i had a monitor like that once. big bright af blue power light baked into the power button, bottom center of the bezel. blue led was the ‘new’ thing back then. the barton-era matching pc (which i didn’t have) had a larger matching button on its front. if you know your '00s pavilions, you know the ones.

it was horrible. that monitor lived its entire life with a black piece of paper taped over the whole switch and light. i was not saddened when it finally gave up and failed to turn on. i was more annoyed that it took 15 years for it to fail.

i think it comes with the territory; the kinds of users that lemmy attracts–and doesn’t.

if it’s anything like our guaranteed ‘price for life’ internet from the phone company here–it lasts as long as they want it to.

(which, for our internet, was less than two years)

democrats are simply the ‘lesser evil’, and have been since the 1960s, at least… and we’ve needed a viable third party left of the mainstream for longer.

republican administrations drag us down and undo gains made. democrats repair some of the damage–but never quite enough, never push progress enough. they lose. it gets undone again and the cycle repeats.

but now it’s all getting destroyed. there may not be a continuation of the cycle. it’s hell from here on until ‘trumpism’ and maga are what is completely destroyed.

i find ddg sufficient for nearly everything. occasionally i will go to startpage or ecosia or mojeek for a different ‘perspective’, but that is not very often at all. i also use wolframalpha almost daily for some sort of calculation or conversion.

i haven’t used google or bing except by accident when using someone else’s browser or device (that is, when i forget to go to duck.com first).

yes, it is. but between it and graphhopper (or osm), it’s “enough” for me.

i don’t need a feature-filled “app” (my phone is ‘dumb’), and the only time i end up on something else like bing or google maps is if a site i need to use embeds and relies upon them.

ddg maps is just a no-frills apple maps.

i’ve been half-expecting them to roll-out drm for everything including cat videos and shit for awhile now.

you can have (well, used to) eggs anytime… fried, boiled, scrambled, omelets, poached–whatever. but gram’s special deviled eggs were for ‘special occasions’ only. she always made enough, so yea. gonna eat far more eggs that way than i ever would in a normal breakfast or meal.

i had just looked this one up recently:
the little nub on a peanut is an embryo.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peanuts-embryo-nub_n_56d4a305e4b03260bf77b808

it does get marginally better once you do run out.

tbh i don’t think a single can in a day is all that much if your diet is otherwise reasonable and balanced.

do you think it’s the bubbles or the 40-some mg of caffeine that gets you grabbing one every day?

wasn’t everyone born on 1 jan 1970 at 00:00:00 utc?

only the feds can prosecute federal crimes, afaik. this administration won’t let that happen. any federal prosecutor that wants to take a shot is gonna get fired or pushed out a window the instant their intent becomes known.

the dipshit would have to venture to a state with non-conflicting laws on the books, break them in some spectacular fashion, and that state would have to have an ag willing to go down that road and prosecute.

some cheap all-in-ones i’ve worked on have hdmi in and out.

one of 'em i have here is an old atom celeron dell aio with 1600x900 native screen but on its hdmi input, it’ll run at 1920x1080. and yea, running that instead of its true native res sucks about as bad as you think it would–but it is still ‘usable’. the real sucky bit, though, is the pc has to be on in order to switch it to hdmi in.

a lenovo aio that went through here a couple years ago had to be rebooted to switch it from hdmi input mode (acting as a standalone monitor) back to pc.

the first ‘cheat code’ that came to mind here isn’t for a game:

Select • Play • Select • 30 • Select

didn’t play much og sims, but sims2 (and later, iirc), motherlode gives more.

i also had a few custom items i could drop in to a house, too.

backup. backup. backup.

then also check the SMART stats on it and run the internal tests. if you don’t know how, gsmartcontrol is a good place to start.

i’ve had a couple disks fail right away, and others that just go forever–and one of those is a deathstar, even.

mine is a few blocks away, and requires sacrifice of an always-increasing amount of coinage (literally every other trip costs more).

the dryer half does the same but also now takes twice as long to do its job–requiring even more coinage sacrifice.

they’re also now scared of the dark (it isn’t 24/7 like it used to be), meaning i can’t go there at odd hours to avoid people.

the middle child generation.