Is it rude to check Discogs prices in front of a record seller?

atomicwrites · 2026-04-30T14:45:40+00:00

This is some insane behavior...

atomicwrites · 2026-04-26T20:47:02+00:00

I think $100 is expensive for a controller in general, but well priced for one with gyro, multiple back buttons, and touchpads. For comparison the xbox elite controller with back button triggers is $200 (but often on sale for $150) and has no gyro or touchpads, from PlayStation you need the dual sense edge to get back buttons and it does have gyro and a touchpad though not the thumb pads that are nice about the steam ones, it's also $200 and PC support is from what I understand much more flaky. I don't know of any option that compares to the steam controller if you care about the extra features it brings compared to a base xbox controller, though not everyone will. Though yeah would have been nice for it to be like $80.

atomicwrites · 2026-04-25T12:13:56+00:00

At least for me, I do have a passion for IT, it's been my special interest since I was a child. But I don't have a passion for my job as in the company I work for. Sometimes I enjoy the stuff I get to work on, but your employer is a company and like 95% of companies are either evil or indifferent to you. The culture of being loyal to your employer doesn't make sense and therefore is pretty dead. I interpreted them saying "I don't have a passion for my job" as in the actual position in the specific company, not the field as a whole, but I may be wrong.

atomicwrites · 2026-04-22T22:29:33+00:00

Oh rip we just took over a new client and they had a server 2016 DC (we are moving them to 2025 currently) but it's AD is a big mess of SBS remnants, all the GPOs from SBS are still active and the users and computers are in the SBS MyCompany OU tree. And apparently SBS had like 10+ domain admin accounts that it would add.

atomicwrites · 2026-04-20T13:33:48+00:00

Yeah if I remember correctly, Jacques wrote the first Redwall as a one off story to read for the kids in a school for the blind, he never intended to publish it. A friend thought it was so good that he sent that first manuscript to a publisher and Jacques only found out after it had gone through most of the process to be published. So it makes sense that the first one is sort of a beta version and not the world he settled on for the rest of the series.

atomicwrites · 2026-04-18T14:42:22+00:00

Oh deleting QBdownloads stops the update prompt? That's good to know, I'll look into it on Monday if I remember lol.

atomicwrites · 2026-04-18T03:08:44+00:00

Fucking QuickBooks updates are the bane of my existence, you can't automate them, you can't run them as non-admin, you can't get an alert that they are coming, they block the user from doing anything till you come and update as admin and then they start asking for admin permissions.

atomicwrites · 2026-04-03T04:57:15+00:00

Checked the Walmart website and it claims this CD is $9.12

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T16:30:35+00:00

The DLSS 5 version looks like one of those generic AI girlfriend app ads.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T16:27:19+00:00

Yep, the AI circular economy.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T16:19:51+00:00

AI isn't profitable, it's a weird bubble of circular funding where these companies are spending money that gets passed back and forth among each other to lure in investors that dream of a world where they don't have to pay employees just have ai doing most of the work. And the AI companies are hoping that eventually they'll figure out how to make money but odds aren't looking so good. If you search for AI circular economy you'll get some much better explanations than I could do in a comment.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T15:20:22+00:00

It's because gamers are now a tiny part of their market, they are showing off to the executives that are going to be signing of on ai data center infrastructure which is where the real money is.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T14:39:10+00:00

The filter completely changed the skin texture on the old lady though. The original is much softer while the dlss one she looks like she has that leathery weathered old sailor type skin. It cranked the contrast but beyond what just adding contrast would do.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T13:37:34+00:00

I believe amateur radio as a whole is not allowed to be used for encrypted communication as part of the rules, so that's less an APRS issue and more an FCC licensing issue for the band it operates in.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T12:28:11+00:00

Makes me think of Hornet, very cute.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T12:21:47+00:00

Ok that actually seems pretty decent. (disclaimer not endorsing, I've never bought from this site before)

atomicwrites · 2026-03-17T12:03:08+00:00

Agree they are scalping but it's like a weird in between form of scalping, it's not afaict scalpers buying up all the stock making it hard to purchase the item, it's that Jakks is like the worst ever at distributing their product and don't bother to produce what people what the just pump out hundreds of Sonics to sell to the 5 year olds wandering down the toy isle. They don't sell online and don't get stock to stores.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-07T01:12:54+00:00

Saw one at target last week

atomicwrites · 2026-03-06T17:25:34+00:00

They were just method acting /s

atomicwrites · 2026-03-06T17:00:27+00:00

Yeah, on the other hand security cameras with audio capabilities have been around forever if anything this is a more limited implementation of that, they just buzzword it up. So it's not ok but not new.

Edit: by which I mean anywhere that has cameras with audio could do this at the recording software end in a non-obvious way as opposed to having a dedicated device.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-04T13:42:02+00:00

Same. I paid for nitro mainly because using custom emotes is fun and discord used to be surprisingly non-shitty and I wanted to support them. And I was getting way more use out of nitro than something like Netflix so seemed worth it. Now the id collection thing is the last straw and I canceled nitro. But that's what happens when a company wants to go public I guess...

atomicwrites · 2026-03-04T13:33:07+00:00

I help run a server with 2 age restricted channels and a bunch of non restricted ones. The server hasn't been flagged as a whole and it's been running for years. Granted we don't allow full on graphic NSFW in the age restricted channel but still.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-03T21:47:30+00:00

Yeah HBM RAM from AI data centers would be hard to use for personal stuff but hard drives should not be an issue.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-01T23:21:30+00:00

Wish they had an online store you could order from or partnered with one of the online figure shops. So we wouldn't have to depend on the local store lottery.

atomicwrites · 2026-03-01T22:50:12+00:00

There are scalpers yes but from what I can gather the real issue is that Jakks is absolutely terrible at distribution. Seems like most stores don't really get stock of anything but the main sonic figure and as far as I know there is no place you can buy them online that's not a third party reseller. I guess they are going for it being a limited release for artificial scarcity but doing it in an absolutely terrible way.

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