There’s a pile of them.

An ear infection that either was staph or turned into it, requiring an ear to be reconstructed, a new ear drum, ear canal reconstruction, and the mastoid bone removed. There was a very real concern from the doctors that it was going to get into my brain. They cut my ear off of the side of my head, did the work, then sewed it back on. 10/10 for the doctors that did the treatment and fixed it all. -1000/10 for the different unrelated doctor that let the infection get that bad.

A 4mm kidney stone making its way out.

An ear infection (same ear as above) where the ear canal swelled shut, and the ENT and his staff held me down in his office on a table to force a wick into it to make the meds able to get into it.

Even though it was 30 years ago, the ear infection (prior to the reconstruction) is what I remember most vividly.

Smoked Rotel cheese dip and tortilla chips

Does this work in the US? Even with an iPhone and Apple Pay, this sounds like an interesting approach.

I left after they banned Apollo and other apps, but it’s a mess when it shows up in my search results nowadays with the unstoppable app prompt on mobile. I’d I accidentally click a Reddit link while searching, it’s an automatic back for me. They treat their users terribly.

I am struggling on this one.

I want to say the 4th, but that may be rose tinted glasses. SNES and Genesis were amazing, games were finished, no DLC, no updates, no accounts, no online, but the more I look at it, the more I think that is rose tinted because of other family and societal issues at the time. But 16 bit hardware is ALWAYS special to me.

Then I’m tied on 6th or 7th (6-7, if you will). The era of local co-ops with Xboxes and 360s (I think you could link 360s the same way?) networked together is hard to beat. Halo-Halo 3 with friends are some of my fondest teenage memories. 16 people on 4 Xboxes was amazing, and I’m sad it’s not really a thing anymore. My PS3 still gets used, my Wii is amazing, it opened up games to non gamers. My GameCube was awesome for its time. It’s tough to say. But I’m gonna go with 7th gen for my halo 3 and halo 3 master chief 360, sadly gone now.

While I agree with the anti Oracle sentiment, that’s 21,000 employees that didn’t say they wanted AI BS. The suits and ceos that do this aren’t the ones that pay the price. It’s always the ordinary people like you and I.

Alabama guy here. So disappointed in my state. I’ve been pushing for Doug Jones, but I keep getting, “I don’t like Doug Jones!” He’s better than an ignorant washed up Florida man half ass football coach. I’ve not heard the sack of nails before. I’ve heard box of rocks bag of hammers. Gonna keep it and add it to my repertoire.

Yeah, I played Crisis Core, VII-IX and GoW on mine a lot. I may have even had a Jax and Dexter on it? I can’t remember. It was wild to me that I could play my final fantasy games on it.

That’s a really unique sounding game.

Thank you. Always get those wrong.

I’m there with you, only difference is my house has tongue in groove wooden interior walls.

For fellow whovians, not Doctor Who, rather Doctor Proton, aka the Doctor Who Cloned Me.

I got excited and thought that’s a weird crossover. Turns out, I’m just simple.

It shouldn’t be a crime to send my child to a better school system than I can afford to live in.

I live in a poor area of Alabama, I’d give almost anything to be able to pack my shit and get my children to a better school district.

Man I was looking at one of the Bambus to supplement my old Monoprice Maker Select. I was hoping to something with less fuss.

Ditto. My homemade Mac mini file server just bit me with an APFS drive corruption. Needing to get something put together with redundancy. Like NOW! and these shit heads are killing the market!

That sounds really similar to our setup. kWh rates for consumers are about 16.5 cents per kWh, but they’ll buy your excess at 3.94 cents per kWh. So 23.8% of what you pay them. Plus, the $5/kW fee for firm backup capacity I mentioned earlier.

The charlatans came out last summer and said we would start to have rolling blackouts if we didn’t all set our thermostats to 80 or 82 degrees (27.78 C), I can’t remember the exact amount, but the collective consensus was that if they’ll all set their thermostats in their boardrooms to 82, then we’d talk about it. You and I both know that wasn’t going to happen. They always talk about us having to be conservative on energy usage in the summers, but they don’t let us offset our loads with solar or anything else. And Alabama, as I’m fairly certain Pakistan probably does also, has an abundance of sunshine in the summer. And they’ve never curtailed my employer (a large manufacturing plant) or any of the local steel mills on energy consumption. And you can guarantee they won’t do the data centers either. It’s always you and I bearing the brunt of their poor decisions.

Apple’s APFS I am not a fan of. I have been using Macs since 2008-ish. In all my HFS+ days, I’ve never lost an entire drive. I rebooted my M2 Mac Mini via command prompt, and my external APFS drive is corrupted. Never had that problem before APFS. And since I’m an idiot, I’ve got to pay DiskDrill to hopefully recover the data when I get a larger drive on hand.

I am stuck in Alabama-Stan. Our presumed next governor is a MAGAt. We bought an EV last year (used VW id4) to get my wife something to get the kids everywhere in. I have taken her old car (a 2006 VW Jetta TDI) and am using it as my commuter car for work, 60 miles a day. It has drastically lowered our footprint, as they replaced our primary family and commuter vehicle, my old Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. My wallet appreciates the lower costs of both cars to get around, CO2 per mile is substantially less, and even having our local utility company screwing us on rates, it’s still cheaper and greener.

We are unfortunately the least solar friendly state in the US. There is no net metering, and our utility company charges you per kw capacity of your system to keep a backup in case they have to provide you with power. I have plans for that, I’m on vacation this all and hope I have time to sit down and draw up a reasonably diy solar system for us. I DESPISE our corrupt utility company and would like nothing better than to never have to give them money again.

I’m waiting for it to get the id.Buzz. I want one of them badly. Can’t wait!

The wife and I love her Volkswagen id4. It is comfy, gets good mileage, and is cheap on the used market.