Posts by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
(DIR) Post #B6euPX66iK1B98t9nM by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-25T14:42:51.265271Z
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Several times now I have put a pod in the Keurig and pushed the buttons to start it and walked away, forgetting to put my mug underneath the spigot. And then I come running back into the room when I hear the coffee splashing onto the floor.
(DIR) Post #B6f29WVZw5faJqgCa8 by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-25T14:39:30.825731Z
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And in the cities where canals were built, the railroad turned them into muddy ditches filled with garbage and horse carcasses for the next several decades until people couldn't stand it anymore and formed fundraising groups to fill them in and pave them over since governments were too inept to get the job done.
(DIR) Post #B6fH7RGByaH8m8wlP6 by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-25T19:19:26.196980Z
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Is this a real picture? I can't tell anymore.
(DIR) Post #B6fkCapOjC4MZIDwoa by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-26T00:46:02.680495Z
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I got the blue one too 🙂 I was a little concerned about 8 GB RAM but that hasn't been an issue at all. I've purposely tried to push it and it's handled everything I've thrown at it. I don't do anything CPU intensive like exporting 2 hour 8k movies or some such, so the A18 has been good enough. My MacBook Pro has a 120Hz screen and there's some sort of smoothness it has that I don't feel on the Neo, but considering the cost difference... The Neo's screen is great. I'm trying to decide whether I should trade in my Pro toward an M5 Mac mini when/if they come out, I need a desktop.
(DIR) Post #B6fkYJVRoJTVDUFXEG by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-26T00:48:26.698339Z
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I like the iPad. I want the iPad to work for me. I want the form factor, and I'd like to have something that's laptop like when plugged into a large monitor and a tablet when I'm laying in bed. But the iPad has so many annoyances (on-screen keyboard comes to mind) and lacks the flexibility of a small laptop like the Neo, it's just not worth it.
(DIR) Post #B6fktsvvHy4hAlv3cO by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-26T00:53:54.895029Z
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I don't do anything high performance either, but I do archive and backup things and I'd use the mini as a little NAS, and a computer where I can do things that I like to have a big screen for, like spreadsheets or multi-window tasks that feel uncomfortable on a laptop.
(DIR) Post #B6flscqTiXPWwSKsz2 by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-26T00:58:00.366165Z
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I've tried a couple of times to use an iPad as a personal device and a MacBook as a business device, and I was able to do it, but always the moment I got back to my MacBook it was like a weight was taken off my shoulders because it felt less constrained.
(DIR) Post #B6fltUTeJdEfHI4Ptg by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-26T00:56:07.649011Z
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I resisted getting a souped-up iPad with the keyboard case for years because the math didn't make sense. For what I'd spend for a 13-inch iPad Pro and case, I'd get a much better spec'd and more flexible MacBook Air. The value proposition isn't there.
(DIR) Post #B6fmeTUPnzhZpDpf16 by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-26T01:13:39.465054Z
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I've never drawn on one, I've never had the pencil. I don't think I could use it for written notes either. I've been typing so long that my handwriting has degraded to near-doctor levels (it wasn't great to begin with). 😄
(DIR) Post #B6mG352V8P1lswy5uS by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-29T03:54:32.741530Z
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The MacBook Neo starts at $599 and is an excellent laptop at that price point. The build quality is great and (most importantly to me) it's not Windows. Apple can't make them fast enough. YouTube and other tech sites are full of positive reviews and the general consensus is that Apple has produced a product that's unmatched in the Windows laptop space. So, contrary to what this boomer says, you can get an Apple laptop at a reasonable price. People don't buy the Apple brand. They buy the quality, the ad-free, far less invasive OS. They buy the convenience of the ecosystem. They buy the pleasure of an attractive, well-functioning device they find a pleasure to use. This boomer mindset that you should get the cheapest, just barely viable thing you can is idiocy. I put this in the same category as, just eat ramen / PB&J / hotdogs / oatmeal / the bugs for every meal to cope with being financially dry ass raped by government and corporations. Just make yourself miserable enough and maybe everything will work out. For things you do or use frequently, or things you come to depend on, or just don't want to hate interacting with, get something you like, get something that perhaps brings some small amount of pleasure to your day and give some stupid fuck boomer like Kevin O'Leary an aneurysm.I'm so sick of this, and I'm so sick of them.
(DIR) Post #B6nwi1NC3pWBcWoNLU by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-29T03:58:08.068313Z
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"Get better at being poor kid!" ~ the generation who still refuses to lift a finger to help anyone other than themselves.
(DIR) Post #B6pQuLbZr8QrcvIEU4 by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-30T16:12:47.717313Z
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I can understand the company not setting a limit, but does Anthropic not set its own limit? If some customer is on a trajectory to use resources at that scale, wouldn't you make sure they have the ability to pay?
(DIR) Post #B6rxBElQ89GoBIukuu by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-05-31T20:51:11.488210Z
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Good video and I understand his point. I agree that the early internet was more interesting, and I think that's because of the barriers to entry that were in place. You had to have a certain baseline knowledge of several things in order to participate, which was usually a proxy for IQ, and a certain type of self-selection.I'm amused that he talks about an AI dominated internet taking place of human connection. We've had human connection in the form of social media for some time now and it's turned out to be overwhelmingly performative, competitive, a hotbed for groupthink and conflict, where the most toxic people seem to easily dominate. I don't share his desire for more.
(DIR) Post #B6wbJ5igPiFzFMm1se by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-06-03T03:56:00.832555Z
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A clear, truly dark sky is breathtaking and something most Americans alive today haven't experienced. If you ever get the chance to see one, take it. I'll add that part of the reason I gave up amateur astronomy is because we were having to travel further and further outside of town to get a sky dark enough to see deep sky objects and it became too much of a hassle.
(DIR) Post #B6wdBSOGRNwz9Ni6FM by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-06-03T04:17:33.934406Z
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I got to know a number of good people there (present company included) and somehow managed to encounter all of the super smart people, who validated things I had thought for years and filled in a lot of gaps. That was a great period of learning for me and I was sad to see Tuba fuck it up.
(DIR) Post #B6xpnr1cgsMjAM9iPg by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-06-03T17:50:01.480631Z
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There's more going on in the datacenters than AI, perhaps it's the cover story.
(DIR) Post #B6xrWpaKzWkhgXP5H6 by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-06-03T17:33:32.460656Z
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I feel like mayonnaise has gotten disproportionately expensive.
(DIR) Post #B6xwEscBUI5ldkWjXE by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-06-03T19:21:52.847840Z
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In 2014 I think it was Edward Snowden who revealed that the NSA was going into existing data centers and tapping into Google's private, leased lines, where they moved traffic unencrypted between their own servers. The NSA would set up their own server cabinet in a separate room and threaten the co-lo owners to keep their mouths shut. Google started encrypting their intra-server traffic after that, and I think it put a damper on all that spying.I wonder if the NSA now has some use for all that encrypted traffic now and they're collecting it in these datacenters with AI as a cover. I don't think they've broken encryption, but they have some other useful info they're able to get from it somehow, possibly with an assist from AI. Why sneak a rack into someone else's datacenter (especially when everybody knows what you're doing) when you can build your own?
(DIR) Post #B6yHAXYnvLLEDgiZii by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-06-03T22:49:03.661477Z
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Has Myrtle Beach gotten bad?
(DIR) Post #B70muLOWyQQ4hk9ZY0 by MeanwhileInOhio@nicecrew.digital
2026-06-05T04:14:17.686028Z
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There is zero doubt in my mind that every member of the military would be enthusiastic about killing others who inhabit the American economic zone who they believe are evil nazis and white supremacists, and half the white population would cheer them on.