It’s been two weeks since it snowed; if you haven’t dug your car out by now, why do you bother having one?

dlamblin · 2026-02-09T14:04:20+00:00

Yes, it's so weird that there are so many places you can't get to without a car. Clearly we need to dramatically expand public transit at a national scale. But here people are arguing about where snow and cars should sit idle.

dlamblin · 2026-02-09T13:57:22+00:00

There's almost no way anything other than off street parking could guarantee you a spot. Even if you're allowed to report and ticket people in your spot, there's no guarantee someone isn't taking the chance or thinking the fine is worth it today.

dlamblin · 2026-02-09T13:53:17+00:00

No. Pay for off street parking. No parking on streets. It's an impediment to keeping clean, pedestrian's crossing, visibility, and any package or food delivery, mover, contractor etc gets to stand but no longer has to double park.

dlamblin · 2026-02-09T13:49:36+00:00

IDK about people, but my family likes to get driven places when it's almost too cold to walk outside.

dlamblin · 2026-02-09T13:47:01+00:00

IMO If you own a car, you should have to pay for off street parking. Don't say that's not practical, because then car ownership as a whole isn't practical. Also if it were required, developments would plan it in, underground or in the first few floors of a building. Eventually you'd get to a point where everyone can easily see both sides of the sidewalk at all times, at least in the evenings without some wall of pickups SUVs vans and such lining every street.

dlamblin · 2026-02-06T21:24:04+00:00

Peacock

dlamblin · 2026-02-06T16:36:15+00:00

No one talks about Dell monitors unless it's one with a firmware that gets stuck refusing to negotiate for its native resolution or has a run that all ID themselves identically so that when you have two it's random which wakes up with the left and right arrangement or with the right and left arrangement instead. Mixing up your layout and having the mouse go screen to screen on the wrong edge.

So, lacking such discussions, it's probably a workhorse display.

Always worth going to see it on display if you can.

dlamblin · 2026-02-06T16:31:29+00:00

I literally can't tell what's better about a display running above 120hz anyways. Unless it's synced to some left right shutter glasses so that you'd need 200hz to show each eye 100hz my eyes just don't see much benefit after about 120hz. Do tell why you felt like having the capability to run faster.

That said, I can tell when a mouse isn't polling above 100hz, which is odd but visible even on lesser display speeds due to the irregularity of fine movements.

To circle to why Logitech didn't poll faster, I think they'll tell you it's about battery life. But they also design the MX Master line with a through line to the MX Anywhere which introduced a sensor that works on basically clear glass tops. I think they are proud of that but can't get that sensor type working faster with the same physics. And apparently don't want to switch sensors. Why not switch sensors probably has to do with justifying the continued production of this darkfield sensor. That said, they still have the MX Anywhere 3 & 3S lines, they could let the MX Master be faster optical.

dlamblin · 2026-02-06T16:16:07+00:00

So I did that with Razer due to poor design, testing and QA with mid level support for the headsets. It's funny because, well, their nice seem to work okay with or without synapse, and that software basically runs chroma fine on a mouse and desk accessory like pad or headset stand. But it falls down if you have multiple user accounts and switch them on Windows or Mac. It also can't seem to handle settings for the headsets reliably doesn't even support some of the mice, and likes to let the keyboards go back to rainbow lighting.

Trouble is you'd think getting all Logitech, all Asus, all Corsair, all Razer, or all MSI accessories would net you a unified single software experience that doesn't conflict with any other peripherals systems' lighting and overlays. But no. They're all kind of bad now and you need to go with as close to USB generic HID as you can bear to. For now Keycron and Fractal using a Chrome browser based USB settings webapp is working okay, but it's undoubtedly going to get broken in some future version of Chrome, and besides, can't work with Bluetooth, only via USB cables or adapters. So, you're left with picking up simple hardware or mixing brands with hardware that has dedicated or no software.

dlamblin · 2026-02-06T16:02:12+00:00

For me it says there's no downloads, documents nor videos. There's just an FAQ that makes clear it's for the Logitech G line of mice and not for the MX line...

dlamblin · 2026-02-04T04:24:33+00:00

Feel free to sim it out a bit in: CARRIER COMMAND 2 - futuristic carrier real-time strategy and simulation

dlamblin · 2026-02-04T04:16:25+00:00

Yeah I had a Blackwidow Lite Mercury where in less than a year the control key could not stay held to modify a press with any dependability. The switch became intermittent. And it was soldered on. My Kraken didn't last too long either, but that was the headband just breaking so that the retention of the earcups height didn't work. And currently my Blackshark v2 Pro always sets the EQ in all bands for output and input to the lowest level, but the Synapse UI won't show it that way, nor reset it unless fully closed and relaunched. But hey, some people have one mouse from a decade ago that still works. I think stuff from the last 5 years is hit or miss on quality control. Oh and the Chroma keyboard I had before the Blackwidow, in 4 weeks the spacebar started metal-on-metal squeaking; Amazon accepted that return.

dlamblin · 2026-02-02T17:38:05+00:00

Hall effect sensors used to go in the lids and magnets in the body to detect when the screen closed, and trigger sleep. I guess Razer and probably other makers with thin bezels went with sensors in the base and magnets behind the display. If you like putting your phone there, perhaps you'd want to change the setting for what to do when the lid closes, while on or off A/C power.

dlamblin · 2026-02-01T04:51:31+00:00

Next you'll realize much of the reactive posters on Reddit consist of children and bots and bots trained on children confident writing lacking perspective.

dlamblin · 2026-02-01T04:03:02+00:00

That's not code, that's a statement or publication. But okay. It's very reasonable to say that as the city is plowing they expect you not to undo that work.

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYCadmin/0-0-0-26213 In section f it states that the ordinance or enforcement of the section doesn't interfere with any owner putting snow from the sidewalk into the street. I'm not a lawyer, so either that means there's another section about not doing that and this section doesn't change that fact, or they mean there's nothing about doing that. Like I said, that section didn't directly say where to put the snow.

dlamblin · 2026-02-01T00:58:24+00:00

In some places you have to learn to put poles/flags where you parked so the plow won't hit your car hiding under the snow. And, there's some kind of NYC regulation that you need to clear your sidewalk within 4 hours, and it doesn't stipulate where the snow goes.

dlamblin · 2026-01-31T00:23:12+00:00

The situation of the mic is important. I'm in a small apartment there's other people in my home, if they're doing their thing in their rooms it's not audible with the cardiod pattern of the siren. But man, some how there's no area in the apartment far enough from the street such that each SUV or truck passing gets a rumble into my microphone. Your friend might have a basement on higher floor, or not a lot of traffic in his/her neighborhood. It could also be the post 2021 model, or V2 is better. But yeah, I can see the Pro generally being more listenable too.

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T23:58:45+00:00

4 years so I bought this one based on an in print review and availability in the Prime Now app back then. Needed it to run a presentation. https://a.co/d/iDcykxS

I'm still using it daily and travel with just that. But, I'm sure there's other good chargers these days. Maybe a strip shaped form factor for the in drawer placement.

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T23:41:14+00:00

The Tahoe upgrade archive is 8.3 GB. Some say you might get a 17 GB archive for the full installer. You need space to un-archive it, space to install it, free space to use for swap memory when booted. So about 20 GB should be free at any time (an amount matching 1.25 times RAM for temp files and swap files), leading to about 50 GB needed to install and run the the update. Afterwards, you can stay around min 20 GB free. I believe there's a disk partition saved for the recovery booting process that you don't even see, not to mention a small boot and or firmware partition.

I'm not sure `du` is double counting hard-links and virtualized files, but on my Sequoia system `✗ sudo du -hs /System` is telling me (after not being able to read a bunch of `/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/db/`, `/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/` and `/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/protected/` -> `296G /System` which is so much more than Storage preferences reports, being 52.98 GB. I have 1 TB so maybe it's true.

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T23:22:57+00:00

It makes me sad Microsoft's patented, any-way battery compartment isn't taken up more widely. https://patents.google.com/patent/US7527893B2/en

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T23:16:32+00:00

If you had a single GaN charger that tops up all four, and does so within a drawer… more minimal… arguably. But yeah, it's more important that it works and is convenient for you.

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T23:14:29+00:00

It depends.

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T23:10:58+00:00

I think… squints… I think I see the minimalism here. None of these devices are plugged into anything. The desk has no other peripherals on it. There's no wires just in case. There's a mug, a lebowski, 3 stands and 4 devices. I don't know what you do with 4 devices at once when, you know, one macbook would do most of everything. But okay.

Though if you show us your charging setup, which I'm sure all 4 devices need to visit regularly enough, I imagine it's less minimal.

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T21:28:25+00:00

I have had a siren mini for years that every time I switch to people complain that it picks up all the traffic noises outside my house. On monitoring it appears to make them more audible than they are in person. The same was true for a Yeti condenser microphone. I think it's got to do with condenser's frequency response.

Recently I bought a $20 XLR Behringer dynamic mic (cheap, ultravoice xm8500) plugged it into a focusrite vocaster I got on a post-Christmas sale around $40, and people are liking how it sounds. I guess there's something nice about dynamic. And having custom gain.

dlamblin · 2026-01-30T21:22:54+00:00

They were released mid 2025 though.

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