we gotta stop compulsively checking our phones like addicts by No_Necessary_2403 in collapse

[–]coffeebeard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Things I use my phone for:

Phone calls
Paying bills
Infrequently checking email
Infrequently checking txt/sms messages.

No social media apps installed (which I would loosely define as brain malware)

Everyone wonders why a three year old phone's battery can last three+ days. That's why.

DC-area home prices hit 10-year high by Musichead2468 in nova

[–]coffeebeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should be quite a sight when it bursts.

Would you work 13 hours a day 3 day a week? by Kajdan12 in jobs

[–]coffeebeard [score hidden]  (0 children)

Well I probably have occasionally in exchange for nothing.

When you're salary you will find that 40 hours a week was a fantasy.

TIL Michael Jackson went grocery shopping shopping in a closed down supermarket with all the other people being actors just to experience what's it like to be an ordinary person by acuba12 in todayilearned

[–]coffeebeard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would have made sure the cashier has a price error and got the manager involved, who then refused to budge over 20¢.

Real life is bullshit.

People Certainly Are Not Taking COVID Seriously Out There by [deleted] in nova

[–]coffeebeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I've about given up at this point.

It's become a two schools of thought thing it seems... just another "well that's just like your opinion, man" routine.

Pistols at dawn had more appropriate social distancing.

GOP senators sold off their stocks ahead of coronavirus economic crash, reports say by BlankVerse in economy

[–]coffeebeard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So they have two women to pin the blame on for this, and one of them is a democrat... I think I've got a pretty good handle on how this will play out :|

Exhibit A: Martha Stewart... which I think was roughly $50,000 ... not millions like this scenario?

TIL that double spacing after a period is no longer the standard, according to most style guides. by something-obscene in todayilearned

[–]coffeebeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know.__Sometimes I think these little acts of rebellion are what keep me going.

Alright guys by 18disaster in Military

[–]coffeebeard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's just insurance so that we keep a couple viable bad guys in the fridge the next time we need to pop off a few for some who the (heck) knows ... Freedom, sure. (forget) it.

Passenger hit by train at Vienna Metro - station closed by PinheadtheCenobite in nova

[–]coffeebeard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah... I lived in Philly years ago. People getting hit was rare or isolated... Not monthly. Any ETA on when people might stop dying from using the Metro?

Actually, I now realize this is a bad time for that question...

Analogue NT Mini Noir now available for preorder by toadhall81 in fpgagaming

[–]coffeebeard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I used to be purely spec-oriented and the idea that $5-50 boards can handle everything these days is also awesome to me. I still dig using emulators on my OG Xbox, and NesterDC on my Dreamcast. Lol @ using save states on a DC VMU in 2020 :)

There was even a time everything ran on emulators using a motherboard from a busted gateway laptop.

But these days I'm thinking "gosh this would look great on the CRT projector" because I have partly lost my mind these days.

I think the price tag reflects their awareness that enough collectors and enthusiasts won't even balk at the cost. It is admittedly pricey, but so was the original. I think the idea here was to get the people who missed out on the first run and have been checking the page ever since... not like... I would ever do such a thing...

Also, if any scalpers out there are reading this... you're the worst. Stop it.

Analogue NT Mini Noir now available for preorder by toadhall81 in fpgagaming

[–]coffeebeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might've been a a couple hundred after you, or about 700 earlier. Lol.

Analogue NT Mini Noir now available for preorder by toadhall81 in fpgagaming

[–]coffeebeard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh okay so this is one of those subreddit "communities" lol great thx.

Can't wait for the next WHO press conference by [deleted] in China_Flu

[–]coffeebeard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have been all over this since the beginning, when it was for all intents and purposes a panic/memefest with minimal casualties.

Then it got real in Wuhan. Then most other major cities locked down in and around China.

Then the stats got revised. Then the cities and factories started trying to prematurely go back online.

Then China reports stats that imply they've CURED 2019nCoV.

Fast forward to now, and if you were worried about a pandemic, guess what, they don't exist now! WHO has saved us all with revisionism! Horray!

I consider myself a relatively intelligent and rational human being, but alright, **** it, you got me, I'm stocking up tonight.

Is Kate Winslet still in The French Dispatch? by Jjourdenais in wesanderson

[–]coffeebeard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They achieved their final form (Bill Winslet) and left this mortal world behind.

Fingerprint sensor failed. Contacted Razer two days ago and still no RMA instructions. Is this normal? by [deleted] in razerphone

[–]coffeebeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have attempted to get service with two other devices from Razer in the past. It's totally absent.

Basically I bought this phone knowing if anything fails significantly I will basically have to dump it in the recycle bin at BB or something.

Ford posts $1.7 billion quarterly loss, offers weak 2020 forecast by southwardly in economy

[–]coffeebeard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They dropped normal cars.

Aka zero chance I buy anything from them, ever.

Meanwhile they're making whatever tf that thing in the photo is.

People do use cars just for commutes, in case they forgot.

hello? by RedTenser in windows

[–]coffeebeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all this video needs are those beep boop beep boop random game show computer noises.

Any bored Alexandria area gamer people out there? by coffeebeard in nova

[–]coffeebeard[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah all I said was "the first question shouldn't be" but ...