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rewtraw··on The Touchscreen Infotainment Systems in New Cars Are a Distracting Mess
I recently purchased the 2019 Mazda 3 and absolutely love this about it. All controls are physical buttons/knobs that are sensibly placed so the driver can access them without reaching. The screen is nice and big without being obnoxious, and the built-in infotainment UI is very modern and easy to use. And it also supports CarPlay which is wonderful.
rewtraw··on Fortnite and the Good Life
"If you play less, you are less likely to win." is obviously harsher than "If you play less, your character won't look as cool."

Apex Legends has re-introduced me to gaming (after being AFK since the Halo 3 days), and I very much appreciate that the only 'perks' of grinding are cosmetic. As an adult with less free time, if I knew that a game would punish me stat-wise for not playing as often as my competition, I probably wouldn't play at all since I wouldn't stand a chance. But cosmetics don't affect gameplay.

rewtraw··on AirPods
My Bose QC35s do this very well. They connect to both my iPhone and MacBook via Bluetooth, and if I am listening to a podcast on my iPhone, and get a WebEx/Slack/Etc call on my MacBook, I pause the podcast and answer the call, and it switches between the two seamlessly -- I don't need to do anything.
rewtraw··on Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags
Tether is more convenient (faster) than exchanging for USD. And many exchanges don't support USD/Fiat so the only way to sell tokens for a stable currency is to exchange for Tether.
rewtraw··on The Christmas crypto correction. What really happened
My Gemini account says I have a $100k daily USD withdrawal limit via ACH, and doesn't note a limit for wire transfers. I haven't needed to max that out yet, but I don't think I would have a problem selling millions of USD worth of BTC/ETH and withdrawing it to my bank account.
rewtraw··on Why Bitcoin will fail
MakerDAO just launched its stablecoin, DAI. It maintains stability by a complex system of smart contracts and CDPs. The problem is much more difficult than simply increasing/decreasing supply.

https://makerdao.com/

rewtraw··on Grit is a muscle, train it
I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, and every day for 6 months had to tell myself "Just one more peak" or "Just make it to the next shelter", and once I made it to that peak or shelter, would stop for water and a snack and then keep hiking, again telling myself "Just one more". Do that about a thousand times and before you know it, you're in Maine!
rewtraw··on New iOS Google Authenticator update deleted all my accounts
To avoid this issue, make sure you've logged into all your 2factor accounts, and have the new Authenticator QR code ready -before- updating.

eg. For Google accounts: 'Move to a Different Phone' at https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthSettings

rewtraw··on Love Your Terminal
Anyone have something similar for zsh? I can't seem to get it to work with my current prompt.

http://pastie.org/5456546

rewtraw··on How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.
Wikipedia has a decent comparison here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Comparisons looks like both the BSD and native Linux port are on version 28.
rewtraw··on How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.
For what it's worth, I've had very good luck with zfs-on-linux on my 12.04 system. Multiple pools, largest is 20TB. Zero problems after a year of use. Switched from mdadm/xfs due to major data loss from corruption, and I don't plan on looking back.

http://zfsonlinux.org/

rewtraw··on John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
I did it during my lunch break ;) "Preparing to install" took 10 minutes (you can still use the system during this time) and the install itself took ~30 minutes on a 2011 MBA. Rebooted right to the desktop with no fuss.
rewtraw··on John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
I agree that Ars deserves the page views, but if you really want a single page, use Readability:

http://www.readability.com/articles/6ynwkoyx

Pictures seem to be stripped out, though.

rewtraw··on How I Store My 1's and 0′s: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = Joy
I'm currently running a backup box nearly identical to the OP, and haven't had a problem yet (built it over a year ago). ZFS runs like a dream on Ubuntu, even with a slew of oddly sized disks (1TB + 2x2TB + 3TB) at 90% capacity. I've had my SATA card come loose, and ZFS just locks down the FS to r/o so no damage is done. And unlike many other file systems, ZFS's checking utility actually gives you human readable results if there is an error (eg. "/foo/bar is corrupt", not just cryptic messages), and outputs exactly what you should do to repair data.

I recommend at least trying ZFS out in a VM, I guarantee you'll be impressed by the versatility.

rewtraw··on Google Drive
Seems to have been a mistake, they already fixed the pricing.

Old: http://i.imgur.com/wq9hz.png

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