RunPee was a godsend back when I was actually watching movies in theaters

I'm pretty bad about that.

I didn't think I was, but I am.

I recently sat down and tried to remember all the phones I've had, and wrote them down.

I had a number of flip phones over the years, but I only remember the dates roughly starting with my first android phone. That was 2010.

I've had 9 phones in 16 years. New phone roughly every 2 years. This is despite the fact that I kept my OG Samsung Note for like 4 years. This was BEFORE extended support cycles, so it only got like it's original version and like, one more. So I feel l dragged it into the future with custom roms. Those were good days.

But also I had to a Nexus 6 when I first started with project Fi, because my one plus one wasn't supported. The 6 sucked, so when the pixel came out I jumped ship immediately.

I was siren-songed into the pixel 2 with a gratuitous trade in.

Then I got the 4a on steep discount when the charging port on my 2 got flaky.

Then I got the 6.

Then there was a stupid good deal on the Samsung flip 5, literally $300, brand new, so even though my 6 was fine, I had to take the opportunity to experience a folding screen.

I used the flip 5 for 2 years, 6 months, and some change. And I'd still be using it now, if it had lived. All the flipping broke a wire inside, and it died.

So I went back to my 6, and you know what? It was great. Worked great. I vowed to use it until it died, I don't need no stinking new phone when there's no point anymore.

Then a month later something broke with the antenna or something, signal randomly comes and goes, calls drop, data drops. I'll go from full 5g to a dead zone. Restarting the phone does nothing. I've been fighting it for weeks, customer support, everything. No dice.

So now I need a new phone. And I hate it.

I am deeply concerned

Just "2027" for me. I was no slouch on reserving, either.

Edit: wait I'm an idiot, this says reserve now?! I definitely reserved!

Edit 2:

I did reserve, I got the chance to buy it 6 days ago, it expired 3 days ago, I never saw it. That sucks. Didn't even get a push notification on the steam app. Just an email I missed.

I've watched them three times. Always spaced out by many years. Just did it a week or two ago actually.

The last two were extended. I don't even know what the theatrical looks like anymore. I can't imagine skipping scenes.

Which scenes do you skip? And what are you fine skipping in the two towers?

Same. It actually took me a second to get the joke, then I realized I was the joke

Well I'll be! That seems right!

I got a new fancy inverter microwave, and it's an absolute game changer, for reheating.

Running a traditional microwave, lower power modes are literally just lower duty cycles. Very coarse, too.

30% power is something like "turn on high power for 3 seconds, turn off power for 7 seconds, repeat"

Which means your good gets blasted at 1200w for 3 seconds, and then is given time to rest for 7 seconds, before starting over again.

This is bad for things like fats and oils in food, which tends to heat up REALLY fast, and start splattering/burning the parts of the food they're in.

It works but could be better, smoother.

Enter the inverter microwave. It can adjust the actual power output of the magnetron itself. So when you tell it 30% power, it will run the whole 10 seconds without cycling on and off, but it's literally only putting out 30% of the normal full power.

This is much more gentle on delicate foods.

Caveat, at powers below 30% it starts to duty cycle again, I imagine because the magnetron can only operate so low before it can't run normally.

But still, pulsing a 30% powered magnetron on and off is a lot more gentle than a 100% powered one.

This has made reheating leftovers much better.

Instead of blasting it at full power, then stirring/mixing the food, and blasting it again.

I just set it at 10 or 20%, take a quick shower, and come out to perfectly evenly reheated food. Takes 10 or 20 minutes instead of 5, but, way less work, and much better results. Win win.

Probably on his phone

I had a home inspection done. I also had some friends of mine in construction scope out the place before I got far enough to even hire the inspector. The seller also gave me the entire inspection report from HIS inspector when he bought the place last year.

Nobody thought to check the drain. Crap happens 🤷‍♂️

"honkshoo mimimimi"

I heard this in my head perfectly, nicely done

Local bars here have the same thing.

The app won't let you play the same song twice in a row. But, if it's the same song on a different album, no worries.

My go to is 5 or 6 sweet home Alabamas in a row. I've only done 2 or 3 times, much to my friends chagrin.

These days I get side eyes from the very first sweet home Alabama. Heck, I'll be sitting home on my couch and get texts from buddies, "are you screwing with me? Are you playing sweet home Alabama right now?!"

Usually it wasn't me. Usually. 🤫

Upvotes aren't private, therefore not so mysterious.

And while it's not EXTREMELY easy to find the public information, people definitely go digging for it. And it's public by design.

The only people who will dig? The group you offended.

Don't know why you're getting down voted. It is indeed impressive that all those WiFi radios are working that close together. There's another wall of phones behind it, double! Probably more in the room too.

There's gotta be 100 phones on that first wall alone, plus double it, so 200. More in the room? Other rooms? Hundreds of phones, all screaming out WiFi, trying to connect.

From a networking perspective, impressive indeed. Those phones must hate life.

Edit: heck I bet most consumer grade routers DHCP servers would choke after the first 255 clients (probably much sooner) just from having to change subnets. I'm not a networkologist though so IDK for sure

Funny how perspective changes things.

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.

We had that until.... 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.

We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family's needs.

Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it's spendy.

I'm used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.

I feel like I'm legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.

I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it's all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don't need gargantuan pipes to self host.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷‍♂️

That's extremely frustrating. Like, it's literally your job to get that number correct..

People frustrate me

That's his point. It's similar to framework, but not the same.

Easy repairability is great, truly.

But framework offers more than that, easy repairability AND upgradability, because they offer new upgraded parts with the same compatibility as the old ones, so you can just drop them in.

Lenovo is not yet doing that. Which is fine. Just a noteworthy difference.

I've definitely had this happen to me on Windows, more than once. I can't remember what I searched exactly, but I typed it in and hit enter, assuming I'd get the installed app with whatever name I typed, but instead it opened the browser with some online search results. Very annoying.

I'm sure it can be turned off, and it probably isn't as common as it's portrayed online, but it does happen, and honestly... It should never happen. The start menu is not the place for generic Internet searching. Period.

Was is biggest flaw? Have you SEEN the other options out there for handhelds? Everyone craps on SD because it feels underpowered, and it kind of is, but watt for watt you get more performance than machines costing several times its price.

The SD is an absolute beast in its class, battery life being best in class, compared to what everyone else is doing.

Though I agree, for heavy loads, it's not quite enough for proper mobile use. Even better battery life would be preferred, and ARM can hopefully bring that.

Hmmm, look at the labels. They each say something something "100".

Not the right language, but maybe something like per 100? Like per 100 grams of water? Or.. something about volume?

IDK, it would be a weird way to do it. But something like that might explain why so much sugar, seemingly more than can fit in the can.

Sugar is heavy, there's no way 39 grams is the same size as the can

Edit: gandalf seems to have the right idea here! https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24686999

Edit2: wait, a can has 300+ grams of fluid in it... So the sugar would be 1/3 of what the whole can would be. This actually makes the picture more confusing 🤔

Edit 3:

Behold, 39 grams of sugar. About one shot glass worth.

Here's that glass next to a can. I don't have any soda pop in the house.