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Guessing it’s a FLIR One

Plugin to smartphone. I have one and it’s very useful

I was on Reddit back from the beginning and around 2007-2010 it was a very well curated place due to this culture.

People didn’t comment unless they had something actually relevant and insightful to say. Researchers, engineers, lawyers, doctors/med students and all walks of life in between with professional or intellectual knowledge of the subject at hand.

It was great because the comments were vibrant with good discussion, links, and other ancillary information.

As all things that get popular, the quality declines in tandem.

It started out with the whole summer break periods when school kids were out and bored…then the digg exodus. Slowly, but steadily the quality declined as the user base exploded. Large subreddits were increasingly shit so you’d have to stick to the more niche subs.

The API debacle was finally enough for me to strip all my comments and delete my account.

Lemmy is not quite at the level of when Reddit first started. I find that outside of a handful of commenters per notable post, most are not very knowledgeable, insightful, or otherwise providing quality discourse. I will say that it’s not consistently the case, as sometimes (depending on the topic), it does remind me of those old times. There’s still hope lol

Agreed.

Never realized the significant disparity.

Always assumed it was just because nobody watches it and nobody really goes to the games.

WNBA is pretty hard to watch tbh.

Were you there or just saying you remember the last time this was posted in the past five years claiming this guy was actually dead?

Credit-based insurance score is applicable though with relevant overlap.

Think Lexisnexis instead of equifax/transunion etc.

An insurance score is calculated by insurance companies based on information in your credit report as well as your claims history.

Not sure where you’re finding this battery price but I’m guessing it’s much cheaper than that.

I repair just about anything. Sometimes just for the challenge. Electronics are much easier than most realize.

The one thing that causes a barrier for most is the proper tools. “Proprietary” screws are a small toolkit away from just being a regular screw…

You could give the make and model of your laptop and I could send you links to buy anything and everything you need. I’d be willing to bet that tools and parts would be substantially less than buying a new laptop.

Caveat being if it’s a budget bin low spec laptop from a non reputable brand. If it was extremely cheap and cheaply made brand new, I’ll concede your point. Will say it’s still cheaper to fix, but at a certain point it doesn’t make sense to fix something that’s borderline unusable even new (outdated). That is assuming you don’t want to install Linux lol.

Does your assessment assume that you cannot fix it yourself?

Fixing things is nearly always cheaper than buying new unless the base assumption is you cannot perform it yourself and have to rely on a third party.

Repair services are often not even available because the margins would be so low. So, to answer your question of how we got here is because of Capitalism.

Next time just link to a RedLib instance??

It’s disheartening when you realize just how clueless so many people are lol.

Edit: For example

https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/Conservative/comments/1izmuzm/white_house_officials_seen_entering_with_epstein/

Bruh wtf. I mean I get it, but Jfc how many times you going to post this shit. You okay?

Encyclopedia?

Your third sentence sums up religion (and politics) pretty well.