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BeardedGingerWonder

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  • Purists Look Away: The Ford Mustang Mach-E Just Outsold The Gas Mustang 2 To 1

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  • Ford Europe are doing this too, Puma has become a Fiesta SUV and Capri is a mid size SUV, just use a new name ffs, I'm not going to nostalgically buy a car based on the name that bears no resemblance to the car that's giving me nostalgia.

  • Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points

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  • What are we seeing as the positive?

  • Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as 'good' kind of bubble

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  • He somehow looks more normal and yet also more sinister.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • The position you're a hypocrite? Nah, you confirmed that yourself a few times.

    I presume you're a frequent flier in this regard.

    Again just kinda saying stuff with no real evidence and assuming it's true.

    Fyi, I know that you DESPERATELY want the last word. You will not get it.

    At this point I'm mostly just curious how long I can keep you replying 😂

  • Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"

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  • Yeah, £15 was pushing it, I don't play as much as I'd like, big benefit was cloud gaming facilitating couch co-op, but at the minute it's mostly my kids playing Minecraft, cheaper just to buy that.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • Valid in what sense? What argument? You've not backed it up, when presented with evidence to the contrary you move the goal posts.

    You just dont like what I'm saying.

    I don't like hypocrisy, no.

    You dont have to like it.

    I'm sorry, did you think I thought I did?

    You're just going to have to be OK with being intellectually inferior (and incorrect as a result).

    I may well be intellectually inferior, but based on current evidence I don't have much to worry about. Your argument has now become "I'm right because I think I'm smarter?"

    You will get over this in time.

    Get over what?

  • Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny appearing in the Superbowl, and racists come out

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  • You may have cause and effect the wrong way round.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • You're not a hypocrite because you're wrong, you're a hypocrite because you complain about others "wasting time" while you waste time, it should also be noted in a less constructive way. The fact you're objectively wrong about them wasting time is irrelevant.

    Nothing useful was produced, nothing useful was learned in the process. Even if there was some peripheral learning that took place, it was accidental at best.

    What are you basing this on? It's just your own assumption. You've gone from "nothing learned" to "the learning doesn't meet some arbitrary standard I've set and apply at random"

  • What if we were just a lil evil?

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  • I can only really speak for the intellimouse I have, it's a little over 5 years old, cost £25, 4 buttons and a clicky scroll wheel, comfortable to use. Works as well today as the day I bought it, gets maybe 8-10 hours of use 5-6 days a week. Only complaint is the rubberised coating near the side buttons has scuffed up a bit.

    I'm not claiming it's the world's greatest mouse or anything, but it's fine, decent.

  • What if we were just a lil evil?

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  • I will say, MS make a decent mouse.

  • Assumptions

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  • Northern Ireland being the exception in the UK, we have government run test centres with dedicated inspectors. You the car there, you get it inspected and if it fails you take it to your mechanic. Honestly a much better system IMO, mechanics were always finding something that needed fixed when I was in England and that disappeared miraculously in NI.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • Quantity does not equal quality

    No one said quality and quantity were equal. That's just shifting the goal posts and poorly at that, you've no idea the skills acquired or the knock on effect. Certainly it's taught me about bonding interfaces and I'm sure I'm not the only one. It's certainly something I'll look into further and it's certainly going to have a practical real world effect. On that basis alone you're just wrong.

    Making a pile of old forgotten modems download a file at .6 MBPS is not an achievement to be celebrated. It is a waste of time

    Like your turbo, there's plenty to be learned along the way and plenty to be achieved getting to that point, I've listed a few above. Wrapping this in a project the person enjoys is a cherry on top.

    and people that want to attempt to justify a total stranger wasting time on pointless activities are doing little more than showing that they too waste a lot of time on pointless activities.

    From the start my comments have been more about pointing out your hypocrisy, somewhere along the line I've been sucked into pointing out it's not even pointless. People who shit on people pursuing their own goals certainly are wasting their time, I may or may not be - the key difference is I'm not spouting some nonsense about how everything needs to be done to learn or create something new.

    I'm not sure how you infer I waste a lot of time doing pointless stuff, you know little to nothing about me, more just making stuff up to satisfy your argument.

    When we are on our respective deathbeds, I am going to presume neither of us will go down thinking "I regret doing useful things with my time...".

    I doubt I'll give a second thought to fixing the toilet tbh, but I know for sure plenty of the stupid shit I've done will make me smile.

    Ultimately you don't see the point in the project and that's fine, for some reason you need to be a complete hypocrite about it and die on some imaginary hill.

  • TIL that Toys R Us wasn't killed by competition, but by private equity companies

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  • The UK state pension is largely a Ponzi scheme, no? Those paying tax now fund those receiving pensions now with some promise that they'll get returns in the future. The only difference is it's backed by the currency issuer and they're pretty up front about it.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • Preachy? No preaching here, just a list of examples of potential benefits. Where's the circular logic?

    Lol, I don't care if you're wasting time, I'm pointing to the hypocrisy of it.

    There's a wall of text that'd argue you're not right.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • Rebuilding a turbo is useful not as a single activity, but because there are a number of transferable skills involved. Way to think deep on that one

    Well no, I said meaningful, way to not read I guess.

    Where messing with ancient junk fails is because it is obsolete. The person who did it, had to know how to do it already. They don't learn anything new by applying old knowledge to do something useless. The activity lacks the acquisition of transferrable skills and there is nothing useful created at the completion.

    You've decided they learned no transferable skills because they must've known how to do it already - what's your basis for that? Or you've just decided this is the case because it suits your argument?

    Even if they didn't learn something new, refining an existing skill is not also useful? How do you divine what will be useful in the future?

    Let's set aside the project directly, can you also assert they learned nothing about anything as part of this, certainly looks like they did research. Then made a video, no skills acquired or honed there either? You must be stalking these guys.

    Let's set aside any personal skill acquisition - you can assert they didn't inspire someone else? Give someone else an idea that has direct practical application? Tickle someone the right way to go mess with something they've been putting off for a while? Jeez, you're pretty confident in your assertions.

    Set even that aside, if they're making money out of this that in some way funds someone else, a child or loved one, in an endeavour that contributes to society then that has benefit too.

    Setting that aside too, this might just be the thing that makes their life livable enough to let them contribute in some other way.

    You've drawn an arbitrary line at what you think is acceptable and hold everyone to your standard - that's phenomenally conceited.

    Not sure if you've noticed, but I'm going to die on this hill. You're more than welcome to be up here with me, but you may tire of the activity. I have IBS so I'm on the toilet a good bit, I have the time to keep going unfortunately.

    We're right back at the start, you're wasting your "precious" time whinging about someone else's project or passtime in a substantially less than productive way. So much so you're willing to dedicate unlimited time to it. Why is it you're allowed to waste your toilet time? Could you not spend that time learning too, no doubt it'd make everyone else's life better. A hypocrite as well as everything else.

  • The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer

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  • I can't say I've ever had many issues with Canon's PRO line and I'm aware of a few pro photographers who use them, certainly putting them at the same level as an entry level inkjet or laser seems a bit disingenuous. Definitely more expensive than one-offs at a good print shop, but as I say it's a hobby - finding time to get to a good print shop while they're actually open can take weeks which is next to useless in some cases.

  • My phone outlived its case

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  • Your case took the beating your phone didn't, the phone survived because of the case, no?

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • Goodness knows, setting aside the fact it's perfectly fine to do something for the sake of doing something because you enjoy it, they probably learned a few things doing it too. I can think of dozens of projects that on the surface seem pointless but have taught me tons.

  • Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom's Hardware

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  • You think rebuilding a turbo is meaningful? How many turbos is your son likely to rebuild in his lifetime? Presumably you've never read a work of fiction or spent any time watching TV or a movie, eaten a non utilitarian meal, had a haircut etc. Your take is bizarre. Setting aside the fact that humans need downtime (or apparently do apart from you) did you consider they may have learned something applicable doing this?