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Every gen-x’er is gonna score a 20.

So you can’t be Angry and Horny?!?!

I’m so confused. The dog is heroic just be being able to not eat the ham on his face.

I gotta comment on the mid 70s thing and how great it is to hear that. I have also been into computers since the late 70s (well and early 80s) although I imagine I got started a little younger than you … like I was 8 and writing basic/ assembly on my various machines back in the day (TRS-80 Model III, Tandy CoCo 2, Coleco Adam, C64). So I’m only mid 50s and I thought I was the old guy around here :) But damn if you don’t give me hope that I can stay like this for many years to come.

I’m not sure “Reddit levels of activity” is necessarily a good thing :)

But yeah that takes some getting used to for sure. I would think this is one of the more popular communities here for kinda obvious reasons given the nature of Lemmy. I’ve only been here since the first great migration but I’ve already seen Lemmy in general grow tremendously.

I have a ton of these in the garage for woodworking. Screw the carpenters pencils, these are way better.

I don’t wanna upvote this. But I have to.

Best I can tell is it’s a normal `username@hostname current_directory$ sorta prompt with some coloring: • Red for the square brackets • Orange (color 172) for the username • Light blue (color 153) for the hostname • Amber (color 214) for the current working directory

Other than being hard to read from the embedded coloring I’m not sure why this is a war crime.

Yeah I’m gonna check this out at work next week for sure.

Tell me you don’t know how income taxes work without telling me you don’t know how income taxes work.

My question is who does their taxes then?

Scrape off all the cream and eat a bowlful of that, then snack on the burnt cookies the rest of the day.

I’ve got lab machines sitting idle. I know what I’m doing come Monday.

I just wish they’d make it possible to use an iPad as a CarPlay screen. I mean you can do it with an android tablet but not an iPad mini?!?! wtf?

I love owning a home but fuck it’s expensive. Learn how to do stuff yourself is the best advice I can give you.

I have saved so much money being able to troubleshoot and repair simple things like hvac, electrical, plumbing, woodworking, etc. YouTube is amazing for learning this stuff. A good example: I recently had to replace two hvac condenser fans that would have likely cost me a $1000 a pop to fix. It’s bad enough the motors themselves were $300 a pop. Plumbing is easy if you have the right tools (pex is awesome). Electrical can be pretty easy if you’re willing to learn (I was a computer engineer in college and a system architect by trade so I get the electrical stuff). Learn how to patch holes in drywall. You’d be surprised how much you’ll be doing that. Learn how to replace a faucet. Learn how to replace the inwards of a toilet.

The great thing about a fixer upper is you can afford to make mistakes. Take your time, don’t rush it. Make little improvements all the time. It all adds up.

Dad, is that you???

(No joke, my dad had a Chrysler New Yorker that would talk to him and he’d argue this same thing with it. He’d say something else like “Mason is a jar.” ).

Yes.

Oh god, like that Dyson thing?!?

54 kinda sucks.

Ok this made me chuckle out loud.

This makes me sad.