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I am 56. I have been married for almost 21 years. I will not be reading this link, but I am glad it exists. Midlife brings many things, some good and some bad and some just part of…

My own gripe is that, at least in a good-sized city, the late "physical rental" era provided a more complete menu of available films for the consumer. Now things flutter in and out…

I'm still trying to figure out why you didn't see that coming.

The thing is: It's kind of irrelevant for most theatergoers, as there are only 24 IMAX 70mm venues in the whole country. And many of them don't even show theatrical releases. For e…

I want to be a civil as I can here, but you managed to post 3 sentences that are all completely wrong. 1. Seiko is huge. If you are snoozing on them, that's on you, not them. They …

I'm a watch nerd, but generally I'm only interested in mechanicals. Spring drive is the first quartz-driven movement I'm actually interested in. If I won the lotto tomorrow, I'd bu…

I'd love to read this. A shame it's on Substack.

Counterpoint: No.

I mean, be skeptical all you want, but at least TRY it. I know I retain more if I handwrite notes. It's my lived experience, so that's what I do in meetings, generally. These notes…

I can try to answer for US. We're small ( It's been ... messy. I'm not certain we'll stay. It's easier in the sense that we can bring up arbitrarily many new machines without needi…

>If it drops, then I am not sure what the implication is exactly? Surely you understand it's inverse of an IPO that jumps after intro, right? SpaceX is not seen by investors as wor…

>My music discovery then was different friend groups incrementally amassing large collections of albums in whatever sub-culture that friend groups had doubled down on. My iPod woul…

I mean, if this isn't the place to share this video, I'm not sure where IS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJETZyfb7I

I have made my peace with the fact that, unless I'm willing to replace otherwise perfectly functional items just to change the port, USB-C nirvana is a long way away at our house. …

Interesting idea, but honest to god I don't really have that big of a spam problem anymore. O365 is handling 90% of it on our corporate mail; my personal address (which is far olde…

Yeah, this. In terms of consumer benefit in tech we've been at stasis for a long time. My computing experience isn't that much different now than it was 15 or 20 years ago. Sure, m…

>What pushed me over the edge is the realization that I'm in grief. The Internet which once shaped my identity today, in no defensible way, resembles the silly place which once gav…

>I always underline ш and write a line over т (which looks like m) to distinguish them Having studied Russian in college, I assumed that all Cyrillic script included a line over th…

That's what "high end" means.

>You know you need to service mechanical watches regularly, right? Mostly, yeah, but I have some nicer pieces that have been in my rotation for decades with only the barest minimum…

This dude only now thinks Google has lost its moral compass? In 2026? Bruh.

I loved the Model M, but my first real THIS IS MY FAVORITE I WILL CUT YOU keyboard was a Northgate. Dang, I loved that one. For most of the last 20 years I've been on Kinesis board…

I read a mess of books about Mitnick's escapades including Hafer's and Shimomura's, and definitely came away with the impression that while Mitnick was a criminal, Shimomura was a …

Depends on where you are, obvs.

I haven't lived in an apartment in nearly 30 years, but the last one I moved into, in 1996, was brand new and relatively fancy. I'd been renting a house with friends, but it was Ho…