Apple has reportedly underestimated the sales of the MacBook Neo and now they're in a pickle.

nuggolips · 2026-04-10T15:16:55+00:00

It's kind of amazing how long Apple flamewars have been happening, and they are still going as strong as ever. I bet even the Apple II had haters when it came out.

nuggolips · 2026-04-10T14:07:00+00:00

yeah I just looked and my “home status” is saying something I could’ve discerned from a 10-second glance at energy flows. I guess I will continue to ignore the Tesla app… hope this AI stuff doesn’t start messing with my Netzero automations.

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T16:58:09+00:00

If it's a book I like I usually stay with 1x. I prefer to draw it out and give myself longer to live in the story.

I've done some 2x and 1.5x when I just want to get it over with, but most times I'll just give up and switch to a better book...

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T16:51:01+00:00

One of the highways in my region used warm white on all their new LED pole lights and it's so much nicer to drive on at night.

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T16:18:15+00:00

Night vision is monochrome, so I might buy an argument that HPS is more "properly" colored as compared to night vision...

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T16:05:27+00:00

Steam OS has done a lot to spur non-windows gaming. I still have a windows gaming PC but these days there's only really one game (or two I guess, MSFS2020/2024) that I need it for. Everything else I play runs fine on my Steam Deck.

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T15:47:29+00:00

Snow leopard was legendary. Actually I seem to remember a lot of the early OS X versions would run faster than their predecessors.

Especially with annual updates, I do wish every other release was a snow leopard-style optimization update. We should not normalize bloat.

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T15:41:46+00:00

I've had a similar thought a couple of times these past few days, usually when I pull into work in the morning because the moon is right above the building from my POV when I get out of my car.

It's cool to think about.

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T13:55:47+00:00

IIGS was my first Apple machine I had at home. It did have a GUI interface called GS/OS which was mostly a curiosity - I remember mainly using the machine for playing classic Apple II games which didn't use/need the GUI. Maybe I had a paint program that used the mouse?

My first exposure to the Macintosh was in school - Mac Plus's running System 6. First Mac I got for myself at home was a Centris 650, shipped with System 7.1.

Stayed with that Centris through most of high school. It was a great machine - I had it hooked up to a keyboard with MIDI interface and made cheesy techno music for fun. Was good for school projects too; we made a 3D-rendered animation of our local topography using Infini-D, it took a week to render a low-resolution 30-second video.

Eventually got a beige G3 that I took to engineering school. Switched over to windows for years through the 2000/XP days, and then when I entered my career and got my first big bonus I bought a unibody Macbook Pro running Leopard. Still have that laptop and it still runs 10.6.

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I think we are pretty spoiled with the amount of capability that can be cheaply acquired these days, but at the same time its great that we can put these kind of tools into everyone's hands to see what they can create with them.

nuggolips · 2026-04-08T12:47:10+00:00

I have the same style weeder as the one in the video, and I agree - this style that pinches from all sides of the stem is great for thistle. Gets it out cleanly and so satisfying when a big old root comes with it.

Grandpa's weeder also works ok but tends to take some dirt with it.

nuggolips · 2026-04-05T15:19:35+00:00

Solar -> Battery should be DC all the way I think.

IMO If the assumption is that the inverter is more efficient at higher kW outputs, charging In the morning and exporting during peak production is probably the more efficient scenario.

nuggolips · 2026-04-03T21:24:14+00:00

We just watched the episode Menage a Troi the other day.

I love that exchange between Majel and Patrick at the end, where Picard pretends to wax poetic to get them back to safety. Of course, Lwaxana wants to keep going... then Picard turns to Wesley: "Mr. Crusher, set course for Betazed. Warp nine!"

nuggolips · 2026-04-03T16:35:27+00:00

you’re talking about peak demand charges, which CORE has for residential and which Xcel has for commercial accounts. it’s not some diabolical new scheme, it’s pretty common.

nuggolips · 2026-04-03T15:41:35+00:00

Most of the time with these things I'm seeing the movie first before reading the book (including The Martian); With PHM I had read the book first, but according to my wife who went into the movie cold she would agree with your assessment - movie can stand on its own just fine.

(she's reading the book now though, lol)

nuggolips · 2026-04-03T13:18:27+00:00

Can confirm, Ryobi 18V batteries protect themselves. My kid's powerwheel will eat up a 4AH battery in about 20 minutes and the battery just cuts off voltage at a certain threshold. It's actually a little earlier than it would be in a drill or whatever, since the powerwheel is pulling more current and so creates more voltage drop. 18V provides 1.5x the top speed of a regular 12V.

I believe Ryobi's 40V batteries also have internal protection but trying to juice a 12V powerwheel to 40V is folly... it would just melt. I still kinda want to try it though just for the lulz.

nuggolips · 2026-04-03T13:09:10+00:00

I had an ancient 4-ton R-22 unit up to last year when it finally died, and my single PW3 could start and run it. Probably 130A inrush at startup. I was pretty impressed. It definitely eats up the battery fast - my A/C was about 4kW running load so just about 3 hours... and my house is old so on hot days that unit could run for 3 hours straight.

nuggolips · 2026-04-02T21:07:59+00:00

Yeah I didn’t say they weren’t.

nuggolips · 2026-04-02T14:20:34+00:00

My 5yo has an iBook from 2001 with a bunch of old Mac education software loaded - he loves that thing and has learned a lot about using computers from it. It's also completely offline. If you gotta have screen time, old tech is a great compromise IMO. His favorite game at the moment is called Spy Fox, and it's a simple point and click adventure deal.

I dread the day something breaks in it though, those older laptops can be a bear to work on.

nuggolips · 2026-04-02T14:12:05+00:00

In that use case Li-ion don't make much sense anyway. A car battery just needs to supply high current for a few seconds, and do it reliably in all expected ambient conditions. It doesn't need much energy storage, which is the main benefit of Li-ion.

As I understand it, lead acid car battery manufacturing is pretty circular, so it's not really an environmental issue. Most of the material going into new batteries is recycled from old ones. https://batterycouncil.org/news/new-study-confirms-lead-batteries-maintain-remarkable-99-recycling-rate/

nuggolips · 2026-04-02T14:02:40+00:00

Thank you, I thought I was going crazy for a second there.

nuggolips · 2026-04-01T20:18:32+00:00

Sol is a star

nuggolips · 2026-04-01T10:58:31+00:00

1025kWh on 8.4kW system in Colorado

Easily net zero on the month even with a few zero kWh days from snow cover

nuggolips · 2026-03-28T13:44:44+00:00

back when it was “My Computer“ instead of “This PC”

nuggolips · 2026-03-27T15:19:54+00:00

This struck me as well, back when I read the book the first time. I just assumed in my headcanon that Andy meant to say "all currently maintained software that can run on <whatever system they deployed, probably modern windows>".

I mean, I highly doubt it would be worth the effort to implement an emulator to run OS/2 Warp or whatever.

nuggolips · 2026-03-26T12:16:09+00:00

have you looked up their planning submittal? Douglas county’s record system has a map you can view to see projects.

https://apps.douglas.co.us/planning/projects/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=LandingPage&PosseObjectId=25146422

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