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graemek, to retrogaming
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I still haven’t told him he’s adopted.

qurlyjoe, to random
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Stallone: I’m making a movie about famous composers. I’m playing Beethoven.

Van Damme: I’ll be Mozart.

Schwarzenegger: Stop it guys, I’m not saying it.

graemek,
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@qurlyjoe @ATLeagle I should not like a joke this dumb.

TechConnectify, to random
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OK, time for a short* thread** about gas stoves. At this point, I have been thoroughly disillusioned and don't know how I ever thought they were any good. I never want one again***

  • I hope

** Please read the whole thing (I'll mark the end) before replying, as I might be touching on your thought!

*** Wok-users and enjoyers, boy do I have some interesting news for you about plug-in induction woks and how they're getting fairly cheap

graemek,
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@siracusa @TechConnectify @caseyliss This has always confused me, when people complain they burn food because they can’t change the temperature fast enough. Like…you can move pots, you know?

And I have a gas stove! If I could run a higher amp circuit to it easily I’d’ve swapped it out by now.

film_girl, to random
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NGL, a huge part of me loves this even tho I know I would use it once or twice and then never again. https://www.clicks.tech/

graemek,
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@film_girl I would use this for 45 minutes a year but I would be ecstatic to have it for each of those minutes.

marcoarment, to random
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Overcast clean-build times:

M1 Max: ~19 seconds
M3 Max: ~11 seconds

…which lines up perfectly with Apple's performance claims.

Impressive!

graemek,
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@marcoarment I’m not a developer anymore, but this post brought back all of the PTSD from chasing a bug for a full workday only to “fix” it by restarting Visual Studio.

arstechnica, to random
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Microsoft pulls OneDrive update that would quiz you before letting you quit

Change affected a "small subset" of users and has (thankfully) been reverted.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/microsoft-pulls-onedrive-update-that-would-quiz-you-before-letting-you-quit/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

graemek,
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@arstechnica I’d like to thank @andrew_writes for chronicling my slow decision to finally switch to MacOS on the desktop so that I don’t have to. I’ve always preferred Windows (yes really), but the past 12 months have been brutal with this nonsense.

graemek, to ATLUTD
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Silva just seg faulted.

marcoarment, to random
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ok look I know this is really stupid and pedantic, but come on, we’ve had 26 years to learn this

It's Wi-Fi

not Wifi or WiFi or wifi or wi fi

Wi-Fi. Hyphenated. Both words capitalized.

thank you for coming to my ted talk

(while you're here, “log in" is two words when being used as a verb… your login button or link should not say "login”, because the action they take is to "log in”)

graemek,
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@marcoarment Login and log in are both bastardized short versions of “sign the log” and “logging in” so continued bastardization doesn’t bother me there. The action you’re taking is authentication, after all.

snazzyq, to random
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HEY! What are some of your favorite gadgets you got this year? And I'm not talking about an iPhone 15 Pro or whatever... tell me the quirky stuff! Neat products you love and don't think many people know about. :D

graemek,
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@snazzyq These should count: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B075FFK5PY?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

marcoarment, to random
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Netflix has raised prices more frequently in the last few years than I've found a great new show on Netflix.

graemek,
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@TechConnectify @marcoarment I subscribe to Paramount+, which I call Star Trek+, through Apple TV channels specifically to avoid their actual interface.

cabel, to random
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I love Passkeys, and also believe that Passkeys will, eventually, eliminate my need for 1Password (which I like — but would like to not need!). macOS/iOS Passkeys automatically sync to all my devices, they’re not a text string, they just work.

So, imagine my surprise when I just went to create a Passkey for Nintendo, and found that 1Password blocked and hijacked the system Passkey prompt… in favor of their own.

Just a convenience? Or artificial lock-in to protect 1Password’s future? Hmm

graemek,
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@cabel I was pleasantly surprised they did this since I do live the multi platform life, but I didn’t realize you couldn’t turn it off. What a pain.

marcoarment, to random
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The Pro color selection is… not getting a good reaction from Tiff.

graemek,
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@marcoarment “Colors”

graemek, to random
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@marcoarment Is Top Four on hiatus while you deal with all of the Life Stuff or was Phish the grand finale?

cabel, to random
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At this point I am 98% positive I am one of the last people on the planet using the "iTunes Store" section of Apple Music, and that includes Apple employees. Times New Roman, baby!!

graemek,
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@cabel I may be the only user of iTunes left on Windows, but not everyone is on Bandcamp, or releases CDs, sooo

(No streaming services here!)

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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What's the greatest Simpsons episode of all time?

graemek,
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@BlackAzizAnansi

homer simpson work GIF

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Offensive question?

What is with New Yorkers and bodegas? I don't get the obsession. I understand that it's nice to have a place you can get stuff you need around the corner, but if you transplant one of these stores to literally anywhere else it's a dingy overpriced shop with low selection. I get it as a need, but not as a thing to get weird about. What am I missing?

graemek,
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@ZachWeinersmith Other commenters are hitting on the community aspect, but walkability and convenience in a huge. The price variability isn’t an issue when you can reach the store in a few seconds. Going somewhere else for an item or two only makes sense on a very fixed budget or if you value your time at zero.

TechConnectify, to random
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I don't know why it took me this long to articulate this thought, but Tesla's charging model is ultimately a trap for themselves:

They rely on other folks to provide services near their charging sites. That's clever, BUT it means they do not make any money from those services.

And that's precisely what keeps gas stations in business. They compete with one another to such an extent that the fuel is sold barely above cost, and the store/car wash/cafe is where they /actually/ make money.

graemek,
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@TechConnectify @marcoarment Will it be road-sign based like gasoline, or will drivers trust their in-car/app-based navigation to direct them?

graemek,
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@TechConnectify @marcoarment We don’t need to, no, but I’m not sure that battle isn’t already lost. I’m not sure about Google Maps, but Apple Maps already communicates with my car and automatically adds waypoints for chargers for me on navigation. Convenience wins over all for most consumers.

That feature was a surprise to me, for sure. I’ve DC charged my car exactly one time in the year I’ve owned it. I had no idea it could do that already.

CareLevelZero, to random
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I found this on an old, salvaged drive I was organizing and immediately crumbled into ancient dust.

graemek,
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@MoistHorse @CareLevelZero I have a physical copy of this in a poster tube somewhere.

esdin, to ADHD
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Regulatory Bodies: “ADHD medication is highly addictive”

Folks: “Wait… did I take my pills?"

graemek,
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@esdin @XaiaX Highly addictive to everyone who doesn’t need it.

film_girl, to random
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So this is obviously a money laundering scheme, right? Why else would someone spend this kind of money on a mass-market consumer device that was sold literally in the tens of thousands (the 8GB sold millions but I don’t know how many 4GB sold). This isn’t an Apple I breadboard DIY kit. It’s a mass-market consumer device! Insanity. https://www.macrumors.com/2023/07/17/rare-original-iphone-record-auction-price/

graemek,
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@film_girl The only thing that makes me think it’s not money laundering is that fine art is so much lower profile. Why would you want to do this and get a news article about it.

paul, to random
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Has the Unifi stuff gotten more expensive or have I gotten cheaper?

graemek,
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@paul I don’t have any 6 stuff yet, but my last two receipts for the In-Wall HDs were $180 each from a few years ago. Can’t find when I bought my AC Pros though. 🤔

snazzyq, to random
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Bittersweet. Goodbye, Bluey.

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graemek,
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@snazzyq Hey wait a second, that’s my car’s name!

Ha Ha Lol GIF by Bluey

graemek, to random
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@TechConnectify I never saw this coming. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/ford-evs-will-get-access-to-teslas-supercharger-network-in-2024/

codinghorror, to random

Can we please for the love of god stop collectively pretending Adderall isn’t meth?

graemek,
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@codinghorror @film_girl @mrj @leedohm …you mean like caffeine?

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