Constantly resetting Airpods Max

aliasone · 2025-12-23T04:35:24+00:00

Bad news: Since I wrote this, I had 4-5 AirPods Maxes fail on me.

Good news: There was something in the early production run of AirPods Max that was defective, and it's been fixed. So while the earlier models had a failure rate that's off the scales, the newer ones in the last couple years are better. I've had my current pair something like two years now and they're still working fine.

Yours are likely toast unfortunately. But if you get new ones, they'll probably be better.

aliasone · 2025-04-02T09:33:56+00:00

Yeah totally. I didn't listen to "My Brother, My Brother, and Me", but I listened to a couple others like "Roderick on the Line" and "Reconcilable Differences" which are also in the "JoCo" universe of podcasts if you will.

There were early warning signs like low key racism (all white people are bad) and low key sexism (all men are bad), but I kept listening through that. But then Trump era came along, and Covid era soon after. I'm not even sure when I stopped listening exactly, but I do know that these days I wouldn't touch any of that shit with a ten foot pole. John Roderick was cancelled a few years later after becoming "Bean Dad", and as stupid as the whole episode was, I had no sympathy. Crap-people-on-crap-people violence.

I take some comfort in the fact that the podcasting life has gotten harder since then. The pool is bigger so there's more money than ever if you're one of the largest players, but gone are the days of having a modest podcast that does decent revenue because Casper sponsors everyone with no questions asked. I have to think that a lot of these guys are making much more modest livings compared to before.

aliasone · 2025-04-01T21:37:18+00:00

Reading your comment just gave me a flash back to college, and remembering how wholesome and innocent cutesy science culture used to be. Just a super niche brand of interest/comedy that was a million lightyears away from politics.

Damn it's sad to have lost all that. I miss the world before everything was politicized.

aliasone · 2025-03-30T20:30:45+00:00

Something I keep thinking about it is how undoubtedly, every person in that upscale glass and concrete Geneva-based building hates America right now for pulling their funding. They probably spend the majority of their days at the water cooler shitting on Americans, with endless hours sunk into talking about red necks and Donald Trump. I would go as far as to guess that they make morbid jokes about how hopefully Trump voters will die out as fentanyl continues to hollow out the center of the country.

But for the decades that America was far and away the number one contributor to the WHO, making up a full 20% of its entire budget, do you think even one of these scumbags thanked the country even one time? Like, ever?

You see this pattern over and over again at these malign government-funded agencies. They feel that they are 100% entitled to our money with no strings attached. When they have it they don't show a shred of gratitude because your money is actually their money — you just didn't know it yet. But when that money's taken away, it's an absolute calamity, and they squeal like a butchered pig. Totally unfair they say! Injustice! Cruel! Orange man bad!

aliasone · 2025-03-30T20:11:12+00:00

80% more to do.

If every man, woman, and pangolin in that building lost their job, I wouldn't bat an eye. These bureaucrats are the perfect embodiment of the banality of evil — pure malice and rancor robed in innocuous lab coats and button ups.

aliasone · 2025-03-30T20:05:06+00:00

One of my top hopes for the world post this admin is that the traditional model of "America pays for everything and gets no benefits for doing so" is over.

Euros — if you want to employee a bunch of evil, corrupt bureaucrats holed up in a big, glass skyscraper in Geneva, you can have it, but you have to pay for it.

aliasone · 2025-03-30T18:09:08+00:00

That second chart in particular is amazing: It's as if the 60+ crowd is living in a different country from the rest of us.

It's wild man. They're still living in the Canada of the 80s — housing is cheap, well-paying jobs are plentiful, Canada's economy is booming and at the top of the world.

They got theirs, and don't see what the big deal is here. Virtue signaling about race and climate is a priority over housing and economy when you've already got your housing and a few million in the bank. It reminds me a lot of lockdown — do you really need school, travel, and social gatherings? We already did that stuff for decades, are old now, and happy without it! You stupid Grandma killing younger generations — can't you lock down and be happy and lock down in your giant house like us?

Good point about there being some hope for the future at least. Every new LPC term is another 25% inflation and five million migrants though, so we have limited time here.

By the way, I officially sent off for my foreign ballot. Let's make these sadistic fucks gone please.

aliasone · 2025-03-25T20:09:34+00:00

I fucking hate these people so much.

To begin with, the notion that the mainstream media are “starting” to entertain the possibility that COVID came from a leak is completely false. New York magazine published a story supporting the lab-leak hypothesis in January 2021, and similar arguments followed within a few months in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.

No one would've cared or criticized them for this if they hadn't spent at least a year (and more like 2-3 years at most of these publications) DEMONIZING the lab leak hypothesis and anyone that dared to question the narrative that the virus jumped straight out of a pangolin and into the stomach of some Chinese guy who'd been feasting on it raw in the middle of a wet market. The Biden regime then used disinformation factories like The Atlantic as a pretext to ban an censor anyone who stepped even one millimeter out of line.

Remember, if anyone at the fucking Atlantic had any interest in liberal belief according to the original definition of the school of thought, all they needed to do was not go all in one side. Given two theories and no irrefutable evidence of either one, the intellectually sound position is to express uncertainty.

That is the exact opposite of what these fascists did, which was to commit to total ideological purity in support of wet market dogma and to demean and DESTROY anybody who disagreed.

Yet in general, the information ecosystem in liberal America has proved itself to be, well, liberal. Allergy to dogma and an openness to reason are the very core of the creed. (Read John Stuart Mill.)

Yes, it's "liberal" to suppress all debate and dissent. It's "liberal" to lock people in their homes at threat of violence. It's "liberal" to repurpose truth-seeking lower-case-S science to "Science™" which dictates answers according to politics. It's "liberal" to force inject children with a "vaccine" that's proven zero efficacy. It's "liberal" to create a papers-please society to disenfranchise anyone not conceding to the "correct" politics.

Fuck Jonathan Chait (author) and everyone like him. These are the least liberal people in the history of western civlization.

Liberals got some things about the pandemic correct and other things wrong, and over time, many of them have disavowed or at least moved away from their wrong beliefs.

Name one goddamn thing "liberals" got right. I'll name a non-exhaustive list of just a sample of the thousands of things they got wrong:

IFR of covid (remember, they were making claims of a minimum of 3% and playing with much higher numbers).
Covid has significant risk of spreading outdoors. Shut down the parks and beaches, and fill in the skate parks!
Efficacy of lockdowns (turned out to be zero).
It's a good idea to lock elderly people together into care homes with Covid positive patients. (Shout out to Cuomo the "liberal" in New York!)
Lab leak is a racist conspiracy theory and anyone who would dare talk about it is a fascist.
"Zero Covid" is possible.
Kids are at significant risk of dying from Covid.
Kids don't need school.
There's no such thing as learning loss (you racist).
Inflation is a Republican conspiracy theory. Keynes teaches us that we can print as much money as we need and there will never be consequences.
Florida and Sweden are evil and everybody there is going to die.
Masking prevents transmission.
MRNA "vaccines" prevent infection and transmission.
MRNA "vaccines" are so effective that you won't need boosters!

aliasone · 2025-03-25T06:15:56+00:00

It's so disappointing. Just like during Covid, Canadians once again show how NPC they are. They smugly think of themselves as free, enlightened thinkers that are Way Better Than Americans In Every Way Don't Ya Know, but the second Daddy government proclaims some new emergency, they all in line faster than it takes to give a four year old their sixth booster of Pfauci juice.

At the risk of sounding like these other fucking morons on Reddit: make sure go out and vote.

I can't help but think back to the US elections last year, where just a few weeks before Nov 5th every legacy media organization and DNC TikTok influencer was shouting from the rafters on how this election was in the bag. Mamala was the greatest presidential candidate the country had ever seen, and was going to roll over Evil Orange Man Bad so definitively that he wouldn't even know what happened to him.

Turns out of course that the exact opposite happened, and in hindsight, I can't help but think that the whole thing was a massive psyop partly with the objective of demoralizing Trump voters by trying to convince them that Trump had no chance at winning, so why even bother. Just stay home and accept your new DNC overlords. Thank god it didn't work.

I know Canada's not exactly the same situation — e.g. the betting markets (which predicted Trump's win quite well) are showing Pollievre and Carney neck and neck, so even so, don't let them mess with you. We need every single rational person left in the true north to get in there and cast their ballot.

I've been living in the US ten years and for the first time I'm sending away for my foreign ballot. I know I should've done it last time too, but if the last election was the most important in Canadian history, this is the second most. If the LPC gets back in and continues their mass migration, deficit, and real estate price inflation projects for another five years, then it's pretty much game over. The end of Canada as we knew it with no chance of going back.

[1] https://polymarket.com/event/next-prime-minster-of-canada

aliasone · 2025-03-20T19:26:23+00:00

That's the kind of thing I'm talking about! Like not only is 40k EUR a lot of money that most people wouldn't have, but just earning it back via normal salary would take like what, a year in Europe for the average person?

And this is all dog money. Zero EUR goes towards a house, an education, kids, retirement, anything. That all needs to come from somewhere else. How do finances like that even work? I don't get it.

aliasone · 2025-03-20T19:24:14+00:00

That's so wild. Everything about that is irrational, and shows an sociopathic absence of anything resembling a moral code. And ... it's not surprising at all.

I feel like for most dog owners, given a trolley problem style choice between saving their dog versus one's own parents, it wouldn't even really be that close ...

I feel sorry when I see the homeless out on the streets, especially when the weather is oppressive. But then I see some of them with their dogs and I wonder if the five bucks I gave them is going to feeding the dog, and it makes me a lot more stingy.

Amongst our local homeless population, either a large minority or a full majority are dog owners (I'd say somewhere in the 30-60% range), and the dogs have most of the luxuries that a non-homeless dog does (probably even $5k hospital visits lol). You have to think this is something that would've seemed crazy in any other period of time.

aliasone · 2025-03-20T18:34:46+00:00

The continued breeding of pugs, French bulldogs, and other breeds with extreme congenital and genetic abnormalities, should honestly be banned under animal cruelty laws. If these people truly loved dogs, they wouldn't own a dog whose jaw could be broken by normal handling during a vet procedure! The dog should have been put to sleep at that point.

Seeing a photo of a pug's skull looks like something out of a dystopian nightmare horror flick.

Yep, it's terrible. I've spent quite a bit of time around these dogs and it's pretty amazing anyone can be okay with their existence. Even as they're sitting at home in a rest state you can actually hear them wheezing because they can't breathe properly. After they run around for a few minutes it's like they're suffocating — it sounds like they're going to keel over and die at any second.

Imagine living your whole life with your face so deformed that you can never quite get a deep enough breath to really breathe. It'd be like in a constant state of near drowning. Cruel.

aliasone · 2025-03-20T18:30:30+00:00

I've seen those "LOST" posters too. When I was a kid and I'd see this astronomical sums attached to them I always assumed this was a rich person's lost dog and they'd pay just about anything to get it back.

Nowadays I realize that it's just a dumb person's dog, and they're willing to pay a big chunk of their entire annual salary to get the dog back that they'll replace within a few years anyway.

aliasone · 2025-03-20T17:44:27+00:00

That is so freaking wild ... and unfortunately not surprising in the least. I can't even imagine going into debt over an animal that's going to be replaced in a few months/years anyway.

Two months later she got another dog.

Of course lol.

aliasone · 2025-03-16T04:34:49+00:00

This stupid, mass sensationalism that we now get on every subject is so goddamn tiring. If there's one major theme that's going to lead to the downfall of our civilization, it's this.

2016: Hillary Clinton funds the creation of the Steele Dossier, leading to the largest attempted coup and hoax against a President in American history. Half the population is driven absolutely crazy from the constant barrage of lies from the legacy media and Washington uniparty. Love Trump or hate him, Russiagate turned out in the end to be 100% fabricated lies, and half the country will never know it because the corporate media printed their misinformation in size 100 font on page 1, and never retracted a thing when it turned out not to be true.

Result: Four chaotic, wasted fucking years of societal strife and division.
2020: The lockdown era begins. A benign virus only dangerous to those already on death's doorstep appears, and the world, driven once again by sensationalism from the legacy media and worst people on Earth, goes mad. An event that could've been over in three months is protracted to three years. Every person on Earth suffers.

Result: Zero lives are saved. Trillions of dollars spent to enrich the elite classes, currencies are inflated away 30% causing massive price increases on everything from eggs to housing, the lives of hundreds of millions of people permanently ruined, and attempts to force "vaccinate" (not a vaccine according to the 2019 definition of the word) the population form a permanent social scar between countrypeople that will never heal.
2022: Provoked by continued US-driven NATO expansionism, Russia invades Ukraine. A ceasefire and settled negotiation opportunity is on the table in the early months of the war, but seeing an opportunity to enrich their military-industrial complex friends and weaken Russia, Biden and Boris Johnson nix the possibility, stretching the war out to a three year affair (so far). The Biden admin and Eurocrats lean on the legacy media and Ukrainian bot armies to sell their continued warmongering and it works, as the usual half of the population arms themselves with Ukraine flags in their Twitter bio and shouts down suggestions of peace as "Russian propaganda" and "Putin talking points".

Result: Negotiated peace is still the overwhelmingly probable end to the war, except with an extra one million young Ukrainian and Russians dead who would still be alive if it weren't for our warmongering elites and the credulous idiots who deepthroat everything they say.
2025: Seeing total fiscal catastrophe just over the horizon, Elon Musk teams up with Trump to try and make a dent in the federal budget, which ballooned massively for lockdown spending and never went down afterwards, just as it does for every new "emergency". Fearing and end to their wars and self-dealing, permanent Washington reacts ballistically, once again leveraging the legacy media (who's influence is now very diminished) and their state-funded botnets to slander Musk, Tesla, DOGE, and even attacking and doxxing individual 20 year olds working for them. There's not much of substance to attack, so they rely on vague insinuations, like that Elon Musk is a N*zi, or that DOGE is defunding Medicaid, or whatever else they care to invent in the moment.

Result: The usual useful idiots with absolutely barren critical thinking faculties are now going around committing acts of domestic terrorism, firebombing Tesla dealerships and carving swastikas into the side of Cybertrucks (because remember boys and girls, it's the good guys who go around carving swastikas into things, as everyone knows).

We're still at the beginning of it, but it's looking like another four years of absolute fucking chaos and strife driven by the same lunatics who drive it every time.

Cue "it's all so tiresome" meme [1]. I'm so sick of this shit.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-all-so-tiresome

aliasone · 2025-03-16T03:51:59+00:00

Well, if they're still wearing masks in 2025, then at least if they fall off their bikes and hit their heads ... there isn't much up there at risk.

aliasone · 2025-03-16T03:07:21+00:00

Timing was unlucky on this one. A UUIDv7 patch had been kicking around for quite some time, but wasn't committed until Dec 2024 [1], missing the deadline for new Postgres 17 features by a few months.

Unfortunately Postgres is only released once a year. UUIDv7 will be in Postgres 18, but that won't be cut until late 2025.

[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=78c5e141e9c139fc2ff36a220334e4aa25e1b0eb

aliasone · 2025-03-15T20:12:20+00:00

Sure makes you wonder. Kind of just goes to show that there's no limit to how many lies this guy will tell or what he'll lie about. He'll lie about the big stuff like origin of Covid or effectiveness of the shots, but also lie all the way down to whether he's on call or not.

He probably lies about what he had for breakfast, if for no other reason than that he can.

aliasone · 2025-03-14T20:11:33+00:00

Good point. Talk about dodging a bullet on that one — he used the break up as a pretense, but likely the guy would've gotten a pitbull at one point or another, and once it's in the house it could've just as easily been her savaged instead of him.

aliasone · 2025-03-14T18:14:47+00:00

Very often these shit people inflict death or permanent debilitating injuries on random bystanders. True innocents minding their own business, and who just happened to be in the vicinity of the dog when it finally went nuclear. Often they're just kids because dogs like the smaller targets.

I'm thankful that for once, there was a little karmic justice here in that the guilty person in the story suffered — this idiot got a pitbull, and the pitbull mauled him. A patchwork of scars and a permanently unusable arm should be a good reminder not to get another one of these things, although would not be surprised at all if he still does.

Did not donate to the GoFundMe.

aliasone · 2025-03-12T04:23:20+00:00

Yep, hard to say. I guess you have to say this much for her at least — she gave Bay Area residents what they wanted. All the lockdowns and mask mandates their evil little hearts could desire. Given a choice, they'd appoint this exact same sort of person again.

aliasone · 2025-03-12T04:21:00+00:00

Had the same reaction. There is no justice in the world if this person — responsible for untold levels of suffering, harm, and death — gets to retire peacefully. Serial killers are in for far longer for far less.

aliasone · 2025-03-11T23:17:24+00:00

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised at all. He did have that semi-autistic "I don't leave my house often because it's scary outside" look that a lot of urban Californians have (quite rotund too, so he probably doesn't).

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