Many of us also lived through the era where any 13 year old could steal Mommy’s credit card and rent a botnet for that ezpz

My MC server a decade ago was tiny and it still happened every few months when we banned some butthurt kid

So many people go boomer argument mode over this because they don’t like change, but their anger is clearly misplaced. The 3.5mm is not the king of audio connectors and never was, it’s death could very easily have been a good thing.

Why the fuck didn’t headphone makers start offering USB-C devices once phones pulled this move? My PC mobo from 2017 has a C port that could be used for this, I’m certain computers could have easily adapted (and they’re the way smaller market anyway). Is it just because apple had to be special with their lightning bullshit? If so, they’d better start it up now!

Instead of being able to buy new cans with the wire that my phone uses I have to snag an adapter. Not a BIG deal but this change is over 5 fucking years old, we should have these devices as the norm now to avoid all of the fucking issues we’re currently looking at

Until I upgraded to Linux Mint recently I actually DID use a Soundblaster card (modern one from 2018) to drive my super nice headphones and speakers

Too bad mint weirdly hated it despite recognizing it, but the new speakers have a fine DAC so…

I’ve got a server I’m mass downloading anything I or my wife can think of and quite a few obscure movies and shows aren’t on the major sites in any form that has enough seeders to actually finish

So, Usenet it is, at least until I’m mostly done.

If I was huntig for it all by hand I’d probably not bother but I’m using the Arr stack for automation so

Vice: bad habit, especially used as a form of escapism

Not what it means. You’d also have to prove it’s a bad habit even if it were the meaning

my vice is alcohol

Also not a vice unless you’re a weird ass prude

You don’t need to be defensive about it

Pointing out your holier-thsn-thou attitude is stupid because you’re straight-upwrong about something isn’t being defensive.

You don’t like it, that doesn’t mean it’s immoral to do it

smoking it stinks up the whole block/park. You need to get a handle on that.

Sploofs and vapes

it’s a vice

Oh, you’re one of those. No, it’s not.

Vice: immoral or wicked behavior

All the salty downvoters mad because they personally find somethig immoral when it’s not. Stay mad

down voted by people who think any Kraft ceese is real cheese?

It is, you’re just using the FDAs god-awful definition from over 100 years ago that only cheese made in the specific traditional way is “cheese”

Kraft singles are American cheese: typically a cheddar and Colby jack mix with 2 specific chemicals added to allow water to stay in the mixture better. Boil them together, spread thinly and let harden.

Kraft singles have more chemicals and a more complex process so they can get as thin as they do, but they’re cheese by any normal person’s definition.

here’s a great video by NileBlue on the subject

has just enough customization options ootb

Mints biggest crime is not having a Mint-Y dark mode despite so many people asking for it if you Google.

Best theme, bright mode only. Criminal.

While my sentence could be worded more clearly, that’s a pretty bad reading of what I said.

My car is valued by KBB at ~6k in it’s current state.

That current state includes a battery that was replaced under warranty 6 months ago, and is thus basically a brand-new battery, 9 years left on its warranty and everything.

So if something goes wrong with the battery and it isn’t directly your fault: it gets replaced for free. The only 6k being spent is the original 6k on the car as a whole

I’ll get an electric when I can get a used one for around $5k and not have to worry about the battery going out and costing $20k.

The lie detector determined that… Was a lie!

My car has a basically brand-new battery (6 months old) and is currently estimated at 6k or so

The time is here already my guy

I live in an area with the exact opposite issue (my battery MELTED) so I’m probably wrong, but isn’t that what the battery blankets they try to sell you on when you buy an EV is for?

When accelerating my Leaf makes a “woooooooooooOOOOOOOOP” noise I’ve seen described as the “UFO sound”

Tbh I like it a lot more than the vroom of even my motorcycle cuz it’s funny

kinda feel like those individuals shouldn’t be allowed to use computers to do their jobs. If you can’t master just pass the basics, sorry. Here’s a pencil and a pad of paper.

My wife had her HR rep get pissed at her just yesterday for sending an email to her boss and other higher-ups asking why assistant managers at her company can’t use the computers theyre on all day properly. She had asked for a screenshot of something so she could see what the other person was seeing and they replied with “I can’t do that idk how” and thought that was acceptable?

Luckily the other higher ups told HR to shut up and that she was only mad because it’s her job to ensure basic computer literacy and she clearly didn’t.

People 100% get into the mindset that “well, I already know the basics, so anything I don’t know is advanced user shit so I can’t learn it” and it’s infuriating

Everyone forgets PEACE WALKER

Customer Service Rep is my title

CSR/AR/AP/Billing/IT is a lot closer to my actual workload

Before that I worked in the yard doing propane repair, and my name starts with Ha- so if I ever make Assistant Manager, well, I’ll truly have become my childhood hero by complete fuckin accident.

Oh, I also used to be the guy responsible for keeping the people living up in the hills near Redding, CA with power after the fires 2 years ago. During the 6 rivers lightning complex fire in 2022 I was within a few hundred feet of the fire break crews while I was 4x4ing up mountainsides to keep generators full of fuel.

Ctrl+D to deselect is stupid.

Lol

My man GIMP is the only software I’ve ever seen that doesn’t use CTRL+D for deselect

I’ve never worked an office job that wasn’t pirating software openly and somewhat proudly when pointed out

As the guy who used to have to clean public toilets:

Those are someones only office!