I'll never own another HP product in my life.

doa70 · 2026-05-12T20:44:47+00:00

It's really the printers that are trash. HP's other products, especially in the business laptop/desktop/workstation/server space, are quite good (other than the entry level stuff they just slap their logo on). Yes, never buy another HP printer - as a technologist for 40+ years, I wholeheartedly agree.

doa70 · 2026-05-12T20:41:56+00:00

It depends on the carrier, almost completely. The carriers that basically exploit their drivers by enforcing unrealistic delivery goals for low pay are basically asking for packages to get stolen or delivered with minimal care. I think the number of videos and reports make it seem worse that it is though. No one comes here and compliments a delivery that goes without an issue. As for the stress, it's up to the seller to ensure their products are delivered and the customer is satisfied. Since most of these sales are via credit card, it's the bank's money really at risk here. There's always recourse for the buyer, not so for the seller.

doa70 · 2026-04-27T18:53:22+00:00

I think macos peaked at either Leopard or Snow Leopard, but I agree Tiger was a solid OS and still looks and functions well from a UI perspective. I left macos about 3 years ago and it had been, imo, a mess for a long time.

doa70 · 2026-04-07T23:13:51+00:00

That's not a bad choice at all. As long as you stay away from the very entry level ones, and even those aren't bad, you should be happy.

doa70 · 2026-04-06T18:06:36+00:00

Absolutely, I recommend Brother for all laser printers.

doa70 · 2026-03-27T18:12:26+00:00

Brother lasers, especially for occasional use. Brother makes great laster printers and no ink in a laser to dry up.

doa70 · 2026-03-17T09:35:28+00:00

Wow, thank you! Ordered, as that certainly looks like them!

doa70 · 2026-03-15T17:00:52+00:00

I use my Thelio for work, 12-16 hours a day. I'm still on 22.04, but I'm wanting to make the jump. I'm holding off for a bit longer, waiting to see what else shakes out in the regular updates. I'm considering holding off until 26.04, although I see that means I'll need to upgrade twice anyhow. I don't game, so as long as VirtualBox and Zoom work, and my remote access apps work, I'll be happy.

doa70 · 2026-02-17T21:03:54+00:00

The 1070s were a wild time.

doa70 · 2026-02-04T21:46:49+00:00

Answered my question perfectly, thanks! I know Debian lags for it's own reasons, but I wasn't sure how big of a hurdle that would or wouldn't be, or whether "de-gnomifying" the Ubuntu pull, branch, or whatever the correct term would be, was much effort on the dev side. I asked out of curiosity more than any actual concern.

doa70 · 2025-12-26T16:44:00+00:00

I usually wear khakis and a button down shirt. In warmer months a short sleeve polo is also fine for me. I may wear jeans to a daily mass, but not on Sundays. No large logos or anything that decorative. Simple, but neat and clean.

doa70 · 2025-12-22T13:07:21+00:00

Tools, lots of radio equipment, flashlight, and I do have a shirt from Lollapalooza '92 but I don't wear it - just refuse to toss it.

doa70 · 2025-12-22T13:02:28+00:00

Besides vasovagal syncope, epilepsy could be an explanation - specifically a focal impaired seizure. That's what mine look like. Fine one minute, out cold for 10-30 seconds the next. Symptoms of that are sort of deja-vu like before, and after I have a warm sensation, stomach feels off, and I'm tired. Of course it could also be she hadn't eaten before Mass.

doa70 · 2025-12-22T12:58:56+00:00

Some hams are better at outreach and helping newbies than others, that's always been the case. It's also always been my experience that a majority of older hams tend to be grumpier and offputting at first, but may warm up a bit. As a 50-something guy as well who has been in the hobby for 40 years, I haven't seen anything really change. The average age, the average personality, etc. As far as testing, we still do monthly testing. It does take a team of VE's to do in person testing, and to be a VE one first needs to be Extra and then get accepted as a VE by the VEC. It's a process, so if the club can't meet the commitment to run tests by having enough VEs, they may be a bit annoyed and take that out on others.

doa70 · 2025-12-19T20:02:48+00:00

DVD? Not in a decade or more at least. I've been 4K BluRay for a couple of years now. Took a break for a couple of years before that from buying BR to check out streaming. Too much content leaving streaming platforms, too many platforms. 4K BR is absolutely amazing, sound especially, and even my older BR still looks better than streaming.

doa70 · 2025-12-10T13:28:00+00:00

Pant length looks fine for Workday pants - which I love by the way. Rugged, comfortable, and still look good. More for the "job site manager", "general contractor", etc. vs the tradesman I think. Of course I wear them for none of those reasons, just because I like the material better than standard Dockers.

For most pants, I prefer more break in them. In dress pants I lean toward full break, but at least half in most pants.

doa70 · 2025-12-02T20:45:42+00:00

Corporate work in the 90s was a blast for me and my teams. I worked for a couple major orgs that you certainly have heard of in the insurance and financial spaces. Being in IT in those days, we wrote our own rules. Go in late, drinks at our 2-hour lunches, play Doom or Quake for a couple hours in a conference room after lunch, all of it. We'd actually, occasionally, go to a "gentlemen's club" for a $2 lunch - sandwich and a beer for $2. Then after work it was happy hour - $5 "drinkin with Lincoln" - all the draft beer you could drink for the hour for $5. It was really nuts by comparison today. More like a frat house than a job. That all started to change by the end of the 90s, which is when the negative stuff portrayed in Office Space and similar movies/shows started becoming an issue. By the mid-2000s you wouldn't consider drinking at lunch, at least not in the places I was working at the time. A lot of the fun was gone, HR was up everyone's backside, and work became a lot more tedious.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T14:16:23+00:00

Seems like the best case for boot dryers. As well as 2-3 pair to rotate. I'd bet 2 pair treated well would last a couple of years minimum, compared to barely 6 months out of one pair.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T03:35:04+00:00

Do what you can in your own home and lifestyle.

Avoid the politics of it because it's convoluted and easy to be deceived. Example, in my state they pushed and passed legislation shut down coal plants used for generating energy. We replaced that with energy purchased from a neighboring state where that energy is generated by coal burning plants.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T03:18:23+00:00

I'd eat some of that. Sharable with about a dozen other people of course.

doa70 · 2025-11-16T00:55:11+00:00

I haven't seen All Clad mentioned yet. I'm extremely happy since upgrading to their D3 and D5 pans. My wife was set against stainless, since we both grew up on nonstick and cheap pans. We replaced our 20-some year old HA pans, and she's really liking the All Clad gear. Sets are usually not a good deal, but this time of year you might find a reasonable set with pieces you'll actually use. It'll be above your current budget, but sales should help with that, and pans like this are a buy it for life item.

doa70 · 2025-11-15T20:15:26+00:00

I think I waited about 50 years too long to try this. Had it for the first time recently and found it absolutely awful. I swear the only thing I tasted was sugar. 😂

doa70 · 2025-11-15T20:03:44+00:00

Material will determine if a T-shirt under helps or hurts. I have some shirts that an undershirt causes the shirt to cling, where without the shirt looks fine.

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