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Do you value high fidelity (audio, visual, or other)? Do you notice a difference?

It often surprises me to see people with time, money, and knowledge settling for subpar experiences that have night and day differences to me. Even at my brokest (pretty darn broke), speakers, headphones, and glasses were always worth researching and some saving up, and the difference between what I’d end up with and the...

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You can get very good stereo speakers and a quality amp for a few hundred bucks.

The idea that you need to spend thousands is a myth. It’s more about form factor than specs. Sound bars suck. Full range woofers don’t.

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Sizzling hot take, lol

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Came here to say:

  • thyroid medication
  • obstruction surgery
  • cancer surgery and treatment
  • cardiology to treat dilated cardiomyopathy.

Probably cost $25k over the years. I’m extremely grateful our pet insurance covered 80-90% of that.

Dude just turned 10 and he’s healthy and happy enough to start treating his arthritis.

Finally got this after two months of waiting! A bit uncomfortable and heats up easily, but it's still great to have a retro handheld of my own.

I spent the whole day flashing the MiyooCFW firmware onto it, customizing the menus, and testing which games ran well and which didn’t (and constantly trying and failing to get Doom to run on it); I think I’m pretty happy with the end results now.

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To put it into perspective, the GBA sp is 21 years old.

When the GBA sp came out, the NES was 20 years old.

Sounds pretty retro to me 😎

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled (techcrunch.com)

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one....

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You can’t get anything from Uber eats for less than $30 in my city.

$10 wouldn’t even cover ONE of the service fees.

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Lazy people with tech salaries. I have a tech salary but I’m not lazy enough to enjoy spending 80 dollars on dinner for two that would cost 35 if I drove my damn self.

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Teaching.

College degree mandatory, graduate degree preferred.

Yearly continuing education costs.

Out of pocket expenses for classroom materials.

Sometimes providing food for kids who don’t have it.

Famously low salaries and very long hours.

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You couldn’t be more wrong.

All my teacher friends wind up working 10 hour days on average.

They work during breaks.

They work during summer.

Good teachers don’t just show up for classroom time then disappear.

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It’s so much worse when you lay it all out like that, haha.

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Water, electricity, or both?

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Most people can’t afford new cars, let alone new cars priced way above average.

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I also used to watch this guy very regularly but stopped when I found out he’s a political gun nut who open carries his AR-15 specifically to anger people and make them uncomfortable.

There’s a video of him inside a store with a rifle ranting about some poor politician and their effort to prevent gun violence. Easy to find if you search for it.

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That link doesn’t work for me.

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Thanks for posting.

I’m glad he’s thought through a lot of his more inflammatory positions and seems to have evolved a more nuanced take on things.

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Technology connections, and it’s not particularly close.

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Unfortunately it’s pocket change for them.

Meaningless wager that despite not paying off still probably taught them an enormous amount about reddit and its users.

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Why?

That makes zero sense. There is no reason to do this.

Who profits from it? Somebody must. Money is the only reason these ghouls do anything.

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This headline is annoying. Dude has done a million cool projects since he got famous as a child actor. Let him fucking grow up already.

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ACAB

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Jumblie 🟠🔴🔵🟢 5 guesses in 1m 53s

I’m a sucker for all daily sharing games.

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I’m excited to see this!

I was following the project on Reddit before I left, and I haven’t seen any updates since then. Pretty thrilled to be able to support them. It feels like a long shot to achieve the full scope of the vision, but even if we get a smaller version of it, I’m psyched to experience it.

They really have made a ton of progress in the last year or so.

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Sorry it’s not going in the direction you hoped. I’m personally super into this vibe. Feels bizarre and different. Hopefully they capitalize on the theme and do something cool with it. If the “dragon” flight part is as tight and fun as recent Doom mechanics, it could be really fun.

A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....

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It’s not

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You posses extremely niche knowledge. Being catty because the headline doesn’t suit your preferences comes off as fairly rude and pretentious. Good for you for understanding that the headline is misleading, but there are more relatable ways to say that.

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Ah so you’re just kind of rude, cool.

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Bold of you to assume these fridges are built to last

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I’ve tried to use DDG for a few weeks now, and I find it gets worse the more specific I search.

For general things, it’s fine. But if I’m looking for an installation tutorial for a certain kind of plumbing hardware, it struggles to show me anything but brand and retail pages.

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Can I use kagi as a default search for my browser?

I’m trying to use Firefox on desktop and mobile more.

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Obviously “the” is a critical part of the trademark. Lawyers win that debate.

But why did the marketers win the “a… game” debate?

It could have been, “The Lord of the Rings: whatever whether Hobbit farm” and avoided all the weirdness.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one...

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My friend, I am also slightly nostalgic for the optimism and novelty of the flip phone days. I could text confidently with T9 inside a hoodie pocket during class. But my good friend there is no universe where I want to go back to T9 for the convenience and effectiveness of it. It is not quick compared to anything that came after.

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By all accounts this includes most Democrats.

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Correct

Is it worth the solar panels I'm getting? (lemmy.world)

I’m sorry for posting this here. There isn’t a solar panel instance, nor did I see anything for electricians. I know there’s been a lot of gripe with certain solar companies (solgen being in litigation, and others) but I didn’t hear much about freedom forever, since they’re new to Seattle area where I’m doing this....

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I paid 26k for 8.4kw three years ago from A&R solar in Seattle.

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They said it about stories that were written down instead of memorized and told our loud.

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So far so good 3 episodes in.

The look and feel of the world is great.

The characters are pretty believable.

Writing is good so far.

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I am in tech. My spouse was a teacher for 9 years. I made nearly 5 times as much money as her and worked literally half as much.

It’s egregious.

House Bill 500 Takes Away Kentucky Workers’ Lunch and Rest Breaks and Cuts Their Pay (kypolicy.org)

House Bill (HB) 500, which is to be heard in the House Small Business and Information Technology Committee Wednesday, would take away Kentucky workers’ rights to lunch and rest breaks at work and would eliminate pay protections, including for time spent traveling to and from a job site during work hours. It is an assault on...

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I don’t understand how anyone can vote for these ridiculous ghouls.

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You could have said, “that’s unjustifiable. It’s also reprehensible how many so-called medical professionals kill people with dangerous and negligent restraint practices too.”

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Fuck the police. They are not careful. Any number of murders by the police is too many. Any number of murders by healthcare workers is too many. We do not have to tolerate one to condemn the other.

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I never said fuck the police over the healthcare workers. I said any number of murders by police is too many. Any number of murders by healthcare workers is too many.

My point is the police shouldn’t get a pass because there’s another group that’s worse. Both groups should be scrutinized and deeply reformed.

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You need to check your privilege and pause for a moment. Your opinion is not more valuable than theirs. Insults and judgement in angry posts undermine whatever point you were trying to make.

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Most people over-index on maximizing compensation or holding on to stability. But there’s more to work than money and stability. Work is about growth, building connections, working on things you care about, being challenged and creating a legacy.

Fucking legacy? Is this a joke? Who gives a shit about what shitty products they launch for FAANG companies? I certainly don’t - not beyond keeping my resume and portfolio up to date.

Compensation and stability are the only things that matter beyond basic working conditions and a non-toxic environment.

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Education is antithetical to conservative beliefs.

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The police are worse than useless.

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Similar or same? Original cover art doesn’t necessarily mean first edition.

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People with money to spare have more money to share. Makes sense. I’m not sure if “poor people don’t have enough money to donate to natural disasters when they’re all suffering together” is much of a headline though.

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I’m not being dishonest. Just questioning the value of the information. Of course rich people are more likely to leverage a social network that contains other rich people?

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That would have been a more informative headline

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