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CrazedGeek

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Inactive account as of 30 August 2022. Tired of dealing with the transphobia and pseudo-intellectual nonsense here.

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www.dirtyfeed.org 3y ago

Remembering

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www.nbcnews.com 3y ago

A darker side to London's mysterious American candy stores

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messybeast.com 4y ago

Accident Report on “Icarus – The First Flight”

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eurovisionworld.com 4y ago

The proof: six Eurovision juries cheated and voted for each other

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www.dirtyfeed.org 4y ago

Design for Creation

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www.vice.com 4y ago

Amtrak is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch

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web.archive.org 4y ago

USB Floppy Disk Striped Raid Under OS X (2003)

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

Power tool companies have discovered USB-C

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tvtropes.org 4y ago

Useful Notes

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www.dirtyfeed.org 4y ago

What the Papers Say

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

List of video game console palettes

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www.nostalgianerd.com 4y ago

The great Commodore brand heist

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jalopnik.com 4y ago

A reminder that electric cars need to solve their neutral problem

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www.nintendolife.com 4y ago

The BBC's Olympics Coverage Was Made in Unreal Engine

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Next Step for Counterfeiters: Faking the Whole Company (2006)

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

Who wins when Amazon pulls brands from its store?

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

A space doesn't have to be a space (2018) [video]

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

Credit agencies can’t tell my sister and me apart

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howchoo.com 6y ago

I Turned a Furby into an Amazon Echo. Introducing: Furlexa (2017)

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whatever.scalzi.com 6y ago

Things to Remember About Authors (2009)

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tv.avclub.com 6y ago

Fox redesigns its NFL graphics for the point-your-phone-at-the-TV era

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

Lawrence Lessig Sues New York Times over MIT and Jeffrey Epstein Interview

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vivaldi.com 6y ago

User Agent Changes

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old.reddit.com 6y ago

Google Admob Ad Restriction on Podcast Addict App

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www.latimes.com 6y ago

Phone Company to Replace Last Manual Switchboard (1991)

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

RNG in Super Mario 64

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kernelmag.dailydot.com 6y ago

We called a secret MI6 phone number (2013)

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theconcourse.deadspin.com 6y ago

The Adults in the Room

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trove42.com 6y ago

The Pikachu Programming Language – A Language for Pikachus (2017)

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Pac-Man Ghost AI Explained

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Honestly, I hated the people around me trying to learn the same. CS was my original major in university (around 2011), and every interaction I had with my classmates was bizarrely bro-y and negative. Made me afraid that that type of person would be who I’d be working with for the rest of my life, and the thought scared me enough to switch majors into a more businessy/managerial direction.

Halfway —- I’m keeping my subs to indie or inexpensive things (Dropout, CuriosityStream/Nebula) or comped things (Disney Bundle via Amex Plat), and I just recently picked up a couple library cards for Kanopy, Hoopla, Freegal, and PressReader (as well as books). Got rid of Crunchyroll, Apple One, and YouTube Premium.

Officially: no, you need an Oculus account to even get a Quest set up to do streaming, and you need to separately make your account a developer account to unlock sideloading.

I’ve got mild insomnia, and I do most of my video watching to wind down before I go to sleep, so I usually use it while I’m laying down on my side (and I flip every now and again, so I can’t just set up a TV on one side of the bed).

I use the Logitech G600, which has some drawbacks (seemingly no driver support on macOS/Apple Silicon being the big one), but is ridiculously comfortable in my hand, more than precise enough, and looks professional enough (if you turn the LEDs off). It is an MMO mouse with macro buttons on the side, but I honestly don’t even use them and still love the mouse. I keep a small stash of them for when Logitech inevitably and finally discontinues it.

I’m very gently getting some stuff prepared. Just picked up a tiny battery-powered radio (AM/FM/SW/NOAA Weather/aviation), likely gonna start building a small emergency bag over the coming weeks. I live in an earthquake-prone area, so being prepared for those is my more long-term use.

The Resy Amex Gold and Platinum offers are really nice: https://resy.com/amex-offers . Same as the regular midgrade Amex offers (between $750 and $2500 worth of points, depending on card and what you value MR points at), but also, 10x points on restaurants on the Platinum for the first six months (up to $25k spend), and 20% back on restaurants on the Gold for the first year (up to $1250 spend).

"bottom of the barrel X developers" can also be really easily read as "developers who are X and therefore bottom of the barrel", and whenever I've heard similar phrases in real life, there's always at least some level of insult being cast on whatever X is.

I’m surprised AMD’s laptop share increased that much (even in benchmarks) — when I went looking for an AMD laptop a couple months ago, I could only find a handful that seemed good.