GrumpyDuckling

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Too much winning! in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 28 points 2 hours ago

Plus all the olds who just lost a big chunk of retirement funds will have to keep working, which will drive wages down.

Suggest me an audiobook please in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 1 points 2 hours ago

Thanks! I'm on the waiting list on libby.

Discussion: Samsung kills the MicroSD card slot for their latest Midrange/Budget A-Series phones. What do you think about the future of MicroSD Card Slots? Will other manufacturers all follow suit? in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 1 points 3 hours ago

Syncthing is automatic, so you don't have to remeber to do that. If you're taking a lot of videos I'm sure you wouldn't need them all the time. I guess op could get a seed box.

Discussion: Samsung kills the MicroSD card slot for their latest Midrange/Budget A-Series phones. What do you think about the future of MicroSD Card Slots? Will other manufacturers all follow suit? in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

You can move and store excess files and it will remove them from the phone.

Discussion: Samsung kills the MicroSD card slot for their latest Midrange/Budget A-Series phones. What do you think about the future of MicroSD Card Slots? Will other manufacturers all follow suit? in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm using syncthing - fork on android and linux on my pc.

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Suggest me an audiobook please (self.books)
submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by GrumpyDuckling to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

Preferably:

Available on Libby

Nonfiction

Not a biography/autobiography

Not a self help book or pop phychology

The narrator isn't annoying/breathy

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace calls complainers who contact her office ‘evil’ in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 0 points 7 hours ago

How could she blast‽

From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Full economic boycott to teach these mooks a hard lesson. Buy used, including car parts and cars. Switch to a local credit union. Pay cash whenever possible so the cc companies don't get their cut. Buy from locally owned places, but they could be owned by one of the nutters. Sell your unwanted items or give them to worthwhile charities or directly. Go to your library and cancel streaming services.

Discussion: Samsung kills the MicroSD card slot for their latest Midrange/Budget A-Series phones. What do you think about the future of MicroSD Card Slots? Will other manufacturers all follow suit? in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 5 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

I use syncthing to a second drive on my pc in case my phone gets lost or stolen. It just syncs when I connect to wifi. This sucks for people who take or store a lot of videos.

Touching investments and 401k is political suicide in c/whitepeopletwitter
[–] GrumpyDuckling 2 points 1 day ago

Rural people don't care because they don't have retirement savings.

Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses, correct? in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Increase contributions to retirement and other savings accounts like HSA and college funds. You're going to need it since social security is going away.

Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses, correct? in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

If you're going to retire in the next ten years you shouldn't have so much money in the stock market. If you're young then this is a fire sale.

Big donors who wanted this own large private businesses and have very little market exposure.

No tariffs... in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't really see an issue with reselling niche items. The people looking for them aren't going to every thrift store weekly to find that exact item. They can conveniently go online and have it shipped to their door. It has caused goodwill to jack up prices and cherry pick all the good stuff for their own auction site.

I've bought and resold before as well as redold my old stuff on ebay but the margins can be thin unless you have a huge difference in price bought vs sold.

There's a big difference between resellimg and scalping.

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How would you set up a loaner google tv box? (library as an example) (self.android)
 

I'm looking into setting up android tv boxes or sticks for a charitable organization to loan out to people or possibly for their locations.

I have an ONN box with f launcher, button remaper, smarttube, etc.

I'd like to set that up and then when it comes back the hardware reset button can just be held down and revert to what I set up without going back to the out of the box state.

I think I'm looking for custom recovery partition or something like that.

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Which project would be best for a local community hub? (self.fediverse)
 

Mastadon? Lemmy? It would probably have to be standalone so people would't be turned off from the content from the rest of the fediverse unless there's a way to prevent federated content from showing on the instance. Just a place to post local news and discussions, maybe a place to sell secondhand. I live near a huge college with a major cs program, so I should be able to get users.

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Installed Budgie DE in Ubuntu and now no output from gpu. (self.linux)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by GrumpyDuckling to c/[email protected]
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Only getting video output from the motherboard. It did this with Budgie on top of stock Ubuntu and with the Budgie "flavor" freshly installed.

I have an Intel A310 in an HP prebuilt, so that's probobly the issue.

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Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older) (self.retrogaming)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by GrumpyDuckling to c/[email protected]
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If you think a game should be higher or lower in ranking, then upvote or downvote it. If you don't see a game on the list that you think should be on the list then create a top level reply with the name and system.

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The inside of a snowman could be warmer than the outside. (self.showerthoughts)
 

If you built a snowman during the day the snow only needs to be below freezing. It can get colder that night or the next day by quite a bit. The exterior of the snowman would be colder than the inside even though they're both frozen.

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FTC Posts $20 Million Settlement With Dealer Group For Alleged Deceptive Practices (www.seyfarth.com)
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I Replaced the headlight bulbs on the car today. (self.dull_mens_club)
 

We recently purchased a new (to us) family car and I've been addressing some of the neglected maintenance items. The low beam headlights were extremely dim, yet the high beams were very bright. Incandescent bulbs become dimmer over time. I purchased some which were recommended by the forum for my specific vehicle for only $15 on the rain forest site. They are quite a bit brighter now and I feel much safer driving at night.

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