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CrazedGeek

4,022 karma · joined February 9, 2008

Inactive account as of 30 August 2022. Tired of dealing with the transphobia and pseudo-intellectual nonsense here.
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CrazedGeek··on Blue Feed, Red Feed
It's in reference to this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
CrazedGeek··on Apple Sucks Now, Here’s a ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide
The Razer Blade Pro has a mechanical keyboard: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro
CrazedGeek··on [dead]
As an additional data point, 538 has Clinton at 85%: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
CrazedGeek··on Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
You can turn the seen indicators off in iMessage, fwiw.
CrazedGeek··on Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar
Despite Deadpool being a Marvel property, the movie itself was primarily produced/distributed by 20th Century Fox, so it's probably just different licensing between different companies.
CrazedGeek··on How Oculus Rift Collects and Shares Personal Information [pdf]
Press release here: https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3472
CrazedGeek··on Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video]
According to one analysis, when it launched, the console cost $381 to manufacture and was being sold for $400: http://press.ihs.com/press-release/design-supply-chain-media...
CrazedGeek··on Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
If the important part of the bulbs to you is the remote control (and not the color changing part), any generic ZigBee Light Link or Z-Wave light bulb paired with a home automation hub (like Wink or SmartThings) will work fine.
CrazedGeek··on Android 6.0 Marshmallow Reviewed
I've had the same issue before, and IIRC it's a problem with Google Play Services, not Hangouts or disabling in general. Still stupid though.
CrazedGeek··on [dead]
More information: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimMeta/comments/3hhixx/th...
CrazedGeek··on OnHub
I've had mine for a similar time frame and I've never needed to restart it, except to install updates. My cable modem goes out more often.
CrazedGeek··on Discovering Two Screens Aren’t Better Than One (2014)
I picked a 29" one up a month ago. I haven't done any development work on it, but for the other work I've done it was much nicer than a single 16:9 and less annoying to manage than multiple monitors.
CrazedGeek··on Presidential candidate website tech, compared
Moderately related (in an "it amused me" way): The back of the building Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters is in faces a Clinton St.: https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/584004566041112576
CrazedGeek··on Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, as Yosemite has been the best OS X release since Snow Leopard for me. Runs brilliantly, added a lot of nice features (Continuity and nicer widgets than Dashboard), looks better than Mavericks (and much better than Lion or ML).

Then again, I use a MacBook Air, which doesn't usually seem to be the Mac of choice for people on here, so... shrug

CrazedGeek··on Travel firms sue creator of cheap airfare site
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813138
CrazedGeek··on Barnes and Noble and Microsoft End Nook Partnership
There's a good amount of people that prefer reading on E Ink screens over normal screens.
CrazedGeek··on Ninjhax – 3DS Homebrew Exploit
AFAIK, it was never up in the eShop anywhere but Japan, where it (is going to be/has been) pulled.
CrazedGeek··on Blockbuster: Losing the plot
Redbox Instant actually shut down last month: http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/04/redbox-instant-is-shutting...
CrazedGeek··on CD-Loving Japan Resists Move to Online Music
I would say that all the current generation consoles have pretty much the exact same game purchasing capabilities. If anything, the Xbox One is the worst due to how bizarrely confusing browsing the store is on it. The PS Store and eShop are much nicer to use.
CrazedGeek··on LG G Watch R
A watch like that would probably have battery life of about 0.3 femtoseconds.
CrazedGeek··on T-Mobile quietly hardens part of its U.S. cellular network against snooping
At least a couple years ago, when I switched the UA in a different browser to Firefox and forgot to switch it back, it did use up all my tethering data. It just cut me off though, they didn't try charging me oodles of money.
CrazedGeek··on Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp
Her show is also distributed as a podcast, which is relatively popular.
CrazedGeek··on Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA
The band wanted to release both the album through the record label they were signed to and an acoustic version by the singer through their own record label. Somewhere along the line, the major label started getting really pissy at the band and both (A) wouldn't release the album at all unless the acoustic version was cancelled and (B) refused to send the band preorder copies.

The albums are The Hands that Thieve by Streetlight Manifesto and The Hand that Thieves by Toh Kay, but I'm not sure if there's a detailed writeup anywhere. The band posted this: http://streetlightmanifesto.com/update-the-continued-struggl... and eventually had to cancel all of the preorders. They also posted this about their label: http://streetlightmanifesto.com/streetlight-manifesto-proudl...

CrazedGeek··on Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA
There are semi-legitimate reasons to break Spotify's DRM. One artist I follow was about to release an album, but their record label cancelled it at the last second. Luckily, it still got uploaded to Spotify, so I was able to download a copy of it.
CrazedGeek··on Poll: Do you use marijuana
Nope, never done it. Most of my friends aren't into it, and the legal situation makes it seem more of a hassle than it's worth.
CrazedGeek··on LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment
For some of us, that's all we want.
CrazedGeek··on Skype group video calling becomes free
As an extra feature for Microsoft, I'd bet so. I know plenty of people who listed Skype support as one of the big reasons they got the Xbox One. (Skype on the One is part of Live Gold, which is about $60/year)
CrazedGeek··on Ask HN: Your favorite YouTube channels?
The real answer is usually Game Maker or Unity.
CrazedGeek··on Amazon Dash
Er, I have. 1D barcode scanning has been working perfectly on phones for at least a few years now.
CrazedGeek··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
The previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525198
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