I really had no idea it was still around, or at least heavily in use.

Swappa is pretty damn handy. I’ve bought and sold several phones on there. Etsy has some really cool stuff, but some of the sellers on there are absolutely delusional. I’ve never checked out Poshmark. I’ll have to check it out some time.

I’m curious - what is the shirt? I’ve got a really cool vintage one with the big yellow ‘M’ and Japanese characters under it that I picked up second-hand almost twenty years ago now. It sadly no longer fits because uhh it totally shrank and I didn’t just gain a little weight.

People still use eBay?

People can talk about piracy all they want here it seems. It’s when folks start giving very direct advice about how and where to do stuff that things turn into a legal grey area for websites. It also helps to not blow up a great source by sharing it all over the internet for the feds and ignorant people to easily find.

I’ve been on the internet for a long time. Back in my day, we just referred to the where as “the usual places.” Seems that’s not the norm anymore.

Exactly!

Ask them politely to lower it. If they don’t, you have two options:

A. Leave your seat to go find a security guard, missing part of the show in the process and potentially having this person fuck with you for the rest of the show in retaliation.

B. Rip that shit straight out of their hands and toss it to the lower arena. They’ll have no idea who did it because their view was blocked by their umbrella. Don’t have to miss a second of the show.

Eh that threw me off when it was new but it’s been a thing for about a decade at this point. My work is all-in on Azure and this has never confused any users as far as I’ve seen, and we’ve got some incredibly ignorant users. Everyone just hits “browse” from that screen and you’re back to the old school save screen.

Can never be too safe. You know what, just go ahead and triple frame that.

Right? Seems like Linux fanboy propaganda. If you don’t know where your file saves to, you’re probably incompetent and shouldn’t be near a computer. Even the most incompetent of users in my 15 year IT career know how to save something and where it’s saving to.

Damn, I’m sorry you’ve had that experience with it. It sounds like you got a lemon. I’ve had every other Pixel phone since the first one, and never had any of those issues.

Don’t listen to the bootlicker below. He’s just spreading propaganda for his corporate overlords.

Yeah, the Samsung phones are such a great value. They only come with about 20 apps you can’t uninstall unless you do some convoluted bullshit, the UI they draw over Android is bloated and slow as hell, and Bixbie is awful. Oh cool, there’s a 200mp camera. Something that only pro photographers care about lol. My Pixel 7 Pro takes phenomenal pictures, too, and isn’t a nightmare to deal with. So much value!

Did you buy the Pixel 7a second hand or something, or through a carrier? The whole point of the Pixel phones is they’re stock Android with zero unnecessary apps pre installed. Your shitty Samsung also has Android, but Samsung puts their own slow, bloated as hell interface over it. Not to mention all of the bloatware pre installed. Stop lying lmao.

Or you could just not buy a phone loaded down with shitty bloatware.

Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro

Or you could just not buy a $2k phone loaded down with shitty bloatware.

Sent from my $700 Google Pixel 7 Pro

It amazes me the sheer number of developers whose hands I need to hold for even the most basic tasks that my elderly mother even knows how to do. I’ve worked in tech for about 15 years, and the terms “developer” and “tech nerd/enthusiast” used to be synonymous, but over the years, that’s less and less true.

The tech nerds use to be the ones getting CS degrees. Now it seems like it’s just another degree for indecisive majors and most of the kids I see starting out today aren’t passionate about tech - it’s just a degree/paycheck. It’s just baffling to me lol. I work in support, and most folks on my end are big tech nerds still.