Sad that “shove it in a drawer until PostmarketOS supports it” wasn’t listed because that’s basically my method. Anything else just gets Linux installed on it and runs some random service.

I heavily embrace the “reuse” step of “reduce, reuse, recycle”

It took me a while to sit down and watch it (Season 3 was halfway through by the time I started), and very quickly fell in love with it. Sad it was canceled after the 4th season, but at least they wrapped it up pretty cleanly.

$150 is about normal these days. The pumps will usually have a little sticker somewhere that list the authorization hold amounts.

Fun fact: The auth holds used to be $1 way back in the day. But when prepaid debit cards came around, people could have a balance of $1 on them, get $50 worth of gas, and the station wouldn’t be able to charge the actual amount (it would decline for NSF with no way to recover it as with a regular debit/credit card). That’s why the hold amounts are between $75 and $150.

If you want to avoid the authorization hold, you can either pay cash or pre-pay with a cashier; the latter case will charge only what you pay.

Does digital payments made cash wallets obsolete?

Nope.

Phones crash, apps screw up, Google arbitrarily decides your phone isn’t “secure”, batteries go dead, cell networks are sometimes unavailable (wallet app requires internet), merchant payment networks occasionally go down, etc.

I don’t use digital wallets since the only options are Apple and their walled garden or Google who uses every transaction to profile you for targeted ads and deems your phone insecure should you do anything that might keep their eyes out of your life. But even using my “old school” debit card, I still feel much more secure always having some cash on hand for emergencies.

It’s strange how we’ve moved from mall shopping to online shopping to now AI shopping for us

Well, “we” only did the first move because it was more convenient. The latter is being forced on us.

That’s basically my take. I used Twitter way back in the day before it went to shit, and there were some legit good accounts that could make witty, well thought out takes in 120 characters (which was the point of the platform). The others I followed were either news orgs or security researchers where they just linked to their main platforms proper.

But the way most people use it, ugh!

Any silicon vendors (NVidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Realtek, etc) should have open source drivers / firmware. I can’t imagine what, if any, benefits there are to keeping that secret, and it seems logical that sales could/would increase if people were easily able to adapt them for their use cases.

And also the huge reduction in ewaste by being able to keep smartphones up to date or repurpose them without having to spend years painstakingly reverse-engineering binary blobs that only work with ancient kernels.

I left the instance up in a limited fashion for development purposes (I’m still doing Tesseract development) so it can stay (and it seems people have still been posting to it).

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You’ll still see them there, yes. But anything posted by a dubvee user (or lemm.ee or any instance that’s shut down) won’t have working images (the community icon/banner also won’t work). SDF may have local thumbnails for some posts, but there’s no guarantee I can make. Posts you’ve made should be fine since the images are not hosted on my instance (e.g. you should be able to crosspost them just fine).

Any new posts made to this community from there would only show up locally on sdf.org’s instance (since dubvee won’t be online to federate them out), but I’ve locked the community to prevent that kind of “islanding”

Jen’s not available, but I will say this from us both since I’m sure she shares the same sentiment: Thank you for helping to grow this community and the funny, insightful, and sometimes just silly contributions you’ve made. I also hope someone picks up the reigns and creates a replacement, but that’s not something I’ll be involved with (unless they would like to transfer the contents of this community over in which case I am willing to assist).

Lemmy and the fediverse entirely. I guess you could also say social media entirely as this was my last vestige of it.

Planning to re-join the real world and put my energy into actual positive things.

Thanks. I just can’t run this place alone; not without someone else sharing the same vision/mission I’m trying to achieve. There’s too much toxicity that I don’t want to platform and not enough me or fucks-to-give to handle it all. This was a long time coming, honestly, and I regret not doing this sooner.

Beehaw was always my guiding light in many ways for what I wanted to do here (plus or minus a few things), so I may pop up there later on down the line as someone with no responsibilities. But for now, I want to part ways with this place entirely and spend more time in the real world (time I’ve denied myself having to be responsible for this dumpster fire lol).

I’ll still be on Matrix, so feel free to give a shout once in a while and let me know what’s currently bugging you.

Thanks. And yep. This started as a fun project 2 years ago and it turned into a nightmare. Best thing I can do is leave.

Thanks for being one of the sane ones lol.

Who has two thumbs and is excited?

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Yep. Progress has been slow, but steady. We’ve got a group chat going with a bunch of her friends and family (her husband and sister take turns giving us updates), and she’s got a lot of support.

As of early last week, she underwent a tracheotomy procedure (replacing the intubation tube from the ventilator) and was moved out of intensive care into a longer-term care facility. Before that, every time they tried to take her off of the sedatives, she would get agitated and uncomfortable because of being intubated and have to be re-sedated.

As of Sunday, she’s now fully off the sedatives and has been awake and lucid which was a huge relief to hear. She’s still weaning off of the ventilator, though, and there are a few other secondary complications remaining.

She’s not out of the woods, but she’s no longer hour-by-hour.

I like to joke that it takes me 3 hours to watch “60 Minutes” because I just keep pausing/rewinding because I’ve zoned out and have to go back and catch up.

I like the length, especially when not constrained by broadcast TV time slots (e.g. you can get a few extra-long episodes for finales and such). I think my biggest gripe is the hyper-serialized format making every season a 10 hour movie.

Getting back to the episode length, then I guess some series could benefit from being twenty, 30-minute episodes as opposed to ten 1-hour ones. Never thought I’d say this, but sometimes you just need a “filler” episode.

Edit: Gonna tack on my second gripe. You only get ten episodes and then it’s nearly two years between seasons for some shows. By the time the next season rolls around, I’ve completely forgotten the prior one and have to re-watch it to have any idea what’s happening.

One particular spite house in Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_House_(Boston)#History

According to local legend, the structure was built as a “spite house” shortly after the Civil War:

… two brothers inherited land from their deceased father. While one brother was away serving in the military, the other built a large home, leaving the soldier only a shred of property that he felt certain was too tiny to build on. When the soldier returned, he found his inheritance depleted and built the narrow house to spite his brother by blocking the sunlight and ruining his view.

Another source states:

Not much is known about the city’s narrowest house. Legend has it that … its unnamed builder erected it to shut off air and light from the home of a hostile neighbor (also nameless) with whom he had a dispute. … Believed to have been built after 1874