Meh, it could be a shitty boyfriend… “I can’t believe you did that” implies he did some shit.

Watch geraldo rivera, as he finds out what’s in Capone’s safe!

(Yes, I’m old)

Funny you mention grocery type items. That’s where I first noticed how bad Amazon can price gouge. Sometimes 3-4 times what the price should be.

Amazon has very good deals OR very bad ones. I find Microcenter often equal to or even better than Amazon in most tech stuff.

Your experience is exactly why you shouldn’t make sweeping judgement on one data point.

1. Photo paper isn’t really tech. It’s a supply.

2. It’s a low volume niche item.

3. People that are buying it are less likely to care about cost (older) or want it right now. So Microcenter feels they can charge more. (IMO)

Yeah that has getting put on a list written all over it …

Batteries scale horribly and are extremely toxic themselves.

SOME parts of Europe are cheap some are expensive and are subject to bad price spikes.

The reality is we need everything. More solar/wind is great! But we also need secure stable baseline generation that works. Nothing comes close to nuclear.

These are found almost exclusively on PC/laptops/tablets. Which I’ve never seen a power port only on.

Meh, while there really could be less. At least they are all physically compatible. And backwards protocol compatible to the lowest common denominator. Which is a huge step forward.

Meh it had some used back then. I used it to keep track of local news and police. Things would often show up hours before other sources. Local schools pushed closing and such, making it more convenient.

I suspect they do, especially since Reddit’s been using shadow bans for many years. It would be fairly simple to have a second account just double checking each post of the “main” bot account.

Bill Gates was an evil piece of shit, that did many illegal things to secure Microsoft’s software empire.

It was much easier to “hide” sit back then unless you were in the know in the industry.

That said I think because tech was such a young industry and innovating so quickly. Many geeks got a chance to run companies that took off. Nowadays it’s Like every other industry with sociopaths in charge.

Personal computer. I got a Atari 130xe in middle school (newer version of the 800xl).

Put hundreds of hours on the thing. Had a 300 baud modem and connected to BBSs to download pirated games.

Actually fired it up 3-4 years ago. Most of the floppies still work !

Had 2-3 of them! Amazing machines for their time. Only knock would be the controller pads kept going bad. My dad started repeating them at one point.

I was so hooked on B-17 bomber with the voice module!

Raccoons I don’t mind, they usually are ok.

Squirrels on the other hand are destructive as shit.

ROFL

You missed when the web KILLED BBSs!!!

That was the end! We’re already dead!!!

Because originally it was extremely cheap advertisement for your console and games?

Other than short term, greed most executives are extremely stupid.

Gyms exist solely because of people like that.

It was semi popular in the US in resort towns. I remember some beaches had dime machines to unlock the toilet stalls in the public bathrooms.

Hey Arnie(AI) became the good guy in some of the movies!

Actually the opposite is true for a basic spec. like RAM. People may not understand CPU/GPU naming conventions. BUT they understand something simple like 16>8.

They also understand their “old slow” PC probably had 8gb and they want to UPGRADE so when they see this “new” mac with same amount of ram they immediately think slow whether it is or not…

Yes, because, they are doing a great job separating them from everyone else.

Most likely people trying to call/txt ATT customers and thinking it’s their service.

Depends on how often you drive.

there’s a lot of variables, but figure owning a car costs 300-400 a month minimum…

If you don’t need it everyday for work I can easily see ride apps/taxis being much cheaper.

The only games I’m comfortable with having a subscription. Is a game like WoW where they are supporting a large server farm/infrastructure for the game.

Before “processing fees” the lawyers charge, to accept/verify/pay the customers…

iPods were sunset after a long successful run and basically being supplanted by the iPhone. And they did kill them, they just stopped making me one.

Unless you were into productivity applications 8-12 years ago I’m not surprised.

Anything private or financial

Yeah, pretty much any first year police IT is going to make an exact copy of the phone first.

It has some data correction built in, but doesn’t have ECC in the traditional sense.

Just to clarify.

Imagine what they could do if they put those resources to improving the lives of the 80% of the country that lives in poverty…

I found the executable, tried running out using vDos but it wouldn’t launch. Gonna try Dosbox later this week.

Need to Google if I can find it. I’d actually play it again

Might and Magic 3

F-19

Wow

Half-life

Dishonored