My LG dryer was using wifi to advertise an extended warranty for itself.

Then it broke, maybe I should have bought the warranty?

I bought a simpler model without wifi this time.

What are you talking about, in what way is this supposed to be an argument about ads? It sounds like your dryer broke

The "buy the extended warranty" thing is clearly an ad.

Osprey backpacks have worked well for me.

Somebody whipped out a freakin iPad and started recording video in front of me once. Like wtf

I hope you told them to stop. I always do. And that's not out of any copy infringement morals or anything, but of course out of a personal enjoyment infringement. ;-)

Yeah, I get that :) But at the same time, it’s interesting how people react differently. Some want the moment only for themselves, others want to capture it.

I get this. At the same time, people want to capture something real while they’re there. Feels like a trade-off.

Nope. By disturbing all the people around you with a bright screen, you prevent them from capturing the real concert right now they want to see without a flickering screen in front of them.

And personally I can record, or enjoy the real moment. But most people who record with their crappy smartphones probably just want to get the virtual recognition after they shared their videos, they were there, "like", great. But no one I know, actually watches shaky crappy smartphone concert recordings.

> There was a golden age (2010-2020 or so?)

Also during the Dot Com era. Pretty much every cycle lead to more people getting into the field.

Yeah, I was surprised that something this obvious wasn't addressed.

Investing in a visual redesign (Liquid Glass) but not an obvious UX issue of the notch hiding icons seems like a mis-prioritization.

I have access to more content at the touch of a button than ever before.

I struggle to find content I actually want to watch. It's really weird.

I can't tell if it's me, or the content, or a combination.

I think part of it is our attention span, or lack thereof.

57 Channels And Nothin' On

I was working with Claude on a Chrome extension. The extension was getting a 429 "Too many requests" error on one website. Claude suggested a bunch of things to try, none of which really solved the problem and were kind of one-off attempts (hardcoded string compares, etc.).

Eventually I asked it "hey, are you sending two requests when you could send one?" Claude thought about it for a minute and said, "you're right! Let me fix that." The 429 errors stopped.

I've found it really is more like pair programming than having another fully independent developer. For Jenkins pipelines, I don't care about hardcoded string compares as much. For the core capability of the software, details are important.

For what is worth, Codex would be able to fix that. Claude is pretty bad at backend / architecture.

Current state by state status (not my site): https://pluginsolarusa.com

Yeah, and clicking on the page opens the Discord channel that is linked in this Twitter profile: https://x.com/M1Astra