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Apple engineered a $179 product to age one half faster than the other, and the fix would take about six lines of code. One AirPod is always doing more work than the other. The microphone setting defaults to "Automatic," but in practice one pod gets selected as primary for calls, Siri listening, and voice processing. That pod is running beamforming mics, noise cancellation, and audio relay simultaneously. The other one is mostly a speaker. The battery gap compounds over time. The pod that drains faster charges more often. Lithium-ion cells degrade based on total charge cycles. After 12 to 18 months, the "primary" pod has meaningfully more wear on its battery than its twin. Same case, same charger, different lifespan. You're watching one AirPod age faster than the other in real time. The fix is almost trivially simple. Rotate the primary mic assignment every 24 hours regardless of call activity. Balance the processing load across both pods equally. Apple ships a $549 AirPods Max that does spatial head tracking with nine microphones but won't write a background task to swap L and R daily. They won't fix it because the failure mode sells hardware. When one pod dies noticeably faster, you replace the pair. At $179 to $249 every 18 months instead of 36, that's the most profitable firmware bug in consumer electronics.

@EndWokeness The jokes write themselves 😂

Justice KBJ: "If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws….. in a sense, it's allegiance." Her case for birthright citizenship:

@deltasage_ai @KobeissiLetter They still get citizenship in India don’t worry.

The people most affected by Trump's birthright citizenship order are not undocumented immigrants. They are H-1B engineers and F-1 students who did everything legally, at 41 affected births per 1,000 versus 17 per 1,000 for undocumented immigrants. Half of Asian immigrants who arrive as students end up staying permanently during their prime family building years. Under this order their US-born children have no citizenship. 255,000 to 320,000 stateless newborns per year. 6.4 million by 2050. Every lower court blocked it unanimously citing an 1898 precedent. The front row seat is a photo op. The oral argument questions are the actual event.

BREAKING: President Trump is sitting in the front row of the public gallery at the US Supreme Court as justices consider his order to end birthright citizenship. Trump is now the first sitting president in history to attend a Supreme Court oral argument.

A planning commissioner made a great point yesterday about why the new density bonus program makes no sense I thought we are YIMBY and want to incentivize tall buildings? Instead - The bonus program ADDs costs to tall buildings by making builders add affordable units

@MmisterNobody I hope the guy in the middle is driving.

This is the team of Astronauts heading to the "Moon" tomorrow What's the first thought that comes to mind when you see this picture?

@BourkeJame78853 @SarahisCensored Without government food and shelter, 48 hours tops.

@SarahisCensored Yep, give them a freaking island and let them all go there and start their own community lives... ill take bets on how quickly it descends into anarchy within their own group. I say 6 months usually, but honestly, these people wouldn't survive 6 weeks with their won people

Worcester city, the second largest city in Massachusetts, had the votes to become a “sanctuary city for trans community.” The testimony was GREAT. Watch it all. It’s worth your time for a great laugh. 🤡

@MalCan4401 @SarahisCensored That’s the gag, your taxes pay for their existence.

@SarahisCensored How do these people honestly function everyday?

@AustinJustice Hate to throw another thing on Elons plate but since Tesla is Based here be nice if they could get involved in running some candidates.

One of the main reasons Austin traffic keeps getting worse is the routine conversion of car lanes into bike lanes. For years, Austin telling residents they should bike to work. About 1% of Austin commuters bike to work. About 75% drive. The city's response is a new downtown transportation plan -- estimated at up to $1.1 billion -- that reduces car lanes further.

I will now be referring to gay sex as "Breaking clays in Edgefield County" for the foreseeable future.

TMZ flips the script and does real reporting. They finally call out Democrats and say EVERYONE in congress needs to be voted out They have evidence of Congress partying like they’re on Spring Break while everyone else has to deal with the shutdown “It's not the other party, it's both parties and we are kind of sick of the way they are patronizing us and that's why we're doing this. Something has to change” “We have talked about what we call the outer movement, OWTA out with their asses, voting everybody out, even the ones you like to reset things and make it clear to the next group. Here is our expectation that you will keep the government open, that federal workers will get paid. And if you don't do that, we're gonna throw you out. Like we threw your predecessors out. So that seems to be the only maybe last resort of regaining some power”

@htomserveaux @LoewyLawFirm So you think ai computers with 365 vision can’t merge lanes at speed? You obviously haven’t been in a Tesla. Enjoy riding public transportation w the lunatics, light trains to nowhere in Austin are the biggest waste they got going rn. And that’s saying a lot.

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UNBELIEVEABLE 🤯 City leaders now wanted *limited* parking near Project Connect hubs. I guess the thinking is everyone can walk or bike to catch the light rail? This is the absolute biggest grift in the history of Austin. #txlege

@htomserveaux @LoewyLawFirm Incorrect x.com/tbnewsfr/statu…

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@vrexec Pool maintenance, lawn care, gym membership, pest management, community friends all included for free when you rent.

I'm doing some back of the envelope math on buying vs renting. Say you buy a $1M house with 20% down at about 6% mortgage rate and plan to stay there for five years. Your principal paydown in the first five years is about $57,000, but you've paid about $230,000 in interest. You've also paid roughly $100,000 in property taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Say the house appreciated 2.5% every year — so when you sell it's worth about $1.13 million. Your all-in costs to sell are about 7.5% — brokerage commissions, transfer taxes, attorney fees, title insurance, and the inevitable post-inspection negotiation. On a $1.13M sale that's about $85K in fees. So you net about $1.046M. You still owe $743K on the mortgage. You walk away with about $303K in cash — your $200K down payment back, your $57K in principal, and about $46K in net profit from appreciation. Your non-recoverable costs — interest, property tax, insurance, maintenance — were about $330K over five years, or about $5,500/month. That's your effective rent. But you "made" $46K selling, or about $770/month — so your effective rent was about $4,700/month. Not bad, but you tied up $200K for five years to get there. And if appreciation was 1.5% instead of 2.5%, that net gain basically disappears and you're paying $5,400+/month in effective rent. And this assumes there's appreciation at all — and that something doesn't go wrong with your house that needs a major remodel or repair. On a five-year horizon at 6% rates, you need everything to go right on appreciation just to make ownership competitive with renting. The transaction costs eat most of your upside. What am I missing? Anything?

@htomserveaux @LoewyLawFirm The last 5 miles takes up a lot of time. You can work on your laptop etc in Robotaxi. They’re being built in Austin so plenty of access once it scales up. One unit built every 5-10 seconds is the goal at full production. Further once most cars are autonomous traffic won’t exist.

@TannerStarStone @LoewyLawFirm ok since I'm so dumb maybe you cant explain it to me. How are robotaxis better if they're not any faster or more accessible then what we have now? Traffic is an issue of road design not human error

@BlackDumpling 🎯 Great Britain sent all their criminals to Australia hundreds of years ago. That experiment has already been proven.

Japan vs. Somalia: I am going to make a very delicate point and I will endeavor to word it as carefully as possible so as to minimize risk of misunderstanding. However, it is an extremely important point that must be addressed. Let us consider, for a moment a great calamity happened and while the entirety of Japan was washed into the ocean we managed to rescue all of the world's Japanese people. For our hypothetical all property, all possessions, everything the Japanese people owned was ruined but all the 120+ million people were saved. Further, let us consider that due to whatever terrible misfortune happened to Japan the same happened to Somalia. The exact same. We managed to rescue all of Somalia's 22 million people, but all of their possessions were lost. In response America, in an act of friendship and in response to the unprecedented calamity gives the Japanese people dual American citizenship and invites them all to live in Montana. They do the same for the Somalians. Within ten years Montana would likely become America's most financially dominant state likely eclipsing California. The Japanese people *being the Japanese people* would band together and would build an entirely new "Japan" in a State that was wholly different from the one they started in. Because it doesn't matter where the Japanese people are, they're still who they are. Alternatively, we've seen first hand exactly what happens when you invite in a nation of Somalis. I don't need to comment further, you already know. Now again, I would never wish for anything like this to happen to the Japanese. But when you think of it in the stark terms it becomes clear that who you invite in matters. Neither Japan nor America would benefit from inviting in millions of Somalis, yet that or something like it is what we're being told constantly. That the only way to save our respective civilizations is to invite in and care for and financially support millions of third worlders. Rather than just, you know, have kids. Ever notice the people that want to invite in millions of Somalis, and Muslims, and Pakistanis never EVER want you to have kids yet always tell you that you not having kids is why they need to import more Third Worlders? Ever notice the political persuasion of the people who hate women having children... if they're not from Somalia? If they're from Somalia they're the first to sign the Somalis up for social services and then raise natives taxes in response. It's not accidental, it's all deliberate.

@htomserveaux @LoewyLawFirm

@TannerStarStone @LoewyLawFirm noone is going to use robotaxis because they solve literally non of the problems inherent to cars and taxis

🚨 WTF?! Democrat Mayor of Providence, RI Brett Smiley has successfully pushed for the mural of Iryna Zarutska to be removed Let’s be clear: this is ONLY being done because Iryna was an innocent white girl kiIIed by a vioIent black man NEVER would happen if she was black

The single most radicalizing moment of my life was watching Democrats from the balcony of the State of the Union refuse to stand for Iryna Zarutska's mother, seated 15 feet away from me. Now they're tearing down her murals. They never cared about immigrants, it was all a lie.

イーロンの異文化交流機能が大流行 そこで海外の人に質問🙋 やっぱり海外の左派も気に入らない相手に対して「差別だ！」とか言ってくるの？ 反戦だの平和だの言ってるくせに妙に好戦的で会話にならないとか、その辺も共通してるのかどうか非常に気になる。