residentmarchant

*insert Simpsons meme"

Say it again!

sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

Amazing change!

Kind of odd that the system might charge multiple cards if they're within 7 inches of the reader. Seems like as soon as it registers 1 payment it should freeze for 3-5s before allowing another one.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what a "Pugina" was, should have just clicked the link

This is crazy. With sports betting, I get that there's some aspect of skills required. Sure, you could guess winners correctly but for most people that would end up just losing money in the real world.

The lottery is just mindless gambling for gambling's sake.

Better or worse than storrowing?

As compared to a recall and re-fitting a fab, a class action is probably the cheaper way out.

I wish companies cared about what they sold instead of picking the cheapest way out, but welcome to the world we live in.

She's generally average from what I've heard amongst my friends. Not a slam dunk but not stumbling over herself. I think she'll really have to prove herself and release a strong platform to sway any voters. The good news is that a decent number of people are going to vote for her just because she's not Trump.

I suspect the real problem for some Americans will be a woman as president...which is just about how screwed America is right now.

Pretty notably she doesn't have any big skeletons in her closet (that I know of at least) that Republicans can latch on to and create drama over.

Forums and websites have always used content to market things (think DAU or visitors to sell more expensive banner ads at the top of a post).

I agree that forum hosts were (mostly) random people that wanted to do something for their community, but monetization didn't kill the friendly Internet, consolidation did.

I find the exact same thing. I always use an alias when signing up for some stupid parking app or new healthcare system that I can't avoid and I've surprisingly never seen the aliases being re-used by anybody but them.

I was expecting at least a data breach, but it's been clean for the past 10 yrs or so.

It's possible data brokers are just good at stripping whatever is behind the "+" though.

I feel like you're trying to fight an uphill battle. I find it's always easiest to learn in a way that motivates or invigorates me.

For example, I wanted to play games with my friends so I got into hosting a Minecraft server. It was hell at first to learn all the individual pieces, but I was motivated and it led me down the path of learning networking, basic server client architecture, and performance monitoring. That kind of spiralled out into making my own plugin, too. Despite the fact that I never ran a server with more than 5 active players or finished my plugin, it sent me down a path learning tons of new stuff because it was fun for me.

I transitioned into webapp development later on by trying to make an idea I had come to life. This was well before I had even heard the word "startup" and I had no business sense, but I wanted to make something and was very motivated to hack my way through it. I didn't finish that either, but I still use those skills I learned today.

Seems like it could be converted to a vending machine pretty easily if you could add your own OS

Already has security, waterproofing, payment processing stuff, and a screen to choose your item.

There are ebikes that don't require pedaling, even some that are more like tiny cars with a roof and doors, etc.