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mfwit··on My Homelab Setup
This reads far more like 'My Home Network Setup' than 'My Homelab Setup'.
mfwit··on Chang'e-6: Moon dark side samples collected and launched into lunar orbit
> There's nothing like WeChat in the west yet. I'm not sure this strong lead is still there.

China has a lot of really impressive technology and innovation happening. An app store inside a messaging app is not what I would point to as groundbreaking from a technology standpoint.

mfwit··on Review: Apple's efficient M3 MacBook Airs are just about as good as laptops get
Until Apple finally starts shipping their home-grown modems (which does not seem soon), I wouldn't hold my breath.
mfwit··on Disney unveils the HoloTile floor
Over my head, but heres the patent (pdf): https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...
mfwit··on Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
And when you do try to cancel, you have to chat or call somebody. I'm looking at you SiriusXM.
mfwit··on A Disney Imagineer Will Join the Inventors Hall of Fame
I'm a massive Disney Parks and Imagineering fan and I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of Lanny before today. Really glad to see he's getting the general recognition he deserves.
mfwit··on Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
This pdf is like 10yrs old, but graph in the top right outlines the rate based on distance.

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/july2014/posters/9-DSOC_OPAG_P...

mfwit··on Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Looks like they hit 267Mbps at 19 million miles away on Dec 11th.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tech-demo-streams-first-...

mfwit··on Mouse experiments reveal the brain-heart connections that cause fainting
This. So much this.

Fainted for the first time, because of a nose bleed, in front of my high school physics class, literally.

mfwit··on Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables
This was largely my experience even though I'm in Comcast's backyard. Constant modem reboots for seemingly no reason and outages of varying lengths.

Switched to fios and I'm never going back to coax.

mfwit··on Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables
But has Comcast service gotten any more reliable?
mfwit··on Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards
Exactly this.

Ebbets Field Flannels is basically the only sports merchandise I buy these days but since they were bought by Lids last year, Fanatics now has a partial stake in them too. Thankfully I haven't noticed any change in product quality, but its only a matter of time.

mfwit··on Byte Fanless Mini PC – Built for Linux
Hell, some of them will even handle non-binary 48GB sticks too.
mfwit··on Byte Fanless Mini PC – Built for Linux
Why would I buy this over the massive amount of options, at better prices, from companies like Minisforum and Beelink?
mfwit··on Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
It, too, has its issues. Especially the 'New Outlook', which is esentially the web version in an app wrapper. Like always wanting to open the web versions of Office products when you go to open attachments instead of the actual app installed on your machine.
mfwit··on Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
The only reason I realized this was a thing is because a coworker blew past the initial popup about the behavior and couldnt figure out what the hell was going on.

Users don't pay attention to this stuff. And then when you have to go back and switch it to the correct behavior of using the default browser, they've buried the option in Outlook (Options > Advanced > Link Handling).

mfwit··on A mystery person who spies on theme parks from the sky
I'm a big bioreconstruct fan as well. For me, theme parks are an amalgam of nearly every technical and creative discipline in the pursuit of telling some sort of story that you can walk through and explore yourself. Watching that all come together and seeing all the behind the scenes work is fascinating, particularly when we are almost always kept in the dark about details until opening.
mfwit··on What Is a Weed?
Leave it to HN to get me to buy a book about weeds.
mfwit··on How to become a debt buyer
This somehow feels worse than suggesting drop shipping on Amazon is THE business to be in. Impressive.
mfwit··on Passkeys: A Loss of User Control?
"Passkeys will be importable and exportable, cross-device, and across passkey managers. They aren’t at this time, but they will be. It’s something that’s being defined and designed." -Apple Authentication Experience manger

https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/110329118270492669

mfwit··on Philly cheesesteaks became big in Lahore
John’s. Go with someone else. Order a roast pork and a cheesesteak. Enjoy.
mfwit··on 10BASE-T1S is the missing Ethernet link for automotive communications
The applications in commercial buildings where there are already miles of single pair communication cabling run is even more interesting.

https://buildings.honeywell.com/us/en/products/by-category/b...

mfwit··on Data-Free Disney
The modern Disney Parks have a myriad of problems and one of them is definitely the insistence that guests utilize apps, etc but not because of the absolute paranoia outlined here.
mfwit··on Sound
Incredible stuff as always from Bartosz.
mfwit··on Color fonts on Google Fonts
Wordart in 2022.
mfwit··on Reviving the Pakon film scanner
As a photographer who has always lusted over Pakons and will eventually own one, I truly appreciate the effort here.
mfwit··on Eating sea squirts may reverse the signs of ageing in mice: study
Sea squirt is the single thing I had on a trip to Korea that I didn't enjoy. This description is bang on.
mfwit··on The smallest and worst HDMI display
What a lovely little collection of small projects.
mfwit··on Ready for an N95? Here's how to find a high-quality one that fits you well
I guess I can stop wearing this mask when I spray paint too, it makes it so hard for me to breathe.
mfwit··on Display-switch: Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM
Very interested in your QMK approach!
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