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Not quite accurate as a blanket statement. Munro did a very detailed tear down series of a sub zero refrigerator that’s very interesting. Youtube link: https://youtu.be/KAYj6m9QtDU

I wish more content like this existed. It’s the only type of review that is worth paying attention to.

Long story short if you live in an energy market like california the energy savings of the sub zero will likely offsets its additions cost over the lifetime of the unit.

Re:Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:23PM (#42505692)
Not sure hoarder is a direct replacement for evernote. As a former long time evernote note user I replaced it with https://notesnook.com
Re:Joplin is an open source note-taking app on Sunday March 03, 2024 @02:00PM (#39583332)
Plume looks very interesting! One place I personally find many apps in this category fall down is their ability to handle pdf’s embedded or attached within notes gracefully. This applies to desktop and mobile apps.

This may be a slightly weird use case but I accumulate tons of pdf’s that are often relevant to my notes and want them easily embedded and viewable in a first class way. Obsidian is a great example of how not to handle a pdf locking it to a small portion of the window and not allowing it to be full screened.

Forcing the user to dump all of their pdf’s into something like google drive locked away from the rest of their notes is a crappy experience and h fortunately keeps me using apps like evernote purely for this functionality.

Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:30PM (#34332459)
I have a similar issue living on a hill with the windy.com forecasts. Have you had success finding any forecast source/app that’s accurate for your microclimate? Everyone always points to forecastadvisor.com but that’s always pulling from some airport 20 miles away for me totally irrelevant.
Master PDF. Cross platform even native linux support.
Re:Wiring My Home with Fiber on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:26PM (#33400131)
Has the 5800x and opnsense been able to successfully route 25Gbit/s? It's very rare to find anyone running even a 10Gbit link on opnsense/pfsense so it's difficult to know how it performs on high speed links with modern hardware. Would love any details you could share on this! (Might be worth updating your blog post with them)
Agreed. Unfortunately there don’t appear to be any viable replacements. Ultimately I just read less in general now which sucks. I hate what the internet has become.
Re:Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:26PM (#33048761)
immich isn’t quite there yet but it’s trajectory looks pretty good to fill this role https://www.immich.app
Re:Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:09AM (#30240686)
What you have described is EXACTLY what I have been experiencing myself over the last year. This is the first time I have ever seen my symptoms and trajectory laid out like this anywhere, it’s truly surreal. Words cannot convey how much I would appreciate any help finding treatment. I’m honestly nearing the end of my rope dealing with this with no end in sight. I’ve lost 30 pounds of muscle and I’m currently too sick to work anymore. My doctors have been useless and basically clueless.
Re:Ask HN: Where do you hang out virtually online? on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:42PM (#30152158)
This is definitely a positive for me. Any suggestions for channels/networks to start with? Haven’t used IRC regularly in a decade+ which coincides with me being unable to make any new online friends since then. Facebook seems to be where a lot of “older” folk have moved to but i refuse to engage with that platform.
Re:PuTTY 0.73 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:45PM (#21127556)
What software are you using on linux to interface with serial? I always used screen but it seems there’s probably a better way?
The biggest bummer of these machines is apples lack of vp9 hardware decoding in macos, it makes 4k youtube unwatchable. For high motion content (mountain biking videos) 4k is the only way to watch even on a tiny laptop screen due to youtube’s horrific compression. Its an absurd limitation considering the hardware has full support for it! I know it sounds insane but I returned mine for a quad core 13” mbp just to brute force software decode playback of these videos.
Re:Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick? on Sunday December 16, 2018 @03:29PM (#18695030)
Every link i’ve seen to this story annoys the hell out of me because they don’t explain HOW the elevator eventually stopped. That’s literally all I want to know.
Re:Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS on Thursday February 08, 2018 @12:23PM (#16333760)
Thank you for this it looks promising. Just a couple minor constructive criticism points that are personally keeping me on minihack.

1: I need the ability to swipe back from anywhere on the screen, i’m unable to reach all the way to the left edge most of the time.

2: The ability to up the density of posts/comments on the page. I really like seeing as much content as possible without a ton of dead space and scrolling.

Re:Transmit 5 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:29PM (#14799349)
I didn't see any mention of segmented download support via sftp? This is something lftp and smartftp support but very few other clients do.
Re:FreeBSD 10.2 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @11:23PM (#10058477)
Does anyone know how the virtio network performance is on this release when virtualized under qemu/kvm? I know that pfsense is moving to 10.2 soon and i've been unable to use it virtualized due to its atrocious virtio net performance.

While the linux based firewall alternatives are incredibly fast they just don't have anywhere near the ease of use/feature set of pfsense!