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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I learned to play the guitar growing up as a young rapscallion in Mississippi. But things didn't really take off until I moved to Memphis. There I met the Colonel and the hits just kept coming. Unfortunately, the fame went to my head, I gained a lot of weight, started wearing a white jumpsuit, and ate tranquilizers like they were trail mix. Then, in 1977, I died on the toilet.

Or did I?

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • Eh, gotta break at least one egg to make an omelette (or break the seal on the packaging if you're using egg substitutes) lol.

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  • Sounds like my idea of curating a social platform devoid of "-ist's and -ism's" is doomed to failure then lol

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  • Patrick's Law: If a comment thread on the internet is more than 7 replies deep, it's a slap-fight that's best avoided.

  • Community mention spam from Microblogs

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  • So what if Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB made it so that only the first matching community gets the post?

    Not sure about the others, but doesn't Lemmy do that already (only applies the first matching community)? I've been out of the loop for several months, so maybe it changed, but I thought it already did that?

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  • Jealous. All of my N64 and older consoles/handhelds ended up sold in a yard sale while I was in college :(

    I've still got a functional and modded original Xbox with an expanded hard drive, and it's loaded up with just about every retro game you can emulate. Xbox controllers are surprisingly versatile even to play Goldeneye.

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  • Make a Seitan or Tofurky and they won't want you to host again! Win Win!

    100% the plan, haha, and yeah, they are quite delicious.

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  • Always stay busy is great advice. Most of the family doesn't care for turkey, so we usually have ham which isn't as involved prep-wise. I used to be able to "hide" most of the day when we did turkey since I would be manning the outdoor fryer. I got to avoid most of the family drama that way. By the time I came in, everyone was in a good mood because the food was ready.

    We used to rotate every year but somehow I ended up hosting the last 3. Thanksgiving is the one day a year I'm not a vegetarian, but if I get roped into this again next year I may do a vegetarian spread. 😂

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  • Thanks!

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  • Lol, same.

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  • Patrick, there's uh, something burning outside. I think you should take a look at it.

    Thanks, Old Man!

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  • I have one cool in-law, thank gods. Would probably be closer to Jadzia than Morn, though.

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  • What kind did you get, and do you recommend it?

    My washing machine is from 1997 and is old-school mechanical all the way. No issues (yet), but I need to be prepared.

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    What's something which you pay more than "it's worth" for the sake of good quality/experience?

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  • Probably power banks. I pretty much only buy Anker these days because I've had too many cheap/no-name ones just fail, turn into spicy pillows, flat-out lie about the capacity, and/or, in one case, actually catch on fire.

    One of my Anker power banks was recalled, and they notified me as well as had the replacement to me within 2 days. And the replacement model was actually nicer than the one I had.

    I guess anything, really, that is part of my everyday carry and has a potential to burst into flames is grounds for paying the "premium" price where there's good quality control and product support.

  • It's still over a week away, but I have to start mentally preparing myself now for the incoming Tellarite delegation.

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  • Yes lol. The four of them each represent a phase of my mood as the delegation approaches.

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  • Thankfully, no. Just hyper-critical of literally everything and don't feel the need (or lack the capability) to filter themselves.

    There will be more specific memes / venting as the holiday approaches. Stay tuned!

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  • Yeah, I needed a warp core I could tinker with for some development work so had to pull the old ship instance out of the fleet museum.

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  • [Blames me for it]

  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • $150 is about normal these days. The pumps will usually have a little sticker somewhere that list the authorization hold amounts.

    Fun fact: The auth holds used to be $1 way back in the day. But when prepaid debit cards came around, people could have a balance of $1 on them, get $50 worth of gas, and the station wouldn't be able to charge the actual amount (it would decline for NSF with no way to recover it as with a regular debit/credit card). That's why the hold amounts are between $75 and $150.

    If you want to avoid the authorization hold, you can either pay cash or pre-pay with a cashier; the latter case will charge only what you pay.

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  • Does digital payments made cash wallets obsolete?

    Nope.

    Phones crash, apps screw up, Google arbitrarily decides your phone isn't "secure", batteries go dead, cell networks are sometimes unavailable (wallet app requires internet), merchant payment networks occasionally go down, etc.

    I don't use digital wallets since the only options are Apple and their walled garden or Google who uses every transaction to profile you for targeted ads and deems your phone insecure should you do anything that might keep their eyes out of your life. But even using my "old school" debit card, I still feel much more secure always having some cash on hand for emergencies.