ares35

joined 1 year ago
[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

i first went to https://kbin.pub (the site for the software itself), nothing posted there so i followed the link to the repo to check open issues. saw it was being addressed, so i just used a lemmy instance in the interim.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 6 points 4 months ago

correct; acquired in 2013.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ad-skip to present day. encryption and drm is being introduced into the new atsc 3.0 broadcast standard, and some stations are already using it.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

i remember getting my first one. it was an amazing time. played a lot of games back then. not so much now. i just can't keep up with the upgrades, so i just play older ones every now and then.

a modern equivalent would be moving from an old pc with hdd to a new one with nvme ssd.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

there's a lot of stupid, ignorant assholes running small businesses all over the place that think they own their employees and can boss them 24/7. this could totally be a legit posting somewhere.

if you want me answering my phone 24/7, you're paying me 24/7--and providing the phone you want me to answer.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

most transit buses are also larger and/or heavier, with larger engines that burn more fuel.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 49 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

first boot: no i don't want a 365 trial.

still first boot: no i don't want 365 'basic', either.

(you should know this msa already has a one-off office license on it, you fuckwits)

and yea, still in first boot: no i don't want game pass trial.

then game pass notifications shortly after from the 'store'.

this was this past weekend setting up a new desktop with 11 pro.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

upgraded here. no problems. didn't even notice the version increment until i went looking for it.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 18 points 4 months ago

the consumer always loses when industries consolidate into relatively few players.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] ares35@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago

only 50% more than it 'should'? they're more than double the inflation-adjusted price here--just for the burger.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

you'd be surprised at how many people look for lowest price and fail to read even part of the rest of the item's page below the item title at the top.

kindle. check.

lowest price. check.

buy now.

click-click-done.

(oops. they just got a 'trial' to prime, too. that takes actual reading of pages to find and click-through the cancel process before the payments start)

 

someone's bringing me their imac, a new brother wifi-capable mfc printer, and their dsl modem/wifi router combo unit. in theory, i should be able to hook up the printer to the wifi (the mac should already be configured for it) and set it up here, even without the modem part connected to the internet (its wifi and local lan will still work)--and they take it all back home, reconnect, and everything 'just works'.

i haven't used a mac day-to-day since the se/30 days. any tips? or is it as simple as connecting the printer to the wifi (manually via the printer's panel) and running the installer from brother's web site (carried over to the mac via a fat32 usb flash drive)? or is there something else i'll need to know? the mac has os13.6. thanks!

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