I’m old enough you have to replace “cracking neighbors wifi” with cloning our modem and “youtube” with funny pictures from irc homies, but same. Working around internet access restrictions was a milestone between fun things I could do with computers and how they really worked

Congrats, pretty sure “mom took away my internet” is the primary entry point for IT professionals

“if you don’t want to work, then that becomes your job”

I genuinely enjoy working to directly better my situation. It’s completely different from being exploited to keep enough points in a bank account to survive

Holy bourgeoise, batman! Just befriend a rancher. We are all compost in training, it’s not that hard

e: fr tho, nothing illegal about just getting dropped in a hole as-is on private property most places

We called it a graveyard, still works lol

You know how when you were a kid you’d mix all the flavours from the soda fountain?

This guy thinks he’s a “customer”

I hate hate haters

Great question op. Waluigi definitely fucks, makes zero sense

Zip it, snitch!

My hope is that the size/voltage standard lasts forever while traditonal alkaline pile chemistries become obsolete and fade away. Seems like that’s kinda what’s happening too, love seeing all the rechargable AA fans in this thread :)

Fun fact: amp hours are a measurement of discharge over time… I can probably explain this better with an example actually. 48v100ah is four times the capacity of 12v100ah, they can both put 1 amp for 100 hours but at different voltages that’s a different amount of… power? Energy? I always get them mixed up. Anyways the AA guys are 1.5v vs the ~3.7v of a phone battery, so the same amp-hour measurement is a little less than half as much juice. Hope that helps, I’m a little stoned tonight lol

I don’t know the science and have never heard those claims, but I do know critters and they sure are friendly. I would say the single easiest critter to pet, right up there with deer. They are absolutely aware that no one wants to eat them and being cute gets em fed

Fucked up if true

All it takes to do your own research is some cat food, they very much are lol. They’re smart and adaptable and fun to be around, great lil buddies

15 years ago you were naive enough to believe their bullshit and public perception was still important to their success. “Embrace, extend, extinguish” isn’t healthy participation in open source. Think M$ was the one who actually stated things that way, but google was absolutely playing the same game

My friend, have you considered cleaning the valve ~once every 10 years as opposed to beating it monthly? It’s not hard to do!

Very cool! It used to be the only option for text chat, and is still the backend for a lot of more modern chat stuff in games etc. There was DCC for sending files, phish for applying encryption, bouncers so you wouldn’t miss messages while offline, all kinds of stuff. Really useful protocol

This is a real question and I don’t mean to be rude, but… what did you think irc was for?

It’s almost like the “economy” has fuck-all to do with quality of life and a couple business owners getting rich isn’t worth commodifying your home!