[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that newegg sold out in 2016 to a Chinese company. They used to be great but have been going downhill ever since. I only purchase in person at my local MicroCenter and just pull out my phone and have them pricematch. They will pricematch anything sold and shipped by Amazon for example. Dunno if you have a local store, but that's the way to go.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Just to further clarify, MAGA was originally used by Ronald Reagan (and later Bill Clinton).... it's just another thing recycled by the orange guy who has no ideas of his own.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 year ago

I mean, maybe google should stop shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to messaging. See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago

Many restaurants charge a “split plate fee”. If you order something and want to share it with your partner they’ll bring you an extra plate but charge a fee. Have a link: https://frugalreality.com/split-plate-charge/

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Come visit us over at !bbs@lemmy.sdf.org ! Would love to build up a community around this.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

I get the sentiment, but Flickr hasn’t been owned by Yahoo for a while. They were purchased by the folks that run SmugMug.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

For sure, turn off wifi on the tv and also block it's MAC address at the router. Plug in your trusted streaming box of choice via HDMI and only use that (Nvidia Shield, AppleTV, Roku, AndroidTV, Homebuilt Plex box, etc).

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Looking at products like Gryphon or Circle, I feel like this should be pretty easy to do self-hosted. It's just firewall rules right? Anyone know of a good open source/self-host product I can do this? A phone app is not a requirement. A web interface is fine.

I'm kind of trying right now with PiHole and cron jobs but something prettier and more comprehensive would be nice.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Since 1999 I'm only on my second Brother Laser printer. They are champs and 3rd party toner is inexpensive.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Have you ever seen that movie Don't Look up? It's a great watch. Even in the face of a planet destroying comet heading for earth, the conservative were all "You know what, I'm FOR all the jobs the comet will provide! Don't look up! Don't look up!"

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I feel like in a lot of ways, app.net was ahead of it's time. It's whole goal was to build a "social backbone". A social account and network of linked users. On top of that backbone you could build out services, and all your friends were already there. In a lot of ways, it did what the fediverse is trying to do with Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed and activitypub in general.

I remember they started with a Twitter clone, but a clone for Vine, and Instagram soon appeared. It was wonderful while it existed.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

If WinNuke rings a bell. You remember the fun :-)

Open a small program. Type in the IP address. Click Nuke. Target PC immediately shuts down. While it's rebooting you grab it's IP address as your own so it can't rejoin the network. Worked great in a building where every machine had a predictable fixed ip. Some good teenage mayhem.

[-] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Gopherspace, Gemini, and the smallweb/smolweb in general.

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