BarbecueCowboy

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[–] BarbecueCowboy 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That looks like damage to the plastic coating, blast from the past, but you could just throw them in a resurfacer if you can find one, every resurface will be less reliable than the one before it though.

May not be worth it, how old are these? My knowledge is maybe out of date, but if it's a dvd-rw opposed to a generic dvd-r, the usable lifespan used to be pretty limited. In theory, manufacturers claim 10-25 years based on their accelerated testing methods, but in actual lifespan, some data hoarders were seeing numbers average as low as 2 years for large collections. No good studies out there I'm aware of though. I used to have all of my media on dvd-rs and almost all of mine were showing read errors after 5 years, even the ones from the good manufacturer, this was back in... 2010ish.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 13 points 4 months ago (13 children)

A lot of companies have been making it a goal to move away from Oracle as a whole. The Java enterprise licensing thing from a few years back rubbed every company in the world the wrong way, their rep is permanently trashed.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 14 points 4 months ago

Oh god, please replace it faster.

I am so tired of all the random shit that only RedHat does because RedHat had a minor issue with something that they blew completely out of the water and decided to fix by just making a brand new thing that only they use, and it's kinda compatible with whatever it replaced, but no, not in these hundred different specific ways that will definitely come up every time you need it to do something, but will work just long enough to make you think whatever you're doing might be feasible.

I would love to never look at RedHat again.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The money is important, but it isn't the most important part of the equation. The value of having a nearly 100% dependable ally in that region trumps almost every other possible concern from a political perspective.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 6 points 4 months ago

Whenever I see writing like this, I imagine it's being told by one of the peons from the original Warcraft.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 3 points 4 months ago

It's a hell of a severance package.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 12 points 4 months ago

They probably dug out the old molds to make most of the pieces, would make sense.

They could be legitimately better with new processes implemented by the factories/etc.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 3 points 4 months ago

Despite being obviously counter to the point of Christian Jesus, they are pretty badass, these could spread like wildfire.

They'd be on a Trump campaign poster by morning.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I've lived in Canada, the US, Mexico and briefly wandered around Europe.

Canadian burgers are just weird, I don't know what y'all are doing up there, they're all just weird like someone had only ever seen a picture of a cheeseburger and tried to recreate it without ever tasting one. It's still a burger, and it's fine, but it's always just kind of odd. Strongly urge you to have a burger in any other country if you ever have a chance, the taste is vastly different. The US is obviously a top choice, but don't sleep on getting a burger in Germany or France if you ever go.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 4 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure their hands are also trying to be dogs.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 7 points 4 months ago

The issue usually is proprietary streaming services, not a lot of interest from them on Linux/etc support and the unofficial options are usually kind of janky. That does make total sense but also kills it's chances of getting wide support / adoption which limits the growth of the projects.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I kinda feel like voice search is just an inherently bad platform for shopping.

Supposedly... Home & Kitchen is the most popular category on Amazon, consumer choice comes into that so rapidly that it's hard for it to make sense with just audio feedback or even a tiny screen like the show.

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