Just still be cautious and carry some insurance on your stuff. My brother broke up with his girlfriend, she moved back east. She packed all her stuff up in a PODS and shipped it home, and the pod dissappeared. PODS completely lost it.

Curious if an AirTag (or similar BTLE device on a mesh network) could mitigate some of this risk…

If this is a metal box like a shipping container, you'd have to attaching it to the outside somehow. However the website just says "steel framed" which suggests the sides might not be metal, in which case it might work.

However it's quite possible that something else happened to it that they don't want to admit. Like maybe their driver was DUI and crashed it.

PODS are advertised as having a transparent roof for light, most likely polycarbonate. Not sure if that would be sufficient for an AirTag signal if the rest is metal, but I suspect it would be.

My experience with PODS is it's basically a smaller shipping container with a rolling door.

I didn't test airtags at all but they definitely stack them pretty high up in a warehouse so idk if an iPhone is always going to walk by yours.

Aluminum frame with fiberglass panels. I put a cellular GPS tracker in the one I rented and it worked fine.

I bought a cellular GPS tracker for my PODS. It worked fine, and being able to track it every step of the way added a bit of stress relief.

It also came in really handy when the driver claimed his truck broke down and he wouldn't be able to drop it off on schedule. I told them I could physically see the container in the storage yard and would like it delivered on the agreed upon date. They dropped it off 20 minutes later.

Isn't that PODS job?

That's crazy! How does something so big go missing? Did they ever find it?

Maybe two records getting written to the database in the same millisecond somehow getting the same uuid primary key... could happen if they use some javascript library to come up with the uuid ;)

I was always taught that knowledge was "justified true belief."

Now you get into the tricky waters of defining "justified" and "true". It's a circular definition that does not settle anything.

Einstien said it was what was left over when you forgot everything you leaned in school.

The Gettier examples disagree!

no they dont. At least not in the US.

I still have a MDD, but to be honest I don't use it that often. Korg made a PCI card called OasysPCI that was a synthesizer, DSP, and sound card. They never supported the Windows 2000 driver model or the move the OS X, so I needed the fastest desktop with PCI and OS 9.

I don't know if they still do it, but I loved my old Saab 99 with the ignition switch in the console between the front seats. Intead of locking the steering, it locked the gearshift in reverse. It didn't make anything work better, but it made the end user experience feel different/special.

They kept it for a long time, I had an '87 900 and a '04 9-3 which had a fob but still plugged in and turned in the center like the old ones. I liked the position; I heard it used to foil car thiefs who couldn't figure out where the ignition was

on Mac its super simple–option + (minus)–so I use it all the time.

I think it was capacitive touch button. There was no physical button movement, and a light came on when touched. I never had issues with mine. I actually still have the cube, including the original speakers, keyboard, and mouse that came with it. I haven't powered it on in years.

I was just reading other accounts online about the power button sensitivity, and I was indeed in a high static environment (extremely cold and dry in winter (Arctic), carpeted floors) which appears to be a common factor in those reports. That seems like a reasonable explanation for what I observed.

the alien comedy monolog was hilarious to me as a kid, but I haven't watched Explorers in probably about 30 years.

Yamaha used a CR2032 with legs as battery backup for sounds in most of their synthesizers starting at least with the DX7 that launched in 1983. So there is precedent.

Like the musician in the story, I have many synthesizers with floppy drives. I love the synth, but not the floppies. I keep floppies around because I have to in order to keep the synth operable, but I am slowly changing the floppies out of floppy emulators. At $100 a pop it’s slow going.

Many of that era might do better with sysex dumps for most of the things floppies do. Still kinda slow but no media to futz with.