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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I bought 2 pairs from them (thin sport socks for summer), and one broke after only 4 uses, and the other after about 10. Worst socks I have ever owned.

    I moved away though so I never got a chance to use the replacement policy, but they may have replaced them for me (though the chances of getting two seriously defective socks of different models at the same time is low)

    They are probably actually fine for their normal, thick wool socks because my Smartwool and REI branded socks have lasted over 10 years with vigorous hiking in them for the first 5. I have to recommend to avoid their thin socks though.











  • That is pretty expensive nowadays, if OP wants to go that expensive, getting a mini PC with the latest intel N150. The pi 5 doesn’t even have hardware AV1 decoding. By the time you have all of the pi accessories, it is not much of a price difference, but defi itely a performance difference.

    https://amzn.eu/d/85cytyZ

    Plus you get benefits like actual storage instead of a separately bought SD card, more RAM, 2.5G ethernet, and HDMI2.1 & USB–C displayport.

    Then you slap Linux on it (and also hope that plasma bigscreen is a success in the near future) and you have a very reliable 4K HTPC that can decode anything you throw at it. It has enough horsepower to be a home server at the same time, unlike a pi while also having just a bit higher idle power usage (2W or so).


  • It depends. I think what seperates art with non-art is creation and a sort of drive for impacting others positively and create something you are proud of.

    Carpentry is absolutely art.

    Stonework was traditionally art.

    Metalwork and glasswork is an art.

    Mechanical systems are also an art.

    Good electronics design is an art.

    Making actually good, useful software that people find great and user-friendly while being featureful is an art

    Hell, electricians and plumbers who are passionate about their work (and not exploited) can leave behind absolute works of art that nobody will ever see.

    Motivation, skill, and goals separate art from being slop work.

    There is a ton of traditional “art” that is just profit-driven slop that isn’t art: see the entire art-to-money-laundering industry, Spotify AI music and a lot of generated non-composed shit, industrialized sculptures and decorations meant to be so generic they fit in every person’s house.


  • And I still can only get 0 like, 0 comment shaky cam video of a screen capture of ultra zoomed in tiktoks or blasting shitty electronika music at 100dB clipping all to hell with 2005 era Microsoft visualizer videos.

    Just like pixelfed, there is no way to discover anyone except the same 10-12 rotation of people they put in explore.

    I come back every month or two and swipe through 5-10 to see if anything has changed, but it never has. In the case of loops, the same number of creators, some of which haven’t posted a video for almost 8 months are “trending”? Maybe that is where the “active users” number comes from?




  • People haven’t caught on to the grift yet. One of the people in the committee who runs the tariff decisions literally runs a financial/law institution that since the tariffs started, has been contracting with companies to pay a portions (10, 20, 40%) of the tariffs to “ease the load on the companies” but they retain the rights, in the case of what is going on i.e. tariffs being recalled and paid back, to take 100% of the tariff payback.

    So a government official is steering the tariff policy to essentially steal money from companies with some alight risk of the tariffs not getting overturned. Crazy grift.



  • Cool project!

    A ton of aesthetic effort for a simple Dev board + enclosure and a vibe coding project, especially since arduino already has libraries for MQTT, speakers, etc… Photo displays & animations galore lol.

    Injection molding is much more of an art than simply CNCing a negative of your part and squirting some plastic in it. There is a reason that injection molding services often have around a 1000€ startup & molding fee.

    Plus a custom PCB means FCC/CE certification generally.



  • Everyone will claim it is the hardware, but we can see from cheap phones that a majority of people actually get outside of the US that it doesn’t matter as much.

    It was never a complete phone after 5 years. It never had the software to actually use it as a daily driver. Calling still “doesn’t work all the time” according to users and similar with texting. If your phone literally can’t be trusted to make a simple call and receive a text out of the box, then it won’t be bought to be used as a normal phone. That’s as simple as it gets.

    It has just been relegated to being a fun side experimental phone for enthusiasts, but you can’t have a company-carrying product like that because the consumer base is too small to fund the software development.

    They also specifically say

    While in the future the PinePhone Pro will be able to serve as your daily-driver smartphone, at present the PinePhone Pro should be considered a development platform.

    On the store, which further discourages consumers.

    Building a smartphone OS and all the features needed is an extremely expensive task, so it is completely understandable that it has gone at a snails pace.