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Hah, I was never tops at Star Raiders either. But I get how you feel - I'm glad to be able to break out my gear and give the hits a spin. Such a great system. 👍

Lovely setup!

Real real men wear two eye patches.

Cut a small hole and stretch the plastic by blowing it up with a straw? 

Or stick it in a vacuum chamber?  

I must have had covid-19 as a teenage boy.

Justin Trudeau

damn  

Oh dear. I'm sure the flat earthers will take this as a sign he was on to the truth, and needed to be silenced.

I owned that vinyl as a kid, and wore it out.

I'm very sorry to hear about your wife's struggle.

Please check out Joe Tippen's protocol. The protocol sounds nuts, but his facebook support group has reported successes with various cancers. [edit - before you dismiss it, know that it started with a Merck researcher curing cancer in a mouse study, and later in herself, as a last ditch effort]

Good luck!!!

Yeah, releasing source code is the way you pay back for the free and open code, tools, and examples, that every community has.

Having released much homebrew code, I appreciate there's certainly an amount of humility involved in releasing it. One often rushes through certain sections of code, and not everything is pristine or perfectly architected. This is made much worse when you're less familiar with the problem-space that you're working in. Also, tight 6502 code is always going to be a bit spaghetti.

If the code works without bugs or performance issues, you don't bother going back. Or at least I don't bother going back. I consider my personal coding hours one of the system resources too, since I don't have an infinite supply.

I just hope that people reading my source code do so with a bit of generosity of spirit. If in the end they think I'm a dummy, oh well. At least I know I'm not.

Finally! I've been a proponent of the external combustion engine for years!

Could be worse. You might have been using "ed" instead.

Likely. Google ranks http sites lower than https sites, as part of their war on http.

That's food for thought. I tend to use lineage os for mobile (an ungoogled android build) and a local mail app would work fine there. Back to local mail apps feels a bit retro to me.

I've had my gmail for a bit over 15 years, but yeah, considering ditching it.

I have a VPS, just need to grab a new domain and update postfix. The only thing I'll really miss is the slick web interface. The open source ones are a bit clunky.

It's useful for sure, Wiz. Just wish it was opt-in. Or at least allow me to opt-out. I've been trying to limit my surface area to google, but gmail is a big hurdle in that.

From that very same screen, you can click a button that deletes the receipt from your email. You can't turn it off. There's no way to delete trackings without losing receipts. So you need to manually back up each and every receipt email you want to save, and then delete it. I'd call all of that a dark pattern.

and then get sent to juvenile court. So cool!

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For sure. First thing I did about learning about these things was look up the details.

I'm just going to avoid them for now. It seems they're more sensitive to vibration, and I don't trust that they'll have the same lifespan as more traditional drives. Maybe after some more years of other people testing them out for me, I'll take another look.

Ugh, thanks for putting these on my radar. Apparently drive manufacturers are quietly substituting these in their consumer lines.

I was wondering why some 8TB drives jumped down in price. Now I know.

My go-to is "no thanks, I don't want to be in your database."

It looks like it might be "Nerf Basketball is here to play", but all that I see online is some TV jingle facebook profile looking for it.