therobotking

8 ms·

1.
by therobotking 3y ago
I was really hoping to see my Google cameras on the list of supported models. I'm expecting them to be EOL'd any day. I am slowly migrating and replacing my way to an entirely self-hosted smart home setup, but my Google cameras we
2.
by therobotking 3y ago
It's essentially a static image with a mouth moving when a sound plays. There's no real connection between what's being said and what shapes the mouth is making and the lack of any movement on the rest of the face is just inc
3.
by therobotking 3y ago
Please don't stink up HN comments with your fetish trash comments. This is one of the last places online where the comment section is still free from lazy puns, repeated jokes, one-word replies and sleaze.
4.
by therobotking 3y ago
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-recall-accelerator-pe...
5.
by therobotking 3y ago
How am I reading so many comments not realising this repo is tongue-in-cheek?
6.
by therobotking 8y ago
I like it. Nabbed a copy for $5 - feel like you should charge more than $3.50!
7.
by therobotking 9y ago
They now owned by Google but I find Waze to consistently provide better and faster routing (by car) than Google Maps when I use them both on my Android phone.
8.
by therobotking 9y ago
Would you be able to send me an invitation to signup to lobste.rs please? mail at-symbol therobotking dotcom
9.
by therobotking 9y ago
I genuinely worry about the day the SA forums get shut down for whatever reason. I've been posting there since 2003 and it's my first stop on the 'daily internet check' ritual.
10.
by therobotking 9y ago
Presumably it's a name for people from the US but I've never seen it before and it's not great.
11.
by therobotking 9y ago
On one hand I absolutely love Google's ecosystem and have an Android phone, use Gmail, have an nVidia Shield TV, use Android Pay, travel using Google Maps for transit every day, use Docs for work, Drive for all cloud storage needs and
12.
by therobotking 9y ago
I work in a school where we have a bunch of iPads that get passed around from classroom to classroom. They are terrible. I wish they'd purchased Chromebooks instead but iPads are more impressive on a list of school features.
13.
by therobotking 10y ago
I use Profile Manager. I run OSX Server on a 2012 16GB/1TB macmini and it's been pretty good. It's stable - I think I've rebooted it once in about a year and a half. Anything you can do in configurator you can do with pr
14.
by therobotking 11y ago
What's not to like about Linux or IRC or even MySQL?
15.
by therobotking 11y ago
Have you checked out the Microsoft Band 2?
16.
by therobotking 11y ago
The comments on that article are crazy. How did so many nutters find it and comment on it so quickly?
17.
by therobotking 12y ago
Mmm.. his terrible facial hair made me think it was an amature video. Hilarious that people are paying the guy money to put himself in their product videos and he doesn't even tidy his beard up.
18.
by therobotking 12y ago
Hasn't Google+ done this for quite some time now? I think at 2048 x 2048 you can store unlimited photos. Odd that it wasn't one of the comparisons in the article anyway.
19.
by therobotking 12y ago
There's a great app for rooted Android devices called Pry-fi that generates random MAC addresses while you're not connected to a network. edit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p
20.
by therobotking 12y ago
Nice list of alternatives. Good job you managed to find a link to your own.
21.
by therobotking 13y ago
His argument is not a straw man and Android does not force the user to do power management, as you claimed. It is an optional.
22.
by therobotking 13y ago
If FirefoxOS is to have any chance at adoption by the general public that attitude has to go. How many people will be happy with responses like yours when they ask a very reasonable question? Not too many.
23.
by therobotking 13y ago
For me the great thing was it allowed streaming video in a quality not matched by the terrible RealPlayer and the like. Downloading videos is easy now but back on slow ADSL to download a video was an overnight task but streaming was pretty
24.
by therobotking 13y ago
This is complete nonsense. It's perfectly easy to stand up in the underground train cars.
25.
by therobotking 13y ago
I had a Nexus 4 from launch until the Nexus 5 and never had a problem with receiving or sending SMS messages. I've never heard of it being a common problem either. Your wife should go ahead and get the phone if she wants one.
26.
by therobotking 13y ago
I actually found their initial attempts really disappointing. I was hoping for some really cool, advanced stuff. Emailing them .jar files? To me that's laughable. When my friends and I used to try and infect each other with sub7 in the
27.
by therobotking 13y ago
Nova is the best 3rd-party launcher by far. I love your work with it.
28.
by therobotking 13y ago
"The voice that you were hearing is being transformed into a fully functional text-to-speech voice, specifically created for our Teddy." This sounds like the video used a pre-recorded voice. So it isn't even actually working
29.
by therobotking 13y ago
Agreed. I think the difference is nowadays everything is very user friendly. There's no need for the kids to learn how to use a DOS prompt or know about IRQ values to get sound in games working. Apple's "it just works" p
30.
by therobotking 13y ago
I understand that dumping everything at once would probably be a bad idea but the tweeting of teasers? If it's really going to be such a big deal it should be treated with respect. edit: Hopefully this will come out on Monday, start of

More ›