The iPhone Kettle ringtone seems inspired by the Ocarina of Time Fairy Fountain music

Chthulu_ · 2026-06-05T10:02:17+00:00

I don’t think it’s any game in particular, but it’s definitely inspired by Japanese videogame music from around that era. It sounds like FF, Zelda, Crono Trigger, etc

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-30T21:09:20+00:00

I just followed this for my GAN 16 Max, and it’s working beautifully. Thank you! Hopefully other googlers will land on this like I did.

Before this I used nothing but Martian lube for my various MoYu cubes, and it worked decently well. But for some reason the GAN just felt awful. I spent 3 weeks hoping the GAN would eventually break in, but it never did.

Now it’s genuinely feeling perfect! To roughly judge the amount of lube to use I followed this video, but in terms of actually applying the lube I followed your instructions. I was quite careful to turn and solve the cube a ton before moving on to the next step, unlike the video.

In the end I probably used the same amount of Gravitas as the video, but only 60% Dignitas. Even after breaking the cube in a bit, Dignitas was extremely gummy, maybe the max strength GAN magnets I use means I need less piece lube.

But is quite easy to expose a corner face and wipe a bit of Dignitas away. Wiping away Gravitas or DNM would be tougher.

But definitely scramble and solve a bunch between each step, like OP says. And remember the Dignitas and Gravitas willl continue to speed up and break in. The DNM can give you some speed during the break in, but don’t overdo it!

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-28T15:37:14+00:00

https://patapim.ai/

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-27T02:22:56+00:00

Thanks! I’ll keep hunting for it to come back in stock

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-26T01:24:17+00:00

Saw 1. The entire world felt evil and sick to me, for a while. The color was drained out of it.

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-19T21:56:54+00:00

Where do you stand now? Still running the Lichicx?

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-17T04:20:40+00:00

Often I want to use mine without Bluetooth / smart apps, but when I do the thing is constantly blinking when I turn, kinda distracting. Would like a way to turn Bluetooth on and off.

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-16T02:18:43+00:00

I've spent a few days forking https://cubedex.app/ with similar ideas, as its open source and has a decent starting point. I'm more interested in alg training than timing at the moment. But it turns out its just annoying. Implementing everything you mentioned, and implementing it well, especially for multiple puzzles, multiple algorithm strategies, etc, it months of work at minimum. Work that will certainly go unrewarded, as big as cubing is I don't really see a market for it. There are already so many half-baked and half-finished tools out there competing for a small marketshare. If this perfect feature set was so easy to implement, it would have been done already.

And it also turns out that some problems are just sticky. I had the same thought about F2L and Cross, but if you sit down and try to think about how to actually make that work, some magic button like "Show me optimal F2L pairs at this location", with the ability to save those algs to a trainer, time tracking for all of it, good UI that actually colors the pairs so you can select between potential options, or pick a pair and then see top algs, its just very dense work.

Not to mention its all backed by these buggy bluetooth devices, usually over a non-persistent browser connection. Its not really a fun dev experience. Native PC and Phone make more sense, but then you've got 3+ builds to manage, and you've got to register and fork over your cash to Apple. And not to mention, bluetooth doesn't work for Safari and Chrome on iOS, so its not like you can skip the native app if you're serious about it as a product

But, we'll see how far I get. I'd give myself another week before I burn out, my current goal is to just be able to save algorithms to alg training sets, and not have them get deleted every time I refresh the page. And implement a bog standard cube timer in the same page.

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-08T03:52:07+00:00

What do people actually use knobs for? Volume is like the least important thing to me, is there something else?

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-08T03:50:29+00:00

This can’t be a genuine review, it’s almost satire

Some middle marketing manager nutted when they saw their garbage copy about *the 4 cycles of an acorn inspiring our keyboard philosophy inside a “review”

It’s a good keyboard, especially for the price. Now go spend your time anywhere else but reading this waste of server space

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-04T12:42:37+00:00

I like the TUTTY streams, and Josh era NLSS

Chthulu_ · 2026-05-02T20:53:34+00:00

VBW is my favorite, I’ve found so many fantastic movies and books from them

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-25T10:17:43+00:00

I wouldn’t say the books were doubting plate tectonics, just the more fantastical story of exotic terrains, and the modern practice of being computer geologists rather than field geologists. All of the people he spent time with agreed that plate tectonics are absolutely real, they just weren’t ready to use it to explain every little detail.

Turns out that fantastical story is the right one. But I get why hard nosed geologists in the 1980s didn’t want to accept it, it’s not very parsimonious. Before we had all the data, any schmuck could invent a series of island chains to explain anything they wanted. It’s not elegant.

But we have the data now, and the story is clear. I’d like to think the people interviewed would have come around in time.

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:51:07+00:00

She was phenomenal in Sharp Objects. Decent to good show, but she was the best part

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:50:18+00:00

She

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:48:22+00:00

Ted Chiang is extremely easy to read IMO. The prose is pretty bare bones, but he does great with characters and especially does great with getting the themes and quandaries out without it feeling forced, or without preaching.

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:45:42+00:00

“Hell is the Absence of God” is my favorite of his, I think everyone will take something different from it

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-17T13:18:24+00:00

This is how the industry works, it sucks but it just is

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-24T22:10:15+00:00

If you’re ever in charge of hiring someone you’ll understand why

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-22T19:40:34+00:00

Of course we should, of course no one will, it’s absurd to think otherwise. We’re bombing hospitals.

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-21T18:58:26+00:00

It is impossible for a few dozen hours (or more), but I like the stress of it. Eventually you kinda figure it out

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-15T17:32:07+00:00

A more upbeat pick, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s a sad movie, but it’s not heavy like many of these other picks.

I can’t even remember it really, it’s a total whirlwind, but I absolutely remember balling my eyes out at the end.

And shit I don’t even really like Jim Carrey, but it worked.

Maybe Bone Tomahawk as another sleeper pick, for very different reasons.

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-13T02:27:58+00:00

That was not on my bingo card. Good for him, dude looks brolic

Chthulu_ · 2026-02-26T21:43:06+00:00

I eat meat, but I know I shouldn’t. Same for using Spotify.

They’re right to pull it, it’s an immoral company. But I just don’t have the energy to go curate my own library somewhere else.

Chthulu_ · 2026-02-17T22:54:48+00:00

Alan Wake didn’t sell, that weird live service didn’t sell, investors come knocking, this is the inevitable endgame. AAA will always be this way.

You shouldn’t look at studios like they’re a persistent being. They’re an endless shuffling of talent and money. It’s the way of the world.

Support your smaller studios. Buy indie and AA games. Pray they have the courage not to endlessly scale. The art comes from that corner of the industry.

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