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My wife and I have rotated through both Pixel and Google phones. When it comes down to it? Samsung has more reliable hardware and seems to have better battery performance (especially as the phone gets older). Google is FAR less bloated with crapware. I'm debating right now getting us new...

When I did ours over a decade ago (I think pics are in here somewhere) we moved the fridge and microwave into the adjacent game room, And leveraged a hot plate. I ate a lot of microwaved chicken noodle soup and a lot of "go fetch some take out for dinner" while we were plowing through that...

This is the exact problem. The fact was that having the game self contained on a disc so that if you had the disc, you had the game, was the one way to prevent an arbitrary decision to make your "ownership" of the game vanish. I don't think a single person is truly nostalgic for a round...

I know what type of man I am.... do you?

For your weird boner consideration...

It was more for the Batman:TAS accurate Harley... But uhm.. thanks? Unrelated : "I will never fall for smaleless marketing just hitting me with memberberries".... Also me :

Let's be real, if you had a time machine and wanted to do something like that there are two MUCH easier ways : GO back and give the gift of technology, but the technologies would be the plans to the AK47, a walkthrough of how to manufacture steel and tungsten core armor piecing ammo, and a...

Nvidia has literally stopped listing gaming in it's revenue reports. It just folded Gaming GPUs into "Edge computing" which now includes everything that isn't a Data center chip.

"Draw me like one of your French Bulldogs..."|

I will chime in here as the poster child for "pick a few good lost cost ETFs and just sink money in, using it to try to stay balanced. Right now I'm mostly looking at XLK for my following the tech surge play, and HDV for my "old man's ETF". My current wildcard I'm thinking about shifting but...

Looks like a leak of the new Stargate series that got pre-canned dropped :

Oh, I don't quite think it's humanizing the Ghoul which is making me like him more.... I think it's just me become more jaded and cynical over time. heh

I will say the more this series goes on the more I realize that the real "character people relate to and see this world through" for me is quickly shifting to the Ghoul.

Exactly, reboot means recasting. I would normally hold this against them, but I never thought he made a good Aquaman. And I have said for a long time (before he was cast as Aquaman) that I felt him as Lobo would be a RJD/Tony Stark level casting match. Then , I now hear he basically just...

"I'll take shit that never happened for $1000, Alex" I can only hope he's getting a check for that post.

Well... I will say I've had a few issues over time with the board complaining that my image uploads are too large, so I'm trying to be a little more kind on that front as I do know storage space is one of the ongoing costs of running this wonderland of autism ;) Unrelated new thing I made...

So I am still wrestling with "Can I get a plaster mold dry enough to cast without it failing utterly".... But progress is being made : Far from perfect, but I'm pleased with the progress.

Oh mylanta.... Yeah, copper will ABSOLUTELY pop and explode if you're pouring it and molten copper hits anything with moisture on/in it. (instant conversion from liquid to steam for an "explosion"). Good example : I was pouring some copper I had salvaged/scrapped together on day. It was...

The concern now is that if this movie underperforms to the level it seems to be slated to if we'll ever get to see the DCU get to the point of us even getting a Powergirl, let alone a movie for her.

Well, in this case it was 2 so that we'd both basically get our "once every 5 years or so" gaming rig upgrade in while also doing AI stuff. So far on hers I just put AnythingLLM on it and have it running Gemma4-26B (pulled via a GGUF re-quant) and it's running well for what she wants to do...

I could see this... 3 solo movies = This "Day" trilogy ("Brand new Day", some other "day" movie, and then probably "One More Day") - Maybe do Brand New Day, then One More Day, then somehow NOT screw up the MJ/Petey relationship, and the last one be called "Mayday" and feature him raising his...

So... Alan Greenspan died at age 100. I hear some people are irrationally exuberant.

OK. Two I can think of that hit the "best value in something I've purchased" category, and their on opposite ends of the cost spectrum. First , Bare Naked boxers from Duluth Trading. I used to be a "Go to Sam's once a year, but a dozen pack of boxers, wear them for a year, throw them out...

Any of these systems can be gamed, often programmatically. It's one of the critical flaws in modern "Manage by Metrics" mantras. In most industries now there is this seeming motion towards having managers who don't actually know what the people they're managing really accomplish. Instead they...

Just imagine if the catch line at the end of the movie is back on Earth and someone goes "Hey! There's SuperGirl!" and she stops and say "No... SuperTHEY"

Now imagine the eventuality when Amazon says "OK, we'll also start picking up packages you need to ship now and leverage our network to get it delivered, just print out a label, and we'll sell you a label printer or $5, and charge less per-package..."

The way I see it, the games my wife and I like playing all play reasonably on the cards we already have. If the 5060s are just used for the AI work that perfectly serves my purposes well. For now, I think I'll remove the old cards, upgrade in place. Then once I can hit the store or find a...

As my mountain Dwarven instincts start manifesting more and more... that means being drawn to more expensive metals apparently... Behold what 23.8 ounces of junk silver jewelry I got off Ebay melted down into.... (80% purity silver) Including the elusive magical lucky silver poop! If I get...

So today I find myself at a quandry.... Decided to do the "tiny" upgrade to the desktops in the house. (my rig and the one @Mrs. Haus uses). 3060s with 8GB to 5060TIs with 16G. For the first time I can remember I'm doing an upgrade NOT because of gaming performance. But rather that we're...

Slightly more semi-official update and PSA... for of all things.. a PSA blood check.

My usual stance is if it doesn't come across with a caller ID I recognize as a person I want to talk to, then I don't answer. Lately that has been loosened a little as I am starting to do some "job market exploration" and other things.....

I'm still getting a lot that seem to be calling just to see if someone answers. I answer, say hello, and silence, then hang up. Only thing I can think is someone was expecting someone to answer in a foreign language, or clankers mapping out which phone numbers have humans attached for later.

Yeah. Lisa is more active than him apparently on Instagram, and he keeps popping up in her posts and looking like he's doing well. Which is relieving.

We still ahve one of those macs in our storage from from the wife's college days. Unrelated:

Three racoons in a trenchcoat.... One here to talk the technology One in Politics to talk social ramifications Kinda surprised there isn't one in the stonkhouse to talk about the market/stock/money game around AI....

That's actually been documented as possibly the biggest problem with his acting career. He's of a light build with boyish looks, which doesn't translate into "Hollywood leading man" (i.e. the Hemsworths, Cavills, etc...) which has been attributed to reasons the non-Spidey films he's been in as...

Well, at it's core, the character is BOTH a quip throwing jovial hero, and a troubled young dude going through a seemingly perpetual string of bad moments, always has been. The ongoing mantra in the comics is that Peter Parker can never really have a happy ending and Stan Lee even once talked...