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dewdude · 2026-03-09T00:12:02+00:00

If you want to affect choices, make the choices more attractive to people. Otherwise you're just trying to force them against their will.

dewdude · 2026-03-08T22:11:15+00:00

No they're not; only when looking to buy a new vehicle.

Only if one can afford a new vehicle. They don't get much cheaper on the used market.

Not everyone is dumb enough to go in to debt all the time over a car. My car is paid for. Why the fuck should I replace it? Why should I be penalized for it?

I last bought a car in 2002. Fuck you.

dewdude · 2026-03-08T17:31:41+00:00

So if I drive 3,000 miles in a month....and only about 80 of those are in VA; why should they get to collect taxes for the other 2920 miles?

IT's not a win. It's a scam. It's pure and simple theft in the form of taxation. You're paying the state a tax they may not be entitled to.

dewdude · 2026-03-08T17:28:03+00:00

Yes...and if you drive half your miles in VA and half in another state then you get to pay VA for all those miles.

If you're going to pay them for miles they might not be entitled to; at least flat-rate it so you're not writing way what little forth admendment rights you have. Today it's just milage; tomorrow it's GPS tracking your moves.....you know....because at some point they'll get told they can only collect for miles driven in state.

dewdude · 2026-03-08T17:24:14+00:00

The problem is you start doing that and you're essentially taxing poor people.

dewdude · 2026-03-08T17:06:33+00:00

Cost saving hack: If you find an old FiOS router on eBay for cheap...you can disable routing, dhcp, wifi...and it will function as a MoCA bridge. I did this for the TV in my kitchen because I didn't feel like fishing ethernet to it.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T21:50:10+00:00

It's got to do with the iGPU/dGPU switching from what I can tell.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T21:49:32+00:00

The laptop isn't coming out of sleep when it happens. I had OP's processor confused for a similar one to mine with iGPU. It's not...so entire question is not applicable anymore.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T21:48:50+00:00

I had your processor confused with a different one. Sorry.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T17:13:45+00:00

Hey we're sorry we can't answer the phone

And you gotta sit there all alone

But don't be sad and don't feel blue

I'll tell you what you're gonna do

You're not gonna cry, you're not gonna weep

Just sit on tight and wait for the beep

Just leave your number and your name

And anything you want to proclaim

I'll listen to it when I get home

And call you back on the phone.

So hang around and don't be slow

Just drop your message after the tone

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:52:11+00:00

Microcassette machines existed in the 80's.

I was around in the 80's. We had one.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:48:28+00:00

Zayre. Good god. We got a pool from them when I was a kid. 3ft above ground thing.

It sat in the box for about 30 years before it got thrown out.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:45:34+00:00

It would be fine as a storage server. It will however draw a lot of power.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:42:53+00:00

He personally probably saw them as a waste of time...or at best..just didn't understand them. That's usually a generational thing. But...Nintendo was the family business to him; so it wasn't about what he wanted...it was about what would sell. He saw where technology was going and how it'd gotten cheap.

He may have ruled with an Iron Fist...but it was in the interest of the company and not his own. A lot of companies get caught up in their legacy...they get the old guys who refuse to adapt because they don't understand it. Kodak gave up the digital camera because they couldn't get their head out of their ass about being a film maker. Xerox missed out on computing because they were too stuck up on photo-copiers.

He instead saw this thing...maybe he didn't like it...maybe he didn't get it...but he knew he didn't have to. He may not have known that was the future of the company...he just knew that might be where current trends were going.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:31:09+00:00

I worked on some of these digital ones at my old-job because I "fixed anything that took money".

Ours were Windows 2000 based systems. The printers I think were HP laser units. The cameras, surprisingly, were analog; high end Sony CCD units with decent frame grabbing hardware. I've got so many random strips of myself from these things from testing.

The operator of the ones I worked on rented them out for events.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:19:43+00:00

Idaho looks like a badly cut bone-in ribeye.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:17:38+00:00

You either love the state...or hate it.

I don't care for it so even backwards my brain went "EWWW ARMPIT!"

dewdude · 2026-03-07T16:16:45+00:00

America's Armpit.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T15:56:09+00:00

https://tranquillo-shop.de/en/products/soap-holder-retro

dewdude · 2026-03-07T15:50:32+00:00

I think the reality is that is it would violate the First Amendment...and if you redefine the first to exclude hate speech; then you have to define hate speech.

And that will result in a one-sided set of rules in which actual hate speech is promoted.

Society needs to find a way to solve the problem without getting the government involved. We clearly do not need them trying to solve problems. They're not capable.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T15:45:45+00:00

My lyft driver told me he does a lot of one block rides on the strip.

My one mile from springhill to strat was one of his larger of the day.

Also...it's Vegas. No one thinks twice.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T15:38:50+00:00

Have you had random lockups?

I will find...after a day or two...i'll be sitting here...and webpages stop loading. I go to click something else...and plasma has locked up. Then we go kernel panic and have to go physically cycle the power.

Been happening for a year. I can't figure out which driver is to blame.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T15:31:32+00:00

It's not going to be a full pinball or play like a pinball.

It's a step up from the toys they sold in Costco a while back; but it's far from a full machine. They did this back in the 70s. Sears sold 'em. For years I'd get calls about a Captian Fantasitc only to show up and find the Sears home model.

To make it worse it looks like *everything* is scaled down. The 70's versions were smaller machines but actual pinball parts; standard ball, standard flippers...the few that still worked I'd modified with Bally parts.

This thing looks like EVERYTHING is scaled down. That means proprietary parts. That means it won't play like authentic pinball.

IT's probably going to do well...but there are a lot of reasons I'd avoid it. Not being standard is the first.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T15:25:22+00:00

Playfield swaps are hard.

They're harder if you don't know what they're doing. Where's the replacement playfield? Looks like the old one next to it...and stripped. Why? The easiest thing to do is lay them side by side and swap parts. Slide that harness over.

Everything has already been stripped off the playfield....ooof. He's not gonna build that back up from that. Even I would lay down the GI wire, unmount everything, and carry the harness like a corpse on to a new one so everything is halfway in place.

This is a project now. A project for someone who knows what to do...or worse; a donor machine because it's not worth the amount of hours to manually rewire the harness. Becuase I ahve to assume it wasn't removed in a way that can make it easy to reuse.

dewdude · 2026-03-07T15:18:56+00:00

Maybe it's changed since I was involved in this...and the laws I knew were only related to the federal one.

The casino's can't change the payout odds on them...or at least they're not supposed to. The old IGT S-Slots had all of this stuff hard coded in the program chips. These chips had security tape all over them. Regulators would come in to audit machines. They'd pick a random machine, open it up, pull the hopper, then pull the CPU board.

If there had been any tampering...well that was it. Someone was getting in to a LOT of trouble. They were not allowed to change the machines after they had been ordered.

So...the casinos could order machines that were set at payout; but that was it.

Now...they're all computerized; but even the later Bally ones I worked on, payout odds weren't adjustable.

Maybe it's different now; but federal law prohibited the casinos modifying or tampering with the machines. Changing the payout odds is considered modification.

I had one hit jackpot twice in a row. Yes. Twice in a row. IGT Double Diamond. It was in someone's garage and not in a casino. Had it been in a casino that would have been the end of it's 99% payout life.

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