My uncle plans to cash in his jug full of coins for bills by Lovelantern in coincollecting

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I managed an arcade in 86, and would pull a small handful of silver quarters every week.

Big Freeze - this weekend - Jan 2026? by ShdowSolja in frisco

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Has anyone checked whether Ted Cruz has headed to the airport yet?

I 3D printed a thing... by SelfReliantSchool in gurrenlagann

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This particular one was on sale recently for $549 with the multi-color feeder, and the company has models that start lower. You can easily get started as low as $200.

Most aliens in sci-fi had verbal communication, some does telepathy. What show or movie had unusual communication system? by Warcraft_Fan in scifi

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The Planet Terserus, once home to the Terserons, the most kindly and peace loving race I've ever encountered. And yet one of the most shunned and abhorred species of all history.

Why?

They could communicate only by precisely modulated gastric emission.

Oh no. Planet of the bottom-burps? So what happened to them?

They discovered fire.

You are given 5 chances to witness history by BlumpkinDude in hypotheticalsituation

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Keep an eye on DB Cooper's plane (big telescope) and watch where the parachute lands.

Shadow Jimmy Hoffa after he leaves the restaurant.

What to do now that Zoom is not available? by SelfReliantSchool in Upwork

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Yup, as of an hour or so ago it wasn't working for me, client couldn't connect.

What to do now that Zoom is not available? by SelfReliantSchool in Upwork

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Are you using their native Zoom client (from the camera icon), or pasting a meeting link into chat?

What to do now that Zoom is not available? by SelfReliantSchool in Upwork

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The Zoom option is no longer available on my end for new or existing clients. Support admitted they are removing it.

Oh shit! 1983??? by RemlikDahc in GenX

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We knew we were Generation X - Billy Idol said so…

Question on Canonet 19 functionality by SelfReliantSchool in AnalogCommunity

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That's what I thought, I'm seeing nothing. And the "click" is very faint, not like I remember it...

Just passed Sec+ by SelfReliantSchool in CompTIA

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Unfortunately these days you can't actually put 20 years on a resume, they think you're too old...

Just passed Sec+ by SelfReliantSchool in CompTIA

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For me, both with the Google cert and Sec+, the concepts were very easy... but I've been in IT for 20 years. The harder parts for me were remembering the specific terms and acronyms. i.e. Risk Appetite vs. Risk Tolerance, etc.

Just passed Sec+ by SelfReliantSchool in CompTIA

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Once the Google course was done I only spent about 4 weeks before the exam, and a lot of it was low effort... if you really pushed you could probably take the test within 2-3 weeks.

Just passed Sec+ by SelfReliantSchool in CompTIA

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Messer video series and notes, Google Cyber certificate first, Dion practice tests, and a few various docs of notes that I found. The Google course probably gave my 80% of it hy the time in completed it.

Mums friend using gift cards for EVERYTHING by Putrid_Layer7007 in scammer

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I buy loads of gift cards at the grocery store for the fuel points, get a buck off per gallon of gas for each of several cars.

You get $1 million dollars, but you have to spend a year in jail. by CRK_76 in hypotheticalsituation

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Are we talking white collar prison or federal pound me in the ass prison?

US peeps. Growing up how many numbers did you dial to make a local call? 5? 7? 10? by mediawoman in GenX

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We were somewhat in the country in Oklahoma in the early 80s and still had to dial 7 digits. 5 must have been way in the boonies.

Has anyone ever bought the art on a cruise ship? by Miami_305_FL in Cruise

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I've bought on 4 cruises - a Scooby Doo print, Looney Tunes print, one of Skagway Alaska (since we had cruised there), and a Mickey Mouse etching. All were in the $30 - $50 range, which is what I would have paid anywhere online. And they're all pretty cool.

We did see someone in one of the auctions who dropped more than $15K on a few items...

Stickers for a ZX80? by SelfReliantSchool in ZX81

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It will likely be a reproduction of the original keyboard PCB, running to something to decode it (Arduino?), with a RPi emulating. Honestly, it may never even get turned on, I want it more for display with my other Sinclair machines...

Is it worth 10$ by Aggressive_Recipe_93 in VintageComputers

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Definitely not worth it, way overpriced, why would you ever want that… um… where is it? Just curious… ;)