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when did you stop using dial up internet? in c/technology

[–] doubletwist 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I lucky enough to get my first DSL line in 1997.

Was only paying for 128Kbps down but this was before they actually had any throttling in place, and I was close enough to the DLAM to get 1Mbit down. It was mind-blowing at a time when a 1.44Mbps T1 line was $1000+/month pipe dream!

Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83 in c/news

[–] doubletwist 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He'll be back in 2 and 2...

Ain't nobody got time for that crap! in c/memes

[–] doubletwist 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You rang?

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[NGD] Magical Martin 00-28 Standard (imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago by doubletwist to c/guitars

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Not going to go through the whole story, but this was NOT the guitar I was looking for. It was instead the guitar that found me.

The pictures just don't do it justice, but the finish on the rosewood has this amazing 3D effect, and the tone is best described as 'magical'.

When I first picked it up and strummed it in the store I could feel it in my whole body, and my wife's comment from several feet away was, "It vibrated my soul."

Martin 00-28 Standard

Then I got fired, but now at least I'll have more time to learn to play it in the way it deserves to be played. 😅

Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election in c/politics

[–] doubletwist 19 points 2 months ago

If you believe in democracy, yes.

Tidal is laying off more staff. in c/technology

[–] doubletwist 3 points 2 months ago

The sad thing it, for streaming "stations", Pandora still has the best algorithms and functioning (thumbs up/down only being applicable to that specific 'station').

It's a shame they've neglected their apps and almost everything else about their business.

Court denies request to force count of votes for Green Party's Jill Stein in Ohio in c/politics

[–] doubletwist 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

English probably. 😁

Power goes out on entire island of Cuba, leaving 10 million people without electricity in c/news

[–] doubletwist 32 points 3 months ago

It's not about saying Biden is to blame. Trump 100% should have blame.

But the fact that someone else STARTED (or in this case re-started) a bad thing doesn't mean the next person in power gets a free pass for not working to stop it again.

So it's perfectly fair to call out Biden for not stopping the bad thing that Trump (re)started.

This is a real tweet by Walz in c/politicalmemes

[–] doubletwist 11 points 3 months ago

Also...

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Mike Lindell claims ignorance over neo-Nazi symbolism in MyPillow prices in c/news

[–] doubletwist 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Just because YOU didn't know doesn't mean much. It just means you're probably not a White Nationalist/Nazi (or maybe it means you are and are just ill informed about the culture and iconography surrounding it ).