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odysseus··on My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
The thing is, Kia does tell you what’s going on in some of their release notes, for example: https://owners.kia.com/us/en/ota-software-update-release-not...

However the very update that says it fixes the blank screen caused the blank screen to happen in the first place. (Never happened before that update.)

Then another silent update not listed on their site undoes that problem, but you have to wait a month or so to get it.

odysseus··on My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
Kia just did this with their EV9 update - it broke CarPlay with a blank screen a few minutes into driving, which then reverted itself a minute later. Another OTA mostly resolved it. Neither of these updates explained what happened or what the fix was.
odysseus··on U.S. science is in chaos
Probably because the nuclear family doesn’t include grandparents helping.
odysseus··on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
Yep, for home improvement and work on cars, I’ll take the video every time. Everything else, if only a video is available, I’ll ask Grok to summarize it so I don’t have to sit through it.

But last weekend I had to remove a trim panel under the hood of my car to extract a dead rodent, and I was wondering how to get those round clips off without breaking them. This video helped: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rsVDj5s1o&ra=m

The AI summary of the same video explains the exact steps but doesn’t show them actually being done.

odysseus··on Retro-Tech Parenting
Hmm, hasn’t been tame enough here for decades ..
odysseus··on Retro-Tech Parenting
We say “comparisons are the thief of joy”.
odysseus··on US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero
And they’re planning to charge 2.6 cents per mile, per https://wstc.wa.gov/studies-surveys/road-usage-charge/

So that’s $364 per year for 14k miles. Vs. the $225 currently paid as an electrification fee.

odysseus··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
Was his name … Milton?
odysseus··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
Wouldn’t it be easier to just train a camera with continuous recording at your bed?

Then correlate the time you woke up in your sleep log with the camera footage.

odysseus··on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
Apple needs to go a step beyond this and optionally automatically pick the best card to use based on your location to get the max cash back.
odysseus··on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
It wasn’t obvious where to add a virtual home button, so I’m adding instructions here:

Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Assistive Touch

odysseus··on Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
Is it just:

pnpm wxt build -b safari xcrun safari-web-extension-converter .output/safari-mv2

And that’s it? Or is there some hidden extra work involved.

odysseus··on Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
How about a Safari/Mobile Safari extension so iPhone users can use it?
odysseus··on Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
Social interaction while spatially reasoning also helps. (Social + cognitive load)
odysseus··on MacBook Neo
What about the old Studio Display?
odysseus··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
I have a JavaScript share sheet shortcut that forces a select all on any page. Really useful.

Something like this:

var result = [];

body = document.body;

sel = window.getSelection(); range = document.createRange(); range.selectNodeContents(body); sel.removeAllRanges(); sel.addRange(range);

selString = sel.toString();

// Call completion to finish completion(selString);

odysseus··on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
Where do you block it? I don’t see an obvious option at any of my banks or that article.
odysseus··on Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases
Exactly. Also curious how the NY Times names the woman and the company reps but never names the rapist. This article does name him: https://www.nbcrightnow.com/online_features/press_releases/j...
odysseus··on I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
Anyone know where you can buy the wall map shown on the page?
odysseus··on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
He says he bought all his own movies and tv shows on physical disc and ripped them for personal use.

He explains it in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ8ijmy3qPo and even shows some of his physical disc collection.

odysseus··on I made a chair
I don’t see it on mobile unless I turn off my ad blocking extension. Thank you! Never knew that was there.

Great video btw, two musicians with great communication and flow

odysseus··on I made a chair
With a lot of patience, you can also grow a chair. Check out the header image on https://www.pooktre.com
odysseus··on I made a chair
How do you "directly go to where most people go"? Assuming you don't have timestamps in the comments or video description.
odysseus··on Busy Bar
I got a 2-pack of do-not-disturb doorknob hangers (similar to the ones in hotels) from Amazon for $10.

Worked great with my kids for 2 months. Then they got used to it and barged in anyway. The same would happen with this gadget.

odysseus··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Where can you find these service/warranty reports?
odysseus··on Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU
Does it run on the severed floor?
odysseus··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Nevermind, this looks like a different Wiz.
odysseus··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Does this mean the Wiz app is now going to include free person category filters for their security cameras? Instead of constantly asking you to subscribe
odysseus··on Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
In my twenties I played nethack (with the ascii tileset) in a terminal window while working. It only took my boss a couple weeks to catch on.

He was not happy.

odysseus··on Show HN: Nuanced – Help AI understand code structure, not just text
Thank you! The latter test was exactly what I was looking for. I think the Purpose statement in the original (sans Nuanced) answer was kind of useful. That’s missing from the after scenario, though I suppose you could easily request it in your prompt though.
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