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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you guys have ghost kitchens over there? Because there are several dead-seeming restaurants in my neighborhood that are actually just ten different restaurants on door dash and never appear to have actual customers because they just have delivery people running in and out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also your mileage will vary depending on the book/edition, but a lot of times a "new edition" of a textbook is just a transparent cash grab by the publisher and is 99% the same material with different page numbers, so it's worth asking the prof/a TA if the previous edition is pretty much the same. You can generally get "outdated" editions of a textbook for startlingly little money. Like I'm talking sub-$5 for a book that's $140 new sometimes.

When I was a TA for a gigantic intro class they'd just released a new edition of the book we used but they'd only sent us two desk copies (publishers send free copies to professors who teach out of their textbooks), and the class was run by a professor and three TAs, so the TAs all had to share one copy of the new edition and taught out of the old edition 90% of the time. They'd only changed one chapter, so the professor scanned that one chapter to PDF and we handed it out to anyone with the old edition.

We also had, for some reason, like five boxes of the old edition under a desk in the department office and gave them out to anyone who would take them. You can hardly give old editions of textbooks away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Having at least a few hours of sleep between all that shit you studied and your test will get better results than pulling an all nighter to study like 4 more hours. First of all, your brain sucks balls at information storage and retrieval when you're exhausted. And second of all, sleep is when your brain organizes all the new info you picked up, so you will actually remember more of what you studied after you've slept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Secret of Monkey Island Super Metroid Yoshi's Island

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

My middle school required all shirts to be tucked in and they meant ALL SHIRTS. They went around making kids tuck in sweatshirts. It was dumb. And also racist because it was the 90s and the rule was made in response to baggy clothing being popular especially amongst black kids, so they considered large untucked shirts to be gang related.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I switched from Hey to Onmail because it's basically Hey without the douchey CEO. Also I was an early onmail adopter so I have my first name for an email.

It has a free tier but I pay for it. I switched away from gmail because I wanted my email to be a service I'm the customer of that I pay for, rather than me being the product.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't even like Dicks cos I don't eat burgers but I do like talking about eating bags of Dicks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes I pick something arbitrary to look forward to. Like, make a reservation at a restaurant with great desserts for 3 weeks out or something and look forward to that. Or decide I'm gonna be excited about Amazon announcing new hardware in September because maybe we'll get more kindles with USB C charging.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm super hyped for Pikmin 4 coming out on Friday. Nintendo basically can't miss with Pikmin games so I have no doubt it'll be excellent, and I just replayed the first three.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I did a free trial, tore through the 100 free searches in like a week so I'd need over 300 to get through a month, and I refuse to pay $25/month.

I really liked it while it lasted but I don't $25/month like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can believe it. My apartment is wired dumb as shit, basically the entire place except appliances and the bathrooms is one circuit. Found THAT out when I tried to plug in an iron when the AC was on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nah. Grew up with a gas oven, have only had electric since leaving my parents' house, stuff tastes the same. TBH most people prefer electric ovens because they heat more evenly.

 

Right now my audio solution is a Pioneer VSX-832 receiver, Audioengine P4 stereo speakers, and am Audioengine subwoofer. It sounds fine but is kind of a cable management nightmare and the speakers don't actually fit on our TV stand right now so it looks a mess.

I'm considering replacing that setup with a soundbar and small subwoofer. I know real home theater nerds sneer at soundbars, but realistically we're not going to do surround sound. Our living room is super narrow so the sofa is only about 6 feet from the TV and that's with it up against a wall, so there's no putting rear speakers in here. When we tried we hated it. It just doesn't work well in the room.

I'm okay with basically a 2.1 system but I'm wondering if I could do that in a way that's compact, looks nice, and has a center channel so we can hear some goddamn dialog occasionally.

Would a nice soundbar actually be an upgrade from this situation?

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