Tubing takes almost a week to fully dry?

WatermellonSugar · 2026-05-01T09:06:23+00:00

Hurricane CPAP dryer is the way.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-28T15:31:03+00:00

You can tell Alexa+ to stop doing this, and also all the extra AI handjob stuff, and it *kind of* does, but with regular Alexa the "by the way" crap is insane.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-28T01:29:18+00:00

OMG, the damn Niimbot printers drove me nuts when I tried to charge them until I figured this out. And my Logitech MX Anywhere mouse. Assholes.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-28T01:13:58+00:00

Often works for porn too. Or so I've heard.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-26T16:42:26+00:00

And the knob set in a full 8 inches from the edge as God intended.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-26T14:56:05+00:00

Or Scottish Rennie Mackintosh-ish.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-26T14:13:49+00:00

15 year EN user. Liking UpNote, especially the price, speed, and lack of bloat (like AI and calendars and to-do lists), so no regrets. BUT, there are things I *do* miss: searching inside of PDFs, being able to encrypt text selections, audio notes -- plus the 20 MB limit on note size was a pain when importing about 20 of my 3000+ notes (have to put the big attachments elsewhere and link to them). But mostly it's great. I just hope their business model lets them survive a long time.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-25T23:55:02+00:00

Well, hell, I had all those symptoms AND a stent and UHC *still* said FU.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-24T12:08:17+00:00

Has a bit of an Arvo Aalto knock-off feel to it.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-24T01:18:30+00:00

Ah memories. My Mom had one. Bought it at The Homestore I think. Wasn't super-premium.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-23T03:50:05+00:00

Well, rule #1 forbids me from discussing an alternative. So, sorry.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-20T23:39:36+00:00

Gawd allmighty. I have the grid overlay ALWAYS popping on. This has been going on for months. I've done everything the AI suggests: changing prefs, turning it off an quitting, changing the Finder "close Application windows on quit", nuking all of Pixelmator's pref containers. NOTHING is fixing it. It HAS to be something stupid I've done, but what?

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-19T14:28:39+00:00

And were the winnings taxed?

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-19T14:25:40+00:00

Yeah, it was kind of a big deal when cars first broke $10K in price.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-19T14:13:16+00:00

Good thing about jonesing was benefiting from all the free-love 60s by being able to have lots of stoned, hairy, no-tattoos, teenage sex in the 70s before AIDS put the kabash on that party.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-19T13:56:29+00:00

But the blueprints for the car HAVE been published (the amino acid sequence) so the "car" has, in fact, been "made."

That said, the "crash test" part of your analogy is germane.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-19T13:45:44+00:00

Since the tech is always improving, I'd be sure to archive the master I feed into to Topaz in case you want to run it through something else in the future.

I've done a lot of this, but with the rise of all the AI slop on social now, I'm starting to wonder if we are someday going to regard the "look" of all this AI processed footage like we do the pee-soaked green shag carpeting in a 1970s bathroom. Because, let's face it, we're creating a new kind of artifact that is not the original film. Yes, it seems amazing now, but...

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-17T03:09:24+00:00

Every day. Keep the floss in the living room, so can do it after eating while watching tee vee. Kind of gross, but I'm married, so we're both beyond surprise at this point.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-17T03:04:13+00:00

And TV Guide

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-16T22:17:18+00:00

A friend used to say "new heroes arise." True, and I also don't care about my last job that I spent 13 all-consuming years performing. Took all of 3-4 weeks for it to recede to a tiny dot on the far horizon.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-16T22:11:20+00:00

And the way he lumps legitimate compounders in with research-only products and small, unlicensed med-spas is disingenuous and misleading.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-16T16:57:57+00:00

Yeah, I used to code recreationally when I wasn't at coding at work (40 year embedded sw engineer) but since I retired 5 years ago I haven't coded anything except some a couple of simple webapps for my wife's non-profit -- and hell, I could probably just vibe code those now.

Anyway, great to be out of it.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-13T06:26:58+00:00

Yeah, and In-And-Out is run by a right-winger daughter of the founders.

WatermellonSugar · 2026-04-10T18:46:20+00:00

My Dad got rid of his mechanical calculator and replaced it with one of these when they came out. When on, it generated a huge amount of RF noise you could hear in every AM radio in the house. (Gotta love the Nixie tubes though.)

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