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New comment by jorts in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

jorts — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:44:30 +0000

I'd recommend a wireless CarPlay adapter. I bought one for my car, and it's a game-changer.

New comment by jorts in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

jorts — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:23:30 +0000

My public high school started at 7:10 a.m.; I assume it was to accommodate bus schedules.

New comment by jorts in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

jorts — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:43:35 +0000

Some notetakers filter that stuff out automatically.

New comment by jorts in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

jorts — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:25:18 +0000

Their aging population will pose an extremely serious problem in the coming decades.

New comment by jorts in "How Kalshi Infects the News"

jorts — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:42:04 +0000

I was taking an Uber from Sonoma back to the Bay, and the driver was one of those people. He wouldn't stop talking about how he was spending thousands a month on rare cards, then reselling them, all the while losing money, his wife, etc.

New comment by jorts in "I Fired Google"

jorts — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:24:35 +0000

I threw all my Alexa devices away due to that as well.

New comment by jorts in "Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid"

jorts — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:09:37 +0000

I always wondered whether my poor sense of smell dictated my diet. I share your friend's food preferences.

New comment by jorts in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

jorts — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:29:57 +0000

Because America is a lot more than a podcaster put into a position that he has no qualifications for.

New comment by jorts in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

jorts — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:08:22 +0000

No idea who is buying them, but it's dropped the price of buying one by over $100K.

New comment by jorts in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

jorts — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:02:13 +0000

My mom's condo complex in Hawaii used to have many owners from Canada. Over the last year, the number of units for sale has probably 10x'd from previous years.

New comment by jorts in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

jorts — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:04:41 +0000

My vehicle was stolen in an area with Flock cams. It did not help at all.

New comment by jorts in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

jorts — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:58:48 +0000

100% the political campaigns pinging you is endless and you cannot escape it. I have dozens of campaigns pinging me daily and I mark them all as spam as I never signed up for this nonsense. Give me a way to block them all and remove me from their database.

New comment by jorts in "People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much"

jorts — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:23:13 +0000

Thanks for articulating exactly how I feel.

New comment by jorts in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:35:49 +0000

I have been using Tahoe since it came out, and I really don't understand all the hate on it. Some of the aesthetics are a little off, but not burdensome. The only thing I really don't like is the large, rounded corners on windows.

New comment by jorts in "San Francisco Graffiti"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:23:15 +0000

There's Clarion Alley in the heart of the Mission, which I think is open to graffiti, as everything is plastered with it, most of it looking really nice. You can see it on Street View.

New comment by jorts in "Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:17:31 +0000

Just adding plus signs and the vendor name in the address would do it.

New comment by jorts in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:13:41 +0000

It was probably a decade ago and I recall using something within Google that would tell you about who they thought you were. It profiled me as a middle eastern middle aged man or something like that which was… way off.

New comment by jorts in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

jorts — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:36:59 +0000

China is in a bad place long-term with an inevitable population decline.

New comment by jorts in "DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts"

jorts — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:16:12 +0000

It was all incredibly reckless.

New comment by jorts in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

jorts — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:06:33 +0000

As the son of a teacher and a friend of several teachers, you're way underestimating their workload.