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  1. nickdalzell

    Proposed law would make it illegal for companies to microchip their employees

    The more I read news like this the more I wish I could go back in time to the 50s or 60s. Far enough back that I'd be dead before this so-called 'future' can happen, and also a time where hardly anything changed as much. As Danny Glover once said, "I'm a gettin' too old for this s***" I got...
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    Windows 11

    I'm using a combo of Linux and Windows 7. Because every Windows since annoys me somehow, be it their obsession with flat UI design, or 'life as a service' or promoting their latest AI experiment. I really wish Linux didn't double down on the whole flat UI bandwagon. It's getting increasingly...
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    TV Shows?

    Honestly surprised that M*A*S*H isn't even listed in that map. I think its finale Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen ended up being the #1 watched episode by the entire country. No show has bested it yet.
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    OTA Antenna Reception

    I think a lot of those life hacks were fake. I remember one where someone somehow got a half dozen watch coin-cell batteries by 'unwrapping' a AA battery. It didn't take long to find out that all you get for your trouble is a nasty mess of fluid and a stain in your countertop.
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    Post Your Last Purchase

    I was brought up by people old enough to believe that flag burning was anti-American. My great grandparents pretty much raised me (which is where I likely get my love for old things from).
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    Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

    Back in the '60s if you pulled a stunt like that your company would go bankrupt in short order because unsatisfied customers tend to talk to other people. That's why brand loyalty tended to work. Nobody would buy the cheap-o Craig over a more expensive but better reputable brand like Magnavox...
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    TV Shows?

    Kinda surprised that neither Baywatch or Saved by the Bell was California.
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    Post Your Last Purchase

    I thought flag burning was a thing people who hated America or what it stood for did in protest? When did that change? Some even did it in protest to the Vietnam War back in the '60s.
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    "Charging Connected Device Via USB" Notification won't go away

    Anecdotes. Micro USB always worked for me. Why can't we have choices anymore instead of the 'illusion of choice'? Somehow USB-C didn't just become a way, it became the only way, no thanks to the E.U. who shouldn't even have any jurisdiction in the U.S. Artificial scarcity sucks. We should also...
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    "Charging Connected Device Via USB" Notification won't go away

    I'm talking about the many times I tried to charge anything over USB-C and either it shows it is charging but is slowly draining and I wake up to it showing 18%, unknown time remaining' when I had plugged it in the night before at 65%, or having to plug stuff in multiple times before it...
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    "Charging Connected Device Via USB" Notification won't go away

    I got so sick and tired of playing USB-C lottery that I use wireless charging that my Z Flip 4 supports. No more fiddling with that stupid USB standards change that NOBODY ASKED FOR.
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    Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

    I think that product earned its rep for a reason:
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    What should be FRONT & CENTER?

    It's better than it was. Getting a lot closer to my vintage dream. Spent two weeks with my girl. Still hoping to trade out my two 2000s cars for 1970s-early 1980s landyachts. That is the biggest challenge now, since nothing older than 1999 exists anymore.
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    TV Shows?

    I watch that classic 50's sitcom each morning at 7 on MeTV. Shows that are from that time or are in black and white just work for me. Also Highway Patrol, Dick Van Dyke, Ed Sullivan, and Sea Hunt. People ask me all the time why I gravitate to old shows that are well before my time given my age...
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    What should be FRONT & CENTER?

    It used to spam two of those each time I logged in. I just logged in today and it was silent.
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    Games you wish they would bring to your favorite platform

    I got Pokemon Scarlet on my Nintendo Switch. Has Pokemon even changed enough to warrant re-releasing older colour-coded ports of it? I never really understood what the colour signified, although Blue and Red were exclusively Game Boy games. Scarlet plays a lot like Moon did on my 3DS, same...
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    What should be FRONT & CENTER?

    To whomever finally turned off the 'level up' notifications, THANK YOU!!! Haven't received one in a long time.
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    Post Your Last Purchase

    More vintage audio gear: Sony DAV-HDX265 5-DVD Home Theatre System. I recently reorganized my living room entertainment centre, and I had some silver-faced 2000s stuff mixed with charcoal grey 1990s stuff mixed with sleek black 2010-era stuff. Finally getting that to be all one colour and every...
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    U.S. Post Office

    All the Beanie Babies I see anymore are someone's old collection attempting to be sold en masse at a vendor mall booth. I only imagine that the original owner ultimately left this world and it's some estate sale stuff.
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    What's the weather like where you are?

    I hate winter. As usual it sucks. Anyone who likes the cold or the snow needs to move to alaska. Just once I want spring year yound.
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    Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

    i don't want any modern vehicle. Even my 2005 Saturn is an uncomfortable pile of silver-highlighted crap. Is it so hard to find just ONE 1978 Lincoln Continental out there? Or even a '89 LeSabre? I hate Obama for killing every unique vehicle left with his stupid 'cash for clunkers'. All I want...
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    Post Your Last Purchase

    they recently decided to ban gas appliances including stoves in all new construction in the USA Can't have nice things because the idiots are too stupid to learn or die from their mistakes.
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    Check it out - Chat with our staff :)

    another reason I use my own router vs. Spectrum's. At work, many sites are blacklisted via AT&T redirects to a 404 page, and if I use my phone as a hotspot via wifi, it works fine. Work has a ATT supplied router/modem and it SUCKS.
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    Charging connected USB device

    I never used No Root Firewall, I have only used NetGuard, so I don't know the real difference, but I'm sorta stubborn in that I just use what I'm used to using. If it ain't broke and all that. If you already disabled Download Manager you're good. That prevents any updates from any app stores or...
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    What's the weather like where you are?

    We had some rain last night but it's just cloudy again. 38F. I will be happy to never see snow. I hate it. We haven't goten it this year and I hope that stays. If I wanted to see white wastelands, I'd live in Alaska. The battery in my car is 7 years old. Still works, but I'm struggling...