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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Honestly, the position I prefer to be in. It confirms you know their taste.

    NOW, you want a truly disturbing version of this? Try getting it right, only its the more expensive one, so she refuses to buy it or let you pay the difference, or even buy it for her! … and with the way these sales and store-stock rotation work, its often not so easy as coming back next month, next week … even the same day, to get it for whatever-next-holiday-that-probably-falls-to-late-in-the-season-anyway. Sneak a picture of the tag? Congratulations, its somehow out-of-stock or never sold on-line, nor in nearby stores.

    People that are convinced they are going to be the next sales/shopping/couponing deity are the WORST to want good things for. Short route to fadish or gimped products that do not work as well as advertized, or in the case of things like Black Friday televisions, what you would otherwise get them if they would only let you when there’s time to be certain.

    Before you read too much into that last sentence, the minimum age of a TV or monitor in my house is ten years old, and the average close to 15. As a former professional PC, TV, Printer and Appliance repair man, that’s one bite from this I managed to avoid while still letting it give me nightmares.






  • I pirate things I have right in front of me!! Scratched DVD’s that won’t rip, same for CD’s, and sometimes old digital formats that are no longer well supported, or in the case of eBooks, don’t re-flow properly. Yes, some of us are still doing weird shit we got used to on Blackberries and Palm Pilots(These days I use Sprint Reader, but I’ll also read the material normally when studying for a test).

    Some shows or movies I pay to stream don’t work well on whatever device I’ve opted to play them on. Knowing why doesn’t magically give me the means to transcode as needed without screen capture; Piracy skips the steps of watching them on a device I didn’t mean to just to edit/trim and then have them in a format I no longer need!







  • That’s an answer I don’t have. I would just focus on grabbing what has the fewest copies for the snap-shot in time when I am downloading the files. Other archivers will grab what needs more copies at the time they download, just as you and I are basing our downloads of what has the fewest existing copies weighed against what others have seeded before us.

    Its a churn of archivers “rotating” the content we each choose to preserve(almost entirely without regard for WHAT the specific content is).

    If enough people were too active about deleting what they’ve downloaded that has “enough” copies and replacing it with content that doesn’t … okay, that’s unlikely, but we still need more seeders in general, and those of us who keep on seeding that which we’ve already downloaded make the decision of what needs more copies seeded in the future easier to make for new archivists and/or those who have invested in more capacity.