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- Comment on This automatic faucet that need the hands to be between the wall and the water to turn on. 6 months ago:
at the office we have the ones you have to push down--and hold for the water to run. i've encountered them elsewhere and you get 10-20 seconds before the water shuts off... ours doesn't. by the time you get your hand down to the water, it's shut off.
- Comment on AI is the future 6 months ago:
as real as artificial cheese.
- Comment on AI is the future 6 months ago:
the scammers are already using 'ai'
- Comment on McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills 6 months ago:
that's not a 'problem' everywhere.
if they dump the free refills here and still take 15 minutes to make a simple order, i'm going elsewhere. i've already cut way down because of cost and time, i'll just forget they exist entirely. three competitors are literally adjacent. all three also have free refills, and all three can beat mcdonalds service times. prices are basically the same now, mcdonalds hasn't had that advantage since before covid.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
it's a 'refurb', listings for those by third-party sellers are usually lacking in details, just saying 'ssd'--not what type or brand. technically, op got what he ordered.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
it really depends on where and from whom you get it. i've seen laptops sold as 'brand new' that have been cracked-open by sellers and 'upgraded' to sata ssd from nvme (worked on one a few months ago a guy just bought as new off amazon; and i've seen more than a few 'refurbished' units (desktops and laptops) with cheap sata ssd used where nvme was available.
- Comment on Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement 7 months ago:
good thing; wouldn't be able to afford the trip elsewhere anyway.
- Comment on is there a legal way to consume alcohol bought at a store, outside of a home, hotel room, etc.? 7 months ago:
when i lived down in texas (and a couple other places), the stores had can-sized paper bags for the big cans and for regular 12oz ones. and i'd see guys having clerks at the store 'bag' their beer....
then see them a few lights down the road chugging one at a red.
- Comment on I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school) 9 months ago:
erecting a firewall.
someone spycheck already, dammit!
MEDIC!!!!
- Comment on Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and the Blustery Day 11 months ago:
"Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna Play?"
- Comment on Oh yeah 11 months ago:
poopalounger.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
Sure, but Firefox isn’t one of them
but those that do inflate google's stats.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
i had to fudge the useragent to chrome yesterday to get 1080p out of azn.
- Comment on someone told me she's now in a public domain 11 months ago:
coincidentally, that face is also what she looks like as she's polishing willie's oar.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
users can modify their useragent string, and sometimes they have to because some webdevs are morons.
some browsers actually default to using chrome instead of its own.
using a browser-reported useragent string to count marketshare itself is flawed from the start, using a very narrow and limited scope of web sites to measure it--even more so.
if i counted my own clients: home, soho and small business end users... it's about even between chrome and firefox on windows (chrome users doing so on their own, as we highly recommend firefox, and vivaldi over chrome for a chromium-based solution) with edge trailing far behind; and about 3 to 1 android (chrome) over safari on mobile with (so far, but soon to change) very few mobile firefox users.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 11 months ago:
when they do fully separate the two unrelated services and people have separate charges for each, they'll soon realize how many people only watched it because it was tacked-on in the first place.
- Comment on The way this is spelled out really irks me. 11 months ago:
be kind to the poor pfc, he's paying by the week for seven years for that shitbox.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 11 months ago:
an x64 laptop that can run anything you want, including browser addons or os 'apps' if that's your jam, is clunky and 'not suitable' for "99%"? 99% of tv viewers wouldn't know how to sideload an alternate 'app' or that they even exist. and 'ugly'? the lid is always closed, it's tucked away. i can't even see it.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 11 months ago:
the first time i watched the lego movie, it (the full feature) was an ad played during the trailer for the second movie--and it didn't have any ads in it either.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 11 months ago:
the first time i watched the lego movie it (the full film) was an ad played during the trailer for the second movie. and it (the movie) didn't have ads in it.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 11 months ago:
that would be correct. get a cheap laptop.. even a shitty one for $200 (new) will work for yt.. hook it up to hdmi, get a wireless kb/trackpad to stream surf from the sofa. i set a laptop (a junky stream14 with emmc) to not shut off when lid is closed. it stays closed. i sleep and wake it from the kb (k400 early model). that is my streaming 'device': browser (firefox)+addons>apps any day.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 11 months ago:
that would be correct. get a cheap laptop.. even a shitty one for $200 (new) will work for yt.. hook it up to hdmi, get a wireless kb/trackpad to stream surf from the sofa. i set a laptop (a junky stream14 with emmc) to not shut off when lid is closed. it stays closed. i sleep and wake it from the kb (k400 early model). that is my streaming 'device': browser (firefox)+addons>apps any day.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 11 months ago:
dns-based blockers do not work on youtube. google delivers ads from the same hostnames as the content.
- Comment on KFC be like... 11 months ago:
they haven't been allowed for poultry production since the 1950s
- Comment on NASA has some explaining to do 11 months ago:
it's all part of the con. god doesn't have an aws bill. incoming traffic is null-routed, as god doesn't give a shit and never responds; and senders pay their own bandwidth.
- Comment on Reviews for "Leave The World Behind" being brigaded with copy/paste negative reviews - presumably because it was produced by the Obamas. 11 months ago:
that's all the maga and far right do.. parrot each other ad infinitum
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 11 months ago:
yea, they steam has some drm-free games available... but steam is a drm platform.. one that also helped normalize one-time-use codes and tying 'purchases' to a non-transferable online account. valve did more to shred the used pc game market than any other company.
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 11 months ago:
i got a cat toy one year instead of a computer mouse. my mom thought it was hilarious.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
you see terms like 'gridiron' for football, 'grapplers' for wrestlers, and 'harriers' for (cross country) runners frequently (or overused) in small town newspapers covering local high schools.
- Comment on Grinchmas 11 months ago:
escape from planet earth live action sequel?