u/moldyjellybean

My usual courts were being resurfaced so I used the wall for a few weeks. Trying new techniques on my forehand hitting drives right above the line and trying new drop techniques.

The hard drives that were just above the wall line, in the game were mostly going long, the drops I thought were neutral were traveling too far past the kitchen (to hit kitchen dinks against the wall you have to give it some speed to rebound back to you) .

The drips didn't have the right clearance/touch/distance. If you're a starting out and need coordination it's worth it but there's a lot of nuances that the wall doesn't replicate well.

I think it depends on the wall rebound too, mine are wood (not concrete) so a tennis ball rebounds ok but pickleballs need to be hit with decent force if you hit soft it takes 2 bounces to get to you and by then it's an inch off the ground but cement walls were not that much better. Possible need a different ball might help things.

Going to bring my MacBook Air 15 and I have worries every time some people man handle their luggage in the overhead bin, push it or slam the overhead bin.

Sometimes there’s not enough space so the attendant throws rearranges bags and I always wince a little.

I’d like to protect it without adding a bunch of weight

Is there any smoke around Stripe, Apple or Google buying parts of this business. I don't have a lot of confidence in paypal growth, I still use it on some checkouts because it's easy but apple/google pay probably have taken a good chunk.

But at a 7.5 PE there doesn't seem to be a lot of downside risk vs a lot of high flying tech stocks.

Seems like it's worth a small flyer at this price (again I don't see how they capture a bigger market or grow besides venmo but zelle, apple cash, cashapp many other competitors) but the price after earnings seems ok to take a small position.

EDIT: even if you look back into the worst times of the Iran conflicts, tariffs, this stock doesn’t seem to drop much below $43 (but I’m sure many of thought it wouldn’t go lower than X price)

I could probably hold 10+ esims but every time they suggest a phyiscal sim. Is it better?

On IOS I use or is there a good extension?

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1htrbyf/yt_video_downloader/

is there something similar for MacOS

I got a few that were of great value. Pickleball machine was 2k, just too hard to get a court at the times I want to use it so price/improvement is not great, the machine is great. Also take up a lot of space

I got a $15 sweet spot trainer and use it every time before we play and it's helped a ton. price/improvement ratio is really high. Takes up no space.

Got a mini ball cost was like $1-2, also a great training tool, flies fast and with the sweet spot tool makes warm up hard mode which pays dividends. price/improvement/space is great.

what are reasonable training tools that actually make a difference

I see too many trusting, gullible people on here and it makes me sad to see people posting about their first car, single moms in need of transport getting ripped off.

PLEASE pay the $100 or whatever to get an independent mechanic to check out the car. If you are looking at a lot of cars and can't pay $100 for each car learn to use an OBD code scanner (if anyone gives and excuse about XYZ code 99% they are lying) . I've probably seen 100+ posts of people not even getting a mechanic to check the car and it all ends badly.

If you are buying an apple device reset don't take anyone's word for it. Just because it's at the icloud sign in and you can sign in doesn't mean it doesn't have some MDM so reset it once or twice and then sign in.

Test everything, read their reviews, if someone has a 4.0 rating that's honestly pretty bad.

I know there are better/in depth advice but if you go in assuming everyone is scammer you're somewhat on guard.

I don't get it in 7 trading days. I've worked with a lot of AI and infra before the AI hype

Wrote about AMD when it was under $2 probably 9+ years ago

https://np.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/9v1n6f/amazon_web_services_aws_pricing_amd_vs_intel/e994dka/

in 2021 I thought NVDA might be the most valuable company in the world and to get ARM at ipo. Back in 2021 no one thought NVDA would be the most valuable company in the world (it was before google passed it)

https://np.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/qw9glx/im_surprised_there_isnt_more_nvda_talk_before/

I noticed a strange pattern and no real barrier or reason to why SMCI went from $70 to $1100 a few years ago wrote this before Hidenburg and round tripping was a thing around 2023 when SMCI was $1000

https://np.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1bw9c8l/goldman_sachs_and_morgan_knowingly_offering_scams/

We tried and I personally tried Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite because I like the benefits of Arm and thought qcom could be a player in edge computing or AI but after using and trying to run even simple apps was a pain. I eventually tried running local AI using Apple M series chips and it blew the snapdragon away.

No company I know uses these snapdragon, I know a lot of people using mac mini. macbook pro/max for AI and AWS arm Gaviton has gained popularity but I've not heard of anyone using QCOM in the datacenter or edge at great scale.

Everyone who's used Apple's modem has had good things to say about, is it possible QCOM loses to apple iphones in the iphone 18

There's so many bear cases for this stock, I haven't made a play on it but there's so many negatives and few positives. Is there something I'm missing?

I don't need anything complicated, the stock widget does seem to be on quite a delay, can I move the widget to display 1 ticker on the menu bar?

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/10hqfbl/how_to_set_larger_font_size_in_system_settings/

So I've changed the resolution custom to get more space and I can change accessibility text size, and display to large and it makes some fonts large but the actual "system settings" font is unchanged. Seems an issue for a long time is there another option

That keyboard made my iPad so light and I never use the trackpad. It was great for traveling

Edit it also never flopped over like my Magic Keyboard

Wondering where everyone is putting their lead tape or customizations? Is it also true the grit doesn't last long

How do I get back to a reasonable sleep schedule. Luckily I don't have to be anywhere so I just sleep at 11am but this is pretty annoying

Trying to learn a few languages and Language reactor used to speak the language on youtube but this function now only work 1/10. It works fine on netflix

Going to travel around the world with just a backpack and this is my laptop. Wondering what’s the best thin and lightweight sleeve

I know it's very individualistic but for those that have had too big then went too small what did you settle for in between? I've seen some crazy posts with a guy living on 16L for years. That's not me and I know 40l is more than I want but I travel with my SO and she prefers a smaller one so I have to one bag and car some of her stuff (not much).

this shortcut is great for downloading tutorials and learning language is there a similar shortcut for MacOS?