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sdifox said:
Damn yutes! My first hdd was 40MBs :colbert:
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I think mine too, with a 386 DX-40. Drive was a Conner. My only one. Next was a 200 MB Seagate I think. Then 1 GB. Then 10 GB. Then 30 GB. After that, my memory is all hazy. Got a Seagate 500 GB external drive in 2008. After that, rust storage was in TBs for me.
 
Conner drives lol... :tearsofjoy: (I'm freaking old!)

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Hurt my ankle jumping out of the truck bed while unloading solar panels. I have to stop thinking I'm in my 20's and stop doing stuff like that. I'm pushing 40 now. 😱
 
Jumping is fine if you crouch down upon landing. Landing in a standing position is too much stress for everything that has to absorb the impact of hitting the ground.

 
Yeah that's typically what I do, but I hit a spot in the ground that was a bit uneven so it kinda went sideways. My feet in general are shot and always in pain, so this is just a bit of additional pain, that will probably go away.
 
igor_kavinski said:
Tried soaking your feet in Epsom salt water?
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No, I'll have to try that and see but I doubt it will do much.

Today's FWP: Every time I start a new set of shifts at work I have to mess around with my surfing laptop to get the display to work with my KVM. Today I fought with it all morning and couldn't get the display to work. So going without a surfing laptop until I can figure this out. On my lunch now, so going to bring a Raspberry PI just to rule out the laptop itself. The RPI is probably going to be faster than the laptop anyway so if it works I'll just keep using that.
 
pete6032 said:
Do people still use torrents? Last time I used one it was extremely slow and a bad experience. But that was maybe 10 years ago.
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I used it several months ago, probably for some rare ISO. It starts slow but then it finds a lot of seeders and speed can approach 10 MB/s but it goes up and down a lot. Average would be less than 2 MB/s.
 
pete6032 said:
Do people still use torrents? Last time I used one it was extremely slow and a bad experience. But that was maybe 10 years ago.
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Sure, millions of users (monthly) of rarbg alone. Whether something is slow depends on several factors. If you're looking for something obscure with few seeders, can be slow if it ever finishes. Other popular things, mostly bottlenecked by your VPN or ISP.
 
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I never stopped using torrents, I find it's a better experience than needing a billion different streaming services that all have their own way of viewing it. With Torrents I can just use one program for everything. I recently started using Jellyfin which is great, it helps organize all my Linux distros and keeps track of which ones I have not installed yet.
 
Not really *my* FWP, but... I got into work yesterday, and saw 3 boxes of stake chasers. I didn't know if they just came in, or someone moved them out of the storage room. Check the post date, and it was last week. Somehow we ended up getting three more boxes on top of the two+ boxes we got a few months ago. I only wanted one box. Each box has 1,000, so now we have almost 6,000 glo pink chasers. That's like a lifetime supply.

What makes this super funny to me, is I was having some kind of problem with the boss' credit card when I went to order them. He had the bright idea of actually calling the order in and talking to someone. I told him that's a good way to end up with a clusterfuck, and nothing good comes from talking to CS. I don't know exactly what the problem was, but we definitely got the clusterfuck. I'm wondering if more boxes are gonna start showing up in the coming weeks/months :^D
 
lxskllr said:
Not really *my* FWP, but... I got into work yesterday, and saw 3 boxes of stake chasers. I didn't know if they just came in, or someone moved them out of the storage room. Check the post date, and it was last week. Somehow we ended up getting three more boxes on top of the two+ boxes we got a few months ago. I only wanted one box. Each box has 1,000, so now we have almost 6,000 glo pink chasers. That's like a lifetime supply.

What makes this super funny to me, is I was having some kind of problem with the boss' credit card when I went to order them. He had the bright idea of actually calling the order in and talking to someone. I told him that's a good way to end up with a clusterfuck, and nothing good comes from talking to CS. I don't know exactly what the problem was, but we definitely got the clusterfuck. I'm wondering if more boxes are gonna start showing up in the coming weeks/months :^D
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Have you considered embroidery?
 
Red Squirrel said:
I never stopped using torrents, I find it's a better experience than needing a billion different streaming services that all have their own way of viewing it. With Torrents I can just use one program for everything. I recently started using Jellyfin which is great, it helps organize all my Linux distros and keeps track of which ones I have not installed yet.
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Why do you hate capitalism?
 
The kitchen sink is clogged. I tried boiling water but no good. Went to fetch the Drano and the door to the store room wouldn't open. Guess where the tools are? The knob rotated but the latch bolt wouldn't pull back. I could feel the spindle rotate the square hole of the latch assembly so I knew that part was working. It's an antique glass knob so I didn't want to undo the outside knob and push it through, causing the inside knob to hit the floor. Eventually I got the credit card trick to work and got in the room. Disassembling the knob, I found that the latch bolt has broken free of the rest of the latch assembly inside the part that isn't accessible. So off to the hardware store in search of an antique latch assembly. Meanwhile, my sink is still clogged.

Edit: I guess the latch assembly is modern so getting a replacement won't be an issue.
 
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