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redshirt posted:I need a second garage cuz the first one is just for a ton of junk. mine has my summer car in it so my winter drivers still get cold 
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His Divine Shadow posted:I just get in my warm heated car every morning without even having had to start the car. But sure keep on doing it the dumbest way. when my landlord inures me to fixing my apartment I will let him know that I would like him to build a heated garage over these 12 spaces and stop letting people block me in because they don't want to park on the street once we handle that we can talk about electrical connections
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:mine has my summer car in it so my winter drivers still get cold Gotta baby the summer car though. Winter car can suck it up.
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All this winter car talk is really making me miss timely and affordable public transit, the greater Baltimore area sucks rear end at that poo poo. On-topic: the dumb baby body wash I use for my dumb baby skin has replaced their old cap with one that features a water-tight gasket seal requiring 1,200 pascals of force to produce any of the liquid inside. When you do finally cross the ludicrous pressure threshold it dribbles out one sad, pithy little squiggle of body wash. I kept hurting my hands so I figured I'd just dump it all into a glass pump bottle but that took forever and now my hands hurt anyway. gently caress you, Dove.
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The Disney+ app barely even pretends to remember where I left off on a movie. Every time I tried to watch a movie from where I left off, it just started back to the beginning. Hulu now has tiny, horizontal banners between rows. I thought I had scrolled down to the Continue Watching section and pressed select, but it turns out I was on the Huludays button. Also it's really cool that I have to scroll to the fourth row of the home screen to get to the Continue Watching section.
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Professor Wayne posted:
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Professor Wayne posted:The Disney+ app barely even pretends to remember where I left off on a movie. Every time I tried to watch a movie from where I left off, it just started back to the beginning. Lol anybody still using streaming for TV/movies deserves to suffer.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Yeah I know I live in one of these places. Except it seems in america they don't, instead they just turn on their cars and let them idle until warm. America is famously a solid block of people who all act the same and live in the same climate. Block heaters are pretty common in places with long cold winters. Most of the country doesn't have enough of a need to pay for it. Cerekk posted:All you people that don't have remote start can keep making up whatever bullshit thing helps you lie to yourself that Pleasant Luxuries are Bad, Actually. I'm gonna keep enjoying getting into a car with toasty warm seats and steering wheel when it's cold out. That's right. I start my car as soon as it's in sight when I'm walking towards it, and when I am at home I do it while I'm getting ready so I have a nice warm interior and easier ice scraping.
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my office room has lights and power attached to a motion sensor. if my coworkers aren't in, unless I get up and move around every 20-30 minutes, the lights go dark and my monitor turns off and I'm looking at some loser piece of poo poo online.
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mawarannahr posted:my office room has lights and power attached to a motion sensor. if my coworkers aren't in, unless I get up and move around every 20-30 minutes, the lights go dark and my monitor turns off and I'm looking at some loser piece of poo poo online. I'm not doing it. Someone else say it.
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mawarannahr posted:my office room has lights and power attached to a motion sensor. if my coworkers aren't in, unless I get up and move around every 20-30 minutes, the lights go dark and my monitor turns off and I'm looking at some loser piece of poo poo online. I hate that guy
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mawarannahr posted:my office room has lights and power attached to a motion sensor. if my coworkers aren't in, unless I get up and move around every 20-30 minutes, the lights go dark and my monitor turns off and I'm looking at some loser piece of poo poo online. This is good, you should be getting up and moving around at least every twenty minutes. I mean, just look at that guy, he needs it.
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Time_pants posted:I'm not doing it. Someone else say it. Turn your monitor off and look at your handsome self instead 
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Duck and Cover posted:Lol anybody still using streaming for TV/movies deserves to suffer. I only have an xbox one hooked up to an old tv 
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Vampire Panties posted:700 is 50% of 1400, que no? is that relatively close? Incredible math on this genius goon Jesus Christ
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Biplane posted:I only have an xbox one hooked up to an old tv I remember the days before streaming or even chromecasts when an original xbox with kodi was the best method to watch pirated media on tv's of the time.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:tangentially related: sometime back during covid, when supply chains got all hosed up, material suppliers and a lot of fab and machine shops started quoting poo poo with ultra short quote durations. like i remember at the height of absurdity my local metal supplier started quoting me for 15 minutes. if i didnt place the order immediately the price would change lol. since going back to normal, material supply has stabilized somewhat so some places started lengthening those quote durations again but some places just left it on their quoting sheets and didnt change the wording ("this quote is valid until 14:24:32" or whatever so its just some automated system spitting it out). i dont have a problem with it usually but i'm getting an engine block and head decked by a fly cutter and i responded to a quote today that i was sent yesterday and they said the price has changed lmfao. bitch its a material removal process! what cost changed?!?!? That’s hyperinflation lol. I remember in the late 00s hearing how in Zimbabwe, the prices would change between when you sat down for a meal and when you were finished and ready to pay. In hindsight, one wonders why they didn’t just pay upfront.
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mawarannahr posted:my office room has lights and power attached to a motion sensor. if my coworkers aren't in, unless I get up and move around every 20-30 minutes, the lights go dark and my monitor turns off and I'm looking at some loser piece of poo poo online. They did this in the bathroom when I was having some plumbing issues and the lights just shut off with you in the stall. making GBS threads in a dark cave like my Neanderthal ancestors.
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galagazombie posted:making GBS threads in a dark cave like my Neanderthal ancestors. For some of us this is just called “regular posting”
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Marenghi posted:I remember the days before streaming or even chromecasts when an original xbox with kodi was the best method to watch pirated media on tv's of the time. I still have a kodi box. Never been without one since my first modded og Xbox with xbmc back in 2005. Somehow still the best interface of any media player.
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I just discovered my HP printer had a trial HP instant ink subscription, meaning that the printer won’t use the ink cartridges when the subscription lapses. So there’s ink in the cartridge that is inaccessible to the printer. The subscription plan works on number of pages you plan to print. Welcome to the future.
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MoonshineWilly posted:I just discovered my HP printer had a trial HP instant ink subscription, meaning that the printer won’t use the ink cartridges when the subscription lapses. So there’s ink in the cartridge that is inaccessible to the printer. The subscription plan works on number of pages you plan to print. Welcome to the future. Not to be a dick, but you bought an HP printer - a company that is *known* for this bullshit for the last 20 years. I don't know that I can muster up any sympathy.
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galagazombie posted:They did this in the bathroom when I was having some plumbing issues and the lights just shut off with you in the stall. making GBS threads in a dark cave like my Neanderthal ancestors. This is supposed to stop people taking long breaks in the stalls but you can totally just out-Alpha it.
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skooma512 posted:App stuff has proven to be pretty ephemeral as it is too. I had a Fitbit in 2015 because work was just giving them out, and by 2021 the hardware was all poo poo and Google bought them and they are being imploded. Less than 7 years and all that poo poo is e-waste now, and usually within 3 years of purchase anyway. There will be weeks when an app just doesn't work. The Taco Bell app was that way for me, just immediate crash, and they didn't fix it for a week. I tried to get my mom a fitness band that was comparable to fitbit, and the biggest brand is Huawei, which is lol is now under embargo in the west and you can't get their app for a product from a year or two ago. The entire idea of an app store is an enshittification of the package managers *nix systems have had for 30 years.
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Now that all the leaves are off the trees I'm seeing a lot of tents set up in the woods near roads. Like, in the little patches of woods nobody cares about. There seem to be A LOT more homeless people around here all of the sudden. Feels like something's wrong.
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No, capitalism is working great. Maybe a real answer: some COVID rent,/foreclosure control expired in the past few months.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Not to be a dick, but you bought an HP printer - a company that is *known* for this bullshit for the last 20 years. I don't know that I can muster up any sympathy. If this thread is going to be of any lasting value (lmao), I feel like it's going to need a hard list of the technological traps we have found ourselves in. List of things you'd be an idiot to assume are going to stay awesome and cheap just for you:
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• Any Samsung or LG appliance • Any washer that isn't exactly a Maytag MVWP575GW or some Speed Queens • Anything made by KitchenAid • Anything made by Bose • Literally every loving TV on the planet. Oh my god they are all so loving bad. • phones • phone apps • any service relying on phones or phone apps The real heuristic I apply these days is: "Have I seen an ad for this?" If I have, I avoid it - basically everything that's advertised is poo poo, and there is a better and often cheaper version of that thing somewhere else. If it's a brand you already know without knowing the product space already, then it's probably poo poo. This doubly true for anything you've seen marketed on Youtube or Twitch. The best manufacturer of [thing] is almost always some obscure company that isn't spending 50% of their operating overhead on commercials.
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Any product or service whose main selling point is convenience e: Also any free service
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deep dish peat moss posted:Any product or service whose main selling point is convenience This is an absolutely fantastic heuristic as well. If someone is trying to sell you """convenience""", that product is complete trash 100% of the time.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Any product or service whose main selling point is convenience I also distrust toilet paper it's very direct, honest convenience
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Woolie Wool posted:The entire idea of an app store is an enshittification of the package managers *nix systems have had for 30 years. Have you ever used the flatpak/snap based Linux "app store" guis on the desktop distros? All the storefront software is the worst poo poo that takes a long time to launch or do anything else (also very buggy and crash prone).
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TotalLossBrain posted:I also distrust toilet paper The better product here is a bidet
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mawarannahr posted:Have you ever used the flatpak/snap based Linux "app store" guis on the desktop distros? All the storefront software is the worst poo poo that takes a long time to launch or do anything else (also very buggy and crash prone). fake edit: snap store seems to feature a lot of common and useful robotics stuff, and it seems to be reasonably well supported, which makes sense. still wouldn't trust it to not be a pain to work around
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The Pandemic took some shots at the Hotel Breakfast. It took a while for anything not 100% pre packaged to come back, but when it did, strangely, potatoes have disappeared. I have not seen them at any hotel since before 2020, and they used to be a default staple. Did potatoes become super expensive? The waffle stations have slowly returned in most places..
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