Technology, Truth, and Common Sense
Just discovered my 2021 Audi SQ8 can play Hi-Res lossless audio! 24bit 192khz FLAC is apparently no big deal. WHO KNEW! I ve got one of those 2TB SanDisk USB SSDs from Costco yeah, that one. I don t trust it for REAL work, but holding 600 gigs of FLAC and serving as my mobile jukebox? Yeahhhhh [ ]
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/05/uh-im-pretty-sure-people-would-know I don t know what the fuck I just read. But I nearly spat coffee all over my screen. 🤣
Wow. I m not typically moved to write a product review. You d think it would be for something special, right? Like it was because something was mind blowingly awesome, riiiiight? NOPE! This review is for a thing that is a total piece of shit. Well, hang on, let me back up. The physical pet feeder itself [ ]
Honestly at this point I m about done with OpenClaw and their misguided Doctor nonsense. Doctor warnings are probably great for the beginner who doesn t understand the ramifications of the runtime choices being made. I ve investigated nearly every setting, read the docs front to back, and explicitly hand-chosen and curated the configuration of the setup I m [ ]
Last night, Chuck, my next door neighbor passed away unexpectedly. He wasn t even 70. When I first heard, I noticed I felt mostly unaffected. Almost as if floating out of body, looking at myself, seeing the well, shit reaction crossing my own face. I guess that s why it s called shock. He had just been out [ ]
I m really starting to get tired of the AI written garbage all over the internet. Where s the original content gone? Why s every thought have to be augmented by an agent that makes it all bland and sound the same. I used to love being able to tell the difference between writers now they re starting [ ]
I spent some time this weekend playing around with Matrix federation. It s fascinating. I ll leave it at that. Come say hi 🙂 https://matrix.to/#/@jimmie:matrix.homeroot.net
Breezeline installed their “best” internet service at my house on March 28, 2026. Gigabit. Very impressive on paper. In real life, I couldn’t even use it. It did not work. That should have settled the question of whether I owed them a full month of service charges. Instead, it turned into one of those stupidly [ ]
I rated them 0/10. Would not recommend. I provided the following feedback: I requested that the installation be completed using my own modem, which is a supported model (Arris SB8200) and is currently functioning properly on another provider. The installer attempted to provision it, but when that did not succeed, he suggested using Breezeline equipment [ ]
For years, I’ve been… well, tinkering. And learning. And occasionally, saving myself a lot of frustration (and money!) by figuring things out for myself. I work in technology – specifically, at Microsoft – and that environment constantly fuels a desire to understand *how* things work, not just *that* they work. Over the years, friends and [ ]