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Just downloaded spotify free to stream some stuff to find some "new" bands/music

It's the only thing that makes sense!

@guyinpv community edition is unlimited and we had no use for the extra pro features, but yes, horses for courses.

@ryanov said in White Castle Adds Veggie Burgers!:

@dustinb3403 I legit just did forgot password to log in here and downvote your comment. Apparently I dont yet have the reputation for it. So now I’ll have to work on that so that I can come back and downvote it.

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haha no way to select only one monitor easily. might be an advanced setting.

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@guyinpv said in Any options for a highly customized Roku-type device for daddy?:

Ok so clearly some kind of open Android device seems to be the most open for modification.

What I don't get is the software. So Android is installed, then what? On the GooBank it doesn't say what is the actual media software.

Is this just downloading something from the app store? If so, can I do this from any old Android phone or laptop? I happen to have an older Android tablet with an HDMI port, could I just use that and get a docking station and wireless remote or something?

You an install apks directly and/or use Google play Store.

Possibly, but the Android TV is better for this imo. It runs a slightly different OS specifically for Android TV.

@dafyre said in Best backup and security for Android phones?:

Titanium Backup is good for this, but I'm not sure if your device has to be rooted or not.

For pictures and videos, I'm currently using NextCloud for this. The app automagically uploads pictures and videos to my NextCloud server.

This is what I do. Titanium Backup doesnt need root, but you get more functionality out of it.

This is how I sum up my problems with reviews:

Not enough people do reviews without being incentized to do so to offset those who are. There is no upside to doing reviews, so people don't. It's a silly system, and people know that. People who do reviews rarely understand how reviews work and don't have the experience or exposure to do one that is useful and not misleading.

it's really just math. It's not that mankind is so bad, it's that the fundamental concept of public reviews doesn't logically make sense given real world factors.

There is a gofundme page for Robert here:

https://www.gofundme.com/memorial-and-grief-fund-for-chrissy

@kelly said in Fireball Island Restoration:

I don't know if any of you played Fireball Island back in the day, but Restoration Games is doing a Kickstarter to bring the game back and improve it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/restorationgames/fireball-island-80s-board-game-reignited-and-resto

They're already almost fully funded for all of their stretch goals, so this isn't a Kickstarter that is simply going to vanish.

It was more than fully funded in an hour according to the kick starter.

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@dave247 said in Girl Scouts - Training Girls to Run MLMs, Change My Mind:

@tim_g said in Girl Scouts - Training Girls to Run MLMs, Change My Mind:

The real question here is: what do girl scouts do besides MLM, and is it significant enough to categorize them as not just a MLM?

I was thinking the same thing. My daughter is in GS and has been for a few years now. They seem to do a bunch of other stuff, but I'm not that involved. I mean, I go to a lot of her events, but my wife is the main one doing stuff. My daughter is a brownie too so I think depending on the bracket (or whatever) and the people running the troop, the various activities they do probably can very a lot.

Actually, my wife has gotten stuck with being the troop's cookie manager two years in a row. She has to collect all the money from the parents and submit the orders online. She hasn't said anything to me about things seeming fishy, but she does have a lot of complaints about their website, plus a lot of parents are idiots about submitting and picking up their orders.

I'm also thinking that if it is a full blown MLM at this point, it probably didn't start off that way. I'm sure various levels of greed and corruption have gradually fueled changes that swung the cookie sales portion of the GS into the MLM arena of things.

I feel like pretty much anything that starts off with good and pure intentions and is successful is inevitably pushed more and more to the point that it becomes an obscene version of it's original self.

My nieces were in it, and they sold cookies. That's all I know from that 🙂

I was in the cub scouts briefly before being kicked out for being too rural in a poor region, and we did things like little projects to make wooden cars to race. That was about it. Definitely no fund raising. But not much of anything. Wasn't in long enough to figure out what it was actually about. I was from such a rural area that I was in it just to meet kids, which it failed to do.

@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:

@scottalanmiller said in When people ask you what you do...:

@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:

I can't describe how it changed. It just changed. Almost as if because I said "IT Guy" it was as if I had said I am entry level tech support. Maybe I'll go the route of Jack and just say I am in IT or IRJ and not say anything about my actual job.

I'll tell them all I am professional fisherman 🙂

I often tell people I'm an unemployed college drop out. My wife hates that.

At my wife's Christmas party a few years back I was tired of telling people I was in IT and actually told someone I clicked next. Mind you it was later in the evening after a few whiskey ginger ales but I thought it was funny anyway. Wife was also not happy 🙂

I often say I'm a writer and researcher. IT doesn't mean anything even to half of people who think that they are in IT.

Hehe, congratulations 😉

Just wondering.. will you daisy-chain all your 48 port switches using the SFP+ ports or are you going to deploy some XG-16 as core switches? That's what I did. I must admit that they aren't real core switches, they lack quite some L3 functionality, but it's ok for what I'm doing. BTW, I'm using the EdgeSwitch line, not UniFi.

@dafyre said in Alternatives to Facebook:

@kelly said in Alternatives to Facebook:

@dafyre said in Alternatives to Facebook:

MeWe seems to be a decent option.

I'm piddling around on a Diaspora pod (https://diasp.org/)... Diaspora (https://diasporafoundation.org) aims to be a decentralized Facebook.. I'm not quite sure what to make of it yet.

My concern about Diaspora is that there doesn't appear to be much in the way of controls for guaranteeing the privacy of users. It appears that user privacy is dependent on the honesty of the ones running the pods. I haven't dug in to it very far, so I might be missing something.

This appears to be a valid concern. Each pod can have its own TOS and such as well.

Yeah, that's a really bad idea, overall. I get why they go that route, and it's fine for a kind of "group of forums" but doesn't address the kind of usage Facebook is for.

@scottalanmiller said in Selling ASUS ROG STRIX GL502VT-DS74 15.6":

@tim_g said in Selling ASUS ROG STRIX GL502VT-DS74 15.6":

Used ones from random 3rd parties go for $900.

That seems high. Do they actually sell them at that price? That's roughly the same as my Asus RoG that was only $1100 new two years ago. Yours is a little nicer for sure, but not loads nicer.

You can still buy the lesser version of it (3 GB video RAM, no m.2 SSD) for $1500 on Amazon.

If you try to find a laptop with the same or better specs and features, you'll be paying way more than $900. It still seems like a good deal to me, and it doesn't yet make sense to sell it for less at half the original price. New laptops with the same similar specs are way more.