Apple Watch Ultra - Battery Life Comparison

Apple Watch Ultra LTE only The intention is to simulate being away from the iPhone for the day, worst case is usually cellular-only, so I'm keeping Wi-Fi disabled too... All in all, I'm pretty happy with the results. Results time 🔋 notes 09:00 100% Removed from charger 10:05 100% 10:25 99% Finally below 100% 11:00 97% 11:44 95% 12:00 93% 12:30 85% After 25 minute call via speakerphone 13:10 83% Turning on music 14:30 63% 15:10 51% After 10-minute call 15:45 40...
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Storage — When is it too much?

Yeah, okay, so I might have too much disk space right now... 14.96TiB on my main workstation, 2.798 TiB NVMe, plus 11.9TiB SMR spinners. Non-redundant non-RAID, but everything is backed up or can be trivially replaced (Steam games, cough Linux Distros, and such). SMR is slow to write lots of data at once, but they work fine vs any other spinning rust for reads and small amounts of writes in a short period of time. Cloning one 8TiB drive to another was a long and painful process, as expecte...
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Programmers

"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." -- Fred Brooks ...
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“Good morning” in Morse code

--. --- --- -.. / -- --- .-. -. .. -. --. -.-.-- 💋💋😘 💋💋💋 💋💋💋 💋😘😘 💋💋 💋💋💋 😘💋😘 💋😘 💋💋😘 💋😘💋😘💋💋 ...
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Hello world

Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!"); ...
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"They're made out of meat."

I’m honored that this often shows up on the internet. Here’s the correct version, as published in Omni, 1990. THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?" "They use the rad...
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