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the news on regular tv last night was totally lopsided. tons of 'reaction' from the right and far-right, hardly anything from anyone else.

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"yea, i know brandy. she lives two trailers over"

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10 years, double the prices? ain't that far off.

at our mcd, at least that much for many, if not most, things on their menu. everything i (used to) buy there, anyway. and way more than that for the former 'dollar menu' items. beverages the least affected, although it's now probably double, too (the large cup shrunk on top of the ~ 90% increase since then).

ares35 ,

and that's pretty much where the similarities end.

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and i wouldn't want to see diaper don on the cover of sports illustrated swimsuit edition.

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see also: chromebook's chromeos

ares35 ,

also 13 original colonies.. 13 stripes on the flag.

some magahead: so that means 1.2..3..4.....7 republicans........ and 1..2....6 confederates?

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

ares35 ,

i bought a big external hdd recently on impulse... a clearance sale. it was really, really cheap. with the thinking that i could 'shuck' it because i'm short on space in a couple storage systems. i checked. i can, but i haven't. hell, i haven't even used it yet other than to run a full smart diag on it, followed by a full format and a read/write verify. took days. then i put it back in the box and have basically forgotten about it until now.

you have to be careful on what models you buy. some have usb built onto the controller board (no internal sata) or other things (e.g. encryption chip, weird power) that make it more difficult or even impossible to use the internal drive in an environment other than the enclosure it ships in.

ares35 ,

i bought a few smr drives, knowing they were smr. they were cheaper, a lot cheaper than the same amount of space in cmr. used only for static media storage, so that's not a big deal, really., but holy hell was it slow getting stuff on them initially.

i have a few self-powered externals that are also smr (quite common with those as they use 2.5in notebook hdd). when those things have to start shuffling bits around and rewriting tracks, sustained write speeds fall well under what even usb2 can send.

ares35 ,

these clowns have shifted so far to the right, they're in danger of falling off the edge of the earth.

ares35 ,

i half expect a hung jury. there's bound to be one maga on the jury that won't budge.

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i kinda expect google to go all 'new coke' here and unveil a 'classic' search experience as their experiment in 'new google' to be more like pepsi bing continues to fail spectacularly. they've already got the 'web' tab, it just has to be rebranded and made the default on a clean page with a link to 'google ii' which will quietly vanish from existence in a few years and nobody will notice.

Does the USA have any open market cellular options that are legitimate pay-as-you-go and only for what you use options like Europe yet?

I've lived under a rock for 10 years. I did Metro ages ago while most were still on contracts. Surely we've reached true capitalist open market freedom by now. Is it still total closed market, noncompetitive, privateering corruption?

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ting hasn't been the same since dish bought it from tucows.

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small town, middle of nowhere in the upper midwest. an hour away from basically anything other than walmart and a few fast food joints, and more than our fair share of climate change-denying maga morons.

we have multiple locations with chargers.

ares35 ,

there's a lot of stupid, ignorant assholes running small businesses all over the place that think they own their employees and can boss them 24/7. this could totally be a legit posting somewhere.

if you want me answering my phone 24/7, you're paying me 24/7--and providing the phone you want me to answer.

ares35 ,

patents is what you're thinking of. and all (afaik) of them relating to mp3 format have expired.

Research puts dollar figure on climate savings from electric school buses | A substantial portion of the half-million school buses in the United States are “highly polluting old diesel vehicles” ( wapo.st )

Replacing the average diesel bus would generate a benefit of $84,200 per bus, split nearly evenly between health and climate effects. Such a replacement would cut 181 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per bus and reduce childhood deaths and asthma cases from diesel emissions, the researchers conclude....

ares35 ,

most transit buses are also larger and/or heavier, with larger engines that burn more fuel.

ares35 ,

being a convicted felon would make him eminently more qualified to be a republican candidate for office.

ares35 ,

not to worry, it won't be long until "after almost 29 years..."

ares35 ,

verizon did the same thing awhile ago, and it was more than five bucks a month.

was still cheaper for us to keep the old plan than to switch to a new "unlimited" one, though.

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don't mess around with imaging to a file on the zfs, then restoring it. simply clone nvme -> nvme using a usb nvme adapter then replace the internal with the clone.

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usb nvme adapters are not expensive and it likely won't be the only time you need it. they are a handy accessory to have on hand if you have nvme storage.

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hello childhood. it's been a looooong time.

i had a poster of this cover on my bedroom wall back then.

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those sound highly addictive.

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mom always got her 'cut'....

as payment for driving us across town to the 'good' neighborhoods.

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first boot: no i don't want a 365 trial.

still first boot: no i don't want 365 'basic', either.

(you should know this msa already has a one-off office license on it, you fuckwits)

and yea, still in first boot: no i don't want game pass trial.

then game pass notifications shortly after from the 'store'.

this was this past weekend setting up a new desktop with 11 pro.

ares35 ,

judge harold t. stone would have him in lockup for contempt before the first commercial break.

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another $1000, paid out of the minnesota event proceeds, for skipping the graduation ceremony he was granted a day off from court to attend.

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only 50% more than it 'should'? they're more than double the inflation-adjusted price here--just for the burger.

ares35 ,

this was gonna happen.

most of the 'conservative' far-right congregations in the u.s. broke-off from umc over the last several years.

ares35 ,

good thing; wouldn't be able to afford the trip elsewhere anyway.

ares35 ,

the moron majority sitting on bench do know exactly what they're doing. they just dgaf about ramifications of their idiotic rulings.

ares35 ,

it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their "discount" brand,

WTF is going on with the world? Why are there so many manufacturing jobs that require rotating schedules? Are they just trying to destroy your soul and your health? ( sh.itjust.works )

I have been looking for manufacturing, assembly, production positions all over the Midwest. It's absolutely shocking how many of them want you to work rotating shifts....

ares35 ,

if you have to work all three shifts every three weeks, you can't realistically hold-down a second job or attend regular classes, you're exclusively at the disposal of your masters.

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he abused market position and squashed competitors for pretty much his entire time at the helm of microsoft.

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replace people with computers and you don't need as many 'managers' for the people that are left.

huh. imagine that.

ares35 ,

aren't icebergs the 'icebergs of the sea'?

ares35 ,

my utility charges $25 a month just to be hooked up. then there's taxes and some community bullshit fees on top of the actual electricity usage. so even though my usage has dropped quite a bit over the years, and the base rate hasn't really gone up that much (about 10-12% over two decades).. my bill is still more than double what it used to be.

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the new york times is just now discovering this? trial jumping and service jumping have been a thing since netflix was the only game in town. before, even, as it was not uncommon for one to jump between directv and dish for tv, or telco and cable for home internets for the 'new' customer promos (which is why those companies like the 2 year contract with promo rates only good for the first year now).

ares35 ,

of course i learn of this today, a day after i just spent $10 each to 'recycle' a bunch of dead monitors.

ares35 ,

a pallet of 4th gens? i have a dozen left here from around that era that i can't get rid of without literally giving them away. they're 'tolerable' for a gui linux or win10 with an ssd, but the 'performance per watt' just isn't there with hardware this old. i used a few of them (none in an always-on role, though), but the rest just sit in the corner, without home nor purpose.

these 800 g1s are, iirc, 12vo, so upgrade or reuse potential is a bit limited. most users would want windows, and win10 does run 'ok enough' on 4th gen, just make sure they're booting from ssd (120gb minimum). but they'll run into that arbitrarily-errected wall-of-obsolescence with trying to upgrade or install win11 when win10 retires in ~ 18 months (you can 'rufus' a win11 installer, but there's no guarantee that you will be able to in the future). that limits demand and resale value of pretty much all the pre-8th gen hardware.

ares35 ,

and this is why i refused to give you my social back when i lived in your service area and had a land line installed.

ares35 ,

my first-gen i7 is from 2009. still use it every day, and it plays the games i play (which doesn't include any recent 'aaa' games).

among all the systems around here, which are all former scrap and junk, except for an equally-old propus core athlon that was built using parts from old sales--back when pc parts sales were good, it's the best one i have.

You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

I've got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them....

ares35 ,

just put a big pillow 'on' the external hard drive.

ares35 ,

i have a couple dual core athlons (windsor and brisbane athlon 64 x2) at the office from that era. they are still used, even. have 8gb ddr2, dvdrw, and dx10-capable geforce cards.

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i personally bought them. no i don't have money. didn't then either. they were about $200 each, just prior to when vista started shipping (they were on sale). ram was upgraded from scrap, so was one of the video cards and one of the cpu (they were both originally windsors)--the other was bought new for ~$50 in late 2008 or so.

ares35 ,

you should see where the ground borger came from.....

ares35 ,

trump would veto everything passed by a democrat-controlled congress that didn't pass with near-unanimous support from republicants, too; abuse tf out of 'executive orders' (even more than the first go around); stack scotus even more; and further empower other nutjobs to follow in his diaper droppings.

trump moving back to 1600 penn ave nw would be a disaster from which this nation would not recover.

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