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- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 1 day ago:
Just brought out my old dvds and put them on hard drive. They were burned 18 years ago and used organic dyes. I recovered avout 50% of them. Old me should have spent more on nonorganic discs… but old me couldn’t afford them back then, so he gets a pass I guess. Plus new me can easily dl most of those discs in an hour or two now.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 day ago:
And when AI inevitably collapses, programmers should join unions and negotiate for a much higher wage, as they will be in even more need to fix all the shit that gets broken. Everyone knows it’s easier to replace or rebuild, but companies can’t do that, they’ll need their code, their databases, accounts, everything - fixed. That will cost them more than they ever thought they’d save. AI will one day do the things they want, but we’re looking at decades until it can reach that point.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 1 week ago:
Yeah, the good ones get bought out. (RIP Armstrong, Adelphia)
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
Sony pissed me off a few years back. Day one: wanna share data with us? No. Year later: data? No. Year 3. Your tv will no longer accept internet connections unless you agree to share your data. Ok, fuck. Year 4. 30% apps no longer work due to system requirements. You - bastards. I just used a firestick in it until it died on year 6. Which also sucks since it was $3000 in 2017.
- Comment on TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a year.) 1 week ago:
After Equifax and DOGE, I’m not sure I can bring myself to care anymore. Cat’s out of the bag, and no one will be punished. I get shit on, again and again, and my “representatives” rake in that sweet “lobby” money to ignore the issue. I just wish the bad actors would share the lawmakers information very publicly so they might finally start caring.
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 3 weeks ago:
I mean… .22s have a history for use as a “quiet” gun…
- Comment on Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC 3 weeks ago:
I had considered upgrading this year. I just bought two battery cases for my s20fe cause I figure I’ll have it for awhile longer now and my battery case is getting hard to find now and the current one is more than a year old.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 3 weeks ago:
Mine were Kidde as well. They were installed by my dad maybe 17 years ago when he built the home. I eventually found the breaker after a fun game of yelling “Is the light on?” I laughed when I found out it was on the same breaker as the septic aerator (which I had apparently also attached to a garage circuit overhead for work lights and ceiling outlets for tools due to the wall circuit overloading). Fun fact for the people who may not be familiar with septic aerators - when they lose power they have a box on a separate circuit for the failure alarm (which isn’t very loud but annoying af), so apparently when my aerator failed and I turned off the alarm until I got a replacement 1 month later, I had also turned off the fire alarms (good thing they have batteries).
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 3 weeks ago:
YSK that those old detectors will most likely not have the same plugs as the old ones, either. Prepare to figure out what circuit they’re all on and a rewire with new dongles (pigtails? Not sure of the right name). Ah, what a fun weekend. 15 min turned into a couple of hours.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 3 weeks ago:
They did a sequel, too. It wasn’t as good, but points out the 6 degrees of separation in connection with terrorism instead of MAD.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 3 weeks ago:
Came here to say this. Turns out real life WOPR is nothing like a movie.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 3 weeks ago:
“This just in. Panic buying of paper has led to shortages in timber, resulting in another round of toilet paper scarcity.”
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 4 weeks ago:
From what I’ve heard, it’s like inkjet printers and a signature. Add a squiggle along the inevitable seam that is on the print. Each squiggle is different, and it may even skip every three layers or so.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 4 weeks ago:
Fallout plays a comedic take on it, but I can very much see a gun being made out of iron pipe and a shovel handle.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 4 weeks ago:
Ha! Jokes on you. My state is so poor it was the least affected by the 2008 crisis. Wait, that still sucks, only more…
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
They did that, twice. Even got a trial and 34 felonies. Repercussions? None. Honestly if you do your job and not only see nothing come of it but said felon has an impact on your job now I can sympathize a bit.
- Comment on lightbulbs 1 month ago:
3500 to 5k. My brain hates all others.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 1 month ago:
My wife still blames me for advising her to buy this instead of an ipod. It wasn’t as easy to use inho. It was drag and drop in file management and didn’t require software, but… ok?
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 1 month ago:
For me it’s news snippets, recipe ideas, 3d print ideas, and short form comedy. I look at it maybe 15min daily. Sometimes days without. My wife probably does 2hrs a day (stay home mother, homeschool teacher, honored caregiver). For her it’s the entertainment that can be quickly put down, little investment involved.
- Comment on Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads 1 month ago:
Or the fuckers claim they couldn’t deliver, or it goes on the truck, off the truck, repeat 2x, lost, then found 1 month later, or they back up over your pavers off a driveway that’s 7 cars wide, or leave your shit at side of said driveway instead of walking it to the porch 20ft away (one of these happens with every one of my FedEx deliveries) UPS usually does great, except the one moron that left my daughter’s $3k medicine by the trashcans down my hill.
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 1 month ago:
And go a tbsp every hour or so. I’ve seen so many videos of people drinking shots or larger of that stuff and stating they inhabited the bathroom all night.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 1 month ago:
Just sounds like a quote from Discworld. Trolls eat rocks.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 1 month ago:
Discworld?
- Comment on Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore' 2 months ago:
Proper noun, plural is always an ending s, ownership always apostrophe s.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 2 months ago:
Ah my old Ipaq was so much fun at sports bars…
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 months ago:
One of the coolest things in my opinion about radio is the ability to skip off the upper atmosphere and bounce a signal back down halfway across the globe. You can also bounce a signal off the moon.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 months ago:
I never could really get ahold of anyone to talk to, most Elmers in my area died. So I just use the license as an emergency line. Talked a few times on my HT, but most HAMs in my area use their cell phones nowadays.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 months ago:
The four repeaters in my area are run by one club. They do the Field Day exercise every year and from what I remember they run them around 150w per repeater. A small jenny could run those fuckers on 15gal a day fairly easily. In a huge emergency, though, you can relay morse on just 5w through 5 or less relaying techs to most of the world without repeaters at all. (1 if you’re lucky, but I’m being fair to real life interference).
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 months ago:
You legally need a license for HAM, but there’s nothing really preventing anyone from configuring a radio to licensed frequencies. As for HAMs reporting you, if it’s an emergency the FCC rarely fines anyone if it’s for medical or safety concerns, were any amateurs to even report you. The whole reason for the Tech license for example is just to know laws and rules for operation. It’s damn easy, too. License exam was $25 a few years back, 8 year term. All the questions and answers are avilable online, they just pull (35? I think) from the pool of 400. Most is pretty basic rules of common sense and civility, a few laws. Most tech questions are just converting frequencies and basic math. They don’t require morse anymore (Thank god, or I’d never pass). And if you pass the Tech, you can go right back in for free to try the next exam level. I never use mine, but I do have an HT I keep charged in case of emergencies.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
Eh, the printers should be swapped for laserjet to save money and ears. I don’t even know where one could buy paper for dot matrix printers either.