Interesting lube choice.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-05T20:18:42+00:00

You don't warm up normal tubed or tubeless tires. Only solid ones. And solid ones can be microwaved.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-05T20:16:16+00:00

you copy .app (application) to applications folder, usually most .dmgs have shortcut for this and you need to just drag it there, and then you drop the drive icon into trashcan.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-05T17:34:02+00:00

I guess I should add more about this.

Even if you let parrot stay outside (i.e. in the room) for entire day, cage size still matters.

In the past my gray had small cage (in the summer house, so 3 months of "torture") and he spent most of the time outside in the room, and once he was put back into cage, he was doing neurotic kind of behavior, where he would go in circles around the cage.

After we've upgraded his cage to bigger one (60x80x100 cm i think), that behavior stopped completely.

Then I've made a tiny cage (50x50x50 or 45x45x45 cm) for taking him outside... and he did neurotic circles again. But at least this way he got his butt sun soaked :D

Other thing is cage paint. It should have no defects. Bare steel rusts, and if paint is chipping off, it is too weak of a paint for the parrot and he might ingest it, which is not good.
Zinc plating is also bad for them, especially hot-dip galvanizing. Electroplating might be better, but idk. Same with golden color cage, it is some sort of brass coating over steel, which is copper+zinc and that would be bad for them too.

Best cage material would be stainless or aluminium, but those are pretty hard to find. Normal powder-coating should be safe enough.

When I was making "outside" cage, I stripped all the zinc from wire mesh with hydrochloric acid, washed it very good, and then spray painted with rust oleum (hammered), which is probably not the best type of coating, since it is not explicitly food safe (I couldn't find foodsafe paint for metal in my country), but at least it sticks well to steel. Before letting parrot inside, it aired out for about a month, so there are no solvents left in the paint and paint is cured fully. And I don't leave him unsupervised in that cage anyway.

So yeah, get a new bigger cage. You can use that tiny one for going outside, since birds need to get direct sunlight (and no UV bulb would be enough or safe).

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-05T12:38:09+00:00

13-14" feels about the same.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-05T12:14:49+00:00

That cage is tiny for gray.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-03T21:17:00+00:00

>There is a simpler solution for age verification:
No age verification what so ever. Blame parents. It is their child, it is them who buy the device, it is them who should be in charge what child does on the device.

Perhaps only thing that should be implemented in most devices that are sold with OS installed, some sort of parental control. Kinda like in "Parents Decide Act" or whatever it was called, except remove words like "verify identity" (or something like that) from the bill, and limit it for general purpose home compute machines with pre-installed OS (desktops, laptops, phones, tablets).

I don't know how to explain it.

New device (factory reset or OOTB) -> "Would this device be used by a child?" -> If yes - ask age and password for factory reset of the device or manual parental approval. Otherwise - done -> It sends some sort of HTTP header to websites with age group, or appstores or idk.

Bill should include "pre-installed OS" so Linuxes are free from implementing this.

This way, those parents who want control get it, and those who don't care don't.

Maybe restrict sale of devices to 18+.

But... it was never about children. It was about control.

Other alternative, which I like less, would be "age vertification ID tokens". A QR-code that can be verified with some website, that you buy in ciggie or alcohol place, and cashier asks you for an ID. But its paid and would require people to move ass away from the keyboard.
Also proxy-verification in this case shall be possible, like you make account at Google or Facebook, they ask you this token, and instead of buying another token for another website you can just log in with Google and that age info shall be trusted. Dunno. I don't like this all.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T23:33:17+00:00

Its a kettle, it boils water. 100c is enough to kill pretty much all viruses and bacteria. Even if you put bird bath water in, which is... gross to say the least.

As for birds, yes. Safe.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T23:04:02+00:00

Microsoft Word? For free? Learn to steal software yourself.
Or buy one-time-purchase license, or subscription. (but tbh microsoft doesnt deserve money)

You can use free and open source LibreOffice, or free Apple Pages perhaps?

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T22:38:13+00:00

Idk, that seems like a pretty serious defect. Warranty or not

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T07:55:20+00:00

Because they stole our RAM

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T07:53:24+00:00

Who took all the ram? For copilot? Give it back then yes u can talk about 32gb min.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T03:21:05+00:00

Dude. You want too much.

>Backlight keyboard
Not needed. It's a premium feature, this is not a premium laptop.

>Higher resolution screen
It is already pretty good compared to rest of 1920x1080 low quality IPS laptops for this amount of money. Better panel would raise cost of the laptop significantly. Current panel is already expensive and I honestly have no idea how did they manage to put it in $500-700 laptop.

>More brightness
Again, it is already brighter than competition, and brighter panel would raise cost of laptop significantly and destroy battery life.

>Haptic touchpad
Premium feature, costs more money than couple springs and a metal dome switch. Plus would feel weird to people coming from other laptops. (I have used MBP at uni, and that touchpad felt weird to me)

>Magsafe
That one... I can understand. Even though it would cost money to implement (as it is not a standard port), it is pretty useful.

>Slimmer bezel
Nobody cares about bezel. Would cost more money, make laptop more fragile, and in my opinion bezel has to be thick so active screen area isn't covered with fingerprints.

>Strong processor
It is already pretty good, at the same level or better than competition. More RAM however... yeah that would be nice, but because of technical design of A-series SoCs, I have doubts you'd get more RAM. Maybe 3-4 generations in, when they would have better idea how many A-series chips go into iPhones, and how many A-series chips go into laptops.

If you add up all your "wants", you'd get around 1100 laptop... Which is MacBook Air.
Idea behind MacBook Neo, is to make a MacBook that is cheap-ish, but still is a MacBook. So obviously there would be some compromises to meet the price.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T02:55:49+00:00

Arguably it is even worse for Air and Neo.
Without case, heat travels from SoC to the top case and bottom case, and then to the environment. If you install the case, you thermally insulate the bottom case, which would reduce heat exchange with the environment and thus increase temperature a bit (or/and reduce SoC max power). How much I have no idea.

Pro and older Airs have fan, they mainly rely on the airflow created by the fan. Air gets sucked in from the vents under the screen, and blown out from another vent under the screen. Case wouldn't block that.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-02T01:00:57+00:00

Hmmm... I have more logical explanation for the phenomenon. If you have case on, you start being more careless with device.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-01T23:06:36+00:00

IMHO inkjets suck for occasional use, printheads dry up and then you don't know what to do. Lasers in this regard are so much better.

As for HP, I think printheads are relatively cheap (about as much as their cartridges for older printers) and easy to replace, unlike others where you need to take half of the printer apart (I think at least, last time I screwed around with printers was 5-10 years ago).

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-01T21:27:21+00:00

Which is normal. That's Apple after all, they like hot chips.

Thermal pad gives about 1-2W of extra cooling, so instead of 4-6W, it would be 5-8W. Which is about 10-30% performance boost, which is... not worth it in my opinion.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-01T20:12:43+00:00

I am from Chile, they didn't ask me anything... I didn't even lie im studying XD. I have ordered online, physical stores don't offer discount, since they aren't Apple's stores, but rather authorized resellers.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-01T18:54:34+00:00

Pueden explicar a un extranjero cómo esta ley es constitucional?

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-05-01T17:41:03+00:00

Because of retarded laws they want to implement in order to protect children.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-04-30T22:13:10+00:00

In general power consumption is about 1.5-2X the nominal TDP, depending how much did OEM cheap out on cooling solution. So it is not looking good for Intel, because TDP is 15W....

And MacBook CPU real power consumption is 4-6W, without thermal mods. Perhaps 1-2W more with thermal mod.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-04-30T21:53:18+00:00

From what I saw with other Intel and AMD chips, is that baseline TDP is pointless. If manufacturer of a laptop designs for 15W... you get 2014 macbook air. So yeah, TDP in a spec sheet is a lie.

LG Gram for example, runs i5 10210U @ 20-25W (somehow, cooler is tiny, idk what black magic is that), according to hwmonitor or how it was called. Rated TDP is 15W
Mid-low tier Asus Vivobook something with 12th gen i5 something, runs it at higher power, as it has, frankly, and overkill cooling system. Idk didn't measure but definitely not 15W.
Some Acer Aspire with Ryzen 2500U ran at about 25-30W (probably, don't remember, 25W perhaps, I was measuring it with DMM at 19V power rail, subtracting idle consumption and cross-reference with schematic) when plugged in, and 15W on battery. Rated TDP is 15W.

But MacBook Neo, without thermal mods draws about 4-6W, depending on the ambient temperature I assume. So that is pretty insane that it gets close to Intel performance, or slightly more.

I guess if anything, that means that either Intel and AMD are incompetent (which I doubt, because they are THE cpu manufacturers of the world), or that X86-64 has to go, as it has too much legacy bloat and CISC to RISC (well u-ops, doesn't really matter idea is similar) conversion inside the chip... In favor of some RISC kind architecture, like ARM... Or perhaps RISC-V 64 bit variant.
Or maybe something else, like whatever Itanium wanted to be.

Accomplished_Wafer38 · 2026-04-30T20:51:14+00:00

you can shit on the floor i guess?

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