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about 3 days ago from web
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@scribus I thought about it but this model is a tad too expensive for a 2 year old phone. Also I saw reviews that show that the paint is peeling off the keyboard after a short time. Also there aren't any OS updates as far I have seen.
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@scribus Keyboard smartphones are cursed by the lack of commitment from the manufacturer and the lack of enthusiasm from the public.
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Aw man. My Thinkpad X201 died. It only blinks the Wifi LED wildly and has a spinning fan on startup. I bought it used 10 years ago. Gonna need a new used.
about 6 days ago from web-
@scribus The laptop is dead. Long live the new used laptop. Just ordered a ThinkPad P52 with a NVidia Quando P2000. Not the greatest but it will do. I wanted to get away from puny Intel graphics. Good thing I didn't buy a new smartphone. I almost pulled the trigger on that.
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I'm low-key considering buying a car seat instead of a new office chair. I rather build a platform for the car seat than waste yet again over 200 bucks for a sub-par "ergonomic" office chair with worse butt comfort. I just looked-up car seats in my local listings and a whole set of two front seats and the backseat row can be bought for 100.
about 11 days ago from web-
@adiwan My high school girlfriend's dad did exactly that for their family's computer chairs, it can actually work out *incredibly* well, totally a good project idea. I've even been thinking about it as my desk chair starts wearing out....
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@scribus I think we live on a planet similar to Frogstar from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Frogstar_World_B Instead of shoes it's office chairs. I've never had an office chair that was of sufficient quality. Even my current one had the problem that its cushioning was almost nonexistent after half a year.
Before I buy a car seat I try to repair the cushions by stuffing a gel or silicone pillow into, anything that survives long butt-to-cushion interactions. I already have a silicone pillow that I put on top but it tends to slide off more times I can tolerate.
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It looks like Perplexity has gotten better at math
about 17 days ago from web-
@scribus I just tried it. It failed to compute the integral of f(x)=x^3+(1/3)*x^2-(1/5)*x+3 between -420 and 69. Wolfram Alpha and Perplexity had the same and correct stem function but they differ hugely in the computed value.
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@adiwan Huh. Well, it helped me calculate giant crops in Stardew Valley better than it helped me with the odds in a 52-card deck, at least. So there's still more room to grow.
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I think it's probably time to be honest about this: I have neither the time, nor the motivation to work on this place anymore. There's stuff going on in my personal life I'd rather not get into, so in short: I'm probably going to finally turn this place off in the next few months. If you're interested in taking ownership, let me know, but know that I'd only be comfortable handing it off to someone I know and trust, rather than any rando that shows up.
about a month ago from web- awlxaĺan likes this.
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@ceruleanspark So long, and thanks for all the fish
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@ceruleanspark wow, I was just scrolling through my password manager and I decided to see if this was still up, amazing you kept it going this long, good luck with your future endeavors!
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Got myself a nice dark brown leather jacket at the flea market for 15€. Cannot complain for that price and basically pristine condition. That would be probably 5 times new in store. It has a high collar with an integrated scarf and it has a removable insert for extra warmth during Winter. I'm not a fan of the collar but it's not that bad not to wear. I have leather jackets for warmer weather already, so I can slowly retire my really old black felt Winter coat.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan And kilometers are 1.6 to the mile, but celcius is 9/5+32 and centimeters are 2.54 per inch, why can't there just be one conversion rate?! lol
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@scribus I'll invent my own measuring standard and my own temperature standard and my own money in order to make any other standard obsolete and make everyone struggle the same way.
I'll also change the calendar to make every month 30 days long with an extra super short bonus 5-6-day long month at the end of the year for the Christmas holidays and the occasionally leap year day.
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@adiwan Finally, we'll be able to convert money into temperature, and time into color or something!!
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you ever take the wrong train from the airport and now you gotta act like you totally meant to come to this city with a suitcase just so you can sit on a bench and wait for the next train in the direction you just came from
about a month ago from web-
@zeldatra Only when I'm supposed to meet a man with white shoes and two cigarettes. His name is Thomas, and he will be expecting the codephrase. If Thomas is not present within 2 minutes of the arranged meeting time, I am to board the return train and . . . Uhh, wait....
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Yeah wine on a plane sounds fancy until they bring it to you in a paper cup. Now you’re trash. I’m trash.
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not a fan of the toe cleavage these new Nike Dri-Fit socks give me
about a month ago from web-
@scribus if i wanted to play Danny DeVito's Penguin in a Batman origin story movie, sure
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Sorry everyone did not mean to spam you. I'm new to this website, so it's doing something weird.
about a month ago from web-
@brightsparkfim Well, we're old to this website and it's always doing something weird, haha
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for the first time ever my store ran out of Diet Mountain Dew and apparently it’s because JD Vance claimed the left wanted to get rid of it and schizophrenic Facebook boomers just believed him?
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Every time it rains I put some buckets outside to collect rain water that I put into a rain water barrel. Just from today's rain I collected almost 100l (26 US liquid gallons).
about 2 months ago from web -
If Joe Biden winds up resenting Obama even half as much as I do this will all have been worth it. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876624
about 2 months ago from web-
@zeldatra I'm about to write the old Catholic in my capacity as a member of the clergy, counsel him to consider that maybe he's being a little Prideful in this matter...
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First victim a tomato fruit just fell after a very heavy rain. Still have lots.
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus Today's tomato count is 105. Spaghetti sauce will be guaranteed a thing I have to make. This week I bought a giant glass of pickles so I have a jar for all of that.
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about 2 months ago from web
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Next time Trump is on stage he can ask the people to lend an ear.
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus You can laugh at the source of my inspiration and feel better about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z59AnkxekfI
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Hahaha... If I had a decent and recent GPU I wouldn't sell. My PC is about 9 years old. At this point my PC would be in 3rd or 4th grade in Elementary School.
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus I think I have some 386/486 PC parts laying around in storage. I think at this point they are best Millenial material
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so I guess going through four heads of state in five years isn’t a winning strategy
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HELP. I bought more tomato seeds for next year. I bought "Ananas Noire", "Purple Sunrise", "Osu Blue" and some other. They look visually appealing. "Purple Sunrise" is dark pruple on top and yellow on the bottom. Wanna taste the sunrise.
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Ananas-lime lemonade is not good. I like them both individually but combined it tastes very off.
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I have now lost $250 due to one incompetent phlebotomist
about 3 months ago from web-
@adiwan I am broke and donating plasma for occasional money, but the last time I ended up bruised so I can't donate. Truck needs an oil change, we just passed Father's Day, my birthday is in about a week, and they were offering bonuses this month so it all sounded great. But it isn't.
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Another three years, another check up post. See you fellas in three more years!
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No matter how much earth I buy it gets used up faster than imagined. The earth of my raised beds settled and I wanted to top off.
about 3 months ago from web-
@scribus It's worse because when spreading out the earth it gets uncompressed and gains volume, giving the false impression it might be enough. The sacks I bought last time contained very coarse compost and over time everything sank down. This time This time I bought finer grained earth, special for tomatoes,
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It's fascinating how strong the odor is that sticks to the fingers when handling a tomato plant.
about 3 months ago from web-
@adiwan It is indeed a prodigious pungence, but kind of enjoyable. I think about cooking with tomato leaves sometimes but I don't know *what* I'd do with them lol
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The year is 2024 and white kids are still talking like slim shady in public
about 3 months ago from web -
I guess people like to complain. I watched all the "The Acolyte" episodes and I thought it was not bad. The show is about slowly revealing the truth of a story from different perspectives with misdirections that are confusing without more information. Some people are stuck in a narrow mindset of what they expect from Star Wars that cannot be achieved. I get it that mystery plots can be very frustrating but I think it's not warranted yet to completely lose one's papaya. So far "Book of Boba Fett" has done more wrong in three episodes than this.
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Ha. Hahaha. Ha. Of course, of course.... I finally have a solid "maybe" on some part-time work, and they want me to install an app. It installs, but errors out during account creation. My old-ass device, or their bad backend? The world may never know.
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@scribus I have had a “background check” in progress for two and a half years at DoorDash because of an error on their backend that nobody has ever been able to help me with.
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@zeldatra Yeah it's definitely backend, even the supervisor onboarding me was perplexed and had no one to get answers from. It was fun! haha
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Thinking of the viability of a D&D adventure about a ghost crab with the title: The crustacean apparition.
about 3 months ago from web-
@scribus Hmmm... An underwater adventure about merfolk having a great fest with food and games, as well as a battle tournament. However the tournament is disrupted by a ghost crab and kills off or scares off combatants of the tournament to death.
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I have dressed like a weenie with no fashion sense for basically my entire life and I’m like cool with that but I think people are starting to think I only have like two shirts because everything I wear looks the same
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bro this site is dead there's only like 3 people
about 3 months ago from web
