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I use it on LineageOS, works a charm
Re:GE-RCV1: open the garage with the gate remote on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:25PM (#50049678)
I guess the purpose of this article is to share my findings on a suitable Richmond GTR197 replacement, using the GE-RCV1, which is significantly cheaper.

Credit is due to Richmond for actually using off-the-shelf parts rather than making custom parts that cost an arm and a leg. But on the other hand, they are not forthcoming about the GTR197 being the same as the GE-RCV1 (well, actually the the GE-RCV2 - the two relay version)

Re:Use the Tello's GameSir T1d Controller as a Linux Gamepad on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:19PM (#50049626)
The controller was gathering dust after the Tello drone flew off into the nether when my son was flying it and I was chatting to someone.

So I thought it would be a good idea to repurpose it as an Xbox controller for my boys to play games with, and give it a second life instead of ending up in landfill.

Re:Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:09PM (#49887618)
Nice try NSA
Agreed, but give it time. The tipping point of good models only just arrived with Fable 5, GLM 5.3, Grok 4.6, Muse Spark 1.3, and the like. Those are the only models that do a better job than me, and I'm happy to hang up my IDE—and that was barely a month ago.

I've been fixing everything that has been sitting there—not blocking us, but slowing us down—all the things we never had the bandwidth for. We're now squeezing more out of development, CI, and production.

I'm not sure why, but I'm concerned this may be the heyday, and we might not get this again at this price or speed. So I figured we should clear the backlog while we can still afford it and still have the ability to do so.

But now things have changed, and the bigger, grander ideas are starting to brew.

Re:World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:11PM (#49252541)
That's more like it, the Ghan (AU) track is shown
Re:World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:09PM (#49252522)
Nice work!

But missing the iconic Ghan in Australia https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/images/route-taken-ghan

Re:OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:20PM (#48939701)
I'm not sure why everyone is so up in arms here. Just means you can't buy one in a store. I've bought a lot of 1+ for myself and family, and not once for a physical or online Australian store. Just for overseas sites. That doesn't change. The 1+ store in AU was only offering models a couple years old, never the latest. So this news changes nothing for me. Still great bang for buck and easily mod-able.

My family and I have been on OnePlus since the beginning, and I just recently got the 15R (which is a beautiful phone, and awesome bang for buck). I've been recycling all my old OnePlus by putting linageOS or AxionOS, and they feel like new again. The alternative Android firmware space is thriving. I just got Android 16 on a Nord N30 5G "Avicii" - it's blazingly fast. Funnily enough, N30 which is close to 6 years old has 12GB of RAM, which is the same as the latest 15R. I'm still a OnePlus flagship killer fanboy

Re:OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:14PM (#48939628)
Lineage as or AxionOS nowadays. Both are excellent and better than stock 1+ OS
Re:OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:13PM (#48939613)
OnePlus are still edgey, get one of their +5YO phone and put Axion on it - Android 16 like it should be, and super snappy
Re:OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:11PM (#48939592)
Put Axion on it - it's like new then
Re:OnePlus to Pull Out of American and European Markets on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @03:03PM (#48925583)
My family and I have been on OnePlus since the beginning, and I just recently got the 15R (which is a beautiful phone, and awesome bang for buck). I've been recycling all my old OnePlus by putting linageOS or AxionOS, and they feel like new again. The alternative Android firmware space is thriving. I just got Android 16 on a Nord N30 5G "Avicii" - it's blazingly fast. Funnily enough, N30 which is close to 6 years old has 12GB of RAM, which is the same as the latest 15R. I'm still a OnePlus flagship killer fanboy
Hilarious read, but scary too, I doubt the outcome will be the same in a few years
Re:Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding on Sunday June 07, 2026 @11:22PM (#48440982)
Is it just me or were they a bit behind? Chromium already has it
Re:Judson's Last Ride on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:25AM (#48263380)
WOW! That was a very heavy read, not what I expected from HN, but I am grateful to have read it. As a parent of a child with autism, who also rides the bus to school, and with many other parallels to the author's story, it was a difficult read. We're 8 years away from the "last day on the bus"; it certainly made me ponder about the situation.

I think a lot about my son's future and all the missed opportunities, but the author put some of this in a different perspective that has changed my perspective slightly. But I do think my son knows what he's missing out on when observing others his age and watching TV.

What a dog move!
Re:Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:00PM (#47331299)
Great to see yet another project to provide "offline"-ish comms. The existing solutions are obviously not good enough yet, hence why all these projects are popping up. I hope we get to a good-enough one soon.

LoRa is great, but the bandwidth is terrible, so you'd be limited to Twitter sized messages when using this comms channel.

Re:Velxio, Arduino Emulator on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @12:01AM (#47318981)
What a great project, thanks for sharing.
Re:Minimal x86 Kernel Zig on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:44PM (#47056899)
I'm not that cluey, but from the README it sounds like it can be compiled for a bunch of arches

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