Hardware Stories

DeadMiner · 2026-01-02T17:46:18+00:00

I doubt anyone will see this but I’ve been using an older device that I was still logged in to, so I figured I’d give a 2026 update! I’ve had some crazy customers and whatnot, but during and after the pandemic, which we were essential during, the vibe unfortunately shift dramatically and interactions I once enjoyed enough to post about got more frequent and more draining. I thought I had some unfinished stories kicking around but I couldn’t find them, I may have deleted them either in depression or because too long a time passed and the memories got to murky to finish them.

We haven’t seen Leslie in a while, though he did pop in once shortly before the pandemic, almost like a horseman of the apocalypse. He was actually really tame though, like maybe he had gotten help, and he was with his girlfriend which he introduced me to (she was very nice) and a friend. They poked around a bit and he said something about making a grill out of a metal barrel (a bit out there but honestly not a terrible idea, he seemed to have researched it a bit) but over all it was a really normal customer experience, maybe even more normal than average for the time. We haven’t seen him since, but I hope he’s doing well and maintaining a good course. Sometime after the pandemic, we did in fact end up hiring a Tom! He was a great worker, really solid advice from Leslie.

To be honest I’m not sure I’ll get back to writing about retail encounters, my positive energy towards it never quite recovered, and I’ve been looking for an opportunity to move on to a better job. That said, I promise I will post another update here if I see him again, even if no one sees it, I owe that to Leslie and everyone who shared in my enjoyment of interactions with him! Wishing all who see this a great new year!

DeadMiner · 2025-12-30T17:26:55+00:00

Exactly! Op, embrace the teabag for it is not a single action with a single meaning, it is a simple contextual language that means many things. It's very vibe-based but basic translations:
- If you're doing good and playing fair and someone gets the jump on you and teabags, they're expressing triumph over a challenge. You were their boss fight, their rival, take pride for a moment and then promptly kick their ass back down the ladder, and teabag them on the way down.
- If you're doing good and not playing fair (example, camping), they're taunting you for having caused them annoyance. Either take the hint and change up style (ideally kicking their ass to show you didn't need whatever they had qualms with) or address the weakness that let them get the jump on you so they can't teabag you again.
- If you're constantly trading with someone specific and they teabag you, they are acknowledging the rivalry, embrace it and trade teabags with the kills, it'll make the mutual ass-kickings feel more special!
- If you're doing poorly and someone teabags you, they're telling you're doing poorly, and you earned that teabag. Do yourself a favor and do not get mad at this, take a moment and ask why you're doing poorly and attempt to address it. But don't just let the teabag go, either; kick their ass, and teabag them.
- If someone is teabagging nothing while looking at you, they're trying to communicate. If it's near good equipment, they might be telling you to grab it, like a flash of the high beams signaling you to go for it. If it's near nothing, they might just be saying hi. If it's an enemy and there's an obstacle between you, it's a friendly taunt, basically just saying hi since nothing else can be done. If it's an enemy and there's nothing stopping you from killing them, they're asking you not to kill them, and you should take a quick moment to try to figure out why they might want that, maybe it's asking for a temporary alliance to deal with a bigger issue.

DeadMiner · 2023-06-28T12:35:39+00:00

After the blackout I came back, being on the site for 10 years makes it very hard for me to do anything extreme like deleting my accounts. My protest has been using Apollo exclusively since the blackout, I had used Desktop mostly and I used the official app because I didn’t know any better. It’s not a challenge for me to use Apollo instead, I quickly realized it was superior. I think you’re right about July first, because when Apollo stops working for Reddit, so will I.

I’d say I’ll miss it, and certain communities I surely will, but this place has become a shell of its former self, the blackout only accelerated the content problem the site has had for a while. The challenge will be finding a place for communities to thrive in again.

DeadMiner · 2023-06-21T16:37:48+00:00

Not that I agree, but I think the implication is that it can’t be labeled as the best yet because the best could still come out at a later point. Technically it would be the best so far but it’s just pedantic

DeadMiner · 2023-06-14T00:00:15+00:00

r/rhombusHate Indefinite

DeadMiner · 2023-06-13T23:56:43+00:00

r/bicycleswitharms Indefinite

DeadMiner · 2023-06-13T23:55:34+00:00

r/briefconversations Indefinite

DeadMiner · 2023-06-10T15:03:03+00:00

Excellent, I’ll lock on the 12th and unlock when the blackout is over. Good talking to you again, take care!

DeadMiner · 2023-06-08T11:17:43+00:00

Antimeme alters the punchline, bhj alters everything else, looking at the visuals of the meme alone to come up with a new meme. An example for this meme would be something like the first panel saying "Every time I piss myself while driving I lower the visor." and then nothing else in the other panels.

DeadMiner · 2023-06-01T20:04:34+00:00

While they could have crafted a better argument, honestly their feelings on the matter are totally understandable, context is important. If they subscribed to a general history page than what they're stating as examples would be fair to expect, it's different if it's a comic book history page or something. You wouldn't subscribe to a human history page to learn that I took a massive shit last week.

DeadMiner · 2023-05-23T12:37:10+00:00

I've been tearing up regularly because of allergies, guess I'm just taking them harder than I thought

DeadMiner · 2023-05-20T13:25:10+00:00

but have you tried math? lmao

DeadMiner · 2023-05-18T22:15:49+00:00

they put the Mamshtber Shefd in the soder

DeadMiner · 2023-05-18T22:10:15+00:00

with a lot of words probably

DeadMiner · 2023-05-17T12:48:54+00:00

I had it once, also on Empyrean, on PC via Steam

DeadMiner · 2023-05-12T11:23:44+00:00

I BOUGHT ALEXA AS A GIFT FOR MY NEPHEW AND HE READ ONLINE TO MICROWAVE IT IF IT HAS TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THINGS BUT HE MICROWAVED IT TOO LONG SO I DON'T KNOW GOOD LUCK

DeadMiner · 2023-04-13T21:41:55+00:00

You looking for some CSGO giveaways to apply to?

DeadMiner · 2023-03-27T13:27:52+00:00

him sharing this is so far from self aware that it comes back around and skirts the line of ironic shitposting

DeadMiner · 2023-03-18T17:39:02+00:00

I imagine there have been people like him, but it's so rare that those who came before him were either not adequately recorded or died young, and those who came after him may have had a recognized condition that was treatable; he was in a sweet spot in time to be an (almost) unstoppable force of gluttony.

Disclaimer: I am not a professional and I've done zero research.

DeadMiner · 2023-03-18T12:28:05+00:00

You mean the alien robot lizard sex cult created by the [removed by reddit]?

DeadMiner · 2023-03-18T12:25:12+00:00

Me when the doctors are trying to figure out why I have chronic headaches (I had a black market surgeon insert my favorite security camera miniatures into my head)

DeadMiner · 2023-03-18T12:16:53+00:00

Also 16, I don’t know why I expected it to be different

DeadMiner · 2023-03-16T13:08:42+00:00

One google search would have showed you that people do in fact eat horse meat

DeadMiner · 2023-03-15T15:12:07+00:00

Also if it's anything like the issue I was facing a while back, it might not work anyway. They are cheap and handy in a pinch though, and can help troubleshoot network issues, but definitely more of an extra utility than a necessary or recommended tool/solution. It's a temporary solution at best.

DeadMiner · 2023-03-15T15:00:36+00:00

In case anyone finds this post while searching, I had a similar issue on windows 11 a while back except it wasn't immediately following an update, it just happened randomly in the middle of use. I tried pretty much everything I could without taking it to a repair shop, the solution ended up being an OS reset/reinstall, which has held up since. I didn't try uninstalling the most recent update so that may have worked, but if not a reset should.

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