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Yes, yes, and yes. The funny thing is I've met 14, and Elvis, but not the dick or the cat.
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Our dog got a toy dinosaur for Christmas and she used destroy toys like these in days, but for whatever reason, she's decided to mother this one. If we squeak the squeaker inside of it, she comes up very worried and licks it like it's hurt. She keeps an eye on it throughout the day and gets very worried if someone picks it up or it falls down 
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The Door Frame posted:Our dog got a toy dinosaur for Christmas and she used destroy toys like these in days, but for whatever reason, she's decided to mother this one. If we squeak the squeaker inside of it, she comes up very worried and licks it like it's hurt. She keeps an eye on it throughout the day and gets very worried if someone picks it up or it falls down That's so awesome, I love when they do stuff like that it's so cute and hilarious
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Dec 28, 2020 22:12
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The Door Frame posted:Our dog got a toy dinosaur for Christmas and she used destroy toys like these in days, but for whatever reason, she's decided to mother this one. If we squeak the squeaker inside of it, she comes up very worried and licks it like it's hurt. She keeps an eye on it throughout the day and gets very worried if someone picks it up or it falls down Lol that reminds me of this funny story (in a song) about pretty much the same thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM23ynZhDic
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Dec 28, 2020 22:17
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Lol that reminds me of this funny story (in a song) about pretty much the same thing I feel bad for the old baby, poor thing probably never saw it coming
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Dec 28, 2020 22:39
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everdave posted:I just recommended a Lenovo to close friends, a refurb i5 10th gen with 16 ram for $416 he just needs something to use at meetings. In my experience owning a computer store since Dell went to the smaller charger it’s a poo poo show for their cheap stuff. Lenovo and Asus have problems too. I wouldn’t say don’t buy them but be aware. Don't by the consumer poo poo unless you want disposable. Buy the business-class stuff - T-series for Lenovo, for example. They tend to be more robust (and a little bit more expensive, but justifiably so, I think.) cursedshitbox posted:x220*/x230 with an i7, 16gb, SSD + 9cell/slice, and a fhd upgrade is a force to be reckoned with. Magnesium body with cheap GM plastics like a Dell, up to 20 something hours battery life, decent display for coding, and adequate hardware for compiling. We've got a couple of those in the boneyard at work. I threw an OEM Win10 on them, and they chug right along with no issues. Not the sleekest/slimmest, but they are small, and hardy. T440p would be a larger (14") equivalent. Those still had the external 18650-based battery as well.
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Darchangel posted:Don't by the consumer poo poo unless you want disposable. Buy the business-class stuff - T-series for Lenovo, for example. They tend to be more robust (and a little bit more expensive, but justifiably so, I think.) Yeah the T-series is a lot easier to FHD upgrade too. IIRC the cpu is also socketed compared to the x-series. I *almost* went for the T430 instead of the X230. This thing required some serious reengineering to make FHD resolution possible. These also use a 18650 based battery for the primary. They're definitely thicc and not light by any stretch of the modern definition. They do however, take amazing amounts of punishment. Buy a macbook if ya want sleek and thin. Buy a thinkpad if you want something bustproof you can trust. There's a lot behind that recommendation. the X220T I have has outlived two Alienwares(M11x, 13r3), one Asus ROG(G751JY-DH72X), an Ideapad(100s), and a pitop(It was a dumb fast deployable for small projects). It and now the x230 probably outlive four or six more machines at this rate.
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The T-Series is my go-to recommendation for a laptop for friends/car friends looking to tune. They are cheap on eBay, plenty of parts available, and overall reliable. Kinda like a F150. They have made so many, all the bugs are know. I'm rocking a T430 and T450 in the shop. And a W530 in the house.
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T-Square posted:Shaving sucks. I bought into the whole safety-razor/wet shaving craze that hit the forums a bunch of years back and realized I don’t like spending 15 minutes to get yet another routine done as well as having another pile of stuff to clutter the bathroom, so it all got relegated to a box somewhere. Hey T-Square, as part of AI:SS you’ve been selected to receive a random gift! It doesn’t look like you have PM’s, could you please send me an email to slothrop.ai at Gmail and I’ll get you the details 
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the spyder posted:The T-Series is my go-to recommendation for a laptop for friends/car friends looking to tune. They are cheap on eBay, plenty of parts available, and overall reliable. Kinda like a F150. They have made so many, all the bugs are know. I'm rocking a T430 and T450 in the shop. And a W530 in the house. Same rec but I prefer the x220 form factor. I snagged two for like $100/150 each almost 9 years ago.
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LobsterboyX posted:RAZRZ Hey.   Nice razor you got there! For real though, this thing consistently gives me the best shave I've ever had.
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Krakkles posted:And Rosie was the cat, and yes. Elviscat, I think? Yup! Any excuse to post Rosie pics is a good one.   She's mad in this one because after my roomates moved out she went and rounded up every mouse toy their kitties left behind, then dunked some in her water because??? Which made her water taste gross.   E: she's a great cat, she's very possessive, and for the first year or so I dated my GF she would spend all night sitting on her scratching post glaring at the human that was taking up "her" 2/3s of the bed. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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Serious cattitude right there. We have the same automatic feeder 
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Elviscat posted:Yup! Any excuse to post Rosie pics is a good one. Not Wolverine fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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Dec 29, 2020 12:55
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Pretty sold on the best t-series ThinkPad I can afford after these reviews, always good to know I was on the right track thank you goons. Had a great morning playing in the snow with wife and kids, nipped out for a little essential shopping and the ships weren't manic, now relaxing all round.
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A little late to the party, but I have a thinkpad P72 for work. It looks about the same as the T series, but I do a little bit in AutoCad, and thats what I was given. Its been really good.
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Elviscat posted:She's mad in this one because after my roomates moved out she went and rounded up every mouse toy their kitties left behind, then dunked some in her water because??? Which made her water taste gross. One of our cats regularly drowns toys. Then buries them in the litterbox. 
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 FML. I'm hating life right now. Stomach full of ibuprofin and loratadine and still not a lot of relief.
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STR posted:One of our cats regularly drowns toys. Then buries them in the litterbox. Real mice go in the food bowl, for, uh, later?
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cakesmith handyman posted:Pretty sold on the best t-series ThinkPad I can afford after these reviews, always good to know I was on the right track thank you goons. So, on that note, I just discovered that the *new* T-series has an interesting "feature". The T14s has soldered, non-upgradeable RAM. Like the Mac, you get what you bought, forever. The T14 (no "S") has one DIMM soldered, and one socket. I found this out after getting a request from a user to buy some additional RAM for their new Dell Latitude 7410, and discovering that it is non-upgradeable - nice - and deciding to check out other standard options. In car news, we're shopping around for car insurance, and I've just learned that I can cross Farmers off of our list. They say my Crown Vic was sold some time in the past with "frame damage", and the '87 Corolla once had a salvage title, and refuse to insure either of them. We're only wanting liability on those two cars. "Bum bu bu bubum ba bum - we are Farmers, gently caress you." For the record, the CV has no frame damage, and has never been in an accident as far as I can tell. The Corolla, I believe - anyone following my thread has seen what the front frame horns look like - but who cares for liability coverage? Never mind that poo poo can be fixed, regardless of what they think or say. Assholes. VINcheck.info finds no records of theft, accident, or salvage on the CV, but They also find zilch on the AE86. I don't have CarFax at the moment. NICB.org says neither car is stolen or salvage. edit: Carfax is clean on the Crown Vic, other than the open recall for the Lighting Control Module. It was sold at auction in 2009, presumably after being retired from police duty, but there are no accidents, salvage, or even airbag deployments. I hate insurance companies. Corolla shows a Salvage title in 1996, in Missouri, salvage auction a month later, and a TX rebuilt title issued another 6 months later. It's been on the road ever since. LOL, my Subaru came from Spokane, WA. How cliche is that? It was also regularly serviced at a BMW dealership for 7 years. First owner had it for 103,648 miles. It was sold in 2010, then moved to NM, then AZ, both in 2011, put less than 30k miles on it, then apparently traded in in 2012. Looks like goon morethanjake22 bought it in 2012, put on ~50k miles, and then I bought it in 2019 from him. So far I've added about 12k miles. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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Elviscat posted:Which made her water taste gross. did you taste it
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bird with big dick posted:did you taste it Not that time. I've since bought a water fountain with a filter for her, she hates it and I have tasted that to make sure it was okay.
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I like the feeling of buying parts that cost more than entire car purchases I've made. The great news is this gets me past a stumbling block and opens up a bunch of work.
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rdb posted:A little late to the party, but I have a thinkpad P72 for work. It looks about the same as the T series, but I do a little bit in AutoCad, and thats what I was given. Its been really good. Do you use the Thunderbolt III “dock” with it as well? I have two of the big bastards and they’ve been nothing but trouble as long as I use that dock with them. It’ll pump out four monitors on it though, which is great cause I need that. Also I end up working in really large datasets in very dynamic situations, and the p72 has the rear end to get it done. But I really feel like if I didn’t have two I’d never have one running. Past couple days I’ve been limping on a x1 Carbon cause my local machine poo poo and damned if I’m going into the office again this year.
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big dong wanter posted:huge fan of my dell toughbook, mainly because im a massive unco and regularly drop my laptop and it does not give a poo poo At least you don't run over yours.
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Darchangel posted:In car news, we're shopping around for car insurance, and I've just learned that I can cross Farmers off of our list. They say my Crown Vic was sold some time in the past with "frame damage", and the '87 Corolla once had a salvage title, and refuse to insure either of them. We're only wanting liability on those two cars. Liability only? Comprehensive and UM/UIM doesn't add much, and as easily stolen as both cars are and with how many hit/runs and uninsured people there are in TX... My Brokeback started life in NM, but quickly went to WA, then ping ponged between WA and BC. Then... registered in South Dakota, but was in TX???? Guessing someone in the military bought it, was stationed in TX, but kept it registered at home. Then got sold again, then traded in to Subaru of Austin, who promptly punted it to auction. Subaru of Austin claims they've never done any service on it, even though Carfax claims it got a new alternator there (and the alternator has a Subaru reman sticker on it) along with "electrical checkup/repair".
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trouser chili posted:Do you use the Thunderbolt III “dock” with it as well? I have two of the big bastards and they’ve been nothing but trouble as long as I use that dock with them. It’ll pump out four monitors on it though, which is great cause I need that. Also I end up working in really large datasets in very dynamic situations, and the p72 has the rear end to get it done. But I really feel like if I didn’t have two I’d never have one running. Past couple days I’ve been limping on a x1 Carbon cause my local machine poo poo and damned if I’m going into the office again this year. I do have the dock but I only run one monitor for the most part. Its some big 4k bit from LG that really helps when I am looking at hundreds of lines of code. I am in between offices right now and I don’t have the space for multiples. When I do run more than one all I wind up doing is putting zoom/teams on the other so I can continue to work while listening.
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trouser chili posted:Do you use the Thunderbolt III “dock” with it as well? I have two of the big bastards and they’ve been nothing but trouble as long as I use that dock with them. It’ll pump out four monitors on it though, which is great cause I need that. Also I end up working in really large datasets in very dynamic situations, and the p72 has the rear end to get it done. But I really feel like if I didn’t have two I’d never have one running. Past couple days I’ve been limping on a x1 Carbon cause my local machine poo poo and damned if I’m going into the office again this year. They're talking about you in the nostalgia thread.
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StormDrain posted:They're talking about you in the nostalgia thread.  don’t tell him!
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Humphreys posted:At least you don't run over yours. Give it time lol
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So my online report of the stolen license plate was rejected. The email reply was "call 311 to report it, we can't do this online". I call 311. "Your call cannot be completed as dialed, MESSAGE 2".  Tried calling APD non-emergency.. they tell me to call 311 as well. Told them I can't, as I'm outside the city limits, but the theft happened inside of the city limits. They told me "drive into Austin and try it again". REALLY?Finally did that when I ran to the store. They just took my name and number and had an APD cop call me back... to take a report over the phone. Why the gently caress couldn't they just take the report over the non-emergency # to begin with, when I told them I didn't live within the city limits and couldn't call 311...  It happened inside of Austin city limits, and I tried to tell them that.My tax dollars at work (my most recent registration was taxed in Austin since that's where I lived when I renewed the registration, though I've updated the registration to reflect the move).
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Should just be a Travis County sheriff number you can call. https://www.tcsheriff.org/about/contact
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My place of work is still within the Austin city limits, but outside of Travis. I guess I could have called the Wilco sheriff, but they probably would have either beat me to death over using my high beams or referred me to APD. Or destroyed evidence. (not a fan of Wilco's sheriff, thankfully he got voted out, his term ends tomorrow night - I've had multiple run-ins with both Wilco sheriff dept and the bored cops in my suburb, all for stuff like "2 mph over" and "your car doesn't look like you belong in this neighborhood") randomidiot fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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Oh right, you're in Williamson County. What I mean is, when 311 doesn't work you can call the municipal number and it'll land you in the same dispatch. Call center people are very non political and extremely nice when no one is yelling at them.
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Oh, gotcha. I didn't realize 311 routed through Travis County, I figured it was a city thing. Good to know if something like that happens again. Yeah, every interaction I've had with Austin 311 has been pleasant. There's been a couple of times where they had no idea what to do with my call, but they were still polite and friendly. ... still blame AT&T for 311 not going through, since it was an AT&T recorded message, and was sitting half a mile out of the city limits. I had to drive over a mile into the city for 311 to work (so a good bit past where I work). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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So my wife was getting a haircut today and Hulk Hogan was there getting hair extensions
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