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> Buying islands and making bunkers? It was reported a few years back he'd built a bunker in New Zealand.

Quite a few actually, regular 911s often end up being daily drivers and given Porsche build them to last there's plenty of high milers out there.

The World Endurance Championship has been using synthetic fuels since 2022 from TotalEnergies ( https://competition.totalenergies.com/en/auto/endurance/wec/... ), there's also Sust…

Bigger equals better consumer perception, I imagine driven in part by the top-tier phones being larger to fit additional battery capacity in for the higher performance processors m…

Renault at least are keeping the small car flame alive with the 5 and a new version of the Twingo. Audi's product strategy at the moment seems to be "try everything and pivot" so t…

In the UK the toy chains The Entertainer and Smyths both expanded to fill the market, both usually seem to have a decent amount of footfall. Toys are an interesting product as the …

Net profit was €1.14bn for 2024, which feels like a reasonable amount of money.

When I forget where I've stashed a specific symbol or similar I just check the Via QMK configuration tool, similar to when you're trying to learn the shortcut keys for a piece of s…

That probably wasn't such a bad price when it was released: "In the fall of 1998 the WristPC wearable keyboard was introduced."

I do the same thing (Motorola Razr rather than Samsung), and I've found that working on the smaller screen means I don't get sucked into things as it's useful for quickly checking …

I actually see quite a lot of elaborate rigs that go for the trusty Logitech/Thrustmaster belt drive wheels, I guess if you've got it and it's working fine for you then build aroun…

I'm sure that this won't end up going the way of Fordlandia.

I suspect you're right, but I think it'll follow the COBOL engineer salary cycle, engineers that have a deeper understanding of the whole widget will be in demand when companies re…

I use different accounts for my work GitHub and my personal GitHub, so this approach would be great if I shared a machine for both of them to keep separation.

I've seen plenty of comments here that read like they've been generated by an LLM, if this is a gated community we need a better gate.

Almost 40 as well, also tired of social media but I do miss social networks. This seems to hew more closely to the social network concept than being a media outlet which is lovely …

Whilst watching the Olympics I've seen an eToro ad a few times that is very clearly AI generated, it wasn't exactly a confidence builder in a financial platform.

Another take on this point, the race to the bottoming of shirts has been a disaster ecologically and has fostered a throwaway culture where people don't take care or pride in an it…

I did some research on this recently and it's a bit tricky to pin down as some of the information is out of date or doesn't include certain services, but the three that appear to b…

I actually quite like it as a reminder of the gentle chaos of the early web before the vibe shift to homogenous design.

You don't have to, but it does often feel like when you use Spotify that isn't what the app would like you to do. The initial load in heavily steers you towards using a playlist in…

The Uni Kuru Toga is probably the best mechanical pencil (in my opinion), but that's driven in part because it's wonderfully engineered and I'm a dork for that.

Similar experience for me, I was active answering questions about Qt (and asking plenty as well) and got approached through to go work at a startup building 3D printers with bespok…

Out of curiosity I had a quick look to see if any of the pieces had made the market, one sold with Sothebys for $22.5k. There's a certain novelty to it that's quite appealing to me…

A wise move to stop the UK becoming accidentally Turing complete.