re:Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:16PM (#38778719)
I just canceled my annual subscription and found out I get a refund for the 5 unused months I paid for. Cool!
Re:Google podcasts is shutting down on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @11:31AM (#38697713)
iCloud also supports custom domains if you’re paying for iCloud storage. I use this since I was paying for storage anyway.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514

Re:Apple introduces spatial video capture on iPhone 15 Pro on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:12PM (#38616876)
A $3,500 first generation device is a difficult upsell.
How would an in-person deposition be better than a remote one?
Re:Show HN: Internet Speed Test on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:31PM (#38123690)
Why use this instead of one of the various other speed tests? Off the top of my head:

1. Ookla SpeedTest https://www.speedtest.net

2. Netflix Fast https://fast.com

3. Cloudflare Speed Test (my personal favorite) https://speed.cloudflare.com

Re:Gpt3.5 just adding a random dude's photo in the reply on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:35PM (#38121942)
Scared me for a moment. I thought Reddit had enshittified to the point of needing a login to view posts.

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