I’m bad at detecting sarcasm. Thank you for being cordial about it.

The link in the original post to the TechCrunch website/article

techcrunch: Apple’s new iPhone and iPad security feature limits cell networks from collecting precise location data

Not trying to start anything, but from the article:

Apple said switching on the feature does not affect the precision of location data shared with apps, or shared with first responders during an emergency call.

a small question, if I may.

When I worked in technical support for a popular phone brand a lifetime ago, I had to make clickable “navigatable” pdfs. Create empty objects around apps and settings so that technicians could help clients without having access to their phone or device with current OS update. I would update mine and take screen shots then convert those with clickable objects to switch to the correct page to act as a sudo phone/tablet. Is this something that BentoPDF can do?

This is a fantastic project and wonderful results. I alway wondered how they did it and what all of the pictures were.

I did not consider that. I’ll have to revisit my setup to see what I can do to include vacuum seal as an added step.

As another said M-discs are a great way to move data to a more permanent solution that is only writable. Alternatively making a copy of data you know won’t change very much or at all and have those files copied to a solid state drive. Those will last a lot longer on a shelf than hdd drives with discs that spin. Preferably you’d also want to make sure your cold storage is low humidity and temp controlled. If you can’t control both lean on controlling the temp and keep it regular, mid 50’s °F would probably work.

Back in the day 20+ years ago my family decided to own a business class blade server, not a whole server, just one blade, to back up and store our family videos and photos that had been scanned. Due to the cost of the single blade even second hand my father didn’t have good opsec for backups. Lo and behold a year or so the blade failed and my father and I spent the better part of a week defragging and recovering photos. We lost gigabytes of photos and spent another week+ rescanning what was still scannable. So 20 years down the road I have my own sever in rai 5, a cold storage backup, and a cloud storage backup just in case.

Perfect thank you.

OP, I’ve been trying to fiddle around with doing slots on a scroll saw for something similar to this. Any chance your dad has a pic of the parts taken apart so I can get an idea of how they did it?

R. Crumb has always been a rabble rouser and a pusher of buttons with his cartoons. Guy is basically a recluse and doesn’t like crowds, but at 82 he is up there I just hope he a few things to say before anything untoward happens.

The photoshop job in this is quite good. I did some pixel peeping (sorry). Unless you are looking for the edit you would not see it.

I don’t want to be “that” guy but the first paragraph says:

“Disney+’s “Bluey,” the Australian licensed animated children’s program, topped all U.S. household TV streamed content with 25 billion minutes viewed across 154 episodes in the first six months of 2025, according to new data from Nielsen.”

Which gives credence to your complaint, but also details specifically that they are talking about viewership via Disney Plus not via the Australian networks viewership.

I became a stay at home dad a few years ago, so while I have given up some work stress, I received a different kind of stress.

Don’t get too excited, this is an extremely rare occurrence for me as it’s only happened once before. But 12 years ago when I worked in a call center doing tech support in the US. It was near constant nightmares about getting calls in the call center, and the beep in the headset. I didn’t get good sleep or enough sleep between shifts. You win some you lose some.

I had a dream not too long ago (week maybe) where I didn’t dream about an event or a past, but I dreamt about a project I was working on and I invented something for myself that I can actually build right now if I wanted, but it is meant for me a decade or two in the future.

I’m a wood carver and I’m currently carving a gift for my brother in law. The dream was me fixing a lot of the things I had issue with in the project, and a future idea about my parents that I’ll be writing down and brainstorming until the times comes that I’ll probably want to build it.

I’m game if they fix a lot of the bad rotoscoping that happened back then. The blob (1988) in 4K is a great example of great restoration and great care taken with the special effects elements and good rotoscoping done to fix the bad roto done back then.

I wouldn’t tell people I won the lottery, but there would be signs.

I try not too complain too loudly, but season 8 has only had 2 episodes air as of this post. Not letting the season evolve with a few more episodes, before raking it over the coals of its prior successes and failures, feels a little premature even for me.

Dang.