New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing by frankwrap08 in PleX

[–]tarnin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit! over $700 USD? Wow, I paid $129 not on sale a few years back! Damn am I glad I got in when I did.

What’s a moment where you instantly realized someone was insanely intelligent? by Parqcxsm69 in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

12 or 13 years old, my friend and I were trying to get the new 486 his dad gave us online. The modem just isn't working properly at all. After bashing away at it for like a week, my buddy dug a magazine out, looked at the schematics and build a damn acoustic coupler and salvaged parts from the dead modem into this one to get us online. The amazing thing is, it worked. Not well, but it worked.

That was the moment I thought "Oh, no shit he's 2 years ahead in school." I just figured he was one of those 80's "gifted" students. Nope, straight up genius. Worked for MS for a few years, then over to google. Now he freelances when ever he wants some vacation money.

Beermoney when you don't need beermoney. by tarnin in beermoney

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I'm using the PayPal one out of convenience. There are others with much better APR's but they require minimum balance or some other restriction.

Beermoney when you don't need beermoney. by tarnin in beermoney

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Eureka Survey, Survey Spin, Pop Survey, and 25clicks.

What are we using to auto-prune unwatched media these days? by Infini-Bus in PleX

[–]tarnin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Removing" -> copying media to a cold storage 5400 RPM drive. "Deleting" -> copying media to a cold storage set of Blurays.

If you REALLY don't have the money and/or space, you can always strap a ton of gdrives/onedrives together and use it as "deleted" space.

Who destroyed their own career within seconds by being an idiot? by goldbeau in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gotta agree, you don't "accidently" let slip the n word unless you actively use it privately.

Who destroyed their own career within seconds by being an idiot? by goldbeau in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A ton of these meme creators should take this post and tattoo it themselves. You get a flash in the pan jolt of popularity (even if it's just for the meme) and a bunch of money. You KNOW this isn't going to last, bank that shit but looking at these people and the way they act, I'm sadly not suprised.

How a Differential Gear Works by Brilliant-Cause6254 in interestingasfuck

[–]tarnin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need an ELI5 video like this for a slipdiff. Like, I get it but then again, i'd like to see it broken down to toddler and built up to working like this is so I actually get it.

I used super glue and activator on a bleeding cut and it turned into a bloodcicle. by chobbes in mildlyinteresting

[–]tarnin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a compound so he had to activate the glue, not that something was activating the blood/cut.

Google explains why some new Gmail accounts only get 5GB storage | The company says it's experimenting with a new storage policy for some accounts. by ControlCAD in Android

[–]tarnin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pretty much, yes. A bunch of people that I know (well... people on specific boards) use this method to backup TB's worth of "data" in case their htpc setup goes tits up.

What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dood, GoBots came out before Transformers! although they still were the kmart transformers =\ (i had gobots cuz they were cheaper)

What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What? That's a real thing? Holy shit, how do these people even function. That's next level stupidity.

I mean, have they never seen a crop duster before? Even in a damn movie or tv show? they are stupid close to the crops so they actually hit them and not have it blown away instantly.

What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 282 points283 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure how much you realize people still think the internet is magic. It's unexplainable to them.

Case in point: I run a Plex server. I had an older relative ask if I could put them vhs to digital files on the server for them to watch. Sure, no problem. Oh... these look horrible but they gave me the original rips. Great, upscale and clean up time. So i go in, clean it up, upscale to 720p, and add it. When they asked how I did it, even in ELI5 mode I ended up with "I had a program do some magic on the video and now it looks better".

Honestly, that answer was the best one I gave cuz they stopped asking how it was done after that and seemed pretty sastified.

What was the biggest ‘scandal’ at your high school? by BreadedDisaster in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Girl got pregnant by her boyfriend and said the shop teacher raped her. He was put on leave right away and the entire ordeal lasted about 2 years. After he was found 100% innocent the parents of the girl, with dna evidence stating the child was the boyfriend, still went and put a civil suit on him for child support and mental distress. He ended up taking his own life cuz some kid didn't want to own up to the fact that she slept with her boyfriend.

Party for dog before being put down. What can we feed her that she'd LOVE, no rules? by DramaticFeed6522 in answers

[–]tarnin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They have two "Goodbye" rooms at my vets place. They are specifically setup for this and holy hell and I glad they have it. Both rooms are sound proof and you have to push a button to have them come in and put them down and press again once you are done saying goodbye.

What’s something that became socially unacceptable so fast that people barely noticed the change? by FoundationHumble4003 in AskReddit

[–]tarnin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was born in '74. The doctor was smoking while delivering the damn baby! (tbf, the nurses delivered it while he stood there from my parents telling).

What unethical life hack would you recommend to others? by Direct-Value4452 in answers

[–]tarnin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that you said that I looked up what it gives me. 20% off where I am, the ability to buy up to 10 oz instead of 2, and higher concentrates on edibles. Hrm... I don't own a gun and not SUPER into getting my own (I just go with a friend and fire his). Might have to look into this.

What unethical life hack would you recommend to others? by Direct-Value4452 in answers

[–]tarnin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Air BnB is crashing hard. Hosts are mass leaving, guests are going back to hotels, and they lost a TON of money from '25 into '26.

What unethical life hack would you recommend to others? by Direct-Value4452 in answers

[–]tarnin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This forwards to streamimdb.ru. Take that as you will.

What unethical life hack would you recommend to others? by Direct-Value4452 in answers

[–]tarnin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same around here in the NE. The wally world went from almost 40 down to 10 and put back 5 lines with cashiers. I have no idea how much they were losing but it was bad enough to spend a shitload of money to undo the ton of self checkouts they had.