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Many root beers don’t have caffeine, or rather there are a few brands that introduce a small amount for taste or other reason. And there’s lots of variations in taste in those.

Still worth it, one of the best games, especially if you had a good joystick (Kraft). The amazing part about that game is how the movement “felt” fluid even though it was just a digital thing. I can’t describe it, but I think anyone who played it understands how it felt analog in its play, how you could jump and tap just so and do amazing moves.

Computer - Radar Rat Race on the C-64, bought it in cartridge when I got the computer just to have something to start with. Last cartridge game I bought too, the rest were either on tape, later floppy disk, or typed in from a computer magazine. On the latter, I think they were trying to develop a generation of programmers with those and intentionally put bugs in them to make them not work until you fixed them. Every one.

Arcade - that’s a harder one to remember, but I do know it/they would have been at a roller skating rink. Probably Asteroids as that would have gotten my attention first, or Turbo or Wizard of Wor.

It’s “Paid by Dave’s friends”, so I don’t know if this is from pity for his situation, or if he asked for help to do it. The saving grace is the cat picture, he might have a chance.

My statement agreed with you, saying we should stop removing (or start including) uncomfortable lessons of history in schools, and remove the objects that as you say were put there long after the war not as a memorial but as a reminder (and a promise to go back if they can) of the oppression. I’m not sure how you read it as the opposite, I called them traitors.

“When I look at Robert E Lee, the comparisons to him and George Washington are immense,” he said, noting Washington also owned slaves.

Not the same.

“I wonder when George Washington’s name and things like that will then have to come off of things.”

One helped found this country. Another fought this country.

“But to be taught that everyone who fought for the Confederacy, or did this, or did that, is a racist slave holder, that’s all or nothing, and that really isn’t doing history justice,” he added.

We really need to teach better in history class. THAT is where we need to stop removing things, not statues and dedications to traitors of the country. He doesn’t understand WHY the Confederacy started the war, does he? Maybe he should dive into the declarations from the various states on why they seceded. It’s plainly mentioned in almost all of them.

Only if it changes laws of physics. Which I suppose could be in the realm of possibility, since none of us could outthink a ASI. I imagine three outcomes (assuming getting to ASI) - it determines that no, silly humans, the math says you’re too far gone. Or, yes, it can develop X and Y beyond our comprehension to change the state of reality and make things better in some or all ways. And lastly, it says it found the problem and solution, and the problem is the Earth is contaminated with humans that consume and pollute too much. And it is deploying the solution now.

I forgot the fourth, that I’ve seen in a few places (satirically, but could be true). The ASI analyses what we’ve done, tries to figure out what could be done to help, and then suicides itself out of frustration, anger, sadness, etc.

We got one of the older baseline Eufy models a number of years ago, and have been fine with it. Even got a second one for the upstairs since we’re lazy and got tired of carrying it up there every now and then. I’d love to have one with more of a memory of where it’s been, but really the random various patterns work fine to get most everywhere if the battery lasts long enough. I’m sure there some math there to show the drunken walk covers everywhere. Plus sometimes things get blown around, and if the robot mapped out a place as cleaned but it got some stuff pushed over there, it won’t go back to get it like the random might.

But the real reason I like the lower model is that it is less complicated. I do think that the higher end ones with all the bells and whistles probably can be a pain when things go wrong. Keep it simple. Also, your mileage may vary depending on what you’re cleaning - the type of dirt and pet hair, the room layout, bare vs. carpet, etc. A side note - bare floor is the only way to go with pets…you don’t realize until you do a deep cleaning or have to replace some areas of carpet that get damaged. Yuck.

I remember the shift to using area codes and how everyone was so upset at how difficult that would be. Then the smart phones came, and I wonder how many people now know many of the numbers they might regularly call with one tap,

The idea of migration and data preservation has been a topic since day one, since that’s a big reason why so many moved to the Fediverse. I still haven’t seen a perfect solution, and maybe there isn’t one. Perhaps just having a lot of redundancy (oh no, reposts!) is the only true way of protecting posts for as long as possible, and even then…

Ernest started things rolling with something that probably wasn’t ready for the demand, but it was there when the time came. That others forked off from it and kept it going is the bright spot here. I appreciate Lemmy and even have an account from the first days, but I like the kbin/mbin setup better so that’s where I sit.

Yet if there’s any discussion about better gun safety and education it turns into “you’re taking our rights away!”

Literal lost redditor.

Mine claims about 25 mins to power down with a resting pull of 240 watts, 15 mins while using GPU for SD or AI stuff (400 watts). The key importance in my mind though isn’t the time to shut down, but how long term dirty power will cause failure in your components. I learned this the hard way back in the C-64 days where I went through 3 of them (Circuit City warranty covered them) before I got a very crude version of a UPS to stop killing the poor computer with ups and downs in power surges.

Then I’d opt for the better one, because you don’t see all brownouts, only the ones that are long enough to affect lights and more sensitive devices. I have one touch light that would go out when everything else would be fine. So you most likely have very “dirty” power, at least in the room you see this going on.

I’ll also add that since putting my UPSs in, occasionally I’ll have them click. It’s not registering as anything on the software monitor, nothing I can see via lights, but I’m sure it’s breaker or whatever they use to step in and keep things clean.

Mainly just depends on how sensitive you think your equipment may be to the variations, and of course how often you think you’re getting brownouts. Plus a bit more features. For $170 that seems to be a great deal.

I can’t figure out why that one is more expensive, the 1500 seems to me the better one at minimum because of more outlets, more output, and it puts out a true sine wave power. I just got a comparable model at Best Buy for about the same price. (Also got a smaller backup to put the modem/router on). Either way, Cyberpower looks to be the best manufacturer to go with, APC has a lot of negative reviews compared to them. I used to have a APC long ago that did fine, but that was then.

A town is a bit more than that, but it is how towns typically began, from a central trading place and nearby settlements. Only this is a planned concrete parking lot and established chain along with fully built domiciles, already in a city/town’s jurisdiction.

The idea of apartments centered around a grocery plaza has been a thing for a while. It’s almost an answer, except it still requires transportation to everything else. Plus the stores tend to be higher prices to support the cost of property and because they can.

Or cut them up and use them as shop towels or whatever before you toss them. At least get a bit more out of them before they contribute to the landfill.

They actually took it from Reagan. But you could still maintain the same arguments, even though the times were a bit different. The “Again” is always a bit of a questionable part. “Make America Better” isn’t as aggressive in the goal, but it’s more honest and broad in who and what it’s referring to. I’d rather have some solid ideas than a slogan, any day.