Charlie Knoles

@JOSINO_07 @UsernameWords @MKBHD Exact same thing just happened to mine this week. Got them shortly after they were released and they are now trash. Says they are connected but they will not connect. Tried all the things. No luck. Meanwhile my decade old Bose QCs are still going strong.

@UsernameWords @MKBHD My Airpod max stopped working suddenly - Won’t connect to bluetooth. - Won’t retain charge. -say it’s connected to headphones but it’s not actually connected - if it actually connects then you will not hear the noise coming out the airpods - head detection doesn’t work etc

AirPods Max 2 - Same design - 1.5x stronger noise cancellation - New amplifiers - H2 chip, which enables several things, like: - Live translation, camera remote - Still $550 apple.com/newsroom/2026/… (I hope this puts into perspective how insane Macbook Neo for $499 is lol)

@OfficialLoganK As a musician, I beg you to make AI take over tasks that bring us misery like doing our taxes, rather than take away the things that bring humans joy, such as music.

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@jamiepine Ah cool. Thanks for the quick reply. It's a very cool app either way. I'll keep tweaking it. For reference. Here's the output voice trained on my very bogan Australian accented friend. The quote is from Genghis Khan. dropbox.com/scl/fi/conixqb…

@CharlieKnoles Yeah it depends, it can be hit and miss. I'm planning on integrating more models than just Qwen3-TTS so at least you'll have options.

I built a desktop app for local voice cloning with Qwen3-TTS. Once click install, create voices from audio or record a clip and generate literally anything. Its called Voicebox, available now at voicebox.sh Supports hosting a local voice server to integrate your custom voices in any app or project. Repo: github.com/jamiepine/voic…

@20th_Centurygal I saw Eric Gales a few weeks ago and he was absolutely on fire. Incredible show.

Who’s the best guitar player you’ve ever seen live? 🎶🎸 Remember, this is all in good fun...😊🎶

Remember that this happened…

As an Australian, this is horrific. These people are openly calling for a second holocaust in my home town. Would you have protected Jews if you’d been around in WW2? Because it’s happening again. Step up and speak out against antisemitism before it’s too late.

My 2025 Duolingo stats are in! How did you do? #Duolingo365

@rcbregman @Liv_Boeree Great, but as Liv points out, the amount of arable land devoted to non-factory farming is a rounding error. Everyone says they hate factory farming but nobody wants to pay twice as much for food. That's the reality that nobody wants to face.

Great piece by @Liv_Boeree - there's huge potential out there for a broad, bipartisan and pragmatic movement to phase out factory farming. In my view, it's probably the most important cause of our time. And yet it's so, so neglected. Big reason is that the movement has been too purist for a long time (shouting 'Go vegan!' all the time) but the good news is that this is changing. palladiummag.com/2025/11/01/fac…

@erratlinezero @thecto So true. As an Australian I so want it to be good but every product they make sucks.

@thecto Atlassian, all of it

name one consumer product that people hate, yet it’s successful. I’ll wait

@suksesberatttt Shit like this is so easy. People get their minds blown by such basic stuff. I should start DJing.

Ranking The Most Unexpected Songs Transition🤯🥰

@tomkarren @markgurman Require a subscription. Investors love subscriptions.

@markgurman What does it do that my Apple Watch doesn’t?

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@ThatChrisRyan Nailed it. It's that simple. It's also the cause of 99% of other male female problems. The reasons why people overcomplicate it is that they don't get laid much and don't know how to model other people's thought process.

My take on dick pics is that most men assume that women think like men, and most women assume that men think like women. So men, being super into images of women's bodies, assume women are hungry for images of men's bodies (Playgirl's bankruptcy notwithstanding). So men spend lots of time at the gym, sculpting their muscles to appeal to women who rarely care about such things while women carefully choose scented bath salts, oblivious to the obliviousness of the men they're hoping to impress. Dick pics are an expression of this confusion. Since many men would love to get unsolicited photos of women's bodies, they assume women's appetites mirror their own. Isn't it really this simple?

@CharlesMBrenner In this case I’d be happy for them to continue to be deluded. We might be rid of them sooner.

autocrats chatting about age reversal if the tech were real, there would be healthy 6 year old mice by now

@JeremyCaruthers @crittysmittage @bitcloud You certainly have answered in good faith. Thanks for the work you're doing. The folks you're talking to lack the ability or inclination to understand you. It's ironic that they're criticizing others for their IQ!

Dang, in good faith, I have commented back so many times. I've put a lot out there. But in summary, every community that lacks clean water, lacks it for a variety of reasons. Some are recently displaced by sociopolitical turmoil, forced to live on new land, with no water and no possessions. They need water today and tomorrow, so they walk to the closest place to get it everyday. They have nothing. Others may be isolated on certain plots of land for years for similar reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people may not have clean water, in the short or long-term. Reasons that have nothing to do with IQ or ancestry. Could we war. Drought. Contamination. I've provided a long list several times... There is no single missing piece of the puzzle. That's my point. Africa is a big continent, with many countries, and governments, and conflicts, and climates. It's complex. Multiple variables interplay with each unique case. In this case, it appears a well could be drilled. So @MrBeast was able to prove the resources, financial and technological, to make it happen.

What is Mr Beast introducing here that the African people don't have? Is it digging? forging? knowing where to dig?

@eriktorenberg The actual answer is War. Massive amounts of killing and suffering seems to have the paradoxical effect of making people very horny.

Nothing has worked in fixing birth rates. Financial incentives didn’t work (Hungary), Nordic socialism didn’t work (Scandinavia), restricting women’s rights didn’t work (Iran), totalitarianism didn’t work (North Korea), doing nothing didn’t work (Latin America). What will work?

@vividvoid Sounds like something an enlightened person would say...

A periodic reminder that I am not enlightened and still suffer all the time. I just got a difficult hand of cards in life, and learned to play them well by getting to know myself deeply. Now I write about it on the internet and do my best to help others. No claims beyond that.

@markgurman @tim_cook Dua Lipa is an amazing interviewer. Look at her book author interviews, the authors are often so amazed by her depth of knowledge that they are in tears.

It still amazes me that the strongest public conversation @tim_cook has ever had about succession was with Dua Lipa.

@FranciscoKemeny @paulg Both are terrible. Neither should have happened or needed to happen. The cycle of violence has to end and part of that is acknowledging the pain of the other side.

@paulg You know who else is also dead?

Every child in this picture is now dead.

@Skyislandia @LoanNinja @charise_lee Exactly. Having lived in both Australia and the USA, I can confirm that in both places I paid roughly the same total tax at the same income level. Even "low tax states" in the USA just jack up hidden taxes like sales taxes, road tolls, etc to make up the difference.

@LoanNinja @charise_lee Actually the US pays state and federal taxes which push the total marginal tax rates higher than those in Scotland and Australia. I'd rather pay more tax and have free/supported healthcare. That's a great reason to pay tax in fact.

The US prices are diabolical‼️