I bought this tiny 2 TB SSD yesterday. It’s blazing fast and takes up the same volume as an AirPods case. What a time to be alive. I could have bought a 4 TB portable HDD for the same money, but I only need around 1 TB for carting data around and backing things up. So I have room to spare.
I got a few little gadgets for Xmas. Can I just say, death to micro USB. Damn connector should be outlawed or we’ll never be rid of it.
Unless you’re dealing with historical dates prior to 1970, there’s absolutely no reason your database or data set should use any time or date format that isn’t unix epoch.
Convert it to a human readable format later. Dealing with dates that aren’t epoch long ints is so annoying.
I know they’re not a part of the books (I think?) but the Dune movies and TV shows need to have someone from house Ordos just as a nod to people in their 40s who played Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis.
I thought I was doing OK and getting ahead money-wise. But this weekend I discovered my couch is starting to fall apart. And that my free standing oven/cooktop is slowly dying (It’s either low and slow or FURNACE). So that’s at least a couple of grand that’ll evaporate in the medium term.
I love Star Trek: Lower Decks. I’m so sad there’s only 3 more episodes to go.
USB-c is great. Most of my stuff can now charge and do other things through a single cable. However, I still have a handful of important things that charge with a micro usb cable. I’ll need a micro usb cable for the next decade I think. Lightning on the other hand… one or 2 for the next decade too.
Hollywood and other TV and cartoon producing regions. Please, I implore you. There are thousands of Aussie, Kiwi and Scottish voice actors out there who can do your Aussie, Kiwi and Scottish characters justice. Instead of American voice actors doing poor, often embarrassing, impressions.
Damn my organising of Secret Santa at work. The person I got is impossible to buy for.
Iiiiii hate Windows dun dun dun, dun dun Iiiiii hate Windows
Help me out here fellow nerds. I don’t really want to run server infrastructure in my house. I also have a lot of data (backups and a lot of Linux isos mostly) which I access over my network. I currently have 2 portable 4TB drives in RAID1 hooked into an old mini PC. What’s a better option?
I turned my phone off before going to sleep last night for unimportant reasons. When I woke up this morning it wouldn’t turn back on. Found I had to do a sequence of pressing (not holding down) volume up, then volume down, then holding the power button. Weird. But it’s on now…
“Upgrade your M4 Mac Mini storage without paying Apple’s insane prices”
You just need $2,000+ worth of micro electronics equipment and $300 worth of blank SSD chips and to void your warranty.
(yes, upgrade prices are ludicrous, but this ain’t it, chief)
What happened to 2.5" spinning hard drives? They got to 4 or 5 TB a few years ago, and haven’t increased in capacity since.
You know how, on your Mac, you can remap the Caps Lock key to not caps lock, because you’re not a MONSTER!? Well, did you know that instead of a mapping it to shift or turning it off like some kind of nerd 🤓, you can map it to bring up the emoji menu? Like a legend 😎
Settings→Keyboard→Keyboard Shortcuts→Modifier Keys
Set the Caps Lock Key to Globe
Then back in Settings→Keyboard, set the Press 🌐 Key to to Show Emoji & Symbols.
Rockin' 🎸
“I wish I had an old school craft” I mumble to myself as I precisely control the temperature of my yeast as it ferments my one of a kind raspberry wheat beer.
Watching any old thing on TV that isn’t current news. It’s nice .
I feel like I’ll never be rid of micro USB. It’s still in so many products as the charging port in the year of 2024, and it makes me sad.
I have posted this every 4 years. From Treehouse of Horror VII, an episode which aired in 1996. It was hilarious at the time. Now, it’s a genuine hope. Good luck America.
The new Mac Minis look very cool. But holy shit the storage upgrade costs kill it. NZ$1,400 for 2 TB? I can buy a 2 TB NVME stick and a USB-C case for it for around NZ$200. But I shouldn’t have to. They really should come with 1 or 2 TB as standard.
I’m very keen to buy a light weight acoustic commuter bike. I have a giant e-bike and I love it, but sometimes I don’t want to be riding a tank. I’m thinking very seriously about the Priority Hot Sauce.
There’s so little I’m interested in on Amazon Ptime that I’m just going to unsubscribe and then sign up for a month or two every year and catch up on the odd shows I actually want to watch (Vox Machina and Invincible, basically).
I regret to inform you that if you grew up with the Back to the Future franchise, you’re now as old as Christopher Lloyd was when he played Dr Emmett Brown in those films.
Hey pocket frens. I need a recommendation for a travel coffee mug. I have a few requirements:
Are Sennheiser headphones still good?