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by brewtide 3y ago
I have no idea if it's chance, but my middle school "first class" BBS system was named... Yup. Coconet. Strange memory recall.
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by brewtide 3y ago
Agreed. Likely in the search of efficiency, which oftentimes brings complexity, which then involves more precision or more pieces to a puzzle, or both. There is something to be said about the dead simple ways of things for sure, and all dep
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by brewtide 3y ago
Fully agree on all points. When the pandemic hit, I turned the backyard shed (windows, 12x10 at least) into a backyard one room schoolhouse for all of the same reasons. Put a Woodstove in it, wired the property with ubiquiti wifi everywhere
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by brewtide 3y ago
First the mortgage provider, and now the only option around for 'net. We need to come up with a new plan for human authentication, that isn't straight from a dystopian landscape.
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by brewtide 3y ago
I have Plex thrown onto a headless old franken i5 that's also doing duty as a home assistant instance, running an instance of car speed tracking openCV python thing and a goesrecv decoding instance (from the atom processor'd sdr
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by brewtide 3y ago
100% share the method. If you are patient, somewhat knowledgeable, and frankly lucky you can pick up some nice things for real cheap at that point. Sometimes they can turn into money puts, but oftentimes with some preventative maintenance,
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by brewtide 3y ago
I remember owning one of the first portable CD players that did not have any anti-skip buffer, at all. It was a very delicate experience.
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by brewtide 3y ago
Yup. In fact, veratasium just released a video discussing this a decent bit in the video linked below... "What the longest running study on happiness reveals" https://youtu.be/vSQjk9jKarg?si=k_zU_ua0VlQcpvJS
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by brewtide 3y ago
They bought mine about 18 months ago. It's been a shitshow since the beginning. The last time I spoke to a customer service rep I told her "I pray every day that someone else buys my mortgage." "Oh, I get it!" She s
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by brewtide 3y ago
Reminds me of the articles a decade ago or so about using tide laundry detergent for the same reason. An example: https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/ Edit: tide, not ride.
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by brewtide 3y ago
Having grown up and lived in Maine for over 40 years has awakened me to an interesting thought semi-recently: The "Maine mindset" of solve the task at hand, oftentimes even if it does not look pretty or seem an 'official&#x27
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by brewtide 3y ago
There is a movie based of this premise, but I cannot seem to remember the name. "Freeze frame" comes to mind.
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by brewtide 3y ago
In Maine, ice storm of '98. Can confirm, did suck. Also got to ice skate down the road, across the lawn, and, well, anywhere.
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by brewtide 3y ago
Bad connections are far more prone to get worse, rapidly (and arc themselves bigger...) When larger amounts of current need to go through them. All connections need to be nicely done -- the ones on your range plug, they should be very snugg
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by brewtide 3y ago
I think it's like 200 miles from any boarder, including the coastline. Ie. It can be very broadly abused.
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by brewtide 3y ago
Living in Maine (and, well, rarely leaving...) I forget that they even exist! Funny how we get used to the norms around us.
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by brewtide 3y ago
Huge fan of used equipment, and live in a great country to simply acquire 'peoples old stuff', to upgrade my even older stuff on the cheap. 1) pixel 3 -- Actually bought this new. It's in mint shape, and just had battery #3 p
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by brewtide 3y ago
As someone who has owned 2 Miataii in their life, 100% agree. Current is a '91 NA in British racing green! When I'm getting hammered by the work / grind, I'll make sure I at least drive it to and from work for a few days
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by brewtide 3y ago
Same here, but Ive been using lineageOS on mine for a year or so now? Works great, minus the battery life. On first 'amazon' battery replacement and debating a 2nd. Broke the rear glass changing it last time -- but now I have a pi
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by brewtide 3y ago
I have zero doubt we will look back at the current medication pushing for "results" in the future, as we do at the physical implementations of the past. AFAIK, we are pretty unsure how many medications actually work in the mental
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by brewtide 3y ago
But it shouldn't be a problem for you. (Not saying it wouldn't be / is not, but should not be). As a single Dad of two elementary aged children, I'm now used to getting the weird glances from other parents on the playg
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by brewtide 3y ago
You don't like jackhammers above your head when listening to whatever cassette tape (I'm old!) you brought in being piped to your ears via ... Aquarium tubes? Don't move equates to my face itches, immediately.
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by brewtide 3y ago
"Our world" not "the world". Gets worse and worse as we distance ourselves further from nature and "real world things" and focus more and more on these screens and the 'world' we have created. Honestl
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by brewtide 3y ago
Maybe they have tuned into your hn username -- would explain the race cars and gangsta rap...
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by brewtide 3y ago
An aside, but I was just setting up a SMB share on a Linux machine (Ubuntu) and had the absolute similar experience as mentioned above. However, when hitting the share points with osx, it worked flawlessly from the original setup. The windo
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by brewtide 3y ago
I just got my son the "30 days lost in space" inventr.io kit (not associated at all with them). It seems more pricey than your standard Arduino kit for sure, but provides a (pretty lame..) story of the why things are being built.
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by brewtide 3y ago
I took borrowed a school account to a local ISP. Saving the setting file onto a disk and rummaging through it with ResEdit to my young surprise brought me the text I was looking for! Unlike you, I didn't have enough foresight to attemp
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by brewtide 3y ago
My AOL updates in the mailbox always lagged behind, week after week...
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by brewtide 3y ago
Namesilo.com Since... 2012? I think? Never found a reason to change? I never see it suggested in these lists for some reason -- Maybe I've been missing something all along...?
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by brewtide 3y ago
As a housepainter, this is probably the best reasoning and where my mind immediately jumped to. The prep work in painting is as you said the majority of the work -- many many many hours spent first slowly destroying something further, then

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