I'm a total convert to electric toothbrushes 😁 my teeth feel so shiny!
But I don't know the difference between the "cheap" Sonicare toothbrush pair I bought at Costco and the more expensive versions because the Internet is trash.
@pleia2 generally Costco mandates manufactures meet a certain price point, and then the manufacturer determines what exact product/features/etc. to develop or drop based on that price point. It’s the reason Casper mattresses are cheaper at Costco than from Casper themselves: they are actually a cheaper-made version with fewer layers, etc. Buuuut neither Costco nor the manufacturers really like advertising that, so it’s hard to figure out the differences.
@pleia2 Fwiw, I have had a Quip toothbrush for like a decade now and love it; it’s small, lightweight, uses normal batteries I can recharge, and my dentist says I do a good job brushing, lol
I think the actual toothbrush itself is way less important than the timer, the fact that it is vibrating the bristles on your teeth for you, and brushing regularly. 😅 I think it comes down more to preference around how they look/charge/store/etc. between all the electric ones.
The boys and I picked up my BART number plate at Lake Merritt yesterday. These were taken from the old BART cars that were recently retired from service.
I'm glad @foo warned me it would be dirty. The back still needs a couple passes with a wire brush, but it's still glorious 😍
@pleia2 Yeah, and most of the dirt was actually on the rear of mine. I'm guessing it was 50 years of a spec of dirt here and there wedging itself between the car body and the plate. I did a few rounds with cleaner and a wire brush to the extent I can handle it without black fingers, but it'll never be completely clean. But that's part of the appeal!
Most of my work is so detatched from hands-on development these days I kinda feel like I'm goofing off at work when I spend all morning reviewing PRs on GitHub 😂
But this IS part of my job. No goofing! It just happens to be fun and particularly satisfying!
@pleia2 Yep, I'll keep a look out and will likely order one if I see if it's in stock again. Thanks!
I lived in the Bay Area for a little under 2 years, back in 2000/2001. Pretty much every weekday I took BART into and out of SF, as well as every few weekends. I wonder what the odds are I ever traveled in any given car.
Regular reminder that Apple makes interacting with their products hell if you don't own an Apple device (we got a free Apple TV subscription through a promotion, but mostly it's just been infuriating to try to use).
@LinuxAndYarn I was trying to log onto it on my Roku, and discovered my account was "inactive" (in spite of just adding it to the family account last month). So I tried chat to resolve it, they redirected me to phone support... this story is a developing one 😅
Our Open #Mainframe Project the Software Discovery Tool is part of the @linuxfoundation Mentorship Program from June-August again this year.
We're lucky to have two past students now part of our Technical Steering Committee (TSC), and another who will be helping out with the mentorship this summer 🎉
It makes total sense (securing data is critical) but it's still funny to me that several of the key players in the Quantum Safe space are also the ones building the #quantum computers 😁 #OSSummit
Some have rolled their eyes at the "paranoid" requirement from the #Debian community of in-person gpg key signing as a step to become a Debian developer, and it's often been a real barrier.
But I'm reminded of it at the #OSSummit keynote today as the #Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin talks about the xz vulnerability and identity verification of developers.
It was never paranoia. It doesn't solve everything, and people can still be dishonest, but it was never excessive paranoia.
The @chaoss project is one that I've loosely followed, but haven't been able to carve out time for (yet!) so I'm really glad I could spend the afternoon with them here at #OSSummit
Lots of good discussions and project updates, along with seeing several folks who I've enjoyed catching up with 🤗
On April 7, 1964 the IBM System/360 was launched, 60 years ago today!
On Thursday I was able to head up to the Poughkeepsie, NY site where much of the work and ultimately the launch actually happened.
The IBM Corporate Archives put together some great displays for the internal event, including pulling out the scale models, and then I got to finally meet several folks in person as we celebrated the to the next 60 years of this legendary architecture 🤩