A huge (A0, 33-1/8 x 46-13/16 in-sized) 12-month calendar with the months laid out in long strips.
I wasn't doing enough. Too much YouTube and reddit, so I stopped and decided to do things.
I used different colored markers for different aspects of my life-- health, work, fitness, recreational travel, home maintenance, etc) and decided I had to do something every week.
The different colors even accounted for down time. Too much color? Draw a nice relaxing blue line for a couple of days and do nothing.
I went from being a hermit to a EMT-qualified volunteer at my local volunteer fire department on his way to Firefighter I training, a spotlight operator at a local community theater, an enthusiastic yogi, and by having the year laid out I can look at weekends with holidays and plan my year's travel months in advance. I make notes on when to plant what and have a pretty front yard.
Digital calendars are nice, but they can't beat having a huge-assed poster right next to the front door with everything laid out in black and white and red and blue and green and yellow and........
If you feel like you're not getting the most out of life, get a huge-assed calendar, start googling local volunteer opportunities, write it down, and then do it.
>Yeah, I’m not sure I buy their explanation about special development roombas since they offered zero proof.
It is simple for any person with even basic knowledge of networking to independently come to the conclusion that Roombas are not uploading video streams (or photographs) to the internet.
I know the IP (10.0.0.11) and MAC (50:14:79:1E:AB:6B) address of my Roomba and using the Insight Netflow Analyzer for OPNsense I can see how much data it has sent to the internet. In the last six months it has sent approximately 72MB of data outside my network. That's about 600KB per day.
It has received much more, presumably firmware downloads.
This is consistent with firmware update checks, notification traffic, and me periodically adjusting its schedule remotely.
That's just me clicking on some tabs in my router's web UI. Hundreds if not thousands of people globally are constantly reviewing and monitoring Roomba network traffic in fine detail in order to understand and/or reverse engineer it for research and other purposes.
So one of three things is happening:
1. All Roombas send photo and video streams to iRobot and they have thus far managed to hide this from the public and the thousands of eyeballs constantly monitoring the network traffic of their products, or
2. A subset of Roombas send photo and video streams to iRobot and they have thus far managed to hide this from the public and the subset of eyeballs monitoring the network traffic of their products
3. These are development devices like they claim.
Based on my own experience we can eliminate 1, based on the images accompanying the article option 3 is highly likely.
>I was baffled that we invented a bulb that could last 100 years over a century ago and I still have to change bulbs every year or two.
You need to buy better bulbs.
In 2015 my local utility subsidized the purchase of LED light bulbs and I replaced 59 light bulbs all at once from a variety of vendors including Cree, GE, and Philips.
I've had one, an overhead PAR (led equivalent) bulb in my shower, fail since then and that's almost certainly due to the repeated bouts of 100% humidity and frequent temperature changes.
Of course, I purchased higher-end bulbs knowing that the bargain basement ones are built to cost.
edit: it is actually really weird that you have to replace your bulbs so often because every manufacturer who isn't a ABOLENSKLONG (or something nonsensical like that) Shenzhen-special amazon drop shipper has a 5-10 year warranty and they'd drown in RMA requests if their products failed after a year.
I love articles like this because they make me feel like a super-genius even though I am completely average.
Every single one of those esoteric morsels of forbidden knowledge is in the Tips app, which I read from top to bottom when it was first released.
Here are the instructions on how to delete a number in the calculator, the first arcane incantation the author discovered through his or her intense study of the dark arts: https://imgur.com/a/3BgTg1K
Something which I've known for years, because I RTFM.
I'm willing to bet, but not bothered enough to check, that every single "TOP TEN FEATURES APPLE IS HIDING FROM YOU" is thoroughly documented, with full-color illustrations where warranted, in Tips.app.
It has been a long time but I believe that Tips.app comes preinstalled and there are some nag-notifications for you to read it.
I am sure many people smarter than I instantly deleted Tips.app the second they set up their phone to which I can only say "Careful, Icarus".
And yeah, I read the manuals that come with my all of my products, usually while on the toilet. Who doesn't want to know the amperage a NES Mini draws from its AC adapter?
I grew up in the technology era where if you didn't read the manual you were screwed, and my Apple IIgs Toolbox book, which I read from cover to cover to learn how to program my IIgs is still on my shelf surrounded by hundreds of other reference books.
Tips.app is just the 2022 Apple IIgs Toolbox and I'm not haughty enough to look down on it.
>Gone are the days of 3D audio chips, or having sound cards full of synthethizers that could create new audio on the fly.
Modern CPUs can ether do or emulate this, probably using less power than a sound card.
Very, very, few people have their PCs connected to an AV receiver or multichannel speakers, but positional audio is still widely supported in Windows applications using Xaudio2.
The reasons sound cards went away is the use cases went away:
1. People who want high quality recording shifted to firewire and later high-speed USB external audio interfaces. No matter how hard you try an external metal box with multiple inputs and outputs will always be better than a PCI/PCIe card inside a PC for recording. Rare use case in the recording world for sound cards.
2. Gamers who want 3d/positional audio either use headphones, find the 5.1 integrated outputs to be adequate, or like me, run a digital audio cable to a surround sound receiver. Rare use case in the gaming world for sound cards.
Dolby Atmos is awesome for positional audio in games but there are multiple less expensive and more accessible methods for surround audio nowadays. Decent positional audio can be experienced using a laptop and headphones-- no sound card required.
Back in the sound card days you had to squint on the back of the box and ask "is this creative 3d? aureal?" nowadays you just plug in 5.1 to your PC's onboard audio, tell windows you have 5.1, and it works (mostly).
I wasn't doing enough. Too much YouTube and reddit, so I stopped and decided to do things.
I used different colored markers for different aspects of my life-- health, work, fitness, recreational travel, home maintenance, etc) and decided I had to do something every week.
The different colors even accounted for down time. Too much color? Draw a nice relaxing blue line for a couple of days and do nothing.
I went from being a hermit to a EMT-qualified volunteer at my local volunteer fire department on his way to Firefighter I training, a spotlight operator at a local community theater, an enthusiastic yogi, and by having the year laid out I can look at weekends with holidays and plan my year's travel months in advance. I make notes on when to plant what and have a pretty front yard.
Digital calendars are nice, but they can't beat having a huge-assed poster right next to the front door with everything laid out in black and white and red and blue and green and yellow and........
If you feel like you're not getting the most out of life, get a huge-assed calendar, start googling local volunteer opportunities, write it down, and then do it.
$30, including markers.