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foodandart

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  • Lesson Learned: Do you have the encryption key for your backups?

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  • Hmmmm. Wonky events like this are part of why I'm glad I've always kept plain text hard copies of every key and password I've used.

    Shit's a nightmare when you get shut out of your stuff..

    Good on you that you sorted it all.

  • Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?

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  • Yeah, though mine doesn't flicker as fast - it kinda moves in slow waves.

  • What's the oldest website that's still alive that you've found?

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  • Hmmm. Interesting..

  • What's the oldest website that's still alive that you've found?

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  • I just went through and checked out the site and hit a bunch of the links.. Honestly, with the nature of the data, there really is no reason to have more than the basics. Also, think of what Berkshire Hathaway is about and as far as maximizing everything that they can for the stake and stock-holders, it makes sense. Focus on the investment essentials, not the window dressing online.

    I wish more businesses were oriented this way.

  • This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots

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  • I really have no interest in AI. God knows, I can chat with a wall, a tree, a rock or even the air often enough on my own.

    Sometimes I even surprise myself with the answers I get.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Ah! Okay. Thanks for the links.

    Nice lens on that second video.

  • How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?

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  • Mom's sorta right, but also not.. If you blast the headphones, yeah, of course it'll eventually screw your hearing. If you leave them at a level, where you're able to hear the outside world around you, you'l be fine.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • That is SO glorious.

    I've been in the trades since 1980, and I won't have a house built after the mid-80's. That's when the last of the mature timber lumber supply ran out. Now homes are built with selectively bred loblolly pine that gets 30 years worth of growth in 20 and it's light like balsa. It's garbage and part of why so many developments and new homes put up since the mid-90's are now falling apart. I see SO much sheetrock slips, cracks, nail pops and settling it's scary.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Oh, starting on a hill is absolute shit if you're not good wth a clutch.

    The hardest I ever drove was a '72 VW Super Beetle and it would roll backwards the millisecond I took my foot off the brake.. You couldn't slip the clutch and have it grab fast enough. Did learn how to heel-toe the clutch and brake on that and the last yer I had it, got so good with shifting by ear, I seldom used the clutch once the car was rolling. That was cool. Could downshift w/o the clutch as well. It was a 4-speed so it had a wider wheel speed/motor speed range to play with in each gear.

    Was almost as good with the no-clutch shifting on my '82 Celica (I really, really loved that car.. rear wheel drive so it was drift city before I even knew that was a thing... and you BET I did.. Sport Rally 5 transmission for the WIN!)

    Now I'm on my third Impreza and they have such grabby clutches, tight transmissions and small shift windows for no-clutch, that I've never really made inroads with it.

    I still drive like a maniac however.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • You can buy land on the spot with cash where I'm thinking of. What balance is left I could cover with my own money. Just need to go to the town clerk's office to notarize the sale and the paperwork is filed with the state for taxes, before 4:00pm the day of.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • I'd buy it as well. That 1900 house - AND the 1931 house were built with virgin lumber and chances are no drywall, but plaster and lath walls. Solid construction and NO modern building supplies outgassing chemicals.

    There MIGHT be lead paint and asbestos pipe lagging insulation, but both can be dealt with in a pinch by encapsulation until you get the funds to have removal.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Really?!

    What lens and for what camera? Honestly asking.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • ..So you need to be able to drive stick...

    Wait.. wat? You mean you can't?

    Dude, driving a stick is fuuunnnn. Also, kids that steal cars don't drive sticks so it's waaaay less likely to be stolen by some damn 13 year old.

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    Every playlist labeled 'random' is just a museum of moods you no longer know how to visit

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  • Hmmm. My playlists are random to the eras of my life.. SomaFM, Hippy-dippy, (mom's 60's and 70's rock collection) Teen angst (those are cassette rips), road trips, etc..

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • A downpayment on land.

  • Save icon

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  • Would need to have some sort of drive icon - maybe? - that is unlikely to ever be forgotten.. with a down arrow embedded inside.

    Hmmm.

  • Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall

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  • OED isn't the only dictionary out there. Oh well.

    Good luck with that, folks.

  • You have to be married to have a mother-in-law or father-in-law but you don't have to be married to have a brother-in-law or sister-in-law

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  • Thank you!

    Oh, they are absolutely dedicated to each other, he adores my mom and she loves him fiercely but he is just not willing to consider a will and face his mortality. It's common, honestly. I am going to be doing a full court press on the matter this coming year. Mom is in her 80's and is in good health, they both are - but still.

  • You have to be married to have a mother-in-law or father-in-law but you don't have to be married to have a brother-in-law or sister-in-law

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  • My mom is in a similar boat.

    She's been in Hawaii for decades, living with a guy and they're not married and she's not on the will for the property that he owns - even though she's paid the taxes for it on and off over the years..

    I have asked her why he can't set that up to take care of her if anything happens to him and it's just that he's lazy and thinks - like a lot of people do - that he's going to last forever.

    I worry about it, and mention it often but the answer is always the same.

    Am like WTF mom, he's no spring chicken - neither are you - what ARE you two thinking?

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    foodandart @lemmy.zip

    19 years ago, ebay used to be SO much more fun!