Bizarroland

If your old phone has a removable battery, you can sometimes replace them with an appropriate capacitor.

That will eliminate spicy pillows from the mix but also eliminate battery backup, so if your power goes out you will need to manually turn them back on.

Everything turns to shit whenever a metric becomes a goal, and multiply that by Infinity whenever that goal involves making money.

Ads are the worst thing about the internet. There's not an option to escape them under any circumstances and when you use things like adblock people crawl out of the woodwork to tell you how you're stealing money from people.

I'm sorry, I'm paying for the service of accessing the internet. How I do so should be my decision and not somebody else's under any circumstances, so long as I am not breaking the law.

I work in it and one of our employees brought a laptop to us that had been completely and thoroughly dismantled with a screwdriver.

She told us that she wanted to remove the hard drive but she couldn't find it.

It had a flash hard drive that had been detached from the board was sitting next to the Wi-Fi card.

Me and the other it guy just kind of like looked at each other for a minute and then got her a new laptop.

To be fair she was due for an upgrade anyway, but I've never had anyone dismantle their soon to be recycled devices.

My mom was a nurse who worked in geriatrics and so one day she came home from work and cooked us a big plate of spaghetti and started telling us about how elderly people with dementia would have no control over their body and would snot on their hands and then rub it on the the handrails in the hallway.

She should talk about how she kept on over and over again touching bare-handed massive piles of gooey green and brown snot while we're all sitting around the dinner table trying to eat spaghetti.

Unlike you mere peasants all of my pilots are ranked as land viscounts or higher

Honestly, fuck Microsoft, I fucking hate their user abusive practices, but I feel like that would be illegal to some degree or at least actionable and some sort of way.

Do you have any evidence that they are collecting that much data in telemetry?

I bought a Samsung mono laser and printed approximately 400 pages on it before the fusor broke and would cost more than the entire printer did to replace.

I was past the 6-month warranty as well so I chucked it and bought a $10 Brother MFC-7860dw monoprinter from the thrift store that printed in the store.

It turned out that it would jam like the grateful Dead if it printed more than one page though.

Apparently that is a common issue with them and inside of the printer there is a small cork pad that gets twisted down and hits every time it picks up a new sheet of paper and the cork had gotten sticky somehow.

The fix for this incredibly complicated and delicate procedure is to open one side of the printer and take a piece of Scotch tape and cover over that tiny cork pad.

I did that 7 years ago and it still prints perfectly today.

I think we are a lot better at pretending that people don't kill each other often and for little reason than people from 1,000 years ago.

It's almost as if the reason it was made into one of the ten commandments was that people did it so much that the leaders at the time felt they needed to try to put a stop to it.

Probably the same thing with lying and lusting after your friend's wives and properties. In lieu of a government and system strong enough to protect you, you would have to defend yourself against your stronger or better armed neighbors taking everything they want from you, including your life.

I got really lucky. The first adult song that ever grabbed to me was Kansas's Carry On My wayward son.

I had never heard it before and on a family road trip to Florida I got to buy a cassette and I saw the art and I thought it looked good so I bought it and popped it into my little cassette player and I'm just writing down the road bored as hell my brother and sister picking on me.

All of a sudden "Carry on my wayward son" came on and my little preteen mind was completely blown.

I always preferred the Mississippi squirrel revival.

That's such a good song for anyone that grew up in the south in the church traditions.

My favorite key is C natural minor, even with even tempered ~~tubing,~~ tuning songs in this key sound like they are revealing mysteries and I love it.

Mmm mmm mmm mmm is in this key. It's great.

La bamba, I had no idea what he was saying but it sounded good.

My current favorite is Naeveran by Marius Ziska and I have no idea what he is saying but it sounds good.