Content roundup #2

Happy weekend!

Had a pretty good week, I'm in a good mood, hopefully you're in a good mood as well!

Wrote some code for fun, played mechanic with my bikes, work has been good, couldn't ask for more.

Quinn makes great points on why the iPad is the embodiment of wasted potential: artificial lockdown by Apple, probably to avoid cannibalizing MacBook Air sales.

Who cares? If the iPad can be a better MacBook Air, judging by the amount in the wild killing the Air should be a no-brainer for Apple.

I tried using an iPad Pro 11" with an M2 SoC as my personal computing device two years ago: so much great hardware, limited by an obtuse and buggy software, so much so that I sold it and invested in a real personal computing device.

Using VS Code remote kind of worked, as long as Safari woke up from the right side of the bed 🛏️.

Krazy Ken is at it again, debunking one of the silliest (half?) scam out there: a heatless, waterless air conditioner produced by an offshore company and sold under a reputable brand name.

My favorite kind of scams!

Can adding lead weights to the front of your mountain bike mimic the effect of a 2500+$ fork? There's only one way to find out.

I'm disappointed they didn't show any graph at the end of the video, but I guess that's one way to forward people to your Patreon, which as independent creators QuarterHP surely need.

Can you actually use the Apple Vision Pro as your only display?

I personally would love a pair of wired AR-style glasses with high-res virtual displays, just to get rid of physical screens and have more desk real estate for equipment like headphones, soldering irons and hardware for the various experiments I'm conducting.

I wish I had 1/10th of the singing capabilities of Will Ramos.

Do not open if you can't handle great videography, harsh vocal and emotional lyrics.

I love small cameras, there's a part of me that adores the concept of small gadgets packing a great punch.

I think Canon is on the right track size-wise with the V1, but the lens maxing out at f/4.5 on the tele side makes it kind of a deal breaker considering the sensor size.

I'll keep rocking my XT-2 with the 27mm pancake for the time being, not as small but certainly capable!

What happens if you push 6 kW in an electric kettle...? What?

Tea has no legs, it can't run away from you!

I agree with what Lewis says in this video: Hope brakes are just not that good.

I think they focus too much on style and machining and ignore everything else, like reliability and consistency.

Maybe Hope fans know a magic bleeding process that makes them work as good as my Hayes Dominion (which I love and would never replace!), but the mere existence of such process means they're not a good product.

The fact that they're backtracking on their bleeding process makes me hopeful for a future in which Hope brakes don't suck :]

Keyboard computers are a better approximation to all-in-one desktops than iMac-style devices: much lower price, bring your own screen, everybody wins!

The Rapsberry Pi 500+ is a great example of such device, packing a reasonable punch for a compelling price.

Except if you're ASUS in the early 2010s, that extra numpad screen is just awful.

No wonder they're so rare, I guess nobody bought them.