adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 📡📡📡 15 hours ago:
beeembo!
try as they might, and they have ever since they went nationwide in the u.s. after buying sara lee… but i just don’t think it’ll catch on.
- Comment on spaloga 15 hours ago:
well, that’s ok. a chicken on the beach is probably the beginning of another one anyway.
- Comment on How not to advertise 101! 19 hours ago:
even those are a let down these days. can only get ‘essentials’ with how high prices have climbed, but at least i know when milk, milk or bread are
on salea little cheaper than the other stores’ also-high prices. - Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 1 day ago:
a few of the stores here, including both ‘grocery’ stores, do contribute close-dated and past-dated foodstuffs that isn’t actually spoiled or bad to the local food pantry, who then distributes it to a huge line of people each week.
some weeks it’s a pretty light box to pick up, but every now and then there will be a package of porterhouse or t-bones at the bottom of the box underneath all the “should’ve been eaten a week ago” produce.
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks ago:
elsewhere in the film, new zealand is on a map shown on a display.
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks ago:
you mean like new zealand missing in first contact?
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 weeks ago:
if you’ve cleared your browser histories (cookies, mainly) and it persists and bothers you, you can try to force a new ip from their dhcp. process would vary depending on what gear you have. at home, i use my own and only need to give the router a different wan mac and reboot the modem. with their gear, might need to just unplug the stuff overnight or something as i dont think you can get at the settings–hell, you need their stupid app to change the wifi password.
but like i said, i’d just let them deal with it. it probably only affects their own determination of your location. if it does spread elsewhere because they’re ‘sharing’ that data with others–just roll with it. i actually love it when we hop on a weather site or something and they’re way off, like michigan or missouri.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 weeks ago:
i wouldn’t “help” them by submitting a correction. they’re the ones that assumed wrong, they can sort it out.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
totally tracks. that would be the 80s for me and i still listen to it more than from any other decade.
- Comment on How come on The Price is Right you can't bid in change like 999.99 or for the jackoffs 1000.01? Or can you but has never been attempted? 2 weeks ago:
bid in whole dollars–and values of items bid on are also rounded to the nearest dollar, too. i think that’s just part of the rules. as far as i can remember, only a few of the pricing ‘games’ (and the big wheel, of course) had things in cents or dollars+cents.
- Comment on Have a Tootsie Roll, Fatso! 2 weeks ago:
the whole thing was advertisements for tootsie roll candies. so the name ‘fit’, i guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
those are my sheets. wuts your dad doin’ here?
- Comment on Can I freeze already cooked burger patties? 3 weeks ago:
yea, you can freeze it. i’d do something like 2 big or 4 juniors per sandwich bag, then put those bags into a couple larger gallon size bags. pull out one of the small bags at a time to thaw in the fridge.
back in the before times, when i could afford beef, i’d do 3-5 lbs at a time that way. now i just get 'em every now and then from my boss when they cook a few extra on the grill and she brings me a couple (home raised, the very good stuff). and yea, they’re often frozen when i get 'em from her, too.
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 3 weeks ago:
i see a ram upgrade in your future. 4gb is barely enough for win10 to boot and run a browser or something. will need more on top of that for what you’re gonna be running with qemu. other than that, as long as you have virtualization enabled, the rest is ‘good enough’
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 3 weeks ago:
absolutely… but you may need to turn down graphics settings in-game. also make sure you don’t block the ventilation–most have intakes on the bottom and output the side or the back of the base.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 3 weeks ago:
if i was changing mine, i’d want something literally ungoogleable… something so common it gets completely lost in the crowd.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 3 weeks ago:
we’ve been going backwards on fuel efficiency. the little compact i had back in the early 90s got over 40mpg.
- Comment on I found the Picasso gender bathroom 3 weeks ago:
gonna guess the other bathroom is the same, just ‘backwards’. someone mixed-up the counters and nobody cared enough to correct the error.
- Comment on outsmarted 3 weeks ago:
30k each, won’t break up the set, plus 10k transaction fee.
- Comment on How is it possible that Bungie didn't get in real legal trouble due to all that "vaulting" bullshit during Destiny 2? 3 weeks ago:
My Little Pony gardening sim
that would be an improvement for some.
- Comment on Do you remember every single scene and dialogue of a show or movie you just watched? 3 weeks ago:
it takes watching (or reading) something many times to remember even just a few choice quotes. i dunno how people pull quotes out of thin air from obscure things they’ve seen or read one time.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 4 weeks ago:
debian trixie was released at just the right time, about two months before win10 went on life support.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 4 weeks ago:
we still have some win10 here. not too worried given who is using them and for what purposes. we’ve retired from some of our work so we don’t have or access any sensitive data (medical records mostly) anymore.
if you need it, try to score the extra update time for ‘free’ (check settings-windows update for the offer). i’ve done that for a few people and it didn’t even mess up their ‘backup’ status… but do check to make sure it’s off if you do that method. there are other ‘methods’ but idk if LW lets you discuss them.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 4 weeks ago:
the best ones usually do sneak a little something in for the grown-ups “stuck” watching them.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 4 weeks ago:
“still watch”? i never stopped.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
pretty much anything can serve files… would probably need to be on a wired lan connection, not slow wifi, and there obviously wouldn’t be any real-time transcoding available as there are no hardware encoders on that chip. it does have decoders to playback mpeg2, wmv9 and h264, though.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
your old laptop has a 45 watt a4-3330mx processor. it’s slow. very slow. it uses a lot of power for that slowness. use it to learn on, but once you’re ready to ‘deploy’ an always-on service, i would highly recommend something a little newer and more energy efficient. especially if you live in a part of the world with high electricity costs.
the intel n100 processor in popular minipc draw a max of just 6 watts while also being 6-8x faster than the 3300mx
- Comment on If the next president said screw the norms, and rented or put Camp David up for sale to create a program to increase SNAP benefits could he? 4 weeks ago:
the defense dept ‘owns’ camp david.
all of the bullshit policy and ‘executive orders’ could be undone in a day. legislation and court decisions will take longer, perhaps much longer, to ‘undo’.
turning the white house into an airbnb wouldn’t be allowed for security reasons (among other things).
policy can be made, and without congressional oversight, over how tax enforcement and evasion investigations go. legislation would be needed, though, to ‘give’ the proceeds back to the ‘middle class’ by way of tax credits or somesuch.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 4 weeks ago:
if she won’t use or learn a password manager, then get her an address book to write them down in. it’s got tabs for organizing sites alphabetically and plenty of room for each entry to have the site, username, password and a date (it was added to the book or updated). there are ‘password books’, but an address book works just as well. the labels on the blanks don’t need to match with what you’re actually using it for.
i make my own for people that need one, using a page layout i made, printed and 3-hole punched, then put into either a folder with clips to hold the paper or a small 3-ring binder.
- Comment on Why doesn't more software support ODF / ODS files? 5 weeks ago:
not that microsoft actually follows those standards 100%.
