Thalestr

Not in Utica, no; it’s an Albany expression.

Discord and Tumblr.

I have several of the original Philips LED replacement bulbs, which were some of the very first LED bulbs available. Paid about $35CAD each for them in late 2009 and they’re built out of solid metal and weigh a ton. They’re still going strong and put out a lovely light.

Woo! Happy to help 😁

My sister got me a weighted blanket a few years ago. I love it and use it every night.

Best given was a laser distance measurement tool I got for my dad who works in construction. He uses it all the time and has for years.

Same here.

Bison steak. I’m not a steak person so it was likely wasted on me.

You can search my full legal (dead)name online and find absolutely nothing. Not a single picture, mention, or anything even remotely close or even in the same vicinity as me.

Obviously that’s not a benefit to everyone but it is to me and has been achieved by maintaining some level of scrutiny over the information I make available.

I find it works great for navigation and the map quality is so much better than Google Maps. My only complaints are that it lacks extra features such as business information, reviews, etc. It’s better than it used to be but they still use things like Yelp (ugh) at least in my area.

Thanks for the offer! I don’t use any form of Linux on my desktop at the moment, however, and don’t plan to for the foreseeable future.

That is exactly the sort of problem that made my experiences with Linux so awful. I also had very bad interactions with other Linux users when I asked for assistance with fixing the problems I was encountering.

I consider myself decently tech-savvy and I have been building and running Windows machines my entire life, but Linux just feels impenetrable by comparison.

Discord and Windows. I have had so many bad experiences whenever I have tried Linux that I am extremely reluctant to give it another go despite all the improvements it has made.

court staffed entirely by old people

Isn’t that most courts?

This is promising. Glaze was simply too intrusive for most people to be willing to use it regularly.

“Huge environmental challenge” It’s actually quite simple. Stop using single-use plastics for absolutely everything. Regulate the creation of plastic post-consumables. Regulate companies that disallow repair and/or create products that are designed to fail prematurely. etc etc

We need less plastics in circulation, not encouraging the production of more. We need regulatory bodies that actually have the teeth to go after these big companies and force them to comply.

SEO and AI-generated clickbait have basically ruined most search engines. I’ve yet to find one that can really tackle this properly. I believe Kagi offers higher quality results but I can’t really verify that myself as I don’t have an account with them.

Honestly? As I get older and as the tech industry chokes itself to death in pursuit of infinite profit, I find myself doing more and more things away from the computer or the internet at the very least. Spending time outside doing stuff, exercising, reading books, partaking in art or other creative pursuits, having pets, etc. I have really dialed back my social media involvement and I hardly ever use my phone now.

The internet is absolute garbage now. It’s a completely unregulated trash fire that is only getting hotter as more gasoline gets dumped on it. The internet I grew up with, the internet of seemingly endless possibility and unfathomable amounts of information, is long gone. Search results (from any engine) are all SEO trash, websites are just AI-generated garbage covered in ads, and every app or service is a subscription that promises to suck even more money out of my bank account for basic services. Not to mention that all of the above will also monitor every single bit of my activity and sell it to third party buyers. If tech is just going to exist to be an ad-delivery platform then I can do without it. People did for decades, centuries, and we can too.

This bubble is going to pop eventually. It not might be today or tomorrow, but it is going to happen. This is not sustainable.

It’s an old Easy-Motion Neo Xtrem ebike. Long discontinued and the company doesn’t even operate in my country anymore, but because the bike uses generic parts I can easily keep it going.

And this is why I will never spend a cent on any of those fancy high-end ebikes. They are loaded with proprietary software and hardware that make repairs difficult or downright impossible.

My daily workhorse ebike is from 2013 and uses generic parts all over. Even the battery has been re-celled and the internals replaced with generic parts.

If your bike requires an app to function then there is no other way to say this - you just got scammed.

Reason #482398 why I’m glad I left Reddit.