icebergonfire

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by icebergonfire 10mo ago
Anecdotally speaking I can confirm this… it gets easy to just skip a meal, and you may end up skipping the entire day because the usual hunger signals are just not there. For anyone tempted by that concept, please don’t and remember to tr
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by icebergonfire 10mo ago
More anecdata, my spouse and I have been on Mounjaro since Jan 2025 guided by private health insurance. I have suffered almost the entire gamut of side effects from the beginning until I tried split dosing twice a week, and even then there’
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by icebergonfire 1y ago
> Their no-bullshit returns policy. Caveat emptor though, I trusted this policy as well and got my account closed for unclear reasons. They hinted at returns fraud (not the case) and a high return rate (not the case either). I provided d
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by icebergonfire 1y ago
Their support department must be quite understaffed too and heavily amplified by AI. I've had multiple lengthy interactions with them since Sunday due to a bug that has lost me money (yes literally, see [1]) and I am saddened by the
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by icebergonfire 1y ago
> simply read your emails from them if you do Certainly. Except their mistake had beyond-reasonable consequences, since account termination would result them losing access to: their phone, their laptops, their TV smart pucks, their table
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by icebergonfire 1y ago
Anecdotally speaking, the 80% limit seems to be key to better battery aging long term.Anecdotally speaking, the 80% limit seems to be key to better battery aging long-term. My launch-day iPhone 15 Pro Max is at 95% battery health. That phon
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by icebergonfire 1y ago
This thing is insanely cool, thanks for creating it.
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by icebergonfire 1y ago
> I know that Game Porting Toolkit exists There's a wrapper over this called Whisky ( https://getwhisky.app ) that makes it really straightforward to install and run Steam or other Windows binaries. I use it on an M1 Air a
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by icebergonfire 2y ago
> even the windows doesn't have electrical motor for the passenger I guess this may depend on the specific trim you purchase? I personally have a 2022 Jogger something or other and all of my windows are push-button electric.
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by icebergonfire 2y ago
Compared to actual medication, no. It can help though… and that’s how you may unintentionally develop a pretty high tolerance for caffeine (200mg caffeine pills and energy drinks every day at sunrise ). Turns out I had ADHD and I had been
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by icebergonfire 2y ago
FWIW my M1 Air 2020 is at 93% health. We could speculate about the potential root cause of this different (I always use optimized charging and the author appears to have it disabled on their screenshots)... but it's quite more likely t
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by icebergonfire 2y ago
I love videogames, understanding how a speedrun is made is technically fascinating for me and I am also known to love some other things under the appropiate set and setting[1]... but I'll defend the OP because certainly don't th
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by icebergonfire 2y ago
Whether you consider videogames worthy of extended time and attention or not, that's entirely subjective and you are correct (for yourself) whatever your take is. Even in the case of assuming that you consider videogames completely wor
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by icebergonfire 3y ago
You could use iTunes in Windows https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 If you don't have a Windows license, you can get a trial VM from here https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows&#x2
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by icebergonfire 3y ago
Not in your situation at this point, but as a photo nerd I will eventually be so I took to Google. > Any method that I've found to clean them up (exporting the originals, deleting them from the library, and then re-importing the JPE
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by icebergonfire 3y ago
> I have some Tildes invites if anyone wants them. I'd love a Tildes invite if you still have one to share. My email is on my HN profile.
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by icebergonfire 3y ago
My daily driver is a Macbook Air M1 with 16GB of RAM, and my backup is a Mac Mini 8GB; both hooked up to 5K displays. I live in vscode, a plethora of browser addons and tabs (with auto-suspend extensions after 30min of idle), some Teams and
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
I'm going to tell you what worked for me, with the explicit caveat that it may not work for you and/or you may not find it palatable. I use browser extensions to timegate the time spent in websites that I know hit me in my weak sp
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
Adding to the polite pile of plus ones, I wasted my 20s in directionless ways. I spent 28-30 ramping up into tech and managed to kickstart my career began two months before I turned 30. > I still feel like I wasted the years from age 16
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
Not sure if a literal Spotify could have been built on the web, but I recall using Grooveshark roughly around that timeframe (may have been 2009, 2010 at the latest). Grooveshark did work for me as fully-featured streaming music player, so
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
> And I kept putting it off due to poor mental health and travel. I've been you, quite literally. And with an extremely similar age timeline even. I won't tell you _you will make it_ because we are not owed a specific outcome i
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
As someone who went through the same process, including using a Huawei watch previously, I encourage you to try Autosleep. It has much better sleep detection magic and exposes a few knobs that enable you to fine-tune the autodetection and a
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
> Spot on, I’m so different now than I was then I disregard anything anyone without kids says. I would posit this is universally correct. Us not-parents can "believe" we can accurately imagine what you go through or what we wou
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
I don't want to invalidate your experience, but allow me to offer an anecdata counterpoint: Wifi works perfectly on my M1 Mac Mini and has since day 1 (to the point I never bothered to wire it up), and I have location services enabled.
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
Without taking away from your point, deep in the Reddit comments the OP states Stripe put a hold on the account after billing the sale of a literal company truck through Stripe and not via selling their normal store merchandise. https:&#x2
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by icebergonfire 4y ago
I don't know your friend nor you, so I can only speculate. I can tell you that during my own journey trying to Be A Better Me it took time to internalize this kind of communication framework, to stop feeling like I was putting on a fro
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by icebergonfire 5y ago
While this is true and there are some good contractors to be found in that bucket, I’d say we are bound to rediscover the lesson that you mostly get what you pay for… minus cultural and language barriers.
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by icebergonfire 5y ago
> A full restart of the devices helps, but usually only for 15-30 mins. This rings a bell. Do you have an Orbi mesh by any chance? I used to experience this with specific cheap IoT devices that were constantly hopping to different Orbi
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by icebergonfire 5y ago
> out of the 22 dollars the customer paid for the delivery, I received 5.61 before tip I am completely ignorant on how this works on the driver’s side, so I could be missing something here: Those 22 dollars the customer paid include what
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by icebergonfire 5y ago
As someone who as been on both ends of that spectrum at different points of my life, I’ll attempt to explain: your core concept is completely legitimate and understood, at least here in HN. Presenting it as a clear-cut _you are a queue of w

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