I had one plugged into the FW800 port of my Cinema Display.

Only really used it as a scratch drive for junk but it was still handy.

> It’s the cars which can’t have their head unit replaced with a simple stereo which worry me.

I agree. There's a lot of room for innovation, consumer choice, and competition that was previously guaranteed to be available in those one or two DIN units of space.

I haven't seen them present in any new car I've looked at in nearly ten years, but they were in every car I saw from the 50 years prior.

> the 4th port on the 14-inch got turned into a dumb HDMI port that can only do HDMI out

I would have paid extra to turn it into a USB A port instead.

> People often forget how "good enough" the PS2 graphics were, and how big of a deal that was.

I remember going to an electronics store with my friend. I couldn't figure out why they had a broadcast football game playing on a 15 inch LCD display up front. I assumed it was a game but then watched it for a few cuts and was so certain it was live footage...

It was a madden game on PS2 in demo mode.

App Store search is so bad that I won't use their search at all anymore. I search the web and grab the link from the app maker's website.

I do the same, but I switched from cert-per-subdomain a couple of years ago.

They're either using Passive DNS logs or a historical dataset.

> Keep track of which apps had been opened every month, only pay the subscriptions for the ones I’ve opened, and allow me to set monthly limits.

That turns app icons into land-mines though.

Idk what the happy medium is, but there's gotta be something between "buy this kids game once" and "pay $13 a month until he gets sick of it," and I don't think we've quite found one that's equitable for all parties yet.

That’s true.

A difficulty is that making the billing time more granular could reduce the landmine factor, but also would incentivize developers to keep users in the app for longer than necessary. We’ve already seen in social media that that incentive is… quite bad.

I guess it remains to be figured out. I dunno, maybe my framing is wrong, maybe development bounties are a better ongoing revenue stream or something.

36 bays and only 24T of storage?

Can't you get that in a single disk that costs less than a kilodollar?

That will be a single point of failure, though. (Which you might not care about depending on the backup strategy.)

I have a pool heater and an air conditioner, and I'm running both at the same time. They're fifty feet apart, but this thought crosses my mind constantly.

This does exist btw.

It's a stainless steel coil that you can put on your A/C and then run water from your pool over it to heat the pool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7fB8ul9dZw

The sticker on the side of the doohickey in the video really gives the whole thing a feeling of "a dude makes these by hand in his garage." I looked up "AC pool heat exchanger" and lo and behold, the same company showed up as the first result:

https://www.hotspotenergy.com/titanium-pool-heat-exchangers/

What do you mean?

I ask because I find Apple's wired EarPods to be less... selective than AirPods are—by that I mean they'll pick up more background noise whereas AirPods seem to only transmit my voice—but EarPods' clarity exceeds AirPods if you grab the mic and hold it next to your mouth, which you obviously can't do with AirPods.

Microphonics = cable noise, like when the cable drags against your zipper.

If you spend half the price of Airpods on good wired IEMs cable noise is barely a thing...