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syndalis

Sarksus wrote: »

Organichu wrote: »

i feel like having total access to all of my files wherever i am is a convenience but kind of an absurd indulgence, and i can't complain that i don't have it

if i want to watch something i don't keep on my ssd or in the cloud naturally (without associated hardware, i mean) i just use an external harddrive. if i don't have it with me that is ok because i can live without having everything i've ever downloaded or created at my fingertips always.

i am ok living in a world with some scarcity!

It annoys me. I don't always want something, but sometimes I do, and I don't have it!

Pay for a fucking huge Dropbox plan, or a web server with hundreds of gigs of storage.

The latter is tons of fun because depending on how much access you have to the plumbing of the server you can host custom services for yourself along with your files.

Organichu

my racist uncle bought a 70" smart tv and he's been buying a bunch of blu-rays. he got really into ripping them and i thought he was gonna make a lil media box with hundreds of 1080p movies at his fingertips.

instead he just wanted to burn copies to protect himself against the disc giving out?

seems like he's already done a lot of the legwork, spending a couple hundred bucks on a few terabytes of storage to make it disc free would be an attractive proposition to me

Tamin

One stupid-long drive later, we are in Kansas City. At one of the Jack Stacks, as recommended.

Organichu

Tamin wrote: »

One stupid-long drive later, we are in Kansas City. At one of the Jack Stacks, as recommended.

@jacobkosh

yessssss

skippydumptruck

Organichu wrote: »

my racist uncle bought a 70" smart tv and he's been buying a bunch of blu-rays. he got really into ripping them and i thought he was gonna make a lil media box with hundreds of 1080p movies at his fingertips.

instead he just wanted to burn copies to protect himself against the disc giving out?

seems like he's already done a lot of the legwork, spending a couple hundred bucks on a few terabytes of storage to make it disc free would be an attractive proposition to me

yes

also I am going to buy a big fuck you lcd when my projector gives out

Tav

but seriously, all facetiousness aside, the first ultrabook I pulled up on my local pc store's site is €400 cheaper than the basic 11" mba and has a hybrid drive

Organichu

i think maybe i will save tinker tailor for tomorrow

i was doing some work earlier and was about to start it but now i have people visiting and i'm supposed to pay very close attention to this film. so i'll jsut watch a comedy or something tonight and save that for tomorrow when i am alone

Sarksus

syndalis wrote: »

Sarksus wrote: »

Organichu wrote: »

i feel like having total access to all of my files wherever i am is a convenience but kind of an absurd indulgence, and i can't complain that i don't have it

if i want to watch something i don't keep on my ssd or in the cloud naturally (without associated hardware, i mean) i just use an external harddrive. if i don't have it with me that is ok because i can live without having everything i've ever downloaded or created at my fingertips always.

i am ok living in a world with some scarcity!

It annoys me. I don't always want something, but sometimes I do, and I don't have it!

Pay for a fucking huge Dropbox plan, or a web server with hundreds of gigs of storage.

The latter is tons of fun because depending on how much access you have to the plumbing of the server you can host custom services for yourself along with your files.

Subscription services aren't practical right now.

I'd rather just save for a synology and do one big purchase.

Honestly I could fiddle with my Linux box and get mostly the same functionality but I'm fucking lazy.

syndalis

Tav wrote: »

but seriously, all facetiousness aside, the first ultrabook I pulled up on my local pc store's site is €400 cheaper than the 11" mba and has a hybrid drive

Tav

Stahp

I know you weren't here yesterday, but we already did this dance.

And a hybrid drive is not the same thing as a fusion drive, and if you are actually interested in the differences you can read up on them, but I won't contribute to the back and forth on this topic any more, because it leads to dark and frankly antagonistic roads.

Tav

syndalis wrote: »

but I won't contribute to the back and forth on this topic any more, because it leads to dark and frankly antagonistic roads.

saving this for future use

Sarksus

Also I meant they aren't practical for me

because I am unemployed and being on the hook every month is a bad idea

syndalis

Tav wrote: »

syndalis wrote: »

but I won't contribute to the back and forth on this topic any more, because it leads to dark and frankly antagonistic roads.

saving this for future use

Tav, y u gotta be such a goose? I tried giving this an out. I've been remarkably civil the whole time.

Tav

oh shit, I haven't listened to the new Wonder Years album yet

I should do that

Henroid

shalmelo wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Here guys, before I go to bed, here's how I've been wasting the final parts of my afternoon.

http://www.geoguessr.com/

That is a lot of fun.

Protip: when in doubt, it's always Australia.

You seriously don't know how right you are.

bloodyroarxx

Afternoon folks

DoctorArch

Daw, that healthcare thread in D&D started by the 13 year old is so cute.

RiemannLives

Sarksus, it doesn't have a ton of space (7 gigs when free) but you can get a Skyrive account for free with windows.

Organichu

haha i forgot how scummy the one dude is in heat

I HAD TO GET IT ON, MAN

I HAD TO

Caveman Paws

DoctorArch wrote: »

Daw, that healthcare thread in D&D started by the 13 year old is so cute.

I haven't looked yet.

Because I have no interest in questioning my Canuck Socialist Medicine lifestyle.

skippydumptruck

this couple is looking for homes in the ATL suburbs

like 2000-3000 sq ft, ~110,000

jesus

Zombiemambo

So I had to replace my HDD and didn't transfer anything over. I downloaded Chrome again and I was ready to start getting all my extensions and bookmarks back but they were all there, installed and ready to go, as soon as I entered my email address.

Good work, Chrome

Organichu

skippydumptruck wrote: »

this couple is looking for homes in the ATL suburbs

like 2000-3000 sq ft, ~110,000

jesus

my uncle (who bought a tiny house a couple years ago in a broken down old coal town in central PA for like $14k) is looking to get a 'real' house where he could spread out and maybe do his own thing, stop living with other family... something closer to philly, i mean, near work. there's no work to be found up where his backup house is right now.

so anyway he was like "no way i'm paying a hundred thousand dollars though, that's insane, you'll be paying on that forever"

he basically wants to find something he can pay off to 0 in <5 years

i told him that is sort of unrealistic with his means and what he's looking for

but he disagrees i guess

good luck to him :v

syndalis

Zombiemambo wrote: »

So I had to replace my HDD and didn't transfer anything over. I downloaded Chrome again and I was ready to start getting all my extensions and bookmarks back but they were all there, installed and ready to go, as soon as I entered my email address.

Good work, Chrome

Chrome and safari both realizing that you want your browser bookmarks and general preferences to carry from location to location (or in some cases new install) is civilization.

I love living in the future.

RiemannLives

I am pretty determined not to pay more than $400,000 for a 2000-3000 sq ft house. But might have to go over when I eventually buy one.

Tav

what the fuck? Houses in America cost $100k?

there's a burned out, boarded up place that had nearly 30 Romanians living in it two doors down from me going for €120k

RiemannLives

Tav wrote: »

what the fuck? Houses in America cost $100k?

there's a burned out, boarded up place that had nearly 30 Romanians living in it two doors down from me going for €120k

houses can be had for that prices in effectively 3rd world (or Red State, pretty much same thing) hellholes.

In civilization its a lot more.

skippydumptruck

haha

I never really get telemarketing calls because I dont have a landline

time warner just called and tried to sell me phone service,mI was like I havent had a home phone in a decade

then he tried to sell me hbo + cinemax, which I already have from them

wat

Eddy

I don't know anything meaningful about housing markets outside of DC burbs

And that is an impossible point of comparison so...

syndalis

Yeah, a cost of living debate is exactly what we need to cleanse the palate.

If you want to cry, look at what houses cost in Palo Alto, CA.

Tamin

syndalis wrote: »

Zombiemambo wrote: »

So I had to replace my HDD and didn't transfer anything over. I downloaded Chrome again and I was ready to start getting all my extensions and bookmarks back but they were all there, installed and ready to go, as soon as I entered my email address.

Good work, Chrome

Chrome and safari both realizing that you want your browser bookmarks and general preferences to carry from location to location (or in some cases new install) is civilization.

I love living in the future.

Preferences are one thing, but do you make a lot of bookmarks? Maybe I'm unusual in that I've never really made use of them.

skippydumptruck

Organichu wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

this couple is looking for homes in the ATL suburbs

like 2000-3000 sq ft, ~110,000

jesus

my uncle (who bought a tiny house a couple years ago in a broken down old coal town in central PA for like $14k) is looking to get a 'real' house where he could spread out and maybe do his own thing, stop living with other family... something closer to philly, i mean, near work. there's no work to be found up where his backup house is right now.

so anyway he was like "no way i'm paying a hundred thousand dollars though, that's insane, you'll be paying on that forever"

he basically wants to find something he can pay off to 0 in <5 years

i told him that is sort of unrealistic with his means and what he's looking for

but he disagrees i guess

good luck to him :v

I just want my calif salary for 5 years in some cute little city where I could pay cash for a house

Henroid

I may not speak either language, but my Mexican + Portuguese heritage has finally given me an edge in life.

Being able to determine if locations in GeoGuessr are Brazil or Central America.

skippydumptruck

Tav wrote: »

what the fuck? Houses in America cost $100k?

there's a burned out, boarded up place that had nearly 30 Romanians living in it two doors down from me going for €120k

yep

all houses

Caveman Paws

I have a couple YouTube vids bookmarked (roman history documentaries and I, Claudius, I don't know why).

That's it.

Deebaser

@spacekungfuman
Bought mrs deebs todo birch sunglasses for $200 more than the $30 sunglasses they look like.

I wanna be TB and charge $TEXAs for my logo

Eddy

I never make bookmarks... For scholarly stuff I'll throw down stable URLs in a works cited doc and forget about them after they're due

I guess I go on a lot of content aggregator sites?

syndalis

Tamin wrote: »

syndalis wrote: »

Zombiemambo wrote: »

So I had to replace my HDD and didn't transfer anything over. I downloaded Chrome again and I was ready to start getting all my extensions and bookmarks back but they were all there, installed and ready to go, as soon as I entered my email address.

Good work, Chrome

Chrome and safari both realizing that you want your browser bookmarks and general preferences to carry from location to location (or in some cases new install) is civilization.

I love living in the future.

Preferences are one thing, but do you make a lot of bookmarks? Maybe I'm unusual in that I've never really made use of them.

My bookmark bar is constantly used between my iPad, MacBook Air and iMac.

Quick taps to get to the 20 or so sites I visit daily.

Dark Raven X

Irond Will wrote: »

Abdhyius wrote: »

speaking of

here's captain Petra Drabløs, norwegian nurse, nursing a canadian soldier, vice corporal M. R. Stevens during the korean war.

you guys have male nurses?

Yo

Hamurabi

Donkey Kong wrote: »

Man, screw even having that 1TB drive. Uninstall the games you're not playing. SSD-only, no big file collections.

Or make your home PC your filedump and use AirVideo (once I get the damn Remote Access feature working, stupid Comcast) to access your video media. 2x 1TB drives, 1x 3TB HDD, 1x 3TB USB3.0 external HDD. With uTorrent remote, I can also remotely torrent.

It's a beautiful thing.

Tav

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Tav wrote: »

what the fuck? Houses in America cost $100k?

there's a burned out, boarded up place that had nearly 30 Romanians living in it two doors down from me going for €120k

yep

all houses

amazing