I am cringing so hard @ 'smartoon' rn...

Worked in tech support for a major internet provider. We would constantly have major ouages in various locations due to overtaxed systems going down. Corporate refused to allow us to admit that there were problems on our end and forced the techs to troubleshoot the customer calls, even though we all knew that we could do nothing for the customer. Saw multiple techs releived of their job for telling the truth to the customers. So many hours wasted on both the customer and techs part.

I will say 'I like my coffee like I like my women, black and strong'. My wife is a tiny white girl so I tend to get funny looks when I say it.

47 here.. I suppose im at the tail end of the people who still had a chance. We have a house that is half paid off but that needs a new roof, windows, and flooring that we cannot afford to take care of due to inflation screwing everything up. We have 2 cars but they are both 30+ years old and keeping them on the road is taking up most of what free time I have. When we got the mortgage it felt like we had finally 'made it' and that future pay increades would allow us to remodel and modernize our 'fixer upper' but the intervening 15 years has been an escalating shitshow that has us barely able to maintain what we have in its current state. It is starting to look tempting to liquidate the house and extraneous posessions and buy an old RV and become modern day nomads for our remaining years. The only thing really preventing this is that our 2 adult children are living with us still because there are no jobs that pay enough for them to move out on their own and we are not going to just dump them on the curb and say 'figure it out' like my parents did to me...

I have one similar and it does work, granted the ambient humidity is less than around 50% I live in the desert in northern nevada and we cool our house with a huge one and I have a small desk size one I use in my room. Most of the time our ambient humidity is in the mid teens here so they work rather well.

"Not to scale"

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Incase that is still a mystery to you, that means that the drawing is visually inconsistent with the finished part. That 180 degree 'corner' is effectively a straight line, if drawn to scale.

You should only consider driving an old car as a daily driver if you also want to make a hobby out of keeping it on the road. If you are not prepared to do the vast majority of your own mechanic work then you should stick to a newer car. Old cars break... alot, and sometimes in weird ways. As a person who grew up working on cars with my dad I have always done my own work and personally prefer the older cars which have relatively simple systems that are easier to troubleshoot and maintain. If you are comfortable getting dirty and are mechanically inclined and have or are willing to get the basic tools needed then by all means drive an old car.

"Rolling sofa" is a very accurate descriptor, I like it.

118F -42F. Both extremes experienced in northern Nevada.

I live in a little backward town in the middle of nowhere and recently took a trip to San Francisco and I have to say this kind of thing was the biggest culture shock to me... I use my phone to text and look at memes, this is a bridge too far!

Centos in like 2008... idk the version, i had to learn how to set up a basic internal http server with a sql database or something from zero. It was fun.

If 'some people get off to it' is what determines NSFW status then literally everything should have the tag...

Yeah the rubber monstrosities are just bad looking. I took them off to clean and straighten some minor issues but after removing them I couldnt bring myself to bolt them back on.

I have been using smartphones forever and have never had a plan that did not charge extra for this feature... Granted I have always used verizon, so maybe its a verizon thing?