Certified is the key here. I’ve bought too many shitty used Apple products from my local classified ads and been screwed over by stuff with bad non-warranty repairs, cell carrier locks, etc. Buying older models (new or refurbs) directly from Apple is the way to go.

Holy crap, thanks for that pdf link. I loved that book, and I’m pretty sure I wore out the binding on it. So many good games all mapped out, so many good tips.

Yeah, I was wondering about that. The first NP issue was focused on SMB 2, so the original was kind of old news by then. It may have been in the Nintendo Fun Club (which preceded NP) or in the Nintendo Player’s Guide though.

I read Nintendo Power a lot for a few years (starting with the Nintendo Fun Club newsletter), and I had the Nintendo Player’s Guide (which was awesome). If that tip was in there I probably saw it but must have forgotten it along the way. I’m glad to be reminded of it now though, my kids like playing SMB on a raspberry…

“See you ‘round the building!”

Should have used Michael Scott’s speech at Phyllis’ wedding for the “bad opening” point. Not only did he use the “Webster’s Dictionary defines...” crutch, he accidentally gave the definition of “welding” instead of “wedding”, and then he had 2 or 3 different openers that he tried out at the beginning of the speech.

“I’m going to reach a whole new generation!”

Thanks, I hate it. I had a Motorola phone a while back (Moto G5+) that had a very jarring startup sound with some chimes and a creepy voice saying “Hello Moto”. I always disabled it ASAP, but I did a lot of ROM flashing and reverting to stock. I just dug the phone out of a drawer to find a new purpose for it, and…

I was going to say, I feel like it’s just as good to just open the door to let the initial steam out when it starts its “drying” time, and then open it again when it’s totally done. Especially when the heated dry setting is turned on.

Tom Petty was the one I was thinking, but one that I haven’t seen here in the comments yet, was Steve Jobs... someone accidentally hit the Publish button on Steve Job’s pre-written obituary over 3 years before he actually died. That was back in 2008 though, so it’s not really recent.

I’ve only used Kasa (although I did work for a smarthome manufacturer for high-end/custom installation for over a decade), but I started using Kasa for my Christmas lights and then my Christmas trees, and then a couple other things.

I’ve only used Kasa (although I did work for a smarthome manufacturer for high-end/custom installation for over a…

I think some of the trailers may have had Vecna’s voiceover bits from his monologues saying “This is the end” or some such, but that’s a pretty typical thing for a villain to say at any point in a franchise, because usually the villain always thinks they’re on the cusp of defeating the heroes and taking over the world.

Did you not have the thought as you opened the box for the first time, that the brand new special edition of this game that came out specifically for this movie might incorporate things from the movie in it?

I seriously doubt it was Vecna. The official Stranger Things YouTube channel posted their customary video with the titles of all of the episodes 6 months ago, and episode 2 is “Vecna’s Curse”.

I’m pretty sure the movie spoiled Pearl Harbor for everyone. I mean, not in the sense that it gave away the ending, just that it sucked.

Yeah, I felt like the closest to one to being a “good hack” is sending the kids to Grandma’s before the tooth falls out. But even that is really weak. Won’t work on a school night or any other time it’s not convenient to have the kids be away from home, you’d better hope Grandma & Grandpa have cash or coins (which,…

Raising Hope was hilarious, and I feel like neither the blurb in the article nor the linked trailer really captured it at all. The best is the recurring gag in a lot of episodes where Jimmy finds out about something his parents had lied to him about for his entire life. Like when he finds out he isn’t really allergic…

It’s crazy how things have changed from when iMacs & Mac Minis used to let you upgrade the RAM (at least for some models) so you could avoid paying their exorbitant prices when you buy the computer, and then just buy cheap aftermarket RAM later.

Our main home computer is an old Mac Mini. I bought it refurbed so it was already old when I got it. After a couple of years it was feeling really sluggish so I bought an SSD to make a home-rolled “Fusion Drive”, which made things so much better. We’re not using it much any more other than as a Plex server, as we now…

I had been using various builds of Keepass on mobile/desktop with the db synced via Google Drive. A few months ago I switched to BitWarden, running on a self-hosted Google Cloud instance, which runs lean enough to not cost anything. It was some effort to set up initially, but it hasn’t really required any maintenance…