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That's what I came here to ask! I'd happily fill some slack in production pipelines, by picking the IDGAF-about-speed-or-color option, if that makes it hobbyist-affordable. Heck, I…

Oooooooooooo. I bet that's how satellite radios get their firmware updates and stuff. Actually I bet it's how they get almost everything aside from the audio streams themselves. Me…

Or SSTV! I recall a demo years ago where someone had SSTV running between a speaker at the focus of a small dish, across to the room to another small dish with a microphone...

As someone who spent years designing wiring harnesses for prototype and test vehicles, I am so tired.

Oh, this just popped into my head. If you want an early piece about global warming, I submit Metropolitan Nightmare : https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare

"shake us off" sounds more like George Carlin: > We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … T…

My favorite mod player. Galaxy 2.12 (GLX212.ZIP on Simtel et al), runs on 8086's just fine.

An awful, awful, awful lot of consumers think their old antennas don't work now that everything's gone digital. And they've simply never tried.

GNU Radio?

I've had 12-volt-input power supplies for every laptop I've ever owned. Lind makes the most reliable ones, but they're expensive, and there's a thriving aftermarket of alternatives…

This should've been possible with the Thinkpad HDAPS accelerometer back in the day. (If it detected the laptop was falling, it would park the HDD heads in anticipation of impact.) …

It lifts the tires by scooping them up wheel-dolly style. Machines precisely like this, but manually piloted, are used in automotive plants themselves to move vehicles that fail en…

In a garage?

On the other hand, it leaves the car locked the whole time, no valet having your keys, no valet adjusting your seats, etc. Some of us avoid valet for some of these reasons. If this…

I wonder how many people will forget to roll up their windows because they parked in a garage, then the robot leaves the car outside for a week, then the owner comes back to find t…

It's not quite ideal hardware due to only having a single NIC, but you can slap a USB NIC on it and make it work, if that's what's handy. Old thin clients are typically in the same…

I deal with a lot of nerds, but starting in about 2008 we all segmented up the 10.x space and each of us has a /16, with each site we manage having typically a /24 or /22, so nobod…

They are also not all that limited. I used a Privacy.com card for a New York Times trial subscription, which of course I could not cancel online, so I just let it expire. A few day…

Or just own your own hardware. Spend a few bucks at Microcenter, build a machine, and there's simply no mechanism by which they could decide later that you should actually pay 100x…

> We mostly discover new music from about 15 to 25 or 30, right? It's pretty normal for that to slow down as the concerns of adulthood kinda get in the way of keeping up with whome…

And Bluetooth still doesn't have a good "headphone splitter" function to plug in 2 or more sets of headphones, does it?

I love this idea! Yeeeeears ago, I was in the middle of some late-night hacking session, hanging with friends on IRC, and I had shared my screen via VNC so they could watch/help. (…

Yup. Buy it, test it, post a review, return it. It's the only message you can send.

I feel like it was sooooo close to catching on, but basing it on CET instead of UTC made it a bit too clearly tongue-in-cheek. That also torpedoed its main user-base, which I alway…

> Well, nothing is easier then adding constraints. Technically it's easy. Mentally it's nearly impossible. This comment posted on Ars yesterday blew my mind: https://arstechnica.co…