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TechConnectify , an Random Englisch
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Gotta new video today for ya.
It's time to make fun of RCA again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGT1EvmDJh4

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@TechConnectify Related weird-but-somewhat-terrible-tech: my LG dishwasher has a 7-segment display which tries to trick you into thinking it’s an LCD which is emulating a 7-segment display.

TechConnectify , an Random Englisch
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So I just got back from a Menards run and I've noticed something fascinating:

Menards has always had a lot of store brands. But they're really pushing a new food brand called Marcella. Stuff like coffee, jams and jellies, prepared foods, sodas, etc. A lot of it is fairly unique - I bought a maraschino cherry cola on a whim and it was pretty great!

The weird part? They're pricing this in-house stuff higher than name brands. The soda was a tad more expensive than the Sprecher's next to it!

foo ,
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@TechConnectify Me, someone who was born and raised in Wisconsin but hasn't lived there in the Midwest for 25 years:

"Menards... the place where you buy 2x4s... sells designer jams."

(Hey, I wasn't above getting the bulk candy at Fleet Farm, but still...)

mattgrayyes , an Random Englisch
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Todays excitement:
There’s a rocket launch scheduled from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight, and I’m “only” ~3hrs drive away.

Let’s hope the bastard doesn’t scrub!

foo ,
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@mattgrayyes I've stayed in motels in Barstow, California. Pretty much the only reason you'd be staying in Barstow is before/after desert camping or offroading trips.

I remember a motel where you had to provide your own shampoo, but they provided free trail mix and Emergen-C packets. They know their audience.

SwiftOnSecurity , (Bearbeitet ) an Random Englisch
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Used to be you could order free Ubuntu CD’s. Their first release proved controversial. I got like 48 of them as a teen. They’re now going for $10+.
Ubuntu is a Zulu word for an African philosophy of interconnectedness, which is the theme they were going for.

foo ,
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@SwiftOnSecurity I’ve still got some of them. Even have the AMD64/PowerPC variants, which are probably even more rare.

foo , an Random Englisch
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Sending a letter with just ".DS_Store" in the middle of the sheet to:

Apple Inc.
1 Apple Park Way
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States

foone , an Random Englisch
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I keep forgetting that I hate keyboards

this makes it a bit of a problem given that's like 1/3rd of everything I do

foo ,
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@foone I can sympathize. I got a new keycap set about a month ago. Looked beautiful. I absolutely could NOT type with it, presumably because the corners were too rounded. I didn't want to, but ended up going back to the keyboard's stock set after trying to make it work for a few weeks.

mattgrayyes , an Random Englisch
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For @emf, I’m making Mastodot, which in theory prints toots that are hashtagged for the event!

foo ,
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@mattgrayyes @emf Sweet! I've got a receipt printer in my home office which is connected to @lpd and will print to it when you mention it.
https://fosstodon.org/@foo/110289002246443522

foone , an Random Englisch
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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

foo ,
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@foone So with Amazon being the highest authority on retail these days, it would be safe to say you're waiting on rods from the gods?

foone , an Random Englisch
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I wonder if anyone has proposed a PNG/EXIF extension to let you embed an image description in an image file. It'd live with the image so as you upload it to different sites, the description stays with it

foo ,
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@foone They wouldn't be as durable as you'd hope. So many sites strip EXIF anyway to remove GeoIP, and descriptions would probably get stripped too since I'm sure there would be a lot of "Picture I took of my beautiful daughter Jane Smith, SSN 123-45-6789, as we sit on the lawn in front of our house at 123 Main Street".

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