Web Dev. Middle-aged. Dad.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I had a Thinkpad T440s that had a ridiculous battery life. I think I picked I picked it up on eBay for like $300 4 or 5 years ago. I tinkered with it and ended up breaking it and didn’t have time to put it back together/fixed up but that thing was a dream. I have a “desktop replacement” PC that’s huge and unwieldly and I wish I just kept my T440s with an upgraded display and like 4 days of battery life.




  • We used Wyze cameras for years but their quality has dropped considerably in the last few. Every time you open the app they’ve got a new popup to remind you to buy more stuff and their app only works half the time. I wish there was something affordable I could set up and host at home without having to pay ridiculous prices for hardware and making it a second job to set up and/or maintain. Wyze was the answer there but they’ve been sitting uncharged at the front and back door for months now because their app just wasn’t worth using.





  • I felt similarly. Exploring is just another thing to “do” to get credits/nanites. It was cool to see genuinely new things like the huge Dune-styled worms but once you see one you’ve seen them all.

    That extends to base building too. I have no reason to build a base anywhere else in the galaxy once I have a capital ship that does all my crafting for me. Except resource collecting, I guess. But meh, different strokes for different folks. I don’t think there’s been a non-MMO continually-updated game that I’ve come back to as often as NMS but coming back is usually pretty short-lived.


  • I’m out of the loop on this one and I’m probably the minority here but big banks would probably incorporate this whole WEI thing but wouldn’t smaller institutions like credit unions opt out? I apologize for my ignorance, I haven’t looked into this at all. This is the first time I’m hearing about WEI and I’m trying to garner some sort of and idea of what it is via comments rather than reading an article about it like a regular human being.






  • Yup! Same here. Had someone recommend kbin on mastodon so I made my way here. Deleted 2 10+ year old Reddit accounts and cut all ties. I went in anonymously to check out what happened with that submarine but otherwise cut all ties. The amount of my life I’ve taken back by dropping that site is incredible. I didn’t realize how much of my time was spent doomscrolling there. Now I’m playing guitar, playing games and building web dev projects with all the time I’m saving. I never got into Twitter but from my understanding a lot of people have had my same experience dropping that site too.