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[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Now just imagine how the hype is for literally everything they've ever done, and it's on the exact same level. Once Tesla/Musk does something related to your field, it's abundantly clear what an absolute fraud he is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

And honestly, you can make a lot of really good bread quite quickly. Leaving out proofing for a bit, it's less than watching an episode of a show. Bread it also easy enough that you can totally watch a show while making it, and not worry about chopping off your fingers lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What's wilder is seeing the Confederate flag well outside the USA. I was just in the eastern part of Germany for a wedding, near-ish to Leipzig, and at the venue one of the employees had a Confederate flag plastered on the back of his van.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But they were at least limited in their portability and loudness and battery life. Now you can have a tiny speaker that gives up any semblance of sound quality for loudness, but will also manage to last 8+ hours.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, that was pretty wild. Thanks for taking the time to type that out, it was well worth the wait.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Well, are you going to tell us the story?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Looking at the bottom corner of the bumper, I definitely think this is the case

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least on my TV, I've had firmware updates enable things like variable refresh rate, enable 4K/120Hz, improve the dynamic contrast performance, and fix a couple of weird bugs it had shipped with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So far, no ghosts yet! Only haunted by the vague odor of the church it was in before, so it kind of smells like an old lady's house, but it's going away pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I went on the low side since it's not in perfect shape and is an older (1985) Young-Chang built Wurlitzer. It was a church piano so it has some bushing wear in the keys, but still very playable, and had a broken string on D2 that was an easy $50 fix. I think after moving, tuning, the string, and eventually rebushing it in the next year or so, I'll have about $900-1000 into it all said and done. Still definitely a pretty inexpensive piano overall, but understandable why they might not have wanted to put money into something that was probably a donation to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

A $1 grand piano off of eBay. I had been looking around on stuff like FB Marketplace for a "real" piano after learning with a really basic keyboard for a while, and happened across a gorgeous 6'1" grand piano on eBay. It was reasonably close, the ad said it was in good working order, and they took very detailed pictures of basically every single flaw in the case. I called up a piano mover, and had them pick it up from the church, sight unseen. I was so worried that I'd made a mistake, given that the moving was still about $400, but I got insanely lucky, with a beautiful looking and sounding piano worth about $5k for basically just the cost of moving it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I love that they literally took the plot from a King of the Hill episode satirizing government bureaucracy, and decided that would make for great government policy.

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