I still have my pebble time, and it’s still my favorite smartwatch os.

In the modern day, sometimes it’s just nice to be able to say “I did that!”.

Same reason I look in the toilet.

Fill some plastic bones from Walmart with some shot pellets.

My younger friend asked why some old cars had a piece of plexiglass on the front of the hood.

I had to explain that thirty years ago, in this area, you would drive through enough bugs in a day to cover your windscreen. The bug shield would help deflect them. It was a pretty grim lunch after that.

In 2003 I learned to drive in a 1986 Hyundai Pony. The breaking point was when I got a stop sign on a slight incline and my dad had to get out while I floored it so the car could get moving again.

I’m just mad as hell at how many things seem to have topped out in the 1940’s. My car is basically the same. Five wheels and I chase an explosion around. Air travel is basically the same. Big aluminum tube that’s expensive size as hell. TV is basically the same. Tune in, sit on ass, watch.

You look at how life changed between 1900-1945, and how life changed since then, and we’ve really stagnated.

That’s not to say it’s all the same, phones are amazing, but they don’t change my life fundamentally, a day without my phone is very much the same as a day with my phone.

If you’re a sewer, you can probably convert some fabric and a cloths hanger into something similar.

Blog posts and peer reviewed articles are not the same thing.

I’d like a less painful way to update, but I’m also probably ready to backup and reinstall at this point.

During the 36/37 update my bluetooth stopped working, despite everything saying it’s working. I’ve lived with that for a while but it’s slowly starting to irk me.

I watched Linus Tech Tips, and NCIX Tech Tips before that. My wife and I were discussing how the level of information was tanking but the production quality was great, then GN released their video a few weeks after we stored watching LTT and I unsubsidized.

The wonderful result of Microsoft and Qualcomms exclusivity agreement.

There are other ones, this is just the obvious one. I’ve only spotted one other in the wild and I forget where it was.

Here’s one on Google maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/55qqbQRYY7abKPVy9 I drove past this for years without thinking about it until one day I drove under it.

Now that I know what it is, it’s pretty obvious, but how often does the average person really inspect houses as they drive by?

Edit: maps links suck, 3911 Frances St, Burnaby, BC V5C 2P4

Underground railways use houses for ventilation as well.

There’s a few things from dos that have a permanent place my soul. A:/KEEN.exe, idkfa, iddqd and gorillas.

I have a dual boot partition, but honestly the games that don’t run are so few and far between that I really don’t bother…

It’s like if you bought a Playstation, how do you play Xbox games? Unless it’s really worth it, you just don’t.

I asked my dad if he had any money saved to help with college and he told me that people like us don’t go to college. I dropped out in grade 11. I hope to graduate university in three years from now at the ripe old age of 41.

Look at them, embracing open source like this, how wonderful.

Finally an ai image with the correct amount of fingers! Was that so hard?

This guy thinks you can do what you want with Windows.

Disabling updates is such a ridiculous thing because sometimes it works, and sometimes Windows just ignores you.

I’ve literally had two exact model laptops running as local render servers, fully updated, then disabled updates/reboots on both, around a month later one updated and rebooted dumping my workload and corrupting my database. Disabling anything on Windows doesn’t always work, it does what it wants.