jrnichols

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by jrnichols 3y ago
I remember a massive shift in my parents behavior (along with friends parents) after that movie aired. Previously normal things like letting your kids play in the toy section of Sears while parents shopped elsewhere quickly ended.
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> Some busybody lady It does seem that women are by far the biggest offenders in this space. They're also the biggest consumers of murder/mystery and true crime podcasts & media. I wonder if any studies have looked into why
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The crash & loss of executives from Chevron & Pacific Bell on PSA Flight 1771 is such an example.
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I think that ReiserFS was doomed because of the key engineer actually killing.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I continue to find joy in seeing that others are passionate about the old Mac era. It's a lot of fun to see people cataloging Apple history on their own and restoring old machines.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Is something like Pixelfed an option? https://pixelfed.org
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I'm still a happy SpamAssassin user (self hosting email still) and this is the first thing I thought of as well. especially as I more often consider spinning up a pixelfed instance. The URIBL addition really helped cut down junk, I won
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I have really tried to remain interested in it but at this point it seems like it's mostly brands and people cross posting the same stuff to Instagram. Once more political nonsense started showing up on Threads, it lost even more inter
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I've had AT&T Fiber in 2 different states and it's been an awesome product. I think they did a really good job with it and it's still improving. We're in the same boat - we won't buy a house if AT&T Fiber (o
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I blame the big NFL deal, honestly.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I have a fairly new Toyota and when the "Connected Services" trial expires, I will not be renewing any of them with the exception of the remote start. It has wireless CarPlay which works wonderfully, and really, that's all th
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I would be ok with certain queries leaving the device if it meant a bit more flexibility and accuracy. otherwise, yes, I would also prefer the on-device approach. sometimes I just need some cooking tips, though.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> When you realise the girl on the other side has an abundance of men blowing up her phone with first messages, you realise it's hopeless. The reality of online dating for women is that all you have to do is show up. yes, you will g
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I found out today that .apple exists too. https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/tld/
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Definitely dating myself here, but the one that will always come to mind first is the original Zork. Vivid imagination in that game that I remember to this day. I loved the movement and some of the fun jokes here and there. I was a kid when
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by jrnichols 3y ago
here in my northern California city, you can pay utility bills in person at a local service center or the customer service counter at some grocery stores. I think some 7-11 locations let you pay utility bills in person as well. Seems to be
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I live here in Sacramento, CA, which has an IMAX theater and I'm really happy to see this movie drawing the crowds that it already has. It looks fantastic.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I remember being so excited when the 56k modems came out. My roommate and I were huge Mac evangelists back in the day (still are!) and I at the time I had a Hotline Server on my old 6100/66. I used to wake up to such loving messages as
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by jrnichols 3y ago
agreed. that came across as an unnecessarily banal response from someone that is out of touch. sad to see.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> Im wondering if sulfates from wine are a major player. I work in healthcare in one of the wine capitals of the world, Napa County, CA. We do not have a higher rate of pancreatic cancer than anywhere else. It is average. If sulfates fro
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Getting credit card numbers out of the trash at a local Enterprise Rent-A-Car location was a weekly thing for us here, especially corporate accounts. I don't think some folks nowadays realize just how effortless it was to find such
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I've been a fan of Firefox for many years. Seems that those friends of mine still using Chrome are doing so because they are firmly trapped in the Googleverse. (gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, etc.) Firefox & its containers have been
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I absolutely love the fact that new apps for Mac OS 9.x have been released in 2023. The classic Mac community has been a lot of fun.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> but I was forced to sit through an entire "fitting" with patronising explanation I have purchased several Apple Watches, iPhones, and other devices and not once have I ever been forced to sit through anything other than an em
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> Humans simply can no longer digest it - we need AI to generate something more concise, more to the point, more digestible. Without the marketing, fluff and bait and filler. I think one of the fears some have about AI/machine learn
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by jrnichols 3y ago
can you elaborate on your setup a bit more? I've been struggling to find a way to do this. Seems like everything I find has removed any FTP/SFTP support and wants to send pics over LTE to an email address. My goal is a simple weat
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Agreed, although in this case it was a mix of Reddit itself and individual mods. The mods in /r/coronavirus for example got media attention and it was clear that it went right to their heads. They stopped making the mod log public
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> I can't wait to make a seemingly-innocuous post on some subreddit, only to have that post removed for "failing to meet community guidelines" and receive absolutely zero intelligible response from the AI moderators. THat&
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I treat Reddit now like I do Facebook. Containers in Firefox, accessed only through VPN. It's no longer a reflex - I have to put in at least a little effort to view its content. With pi-hole and ublock origin too.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> journalists get their news article well, except for Buzzfeed, who seems to exist solely to repost Reddit threads with GIFs.

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