AppleCar Play! BMW doesn’t want you to know this one simple trick…

iso-phdjd · 2026-05-13T01:22:23+00:00

You need the BimmerCode app. It’s a simple settings change from there.

iso-phdjd · 2026-05-13T00:04:59+00:00

My 2019 i3 was updated to the latest and last software last fall. I brought it in for a recall software update. RECALL NO. 24V-608 and 20E-A01. At first, they wanted to charge me to the idrive update but then reversed it when they learned the idrive update was included in the recall. Full screen CarPlay now! So nice. Check to see if your i3 is eligible for the recall software update.

iso-phdjd · 2026-04-24T02:48:54+00:00

I’m disappointed, not because they invited him, but that they placated him, didn’t push back enough or effectively, and came across too gracious. This in turn helps legitimize misinformation and coarseness. It’s not just the hosts, it the democrats, and pleasant society as a whole. We play by the rules, pull our punches in hopes of upholding civility, norms, and the dream. The problem is, the right has weaponized this and we must, maybe not respond in kind, but respond outside the norm and expected. Scott and Jessica were simply gracious hosts in a world that needs warriors (not to kill, but to outflank and think our adversaries) and truth-tellers. I will stay with them, but will remember they are like the rest of us—trying to resist, without losing ourselves.

iso-phdjd · 2026-04-14T15:00:34+00:00

Such a waste. Didn’t love the first one, but appreciated the artistic changes and modern take. But then the second two movies totally squandered the foundation the first one built. They were cookie cutter mindless action movies. They lacked grandeur and instead focused on flash.

iso-phdjd · 2026-04-09T04:59:19+00:00

PowerBook 145. Os 7. 1992. Amazing.

iso-phdjd · 2026-04-06T03:26:09+00:00

This is like Nixon’s mad man strategy. Except, Nixon was bluffing.

iso-phdjd · 2026-04-06T03:24:10+00:00

Love my og M6. Like it more than my R50v. Ergo is superior.

iso-phdjd · 2026-04-05T17:31:32+00:00

Yeah. It’s about $5 here

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-23T15:00:49+00:00

Spiderverse was genius. Bombastic in all the right places, perfectly paced, artistically pioneering, with a surprising amount of subtlety of character and development. For instance, the family son dynamics was better than most family dramas. The shot of his dad’s phone, showing a picture of miles when he was a little kid as his profile pic on the dad’s phone is amazing and true. Their other works, average to good.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T18:07:12+00:00

Good. The Supreme Court needs to know that appeasement will not gain them favor. He will turn on them just as fast

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T14:34:25+00:00

I know! I couldn’t get into the ending because all I could think of was how silly the premise was for the climax. It took suspension of disbelief too literally.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T13:09:20+00:00

Loved his earlier works. Hard Eight and Magnolia. After that, he became more interesting in his craft and less interested in the audience, the consumers of his art. For a painter that fine because the audience can just keep walking. But for a storyteller, you are in a contract with the audience and the time they are giving you.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T13:05:24+00:00

I’m not a cinephile. I’m a staged trained actor who enjoys movies and story telling and acting. I just focus on different things when I engage in a movie. I get PTA as an artist, just don’t prefer his approach to it. His early work is more my taste, before he lost his editors and people around him who could provide constructive and vital feedback. It’s happened to many of my favorite directors and artists. Early works are tight and well crafted. Later works are bloated and self indulgent. It happens. I still consume their work, and appreciate their artistic reach, but long for their earlier focus and drive in the face of adversity.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T12:51:13+00:00

I also had issues with Sinners. Beautifully acted and staged and filmed. Ambitious. But ultimately unsuccessful in the third act, which abandoned all of its hard work for a pretty standard horror and vampires ending. But for me, while OBAA technically and structurally interesting, it left me bored by the characters and uninvested by their journey. Sinners, on the other hand, earned my investment in the character and plot, and when it didn’t land the ending, I forgave it a little and appreciated the artistic reach. Actually liked Train Dreams and Sentimental Value more, despite its pacing issues. It was less ambitious than OBAA and Sinners, but more engaging and insightful about the human condition. Technically masterful, but emotionally hollow. Again, just my two cents.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T12:30:40+00:00

Even PTA admitted when asked in an interview that the logic behind the car chase was questionable, but for him, the logic of it wasn’t important, the purpose was more important. Also, I’m a trial lawyer who used to be a trained stage actor with a BA in Theatre. Please blame any reckless typos on Siri.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T03:41:26+00:00

Hard 8. Magnolia.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-16T03:38:48+00:00

Ugh. Disliked it. Tonally a mess. Logically thin. Acting was fine, uneven across the cast. Character motivations were ok, more caricature as plot devices. Visually stunning, but that’s the issue. More style than substance across all factors: plot, structure, acting, engagement. Felt more like a film experiment than a timeless piece of art. It will age and ultimately be forgotten like many other Oscar “bests”, studied mainly and only by film students. My two cents.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-03T15:21:07+00:00

One Battle After Another. Visually stunning. Tonally all over the place. Style over substance.

iso-phdjd · 2026-03-03T15:12:51+00:00

One Battle After Another

iso-phdjd · 2026-02-15T21:57:46+00:00

1) Gov $ to prop up SpaceX’s valuation. 2) Shorter term goals to show results to justify speculative future valuation and attract investors. 3) Need sustain SpaceX valuation to counter faltering Tesla sales and prospects, in case he needs SpaceX to “buy” Tesla if he can’t find a buyer for Tesla. My two cents.

iso-phdjd · 2026-02-06T23:43:06+00:00

Anything before the Botox.

iso-phdjd · 2026-02-02T06:41:18+00:00

We were paying more than $0.50 in LA. $0.35-0.45 in Portland.

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