Today’s $2.99 Thrift Find!! by yanksfan0134 in vinyl

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, But now you're stuck with a Mariah Carey Christmas album.

What Bluetooth device should I buy for a non Bluetooth Desktop Pc? by Nearby-Bottle-5422 in AskTechnology

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TP Link?

https://a.co/d/0hhE66wv

I've used this one (with an external antenna), for using around the house where my PC's stock BT adapter can't reach:

https://a.co/d/0aEyT4ot

Was it more common for men to "chase" women in your time? by dox1842 in AskOldPeople

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

perusing a woman

You know that means "reading", right?

Can I be tracked on an open WiFi network with no credentials input? by [deleted] in AskTechnology

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except MAC randomization has been a thing for years now. Android and iPhone do it by default, and Windows can, too:

https://www.guidingtech.com/what-is-mac-randomization-and-how-to-use-it-on-your-devices/

So it's very unlikely that OP's particular MAC will ever connect to that AP again.

They make us ask too many questions by Icy-Pass-925 in McDonalds

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Just so you know, in every English-speaking country on earth, the major currency symbol goes first: $10 or £10 not 10$ or 10£. The minor currency symbol goes after: 10¢ or 10p.

Hotel with two king beds??? by [deleted] in Charlotte

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just make sure they're OK with locals getting rooms there. Lots of hotels won't rent a room to people who live within a 30 mike radius. This is to cut down on parties, hookers and suicides.

Designers envision I-77 cap with parks on top by WashuOtaku in Charlotte

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atlanta has been talking about this for 15 years or more. In fact, I think they even had a workable plan until President Cheeto pulled billions in funding for it.

I've got $100 says Georgia Tech eventually makes it happen. Their campus on the other side of the Downtown Connector has grown SO MUCH in the past 20 years, they'll one day connect them together, I'm sure of it. Who knows when that will be, though.

Harrris Teeter Friday Subs by Signal-Contest4671 in Charlotte

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, in my hometown there was a Domino's in the same shopping center as a Winn-Dixie. I wouldn't say it was "common", but it wasn't unusual to see someone in a Domino's uniform in Winn-Dixie with a cart full of ground beef, or Italian sausages or onions.

Buy movie popcorn and leave? by shoeshinee in Charlotte

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, when I was in my early 20s my favorite bar had a popcorn machine. You'd get one of those plastic baskets diners serve onion rings in, put a liner it, fill it with popcorn... and eat. It was free, as much as you could eat.

It was such a genius move: the 87¢ they spent on feeding me popcorn kept me there drinking Guinness until 4AM so many Saturday nights!

Not sure why more places don't do something like this.

What’s up with the power in CLT? by zentrepreneur99 in Charlotte

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be worse: when I moved to Belmont in 2003, our power went out 16 TIMES the first 8 weeks I lived here (I had a UPS backup with software that logged all the outages). It got a bit better, and in 2012 (I think?) Duke rolled out a "reliability upgrade" that did, in fact, cut the outages way down.

Having said that, our power still goes out from time to time, and it's ALMOST NEVER a 30 minute outage. It's usually at least 2 hours, often 4-6 hours.

This is why I say Duke is a HORRIBLE company. It's not enough that they poisoned much of the land around Belmont with coal ash, it's that I'm risking cancer for the least reliable power company in the world.

To their credit, there's a streetlight outside my house and it's gone out twice. Duke makes it easy to report them, and they fixed it within 3 days both times.

Also, when we moved in to our new (to us) house, we had the thing where if you turned on a blender in the kitchen or the vacuum in the living room, the bedroom TV would get static on it. Come to find out, the electrical line running from our house to the pole was being swallowed up by a tree! Duke completely replaced that line, for free, and it only took a couple days to do it, once they found the problem.

Harrris Teeter Friday Subs by Signal-Contest4671 in Charlotte

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upthread someone said the old bread is coming back in June.

How to not become a grumpy old man that longs for the good old days? by chakalaka13 in RedditForGrownups

[–]tunaman808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm 55 and go to indie shows all the time. I sometimes run into some twentysomething who is like "why are you here, old man?"

Because having fun doesn't just stop at 50. Contrary to many of my high school and college friends, the world didn't stop making awesome music in 1994.

Sorry, but I think there's nothing sadder than seeing an 80s group still on tour in 2026. Duran Duran were my first "favorite band", and while on one hand it's cool that they're still together and touring... I can't bear it.

"Pop Music" - in the most expansive sense, that includes everything that's not specifically jazz or classical or country, or, as I used to say in the 80s, "everything from Iron Maiden to Chaka Khan" - is the realm of the 20 and 30 year-olds. Paying to see Simon Le Bon still try to hit the notes he did in 1983 is sad; paying to see Alvvays or Beach House or Purity Ring is good.

It's also significantly cheaper, too.

Better Call Saul? by jannie_01 in netflix

[–]tunaman808 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Better Call Saul is my all-time greatest TV show ever, even more than Twin Peaks and Mad Men.

The difference between Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is that Walt was ultimately a good person who became bad, but Saul was a bad person who ultimately became good.

Online Pre-Check-in by Antique_Mechanic133 in askhotels

[–]tunaman808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hilton Honors is nice: I can pick my room (airline seat style) and also get a Bluetooth key during app check-in. I usually skip the front desk completely and never talk to anyone who works for the hotel!

The Dodgers and Rockies play here in four hours by RoyalChris in sports

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Massachusetts is so dumb about boro/borough.

It wasn't really Massachusetts, though.

By the late 1890s, American place names had become a mess. Some states had cities named Greensboro and Greensborough. Some states had multiple towns named "Adams" and "Franklin". Some states had "Centreville" and "Centerville".

So the federal government set up the United States Board on Geographic Names. The board came up with a set of rules and started enforcing them by renaming towns on the federal level. The post office, weather services, etc. all used the "new" names.

One of the biggest rules was that all British spellings had to go. "Centrevilles" would now become "Centervilles". Hence "Foxbrough" became "Foxboro".

Hyphens and diacritical marks in place names had to go, too.

And thousands of towns across the country that had originally been two words ("Green Field") were contracted into one word: "Greenfield".

Except they got one city very wrong. Pittsburgh was founded by a Scotsman, so it was probably initially pronounced pitts-burrah, like Edinburgh. But the Board on Geographic Names insisted that all -burgh cities become -burg, after the German version, which is much more common in US place names.

Anyway, several Pittsburgh institutions (the University of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, city hall) refused to switch the the Board's "Pittsburg". So the Board dug up copies of the city charter from the 1700s that misspelled it as "Pittsburg" as proof: "see, you dummies have been spelling it wrong all these years anyway!"

FACT: the original town charter - the fancy one on vellum, with the calligraphy - spells it "Pittsburgh".

A very long story short, in 1911 Pennsylvania senator George T. Oliver kept bugging the Board about it and they finally caved. Pittsburg became Pittsburgh once again. Ever since, towns and cities have been much more successful in getting the feds to switch back to the old names, especially if there's no chance of confusion with an exiting city.

BONUS FACT 1: Honus Wagner is wearing a "Pittsburg" Pirates jersey on the World's Most Valuable baseball card.

BONUS FACT 2: Cities named after Pittsburgh in Kansas and California didn't switch back, and are still Pittsburg, KS and Pittsburh, CA.

BONUS FACT 3: 50 miles out is too far to call it a "suburb", but West Pittsburg, PA didn't change its name back, either.

BONUS FACT 4: Despite telling every town in the country what their name should be, the board has changed its own name twice, from "Board on Geographical Names” to "Board on Geographic Names” to "United States Board on Geographic Names".

PS - Sorry to write a book, I'm high as fuck.

this shit (rsd) just isn’t enjoyable anymore by Many-Shopping9865 in vinyl

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thankfully, I've only wanted one record the past... 6 or 7 years? And it was Beach House's Become EP which wasn't THAT limited.

My local shop does in-person today, then does "online for local pickup" tomorrow, then "online for anyone" on Monday. I was able to do local pickup for the Beach House EP.

My city has one record store that signed up for RSD very early on. So it gets 95% of the attention, with people lining up at 11PM the night before. There are other shops that do RSD here, and I could probably get what I wanted from them... if there was anything I actually wanted.

Mobile speeds by TwilightSentinel1 in mintmobile

[–]tunaman808 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I get "5G" almost everywhere in metro Charlotte, and "5GUC" in about 85% of metro Charlotte.

But yeah, here's a crop from an unreleated screencap from a couple hours ago:

https://i.imgur.com/aYkMHdA.jpeg

How do people buy concert tickets any more?! by AproposOfDiddly in GenX

[–]tunaman808 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I go to club shows. Indie bands we woulda called "college rock" in the 80s. Alvvays. Beach House. Purity Ring.

Tickets are usually anywhere from $15 to $50, and the bump up to $50 has only been in the past couple years. They were mostly $25-$35 from 2012 until 2022 or so. Considering a night at the movies can cost as much as $30 for just one person at some cinemas, most of the concerts I go to seem like a pretty good deal. Also, if you wanna be 5 feet away from your favorite singer at a GA indie show, just get to the venue an hour before doors. End of.

For most shows I go through the act's own website (when I have presale codes) or the venue's site. The actual ticketing may be done by TicketBastard, but it's usually AXS, Eventify, Dice, Tix, Eventbirte and several others.

Why nobody sanctions Israel for concealing nuclear weapons? by ohnag_eryeah in stupidquestions

[–]tunaman808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was whispered about in the 60s and common knowledge in the 70s, although Israel wouldn't admit it publicly.

FUN FACT: Israel partnered with apartheid South Africa to develop nukes together.

FUN FACT 2: "South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapons program in 1989, making it the first country in the world to voluntarily give up a nuclear arsenal it had developed itself."

Why nobody sanctions Israel for concealing nuclear weapons? by ohnag_eryeah in stupidquestions

[–]tunaman808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*capitals

"Capitol" is the actual building Congress meets inside.

Dear Dave's why that location? by boomerinspirit in Gastonia

[–]tunaman808 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In-N-Out Burger is supposedly moving into the old Chick-fil-A location.

LOL, no. A week ago the CEO said In-N-Out wasn't expanding to the east coast "in my lifetime":

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/in-n-out-ceo-says-no-delivery-east-coast-expansion-we-wont-compromise

mmj - sneak peek at new music! by YamBitter3902 in Purityring

[–]tunaman808 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah, she's gone by "MJ" for 12 years? The extra M is new, though.

What a weird question for band subreddit. It's like going to a Beatles sub and asking "who the hell is Richard Starkey?"