
Many years ago I found a useful document holder at a local office supply chain. It was a strip of plastic with a bit of bent rubber inside that would hold onto a piece of paper or three. It was great because I could hang stuff under the shelf on my desk and have it not get lost in the clutter. The problem is I never found out what it was called, and the store I got it from stopped carrying it. I've looked and looked for it with no success.
Today I was looking for some other office organization stuff on Amazon and lo and behold, there it was down in the other recommended products section. Apparently they're called "document display rails." The one I ordered seems to work with gravity and a metal cylinder rather than bent rubber, but it looks like it'll do the same job.
Today I Learned: You can say, “Hey Siri Lumos!” and “Hey Siri Nox!” to turn your flashlight on/off respectively.
Today I Learned: You can say, “Hey Siri Lumos!” and “Hey Siri Nox!” to turn your flashlight on/off respectively.
That reminds me: the flashlight function on the Apple Watch has a red mode for when you don't want to kill your night vision. Unfortunately the standard method for selecting that involves turning on the white light first, which kind of defeats the purpose. But if you enable theater mode on the watch first and then hit the flashlight control, it will go straight to the red light.
Not something I just learned, but I was ignorant of it for longer than I'd have liked.
Today I Learned: You can say, “Hey Siri Lumos!” and “Hey Siri Nox!” to turn your flashlight on/off respectively.
Thanks, I hate it.
PaladinTom wrote:Today I Learned: You can say, “Hey Siri Lumos!” and “Hey Siri Nox!” to turn your flashlight on/off respectively.
Thanks, I hate it.
Buzz kill
Jonman wrote:PaladinTom wrote:Today I Learned: You can say, “Hey Siri Lumos!” and “Hey Siri Nox!” to turn your flashlight on/off respectively.
Thanks, I hate it.
Buzz kill :lol:
Yes, and.
I kind of hate the all-encompassing infantilization of modern life, and it's largely driven by tech-industry nerds like this.
And I fully recognize that I'm part of the problem.
Today I Learned: You can say, “Hey Siri Lumos!” and “Hey Siri Nox!” to turn your flashlight on/off respectively.
That's been a Google Assistant thing for years. Like 2 phones ago for me.
What no:
I kind of hate the all-encompassing infantilization of modern life, and it's largely driven by tech-industry nerds like this.
Is it the same problem if I do it to myself? I’ve set up a Google voice command to walk into my living room and intone, “Let there be light!” and it turns on my lights. Is that better than a mass market device doing it?
(I’m assuming yes, obviously. )
I just discovered that eBay has a 'Time Away' functionality that prevents folks from buying items while you're away. I was looking for a way to pause all my listings while I'm out of town, and it looks like this will do it!
The Cockney rhyming slang for Wine is ‘Porcupine.’
And isn't lie "porky pie"? Could get confusing. Outsiders might not even understand it!
That Resident Evil: Code Veronica is available for the PS4. I haven't played it since the Dreamcast and thought I'd have to track down an Xbox 360 or PS3 if I wanted to play it again.
It was one of my favorite Resident Evils so I am super excited.
That Resident Evil: Code Veronica is available for the PS4. I haven't played it since the Dreamcast and thought I'd have to track down an Xbox 360 or PS3 if I wanted to play it again.
It was one of my favorite Resident Evils so I am super excited.
The 360 version is backward compatible with Xbox One/Series consoles as well.
I was told Benedict Arnold was caught and hung when I was a kid. Now I find out he defected to the British, and died in Britain in 1801, hated by the British soldiers for being a traitor, and despised and wanted by the US soldiers so they could hang him for being a traitor. Huh.
Sandisk makes a USB flash drive with a C plug on one end and an A plug on the other. Should be useful for getting files on and off of my Mac from older machines.
Had a fantastic USB-to-USB cable with integrated hardware before that made that a breeze, but some Windows update at some point made it never work again. Good luck.
My main thing is I want to get files off my Macbook and onto the work computer without having to haul the laptop in.
Turns out "hang gliding" is the name of the aerial activity, not "hand gliding", which is what I was calling it for the first 42 years of my life.
Sandisk makes a USB flash drive with a C plug on one end and an A plug on the other. Should be useful for getting files on and off of my Mac from older machines.
I got my wife one of these. Saw her using it the other day... with the A end plugged into a USB A to C dongle which was then plugged into the USB C port. Old habits are hard to break I guess.
Vargen wrote:Sandisk makes a USB flash drive with a C plug on one end and an A plug on the other. Should be useful for getting files on and off of my Mac from older machines.
I got my wife one of these. Saw her using it the other day... with the A end plugged into a USB A to C dongle which was then plugged into the USB C port. Old habits are hard to break I guess.
That... but... when my brother handed me one the other day it took a while for me to even see that the USB A end existed...
(The case for this one is so small that it's the size of the USB A plug, so that unless you can see the open end with the A pins it looks like a very small drive with only a C plug. Also it has that swiveling integrated cap that's pretty common, except that can only cover one of the two plugs at a time so why would they put one of those on a double-ended drive?)
Hyundai owns part of Kia and Kia owns part of Hyundai.
The body shields in Dune are sub-atomic Oobleck.
The tax assessors office Jake and Elwood are trying to reach at the end of The Blues Brothers is staffed by a young looking Stephen Spielberg.
And the corrections officer who returned Jake's possessions at the beginning of the film is none other than Frank Oz.
That movie is a treasure.
It is indeed.
Two things for me today - first that the Clock app icon on the iPad - just the app icon, not anything else on the screen - is actually a functioning clock, showing the current time.
Second, that in the 1930's, American businessmen and financiers were plotting a military coup.
A little uneven, I know, but there you are.
...Second, that in the 1930's, American businessmen and financiers were plotting a military coup.
Wow, that was some fascinating reading, thanks! And apparently the basis for the film Amsterdam, which got such middling reviews that I hadn't planned on seeing it, but now it's on my watch-when-it's-on-a-streaming-service-I-already-pay-for list.
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