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The actual map: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03014215220017...

When you say "us", do you mean computer programmers half-blinded by screens since high school? Not unless STL's are available on thingiverse..

Or did you mean "us" as in professional carvers who practiced their whole lives the skills passed down through generations? This thing wasn't carved by a rando from the peasant class.

It's like you're completely ignoring the fact that phones and apps are designed to be addictive.

Growing up in a world where tech companies have been given free reign to psychologically manipulate users to increase screen time is yet another pressure facing that generation, it shouldn't be thrown in their face.

ZOMG great idea, take my (VC) money!

The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that?

I've been rocking an iPod Video for like 15 years and it is still my go-to music device. All the stereos in my office, house and shop have a 3.5mm cable hanging from them.

I've also been using rockbox so I can play FLAC files. The ipod is on it's 4th battery at this point and I've also upgraded to SD cards from the internal HD about 6 years ago. The screen is not working in a few places now, but the thing keeps working and I'd be very sad if it ever stopped because I'm not sure what would replace it.

Whenever I'm programming and I feel like I've been very productive, it's often the times I'm using this ipod with headphones - instead of a music playing piece of software. Maybe it's because I'm less inclined to open up the software and spend time choosing an album/podcast/etc.

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Kinda strange to see all of the "OMG I remember this.. ".

Foobar2000 is still what I use to listen to my FLAC collection while on my desktop computers.

It's ability to let you do everything, rename, transcode, copy, tag, replaygain, etc is a throwback to when software respected your personal agency.

I knew this thread would be filled will people that dislike touchscreens. I hate them too and and when we bought our first car, we looked at a used Subaru at the last model-year that kept physical controls. I'm a synthesizer designer, so I'm a bit biased towards knobs.

My dad just bought a new Toyota Civic and I've watched him be completely frustrated and overwhelmed by the touch screen. I've also had to use it a few times while driving it and noticed that my eyes needed to be off the road for way longer than I'm comfortable with (just to turn the volume down!).

Is there ever going to be a movement towards these car companies going back to physical controls for this stuff? Or are we pretty much heading towards a steeringwheel-less wrap around touchscreen dashboard that plays advertisements for nearby businesses.

I'm legitimately curious about the safety of these things, and has any studies been done? It's just strange to have car companies investing billions in self-driving cars claiming "you're too distracted to operate a car yourself" and then making current models where adjusting the A/C requires drilling down thru menus.

Why would anyone ever start a company building a product that helps people?? This is lame. There's so much more money to be made harvesting user data, or raking in dumb VC money with fake promises.

These dudes actually have to deliver a product.. lol.

Dumb question: How do I stop my wireless HP Printer from connecting to the internet? I have an Asus RT-N16 router and I can't see any settings that will restrict an IP from having WAN access.

I thought for sure this was going to be about the Dead Kennedy's album Frankenchrist.

I'm surprised "having a bonfire" isn't on this list, but I'm afraid to see how detrimental it might be.

The nostalgia factor is sort of wearing off now that I'm 40 and don't want my clothes to smell bad or have a low-key asthma attack. The last time I went camping in a campground and everyone had a fire going, the whole park was completely choked with smoke that it made going for a walk really crappy. It's such a weird activity, driving cars out to the woods to pay to burn dead trees.

One of the first PCB designs I did was with some proprietary software like this that was tied to a fabrication company. It was the easiest route at the time to getting something "done", since all the proper PCB design packages required a lot more work.

Yes it worked, but for the second project I wanted to do some things outside of their capabilities and other PCB fab houses were fractions of the price. So I had to basically start from scratch again and learn KiCad, wishing I had just gone that route from the start and not wasted time and money.

Now I'm pretty "OK" with KiCad and just finished a large board with about 1000 components that I sent to a fab house for pick-and-place assembly. I was able to shop the design around and pick the fab house I wanted to work with after talking with them directly and sending them industry-standard GERBER files generated directly from KiCad. Excellent.

So I guess my long-winded advice is to bite the bullet and learn a real PCB design program.

I clicked on the link expecting that EUFS 3.1 was some new piece of medical equipment that could speed up Covid-19 testing. I guess I get my nerd card taken away for not knowing my acronyms (and ignoring the "512GB" part).

Why two copies??

The article says that it is the "silken" pyramid shaped tea bags that are made of plastic.

I buy tea loose-leaf at the asian grocery store and steep it in a glass coffee press to filter out the leaves. Yay super cheap and no microplastics!

My favourite use of the Gameboy is the album cover of Neil Young's "Silver & Gold". It was a picture shot by his son using a gameboy camera, and reproduced in full pixely goodness on a 12" x 12" sleeve.