Web Dev. Middle-aged. Dad.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I had a Thinkpad T440s that had a ridiculous battery life. I think I picked I picked it up on eBay for like $300 4 or 5 years ago. I tinkered with it and ended up breaking it and didn’t have time to put it back together/fixed up but that thing was a dream. I have a “desktop replacement” PC that’s huge and unwieldly and I wish I just kept my T440s with an upgraded display and like 4 days of battery life.




  • We used Wyze cameras for years but their quality has dropped considerably in the last few. Every time you open the app they’ve got a new popup to remind you to buy more stuff and their app only works half the time. I wish there was something affordable I could set up and host at home without having to pay ridiculous prices for hardware and making it a second job to set up and/or maintain. Wyze was the answer there but they’ve been sitting uncharged at the front and back door for months now because their app just wasn’t worth using.





  • I felt similarly. Exploring is just another thing to “do” to get credits/nanites. It was cool to see genuinely new things like the huge Dune-styled worms but once you see one you’ve seen them all.

    That extends to base building too. I have no reason to build a base anywhere else in the galaxy once I have a capital ship that does all my crafting for me. Except resource collecting, I guess. But meh, different strokes for different folks. I don’t think there’s been a non-MMO continually-updated game that I’ve come back to as often as NMS but coming back is usually pretty short-lived.







  • Yup! Same here. Had someone recommend kbin on mastodon so I made my way here. Deleted 2 10+ year old Reddit accounts and cut all ties. I went in anonymously to check out what happened with that submarine but otherwise cut all ties. The amount of my life I’ve taken back by dropping that site is incredible. I didn’t realize how much of my time was spent doomscrolling there. Now I’m playing guitar, playing games and building web dev projects with all the time I’m saving. I never got into Twitter but from my understanding a lot of people have had my same experience dropping that site too.