Journalist: We climbed inside the world's largest sand battery. Here's what we found.

Me: Did you find sand?

Journalist: I hate it when you guess right :(

Okay, so a lot of developments in tech have been bad but better waterproofing is pretty cool. Managed to put my earbuds through the washing machine, including the case, and everything is just working fine lol.

RGB, more like "Ravens? Good Birds"

Might be politely asking into the void but what's the etiquette for boosting vs favouriting on here?
Was favouriting like likes on twitter but do most people boost for discoverability cos there's no algorithm?
I just don't want the cool kids to think I'm weird or way too into someone's toots 😭

Prospective high jump gold medalist at the 2024 Catlympics.

#Caturday

heavy riffs, heavier cuddles

#Caturday #CuteAggression

I love it when marketing brags about stuff that's been industry standard for so long it'd be more difficult to not use it
"Our motherboards only use integrated circuits, no more vacuum tubes or mechanical relays"

Something that gets on my nerves about the like male techy vibe is everything turns into a kind of abstract numbers game or complete overkill
I'm looking for advice on what mics are good for bird song and most of them are new, pretty expensive models which I'm sure is valid if you're a professional but my understanding is there's diminishing returns above a certain price tag
Surely there're more amateurs out there that just want to find something 2nd hand off ebay that's better than a phone?

Installing Windows 11 in a VM so I've got a copy of Office and fucking hell does it take a long time. Like really impressed with libvirt configuring everything including TPM but Windows itself just takes years to finish

Imagining boba but with mozzarella pearls instead of tapioca

Xebian is the Marie Kondo of Linux distros – it's here to declutter
L: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/xebian_a_debian_xubuntu/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37247705
posted on 2023.08.24 at 07:44:48 (c=1, p=3)

Like it's always treated as this magic solution for when the interesting idea encounters cold hard reality and the public actually using it day to day which even some boring traditional infrastructure struggles with

Watching Tom Scott's video on yet another monorail gadgetbahn (although this one has bikes so that's fun) got me thinking about how AI is always talked about with these things