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Sudy wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 11:15 am I don't know, but why are three of the top seven what I can only assume are "news" stories on Yahoo about celebrities in their bikinis? I feel like I'm reading a tabloid.

hepcat wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 2:18 pm What I love on yahoo's front page are the blatantly untrue news stories that act as clickbait. At least once a week I have to tell a coworker to look at the shocking news story she just saw and makes sure the word "ad" isn't included in the corner of the accompanying picture.

And each and every time I do remind her about this, I almost immediately hear "Goddamnit, never mind."

hepcat wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 2:27 pm Last month I heard her audibly gasp and then yell across the walls that separate us that she had no idea Bob Newhart had died in the late 90s.

I can always tell when she's not actually working and she's just browsing Yahoo.

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LordMortis wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 2:32 pm

hepcat wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 2:27 pm Last month I heard her audibly gasp and then yell across the walls that separate us that she had no idea Bob Newhart had died in the late 90s.

I can always tell when she's not actually working and she's just browsing Yahoo.

I had no idea he died then either. That makes his appearances on Big Bang Theory very special.

Kasey Chang wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:49 pm Alienware had been Dell's "premium" brand for a decade, IIRC. Dell used to have the basic Inspiron home line and the Vostro biz line, the semi-premium XPS line, then Alienware.

I started on custom builds... back then it was cheaper and not crap. Used to have local shops where "they help you build" but I basically bought one with the specs I wanted for a decent price. But for my latest I just bought one off Amazon from iBuyPower. My PC before that was an ANCIENT Dell XPS Laptop that wasn't even 1080p. That's how old it was. It did have 4 soDIMM slots and 2 HD drive bays. Hahaha.

Daehawk wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:45 pm Was watching a review of a Alienware PC...ya it failed miserably. Junk. Same as Dell. It got me going back down the road of time to when Alienware was its own company and good. Then further and further back. I landed in the very wee early 1990s before I had a PC but was dreaming of them. I can see myself standing in my local Walmart at the electronics section looking at magazines and buying some other mags. I recall back then to me the big two were Micron and Dell. Packard Bell was a distant 3rd but not out of the picture due to price. I would read all the stuff I could and compare both Dell and Micron. I had finally decided on a Micron and set my sights to get one. I never did and a few years later in 1994 my wife got me the best pc I could imagine in a AST brand model. I still have it.

Daehawk wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:08 pm Ive reached my limit of free article..bah

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Daehawk wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:03 pm That thing requests a lot of permissions. Do you use it?

gilraen wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:09 pm

Daehawk wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:03 pm That thing requests a lot of permissions. Do you use it?

I use it. It's not really a lot of *unique* permissions, it's basically listing every website/domain that it knows how to access, and then if you go to one of those websites, it would need to access your data for that specific site, so that it can show you the unblocked version.

LordMortis wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:42 pm I try to play by the rules. If their model is subscription and that is a requirement, I just don't use them as a source. I will say, I hate that they paywall news sites get themselves put to the top of a google search and then lock you out. I know there is a way to currate google from including sites, I need to learn how to do that, so I cans start, for instance, lopping the NYT out of my searches. The love to come in the top searches for everything only to tell you sign up or piss off. I'd rather piss off and *plonk* them, then try to circumnavigate their paywall.

Sudy wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 7:46 pm I just embarrassed myself in front of the building jock. This keeps happening to me with small talk... someone will toss a rhetorical greeting my way and I'll mentally struggle deciding whether to respond genuinely. Holding the door open for him, he hit me with, "What's up, buddy?" After a couple seconds, I spat out "How d'youin'?" He probably thinks I was speaking Georgian or having a stroke.

Sudy wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 7:46 pm I just embarrassed myself in front of the building jock. This keeps happening to me with small talk... someone will toss a rhetorical greeting my way and I'll mentally struggle deciding whether to respond genuinely. Holding the door open for him, he hit me with, "What's up, buddy?" After a couple seconds, I spat out "How d'youin'?" He probably thinks I was speaking Georgian or having a stroke.

Jaymon wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:30 pm Sirius is really desperate. I never use it, its an outdated business model, and they don't have any stations I really really like. its like cable, hundreds of channels of crap. but they constantly send me spam, trying to get me to subscribe.
If I wanted it, I would have subscribed when I bought the car 10 years ago. I didn't want it then, and I sure as rotten tangerines don't want it now.