1983 Lenco LRP 5450 DD record player &

1998 Yamaha RX-496 RDS stereo receiver

My stepfather got them for us 2nd hand for a joint present. Quite a decent system!

Not a real audiophile, but it works well and we enjoy it.

I also made a Google Home kind of thing out of it using an ESP32S3 that uses ESPHome, Home Assistant, and Music Assistant to make it a Spotify connect node to play Spotify through it, control it with an IR blaster, and use Voice Assistant with it if I am not too far (it has a single mema mic)

Mukishoes made in Portugal have some options if you like the wider barefoot shoes.

I bought the Raw Leather Brown this year and they have been awesome, but I can’t find them on their site anymore, only a white version.

I have heard the laser sentry isn’t too good because it blows itself up a lot.

The warp pack alone makes this warbond super cool!

Then you need to know 2 different codes.

They would need to hack the server password database or your password app AND have physical access to your device.

It is the same concept as using biometric + TOTP or password.

Something you have, something you know, something you are: those are the 3 general “factors”

That is very very very often also not the case. There are probably many shitty private companies as public.

See: Cargill, Koch industries, Schwartz group, state farm and pretty much every insurance company in the US, deloitte, publix, subway, McKinsey, Vitol, etc…

What’s the difference between an unpopular opinion and a wrong opinion?

Without MFA, hundreds of thousands more accounts if not millions would be completely compromised. That is just a fact because most people choose horrible and/or completely the same password for everything. Bank account details, credit card info, social security or government ID numbers, etc…

It doesn’t have to be as bad as email or SMS. TOTP has been a standard for a very long time and there are a dozen apps for it. Simply enter the app, copy the code, done. SMS and email are less secure anyways.

American companies seem particularly allergic to TOTP for some reason…

I listen to his podcast weekly. I haven’t listened to the one from the OP, but in the past year I have become very disillusioned with Stewart.

Every interview is an absolute softball “what’s your favorite color” BS where each and every answer is a boot that is slobbered on with “BAM”, and “BARS” and every misdirect and deflection by the guest is just accepted and the root of the few harder questions goes unanswered without protest outside of maybe the Christie interview.

The Jeffries interview was absolutely embarrassing, for example.

It’s very different from Stewart 15+ years ago.

If its anything like my ID4, 400km in 70km or less braking traffic, and like 250km on the highway. Even less if it is raining.

I can’t imagine taking the buzz on a road trip if it is like that…

Money and time.

Tons of people build cool projects during their time in university, but the vast vast majority of people don’t because they are eating beans and rice and ramen and pizza and studying, not spending 500€-1000€ on iterative prototyping and the equipment to test everything.

ICs, passives, and transistors. /thread.

There are 2 big IC designers in Europe: Nordic and ST, but I believe all of their production is in China and Taiwan. If trade crashes, we have the IP, but no way to manufacture at scale. IMEC here in Belgium has 4 small fabs, but there isn’t that much else and the workforce is expensive as fuck which is why they do research IC’s almost exclusively.

We have a lot of camera IC designing in the EU also, but they are almost all fabless. Luckily we have ASML who know everything technical about IC manufacturing.

We have less knowledge on how to actually mass produce ICs anymore efficiently even though we create all of the tools and methods here because everything is done in the east that will see any volume production. PCBs and assembly are already 2-3x as expensive.

In my opinion, we need huge subsidies to get component and IC scale fabs here.

Withings has barely better than a guess heart rate correlation during activity sadly, so not great for sports. But they look nice!

What you can also do (that many people do) is get whatever fitness watch that has the features that you want, then get the Polar H10 chest strap for working out, which is the gold standard for heart rate measurement and much more accurate than PPG measurement.

It would require an entire separate TPM chip, integration of it on the main PCB, and all the the firmware and software handling that comes with that, and collaboration with the GrapheneOS team (which I hear on forums and people who have worked with them, is often not a pleasant experience) for an extremely small percentage of their sales.

Doing /e/ or calyx would definitely be significantly easier.

London population: 8.8 million

Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million

London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price

Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices

London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed

Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians

Mystery solved.

Holy shit I never knew that.

I really thought it was one of my apps that I used that wasn’t Foss because it was so useful.

Now I want to use it more!