TGTX

joined 2 years ago
[–] TGTX 2 points 5 months ago

I drink Caykur Organic Turkish tea every day. It’s addictive.

[–] TGTX 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Politely disagree. M-disc for BD-Rs are still absolutely worth the money if you want to properly archive something. NIST has agreed that the archival lifetime of a M-Disc BD-R is 100+ years.

You have to be careful with normal BD-Rs because there are two different types of recording material on the market: High to Low and Low to High (LTH). You want to stay away from BD-R LTH discs as their longevity isn’t as good as the High to Low discs.

[–] TGTX 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There is a ton of HD-DVD disc rot today. For a format, it definitely did not hold up to age.

[–] TGTX 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thank your deity that M-Disc exists.

[–] TGTX 7 points 6 months ago

For “major brands” at any grocery store, Reach Pop floss is PFAS free with vegan wax. I like the feel of it and it works well. Definitely not as smooth as something like Glide, but you aren’t getting the forever chemicals either.

[–] TGTX 4 points 6 months ago

It’s Hobby Lobby so there are Halloween and Christmas decorations up right now even if it’s June. It’s like they always start holiday decor 6 months in advance of the actual holiday.

[–] TGTX 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

For me, ChargePoint chargers are the easiest to use and consistently work best, but usually the most expensive.

Blink chargers are the worst. The app is clunky, slow, and the experience just never feels like they actually vetted the process. Also, it feels like they have a hard time keeping their chargers maintained.

What used to be Volta, now Shell (yeah the oil company) is a hit or miss depending on their charger actually working. Nice thing about Volta is that free is free (for now).

For actually finding working chargers, I use PlugShare.

[–] TGTX 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Ubisoft has released many games that require constant Internet access the past decade and then just shutting off the servers making the game completely unplayable. This just happened to The Crew last month. This will happen to:

  1. The Crew 2
  2. The Crew Motorfest
  3. Steep
  4. Riders Republic
  5. Star Trek Bridge Crew
  6. Skull & Bones (A AAAA game)
  7. Newer versions of Just Dance
  8. Newer versions of Rocksmith

And more…

Pirating doesn’t solve the game being completely unplayable when UbiSoft decides to shut down the servers.

The Crew could be played all the way through as a single player game. It made no sense for a constant Internet connection. The Crew’s credit screen for the final version of the game lasts over 45 minutes. Thousands of employees across the entire world worked on that game and now it is just gone with only gameplay videos being the only record of existence.

[–] TGTX 3 points 8 months ago

Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers

I think the popularity of Stacy’s Mom really scared them. But everything on the album is amazing. Interstate Managers was their third album. The other two albums following Interstate Managers were good, but not at that power pop level that Interstate Managers reached.

[–] TGTX 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

We had Frontier FiOS. Kept going out and wasn’t reliable. I was a long time customer but they wouldn’t let me take advantage of gig speed so they kept me stuck at 150/150 at $90 a month. With T-Mobile Home Internet, it’s a range of 200 to 500 Mbps down at $40 a month, which is fine. That’s the current speed even with me going over my monthly “limit” right now with 7 days of the bill cycle left.

[–] TGTX 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Home Internet only. Two of us work from home remotely on Teams video meetings for 8 to 10 hours a day, streaming, gaming, and game downloads and updates.

[–] TGTX 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Uh oh… Total used: 4831.16 GB

 

I got a weird message today that the eBay Global Shipping program has flagged the item I sent, a Nintendo DS game, for shipment to Mexico. eBay says that they are going to send the item back to me, but gave no further instructions on what to do. In the seller portal, the item is marked delivered, but I believe that is to the eBay Shipping Center. Has this happened to anyone else before?

Looking at the tracking, the package arrived there 5 days ago and they looked to be sitting on it up to today when they made the decision to send it back. Anyone ever see “First Dimension” and “Second Dimension” postings in their tracking?

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