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Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @08:48PM (#48116539)
I hear people complaining about Windows shoving ads at them, then you have something like this from Google that makes me ask why would anyone in their right mind want to use an OS like this? Seems built to hook you into Google's services.

I guess there are some people who want to be locked tightly in an ecosystem which will be a lifelong dependency for them. Meanwhile Google extracts thousands and thousands of dollars from the "user" over their lifetime.

Oh I get why they do this now...

last night I was pondering if there was a ghostty plugin that can make my terminal like the opening scroll from a Star Wars movie. Can we make that happen?
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to compare Timezones on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:42PM (#38897146)
Awesome thanks for making this! Was just planning a trip to Asia with my wife and had to figure out which days I needed to take off. The app was very useful!
Re:Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:55PM (#38850534)
toothpaste works well and it's easy to wipe off
Re:Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:51PM (#38850506)
A dollop of toothpaste will usually solve the problem if you've ever forgotten the tape.
Re:Ask HN: What’s Happening with WeWork? on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:37AM (#37429784)
Yes we work from there, it's not bad. My company rents a small office for 6 and we get credits to use while traveling. (I worked from Seattle, Colombia & Chicago and they all feel pretty similar). Staff is nice they are pretty accommodating to your needs. Personally would not mind if more independent co-working spaces took over, but I'd also be sad to see staff there lose their jobs.
As someone who falls in the anti car camp, I'm really sorry you had those experiences. Seattle definitely has problems with insane people, it can be encountered on the streets or on public transit.
I think one important benefit to consider is that these projects can be seen as an attempt to correct historical wrongs done against native people in these areas.

Imagine if you were a Yurok person and your people lived for thousands of years, as a unique culture, and where substituting off of salmon was integral to that culture, only to have foreign invaders remove you from your lands, put you on reservations, and effectively destroy the lifeblood of your people by damming the rivers. Now imagine how after several generations this would damage your people as a group economically.

Given that history, it seems strange to question that the Yurok people might have financial "benefits" from this kind of project.

Re:Dr. Bronner’s became the soap for every subculture on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:20PM (#36703946)
Without knowing a whole lot about it, admittedly, I've always speculated that the vast number of different soaps and cleaning products that we buy are completely unnecessary. I've started buying Bronners or other concentrated soaps in bulk and using them for various things. Is there a good place on the web to get home recipes on making this stuff into different products (like a shampoo/conditioner for example). As for hand soap, imo nothing beats raw castille soap as it gets my hands super clean compared to most store bought hand soaps.
Try gradually switching to decaf! It did wonders for me.
Re:The case for induction cooking on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:59AM (#30658397)
Woks can have flat bottoms with a round surface for cooking
Re:OpenScale: Free your body weight scale on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:13PM (#29344588)
This is a very well timed post, it being Thanksgiving here in the US :). Intrigued by this project but I don't see it supports the scale I just purchased (Eufy by Anker P1 smart scale). Will have to dive a bit deeper to see if it can be made compatible.

I think it's important to note the limitations of these kinds of scales for tracking body fat percentage. From what I remember reading, the technique they use is a measuring of electrical current though the body and then it calculates body fat percentage based on the resistance it detects.

The problem I've read about is that these scales tend to only send electricity the legs and not the entire body, which does not give a great reading on many body types. (I'm not an expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong here)

I think I've seen some other devices that incorporate electrodes on the hands in addition to the feet for a more accurate read. Would be great to see this kind of device added to the project if not already done.

I have always been more interested in measuring body fat % than body weight personally, as there is nothing more depressing to me than standing on a scale befuddled by my random weight fluctuations :).

Re:Why inexperienced workers can't get entry-level jobs on Monday September 20, 2021 @12:46AM (#28590459)
wow...this comment reeks of priveledge.
Re:A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:20AM (#25830266)
Wow awesome photos! As someone who has visited Nepal 3x to see big mountains, I've always thought of people visiting Pakistan to be a little crazy. You've definitely made me rethink that!
Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @03:40PM (#24558904)
As a white American who grew up with indian friends/family who traveled in India for the first time, I was pretty shocked at how different it was than I expected. It's Incredibly diverse in terms of language, religion, culture, ect and I can say that It's the only county I've visited that I left feeling I knew less than before I came.