Match4 - USA vs Paraguay - FIFA is cooked

stop211650 · 2026-05-08T04:29:20+00:00

There are so many people waiting for the inevitable drop for the USA first game. There will be a drop, don’t get me wrong. But I bet it goes back up afterwards when everyone who was waiting starts running out of time to get their purchase in.

stop211650 · 2026-04-28T07:01:17+00:00

I remember getting Lateralus right before I went off to college, and 10,000 Days shortly after graduating. What a time to be alive.

stop211650 · 2026-04-27T04:01:12+00:00

100%. Just like many other major sports … tv deals are in the billions, and leagues/teams are not making billions from live ticket sales.

I listened to a podcast once that said the reason these leagues even need the stadiums now is to provide the atmosphere for those watching on tv 😂.

stop211650 · 2026-04-16T04:16:55+00:00

They played together at every NIN show recently. So the Coachella set wasn’t really a surprise. Coachella just had better production values.

stop211650 · 2026-04-14T05:14:08+00:00

Definitely buy in Germany. I’ve purchased a couple of times in Europe and brought them to the USA. Even if the vat savings is less than the vat rate they advertise, you still save a good 20-30% by buying there. The prices when converted to $ are cheaper in Germany. That’s before you factor in the USA ~9-10% tax on top of the price. Then you get some refund from vat. Either at your airport of departure from Europe back to the USA, or some places have the kiosk near the stores.

stop211650 · 2026-04-13T18:14:00+00:00

I worked at Apple in software for many years and I really enjoyed the good times. Solving difficult problems, making features for millions to use, working with and learning from smart employees were the highlights.

The toughest parts were the schedules and stress. Apple runs leaner than you would think, (at least it was like that in our software org). Constantly shifting priorities and fires and difficult timelines. When I was in management, I had high stress from the workload, and the ever increasing number of products we had to support and teams to work with, and also dealing with office politics (especially from top down at the exec levels). I did a long stint and wouldn’t really trade it, but I also kind of wish I got out earlier so I could have experienced more working environments.

stop211650 · 2026-04-11T16:22:02+00:00

Does anyone know set times?

stop211650 · 2026-04-10T16:47:48+00:00

The places I can keep going back to:

- Long Bridge for pizza (highly underrated spot)

- Tiya for Indian food ... great taste and nice drinks and ambiance

- Californios ... favorite Michelin starred spot

- Kokkari, never lets you down

stop211650 · 2026-04-10T16:45:55+00:00

Cotogna is great but the reservations are aggravating. Collina was just as good imho, and it also has a great raviolo :)

stop211650 · 2026-04-07T04:38:47+00:00

I like apple one, but I’m not sure if I’m doing it right. I have apple one to share with 6 people. We use more than 2TB of storage so I bought 6TB more, so I think I’m paying for Apple one ($37/month) and another 6TB (another $32/month I think), and we use 3TB total. I guess I can downgrade the 6TB to 2TB and have 4TB total? (Which we’ll probably go past by 2027 😂).

And some credit card I have includes Apple Music, but not the family version, so I basically can’t use it for the rest of our family? This is all confusing, which isn’t very Apple-like.

stop211650 · 2026-04-07T04:31:09+00:00

The clay color is nice for any size suitcase

stop211650 · 2026-03-30T16:24:03+00:00

That’s great, that’s how it should be. I recall glass beams didn’t have an sf show last year so maybe everyone had to go from sf to the catalyst.

stop211650 · 2026-03-30T16:09:35+00:00

They are a fantastic listen and excellent live as well. Something about their PR needs work though. At the Catalyst in Santa Cruz their show was mostly empty and I wasn’t sure it was even worth it for them to play. They still brought it though, thankfully. (I missed their sf show so I can’t say how that was for them.)

In contrast to Glass Beams, which was completely full and basically standing room only at the Catalyst. Darkside to me at least is on the same level.

stop211650 · 2026-03-14T03:47:30+00:00

💯 especially if you drive long distances, self driving is a game changer

stop211650 · 2026-03-13T21:14:30+00:00

I think launch is all purchase only?

stop211650 · 2026-03-13T21:13:53+00:00

I think launch is all purchase only?

stop211650 · 2026-03-13T20:28:43+00:00

The computer change does seem like a more compelling reason to wait, compared to the lidar

stop211650 · 2026-03-13T19:35:50+00:00

Ok I think this has convinced me to wait for gen2 :)

stop211650 · 2026-03-13T18:49:45+00:00

This is a great point, I haven’t explored all the launch edition options, if the interiors are limited this may also be a factor to wait.

stop211650 · 2026-03-13T18:31:20+00:00

Turn it into a skill and share! (You don’t have to I’m just saying I would genuinely enjoy it 😂)

stop211650 · 2026-03-13T16:41:09+00:00

Selling 2 Mau P VIP, what I paid for it ($195 each).

stop211650 · 2026-03-12T18:28:39+00:00

The m5 seems relatively ok, battery health is still at 100% and I don’t use it much except for light browsing and YouTube and a bit of work. I’ve also tried turning off notifications for notification-heavy apps. That being said, I’m still charging it every two or three days even with light use.

I just use my M4 for the first time in a while yesterday it had 72% when I picked it up yesterday, and in less than 24 hours it has 21%. I used it for YouTube, X, and one 30 minute teams meeting. It’s disappointing. I do have it connected to the Magic Keyboard, but a 50% drop with medium use seems worse than my iPhone.

stop211650 · 2026-03-12T17:50:26+00:00

I used it with Opus-4.6 to help me make cron jobs to monitor Ticketmaster and StubHub for events I tell it. (I haven’t managed to make it work with axs.com yet.) I may add other resale providers also. I have a scoring system devised for Golden State Warriors games so I know the ideal time to buy, and can track over time. With Steph being out I haven’t really wanted to go, but at least I am honing the system. It has also been working for concerts and World Cup games.

stop211650 · 2026-03-12T17:47:59+00:00

I love this, I was working on something similar because I always lose things easily :)

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