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I listen to audiobooks while I walk and hike, and sometimes when I recall some particular thing I've learned, I can also recall where I was hiking when I heard it.

I think there's a lot to learn on how we really process information.

I have a car with it - even HD - and I thought I would use it more.

But every time I try it out, the stations are playing a loud advertisement.

I see the ai product ads and it's pretty funny. The product is shown but is "broken" as far as scale is concerned.

Sort of like how they tried to make gandalf big and the hobbits small in lord of the rings (which wasn't very convincing to me)

I thought I read that there are actually other things going on with blood sugar, not just glucose, but maybe fructose? Wonder if this can be measured.

is now an empire

wonder ful point

many people await the return of the iphone mini...

I remember reading a travel thing a long time ago (before gps was a thing).

They cautioned that in some cultures, if you asked for directions, people would rather be polite/helpful and give you an answer rather than saying "I don't know" and giving you no answer. (They recommended that you ask more than one person to be more certain you were getting good directions)

In other cultures they were more likely to say "I don't know" at the cost of seeming more impolite.

So, we don't know the intent. :)

they have all kinds of stuff that runs openwrt

like:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0978TF8K3/

https://openwrt.org/toh/zyxel/gs1900-24hp_a1

or:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TC3VJ61

https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/zyxel/zyxel_xgs1250-12_b1

feels pretty misleading:

this is called "marketing". :)

Having owned both gas and electric cars, I think the reality is probably not what either side thinks.

You have to take electric cars into the shop too. But range problems aren't as much of a problem for adults if you plug in every night and don't forget. If you're the type that forgets to charge your phone, it might be. and if there's no charging in your domicile it might be an issue.

But gas cars are also bad for the people who forget to charge their phone. Or change their oil. or any type of routine maintenance that could turn a trouble-free gas car into an extra trouble gas car.

I think electric cars (and their batteries) last lots longer than people expected. And gas cars are trouble-free up until a certain age when things not only need to be maintained, but replaced and then you need a good relationship with a mechanic.

no precedent

the asus bios will automatically install armoury crate on a clean windows install

in the bios:

advanced -> armoury crate -> install armoury crate -> enabled (by default)

on the other hand i got a mikrotik a while back and while setting it up it was silently phoning home.

I installed openwrt and then installed it on many mikrotik routers over the years. to be honest, not so much traditional routers (wifi+4-5 ports) but on ~10 port mikrotik switches for my infra.

i've since been switching to zyxel gs1900-* switches (up to 48 ports with openwrt)

Do macs really have GPUs though? Or are they like intel integrated graphics?

I wonder if you could bond one of those magnetic USB-C cables onto your port.

like:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P9PNFS6

I just wish they'd release a new mini

you and a lot of other people.

that's the only reason I have lightning in the house, actually.

so was the comment that it wouldn't grow, or wouldn't shrink. :)

Send a player too. :)

Factory stamped cds are better in this regard

One thing factory CDs don't do well is spin. I think they were probably balanced good enough for 1x, but trying to rip some of them at 48x is noisy and feels close to explosive deconstruction.

I agree on physically exploring.

It is always nice to take younger folks to the used DVD/CD store and let them explore. It is not expensive.

There's also a strange paradox, where the better stuff is cheaper. (technically it is probably popular stuff is cheaper). The dvds of season 1 of Friends is usually $1.

and sometimes you can get 4k UHD disks for cheap.

I wonder about not only baby or feminine supplies, but also snack coupons and dating apps

I think short-form video has killed many things. There's just too much dopamine stimulation.

Although arguably music videos have always been a sort of short-form-video - takes strung together enough to keep you engaged through the song.

  ...
  This hit, that ice cold
  Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold
  This one for them hood girls
  ...

wow, sidestepping like that sucks.

Strangely, some kindle books actually do meet california criteria of "buy" by allowing a download of the book in .pdf or .epub format.

But when you go to buy them, it still seems to say:

  By placing an order, you're purchasing a content license & agreeing to Kindle's Store Terms of Use.

It is only later in your library that it quietly says:

  Download available in additional formats

Isn't this where some lawyers step in and file a class action lawsuit?

This was never about money for him, but about control over a key technology.

I think he just wanted to have a sci-fi future, and because many other people think similarly he has tapped into that shared desire and has been succeeding.

Looking at things from the other side, musk is good at making physical things, where other companies are weak.

Grok in a tesla car is actually well integrated and kind of nice. You can ask the car about things to do, and it will drive you there.

Sorry, I laughed... :)

I’ve judged prizes both pre-2020, when we were sent stacks of books, and post-2020, when everything had switched to zip drives and online databases.

Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 megabytes (MB), then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

I remember some friends talking about motorcycles, and one was wondering how much horsepower you could get out of a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

And another friend quipped, "You don't tune a Harley for power, you tune it for noise!"

Back to tuner cars, I've always thought the perfect invention would be a tuner-car-audio-experience-device.

Basically, a device that you plug into the cigarette lighter and it uses some method of figuring out the engine RPM (and maybe throttle position). Then it would generate cool engine sounds and send them to bluetooth stream / fm broadcast / audio jack, for the car audio system.

You could drive a quiet car, but inside it would feel like a formula one car, a 12-cylinder italian car, motorcycle, tugboat or jet fighter.

I would say spaceship, but those days are gone since every EV nowadays sounds like an cheapo alien orchestra already.

I agree.

For a normal person, when your day is pop-ups, cookie dialogs, dark patterns, auto-opt-in, <100-pages-of-legalese> + "Accept", subscriptions, smartphone-only ordering and customer service and endless-monetization...

...why use weaker words?

of course, if you're working or starting a tech company, you cannot use strong words. You might alienate your many funding sources.

this is leaking down to identity matching

https://electrek.co/2026/07/06/tesla-cabin-camera-fsd-identi...

and maybe:

https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-featu...

I find it interesting when traveling.

I remember traveling to mexico and being surprised.

Giant "Marlboro Man" billboards.

Television advertisements for hard alcohol.

but what was also funny was Coca-Cola ads always had something like "Siempre come frutas y verduras" (Always eat fruits and vegetables)

(nowadays mexican food labeling is even more specific, saying stuff like "excess calories" or "excess sugars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_labeling_in_Mexico )

This makes me REALLY question "this call may be recorded for quality purposes"

Now other businesses are starting to reference their privacy policy at the beginning of a call, which leads me to think there are many more uses popping up for our recorded voice.

I'm sure a certain percentages of recordings of our voice "to stop fraud" might be used to start fraud.