@nonjo I really wish I had kept a few in the box especially the original iPhone. Early iPods and iPhones are so revolutionary. The emotional connection like holding the future in your hand.

@apoorplayer anytime!

@martinfeld truly is. I still use the mini and classic on airplanes. No stress about pre downloading music.

@jasonekratz the mini feels amazing. The Nano (all revisions) was too small. I’m a huge fan of the mini design.

@nonjo YUP! That’s on my iPod Classic that still works. well, the mini does too.

@Rycaut www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZQT… I’ve one of these going on 6 years. I replace the blades once a year and it’s been very reliable. Mine is an older revision with a recharge base. Batteries haven’t need replacing.

@apoorplayer hah! It was a lot of work about 2 years total but thank you for the reply. I’m hoping it leads to great things

@apoorplayer Indeed. $130K a year is way higher than Vermont’s “average household income” which is $78,024.

@gruber - I asked ChatGPT 4o the same prompt as you - adamchandler.me/blog/2025…

@apoorplayer Quick Chat GPT math on a Vermont community $500K w/ $100K down and today’s property tax / insurance / interest for 30-year fixed is $3700 a month. so that’s $11,000 household monthly income to meet that 30% housing debt-to-income rule or $132,000 a year. And that’s “average”

@apoorplayer Indeed! At 700K at 20% down at 6.9% interest, it’s a HUGE monthly payment. Vermont appears to be floating around $500K is “average” now and you’re going to have some things to fix up but it’s a ton of money to get into your first home and it’s entirely rural.

@apoorplayer It’s a modular home built in on 2.4 acres that’s all wooded except for where the home sits at 2,000 square feet listed for $700,000 in an area where homes are $450-$650 unless they’re exceptionally crafted with history and many dozens of acres (rural Vermont). I offered $550 with no …

@apoorplayer Yup and we’re neither so it’s okay. It’s a nice place and checks most of our boxes but a place sitting since September is either too good to be true or the sellers have unrealistic expectations.

@jsnell It really makes you think and proves why anyone who thinks spinning up an iPhone factory in USA is simple needs their head checked. So many dependencies.

@jsnell - It’s an old analogy but basically “The American Cheeseburger isn’t possible without industrialization” the Cheeseburger contains ingredients that are not all in season at the same time. Refrigeration, storage, globalization, trade enable it. That logic applies to iPhone

@apoorplayer I started because I was cheap and wanted to save a ton of money.

@gruber - I thought this would be right up your alley - nebula.tv/videos/ne… Nebula, the streaming service has showcased the development of their font. I LOVED the part about web-player-time code and how the font works in that UI.

@apoorplayer thanks! I’m really excited and I hope I can balance a class per month without putting too much strain on home life. It pays well for 4 days a month of work but that’s time I would normally be spending with family. We’ll see!

@kolin BOOOOOO

@chockenberry chonky.

@manton partially joking but for $1 a month, I’m never going to complain about anything. You could literally go offline for a week and I’d just hang out and wait :P

@manton BTW ,already missing the bi-weekly Micro.blog updates on Core Intuition. Any plans to launch a “this week in Micro.blog” podcast that’s 5 - 10 minutes long maybe you and a community manager talking about technical & community changes?

@manton Thanks for the enhancement for EU hosting. One thing I experience on the 1st party apps (IOS / Mac) is a delay between a post and seeing it on my micro blog page. I assume this is all just a part of the process of it getting generated into a static page especially with image handling?

@apoorplayer I certainly hope so! Can’t do trails yet those aren’t really solid until June but I can see how the unpaved roads are looking.

@manton I don’t use it but this may work - apps.apple.com/us/app/fo…