Colin Warren

@Jgbird I was lucky to make a trip to Ecuador in early 2019, and it was the best birding of my life…

@VickForcella@mastodon.derg.nz @cinebox@masto.hackers.town @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz In another lifetime, when employed by Apple for support, I would regularly wow concerned people flummoxed by the wrong language by having memorized the menu structure to get the OS back into the desired settings…

@baardhaveland@snabelen.no @obucate@bildung.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr To be fair, as an original owner of a 2017 Leaf, this is because the hardware in the car is a 3G cellular modem. Which no longer can connect as the Telcos have turned off the antennas. And are no longer listening…

@baardhaveland@snabelen.no @obucate@bildung.social Indeed—I think I did the math wrong, and that sounds it is the next version of the model (which I agree shouldn’t lose features)

@cstross@wandering.shop @HumToTable@sfba.social @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Er, on that note… https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/12/15-year-old-earns-phd-in-quantum-physics-now-plans-to-build-ai-enhanced-super-humans/

@mattblaze@federate.social I had the same epiphany this year, when I happened to be at Knott’s Berry Farm’s theme park and saw their big Berry Festival display—a cornucopia with oversized vines, and berries, and pies adorning their entrance windmill. While a few miles down the road, the competitor’s park celebrates a rodent, that would eat away at the plenty on display (obviously, amusement parks and their multinational owners make the symbolism a little less effective, but still…).