ObsoleteNerd

And/or watch the documentary, which you can watch legally and free on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...

Yes. I lived on a farm for a couple years recently and you had to extensively research any tech you bought even if logic said there’s no reason that particular tech should need internet. The TV we took with us no longer worked (Samsung) so we had to buy a Sony (and have never looked back), among other things.

Also, software. Half the software on our computers stopped working despite not being internet related.

It was incredibly frustrating and really soured me on the direction tech is headed.

I absolutely loved the iPod nano for my kids. It lets me give them easy access to an iTunes library in their rooms without worrying about other apps or messing with anything else. Even the youngest (3 years old) could figure out how to skip to the next track or start/stop the music to the Bluetooth-paired speaker in their room. I even bought an extra Nano for when this one dies in the hope that that gives me enough time until they’re old enough to handle a “full” iPod touch.

For a nerd? Probably not.

Just seeing the LinkedIn links made me think it was some kind of parody at first. Especially considering it’s already sitting on GitHub where there’s free hosting.

It’s clearly just an attempt to drive traffic/engagement to their LinkedIn account. A new form of blogspam... socialspam?

I’ve used Australian consumer affairs laws to return products well outside the return date when they’ve been updated to remove/modify features I specifically wanted.

I returned a Bose speaker when it stopped letting you cast to it without their app, and have returned my Ring external camera when they removed customisable motion zones (I need to block a specific tree that moves in the wind). Plus more.

I’ve never had a problem doing so, I’m always polite and just explain that it’s no longer as advertised and print out the product update notes showing that they removed/changed x or y feature.

AUD $4.49

Can also change the country code in the App Store URL (if looking at it on a desktop browser) to see the pricing in each country.

Seriously cool. Love the attention to detail. I’ll definitely back whatever funding campaign is launched for this, I’ve got the perfect project in mind for a portable secure controller.

I was racking my brain trying to figure out why this was giving me déjà vu. I figured it had been posted before then renamed but seems like a totally separate project doing effectively the same thing?

My wife has no disabilities (and is a very light/casual tech user) but uses heaps of the iOS accessibility features. I personally had never really looked at them until she started showing me how handy so many of them are day to day.

Things like:

The triple-tap-to-zoom feature has a “low light” filter that works on top of your brightness setting so you can use it to get a lower-than-lowest-brightness for reading in bed at night (even the lowest brightness isn’t low enough sometimes).

Reachability setting if you have a big phone and small hands let’s you drag the entire interface down with 1 finger and reach buttons at the top of the UI.

LED Flash for Alerts gives you a visual notification if you work somewhere where you need your phone on silent but also can’t use vibration alerts (she works in a medical field and her phone sits across the room on a table).

Lots of interesting ideas in an area of Settings 99% of people never touch.

They're a form of Government-issued photo ID, so not "secret" but definitely "sensitive".

At least in Australia, a passport can be used as your primary ID for a lot of stuff such as renting houses, buying mobile phones, connecting services to your home, booking flights, renting cars, etc etc etc.

I feel like we’re at a point where a modern frontpage would work. Make it cross platform (including maybe a simple mobile version) and have it push static sites to Github Pages (with an option for other hosts). Integrate some domain purchasing and setup with info@domain redirecting to an email address of choice.

Squarespace but with an actual layout editor like Word.

> Do you have a source on this?

This is a late reply so you might not see it, but:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-lego-made-a-huge-turn...

> The only reason Lego survived during this difficult time was due to the success of the Bionicle and “Star Wars” series. The first “Star Wars” Lego kits launched in 1999 and represented the company’s first foray into licensed series, many of which became integral to the company

Infographic showing the revenue curve before/after licensed sets were introduced:

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2024/01/in_lego...

Yeah I've got a 6 digit semi-common name Gmail account (from the invite-only days) and the amount of junk I get to it is mind blowing. Not "spam", that gets filtered pretty well by Google these days, but emails specifically sent to me but not for "me" personally like TFA talks about.

100+ emails a week in my primary inbox that are from people signing up to random stuff in my name, basically any/every service you can imagine where I don't already have my own account (large social networks and sites in countries other than me own, online shopping sites, etc).

The other interesting thing is I seem to get a LOT of email for addresses that "almost" match mine, as though Gmail is doing fuzzy-search for addresses? Eg lets say my email is "david@gmail.com", I get dozens of emails a week for "david.17@gmail.com" and "davidab@gmail.com" and stuff like that. I can't explain this one, and everyone I bring it up with says it shouldn't be possible.

It's gotten to the point where I've created a more normal fullname@gmail.com and then do some filters/forwarding on the old one for the more important emails, then just check the old one every couple weeks to see if I missed anything, because it's just not usable anymore with notifications on.

Licensed sets saved them from bankruptcy, and now that they're healthily profitable again they've been releasing more "classic" sets like the Lego City, Lego Creator (and Creator Advanced), and Technics sets.

As someone who's been into Lego for life, and as a middle-aged parent who still regularly buys sets to build myself independent of the sets I buy for my kids, I'm more than happy for them to crank out the licensed sets (which I ignore) in exchange for them to still be here making those Creator/Technics ones for me.

Yeah this has been a common attack since as early as I can remember. Company goes bust? Wait for their domain to expire then register/catch-all and start seeing what mail you get from websites to see where there’s accounts using that domain. Also plenty of more targeted methods too.

Google bans/locks/deletes accounts for arbitrary reasons all the time, with absolutely zero recourse for the user.

He makes awesome YouTube videos on various small electronics projects like this, including some more complex ones with custom PCBs and stuff. The website is more used as a reference/script for the videos, and the videos are much better if you actually want to see the projects visually.

I’m a big fan of his Casio F91W mods and his Pi Zero projects. His overall design/aesthetics are flawless too.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NODEtv

I’ve been using KeePassXC almost as long as it’s been available, and couldn’t be happier. Database stored on my NAS and synced to Dropbox for when I’m out, gives me access on all my devices without having to worry about whether x or y service will still be around in a year or 2.

Their redesign combined with the incessant harassing app crap turned me from an hours-a-day-and-modding-some-decently-big-subs redditor to visiting for 15 minutes a couple times a week when on the dunny. Their entire site is so user hostile now it’s actually bordering on funny. They’ve become a parody of everything they set out to defeat.

Australia for one. I returned my Ring camera when they removed the customisable motion detection zones and it no longer worked as advertised (to this day, many months later) on their own website.

Couldn't agree more. Both are trying to appeal for pity to the very people they're taking advantage of and it pretty much sums up everything wrong with companies having this much power. We're living in the cyberpunk future of megacorps manipulating governments for profit at the expense of everyone else and there's nothing we can do about it.

I've been following SC since the beginning, first in the hope that it truly would give us the next big leap in space games (a genre i'm obsessed with), but quickly turning into it being me following it just for the drama and entertainment.

Star Citizen is without a doubt a total scam, with development pushing out the absolute mimimum[0] to keep more sucke^H^H^H^H^Hpeople investing more money. They're pulling in more money every year, with this year on track to be the biggest year yet[1].

I'm far from the only person who thinks it's a scam[2] and there's entire subreddits[3] devoted to people complaining and trying to get refunds.

The SC rabbit-hole is deep and (if you're into the industry drama) very entertaining, and while I don't feel sorry for the rabid fanboys who go into every SC thread defending their tens of thousands of dollars spent on a tech demo, I do absolutely feel sorry for the MILLIONS[4] of people who got suckered by these predators and led to believe they'll ever get what they paid for.

[0] https://starcitizentracker.github.io/

[1] https://www.gamerspack.com/2020/05/13/star-citizen-funding-r...

[2] http://dereksmart.com/2018/11/star-citizen-year-six/

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen#Funding

For those that dismissed NMS due to the launch fiasco and never looked at it again, it’s now an incredible game. If they’d launched it then in the state it’s in now, it would probably have been a colossal hit and gone down as one of the best space survival/exploration games ever made. For me personally it’s easily top 5, and space survival is the primary genre I play almost every day.

Also, playing it on PSVR is incredible. No cut-down “VR Experience”, it’s the full game in VR. Doing VR dog fights in an asteroid belt against waves of fighters, then transitioning through the atmosphere as the fight follows you down to ground level is an awesome experience.

Donations to Mozilla (the non profit) do not go towards Firefox, and there's no way currently to directly donate to Firefox.

That was a great video, and incredible that games still going. What other games have been going for that long? I know the community has kept Doom going to some extent, new maps and textures and stuff. Can’t thank of any more still being developed since the 90s.

51-52 Celsius would be heat-stroke territory.

I wonder how that's going to work, whether he's going to keep both as-is in parallel or what the plans are.

Absolutely. Laziness isn't an excuse for not caring about security. Security should be the top of your mind any time you connect anything to the internet.

The fact it's not, is why we're seeing major attacks/leaks/etc almost every single day now.

I've found even the absolute cheapest Garmin car GPS to be better than other brands 3x the price. I got some clearance-bin obsolete-model $99 Garmin GPS for my camping/roadtrip beater car and it's infinitely better than most the others I tried that were 3-4x the price (returned 2 other more expensive ones before giving up and buying the cheap Garmin).