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Whee, more fuel for the fire: It’s a bad idea to leave MFi / Lightning cables plugged into a charger indefinitely. Apparently, the little chip in the interface needs to be power cycled periodically, or else it will just decide to stop charging devices for no good reason. I have had this happen repeatedly in the last few months. You’d think I’d learn and stop leaving my charger cable plugged in all the time? But no.

Info card works: https://kode54.net/blog/got-a-mac/

Anybody else got so much crap crammed in their refrigerator that it takes more than 5 minutes to find anything buried inside, and the door ajar alarm goes off every time?

Ah, I see, that's what dissociation is. Yeah, I find myself dissociating frequently. Could also be that because I have rather severe aphantasia, I also do not imagine visual things to go with the dissociation, and just see what I'm staring at. Do other people actually have fun doing this? Because I just find it to be an awful time sink.

I was also wrong when I said I'm too busy chatting and reading social media to read any more. I must spend way more time lost in thought and staring into space, than I do actually ranting on social media. There is probably a place in the Dune universe for people with no useful skills who just space out with overwhelming thoughts all the time, and have infinite problems with expressing any of the ideas they dream up, right?

Hmm. Hot take: There was nothing worth salvaging from Cohost. Least of all the prevailing attitude that we should be living out the fricking Dune timeline.

Happy New Year, West Coast!

Night-night, fedi

Hmm *sees UK Online Safety Act* looks like the correct solution is for most of the internet to just blackhole the UK and stop doing business there. ezpz with a Cloudflare geoblock

Like, does anybody out there know who will do at-home pickup of toxic waste and/or dead batteries, including UPS lead acid cells? Asking because I don’t want to have to explain to an Uber driver that I’m transporting such things as that in their car. And I’m the impossible American who doesn’t drive.

Congrats to the new Twitter for handling the load. #bluesky #blueskydown

God fucking DAMMIT. Why did nobody tell me the 10G ethernet in the Mac mini was so goddamn flaky? It drops for 3-6 seconds at a time every few minutes. Unlike every other 2.5G device on my network.

That Mandela Effect moment in the making, where you suddenly think of a place called Vembria, then go Googling, find a supermodel, eventually find the keyword "Soviet", then find that you were actually thinking of Thembria from TaleSpin. Man, I haven't watched that since it was originally running on Disney Afternoon.

what the hell is this crap sent to my dad? must be awful urgent, it even has a "tracking code" ... printed on the mass printed envelope

Please, more #apple #mac reviewers, consider using #amorphousdiskmark in your disk benchmarks instead of either BlackMagic or AJA.

*cues up streets.mid from Duke Nukem 3D*

Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Special orders don't upset us

Why the hell do fruit cups have to be in syrup? If they can make them with noxious non caloric sweeteners / laxatives, why can't they make them without?

Actually, I quite like having zero barriers to reach my eyes and ears. I'll miss my hourly bot posts.

Why are we using scare quotes on "M4" when talking about new Macs? Are we still too terribly pissed that new CPUs are only incremental improvements over last year's models? Who gives a fig, it means we can finally stop lockstep upgrading constantly as technology slows down.