I have to admit I got a chuckle out of this one. Arnold fo' life!

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 2:45 pm Why not just get a projector then?

That actually might be my next foray... There is a big empty wall in our bedroom upstairs that might make for a good projector space.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 1:46 pm Unless your light switch is a meter square, that is a very large TV.

85"!

It was so big that I couldn't even fit it in my car.. I had to get the store to deliver it to the house.

You can't really tell the scale from the picture, but this is a hilariously big TV.

(I guess the Mac Mini and game consoles are okay scale comparisons for those of you who have them.)

I just ordered an 85" TCL from Best Buy during this recent sale. Looks like I picked up one of the last ones in my area before they sold out. https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/tcl-85-s4-series-4k-uhd-hdr-led-roku-tv-smart-tv-85s450r-ca-only-at-best-buy/17977274 What size TV are you guys rock...

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:48 pm Using any special software?

Nothing super special at the moment, especially given how well-equipped MacOS seems to be out of the box.

I will probably end up installing Plex at some point for some media management goodness.

A simple but serious question... do you think that Harry Browne would have approved of Bitcoin?

Would he see it as a complement to a portfolio alongside gold? Or perhaps a more extreme view that it was gold's replacement? Or maybe he'd reject it outright like Peter Schiff...

I picked up a nice little base model Mac mini from the Apple store a couple days ago. I've hooked it up to our living room TV as a home theatre computer. As a base model with the plain vanilla M4 chip, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD, I wasn't expecting much. But just for kicks, I loaded up the Residen...

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:04 am

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 7:25 am It's not that kind of video, Vinny. Just pull it up.

There are lots of competition for my time. Which is why few videos which I have to watch get my time / attention.

We are using LLMs for everything at work lately, and it's being encouraged more and more. A lot of my job is just acting as a proofreader for LLM output for errors now. Sorry, but to the point about 30 year bonds in the PP... I've long said that they do belong in the PP, but only if the interest ra...

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:30 pm Have not. Watched Dept Q (awesome) and a movie called To Catch a Killer (pretty good).

I'm catching Dept Q next. The missus and I need a new show to chill with in the evenings.

We are using LLMs for everything at work lately, and it's being encouraged more and more. A lot of my job is just acting as a proofreader for LLM output for errors now. Sorry, but to the point about 30 year bonds in the PP... I've long said that they do belong in the PP, but only if the interest rat...

Have you guys watched 28 Years Later?

It's both bizarre and excellent. The style, cinematography, and the mood of the film is very 2000s -- in a good way.

Serious nostalgia and a very creative story (not your usual zombie fare).

Not exactly how I was planning on spending my Sunday, but at least it was just my Microsoft account and not something more critical...

Looks like I was caught up in the latest Microsoft credentials leak. Had an unauthorized login from an IP address in the U.S.

Looks like I'm going password changing today.

Oh, I didn't let you guys know... I actually ended up returning the 14" MacBook Pro and opting for the 16" variety. I was wrong... I missed having a bigger screen. Sure, it's less portable, so either way you're compromising in one dimension or another, but this a great little powerhouse: 1...

In my hometown it's actually been unseasonably cold and rainy.

It was hot for a few days, like spring/summer had arrived in force, but now it's colder and wetter than it was in March. It's much needed though, as our province has been experiencing a lot of wildfires along with the associated smoke.

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all are enjoying the warm weather.

He lost all the details in an unfortunate boating accident.

Also, when it comes to the topic of something coming along and replacing Bitcoin, the proposition seems unlikely. You can see the beginning's of Bitcoin's position being set in stone already. As of 2025, Bitcoin is the only crypto that is officially deemed to be a commodity by the SEC. Why? Because ...

Well, I understand people's contention that they have missed the boat on Bitcoin. The return path does seem to be decelerating over time. This is sensible as the market is probably in the latter stages of the price discovery process now. However, if it's true that Bitcoin's growth is slowing, it's a...

It's not too late to invest in Bitcoin.

It's too late to not invest in Bitcoin.

Today I learned that I'm chaotic evil.

It seems likely that you forgot to write down one of the 12 words?

Do you have an intuition as to what position the forgotten word was in? If you know that then brute forcing the seed phrase should be pretty easy. The BIP 39 dictionary has 2048 words.

In the crypto community it's frequently referred to as a "5 dollar wrench attack". Crypto is becoming valuable enough to the point in which a global game theory is starting to kick in. It reminds of the Dark Forest cosmological hypothesis, too. As Bitcoin and other tokens start to grow in ...