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i am using our old chargers to power raspberry pi’s around the house. I have 1 pi per bose sound dock around the house. whole house synchronized audio on a budget. The old usb chargers are great for this since rpi’s need so little power.

YAY!!!! I’ve been waiting since 2018 for this. iPhone Mini! Take my money!

Here’s a Toshiba Libretto I owned for a few years around 2002. I purchased it new in Japan. It ran Windows 98 and I played music via WinAMP. The “car mount” I made for it was with old PC parts - the two pieces it sat across were 5.25" drive bay covers.

Thank you for posting this. LOST is the reason why I resist even starting a series before it’s over now. Yes, for 5 years after lost, I completely gave up watching series shows BECAUSE OF LOST. I feel it was a good decision... Read more

Don’t you dare put your cancel culture on Biden. Too much is at stake.

Specifically to this point in this article: Read more

Man, those screens come straight out of the GM parts bin.

Confession Bear: Both me and my wife watched this exact video nearly 10 years ago. She figured it out after a few tries. But, oh my gosh, for the life of me, I just couldn’t get it. I just... it just comes out all bunched up for me and every time I try it, I just, I just can’t. I’m all thumbs I guess! Hey honey, since… Read more

hm! That sucks, 10% means you only got 1 out of every 10 days of opt-out? :( that truly is unfortunate. At the hotel I stayed in, they slipped a little green business-card-sized coupon under my door that I would pick up after returning “home” so I could use it the next day. In fact, the last 2 nights I was there, I… Read more

Want to feel at home? OPT OUT of housekeeping!! Read more

I love my SE. I don’t feel that it is slow or the screen is unreadable. I can do everything one-handed on it. I go case-less, it fits in my front pocket, and doesn’t have a camera bump. All the positives mentioned in the article are spot on. Did you really have to “squint” at the screen or were you just being flippant?… Read more

Can we flip the facetime camera without 15 taps yet?

I only use my fitbit charge 2 for call and text notifications. The 7 day battery is important, telling the time is important. All other tasks I would rather use my phone. I didn’t want an apple watch because it was larger and also don’t want to charge every day. I’d like the charge 3 because of the water resistance,… Read more

Trader Joe’s 100% Colombian Instant Coffee is very good.

Was looking through the comments to post just this. One at a time? Boooooring.

Me? Well, I had the TV setup, and a friend supplied the Super Bomberman on SNES with super multitap for 5 player Bomberman action. Embrace the nerd. FUN TIMES!

12 miles of EV driving is not even worth the 10 seconds it takes to plug in. Why did Mini even bother engineering EV driving into the car only to cut it off at the knees? It is 2018. What was the reasoning behind this??? It’s disingenuous for jalopnik to make excuses for Mini by saying this car “makes sense for your… Read more

I tried it one day when there was no milk nor cream at home. It’s nasty.

I call B.S. on the bulletproof coffee... I’m picturing someone at home, who hasn’t been bothered to go shopping for fresh dairy product like milk or half and half. Since they’d already brewed their coffee, they dug through the fridge and came across butter. Butter keeps a long time, so of course there would be butter… Read more

We live in Southern California. It almost never rains if you’ve been following the news lately. When my kids were 3 and 5, we started switching them to stand-up showers. We made a rule that they could have a bubble bath every time it rained enough to form a puddle in the back yard. I thought it was a nice way to 1.… Read more