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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My elderly parents' car broke down a couple hundred miles away. How can I get them and their car home (or fixed) with a minimum of cost and hassle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They said in the comment I replied to

  but as far as I can tell, for it to be useful either I’d have to be with them or one of them would have to be a member of my household and an “Associate Member” on my account, none of which is the case.

  But with AAA, it’s not about payment. I’m not sure if you know or not, but AAA is a membership service some people pay for annually in North America and it provides access to towing.

  In my case, I pay about $50 each year and have 3 slots for the year to get towing, battery service, gas delivered if I run out of gas, tire changes if I get a flat, among other tow services. If I need one, I call in to AAA and they contact a local tow truck driver to come on behalf of AAA but they are not employees of AAA. There is no payment needed when the tow truck driver arrives under this service as AAA handles that on their end from membership fees from members.

  But when the tow truck driver arrives, someone on scene with the troubled vehicle needs to show proof that they are the AAA member who called for the tow truck driver. If no one has that AAA card to prove membership, the tow truck driver can leave without doing anything for the vehicle.

  So my comment was suggesting that one of OP’s parents downloads the AAA app to their phone which may be treated the same as the plastic card and they can provide that when the tow truck driver arrives as if they are OP and called for the tow, themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My elderly parents' car broke down a couple hundred miles away. How can I get them and their car home (or fixed) with a minimum of cost and hassle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t one of them download the app and pretend to be you when the tow truck driver gets there?

  On my iPhone, I have my AAA in my digital wallet which I think is treated as good as the plastic card.

  Might be something to look into?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPD Win Mini Review: Defying the Laws of Physics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish those little PCs would make a comeback.

  But smartphones have changed that, largely.

  There is a desire to go back to dumb flip phones, though, and I wonder if that could help bring small form factor PCs back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they really encourage it? Genuinely curious as I never heard that before, but that’s wild if true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really wish people wouldn't mess others around over sales sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved messing with these people.

  “Oh that 3 year old car for $2,200? I’d love to buy it? What’s that? You have to ship it from Michigan? What a coincidence! My brother lives in Michigan! He can go pick it up and save us both the time and costs of shipping :) What’s that? It’s locked up in a storage lot? Oh that’s no trouble at all. I’ll have my brother go down there and pressure them to let it go :)”

  Just one excuse after another until they’d eventually stop replying. About the only way I could get some fun out of the frustration when just trying to browse for a decent car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube does this "suggested video" thing now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really miss the days when the music was relevant. If you watched a Papa Roach music video, there were other Papa Roach videos being suggested. Now, it doesn’t even suggest music in the same genre. It just recommends music I’ve already seen like Tupac or really out there genres like a pop music video I’ve never watched. Not relevant to my taste or the video itself, but nice try, YouTube…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.

  That and devs have just one machine to design their game for versus trying to make their game run on hundreds of machines with very different specs.

  Some devs, especially first party devs who work closely with or directly for the manufacturer also have insider knowledge of the system they’re developing the game for. Some developers did this in the Nintendo 64 era by tapping into resources that other games weren’t using to push out even more performance from the hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't OneDrive/Sharepiont the exact OPPOSITE of a shared drive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always get asked what the difference is between SharePoint and OneDrive. I have no fucking clue. I don’t even think Microsoft knows.

  And they rename shit all the time, so they probably are the same thing and some department just never got the memo to rebrand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But they sell retro games too! Yeah, that little shelf in the middle beside the shirts. No, the really skinny one. The one with one obscure GameCube game, 2 OG Xbox games, and a bunch of crappy Disney Channel DS games. Yeah, that’s the one. They sell retro games!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'She had limited value': Seattle officer investigated over bodycam comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bet you won’t ever hear him talk like that about a fellow cop getting gunned down or run over…the whole department would beat his ass.

  But us plebs? Fuck ‘em.

  Crazier is that it sounds like he’s on a call, so it’s not just him but someone else engaging in this conversation. Makes you wonder what they too were saying in between these words being said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the purpose of 3D printing in ABS vs other more modern filaments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another good point. My printer is in a corner near some windows for that reason as well. Good ventilation when done printing and away from everything else in the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the purpose of 3D printing in ABS vs other more modern filaments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer it because my prints are more durable and ABS just seems to have a better quality than the PLA prints I’ve made. I’ve made stuff for outdoor use and PLA is biodegradable, whereas ABS is not to the same level.

  My printer is enclosed so it handles ABS fairly well. A lot of consumer printers are open so ABS isn’t well suited for them so most people still stick with PLA partially for that reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it wasn’t those, it would be something else. There’s always something that will cause fear and it won’t help anything to remove everything that upsets them, especially in preparation for the real world. We see how it doesn’t work very well with overprotective parents who try to “protect” their children from everything. Those kids usually grow up maladaptive to the real world.

  But if it’s not under the bed or a closet, it’ll be the jacket on the chair in the darkness or the tree limb in the dark outside of the window.

  What happens if the kid goes to a friend’s house who doesn’t abide by these same rules? What happens if something happens to you and the kid has to be put in foster care or with a relative who doesn’t practice the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Johnny Hardwick Recorded New King of the Hill Episodes for Hulu Revival Prior to Death (Exclusive)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What is with that art style? I hope that’s not the final outcome.