drewzero1

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by drewzero1 3y ago
Thanks! I was starting to look at those too. The *70 Thinkpads seem to be the last ones with optical drives, but that's at least fairly recent compared to this MBP.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check it out. It's been a while since I've tried a 17 inch laptop but it sure does look nice.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Not only are we locked into a particular library, but that library is constantly changing based on somebody else's whims. It feels like every time I start watching something it gets pulled off the next month.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
One month sure, but if I watch it more than once or take more than a month to complete a while season the subscription adds up. Plus a lot more was available to rent on DVD, which makes more sense for something I only want to watch once rat
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Yes, this was the last MacBook with upgradable RAM. The pre-retina Unibody MacBooks were refreshingly repair-friendly compared to what came before and after them.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
It was a curious holdover and I was surprised at the time that they kept selling it as long as they did. After the retina Macs came out the writing was on the wall. It's also worth noting these were also the last MacBook with upgradabl
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I appreciate the suggestion. I tried that a few years ago, but Mac OS' built-in DVD sharing only works on discs without copy protection. Then I spent a few nights trying to get VLC to stream a disc from my PC but couldn't get that
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I've considered ripping which is fine for my own discs, but I'm not going to do that every time we go to Redbox or the public library. (Yes I'm aware Redbox also does streaming, but last I checked some things were only on DVD
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by drewzero1 3y ago
They weren't still selling it in 2024, the "obsolete" designation means they stopped selling it 7 years ago. I don't buy many movies, just ones I want to watch more than once (and don't want to deal with the disappo
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Besides ownership, the problem I see with that is that (most) people can only afford so many subscriptions, and with recent fragmentation in the streaming market there are a lot of subscriptions. I want to see one thing on a streaming ser
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Does anybody have a recommendation for a slightly newer laptop (obviously not Apple) with an integrated DVD drive? My SO uses her 2012 MBP13 daily and a big advantage of that computer is that it's compact and can comfortably watch DVDs
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Nice! When I was in high school I made myself a duct tape wallet that could hold a few floppy diskettes so I could carry Floppix with me (a very limited distro on two floppy disks). I think at one point I also had a Win98 repair floppy cram
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Agreed, I've been bouncing back and forth between Debian and Ubuntu since Debian 7 came out, and I feel like I've been gradually caring about Ubuntu less and less since 12.04. The snap thing has been just kind of irritating, espec
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Usually, yes, and I do appreciate that about Ubuntu, but a lot of the answers/guides/blog posts I find are meant for 14.04-18.04 and are often not relevant any more. It's hard to tell sometimes if that's Ubuntu changing
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I'm always amazed how much some of that Siemens stuff still goes for. My employer had a handful of Siemens PCs ranging from 486 Beetles to Pentium III Scenics in daily use until just a few years ago. They really were built to last.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Or possibly Macintosh Librarian. Or the 8-Bit Guy, as long as no paperclips are involved :)
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by drewzero1 3y ago
You'd have to be on like a gallon of PCP to get a tattoo like that!
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by drewzero1 3y ago
A few years ago the admin Dan ("Caveman Joe") wrote a massive thread [1] about what he's learned about online communities, moderation, and dealing with users in general (both good-faith and bad-faith varieties). I thought it
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by drewzero1 3y ago
From what I can tell 'shrine' is being used metaphorically to describe a player 'Place', and the drag-drop part might be a Place Program? There's not a lot of documentation without jumping in. I haven't played
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I wish I could've put it so well myself!
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by drewzero1 3y ago
The stuff you want to delete from the internet (embarrassing photos, bad takes from a decade ago) are forever, but the ones you want to keep (great hangouts, cool personal webpages) are fleeting.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Only if you're willing to stake your company's digital existence on the reliability of another company's cloud service. If anything, it increases the need for 3-2-1 backups: the original copy of all of your files are on someb
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I had never heard 'igrek', but I had wondered why it was 'ypsilon' in German. Good to know!
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by drewzero1 3y ago
When our first cheap toaster broke, I tried to find a replacement part and then started really looking into a 'good' toaster. What I found is that there's pretty much the same metal box inside all toasters under about $200--
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Indeed... I just got my first computer with a USB-C port and have been puzzling over what to do with it. Most of the cool tricks seem to require Thunderbolt, which it is not.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I believe the story was (at one point at least) that RPi used a Broadcom SoC that had already been developed for some other application, keeping the cost down by using a chip that was already in volume production. I don't believe this
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Wow, at that price they even threw in the zip tie?
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by drewzero1 3y ago
It baffles me... When I'm driving in an unfamiliar place, the last thing I want to be driving is a lumbering beast that is longer and wider than what I'm used to.
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by drewzero1 3y ago
Cockney rhyming slang also comes to mind. I have to believe "it sounds cool and kids' parents hate it" goes back even farther than that though, probably ever since there have been kids and parents!
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by drewzero1 3y ago
I lived in the lower unit of a duplex that was a converted 1880s house and saw mice in the basement and heard neighbors' complaints of mice upstairs, but we never had them on the first floor. Later we moved to the upper unit and found

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