https://www.usa.philips.com/c-m-pe/oneblade-trim-edge-and-shave/oneblade-intimate

If you or your son (or anyone else in this thread for that matter) ever want a slightly simpler option, with less likelihood of cutting, I recommend this. It has been a game changer for me personally.

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No, the graphics from Intel back in 07-10 were crap.

What are you using graphics on a server for instead of just CLI?

You just can’t buy too old or the inverse happens and the performance per watt drops. I think you’re right that 2012 is about the cutoff. Maybe 2007 for certain items, like my 2007 iMac. But if you’re getting back to the Pentium 4 era you’ve gone too far and need to turn back around.

See, I only use flatpaks sparingly for this reason, but in some cases they’re indispensable when you don’t want an application to access certain parts of your system. The sandboxing is what makes them useful, in my opinion. For everything else, there’s the deb packages.

Hell yuh.

I mean, I definitely didn’t jump to “let me shower in your apartment” like some suggested, that’s absurd. The whole reason for starting with a coffee date is because it’s low-stakes and in public so either party can bail easily if it’s not a match. Women especially shouldn’t be giving out their home address to strangers and letting them in as a first-time-meeting. I am also a cancer patient with limited income so driving 20 minutes to the nearest truckstop or trying to buy a daypass at a local gym were both unrealistic as well.

I just asked to reschedule and was ghosted, but yeah, I get that people usually think that’s someone trying to flake out. It just sucks when you have a legitimate reason and that gets assumed.

Anyway, waters back on now.

Counterpoint: When Louis CK (prior to being outed as a sex pest) released one of his comedy specials on his website DRM-free for $5 he became a millionaire almost overnight.

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/22/drm-free-experiment-makes-loui.html

Price point matters, too.

It also jives with early Steam Sales when Valve would cut titles like Left 4 Dead Counter Strike down to 90% off, and they would sell so many digital copies that they were actually making more money off the lower price.

https://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell/

Now we did something where we decided to look at price elasticity. Without making announcements, we varied the price of one of our products. We have Steam so we can watch user behavior in real time. That gives us a useful tool for making experiments which you can’t really do through a lot of other distribution mechanisms. What we saw was that pricing was perfectly elastic. In other words, our gross revenue would remain constant. We thought, hooray, we understand this really well. There’s no way to use price to increase or decrease the size of your business.

But then we did this different experiment where we did a sale. The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with it. We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40. Which is completely not predicted by our previous experience with silent price variation. …

Then we decided that all we were really doing was time-shifting revenue. We were moving sales forward from the future. Then when we analyzed that we saw two things that were very surprising. Promotions on the digital channel increased sales at retail at the same time, and increased sales after the sale was finished, which falsified the temporal shifting and channel cannibalization arguments. Essentially, your audience, the people who bought the game, were more effective than traditional promotional tools. So we tried a third-party product to see if we had some artificial home-field advantage. We saw the same pricing phenomenon. Twenty-five percent, 50 percent and 75 percent very reliably generate different increases in gross revenue.

I’m having trouble finding a link to substantiate it, but I remember in the early 2000’s a group of artists having to sue their record labels because of the lawsuits on file-sharing users. The record labels said they were doing it for the artists, but the artists had to sue the record labels to even ever see a penny from the fruits of those lawsuits. The record labels were just pocketing the money for themselves while saying it was “for the artists.”

Anyway, long story short is that kind of behavior from the recording industry made me want to give money directly to the artists and cut out these selfish middlemen who did nothing but claimed all the profits.

http://www.callbeforeyoudig.org/washington/

At least in Washingon there are free services to locate pipes and lines for this exact purpose.

Also, it’s a legal requirement for anything deeper than 12 inches, and the 12 inch exemption is mostly for homeowners and road work.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=19.122

Finally, I’m pretty sure you’d have be using a backhoe or other industrial equipment to bust open a water main that affects a whole neighborhood.

Devil’s Advocate: Many pirates would have not paid for access to that media so to say it takes away from the creators profit isn’t exactly true since one act of piracy does not equal one lost sale.

Devil’s Advocate Part II: There is s significant amount of research that supports the notion that pirates actually spend more money on media than the average person.

I personally am an example of part II. I pirate a lot of music but I refuse to use Spotify because of how little it pays artists and I have also spent significant amounts of money buying music from artists I enjoy via Bandcamp or buying from the artist directly because I know they get a bigger cut of the profits that way.

Honestly, that’s what I’m thinking since I got no response.

Already did that, and didn’t get a response. 🙄

I was always a bit disappointed when they retired primussucks.com and replaced it with primusville or whatever.

I remember seeing them at Ozzfest in 98(?) and the crowd chanting Primus Sucks and Claypool stopping the show for just a moment to say “You heard and saw it here today folks. Primus sucks.”

I know you’re out there somewhere Nicole

lmao, The Fediverse Chick!

But you can’t self-host it??? Blaspheme! /s

Just kidding, nice to know there’s something out there.

There’s also Duolicious which is similarly free and without ads but there was literally no one within a hundred miles of me and most of the people using it were about half my age so it felt fruitless to pursue.

EDIT: same with Alovoa… nobody within 100 miles…

You’re welcome, I’ve just actually been waiting on an opportunity to share this info lmao

Plentyoffish mostly stinks but still has a free tier where you can message one person a day.

Also, on the page where you look at people who have viewed/liked you, the photos are blurred but if you use the Web Developer Inspection Tool you can see the unblurred photo:

Right click on one of the images of who you want to see and in the dropdown menu click “Inspect”:

The Web Developer tools will pop up and should auto-locate you to the image in question. In Firefox you can just hover over the image location and view a preview of the image. You can also right click on the image location and “Open Link in New Tab” to view it.

From here, you can usually find them in your list of potential matches, in your “meet me” swipes, or in the recently online list. This way, if someone swipes right on you, you can find them without paying and can decide to match or message.

Cheers and good luck!

I remember the days of high quality fansubs by people who were just doing it for free because they loved it.

Those still exist and still give you a better consumer experience than these fucking dogshit streaming services.

It’s honestly sometimes so disappointing that we didn’t get more of Frisky Dingo.

Archer is all right… but I dunno, there was something about Killface and Xander’s relationship that I just loved.