kmirl

joined 1 year ago
[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I got my license in the early 80's, and at that time the cheapest cars were older american beaters with utterly terrible 2 and 3-speed slushbox automatics. The alternative were Japanese cars like Honda Civics, small, reliable, manual transmission cars that got great gas mileage and were way more fun to drive. All these years later I'm still driving a manual, currently a 2021 Toyota Corolla. It's paid for, it gets around 35 mpg, and with regular maintenance it will run until the end of time.

I know American cars have improved a lot since the malaise era but you generally can't get them with manual transmissions, so I'll stick with the imports for now.

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I used Boost for reddit for years, so I switched Boost for Lemmy as soon as it became available. It's not free, iirc it was $3 or $4, but it works well and I've had zero issues with it.

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have a Yahoo email account from the mid-late 90's...

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

AKA Charles the turd

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I bought an HP m281 mfp printer 3-4 years ago and disabled automatic firmware updates when I was setting it up. Not too long after that I read that a new firmware release prevented 3rd party cartridges from working.

Anyway I bought new ink cartridges a couple of years ago after getting pop-ups saying the ink was getting low. Thing is, I haven't had to install them yet because despite the warnings the printer has been printing just fine with the original cartridges.

So in addition to blocking 3rd party cartridges HP is also lying about how much ink their cartridges contain.

F.U. HP.

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thoughts and prayers... ;-)

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know but am curious--honestly I bought the app just to support the developer.

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same! I paid for the app as soon as I got it installed. I used Boost for reddit for years and loved it. It looks great so far!

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It is available, for now. I refuse to use reddit's terrible mobile app, so when they kill old.reddit.com I'll be gone for good.