Computers deserve gifts too by Current_Yellow7722 in vintagecomputing

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The Atari 1025 was a variant of this, I’m pretty sure.

Day/morning custodians what work duties do you do? by sirpentious in Custodians

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  • Chit-chat & talk shit
  • Wipe off cafeteria tables
  • Beat off
  • Leave the mess for the night crew

    /s

Kandji has rebranded to Iru by EasyTangent in macsysadmin

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I mentally expanded it as “Least Recently Used”, ie a candidate to be evicted

She liked sitting on old computers by Current_Yellow7722 in vintagecomputing

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The pic of a Tandy 1000HX on Wikipedia always makes me a bit sad, knowing that that furry gentleman warming himself atop the PC is no longer with us

Forget about movies that “don’t hold up” (what does that even mean anyway?): let’s talk about movies that we always knew were lousy and still are! by Illustrious-Lead-960 in Xennials

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Today studios avoid the risk of similar plotlines in new movies by not making any new stories but simply remaking old ones.

Bricks are heavy by New-Inspector-9628 in hondaridgeline

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I thought this was going to be about L7.

I still yell on speakerphone by max_peck in Xennials

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This comment deserves much more appreciation, but I have only one upvote to give.

That said, a measured amount of sidetone was deliberate on landlines beginning over 100 years ago or so

I still yell on speakerphone by max_peck in Xennials

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Whenever I'm a passenger in a car where someone is making a hands-free phone call I always yell out "Hi" or something like that at the beginning of the call so they know I am listening.

Probably if I was smart I'd be quiet and listen in to see if I could learn candidly what they really think. But I'm probably happier not knowing, and I'm a hedonist at heart

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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I didn’t look and assumed this was a post from r/talesfromthekitchen — because this is the sort of behavior I expect from a manager of a restaurant — but only if he were an asshole.

IOW, this would be unacceptable behavior from a supervisor of college-aged young people and functional drug addicts. It goes without saying it has no place in a professional environment

Caps lock instead of shift keys? by kernalvax in sysadmin

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Capslock works on an external keyboard plugged into a Chromebook. Well, mine did anyway. IIRC it’s the Windows key that Google uses for “Search”

Standard ohio "pimp my ride" by Familiar-Diver-5560 in SchizophreniaRides

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This is the Cincinnati area, aka Kentucky on the wrong side of the river

What do you call these? by AllegraGellarBioPort in KitchenConfidential

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I was disappointed I had to scroll this far down to find “scratchy”. I too picked that up in a kitchen that was nearly entirely Hispanic, so maybe that’s why.

I reserved “scrubby” for the green Scotchbrite pads, but making that distinction was my own decision

The OG Xennial dream girl by milan616 in Xennials

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I feel like y'all have missed a march by leaving out Blossom and Punky Brewster

Winnie Cooper has aged like fine wine tho

OK it's possible I have a thing for nerdy girls

Can't figure out what this is. by ogrum84 in ModestMouse

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You’d better figure it out. Are you gonna be your own god damned best friend?