Earlier this week, we’ve picked up our new Toyota Aygo X Hybrid from the dealer. This comes with the Toyota Smart Connect MM21 head unit. Being the nerd I am, I, of course, went through all the features this computer on wheels has. Everything was working great – apart from one thing. Whenever I went… Read More: Problem with map update. Please contact your dealer. »
Decimal Time / Metric Time In 1793, during the French Revolution, the French wanted to decimate decimalise the whole calendar and timekeeping. They somehow kept the 12 months per year, but each month had 30 days – 3 weeks with 10 days each. 360 days total, plus 5-6 buffer days at the end of each… Read More: Time For Everyone »
AI is a topic for quite some while now. Mostly in the form of chat bots or coding assistants. But there’s also AI for photorealistic image generation. Emphasis on “realistic”. History Sure, we’ve had digital people for years, e.g. YouTuber Ami Yamato, or virtual singer Hatsune Miku. But these were based on motion capture and/or… Read More: TRUST. NO. ONE. »
Audiophiles love their oxygen-free copper cables and expensive equipment and often proclaim that MP3 is far inferior to lossless audio. (And, that a needle dragged over tiny grooves in vinyl is the best.) Many tests have been done, but almost all of them have the issue that participants either outright knew which version was which… Read More: MP3s and Audiophiles »
7 years ago, a buddy of mine left a review at a local mobile phone repair shop in Germany. He wasn’t quite happy, so he gave 3 out of 5 stars. That’s it. No angry text, no nothing. Just 3 out of 5 stars. A few days ago, 7 years after he left that rating,… Read More: How To Delete Bad Google Maps Reviews »
My Journey Back in the mid noughties, I’ve acquired my very first GPS receiver and discovered GeoCaching. And it was a great hobby to have. There were various elaborate Multi-Caches and even the bog-standard “Traditional” Caches often were properly sized Tupperware boxes and contained exciting gewgaws. One memory I cherish was a box buried between… Read More: Alternatives to GeoCaching »
Mastodon.social once was the glorious flagship instance for Mastodon. However, nowadays, it seems to be deep in control of German censorship. I’m running my own GotoSocial instance for a while now. A few weeks ago, I found this in my admin panel: Someone on mastodon.social reported me for supposedly supporting the German right-wing party. And… Read More: Mastodon.social shadowbanned me »
Several years ago, I had a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch for a while. I’ve turned that into a D2 Delta watch to unlock all possible features. During that time, I also switched from my beloved BlackBerry KEY2 Android phone to an iPhone. And as a former fan of Google Health, I liked the way… Read More: Syncing Garmin Pulse Ox data to Apple Health »
In April 2023, Reddit announced that it will start asking for money to use their API for commercial purposes. This also included 3rd party apps, e.g. the famous iOS Reddit client “Apollo”. While there was hope it won’t get too pricy at first and the other changes looked manageable, that hope got crushed when Reddit’s… Read More: Leaving Reddit and taking all my contributions with me »
I’ve started collecting knowledge for myself (and for everyone to see) in a DokuWiki back in 2008. In 2014 I found DokuWiki to start feeling dated and explored alternatives. I liked the idea of having all entries as single files and in a standard markup format (compared to DokuWiki’s own markup language), so I started… Read More: The Wiki that became a Blog »