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Big artificial one, and one tiny “sad” real tree.

This stems from three years ago when we had to say goodbye to our 12 year old dog that we had since he was a puppy. We had zero desire to put up our artificial tree, but we wanted something so we grabbed the last 3" tree from whole foods that had fallen behind the display. We only put on one Star Trek DS9 Worf ornament and a small strand of lights.

Over the years it’s become our Star Trek tree, but we still try to find the saddest tree of the lot.

Here is our house with the Tru-Tone c7 bulbs around the gutters.

For comparison, this picture without snow was taken last year with traditional incandescent C9s.

And if you’re like me and cannot fucking stand the “vibrant” pure blue LEDs, next year check out Vintaglo (https://merryco.com/) or Tru-Tone (https://tru-tone.com/)

Technology Connections has done several videos about Christmas lights and those two seem to be his favorite. Unofficial Christmas light playlist

https://youtu.be/KOOhPfMbuIQ

You weren’t lying. I’ve never heard of Half Alive before, they’re not bad!

No, in addition to the reasons brought up by the other commenters, I’m starting to think that “computers as a service” will start to be a thing.

Google’s Stadia by all accounts wasn’t horrible, but it was pricey and the selection was subpar.

But what if Amazon, Azure, and Google start up some post-AI burst equivalent that provides a use case for all that processing power? Sure, the GPUs used by commercial AI aren’t designed for gaming, but Nvidia could see the writing on the wall and start partnering with hyper scalers to create massive racks of gaming GPUs. And it would be one step closer to the ultimate goal of removing personal ownership of things! Pay a subscription for a cloud gaming PC or try your luck on building your own.

So that we know which side to lay on because one is clogged?

Does anyone know if Fairphone supports tap-to-pay options? I tried GrapheneOS and although most of it was fine, the inability to use Google wallet for tap to pay was a deal-breaker.

My local credit Union doesn’t have an app that supports NFC, and since I’m based in the US, my options are relatively limited.

Oh, and I don’t want to buy a smartwatch just so I can put Google wallet on that instead.

Do you have issues with anxiety/panic attacks? Fun fact, panic attacks can manifest physically with nearly identical symptoms to a heart attack!

(This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get things checked out though)

I think Slow Horses goes for 6 episodes because that’s more in line with traditional British series length?

Broadchurch clocks in at 8 episodes per series/season, Derry Girls was around 6 episodes per season too, IIRC.

Typically it’s your birth certificate, Social Security card, and two forms of proof of residency (utility bills, etc).

Unless you’re married/divorced with a name that doesn’t match your birth certificate - then you get the added requirement of a marriage certificate/other proof of name change.

I’d be happy with just installing full blown Linux on my pixel a la graphene.

Surely this Pixel 7 Pro has enough oomph to do some of my games.

The next reporter needs to fucking forgo their question and either ask:

• Why do you think calling a woman ugly is appropriate?
• When was the last time you shit your pants, Sundowner?

I need Microsoft Word for freelancing and I don’t want to pay $100/year for M365.

It’s really the only thing keeping a few of my friends and family members from switching.

Yeah, I could spin them up a VM and do some RDP trickery, but these aren’t super technical people - the friction would mean emergency tech support calls that I’m not ready to answer.

It’s garbage.

Barely enough to survive on, and if you try to get a second job to supplement income, better hope you don’t go beyond the income limits. In Alabama, that’s $1,631/mo or about $407 per week. If you make $408? Congrats! No more SNAP.

My dude. It’s threes all the way down.

• Three new devices
• Third attempt at a game console
• Announced in 2025 (2+2+5=9 which is divisible by 3)
• Released in a year that ends in 6 (again divisible by 3)
• The steam machine is a cube, which exists in 3 dimensions.

Unifi Protect is what runs on the CloudKey/NVR physical device - you don’t need to have it go through to the Internet.

Remember, for better or worse Ubiquiti is positioning themselves as SMB Enterprise security - some companies won’t want their footage to be accessible outside their network.

You have to remember, conservatives somehow can wildly object to multiple things in the GOP platform but still vote R up and down the ticket as long as they agree with just one thing.

Pro-life? Better vote for the pro-life people who are all about zero gun control, mandatory death sentences, and no government supported prenatal care - not to mention fucking over immigrant kids/splitting up families!

Love hunting with guns? Better vote for the gun loving people who also want to sell off our national forests, remove all environmental protections, and privatize our parks.

This is maybe controversial, but I love the Ubiquiti security stuff. Cameras (interior and exterior) doorbells, etc, it’s all great. Pricey, but you get what you pay for.

And the data can stay local or be accessible via their services.

I chose to go local only, grabbed their UNVR and populated it with 4x 2TB drives and it has enough space to handle 7 cameras HD history for about a month.

At a minimum if you still have the shirt (I lost mine years ago to a communal laundry room), you could wrap the steam machine with the shirt.

steam machine is a cube

Or would you say it looks like a box… Maybe an Orange Box!?!

I’m calling it - a limited release where the black shell is orange and it comes bundled with HL3 for free.