I have literally worn the same brand and style of clothes for well over a decade. There’s photos of me from 12 years ago and I have the same Dickies pants and corporate(?) style polo on.

All the money I’ve saved on stylish clothes over the years have been spent more productively on… actually no I’ve wasted it. But still.

I wear a uniform during the week, and another on the weekend apparently.

A million is a pretty low bar.

If we could get a Billion in place would be a great start.

Dang, I feel old as heck reading that

I’d like some specific examples of what you originally described please, not just a general “China makes everything” as if that proves anything.

China makes everything because Western companies sought to maximise profit.

Costs go up, because the Western companies selling the Chinese-made product put the price up to maximise profit.

You don’t get to outsource everything and charge top dollar for it, then cry to the government that you need protection when the Chinese companies start competing in the same market with the same product for cheaper.

Where has this happened?

My brain had it filed under “an aggressive, close-minded person”.

Meets the definition perfectly

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I love that they’re on ebikes and scooters instead of goddamn petrol dirt bikes.

Those things are obnoxious as hell to have hanging around. Hours on end of Bbaam, BaaaAAAMMM, BAAAHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM… Buurrmmmmm. Repeat ad nausea.

Once We Were Spaceman is great, but they need more Firefly references I reckon.

Yes, for being on call.

Back when mobile plans were expensive and coverage was terrible, pagers were fantastic. They’d get the message inside a concrete basement where a mobile had no chance of reception.

To get around the lack of acknowledgment on pagers, our plan had a “resend page 3 times every 15 minutes until acknowledged by return call, if not acknowledged ring these mobiles until answered” type setup. Worked very well for emergency after hours calls.

Now we have Pushover.

Really? Right in front of my carrot?

I’m a Plex guy. I share my library because it’s a bit of fun and scratches my IT interest itch. I actually run Plex and Jellyfin in parallel but pretty much everyone prefers the Plex interface (and most smart TVs have it ready to go, even the silly ones with off brand app stores).

Mostly it’s just an excuse to play with cool toys, and a reason to work out how to run things I wouldn’t otherwise bother with.

I’ve always downloaded stuff, since the dialup days. Originally it was for things that were region locked / “unrated” in Australia and thus not available… but now it’s just so much more convenient than paid options that it’s a no-brainer. Like I literally can’t pay any legit service for the level of access and convenience I have now.

It’s not even about money anymore. Between the purchase price and power consumption of my dual Xeon rack server and JBOD, the 1000/400Mbps fibre connection, and the time I spend on it I’m paying enough to cover half a dozen subscriptions or so with change… But the convenience! I can watch anything, anywhere, on any device. No jumping between services to find stuff, no episodes/movies going missing, no login restrictions, no player that won’t work because your HDMI cable is lacking a decimal place or whatever the hell they’re doing now.

Anytime someone we know in real life complains about having issues with their legitimate streaming service I offer access to Plex. I think there’s 40ish users, but only a dozen or so that use it with any real frequency. Maybe 4-5 concurrent streams at peak times, outside of that is usually occasionally the work from home “workers” / the night shift people, or me streaming music at work or similar. I think the most I’ve had is 7 or 8 at once.

https://www.photopea.com/

It’s Photoshop CS2 in your browser

Religion is so gross

Who cares? Upvote what you like, downvote what you don’t. Who cares if someone has a whinge.

Put me on your list too

tl;dr

ABC is for destinations IJK is for numbers/counters XYZ is for objects/brands

That’s some vintage memeing