I just donate them when I’m done. Often you can buy the physical CD cheaper from places like discogs than you can a digital version. So I don’t feel bad giving them away afterwards. Someone might even discover the bands I love.

But the version by Cradle of Filth

I sort by all and curate that down to what I want to see. So, lots.

Arthur knew what he signed up for; and I had come to accept what I could see coming at that point… But his horse’s death hit me fucking hard.

What happened there? I must have wandered off before the drama happened.

the Gen Z stare

That’s just an effective tactic. I’m way older than gen z and figured out a long time ago that unless a reply is absolutely necessary, just staying quiet and staring will get a transactional conversation to it’s point and over much quicker.

Also, the burden of initiating conversation should be on the active caller side, not on the passice receiver

As an active caller, unless there is a ton of background noise, I may or may not get any indication that the person I’m calling has actually picked up. So I’m just going to sit there until they say something or hang up.

Stumbleupon was kind of like that. Along with being an early type of link aggregator, any website would have its own comment section that was only visible to other stumbleupon users.

I used to enjoy it, and it looks like it may still be alive in some form. But I’m not brave enough to see how shitty it’s become. I’ll keep my rose tinted glasses on.

Meanwhile 99% of the people I want to talk to are contacts in my phone or businesses with caller id.

And that’s why I don’t feel too bad moving on to the next. If I’m calling someone, they had to have called me at least once already. If they’re too lazy to save the number and want to play silly games, I have better uses of my time. I was just curious of the thought process.

It’s when they detect a voice that the auto dialer connects you with the scammer.

I just hang up as soon as I hear that little “bloop” sound and that cuts out 90% of them.

You purposely pick up and sit in silence? Not even a “Yo”, “Sup”, or “Aye”?

I wondered why people have been doing that when I call them at work. Sucks to be them, they’ve been waiting 2 weeks to 2 months for an appointment. I just hang up and move on to the next. If they didn’t want to talk they should have let it go to voicemail.

https://notebooklm.google.com/ is really handy for various things, you can throw a bunch of documents into it and then ask questions and chat interactively about their contents.

Nice, thanks! I’ve been looking for something I can stuff a bunch of technical manuals into and ask it to recite specifications or procedures. It even gave me the document and pages it got the information from so I could verify. That’s really all I ever wanted from “AI”.

Straight down the sink. It’s a rental.

If it was just that one thing, I wouldn’t either. But I’m impressed with their half-assing ability. Last year I was mounting an outside mini-split unit and found where when they turned a porch into a bedroom, they didn’t bother building an external wall. They put up studs, drywall on the inside, nothing but foamboard and vinyl siding on the outside.

That’s exactly what I’m finishing today. That foam board works pretty good and is super easy to work with. Also make sure the air seal is good. I used foam tape where the hatch rests against the frame.

When I crawled up in the attic, I found where the previous owner got halfway done and just gave up. There’s still 4-5 unopened rolls of insulation just setting in the corner.

Lemon Grass also. It should grow well there.

I grow a bunch and don’t really notice it keeping mosquitos away from the area. But I’ll pick some, crush it up in my hands, and rub it on myself and the cats. Works as good as most bug sprays without feeling like I need a shower after.

Same here. It actually looks decent. But I’m in no hurry. I’ll wait on it until the ultimate edition is $20 and it’s been patched up.

Just handing them money? No, I don’t. I don’t have much myself.

But I do work in a downtown area near a shelter and see a lot of the same people pass by every day. I’ll give them cold water and extra food if I have it. Certain others I will let go through my scrap metal for stuff they can sell to recyclers, and occasionally I’ll hire someone for the day to help me clean.

I still feel like a dick setting in my air conditioned truck ignoring the person setting outside in 100F+ weather with a “help me” sign.

At the moment, about all you can do is let others know and submit the log to EFF so they can better understand how these stingrays are being used.

Or I guess if you’re feeling froggy; look around for a van/trailer with suspicious antenna(s).

You can help

I flashed a $10 orbic to take to local protests.

Keep in mind that only shows the idle circuit. But that’s probably where your problem is. Also double check float height if you haven’t.