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You can continue using normal Windows 10 if you have a Microsoft account attached to it. They give you the option to sign up for free extended updates (until 2027).

Nice native ad for Waymo

I first got it in 2015 after playing Fallout 4 almost nonstop for the entire weekend. The game ran poorly and the low stuttery fps caused a massive migraine in my head. I took Tylenol and went to sleep and woke up with it ringing in one of my ears which eventually moved to both. The doctors were pretty useless and said they couldn't see anything wrong and to just live with it.

My brain eventually figured out how to tune it out and now it associates the sound with silence.

Now I've developed it again after feeling depressed and blasting music in my car. The new version crackles and alternates tones in my left ear. I have a doctors appointment coming up to hopefully figure it out.

There is a new expensive treatment for it called Lenore which works by playing sounds and stimulating your tongue at the same time. Those pathways are located close together in the brain and by stimulating both at the same time, it's supposed to train it to filter out the noise.

Meanwhile Sears is still thriving in Mexico under different ownership.

Unfortunately we use the proprietary HD Radio spec in the US. The company requires paying a license to use it and so many stations and manufacturers don't support it.

I wish we used DAB instead.

This was really fun to play with at VCF Midwest. It makes me curious to see it working with other vintage computers.

I'm glad that they kept the anime girl rather than replacing her with a sterile message. The Internet should be a fun place again.

It's a common mistake that newcomers to the language make. You assume empty is an empty string check when it's really a falsy check that is equivalent to: (!isset($var) || !$var)

There are a lot of dead podcasts in general. It's tough to sustain a podcast and many people give up after doing a handful of episodes.

V4V is a concept and not a technology.

It's simply that the podcaster provides something valuable to you with their podcast and you're expected to return an equal amount of value back to them in whatever form you choose. It could be a Paypal payment, cool artwork for the show, topic research for the show, or whatever value you can contribute back.

Check out value4value.info for a more detailed explanation

No surprise since he spends most of his time on Nostr nowadays.