zerbey

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[–] zerbey 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe try changing her litter? Sounds like she doesn't like it.

[–] zerbey 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Said I could come back the next day, as it turned out I was busy that day so I passed the following day instead. I failed because I got over confident backing out of a parking spot an nudged a cone. Or, as he put it, I murdered a toddler. Fair enough. We did the backing up thing first so I could get that out of the way, the rest of the test was easy.

I've never heard of a weird secret code to force you to fail, just relax and don't run over any toddlers, I mean cones, and I'm sure you'll be just fine!

[–] zerbey 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No cable modems where I lived. I worked for an ISP and we'd order fire alarm circuits then just put SDSL routers on them instead. Up to 2Mbit speeds depending on how far from the exchange you lived, I was only able to get 512Kbit reliably. We were selling them to customers at a nice markup for a profit.

British Telecom wised up to it a few years later when they started marketing ADSL themselves and started filtering our traffic, but for a few years it was a super cheap way to get broadband if you had the know how.

[–] zerbey 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plenty of people had broadband, I was one of the first to get it in 1998. A whole 512Kbit.

[–] zerbey 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The US has no issue with the metric system, and most engineering and scientific people switched decades ago. The military is mostly all metric too. The general public of the US is a harder nut to crack, asking a population of stubborn freedom lovers to change something they've known their whole life is damn near impossible.

I switch my stuff to metric all the time, and the usual response isn't "oh that's interesting", it's nearly always, "the fuck is wrong with you, why would you want that weird shit?!". If the government suddenly made all weather reports metric, the T-Shirt sellers would all become millionaires overnight from selling anti-metric slogans.

[–] zerbey 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No motion sickness, but most VR games make me disorientated after a while and I just don't enjoy them very much. They're fun for a couple of hours once in a great while, but I never see myself doing it as a daily hobby.

[–] zerbey 3 points 1 year ago

Been using this online handle for 30 years now, I'd say pretty attached!

[–] zerbey 7 points 1 year ago

Right now it's an idea, but Musk's ideas tend to become reality more often than not. I already stopped Twitter, they do this I'll be gone for good.

[–] zerbey 20 points 1 year ago

I've tried every other browser, and I keep coming back to Firefox because it's reliable, has a low memory footprint, and isn't run by some evil corporation.

[–] zerbey 5 points 1 year ago

I don't care what he does with it at this point.

[–] zerbey 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On our honeymoon, we went to this 5 star place in Scotland so I could "wine and dine" my new wife. I think the meal ended up being $150 back in 2000 so about $260 now. We both had the lamb and vegetables, the lamb was under cooked and the vegetables were practically raw. The dessert, on the other hand, was delicious and we got drunk on a bottle of wine. We had more fun listening to the group of older guys one upping each other with tales of their yachts. They were also very welcoming to a couple of young kids who were clearly in a place far above their income bracket. So, in all, it was crap food but we enjoyed ourselves.

[–] zerbey 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Photo transfer.

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