tnarg42

joined 2 years ago
[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SomaFM has been up a remarkable number of years, more or less in its current format. It's not everyone's jam, but props to them to keep a good thing going.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The roads go to absolute shit crossing from Ohio into Indiana. And it's not like we have exactly great roads here...

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This almost feels like a bet, or an experiment, by social media political manipulators. Like, one guy says to another, "I bet I can make Cracker Barrel change their logo back in less than two weeks using nothing more than a social media outage campaign." "Deal."

And then they do it, with some carefully planted posts across many platforms, and some well-placed calls to conservative commentators, calling attention to those posts. They successfully demonstrate their social media manipulating prowess, and ultimately sell their wares for the upcoming election cycle.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they do have a voting block that regularly donates to televangelists... Those extra private jets have to come from somewhere.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

...The sort of grill I will never buy.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

I have the "Complete Collection" box set, and I broke my 10 year-old son's heart when, after he finished the whole thing, I had to tell him that there were no more. I think they made him a better kid.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Big hospitals still have them to send medications and random lightweight stuff around the complex. My wife has worked in two large hospitals that had pretty extensive tube systems, used especially with pharmacy.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

In the suburbs of a middle-sized city in Ohio, USA. So midwest, but a bit older, higher-density, and more northeastern suburban layout than, say, Iowa. Built up in the 1960s-70s. Almost all single-family suburban homes on large lots.

(these are walking distances, not straight lines)

  • To the nearest convenience store: 1.6 km
  • To the nearest chain supermarket: 4.2 km
  • To the bus stop: 1.5 km
  • To the nearest park: 226 meters
  • To the nearest big supermarket: 2.1 km
  • To the nearest library: 2.6 km
  • To the nearest train station: Hahaha! (Ok, it's actually 78 km, but it's mostly worthless as a train station)

Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 6297 km

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Texas gets kinda hot in the summer.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've used it off and on in KUbuntu for a couple of years without issue, installing the helper app from the .deb file directed to me by the plugin. I have scanned it for viruses and watched for strange behavior, and I haven't observed anything suspicious. It runs as the current user, no elevated privileges required.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watch for battery life when buying older Surface devices. Replacing batteries in the older Surface Pros is notoriously difficult, because apparently the whole assembly is glued together. Loss of battery life is what forced an early retirement of my 5th-gen (2015) Surface Pro, even though not was otherwise completely serviceable. Newer versions are apparently more repairable, but you'll have to investigate where that cut-off line of repairability is.

[–] tnarg42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Mach-E GT's are a steal right now

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