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The quality of stuff being sold on Amazon has been a race to the bottom for a while now, somewhat following in the steps of Ebay....

Viewers were asked to collect cycling data from their cities’ busiest intersection, providing a rough insight into how cycling varies across the world....

My Harman Kardon headphones and my sausage fingers don’t go well sometimes - occasionally when switching off the ANC I accidentally put the headphones into pairing mode....

I woke up this morning to an awful looking homescreen on my Android - turns out my Niagara Launcher subscription had lapsed!...

I’ve noticed quite a lot of new accounts popping up recently, wondering if something new happened over at Orange Alien HQ or maybe is this just normal growth?

Tesla released the service manuals for their original Roadster yesterday, pretty rare to come across any kind of service manual nowadays. Great for R2R!...

The soft pedals are an interesting idea I think, but I share the same concerns about their longevity. Some interesting books mentioned at the end too…...

This decade old electric cooler box gave up the ghost around 2 years ago, with the indoor outlet plug no longer working. The independent 12v input was still operational, so I kept it with the intention of eventually fixing it…...

How nice of Windows to spam me with notifications when I temporarily fill my scratch disk, despite turning them off…

For me personally, trams are right up there. Aside from the main issue of sharing the roads instead of having a dedicated line, they really make it easy to get from one part of a city to another, especially for wheelchair users. They’re usually as frequent as buses, but much faster. The stations are much more attractive...

One would assume that if you paid for the 4K Netflix plan, you’d be able to watch media in 4K on all your devices? Unfortunately not, Netflix maxes out at 720p if you’re watching in the browser....

What do you think of dual actuator hard drives? I never knew these even existed…...

The Retro Lite CM4 is a passion project by two modders StonedEdge and Dmcke5, inspired by the Switch. This emulation handheld is based around the Raspberry Pi CM4 and RetroPie....

A pretty comprehensive video by Hugh Jeffreys covering how Apple has been restricting repairability in their devices, even before 2012....

I’ve been in need of a bench supply for a while, up to this point I’ve been using little buck/boost boards with a multimeter to get the voltage I want when working on a project. The limitations of that started to show though, so I was after a more ideal solution....

This is pretty neat IMO, and is provided by some other FUTO software called Polycentric, integrated into the grayjay app....

Never realised that quite a few third party mods for the deck are available - such as a transparent chassis, colourful buttons, and even an aftermarket APU cooler....

Louis Rossmann unveils Grayjay - a video client similar to Revanced and NewPipe, but shows your subscriptions from various video sites in a single feed....

Welcome to 2023, where you can say hello to a jail cell for being signed in to Google… at the wrong place, at the wrong time...

My old sandisk SATA ssd was starting to get really slow for some reason. The SMART data and the sandisk SSD dashboard app were saying the SSD was healthy, but its performance wasn’t anywhere near what it was when brand new....

cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/4255839...

cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/4255839...

Picture of a bus stop, where a separated bike lane runs straight through the space a bus driver is expected to pull in to...