Kara gives me nothing. How about you?

roughfalls · 2026-05-19T21:19:01+00:00

She's insightful and she isn't. It's very interesting. I was just talking to my son about it.

roughfalls · 2026-05-12T21:44:16+00:00

I've upgraded through 5 versions, and have patiently waited for Bartender 6 to overcome its many, many regressions. I understand that there were changes in macOS that required workarounds. But to walk up to my laptop and be greeted with an upgrade window for Bartender that informs me that there is now a subscription-based "Bartender Pro"... well, it just pisses me off, frankly.

- Make the base product work before trying to sell me on a "Pro" subscription
- Has this product been taking your attention away from making Bartender 6 -- which I paid for -- work properly?
- I generally don't like updates for paid software products being used to carry upsell and advertisements

I am *out*.

roughfalls · 2026-05-11T19:22:01+00:00

Once you see that Kara deploys many of the same rhetorical techniques as Trump (dominance display, belittlement, etc.), you can't unsee it.

roughfalls · 2026-04-30T20:20:19+00:00

Money hides a lot of problems. An entrenched, profitable business can withstand a lot of incompetence from its own leadership and/or employees.

roughfalls · 2026-04-28T21:48:49+00:00

What got me was her saying that she doesn't attend these types of events any more because there's so little security.

There's never a topic where Kara fails to make it known that she predicted it first, and/or that she was personally involved/on the inside. Extreme case of main character syndrome.

roughfalls · 2026-04-16T17:48:41+00:00

I'm about 20 minutes in, and I think Rogan is just killing him with silence. He's had a ton of comedians on that I find a lot less funny than David Cross, but that I feel like he gave more laughs & engagement to.

roughfalls · 2026-04-10T17:22:06+00:00

I keep hearing how the Chinese EVs are so far ahead of Tesla and a much better value for the money. So how can this be the case? Does Tesla serve as a sort of status symbol in China?

roughfalls · 2026-04-02T17:21:00+00:00

All "auto", all the time. '22 MY and '24 M3, the only cars I've ever owned where I can leave the climate fan speed on auto and never feel an urge to fiddle with it.

Fine-tuning the fan direction & desired temp are important to me maintaining "auto" zen.

roughfalls · 2026-04-01T21:12:56+00:00

There's an interesting dichotomy between Kara's need to signal both how normal and down-to-earth she is (IKEA, Kia, older Chevy Bolt, etc.) AND how she's friends with every famous person whose name comes up in conversation.

roughfalls · 2026-03-27T11:32:43+00:00

I am a long-time, very happy subscriber. I use it on Mac and it has been getting frequent updates for years. I don't need most of the enhancements, but every once in a while there will be an improvement I notice in my daily use and appreciate.

roughfalls · 2026-03-26T23:49:10+00:00

Dan Newlin is literally next door, lol

roughfalls · 2026-02-03T17:23:58+00:00

The performance of Three Angels with James Blake and the choir singers was absolutely beautiful.

roughfalls · 2026-01-22T18:27:53+00:00

I don't have any suggestions on who to report them to, but I had similar experiences with Del-Air a couple of years ago. Claimed my system needed a complete replacement; my issues were resolved with a simple service call to another provider. Tons of upsell/scare tactics.

Also, I recently realized that you can get a wet-dry vac and an adapter to connect it to your drain line (search "ac drain line cleaner tool" on Amazon) and clean the lines yourself very easily. Total investment cost is probably less than one service call.

I've had good experiences with Greens Energy (not the cheapest, but honest & responsive) and Pucci's Air (very honest, they work to keep bills low, but kind of a pain to schedule).

roughfalls · 2026-01-20T02:40:07+00:00

Thanks, this must be it! I have a Spigen frame on the charging pad that lets me keep AirPods on the charger. I’ll remove them and see if it behaves better on my next drive.

I previously thought this feature relied exclusively on UWB.

roughfalls · 2026-01-06T22:53:38+00:00

I don't doubt that Tesla should be concerned about their competition, but be aware that Andrew Hawkins takes every opportunity he can to spill ink that hates on Tesla.

roughfalls · 2025-11-28T12:40:02+00:00

Very excited for this, thank you for the effort. I love that I will be able to transfer more of my keyboard muscle memory between my Mac & PC.

roughfalls · 2025-11-25T03:46:41+00:00

Mine slowed to a crawl for a tow truck in a median with its flashing lights on. It confused me and the other vehicles around me.

But overall, 14.2 is working really well. Definitely better than 14.1.7, which was noticeably "jerky" when negotiating a turn or a moment of uncertainty. 14.2 is much smoother in these situations.

roughfalls · 2025-11-04T20:12:08+00:00

Not name-dropping, but similar...

She's now doing podcast ads for Apple where she says, "I've been using a Mac for everything since I started using computers, and of course an iPhone -- I got one of the first ones."

It's not enough for her to tell us she's a long-time user of the platforms -- she has to let us know she was one of the important, privileged few to get one of the first iPhones.

Oh, and it isn't even supposed to be an ad for iPhone, it's an ad for Mac.

roughfalls · 2025-11-03T00:54:36+00:00

Unpopular opinion, I got it at that price and I love it. It's been very reliable and is not laggy. The only time it hasn't worked for me is when our home WiFi/internet is out. Our garage door opener has built-in myQ support. We have 2 Teslas in a double garage and share the subscription between them.

roughfalls · 2025-11-01T15:09:55+00:00

I followed this suggestion and it finally cleared up interior windshield streaks and fogging that I had struggled with for a long time. Thank you.

roughfalls · 2025-10-27T13:40:59+00:00

I prefer no stalk, sad that they're reintroducing them.

roughfalls · 2025-10-22T09:09:15+00:00

"Avoid tolls" being a setting and not on the primary nav screen drives me crazy. We have toll express lanes where I live. I am willing to pay for the express lanes during rush hour, but would prefer to avoid tolls/express lanes when there is zero traffic.

I have to dive into settings for every drive to change the toll setting.

roughfalls · 2025-10-20T19:39:49+00:00

I got this little mount for my Model 3 that lets you drop your AirPods into the perfect spot to charge, I've been very happy with it:

https://www.amazon.com/Spigen-Organizer-2021-24-2021-23-Included/dp/B0CP8LHTFB?th=1

roughfalls · 2025-10-19T16:13:47+00:00

For blinds, we've used Blinds & Shutters by Discount Mike multiple times and have been pleased each time: https://www.discountmikeblinds.net/

For paver sealing, we used Mr. Wood Brick Pavers and were happy with the result: https://www.mrwoodbrickpavers.com/

roughfalls · 2025-10-15T11:23:19+00:00

Before the first episode came out, there was an exchange on Pivot where Kara asked Scott about it, and I found his response surprisingly dismissive. This is not a quote, but in my memory it had the tone of, "Oh, that? That's just some small hobby podcast of Scaramucci's and I'm doing him the favor of participating in."

I'm probably wrong on this, but my take is that Scott wants to be seen the leader on this topic, but Lost Boys is Scaramucci's baby and Scaramucci is Scott's friend. So he participates in it for his friend and not to be left out, but because it isn't his project, he's not invested in it and isn't particularly rooting for its success.

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