There has only ever been one iPad mini model at a time. Across its eight generations, it has shrunk in every dimension and lost weight.

The iPad mini is not for everyone. For those of us it is for, Apple has been nailing it. One model getting ever smaller and lighter as it has grown in power and screen size.

I know the iPad mini isn't for everyone. It gets a lot of hate. But it's just right for me. I've been buying every release for a decade. Apple provides long support so I can trade them down to my kids. And then the oldest mini gets traded in when I get a new one.

It's one of those devices that Apple doesn't pay a lot of attention to. So it only gets updated every 2-3 years and is a nice jump every time. Makes you genuinely excited when the next one comes out.

Compared to my current mini 7, which my kid on my old mini 5 is really looking forward to taking over, the mini 8 will get me water resistance, OLED, thinner, lighter, better battery life. For me, it's great for an iPad you can carry in a pocket or read a book on. For my kids it's just the right size. I know there are other use cases where it's just right: home controllers, waiters, pilots, ...

I'm glad this thing exists.

NPR's Planet Money looked at a grocery store in Norway. They had a reporter sitting in the store's HQ, and they had received a secret shopper report that a particular product (can of mushrooms in water) was 0.20 Kroner less at a competitor. The reporter watched the price get updated in the chain's central database, then ran down to the store that was below the HQ and saw the shelf tag change about 9 minutes later.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1197958433/dynamic-pricing-grocery-supermarkets

That particular store has a policy of not increasing prices while the store was open, they could only lower them.

Stores will have to set good policies and follow them. Stores open 24/7 will probably have to have set times to raise prices.

Victory.

Google is an ad company. They give away everything from browsers, to email, to mobile OS for free; because they are an ad company. Do not use the browser of an ad company. Imagine if Facebook had a browser. Would you use that?

No mystery why Slashdot's active users are in the three figures.

If I operate a motorized vehicle on the street I need a license, insurance, registration and a street-legal vehicle. It's already against the law for an unlicensed little shit with no lights, safety equipment or common sense to suddenly dart out into traffic, swerve through screeching tires and near-misses and then do a wiseass pop back on to the sidewalk at 20-30 MPH. It's against the law to ride a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk too.

Oh, and shout out to the Mensa members who do the same thing wearing dark clothing at night at busy intersections. Every one of those goddamn bikes comes with lights installed. Except yours. Right bro?

Get a license and insurance or get the fuck off the road.

"Imagine you're in the Arctic, a voice from a meditation video tells them, with snowflakes melting on your skin."

And you're too goddamn stupid to realize you're freezing to death. Maybe they'll ping your phone and find you in a frozen doomscrolling pose under 17 feet of snow. Public education is really lighting up that scoreboard!

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Bullshit.

I think that's wonderful news. Living in another country will broaden your horizons more than any other experience I can think of.

We are all people. We all live on one planet. The more we live in different places, and the more we get to be around people living here from other places, the better it will be for all of us.

This is not a call for open borders. Maybe, one day, when we are united as a planet. However, within the pathways that exist today: let's get to know each other more!

Steal until you have it all, then hire a security guard.

Now they have another excuse for brutal company-wide layoffs.