iOS apps don't work with SIP

A while ago, I got an in-app announcement that Authy Desktop was being discontinued. Well that's fine with me. My Mac supports iOS apps, so it should be pretty easy to download the mobile version from the App Store and sign in, right? Right? Seems promising enough... It…

America's Worst Freeway

In 1940, Europe was embroiled in war. The US hadn't been attacked by the Japanese yet, and thus had not gone to war. They were far too busy doing other things, like opening the nation's first freeway... which also happens to be its worst. While I…

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…