Technology Connections?

https://youtu.be/INZybkX8tLI

It was another, shorter video, not by TC. Just different voltages (or maybe there were other variables) one after the other until the water boiled really quickly and afterwards the kettle blew a fuse or broke (can't remember).

I guess many people have tried doing something like this. But I'll watch TC's video, too - he hasn't disappointed me so far.

Edit: Watched it. Not the same video, but this one had a lot more info and troubleshooting than what the one I had in mind.

Probably since the article specifically mentions it!

Why do you need an app?

https://takeout.google.com/

I have been trying to do takeout periodically for 6 months. All manner of combinations and different sets of data.

I'm probably at 20 attempts and everyone single one has failed...

Takeout always fails for me, with ~11TB of data in Google Drive.

Why would you use takeout to download Google Drive contents when syncing to your local computer is its entire purpose?

Because the Google drive desktop app crashes as well :)

That is odd I can't remember it ever crashing on me.

I long ago used arq backup with google drive as a target, and there’s something like 1-10 million little chunk files in that directory so it’s probably that…

Google Drive files you can sync to local disk via the Windows or Mac app.

Fails!

Then your data is gone.

The bigger deal to me that I found through this is that they announced today that they're bringing gain back:

https://gaim.imfreedom.org/

I didn't think I'd see something on the PD squad before I saw it on HN!

Probably a lot of lint in there! My 4 year old phone gets that way until I clean it out with a plastic pick (very vigorously at that) and it's like new again.

Lint was only ever an issue with my Lightning connector iPhone. Unfortunately it wasn't the issue with the USB-C phones, the ports were just worn out.

I've been using pdfgear to some success.

And I still don't get it.

Siracusa—probably best known here for doing fabulous OS X reviews for Ars—is a co-host of ATP. He is also known is such circles for having Mac Pros, and using them for a long time (sometimes by choice, sometimes by circumstance). He thinks Apple should make a Mac Pro, not necessarily because it's a big seller, but because he thinks Apple should make a "best computer," much in the same way car companies might make a car that will never sell but pushes engineers, etc.

They made a shirt. It was fun.

Ages ago, when new Mac hardware came out, I'd amuse myself by putting together an "ultimate Mac workstation" in the configurator --- once upon a time, one could hit 6 figures pretty easily --- these days, well I panic bought a duplicate computer because I was worried a chipped/cracked display was going to make it unusable (turns out a screen protector has worked thus far).

I agree with the reasoning, and would like to see Apple continue to make aspirational hardware, but maybe the mainstream stuff is good enough?

> maybe the mainstream stuff is good enough?

Even Siracusa admits that - he's found it hard to articulate what a true "Mac Pro" would do that you can't do with other things.

Back in the heyday of the $100k Mac Pro you could certainly imagine it doing things that wouldn't be easily done by anything under $50k, and it would look good doing it.

Whenever this comes up, someone chimes in to say they’re working a some big Hollywood blockbuster, and the production company bought maxed out Max Pros because they are better and faster than anything else.

Comcast/Xfinity does this as well.