ITGuyLevi

I know it's not a serious intro, but the theme to Aqua Teen Hunger Force has been rattling around in my head for nearly 25 years. Definitely a banger in my mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcd6wU86OgI).

I've kicked myself in the ass over that decision a lot over the years. It's far behind me now, but I still kinda regret it.

It would be tight, but not as impossible as it feels now; 680 seems a little low, my math had it closer to 730-ish. My mom got 40+ hours every week at a convenience store around that time, granted we didn't have a new car (ever), but comparing it to now it seems impossible.

Maybe I'm misremembering but rent was cheap not very long ago, in early 2004-ish I was paying $250/mo for a very small 2 bed house and the lady I ended up marrying had just moved out of a single-wide trailer that she was paying $100/mo for. At that point I was working at one of the same stores my mother had worked at except I was getting $5.15/hr (minimum wage at the time).

Now it seems like cheap rent is 5x that much and minimum wage here is still just $7.15.

They did, that particular model was under 12k though so you were looking at 200-ish a month (5 year loan at 8%-ish) which was totally possible on the minimum wage of the day ($4.25/hr).

So glad my recent one has never seen the internet... Guess it will be my last Bravia.

I wish they would attempt to do that to all operating systems, that's a hell of a wide net and I'm damn sure not holding up my ID for my thermostat.

That is a way better idea than what I've had tumbling around. I was thinking about using that tape meant for the back of couches to fix rips and just adding a couple bands around the case with it.

I love when electronics are built well enough to sustain 15+ years of use and abuse.

That is a way better idea than what I've had tumbling around. I was thinking about using that tape meant for the back of couches to fix rips and just adding a couple bands around the case with it.

I love when electronics are built well enough to sustain 15+ years of use and abuse.

Hey fellow 505 owner! It really is the best damn e-reader I could imagine, I bought mine back in 2009 and it is still perfect... Well except the case, it's been peeling and looking rough for a good decade now.

Interestingly 1984 was the first book I read on it, but I agree, Fuck Amazon!

Some people, when they see an acronym, will replace it with the words it stands for in their head. A subset of that group of people get annoyed when the sentence gets all muddled up by repeated words; in this particular case, you said 'CSAM material', which their brain read as 'child sexual abuse material material'.

It isn't a big deal, but as one of those people, I totally get the urge to point it out (I've gotten pretty good at looking past it but it's still a bit of a compulsion).

Obviously the reset isn't quite sticking, otherwise why so much deja vu?

I used to work from home, now I drive 15 miles to sit in a building with nobody in it. It's peaceful but pretty lonely given I might see someone in my building once every few weeks.