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I can almost guarantee that I will now start seeing references to this in dishwasher recommendation threads on forums and Reddit now. And it won't be me doing all of it, I swear! :)

I sooooo want to return our Ninja Creami Deluxe, recently purchased at Costco. If it sits for ~ an hour or more after use then it cannot be turned on again until unplugged and plugged back in to the wall. From Googling, it seems that Ninja started out doing warranty replacements for the issue but now have shifted to "its a safety feature".

I know it would be super easy to return or exchange at Costco. But my spouse likes it, I am pretty certain that any replacement unit is going to have the exact same issue, and it was a pretty good price.

I'm sorry for being a bad consumer!

And I'll be looking for Vitality integration for my employer's health program!

You know, 1 star reviews are ok. It's like people want to do anything to keep from a single undeserved 1 star review from happening. What if the same logic was applied to 5 star reviews?

I remember this as more of a Windows Phone thing. From looking at screenshots, the People screen had a What's New tab that may be what I'm remembering. I believe that was intended to pull in latest posts across social media for all contacts.

The automatic sync function of the Nextcloud app ends accessing the photos in a way that doesn't include the location metadata of the photo. So the file it puts on your Nextcloud server does not have the location metadata.

https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/14409

Fortunately (I think?) the auto-upload seems to become unreliable in general so people are more likely to notice that funny things are happening.

And if you use Nextcloud on Android to back up your photos, it may have been not syncing the location since mid-December when Google removed certain permissions from the App Store version.

I bit peculiar and specific but came to mind and may save some person's geotagging.

I do an annual one-take video around the house with the family, just talking about what has changed. Open cabinets and show what is in them. Talk about what is going on that week and what you are looking forward to. It usually goes for 20-30 minutes.

It is an arms race that will end poorly for everyone. Whatever the legit companies do to make their links work

Good guys send out email links -> Bad guys start sending out email links -> Security scanners start checking link contents

Good guys hide behind automatic POST -> Bad guys start hiding behind automatic POST -> Security scanners start checking behind automatic POST

Good guys hide behind button click (we are here) -> Bad guys start hiding behind button click -> Security scanners start checking behind button click

Good guys hide behind link that doesn't work until 10 minutes after sending -> ...

Good guys hide behind captcha -> ...

Good guys hide behind plain text code that has to be copy/pasted from email -> ...

Eventually the security scanners will be indistinguishable in function and intelligence from a human being.

Might as well just merge it with your personal AI assistant and it will do everything for you...including getting scammed by the bad guys.

Some people seems to prefer just getting washed in a steady stream of whatever gambling/flashing lights/gacha stuff too.

Difficult to say. That could conceivably fit in one rack of 60 compute nodes (1/2U size) at 200VMs per node, leaving 15U for networking and SAN. Maybe $100/year/VM (rough cost of a lower-end cloud VM like EC2, droplet, etc.) in that case so $1.2 million per year cost.

Or it could take 10 racks and $50 million per year.

For something vaguely similar, as in a meticulous way of making a 3D object out of 2D materials with fine details, I recommend the Metal Earth products (puzzles?) as I find them to be quite rewarding. The complexity is probably two orders of magnitude less--think 10-20 hours to assemble the pre-designed and cut pieces.

Gracenote is owned by private equity and has limited availability of data. I prefer to encourage the use of more open data. MusicBrainz or Discogs would have been better choices than Wikidata based on quantity of entries. Though in 5 minutes I have been unable to find if Discogs even has external IDs, and I am not sure of the quantity of Spotify IDs that MusicBrainz has.

Use the Spotify artist ID[0] to find the Wikidata entry, and then grab the Tidal artist ID from the Wikidata entry to match the correct artist on Tidal. Even better if you use album IDs. (Brain explodes if you could use a song ID.)

Realistically, Wikidata may not have enough of this data populated, but it is nice to dream. And it seems plausible that MusicBrainz or similar might have enough data.

[0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1902

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4576

Edit: P1902 has 57000 uses and P4576 has 7000. So YMMV big time.

I think it is not crazy to think that if the contents are used from some country then intentional obstruction of justice stuff like kill switches or dropping VPN connections should be treated as intentional obstruction of justice. AKA reality of use matters more than "location" of data.

Thinking the systems that a company has are so sensitive that the company is basically above the law is the insane thing.

It is just a company--a group of people granted certain rights. They have databases...fancy filing cabinets. Just because the company is famous shouldn't preclude their filing cabinets from being searched (presuming legal processes are used and not abused).

I'm pretty sure Aureal A3D was featured on my family's Compaq Presario 5150[0] back in 1998. The speakers were decently sized units mounted on the side of the 17" CRT and powered straight from the soundcard via 3.5mm plug which apparently was designed to output way more power than a standard headphone jack because it could go pretty loud.

A couple nifty demos were included. One was simply a bee buzzing in a circle, and it totally sounded like it was doing loops behind your head.

[0] https://aaron.axvigs.com/node/438

I wasn't thinking camera. Just a doorbell.

https://www.honeywellstore.com/store/products/portable-wirel...

No personal experience unfortunately. I have a brass antique reproduction twist bell!

I would look for something like this: https://www.honeywellstore.com/store/products/portable-wirel...

A big company does it so no one else should try?

You can get a wireless doorbell for $25 which will require no permission from any reasonable property owner.

Agree. Approximately rank 65 on best-selling albums of all time, but generally ranked in the 250-350 range on top 500 albums of all time. Such more subjective measures probably include sales/popularity as one of the ranking factors, so one could think that the album is of particularly below-expected "quality" to drag it down a few hundred positions.

So the better F-Droid client is recommended to be installed via F-Droid? Seems complicated.

One could simply switch to a base 16 numbering system as well!

I don't have specific advice to give you. But a few of the videos on the Posy YouTube channel are highly relevant. He has fixed some vintage HiFi gear displays. Not in depth technical in the videos but maybe he has a community or something? EEVBlog forum would have knowledgeable people too.

I see. I split my monthly cell phone bill among 8 family members. This is a manual process, but not too bad since I do it on average twice a year (faster to sign in and download 6 PDFs once than to sign in 6 times to download 1 PDF each time, etc.). So a few minutes to download 6 statement PDFs, 10 minutes to key numbers from those PDFs into my spreadsheet, and then 15 minutes to go through and manually split the transactions based on totals from the spreadsheet.

I'm pretty sure I could write a custom importer for Beancount but the breakeven point on time would be years.

I think modifying the CSV importer for Beancount to split certain transactions to certain percentages would be fairly easy--switching to Beancount itself (or other Plain Text Accounting software) would of course be monumental. But it is the ultimate in flexibility.

Any personal accounting software? Quicken, GNUCash, any Plain Text Accounting, etc.

I must be missing something in your requirements.

A similar analysis for The Baroque Cycle would be cool (for undefined reasons...just in a Surprised by Joy sense I suppose). I am 2/3 through Quicksilver. It looks like the used copy of The Confusion that I ordered is missing the maps. I guess they are available on the map maker's website [0].

I recall that some digital map version of the track of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was interesting when I was reading that a while back.

I think a super-interesting project of similar concept would be to fully 3D model the apartment building from Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (Knuth: "perhaps the greatest 20th century novel" [1]). Hundreds or thousands of architectural and furnishing details are described in exquisite detail, of maybe 20 apartments across 6 or 7 floors. My apologies for any gaffs in this idea--I only made it about 1/3 of the way through the book mostly because of busy life.

[0] https://baroque-cycle.com/ [1] https://cs.stanford.edu/content/contacting-donald-knuth/retd...

Based on my personal experience, I really doubt that the last 4 digits of the ZIP+4 are changing more often than once per decade or longer. I could see the delivery point of the 11-digit code changing every few months, but you are already aware of that code system so it is not simple confusion between the two on your part.

Could you provide more information or a source?

The most common last-mile fiber assembly I have seen in use is called flat-drop. It is flat, and it is optimized for use on the drop to the customer premises. There are two (fiberglass?) rods and between them runs a loose tube fiber bundle with typically 6 fibers in it. Good picture here: https://www.novalight.com/Drop-Cable-Fiber-Optic-Flat-Toneab...

The fiberglass rods provide excellent crush and cut resistance, as well as bend radius control.