Doesn't Tile need lots of people having the app installed on their phone? Or do they now rely on Apple's AirTags technology? If the former, I can assume it's basically worthless in large swaths of the world (Europe, for example).

Am I crazy? I don't see any way to build the source code. There's no .xcodeproj folder with associated files.

In every iOS project, at the root, there's the .xcodeproj folder and inside there's the project.pbxproj. Which basically is the Makefile of Swift code. It's not there.

This code is just a dump to peruse. Not to actually build the app.

Semi-spoiler :D

I'm going to have to re-read them. I was quite mad about the series, I even bought the "Amber diceless roleplaying game" and the prequels by another author...

I loved the books when I was young. They seem omnipotent but they really weren't.

IIRC, Corwin tried to usurp the throne from his brother Random, and as a punishment had his eyes burned out. Nobody expected he'd regenerate his eyesight, but it did, during years of imprisonment.

Also, what I liked is that they'd all have their own particular skill. Although Corwin handled a sword really well, he could never win against his brother Gérard. He could cast a spell but never as good as his sister Fiona.

There's multiple interesting threads going on. Their power comes from the Pattern (i.e. order), but there's also the Locus (i.e. chaos). There's a court of Amber, but also a court of Chaos. Then there's a whole bunch of family members, who Corwin knows or doesn't know.

However, I don't blame you for finding it a bit boring. We all have particular books and TV series which didn't "click" with us. I mean I found Lord of the Rings entertaining overall, but the writing style extremely long-winded.

Cause it's still dark outside. I'm going on a hike in a couple of houts though.

Or just have paintings or realistically drawn portraits. I'm a freelancer and need to have a somewhat public presence because I have to whore around, so on my LinkedIn profile, I have a nicely drawn portrait.

Does this mean if passed I could finally get the damn thing uninstalled? It's locked as a system app on all my non computer devices, and it irritates the hell out of me.

Really? What I found out, is that there are different levels of pinlock. Sales people don't tell you that, perhaps even they don't know. There's 30, 70 and 120. I unknowingly bought a 70 for some reason. Perhaps you have a 30?

I've got pinlock for my motorcycle visor, and it works great. For those not in the know, it's a plastic sheet that you stick on the visor inside your helmet. It's lined with silicon channels, so there's trapped air and that's an insulator, so it doesn't fog.

Works great except when you wear glasses, because then these still fog up.. so I want this gold nano-coating on my glasses.

It doesn't just save you the step of swiping a keycard, it also makes something wireless (NFC) into something wired. In my country, The Netherlands, there's a charging network that also lets you just plug in (Fastned). Combined with the fact that they virtually always have 4-8 level 1 chargers, not just one or two, my navigation almost always follows their charging network.

I remember listening to Zac Price (CEO of BlockFI) on the Animal Spirits podcast. It's a pretty well-known podcast and they asked him about what was going on back then, which was in July this year. Zac Prince said that although media said BlockFi was "rescued", he entertained several options from several organizations. And that FTX gave the best offer. Prince definitely did not come across as a YOLO-ing frat-fucking crypto-bro.

Turns out that going with FTX really was the fatal mistake here. I think it's a shame that BlockFi is in so much trouble.

Thank you for that explanation.

THIS is why I keep coming back. I learned someting that I can understand and remember.

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I support them through Patreon for $3 per month. I don't know if I'm ever going to use their work, but I think it's pretty fun to fund people who a) don't run on Intel, b) use Rust in the kernel and c) will make a cool little server when Apple stops supporting the M1 after 5-7 years.

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But that's a very good point, actually. My Dutch city has a whole bunch of canals. If you own an electrically-powered boat, it costs 100 euros per year in taxes. A gasoline-powered boat costs 400, and every year, that tax is raised by 100 euros.

Interesting, so it seems it's leasing, but more flexible. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to me, but if they don't do anything extra (like providing a charging facility), then they're just a more flexible leasing company.