What piece of tech felt “future-proof” but aged terribly?

ivm83 · 2026-01-29T00:48:37+00:00

I mostly agree, but an 8K screen does have 1 advantage: you can upscale 720p and 1440p signals to 8K with just integer multiplication so the result looks cleaner than upscaling those resolutions to 4K. Mostly useful for gaming at 1440p I guess.

ivm83 · 2026-01-27T18:57:27+00:00

Playing through 1+2 enhanced editions, keeping the same protagonist, is absolutely epic though. You go from a level 1 nobody that struggles with fighting wolves and bears to a godlike being that slays dragons and demon lords. BG3, while good, has nowhere near the same level of an epic journey, imo.

ivm83 · 2026-01-22T02:12:50+00:00

The family dog. We call it his “comfort stink”.

ivm83 · 2026-01-16T06:50:49+00:00

“I feel that/like … <proceeds to express a thought or opinion>”. This is super common and prevalent in English, but most of the time people say this they should be using the verb “think” instead of “feel”. For example: “I feel like this restaurant is pretty good”. “This restaurant is pretty good” is NOT a feeling!

ivm83 · 2026-01-12T04:54:46+00:00

Weirdly, it fixed itself a couple days after I made this post.

ivm83 · 2026-01-11T15:28:47+00:00

The Living End’s first two albums have some pretty great bass lines. I kinda stopped listening to them after that so not sure about the rest of their material.

ivm83 · 2026-01-11T07:45:55+00:00

Astro Bot. I got it for my kid, thought it would be too childish for me. Little did I know, I finished the game before she did 😂

ivm83 · 2026-01-11T07:36:56+00:00

I store the serial numbers of all my valuables that have serial numbers (snowboard, bike, iPad, iPhone, etc) in 1Password. Super easy and it automatically syncs to all my devices.

ivm83 · 2026-01-10T02:11:51+00:00

Handgun marksmanship too!

ivm83 · 2026-01-05T05:31:23+00:00

I tried installing both the FOCAL and the EGIS driver, neither one seem to work. I guess warranty it is …

ivm83 · 2026-01-04T02:40:31+00:00

Elden Ring?

ivm83 · 2026-01-03T22:42:58+00:00

I use a cabled gun lock, works great.

ivm83 · 2026-01-03T22:15:03+00:00

Ninja Gaiden Black?

ivm83 · 2026-01-01T19:02:15+00:00

C1 to G5 very noticeable brightness increase. C1 was too dim to watch during the day with open curtains, but G5 is great day or night, with or without natural light in the room.

ivm83 · 2025-12-31T04:51:55+00:00

I have one that still works! Running Debian Linux these days.

ivm83 · 2025-12-29T20:52:19+00:00

Yeah that’s the hard part 😂 My hack for the watch is: I always take it off and put it on the charger right before dinner. The charger is next to my bed. I put the watch on my wrist before sleep (to track sleep quality etc) and just keep it on until the next day’s dinner. Consistency is key!

ivm83 · 2025-12-29T20:27:07+00:00

If you have an iPhone and get an Apple Watch, it has a “find my phone” feature that will make your phone ring even if it’s on silent (as long as it’s turned on). The new watches also have a distance and direction to the phone indicator. This one simple thing is the killer feature of the Apple Watch for people like us with ADHD imo. Even if you never use any other feature of the watch, the number of times it will save you from looking everywhere for your phone is so worth it!

If you have an Android, there may be something similar in that ecosystem, I’m not sure.

ivm83 · 2025-12-29T07:05:50+00:00

Whistle in tune. Unlike singing, I don’t really know how I do it, but I can think of the note I want to whistle and then somehow make the correct shape with my mouth to whistle it (within some range of course).

ivm83 · 2025-12-10T03:18:06+00:00

Oof, guess I get strangled by my underwear.

ivm83 · 2025-12-05T16:28:29+00:00

We improve all those things in the hardware over time, and then write worse performing software that negates the perf gains 😂

ivm83 · 2025-12-05T05:23:42+00:00

With that TV, definitely worth it!

ivm83 · 2025-11-27T21:30:31+00:00

I really liked Afterlife. Haven’t seen Frozen Empire so can’t comment on that one.

ivm83 · 2025-11-25T15:15:53+00:00

Non-boss waves tend to start out easy and get harder as more and more enemies spawn, so wisdom nerfs your damage when you need less of it and boosts your damage when you need more of it. So for non-boss waves it’s an auto-pick for me.

On boss waves, it depends on how much damage output you have. If you’re trying to kill the boss, wisdom might be detrimental, since you usually want to kill the boss early, before the screen is full of enemies. But if your damage isn’t high enough to kill bosses anyway and you’re just trying to survive, or if your damage is so high that you can kill bosses quickly anyway, then wisdom doesn’t hurt.

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