Here’s the thing.

I’ve been watching TV occasionally - she watches junk TV on this huge thing she got, and, nahhh. I usually do streaming - and every now and then an advert that comes on is actually for a product I’ve never heard of. It’ll be something dumb like little Caesar’s crazy French toast or some shit, but, to the ad’s credit, I would never have known about it if I didn’t see the ad.

But, 95% of ads are absolute junk. Payday loans, reverse mortgages, Dodge Rams; junk. I’d love to see the new products and Superbowl ads, and then nothing else.

This isn’t complete bunk. The new indicator of wealth is healthy teeth. Poor kids don’t get to go to he dentist regularly, so have more problems later on; rich kids get regular cleanings to prevent buildup, and have much healthier teeth.

The trick was making us equate white-white teeth with healthy teeth, even though there’s a shade of ‘white’ that is just healthy, clean enamel with no plaque buildup but isn’t true white.

I only retained this when I heard it as I was a poor kid and, wow, am I glad I have a good job as our dental care is still mercenary as fuck.

Canadians know this is for American cops.

It’s extortion. You get the special cup they’ve been saving all day that the guy spat in if you don’t tip.

Just pining for the microgravity.

He’s going to RBG us.

If Pres Biden ends up resigning during his administration, early or late, almost anyone else in the country is still a better replacement than Mr Trump. Actual mobsters may be better at running the country than Mr Trump.

I suspect the make-up and shoe were a metaphor for fronts and personalities, but that may be a little deep.

I don’t prefer proxmox, but I will say that when you have even a machine with 8 or 16gb RAM, virtualizing a workload on it just makes sense. At that point the cost is 12% resources, and the benefits IMHO farrr outweight that.

AoC needs to be VP for like 4 terms before being prez. Hammer home some decency and yeeeears of success so the fat old white guys can’t ignore her like they do with VP Harris. Also, AoC as a VP for almost a generation as the nation’s conscience kinda makes me happy.

If he cared about the country, he would’ve

… worked to ensure WE HAVE A DEMOCRACY by not switching horses mid-race, and schedule every next step after DEMOCRACY IS SECURED .

Sorry to shout, but it’s hard to be heard over the bleating of the Russian bots.

1. Don’t switch horses mid-race
2. Deal with this after we’ve secured democracy
3. You may not BE a Russian spammer working to elect the orange degenerate puppet by sowing discord and making people not vote, but that just means you aren’t getting paid for it.

No, comrade.

Problems? ‘old’? I seem to need a little clarification.

I learned ‘cable macrame’ from my networking mentor. I can wrap a cable so fast, and it’s not gonna tangle.

Second this. When I sit at my desk, the phone’s on the Qi pad. I don’t need it all the time, and it’s fine to stay there 30 min. When I sleep, same thing. I actually use a smaller charger brick so it charges more slowly overnight. I don’t know what it’s a better charge for the battery if it stays lower temp but it feels right.

iPhone 4, nexus5, samsung7, samsung10, and all I can say is the Samsungs aren’t like the nexus5 but at least they’re not apple, whose keyboard and features I just hate. Good earbuds though.

I always wanted to be the cool hipster with cabled headphones and getting mad about phones without audio jack.

I’m triggered for I think I’m in this comment. But I’m less ‘cool hipster’ and more ‘cantankerous nerd’. But allllll the rest is true.

All true. All good points.

I’m running out of places to buy a phone that offers a jack, though.

But my home rig is a USB sound dongle to wired earbuds usually. Occasionally a set of ANC buds for the bad days.

3055 was good.

1012 and ilk were also good, from the same era. I still have one of those running.

My LJ4+ lasted 21 years, the first part in an office setting and the latter a retirement in my home (and about 12 house moves). For its 19th I got its RAM filled. Woo! But we decided “as a household” that we didn’t need a reliable energy pig printer for a few pages a month. It made the lights flicker and the UPSes report a brownout. But it was a good printer.

Now we have an m404n and it’s everything today it needs to be.

Ink stinks, but I’ll condone the toner. Inkjets are so unreliable compared to lasers. Good luck, but I worry you’re stacking the deck against yourself a bit with the ink and would hate to see you lose here.