what is the Miiverse?

It was a sort of social space Nintendo ran on the 3DS and Wii U. Kind of combination chat room and message board with a space where Miis (Nintendo avatars) could “hang out”. It could also be used to send messages though games, like you could leave a message as a sort of note in Mario Maker or Splatoon. I thought it was kind of cool, tbh.

not sure if I’m too old, too young or too poor

It was shut down in…no. 2017 was not 7 years ago. No.

I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.

Man that was a great phone.

My plan isn’t quite that old, but it’s getting up there. They recently increased my price by a few dollars per line. Then they tried to get me to move to a current plan, which turned out to be 20% higher price for less return. I had to try not to burst out laughing at the poor guy’s face.

I’ve been with TMo for more than 20 years–they’re the only carrier I’ve ever used–but if my price goes up again I’m jumping ship.

I still don’t know if a USB micro or mini is the one that charges my PS4 controller

It’s Micro-B, to be specific.

Maybe we should chip in and buy a second robot.

Hear me out: three robots.

You don’t actually give the card to the employees, do you?

Typically when I go through a drive thru, I hand my card to someone who then leans back inside to swipe/tap/whatever it, then they hand it back. So yes, commonly I do give my card to an employee for at least a few seconds.

During 2020-2022 more of them were in the habit of placing the PIN pad at the window so it could be reached by customers from their cars, but it wasn’t designed to be used that way and I’m sure it caused other issues.

Yes, I know he died a few years ago.

Damn, it’s been ten years.

I stuck with 7 for an extremely long time under similar reasoning. Like I missed win 8 completely and only got 10 in maybe 2018. And only because I needed a version of directX for work that was unsupported on 7.

I only upgraded to 10 in early 2021, and only because I had reached a point where I didn’t see another option. My next upgrade is increasingly likely to be something Linux. Every new bit of info about Win 11 just makes me want it less.

What’s France?

“Wester Germany”

If you wrap the TV in tinfoil, it’ll be a faraday cage and block all WiFi

I just keep my TV embedded in a block of lead.

Honestly any parts you buy today probably won’t be much good in 30 years.

At least not when AGP comes to town.

Glenn Danzig was born with the perfect name for an 80s metal band

FYI Danzig is his stage name. His actual last name is Anzalone.

I really hate to say this, but Lubuntu.

it’s a lightweight XFCE version of Ubuntu

Do you mean Lubuntu, or Xubuntu? Lubuntu uses LXQt.

That’s why I only use “*******” for mine. With the number, it’s more secure.

I guess it works because I can’t see the password.

Has science gone too far?

Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not.

In a real job, sometimes we need to get something done TODAY, or even 3 hours from right now.

I work third shift and it’s so much worse in this case. I walk in the door at 10 PM to an email saying I have to do a training module that takes an hour, and it has to show completed before midnight. Then they wonder why I wasn’t able to get my work area set up and make progress on a long term project in that same time frame.

It’s a revolution. They give it a specific name and blablabla.

iBS™

Ok but why is the thumbnail a scene from Midsommar…

Probably because the leading image is taken from Midsommar.

just ask chatGPT to generate a couple paragraphs of SEO terms for the question, replace your answer with that.

Chaotic neutral boss energy.

Does the Amazon link work? I am getting “This content is not available.” On iPhone

Same for me on Android. Says “playlist not found.”