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The thing keeping me on Prime has been their unlimited photo backup service. The desktop app either doesn't work anymore or I have too much content for it to handle. It spins and spins but nothing happens. I can manually backup via the web client but it's a huge pain and there's no automatic sync of new content. I never really know if I'm 100% backed up either.

I was excited to see Apple announce new iCloud tiers above their old 2TB limit, but the prices go up linearly with storage and as an amateur photography enthusiast I'm not sure even the 6TB $30/mo plan would cover me. The only other choice is an eye-watering $60/mo plan for 12TB.

For the reverse (computer -> phone) I use a browser extension called "The QR Code Extension." Click it and it displays a QR code to the current URL you just point your phone's camera at.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-qr-code-extens...

In the late 90's I was an instructor in a youth PC repair class. For a fun demonstration we took an old IDE drive, removed the lid and had it running defrag. We did this outside. Next to show how important it was to prevent liquid spills we poured some cola directly into the drive. It sprayed everywhere but the drive kept working fine. Kids got a good laugh and did not learn a lesson that day.

I've never purchased a lottery ticket but I do get a small reduction in my state property taxes from those who do, so I guess I win once a year.

Tires make a huge difference in MPG, stopping distance etc. Every economy car I've checked ships with much more expensive tires than you'd probably bother replacing them with since they can eek out an extra MPG or two for the window sticker.

When I ran over a nail in my Prius C I swapped the stock tires for the cheapest set the dealer had. It was $80/tire instead of $230. My MPG did go down ever so slightly but when you're talking 51 to 49 who cares, I'd never make that money back in saved gas. They grip better in winter too.

6,000 miles is pretty extreme, but maybe the Ford needed to go with really soft tires to get the handling characteristics they wanted? Going by the Ford we used to own I think their engineers are a make-it-work bunch and don't care too much about longevity (which is too bad, other than horrendous reliability it was a great car).

I'm that guy at work. I solved the problem by completely rewriting our huge and aged out internal application. The plot twist is that I also completely wrote the original crappy codebase.

I dual boot (currently Artix) but the gaming experience is still best on Windows.

I mostly use Macs, and without wasting your time with the details my CTRL-C equivalent in the Terminal is WindowsKey-C. Well, I was in Powershell on Windows 11 yesterday and needed to CTRL-C something and muscle memoried my Mac shortcut and it popped up some sort of chat GUI with no [X] button. What the heck is this stuff? Who wants these features?

I do have to say after much reluctance I upgraded my PC from Windows 10 to 11 and it's much more than a reskin. I even shoehorned it on my 4th gen i7 laptop and it's never run better. I'm looking forward to trying this tonight to get rid of some of the cruft.

I have the XPS 15 9530 from 2014. Somewhat depressingly it's the most powerful intel laptop I own so I still use it when I need to be mobile with Windows.

I had to disable turbo boost to keep it from going nuclear under even trivial load. Mine doesn't overheat exactly, but the squirrel fans go full blast and it's super loud. I think the XPS line is just too thin for the hardware they shove in there. Mine has a quad core i7 which was pretty rare for 2014 but if you can't realistically make use of it...

One of my earliest memories is asking my dad, "what's that sound you hear when there isn't any sound?" Mine isn't torturous, but I sure would love to hear silence, I've never experienced that.

The thinness of the "Corporate Income Taxes" ribbon in that sankey diagram is upsetting.

I don't disagree, but they already know where I live and how far my commute to work is (was, yay WFH) as those are standard questions I've answered with every company I've used.

I was fooled into using one from Progressive once. For the record I'm an extremely cautious driver of a 99 horsepower Prius C, exactly the type an insurance company should love to insure. Any breaking of even moderate intensity causes the box to beep and your "safe driving score" goes down. Yellow light, run it or your insurance goes up. Someone cuts you off and you avoid an accident, your insurance goes up.

The final straw for me after a few months was another driver running a stop sign and feeling my brain waste milliseconds deciding if I should hit the brakes as hard as I should or juuuust hard enough to avoid hitting them in hopes I don't get a beep. I did the latter and it beeped anyway so I ripped it off the ODBII port and threw it on the floor. I changed insurance companies the moment I got home from work.

My final score was really poor and I was pissed since I'm the slowest and safest driver I know.

I have an alias that while trivally simple is quicker to type and remember. It copies whatever file you give it to the clipboard which is super handy. I use it with the "Compare with Clipboard" to diff a file in Rubymine for example.

alias clip='pbcopy <'

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I would love having one of these in a collaborative workspace. I'll open up the ERD for a modestly complex database and it's illegible on even a 5K monitor. I was asked to bring one to a meeting once so what was I to do other than print it out on an 8.5x11 and shrug. You'd literally need a microscope to read it.

I have a VR headset, and it lives in a cardboard box. The reason is that the only thing I'd actually use it for it does poorly. That being immersive media consumption. By the time you have a virtual movie theater the resolution remaining for the actual movie might as well be a VHS. If this is as good as it sounds like it is, that problem is solved.

I won't be getting one for $3500, but if I was single or a higher earner I probably would. I'm sure they'll sell as many as they can make.

My 2011 MBP is still going strong. With 16gb ram and an SSD it's honestly not even slow unless you have to compile something.

Yep. I've been doing this for years. It changes a plist file in your home dir somewhere if I remember correctly.

I do this on my Macs. Windows and KDE also have the option. GNOME stopped doing desktop icons by default ages ago. It's such a better experience IMO.

I have Desktop added as one of those fan-out folders in the MacOS Dock so it's really easy to drag-n-drop the newest screenshot to GitLab etc.

That Canon model number looked familiar, googled it and yep it was the same POS I owned ages ago. Can confirm massive clogging problems.

Point #3 (Using Your Phone as a Mouse and Keyboard) mentions utilizing the gyroscope. I've had that idea in the back of my head for years and years and am super excited somebody actually built it. Looking forward to trying this out.

If it works well enough to actually use I'm gonna be turning heads at the next in person meeting. :)

My server is quite similar, an e3-1275L v3 with 32GB of ECC from a trashcan Mac Pro. I had been planning to migrate my i9 desktop into that role at some point but not supporting ECC you're making me second guess that option. Maybe I'll ebay the lot and get a Ryzen. ;)

I'll run memtest86 for a full day when I build a system or get new ram. I've never seen an error outside of the situation where a stick has gone bad and it errors like crazy. I don't use ECC other than on my homelab server either.

Tons of people do this and have no issues with bit flips or we'd be hearing about it.

Let's say there's some sort of afterlife and it's super great. You can do whatever you want in a paradise. Okay, now imagine that lasts for trillions of years. What are you going to do? You're either going to go insane from boredom or not be yourself in which case sure you're some eternally happy sprite floating around but not you anymore.

And are other people there? Yeah? Talk about a road-trip test of a relationship hanging out for eternity. No? Okay thats lonely.

When I die, I hope I'm dead afterwards.

Luckily I ordered the AX210 over the AX211 because the AX210 was cheaper. :P

Huh really? I put an AX210 wifi 6E card in my absolutely ancient Intel i7-2600 Optiplex and it works great.

How about just send them a box with a prepaid shipping label back to your IT office?

I drive a Prius C. I adore it, see them everywhere and of course it was canceled. I live in Wisconsin and so see so many full sized trucks that have never touched a dirt road or been to a Home Depot. If everybody got 50mpg in a little economy car we wouldn't even need EVs.

Less comfortable but maybe less fatiguing? I know when our Costco cart gets hard to move it's time to go. Next we'll get hybrid carts with electric assist.