Historically I never had the patience but I've watched a ton of movies over the past couple years (easily 300+) and initially I agreed with audience rating. Although I'm far from an insufferable cinephile and really don't care about underlying theory and whatnot, I definitely find myself agreeing more with critic rating now. Of course there's plenty of exceptions where I disagreed with both. Movies can be fun or awful for you regardless of what anyone else thinks.

That being said, I think Roger Ebert's reviews usually nail it. That man was a connoisseur of weird enjoyable movies and quick to call out corporate crap.

Erasers for pen exist and work fine if you're writing on good quality paper. They're basically an abrasive that physically removes some of the paper and the ink along with it. IDK about the one in the post but the Pentel ZE32-Y works pretty well.

Love me some Kate Bush

I've gone to an Ace hardware near me half a dozen times for bolts, etc and I have yet to buy anything. If they have it in stock it's sold individually and ridiculous prices. I just plan my projects ahead and get everything on McMaster now. Rural King and Tractor Supply have pretty reasonable selections for basic hex bolts, etc. if you need it that day.

There's a ton of old rumors and "fixes" but it was recently confirmed by Microsoft that the main issue was failure of the flip chip interposer connections caused by incorrectly engineered underfill epoxy on early batches of GPUs. This is the same issue behind Nvidia's Bumpgate and likely the PS3 YLODs.

BGA solder balls, x-clamps, thermal paste, overheating, etc were never actually a real issue. Heat gunning/towel tricking the console just warped chips enough that they temporarily made contact and would work for a little while. Only permanent fix is to replace the GPU with one made after they changed underfill epoxies.

Now that these consoles are 20+ years old there's also aging caps and whatnot to worry about too.

I wish there was a way to buy a Kagi subscription without AI assistant bundled in. I never plan to use it and it adds no value to me. I'd rather save the money and get a cheaper subscription.

I picked up a used Revopoint Metro X with accessories for ~$600 a little while ago. There's quite a learning curve to getting a good scan quickly but a couple afternoons of practice were enough to figure it out. The turntable is pretty flaky (random bluetooth disconnects) but the scanner itself is great.

I daily drive a clapped out 80s sports car with no AC and a broken radio. The true connection you can feel to a classically engineered machine when there's zero distraction or convenience is hard to describe. You learn every noise, every smell, every quirk of handling and weight transfer, gain intuition about how the chassis will react to every abnormality in the road surface, have the shifter and clutch become subconscious muscle memory where you don't even realize you're doing it, etc. There's a variety of reasons the average person should drive a newer car but I personally love an old hooptie.

Some fun info from Adam Savage about the development and lifecycle of Blendo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i4dkb5w2Lg

Has anyone, even a child, ever fit in the back seats of a Porsche 928?