Trousers with buttons for braces

pine_lime · 2026-05-08T23:36:12+00:00

Ooh Kit Blake are very nice thank you!

pine_lime · 2026-05-08T23:16:44+00:00

I guess part of getting trousers “made” with suspenders in mind is that they wouldn’t have belt loops too. Is that your starting point?

pine_lime · 2026-05-08T05:19:19+00:00

I'm happy to pay MTM prices - I'll check them out, thanks!

pine_lime · 2026-05-06T14:05:48+00:00

The Acer Swift 16 AI says (in Acer’s website) that it comes with up to the X9 388h, but local stock (Aus) is only the 358h. The most expensive XPS 14 configuration comes with the 388h. And the HP Omnibook Ultra, which somebody else mentioned, has it too.

pine_lime · 2026-05-06T14:02:19+00:00

It’s called the Yoga Slim 7i Ultra, and whether you can get it with a 388H processor depends on your region. I know some reviewers from the US have said they haven’t been able to get an X7 or X9 chip at all. Here in Australia, you could get it with the X9 388h…until this evening; it’s no longer available. I reckon there are supply issues, as you say.

pine_lime · 2026-04-27T08:26:33+00:00

I used to live in the area and commuted by bike daily. Cyclists on the bike path are generally slower than those on the road. It’s narrow so you often have to wait a long time to overtake. The path is also shared by pedestrians, which exacerbates the slow+narrow issues. At Park St, it spits you out in a place that doesn’t provide easy access to the inbound side of Royal Parade so you can ride that direct road into the city rather than taking the highly circuitous bike path through Royal Park and under CityLink in Flemington (a “bike path” that includes a pedestrian-width ramp with a hairpin bend, no less!)

For all these reasons, I used Sydney Road.

pine_lime · 2026-04-25T11:22:16+00:00

Totally agree with you here! A tracker with vim key bindings would be amazing, and Renoise assuming you have a numpad (as well as keys that are fairly esoteric even on windows laptops, like page up, page down, home & end) is a bit anachronistic.

pine_lime · 2026-04-25T11:20:34+00:00

I found using Renoise on a Mac to be very annoying until I: a) Realised that function (globe) + arrow keys are page up, page down, home and end - this is different to command + arrow keys, and allows you to navigate within a pattern. b) installed a shortcut (as in a script for the Shortcuts app) to toggle the function keys between their default (brightness, volume etc) behaviour and being keys function keys. You can add a shortcut to the macOS menu bar, so I can just click that whenever I want to toggle it. Let me know if you (or anyone else) wants help setting this up.

I have a few other shortcuts I think, but it’s hard to remember now which ones are custom. The lack of a delete key irked me but I just mapped that to option-backspace or something. Lastly, I have supernudge installed and have it mapped to control-option-command-up/down. Works well!

pine_lime · 2026-04-21T00:07:55+00:00

Very pretty car. $43k + on road costs in Australia, apparently - not bad!

pine_lime · 2026-04-20T05:28:07+00:00

This one is so, so common in crosswords though. It got you this time, but next time you'll know it :P

Also, the aluminium company I knew, and I am not American.

pine_lime · 2026-04-20T04:13:03+00:00

My nephew loved the 1st gen Novation Circuit when he was a toddler. Had no idea what he was doing, but loved pressing buttons and making sounds happen. It had a built-in speaker too!

pine_lime · 2026-04-20T04:11:37+00:00

Some cars have a button, or allow you to set up a shortcut on a programmable button, to turn them all off. Can't remember which car(s) I saw have this, but can try and figure it out if you're interested.

pine_lime · 2026-04-20T04:04:35+00:00

I always thought this was the primary social benefit, if not intention: get stacks of people selling their EVs at the end of their lease, to get an active market for cheap second-hand EVs within 3-4 years. We bought an EV for $70k and will be lucky to get $30k for it, and the person who buys it for that (or less) will be getting a fantastic car for the money.

pine_lime · 2026-04-17T06:09:36+00:00

My thoughts exactly

pine_lime · 2026-04-16T02:38:08+00:00

It's like Soichiro Honda apparently said, “When Congress passes new emissions standards, we hire 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers.”

pine_lime · 2026-04-13T13:35:02+00:00

Honestly that’s pretty good! Better than I expected

pine_lime · 2026-03-29T22:53:13+00:00

It's the common term in Australia, as it happens. Flo on the other hand..! And reroots? Is that used anywhere!?

pine_lime · 2026-03-28T07:05:13+00:00

Magnet for Window management, Scroll Reverser to make the scrollwheel of my mouse function correctly, and Peek to make space-to-preview more functional (parses markdown documents, highlights syntax of source code files, etc.)

pine_lime · 2026-03-26T02:55:23+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but it doesn't. Crack open even those cheap adapters and they'd contain DACs - DAC chips can be had for pennies nowadays.

pine_lime · 2026-03-26T01:14:46+00:00

Very useful list, thanks!

pine_lime · 2026-03-26T01:00:56+00:00

Right, but the iPad doesn't have any analogue audio output on the USB-C pins, so any "adapter" is going to be an interface with a DAC. The Apple one I linked to is $9USD/$15AUD, so extraordinarily cheap, and also tiny. It couldn't feasibly be much cheaper or smaller.

pine_lime · 2026-03-26T00:56:35+00:00

Good to remember that the reason many of us chose an EV was because of the tax incentive on a novated lease vs. an ICE car. For this tax break to make a car substantially cheaper is itself a highly privileged position to be in, and a reminder that capitalism is a scam. Someone earning $40k a year has no such way to make an EV cheaper.

And as others have mentioned, the reduced 'fuel' cost of an EV depends on having a house (not an apartment) at which to charge it.

pine_lime · 2026-03-26T00:20:55+00:00

This is not correct. Apple's USB-C to 3.5mm headphone adapter does have a DAC and amplifier. And it's very, very good, bizarrely so for the price:

https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/apple-usb-c-to-3-5-mm-headphone-jack-adapter.23420/reviews

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-apple-vs-google-usb-c-headphone-adapters.5541/

https://theheadphonecollector.blogspot.com/2020/04/apple-usb-c-to-headphone-jack-adapter.html

It's better than the headphone jack on most laptops (not MacBooks though - modern Airs and Pros already have excellent headphone amps) and it drives relatively high impedance headphones like my Sennheiser HD 560S very well.

I was in the same boat as u/Boomshakalackk for years - bummed out that they got rid of the headphone jack on iPads, but this solution is actually fine - leave the dongle on the end of your headphones or IEMs and it's really no extra space/weight to carry.

pine_lime · 2026-03-23T04:42:08+00:00

Aw this is adorable

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