The quest to save some notes as a PDF

I write notes in college by hand, with an Apple Pencil (2nd Generation) on an iPad Pro 11-inch (2018). It's perfect... almost. I have this quite annoying issue when I try to export my notes, like when I need to submit homework. The "save as image"…

Car firmware should be open source

Dear Hyundai, Please open up your car firmware to everyone. Thank you and best regards, Liv I own a 2022 Hyundai Kona. I love it, most of the time. But there is one gripe with it that gets me annoyed quite often. Most cars today are able to detect when…

JSON is not a programming language

...sigh The person featured in this post gave their consent to their name being used... for some reason This story begins in the Rec Room Discord server. Why is this not the first blog post I've made that begins there? Or the second? Regardless, we begin here. There…

What the fuck is a kilometer

"What the fuck is a kilometer" is a phrase often uttered by Americans who have never experienced the beauty of the metric system. Usually the phrase is enjoyed with eagles screeching in your ear and guns being fired. No matter how many times they were taught what a…

Dear Amazon,

You are the biggest e-commerce company in the world and it's not even close. Well, you're not even an e-commerce company. You have your hands in AWS 🤑, advertising, Prime Video, and AI. It really should not be hard for you to keep your storefront safe. Every…

My favorite Oculus product

I have a VR headset. A few, actually. Two of them are Oculus headsets, though the only one I actually use is a Valve Index. I'll probably write about the Index later, but today I'm going to talk about my favorite Oculus product. I got my…

$600 $300 Headphones

Last year I was gifted a pair of headphones for my birthday. I love them. They sound great, have decent battery life, and the noise cancellation is good. That said, I have a few gripes with them. Before I get to the issues, here's what they look like:…

LEVEL8 Got Me on CLOUD9

Back in the days of the unibody MacBook Pros, you know, the thick ones with optical drives, I was at an Apple Store. To protect my then-modern MacBook Pro, I got a LEVEL8 13" laptop bag, and it was the best fucking bag in the world. The padding inside…