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Cool, I love our water delivery company. They were supposed to deliver on Monday the 4th. They emailed us at 7:01a on Saturday the 2nd to announce they were delivering on that Saturday. Then a minute later, they emailed "Sorry, we have changed your order date to Saturday the 2nd." They delivered within 30 minutes of the email. And because we didn't know in advance and don't usually get up until like 11:00a, they left our current default order of two 5g bottles and two 24ct flats of 500ml bottles. We were definitely not in need of 500ml bottles this week. Maybe it's time to look into a different company, or in-home reverse osmosis system.

Is there no place I can go to spread my suffering to others? I can’t seem to figure out how to stop following sources of suffering, so I need to constantly vent about it, and nobody seems to want me to kill their precious vibe.

My oldest brother is clearly a boomer, since he knows our dad has an email address, yet he sent photos to us. By mail. In a media mailer. Not a one of them labeled. Sure, we recognize him, and we can guess which one of them is his new squeeze and the child she is adopting, but we have no clue who the rest of them are. And he doesn't mention any of them in the single sheet letter he sent with the photos. I guess he has forgotten how to operate a Sharpie.

Starting the new year off with a bang! #covid19 #covid

Cool, so I'm such a big dipstick, I didn't know that for some reason, Arch doesn't do auto resume of balancing of btrfs partitions on boot if you're using Dracut? And I also didn't know that you're supposed to resume balancing with btrfs balance resume and instead ran btrfs balance start which means I get to let my drives sit through another 24 hours of what they already spent the last 24 hours doing, in an estimated 48 hour balance job.

Oops #whamageddon

How useful. #discord #batterykiller

Oh fuck off, game adverts #thegameawards

Neat, Privacy.com started charging foreign transaction fees, to the tune of 3% or a minimum of $0.50, in November of 2023. No notice was sent that they were starting this. Guess I'll eat $1 in monthly charges, because there's no way I'm upgrading myself to a paid plan for $10 to save $1.

Nice one, Bing. In today's email blast, the links to the first two answers, "Balkan Mountains" and "Bavarian Alps", are switched, so clicking the correct answer nets you a wrong answer. Not that it matters much.

Whee, found an old post about Ryujinx on orange site, and saw some dipstick vehemently defending Nintendo from the “obvious majority” of emulator users who pirate games. Said something about how “Piracy is unethical. It’s like freeriding.” Well I’d love to argue the positive ethics of freeriding and turnstile jumping, but I don’t want to ever have an account on orange site. Or get into arguments with corpo bootlickers.

Needless to say, piracy isn’t really a problem, because it will never be a thing that the overwhelming majority of people will partake of. Corpos will always get a huge wad of cash, artists will collect pocket change, and poors will just do without or pirate.

On a scale of one to ten, how weird was my biological father? He pronounced Adidas like "Oddy daws"

Cool, cool. hCaptcha, on this one specific EveryMac.com page, is now asking me to train AI for military vehicle identification. #aitraining #military https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=PowerBook2,1

https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-bans-unofficial-game-controllers-accessories-xbox

Seriously, who fucking cares if people cheat at online games? Maybe we need less competitive online games in the marketplace to begin with, and more cooperative, or perish the thought, single player games.

My dad just got back from the hospital last night. He's doing sort of okay, all things considered.

Fucking gross, Apple, the iOS keyboard now auto capitalizes the letter X.

I'm selling my Intel Arc A770 video card - https://www.ebay.com/itm/266434479752 #ebay #hardware

Big F-U to forum admins who don't allow bumping, especially when their forums are practically dead in the water and 99% of the threads on the first page of the forum haven't been posted in for years.

Regarding archive .is or archive .today links used as Receipts for Fediblock posts #fediblockmeta Reminder that the admin of archive .is intentionally blocks Cloudflare DNS from querying their DNS records properly, because they have some sort of homegrown CDN that requires eDNS client subnet information from anyone resolving their domains to work, and they don't like that Cloudflare's DNS not only blocks this record for their users, but also resolves the domain from any random-ass Cloudflare server located literally in any one of their datacenters, instead of using a server nearby to the user. Guess archive .is pride themselves on knowing where their users are located.