Recent content by Priller

Doesn't your Maverick have Android Auto / Car Play? If so, that'll give you an idea of how it works on a bike (slightly adjusted depending on screen size). Also, if so, and you're not using it, you should at least try it. Google Maps is much better, though hardly perfect, than dedicated GPS...

Nice! Hope it's as good to you as mine has been to me. Finding the cleanest install is the hardest bit. Also, it's obvious but I'm going to restate it anyway: make sure it's connected to a switched power source or your battery will be dead in no time. The instructions are surprisingly decent if...

Similar experience to above. I find it's no biggie for my commute and for shorter runs around Niagara, but would need supplementing for a full day, either USB to the motorcycle or a decent battery bank. I forgot another benefit to the head unit, though this is more in comparison to a dedicated...

That Aprilia V 4 is something special. I bought my Tuono in BC, and had a regular group that would ride the Sunshine Coast on summer weekends. After a couple runs where he could hear the Aprilia (stock pipe, too!), one of the other guys gave up 30+ years of Ducatis and went out and bought...

It's interesting watching some Chinese Amazon alphabet soup companies take off into premium pricing and others just disappear. I have a Lamtto unit that's fine, cost me $130 or similar, though a quick peek at their Amazon store suggests they no longer sell waterproof units for motorcycles. There...

Agreed on gentrification for some areas and affecting numbers for Hamilton as a whole, but the bits of Hamilton I was looking at the numbers on haven't been gentrified much, they were never run down (or had been un-run-down long before Covid). Areas like Kirkendall North (South is where some of...

This surprised me, and having a look at HouseSigma, the numbers are interesting. On a simple median price level, YOY numbers for November in downtown Burlington are down -8.9% to a median of $1,179,500. On the surface, this compares well with a nicer lower city neighbourhood in Hamilton that's...

Literally moments after saying I don't get many telemarketers on Pixel, I got a call from a duct cleaning scumbag. I guess Big Bro Google is always listening/watching, even for crap...

I don't get many on my Pixel, even fewer since I switched from Telus to Freedom. My wife had a lot of problems with her iPhone, significantly improved when she went to a Samsung despite keeping her number. Not sure if that was linked or coincidence. A new one that seems to have cropped up...

Stomping around the dancefloor of The Sanctuary on Queen West in a set of Garrison Boots? I went through an Industrial music phase in my late teens, went well with straddling the punk/metal/rave scenes that formed the venn diagram of my social life at the time. KMFDM, Godflesh, Skinny Puppy...

This little nugget is the key to the whole thing: As noted, it takes some doing to make Netflix the good guys (or, rather, the less worse guys), but this gang of despotic criminals and oligarchs somehow manages it. It's no coincidence that bottomless cash has suddenly appeared to back a...

$72B. Like so much of the modern American perversion of capitalism, that's truly obscene. Says two things to me: First, they are already charging too much. Second, expect massively accelerated enshittification, including more ads for lower tier subscriptions and then even more expensive...

Yep. I think it has lasted because it captures the feeling, better than any other. of being a kid at Christmas, regardless of generation. Wanting a particular toy so badly that you feel it with every fibre of your being (GI Joe hovercraft was my Red Ryder BB gun one year), the weird traditions...

Congrats! The first day or two is always weird with them acclimating to the new place, new people, new smells, no other dogs around for reassurance, not knowing where in the house is 'safe', and suddenly very much being the centre of attention with lots of staring eyes. Our little one (who...

Maybe, and definitely some churches. I was briefly involved in the BC Anglican world up to the level of Bishop, being a warden in a growing church there. If anything, the senior level of the Anglican church I was exposed to felt occasionally a bit naive, and I wanted a bit more cut-throat to...