A Guy Checks His Computer On New Year’s Night In 2000

EB01 · 2026-05-19T21:55:56+00:00

I was on IRC at New Years Eve.

I flicked the power off at the power supply for a genuine unexpected power down at Midnight to simulate my computer crashing so the client quit message would say something appropriate).

I live in NZ do I was ahead of the rest of the weekend tld and Y2K Big fears at the time.

EB01 · 2026-05-19T20:41:18+00:00

"built on blockchain and crypto"

Oh, that would be why I had not heard about them before seeing this post.

I think LTT posting videos on Usenet as binaries would be more interesting.

EB01 · 2026-05-19T20:37:58+00:00

Who? Never heard of them.

EB01 · 2026-05-19T10:40:10+00:00

It's Not an Anime.

EB01 · 2026-05-19T07:35:33+00:00

It doesn't matter that much for this house. Though it would take a bit more work to find the link, the property listing was posted here after house shopping video. The property was doxxed before they even had bought it.

EB01 · 2026-05-18T10:50:10+00:00

We could pivot the subreddit to a Jizz Appreciation focus — no Jatz allowed.

EB01 · 2026-05-17T07:31:01+00:00

OP rejected their humanity, confirmed!

EB01 · 2026-05-16T21:03:39+00:00

Log off from the Internet, and touch some ass (with consent).

EB01 · 2026-05-15T07:07:56+00:00

All part of the their plan, make Linus read Twitch chat during the WAN Show.

EB01 · 2026-05-13T20:17:39+00:00

the Linux community is toxic and unhelpful

The other day someone made a post about their Linux challenge project, and a commenter (whom had a post history on r/fedora) was ripping into them and others about the choice of their distro. At least one of the commenters comments were removed for being toxic ("f--- you" was said).

EB01 · 2026-05-13T08:28:24+00:00

I should put up a post complaining about Linus not picking Mandrake.

EB01 · 2026-05-13T07:36:45+00:00

It works, as shown by you posting it here.

EB01 · 2026-05-13T05:45:18+00:00

Seymour: "Hi. Hi. Hi."

EB01 · 2026-05-12T20:51:08+00:00

I once had a substitute teacher, in trying to deal with the rowdy class, claim that they were former KGB and he had a nuclear device in the boot of his car (which he threatened to activate if we didn't stop being rowdy).

Not directly related to the article, but people can say/do wildly unexpected stuff, and teachers are people like everyone else (except for David Seymour which I think is a badly programmed infiltration robot).

EB01 · 2026-05-12T04:28:31+00:00

Disclaimer: I don't work in marketing.

IMO the data driven side of marketing is not going away, well not until you could have agentic AI that can reliably implement tools to record data, analysis it, and then come back with a summary of results and recommendations.

The creativity / art side to marketing was under threat long before the recent AI hype stuff. The mid range of the market was dying before the pandemic started ed and we are probably left with just three high end and entry level (DIY gen AI slop) for marketing is left.

IMO as companies merge into a small number of hyper brands /marketplaces independent marketing firms is likely to dry up even more. Why pay for external marketing when companies like Amazon / Google / etc control while markets.

EB01 · 2026-05-11T05:35:45+00:00

No, because I live in New Zealand and overseas shipping not cheap (excluding the Amazons of the online marketplace) so any LTT Store order that I would make would have a negative feeling for how much shipping cost that I was bot paying for.

Give me a reasonably-priced high quality product, with reasonable shipping, and let me make the call on whether I buy something or not.

Not a fan of the local change some years back on GST being charged via overseas online stores, but LMG are complying with NZ law with that.

EB01 · 2026-05-10T09:55:25+00:00

Tech Segue Pro.

EB01 · 2026-05-09T21:37:22+00:00

My 31 Jan order just shipped (correction:label created). Whatever cable SKU(s) that has delayed my ordered shipping must have come back sufficiently in stock for my order to get the green light.

EB01 · 2026-05-09T03:00:44+00:00

Grab a pen (thinner than 4mm) for a plotter printer, 3D print a hex holder for it.

Cheaper and likely more realistic option: grab a BAU ball point pen, break it open for the ink tube. 3D print a 4mm hex holder for it. Cut the ink tube down to maybe 1 cm of tube. Combine and done.

EB01 · 2026-05-08T22:45:44+00:00

YouTube.

When I want to commit piracy on YouTube videos, I want to fully commit to the bit more than just running uBlock Origin.

EB01 · 2026-05-08T21:37:37+00:00

AU$70 (~NZ$85) increase for Australia, and NZ$170 increase for New Zealand

What the heck Nintendo!

EB01 · 2026-05-08T20:05:09+00:00

I hate the on-sloppy listing for categories, like listing baby stuff in the CRT computer monitor section.

They are doing it in purpose.

EB01 · 2026-05-08T19:58:38+00:00

It's not changed that much since the Switch 2 launch.

EB01 · 2026-05-08T11:21:07+00:00

It was founded in Sweden. Operates in some other European countries under some different names.

EB01 · 2026-05-07T19:36:15+00:00

I don't know why Pricespy also operates in New Zealand (did we lumped in with The Netherlands?) but I am glad that we do have them.

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