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nmcfarl commented on New iPad Air, powered by M4 apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/Garbage

lurking_swe · 13 days ago

I agree with you.

and the end user can blame Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube, etc for not delivering the best experience for their customers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

nmcfarl · 13 days ago

Or they can blame Apple for delivering a developer experience to those companies that makes those companies not want to play ball.

Not that they likely will, as Apple owns the framing.

nmcfarl commented on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard hawksley.org/2026/02/17/t... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili

AuthAuth · 21 days ago

Even with no beeps you put washing on > you go get it when its done. It doesnt matter if it sits in the washing machine an extra 10m or an hour.

nmcfarl · 21 days ago

You know, sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes it does. And also I’ve been known to forget it overnight and wake up to moldy clothes.

I have a friend who will say things like “I have to go at 3” and get up at 3 on the dot without even looking at her watch/phone. I’m not that guy and I need buzzers, timers, and ambient displays all working together anything done at a time.

nmcfarl commented on Do not apologize for replying late to my email ploum.net/2026-02-11-do_n... · Posted by u/validatori

squeefers · a month ago

written letters are asynchronous but people expected timely (relative to snail mail) replies even back then.

nmcfarl · a month ago

I am pretty sure this is not true.

I recall my mother’s family conversing via mail in the early 80’s - and she would write one 10 page letter a month as a reply (max) - that would 3 or 4 mails a year with any particular sibling (and probably 1 phone call - but phone calls to alaska were expensive, and you wouldn’t say all you wanted to).

nmcfarl commented on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026 twitter.com/ghhughes/stat... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino

antonymoose · 2 months ago

Another counterfeit issue they have that will not be solved by this is the “REPLACEMENT PART FOR OEM FOOBAR-123” listings.

I’ve had quite a few repairs over the last few years for household appliances and pool pumps and such. It’s very common to find a listing for a heating element for a Samsung dryer or a Heyward filter diverter being listed with a misleading title and often further listing the manufacturer as, say, Samsung itself.

I got screwed after buying a dryer heating element for $80 recommended via a reputable YouTube DIY channel. Silly me neglected to check the comments and lo and behold 50%+ are complaints that this heating element dies after 6-8 weeks, just past the 30 day refund window…

nmcfarl · 2 months ago

This is not always a bad thing. The example I always use of why it’s good that Amazon has knock off parts, is a Jacuzzi heating element.

Amazon has them for $30, but has none of the legitimate item which are only sold through a dealer network and dealers charge the OEM price of $285 bucks plus shipping. It’s not quite the same part – cause dealers only sell a larger unit that includes the heater - you can’t buy the actual part number except via a knockoff.

Add to this that the Jacuzzi part - for my model at least - has a reputation of just dying at two years plus one day, while the Chinese parts frequently last 3-5 years.

In the end, you save yourself quite a lot of money, and time by replacing less frequently, by buying the knock off. And where I live, you couldn’t get the knock off otherwise.

The important thing of course is to know that you’re getting a knock off, and have made that choice in intentionally. Your story does suck - and there can be lots of reasons both good and bad to make a knock off.

nmcfarl commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

queenkjuul · 3 months ago

Arguably, they'll be happier with the video game than with a tank of gas, which you've ensured they'll choose by not giving them the cash

Edit to add: kids often don't have bank accounts, i mostly received gift cards as a child, from relatives who wouldn't want to mail cash and couldn't give me cash in person. On a dark note, giving a kid a gift card to a toy store makes it harder for the parents to steal it for themselves.

The whole practice originates from "gift certificates" where you'd maybe go to your favorite spa and get a gift certificate to give someone, so that the spa treatment is the gift you're giving, but the recipient redeems it whenever they want. That just got abstracted to non-service gifts as well, with the same idea ("treat yourself to a new video game, whichever and whenever you feel like it" -- that's the gift, facilitated by the card)

nmcfarl · 3 months ago

Also for kids at least, sometimes they really will be happier with less choice. Sometimes kids make bad decisions and limiting choice to good options is helpful.

Additionally the inverse is true. Sometimes kids choices are restrained, and they really would like to do a thing they are not allowed to, and gift cards offered them away to do that. Case in point: my tween figured out that we don’t let him buy in game currency for any the games that we do let him play, however, when a relative gives him a gift card, we let him redeem it, making gift cards incredibly popular gifts.

nmcfarl commented on My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging mtlynch.io/first-impressi... · Posted by u/mtlynch

mtlynch · 3 months ago

Thanks for reading!

From what I've read, success depends a lot on line of sight. If you're on flat, open land, you'll likely see much better range than I did.

There's a neat tool in the MeshCore app (available in the web version[0], too) that shows line of sight between two points on a map. You can click the three dots in the upper right > Tools > Line of Sight. It will show you how good line of sight is between those two points, accounting for changes in elevation.

It's also possible a good repeater would make more of a difference. I'm hoping to hear feedback from other MeshCore users about that.

[0] https://app.meshcore.nz/

nmcfarl · 3 months ago

Sadly not flat and not open. But more far flung repeaters are an option as I have electricity further from the house.

However the TDeck being hard to use makes it unlikely the kid would carry it. And bad UX in general makes it hard on my wife. It was mainly the bad UX and lack of open source (no hacking for me) aspects that put a damper on things for me.

nmcfarl commented on My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging mtlynch.io/first-impressi... · Posted by u/mtlynch

nmcfarl · 3 months ago

I am so glad that he did this and I did not.

I’d seriously been considering trying meshcore out, as I live on several hundred acres without cell service, and I’d like some means of communicating with my family. So far CB radios have not worked as they are large to carry day-to-day (particularly for the kid). This seemed like a solution - and fun to tinker with. Apparently not.

nmcfarl commented on Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs macrumors.com/2025/12/01/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

nmcfarl · 3 months ago

This is going to be painful for people in a way which I haven’t seen discussed here yet.

A year ago I went on vacation with my family, and the kids wanted to watch Netflix on VRBO‘s TV and so I logged in to my account on the tv. And of course I forgot to log it out when I left - so, predictably, the next people decided they hated my taste and went through and deleted all my likes and dislikes, and rated I swear 100 teen romances. I somehow got my account logged out of that TV, but the account was trashed and unrepairable so I lost about a decades worth of history and started a new one.

Afterwards, I thought I should’ve just cast from the kids iPad. And now that won’t be possible.

nmcfarl commented on Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100% wildingout.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/ripe

singpolyma3 · 4 months ago

This is what boomer means now yes. Language changes over time

nmcfarl · 4 months ago

My sixth grader has classmates who call 20-year-olds boomers, at least when the 20-year-olds are doing things they don’t like.

It really just means someone I don’t like who’s older than me.