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I’m close to that too, but I think mine was 13 years. The weird thing that I’ve noticed is that most of the time I was on Reddit, almost no one I talked to in real life used Reddit. I struggled for years to try to get people to check the site out. Now that I left, I swear I hear someone I know mention Reddit exponentially more often. The average person doesn’t give a damn about how shitty the platform has become, because they weren’t around to see what it used to be. The average person WANTS to see ads interspersed with their cookie cutter content with stupid ass features like chat and followers. Good riddance.

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Beautifully written. This brought tears to my eyes and now my grilled cheese is soggy.

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You two are the exact type of people to get kicked out of line at the grilled cheese truck.

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Lol that’s exactly what I thought of when I made my comment

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I would go with the first truck specifically NOT to get a penny back.

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I feel like there’s a curve of where this could work. For the extremely technically illiterate or technically literate, you’d be ok. But for the middle chunk of the population, it’d be more confusing than it’s worth.

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The idea of installing Linux on a grandparent’s computer is just asking for trouble. I convinced my father in law to give a Chromebook a try since he mostly just uses his computer to get online and boy, was that tricky. The average person has no idea what an Operating System is and will call you the minute they can’t install a new program for some reason.

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Dammit now I gotta post something to catch up

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56 is actually a decent amount of posts imo…

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I don’t know why I need 1 system, let alone 32 of them.

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In 1998 I used to have to be in at 6AM.This thread is like a nice little timeline of the enshittification of America.

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I’m reading a short book by Patrick Rothfuss (The Narrow Road Between Desires). This dude is such a notoriously slow writer that it drives me crazy. He had the audacity to do an author’s introduction where he said this was an existing story of his, but he added 15k words to it. I’m like… what is that, a couple weeks? Write faster, you bastard!

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Just finished his 4 secret project books. Also just finished the first Mistborn trilogy with my son and started in on the Wax and Wayne series with him (I’ve already read them). I freaking love me some Brandon Sanderson.

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I hear you can save a lot of time by writing Lemmy comments while masturbating.

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¿Porque no los dos?

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Exact same thing here!

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Once they fully implement eyeball tracking to determine if you’re actually looking at ads, we’re all doomed.

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Does Texas have something in place preventing people from getting solar? I don’t live in Texas, but my solar loan payment is a flat $200/month for 10 years then goes to $0. My buddy in Texas complains about getting $700 electrical bills, but when I recommend solar he acts like I’m recommending he cut off his left ball.

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Solar is awesome. It’s so cheap now that it’s a no brainer if you own a house that you’re planning on staying in for any decent amount of time. It’s cheaper than paying the electric company in most cases, and if you have a battery then it’s more reliable as well.

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Nooooope

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I remember Conan O’Brian doing a joke about this. He said something like “Many people reported having explosive diarrhea after eating an entire family sized bag of Doritos with Olestra. Oddly enough, those eating a family sized bag of regular Doritos without Olestra… also experienced explosive diarrhea.”

He said it funnier, but that was the gist of it.

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I suspect FooBarrington might be a cat irl…

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Damn I had almost forgotten about that. You’d see a top comment that was funny and witty, only for the next comment to point out that it was a bot stealing the comment from the last time the post was made. That place is such a shit hole it’s amazing we put up for it as long as we did.

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I read in a different post that the code was misinterpreted to be a 5 second sleep before showing the video, but instead was waiting 5 seconds to execute some anti-ad-block script. Still pretty sleazy either way.

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If libraries were pitched as a new idea in this political climate, they would be called communist and the idea would never get off the ground.

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