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aeiche.bsky.social
Electronics enthusiast, Roboticist... general nerd. https://aaroneiche.com
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Here’s an idea: If “waste, fraud and abuse” are actually being uncovered, could we see a couple examples that can be investigated and confirmed by an independent 3rd party? Because I believe DOGE is theater.

submitted 18 hours ago • 762 comments

I woke up very early this morning, And one of my random thoughts was “In the Flintstones, when they have Christmas, what are they celebrating?”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I just spent the better part of a day trying to build a Shortcut in macOS to turn a screen-captured video (.mov) into an mp4. This felt a lot more difficult than it should've been. I know the .mov extension is a classic, but why doesn't it default to the most-popular format of the last 10 years?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I was just watching a video and it was showing pictures of (one of) Leonardo Da Vinci's notebook(s) and I was trying to read the text in it - it was weird. I thought "Maybe the video flipped it, or this is just generated". No you fool - you can't read it because IT'S ITALIAN.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

“To Walt, visitors would become the "guests" in his fanciful realm. To most amusement park operators, they were "marks," to be shaken down for as much money as could be squeezed out of them in a few hours.” 🤔

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

So I really didn't appreciate the state of trying to research a product in 2024. I don't feel like I can trust anyone. I go looking for a website or a video review of a product, and everything feels tainted by marketing. Consumer Reports remains dependable, but they don't review everything.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

@ihnatko.bsky.social On your (umpteenth) recommendation, I finally listened to Patrick Stewart's "A Christmas Carol". What a performance! New tradition for me.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Me, to myself looking at a piece of failed electronics: "I wonder if I should save this... No - this is garbage, and we throw away garbage where I'm from"

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

My kid has recently really gotten into Paw Patrol, and I caught myself humming the theme song. Which invariably reminded me of this: youtu.be/w8iPo0YFaeM So naturally I go and listen to the CatSquad theme song: A cartoon show that exists in a Kid's cartoon show that I - an adult - just listened to.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I made a thing for the Hackaday superconference I attended earlier this month: aaroneiche.com/2024/11/27/t... It's a little Mac!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I've been listening to Christmas Music for a week already. I really kind of gave up waiting for Thanksgiving during the Pandemic. I have no regrets about this.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

My Badge "Simple Add-On" for Hackaday Supercon 2024: The MacSAO. While it's not an actual emulated Mac (not nearly enough pixels), it does have a full drawing API so you can animate your own early-Macintosh sequences. aeiche.com/macsao

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

In an effort to keep a computer out of the landfill, I replaced our 2010 iMac's spinning drive with an SSD. Opening this style of iMac is always an interesting experience because of how they're engineered. A little before the Jony-Ive-extreme-era of form over function, this is still tricky to access

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