jonbiggums22

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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
A couple years ago I stayed at an AirBnB and there was an old rotary phone in the kitchen. Unfortunately, I found it was merely placed there as an antique curio and wasn't hitched up with service. I felt a little cheated honestly.
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
In my case I turned driver updates off since they kept installing a broken video driver that left me with black screens on boot.
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
Youtube may have exasperated the situation, but gear obsession in hobbies certainly predates even the internet, much less youtube. It seems kind of natural, mastering your tools takes time and maybe talent. Buying them just takes money. I r
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
The only XP had over 2000 IMO was 64-bit support. Which isn't even part of the XP most people are talking about since it was an uncommonly used variant based on server 2003.
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
If you'd been using Windows 9x you'd appreciate XP just because the install didn't rot itself to pieces every 6 months from DLL hell. But the rise of internet downloaded crapware and malware managed to keep your reinstall ski
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
Certainly better than where we are now but I never really loved it. It was to heavy for me, the search doesn't find files that are there reliably and the update system system sucked. Windows 7 always developed disk sucking WinSxS folde
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
I think it was just that the ethics legal moat creation strategy had failed and the ethics teams no longer served any purpose to company leadership.
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
Yeah, I think the POTS line is gone for good since I canceled it. The company doesn't even show it as an offering on their website any longer, only selling VoIP with DSL at this point. The cranked up price was probably a nudge to get r
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
Don't forget selling the driving data to insurance companies, private investigators, law enforcement, etc.
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
Dialup could be had for very cheap last time I had if (big if) you had availability of cellular internet that is probably just as cheap now. However, the landline I had for dialup back in the day had become outright ridiculous in price by t
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
The floppies were actually a bounty since they were rewritable unlike the CDs. I remember the tech guy at our school was given about a pallet of them to hand out to kids, which he instead kept in his office reached for when he needed to cop
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
Had a similar experience. I grew up in a rural area and broadband penetration was late. Later when I bought a house I was lied to by comcast about availability and ended up dialup again. (My fault for believing them tbh) Most of the tricks
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
I remember a Yahoo article where they supported getting rid of their testers as the metrics showed the number of new bugs was greatly reduced after. It left me wondering why they were paying those testers to put the bugs in the software in
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
Works for the engine size limits. Aren't all 2litre engines actually 1950cc?
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
And then there is storage/parking and maintenance cost and time. This is really why the SUV is so popular in the US. It has OKish cargo space for dump runs, family trips, etc even if it is oversized for the daily commute. But the base
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by jonbiggums22 1y ago
This is why I think people ending up locked into vendor implementations of passkeys will be a thing. We had a totally open standard, TOTP, and there were still (somewhat successful) efforts make it non-standard like the Symantec VIP Access