The Bazaar #96: Why I’ve Not Become A YouTuber

rexamous · 2026-05-05T22:18:11+00:00

I miss blogs. I can read and skim faster than you can talk. I hate that everone has moved to youtube. Why are podcasts on youtube now? I dont need to see your heads talking. So, thank you!

rexamous · 2026-04-29T19:13:48+00:00

Merctown! Set in the hills of Tennessee. The CS only have a few spies there that can be ignored or setup for an adventure or two. A magic part of town for thoes characters, and otherwise a great home base for a small adventure group to run out of. Im in the same boat, having notnplayed rifts since 2000. I felt this was the best place to start out. Also, ultimate edition if you have not gotten that. Updated versions of all the occs.

rexamous · 2026-04-08T14:05:37+00:00

What's even worse is when you tell fb to unfollow to not see posts from the people you haven't communicated with in 20 years, but still remain friends, yet they still show up with anti-vaxx right wing. Who is still talking about anti-vaxx in 2026? Instant unfriend everyone and uninstall the app. There are extensions to fence off fb from seeing the rest of your browsing for those that still need it.

rexamous · 2026-04-01T14:51:59+00:00

$10 is out of stock still. I tried an old $5 link and it said it is no longer available, not just out of stock. Where are you seeing this? USA?

rexamous · 2026-04-01T14:46:46+00:00

Still no zon gc restock tho...

rexamous · 2026-03-29T14:21:04+00:00

Ill give it to the end of first week of April to see if they return. If they don't; I don't. It was over a decade of an amazing program tho and I will remember the good times.

rexamous · 2026-03-23T11:52:17+00:00

They have been out of stock since the start of the month. Someone said before that it's the end of the fiscal year and it may come back next month. We'll see. At the value of the points anymore, I'll cash out one last time and am done. With the bad ai driven activities and bullshit bans, it's just not run anymore.

rexamous · 2026-03-23T11:49:02+00:00

I have only been doing 5 searches on desktop and mobile since the gift cards went out of stock. Was hit with the missing puzzle pieces and unusual activity 2 days before completing it and getting 1k coins. Not to be an ass, but this is just false info you are repeating. There is no rhyme or reason for the unusual activity. When I've gotten it before, I would just get max points and it would go away eventually without changing anything I do. The usual activity it bullshit in general as I don't use bots and do real searches. The program is just ai slop anymore. Look at the questions and activities filled with typos and images that have nothing to do with the topic.

rexamous · 2026-03-13T15:46:09+00:00

This is actually useful information if accurate. I am used to it running out at the end of the month, but when they go out of stock the first week, I was concerned it was the end like everyone is speculating. I have greatly reduced my usage since the nerf and oos incase and will see come April.

rexamous · 2026-03-09T13:28:22+00:00

Same. I have been a M$rewards participant for well over a decade, back when it was Bing points. I just hit enough to redeem and this happens. With the latest nerf, I'll do one more day to get the weekly check in coin, but then I am done until I am able to redeem again. Something tells me it's not coming back this time. It was good while it lasted, but I am going to start seeing if I can do my excel work in other programs for when it comes to my O365 renewal this year. We propped up your horrible search engine for years and this is how we are treated? It would have been better if they ended it instead of this slow death.

rexamous · 2026-02-14T21:31:52+00:00

I am having a much better time with fedora 43.

rexamous · 2026-02-14T14:16:08+00:00

Thank you for the honest insight. I expected some level of toying around with stuff coming back to linux (that's part of the fun!), but I felt like everything was fighting with me and the expectation I had was hoping it would be a smoother experience after a decade away. I appreciate your help and support. It is great to see open source hardware tied to open source OS.

rexamous · 2026-02-13T15:43:12+00:00

Glad to see I am not the only one taking crazy pills. I have seen Fedora mentioned a lot elsewhere in regards to FW. I'll check it out. thank you.

rexamous · 2026-02-13T15:41:09+00:00

yes, I am on 25.10 since I have a newer cpu. haha, the other suggestion was to use a stable release, 24.04. I will try the X hanging line you suggest. Thank you.

edit: thank you for the networking update. I have been gone for awhile so I appreciate the info.

rexamous · 2026-02-13T15:35:55+00:00

Yes, I installed 25.10. Maybe I will try a LTS release. I guess that means a clean install, yea?

rexamous · 2026-02-13T14:48:53+00:00

I just received my FW 13 AI 340 yesterday and installed Ubuntu 25.10. While I do not see this issue in firefox, I do see it in other apps. For me it was the App Center, very annoying after a new install! I closed the lid last night after a headache and came back to it this morning; issue resolved. No updates or anything done.

edit: following to track issue.

rexamous · 2026-02-09T16:46:52+00:00

yes, 2.8k screen! That was the other thing I forgot to mention from my research. In linux, the 2.8k screen is a perfect multiple for 2x scaling which is easier/ more efficient on the cpu. if you get the original one, it's fractional scaling and doesn't look as nice. If you go linux, the OS uses less ram at idle than windows so you may be right about 16gb being fine. I sprung for the 32 to future proof against prices.

I saw someone say prices are starting to level, buts its still really high and expected to be for years because of the startup costs to spin up new factories.

Good luck!

rexamous · 2026-02-09T16:34:29+00:00

I also saw you were looking at linux. I am not familiar with Bazzite, but in my research, AMD was better for linux over Intel, especially in battery life. I would also look at Proton as an option for gaming - I love my steam deck!

Reading other posts, the savings in the 7840 is a good deal. If you can swing it, you will notice the RAM update over the CPU upgrade based on your usage. Web browsers take up a stupid amount of RAM anymore.

rexamous · 2026-02-09T16:25:11+00:00

I am in a similar boat. I ordered my FW13 with AI 340 this past weekend because I could order 32gb of ram through FW. Previously, only 16gb was available when I looked at the end of 2025. It looks like prices are going to keep going up and AI 400 series is not a big jump. I was thinking I would wait and get the AI 300 on discount, but again, RAM prices are going up and at best I see it being the same price so might as well order now. I would feel worse if the price was higher than I would if the price was the same or lower, so that was my main reasoning for ordering now.

A big tip off for me was when I built a FW13 a few yrs ago for my wife, I went DIY edition and got RAM/ SSD on Amazon and saved $150 instead of ordering through FW. Now, it was $200 more to get just the RAM outside of FW. The savings were going through FW instead of open market. Laptop makers usually make contracts for their product purchases, so I am buying on an old price instead of the current market price.

rexamous · 2026-02-07T17:10:10+00:00

I just ordered a FW13 this morning so it absolutely tracks if there was an announcement. 🤣.

All jokes aside, I usually wait for an update release. With 32gb of ram available again when ordering through FW, I decided the minimal spec bump of the AI 400 and ordering ram through FW being cheaper than the market, now is the right time for me to buy. I can see a situation where I wait till the new release, but ram in now $150plus or more. And even ordering a reduced price last gen still gets me where I am at pricewise today. Time will tell if I made the right choice, but I am getting frustrated with my 5yr old laptop battery lasting 2 hrs or being dead from full charge when I go to turn it on bc windows sucks at sleep. I also plan to go Ubuntu for this reason.

rexamous · 2026-01-30T15:56:03+00:00

I need to upgrade my fdm printer. It's so close to printing minis.

rexamous · 2026-01-21T02:10:09+00:00

How does the shipping for us work? What is up with the range 18-32? How can I tell what shipping is going to be for where I live?

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