Here’s the thing.

I’ve been watching TV occasionally - she watches junk TV on this huge thing she got, and, nahhh. I usually do streaming - and every now and then an advert that comes on is actually for a product I’ve never heard of. It’ll be something dumb like little Caesar’s crazy French toast or some shit, but, to the ad’s credit, I would never have known about it if I didn’t see the ad.

But, 95% of ads are absolute junk. Payday loans, reverse mortgages, Dodge Rams; junk. I’d love to see the new products and Superbowl ads, and then nothing else.

This isn’t complete bunk. The new indicator of wealth is healthy teeth. Poor kids don’t get to go to he dentist regularly, so have more problems later on; rich kids get regular cleanings to prevent buildup, and have much healthier teeth.

The trick was making us equate white-white teeth with healthy teeth, even though there’s a shade of ‘white’ that is just healthy, clean enamel with no plaque buildup but isn’t true white.

I only retained this when I heard it as I was a poor kid and, wow, am I glad I have a good job as our dental care is still mercenary as fuck.

It’s extortion. You get the special cup they’ve been saving all day that the guy spat in if you don’t tip.

I don’t prefer proxmox, but I will say that when you have even a machine with 8 or 16gb RAM, virtualizing a workload on it just makes sense. At that point the cost is 12% resources, and the benefits IMHO farrr outweight that.

Problems? ‘old’? I seem to need a little clarification.

I learned ‘cable macrame’ from my networking mentor. I can wrap a cable so fast, and it’s not gonna tangle.

Second this. When I sit at my desk, the phone’s on the Qi pad. I don’t need it all the time, and it’s fine to stay there 30 min. When I sleep, same thing. I actually use a smaller charger brick so it charges more slowly overnight. I don’t know what it’s a better charge for the battery if it stays lower temp but it feels right.

iPhone 4, nexus5, samsung7, samsung10, and all I can say is the Samsungs aren’t like the nexus5 but at least they’re not apple, whose keyboard and features I just hate. Good earbuds though.

I always wanted to be the cool hipster with cabled headphones and getting mad about phones without audio jack.

I’m triggered for I think I’m in this comment. But I’m less ‘cool hipster’ and more ‘cantankerous nerd’. But allllll the rest is true.

All true. All good points.

I’m running out of places to buy a phone that offers a jack, though.

But my home rig is a USB sound dongle to wired earbuds usually. Occasionally a set of ANC buds for the bad days.

3055 was good.

1012 and ilk were also good, from the same era. I still have one of those running.

My LJ4+ lasted 21 years, the first part in an office setting and the latter a retirement in my home (and about 12 house moves). For its 19th I got its RAM filled. Woo! But we decided “as a household” that we didn’t need a reliable energy pig printer for a few pages a month. It made the lights flicker and the UPSes report a brownout. But it was a good printer.

Now we have an m404n and it’s everything today it needs to be.

Ink stinks, but I’ll condone the toner. Inkjets are so unreliable compared to lasers. Good luck, but I worry you’re stacking the deck against yourself a bit with the ink and would hate to see you lose here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouya ?

Wow. Okay, I misread it before, but still tell me more. What’s your story ?

I love that you’ve set that boundary there and stick with it. Admirable.

My wife got the air pods pro 2 I think. Can’t tell one from the other. She preferred the Samsungs so she got those and gave these to me because I liked them

And I do. It’s the only piece of apple tech I have.

For me they for REALLY well. And I want people to be happy like me so I’m thinking all of the usual things you’ve been asked or recommended before. Because I want you to like yours like I like mine.

You know: try different tips, go watch a YouTube to confirm it’s fitted right, etc. All ye things you’ve done or thought of doing, try it again with an open mind. And then sell them off, but yeah.

I hope, since this is probably a ways ago, that your current earbuds are working well. Phones seem to be incapable of a headphone jack, despite my startac-7800 fitting one in, so it’s got to be fucking radio earbuds all the way, so you gotta find some that fit and make you happy.

A few more squares and we have the bingo board ready to go

Their phone virtual-keyboards enrage me. I just can’t take them any more.

My latest day-job employer has made the switch from Apples (and s20fe) to pixels. The staff - mainly nerds - is actually generally pleased with the switch.

If the embarrassment that is Purolator (our national postal service offshoot courier ‘service’) was adequate last week, not only would they break a 20-year streak but also I’d’ve had my shiny company pixel by now and could pepsi-challenge it against my wife’s shiny new company iphone.

Fast, and easy to edit. It was a fantastic start page.

expensive piece-of-shit (enterprise) systems, since they sometimes explode if your server changes interface names.

At no time in the past 25 years with Medium Iron have I seen something blow up on a reboot because an interface comes up late. We’d solved the issue of unreliable init order in 1998 - RH6? Zoot? Compaq, Supermicro, even embedded stuff on was-shit/still-shit gigabyte mobos. /etc/udev/rules.d handled this eliably, consistently and perfectly. Fight me.