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- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 1 week ago:
I’m on the beta. And I started hating it, then went to disliking it to simply not preferring it.
Being in beta, they are still making tweaks. I think, somewhat unexpectedly, the final build will be kinda nice.
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had the same problem with getting Actual set up.
- Comment on goodbye plex 3 weeks ago:
PlexAmp is so good. Nothing else comes close.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 4 weeks ago:
I generally don’t believe Iran was on its way to building nuclear weapons, only nuclear energy. But, if we were to entertain for a moment the notion that they were, this is all pretty badass no?
But, since it’s not the case this whole thing is frightening. Israel is a terrorist state and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 5 weeks ago:
Let’s agree to simply not tell people what they do and do not need.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 5 weeks ago:
I just explained this in the comment you replied to.
You explained how it’s doable when you drive 60 miles, which I admit will be most people most days (12 hours of charging at 5 miles per hour charged.) Average EV has 293 miles of range currently; even if you arrived home with 20% battery remaining and you only wanted to recharge to 80%, that’s (at 5 miles per hour charged) over 25 hours. Empty to full is over 58 hours!
At least once every few months we take a day trip to the nearest “big” city, which is 105 miles away. Typically a Sunday. Leave on a full battery, arrive home nearly empty. 8 hours of charging, and I maybe have enough for the next day. I will run a deficit until the weekend.
Again, I’m certainly not saying that a L2 charger is a must for all people, or even most people. But I would not agree that L1 is enough for most people.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 5 weeks ago:
It factually is not.
Factually, it’s not either. Both are statements of opinion, although I’d say saying the word “usually” should have some degree of proof behind it.
My statement of “might be” recognizes that there are many instances that L1 makes sense, and I agree with the video that for those for whom it does shouldn’t needlessly install a 240v outlet. Sounds like you’re among those.
I’d say that, sadly, most EV drivers drive more than 40 miles per day on average, and that the moment you drive more than 60 miles per day you’ll have difficulty recharging to full. Most days, you’ll have no trouble recharging overnight. But if you’re like me, you might take a day trip over 100 miles away a handful of times per year. When that happens, I’d arrive home with very little battery left; am I supposed to have the ability to charge for 50 hours?
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 5 weeks ago:
30-35 miles, depending on the season.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 5 weeks ago:
I think “might be overkill” would be a better title and position than “usually overkill.”
There is absolutely a subset of EV drivers that could get by with a level 1 charger (ignoring time of day rates), but most people would fall behind anytime they drive further than the average number of miles. Sure, taking 10 hours to recharge your Chevy Bolt overnight when you’ve driven 40 miles is doable; 64 hours when you’ve returned home from a longer trip isn’t.
I own a PHEV, and installing a level 2 charge has been one of the best quality of life and financial changes.
- Comment on EV Tax Credit Ending Dec. 31, Effectively Increasing Prices Up to 28%. See How Popular EVs are Impacted. 2 months ago:
For shame, OP, removing a key word in the title. When you posted this, and as I type this reply, this legislation has passed the house but not the senate. Whether or not it will is yet to be seen, but the tax credit is not yet set to expire.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 2 months ago:
I keep Apple Music too, because it does offer a lot of value for the price. The inclusion of Classical makes it a no-brainer for me.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 2 months ago:
Look into PlexAmp for lossless streaming. It’s pretty dope.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 2 months ago:
It’s called Music on the Mac, but it’s still basically iTunes. You might have it installed and not realize it.
Note, the syncing process happens in a Finder window.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 2 months ago:
Did you ever have an iPod? Do you remember how you had to have a library on the computer which then synced to your iPod? That’s how this works. Create a local library on a computer, and then sync that library Apple Music.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 2 months ago:
You do not.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 2 months ago:
Apples own Music app (without Apple Music subscription), VLC, PlexAmp…
It’s not hard if you look.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 2 months ago:
Honest question, what’s hard about playing an MP3 on any Apple device?
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 months ago:
Sweeney certainly thinks he is.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 months ago:
Newell is a billionaire like all the rest at 3.5B, but Sweeney is our savior fighting the good fight at 4.5B. Okay /s.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 2 months ago:
Thank you, friend. I do have two different personal libraries, but was unaware of the “external” libraries option.
I would welcome sharing libraries with you, if you were into such things.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 2 months ago:
Wait, PlexAmp allows for multiple libraries?
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 months ago:
How were they supposed to know real estate law being… checks notes…
a real estate attorney?
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 months ago:
You’d think a real estate attorney would know better.
Anyway, property –with the improvements thru made, has appreciated over $163,000 on average every year since they bought it. Ya, $75k more than they planned on sucks, but they can take it from the value of the house no?
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 2 months ago:
Even if you were to concede that point, which to be clear, I absolutely do not, due process must be extended to everyone in order to know who is a citizen and who is not.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 2 months ago:
Please cite in the constitution where it calls anyone “illegal.”
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 2 months ago:
A person cannot be “illegal.”
But they can be ignorant. Bigoted. Hateful.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
The skip intro/credits feature is nifty, and sonic analysis if you run a music library is worth the purchase price alone.
- Comment on Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service? 2 months ago:
I enjoy self hosting, but what tipped the scales for me in favor of using Bitwarden’s servers is that I’m 100% confident I’m not as good as hardening my system from being compromised as they are. The vault is going to be encrypted anyway, and I think there’s a lower chance of it falling into the wrong hands if it’s hosted with Bitwarden. Same reason I don’t self-host email.
Plus Bitwarden is a cool company and the product is open source, and the premium features are unreasonably low priced.
- Comment on Sharing Jellyfin 2 months ago:
I’m with you that you shouldn’t have to, but putting your media directory one level up in a randomly generated directory name isn’t too bad. ~/[random uuid]/media/… may not be a terrible idea in any case.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 3 months ago:
He does. That’s why it’s fun to point out that it’s wrong.