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by Fwirt 1y ago
I feel like I'm in-between sizes or something. The medium Apple eartips are more comfortable but tend to sit farther out of my ear canal and feel like they're working their way out. The small eartips stay in more securely, but sit
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I have been able to trigger it when fumbling around with adjusting the fit. If I run my finger over the top of the body I can get a brief squeal out of them. Happened just a few seconds ago. I also have noticed on multiple occasions that if
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by Fwirt 1y ago
100% agree with the required update to 26, I was hugely bummed when I discovered I had to update my devices to pair them. I've had the opposite experience with noise cancelling though, the APP3 feel like magic when I'm working wit
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I kind of wonder if the designers of the Atmega8 series had this in mind when they designed the parallel interface. I always wondered if there were any modern devices left other than say, EPROM where programming by hand was still possible.
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Sadly the article alludes to the probable destiny of these pieces: being broken down for melt value. The big stones will get recut to hide where they came from. If the thieves are “smart” it’s likely these will never be seen again in their
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by Fwirt 1y ago
“Today’s apps’ problem is every app has its own UI language, and users have to first learn that before being able to use an app.” Liquid Glass is far from the first attempt at this. See “material design”. Apple has had UI guidelines for yea
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I think the fundamental barrier is that I have yet to see a system where mouse and touch can coexist as first-class input methods. Either your UI is optimized for touch with large input buttons and heavy reliance on gestures, or mouse with
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Having owned at least 3 such devices, I have to disagree. It "works", but desktop apps expect desktop interactions, and touchscreen functionality feels cobbled together at best. There are a handful of apps developed specifically f
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I run Alpine as the OS on my home router. It's probably the most comprehensible distribution, I feel like it's actually possible for a mere mortal to understand the system. There are dozens of us!
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by Fwirt 1y ago
There's an art to sifting through the "random letter" products on Amazon. While there is a lot of bottom-of-the-barrel garbage that gets churned out by grey market factories, bought in bulk on Alibaba and silkscreened with a
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by Fwirt 1y ago
There are a number of interesting creative apps for iPad that can make full use of its capabilities. A good example is Nomad Sculpt. There's also CAD software, many DAWs. I haven't tested Numbers yet but I would assume its fairly
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by Fwirt 1y ago
John B. Goodenough filed his breakthrough lithium-ion battery patent at 58. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry at 97, the oldest Nobel laureate in history. The lessons here are two-sided: First of all, don't write off experience
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by Fwirt 1y ago
The internet wasn't a need until the past 20 years or so, and yet it was a project that arguably began in the 1960s. Now governments worldwide are nearly mandating that everyone have an internet connection, not to mention a microcomput
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I used it from iOS 15-18 and it always worked great. We try to limit our kids' iPad use to drawing in Freeform and the occasional edutainment app, and I never had issues with them escaping Guided Access or it causing lockups. The fact
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I was going to wait for a few bugfixes until I upgraded, but I was forced to update to iOS 26 because the AirPods Pro 3 that I bought required it for some inexplicable reason (which I didn't know until I tried to pair them). The AirPod
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. They absolutely destroyed Guided Access in iOS 26 to the point of borderline non-functionality. I've had the system idle-sleep while in Guided Access and wake to a lock screen
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by Fwirt 1y ago
We are still in the very early days of VR. Does anybody remember the late 1970s when personal computers were toys for enthusiasts and rich kids? They were not ergonomic and served no purpose to the general public that couldn’t be filled by
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by Fwirt 1y ago
As a hacker, a really fun thing to do with QGIS is locate your local government’s GIS data portal. At least in the US, most data is freely available and can be pulled into QGIS as layers. Fun things like lidar surveys, flood zones, property
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by Fwirt 1y ago
There are a lot of people spreading FUD about these patents, but if you read the actual patent, it’s not like Nintendo now has a patent on all summoning of creatures in video games. The patent is for “you control a character, you throw Poké
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Other device manufacturers ship hardware built on pre-existing software with some customizations, often using off-the-shelf drivers and software components. Apple is not only selling you a device, they’re selling you an OS and a quite decen
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Interestingly this looks like the same principle as a rocket mass heater or masonry heater, but on a larger scale and powered by renewable energy. They say the system can retain heat for weeks whereas the smaller thermal battery in a masonr
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Shoutout to what is probably the best online catalog I have discovered recently, https://rockauto.com . Dynamic, but also fast, easy to navigate, well-organized, every part can be expanded for more information, and it even does t
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by Fwirt 1y ago
My understanding is that this is a choice made by funeral homes to provide something “identifiable” to families. They run the furnaces at a lower temperature so that combustion is incomplete. Otherwise you are left with nothing but powdery
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by Fwirt 1y ago
As noble a goal as it is to pursue self-improvement, it comes to my attention more and more that people at every level of society are fundamentally disconnected from the experiences of others. It's human nature to assume that others ar
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by Fwirt 1y ago
This is exactly my experience. I got diagnosed as some variant of bipolar 9 years ago and put on a mood stabilizer, but the symptoms never really fit. I’m in general high functioning and got great grades up through postsecondary, didn’t sta
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Except this could get confusing because the year 1976 (for example) is actually in the 20th century.
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There’s also the excellent Nomad Sculpt, which while not a mesh editor, is an incredibly performant digital sculpting app. Compared to Blender’s sculpt workflow it maintains a higher frame rate and smaller memory footprint with a higher ver
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Somebody please correct me, but I believe the subsidies and taxation happen at different levels of government. The subsidy is federal, while the taxes are primarily state and local. The taxes help fund maintenance of local roads. Your feder
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by Fwirt 2y ago
The selling point of a Steam Deck is that it is a PC console. One of the problems with the PC gaming market is that even though in theory all PCs are "compatible", the reality for game developers is very different. Different PCs h
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by Fwirt 2y ago
Oddly enough, Chuck E Cheese has been trying to “rebrand” itself since COVID. During the pandemic they actually operated as a shadow kitchen pizza chain and possibly as a result, the quality of their pizza (at least at our local restaurant)

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