Thomas Loupe

Those people would talk about it for the next month as if they had built this para-social relationship with him just by seeing him - like they knew him personally. The striking similarity in the way people acted then and the way the grifters act now are, at the least, harrowing.

West Palm Beach is the next largest city south of where I was born/lived. Trump would occasionally drive into our town and people would wait on the side of the road for him to pass by. It was so jarring and peculiar to me that people cared that much about someone.

I grew up near WPB, and it was one of the craziest things I ever witnessed in my life - to see people so starstruck when that dude would drive by in his limo in Port Saint Lucie lined up on the streets just to get a glimpse of him.

Didn't understand it then, still don't, but de-ja-vu is killing me.

Slumber Realm on Steam A dreamy dice roguelike. Enter the Slumber Realm and battle your adolescent fears. Discover powerful synergies, unlock upgrades and equipment, fight broccoli. Decorate your crib with relics of the 90s...

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Slumber Realm on Steam A dreamy dice roguelike. Enter the Slumber Realm and battle your adolescent fears. Discover powerful synergies, unlock upgrades and equipment, fight broccoli. Decorate your crib with relics of the 90s...

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It was rumored he was spotted next to a woman with a ponytail and triangle shaped boobs. She was panned out of the image to prevent the public from noticing zfighting floor textures.

I can't imagine how someone could find a musical artist channel as a good fit for... *checks email again*
hidden cameras and hidden camera detectors...

If anyone wants to know why my blood pressure spikes when I'm in a doctor's office, now you know why.

I'm all for mental health support, but what the hell is this gaslighting from YouTube? Just because I'm not creating content every day I must be having some kind of mental meltdown or something? Really weird vibes from this email.

Big c*ck energy is real in that room.

My self-hosting journey hasn't come to an end, but it has slowed down and I'm happy to finally be settled with the results.

$80+ a month saved in just hosting things myself. No cloud involvement whatsoever, and self-hosted websites. Really happy with the results.

Have you ever not subscribed to a service's emails for a legitimate million-dollar+ company, get spammed by them, and then when attempting to unsubscribe their domain won't resolve, meaning you just can't unsubscribe... ever?

Next time let's add on to it by just having a placeholder device that represents the switch which just reaches out to the cloud to the real switch - let's just go full stupid at this point.

They really hate ROMs that much, huh?

Got my kiddo a switch ages ago, it died, got another, it died.
Never again, just on principle and now I'm surely not second-guessing that decision, because I know how you feel about dongles, and you know how I feel about dongles.

Am I the only person I the world that always felt that going to the movie theater is/was weird just in general? You sit next to a person you don't know, don't want to know, and actively avoid each other to then do a thing together you wish you didn't have to.

What ever, really, was the point?

I mean, I'm not trying to be rude to the guy, but it's difficult to have never heard of someone then hear that and take anything seriously, accolades or not.

I've learned, sometimes you get real lucky and that's all you need for a pedestal to say dumb shit that people will listen to.

Who is this guy anyway lol

swapping conversations, pictures, etc. Snitching on that one person trying to break your friend group up because they were a lamer.

With apps always being online, we lost the ability to show intention to communicate or to be communicated with.

Retro-IM is here.
Communication is intentional again.

That didn't happen in 1997.
First, you dialed up to the internet, hoping not to get a busy signal, or if you were me, dialing long-distance (sorry, mom) to get online.

You logged on to your messenger, deliberately looking to talk to your friends, and your friends did, too -

(cont)

For anyone wondering why I did this, there's a couple reasons:

1. I really missed the simplicity of old-school messenger apps.

2. Modern social apps always keep us online, but have you ever sent a message to a friend who was clearly online and they just... didn't answer your message?

(cont)

The graphical interface of Retro Instant Messenger, an AOL Instant Messenger Clone.

Happy 39th birthday to me (it was over a few hours ago)!

Instead of receiving gifts, here's a gift for you...
I rebuilt AOL Instant Messenger from scratch.

Retro Instant Messenger is here and (mostly, kinda-sorta, but probably not) out of alpha.

retroinstantmessenger.com

I like it! Reminds me of the Snapple and YooHoo caps that had jokes on the inside.

It doesn't get any funnier than claiming you support and welcome diversity at the White House press briefing, then immediately introduce Tim Pool, the guy who's podcast was literally funded by Russia, at your briefing.

That is somehow both the most, and the least diverse you could possibly be.

I just replaced my kitchen sink, too! Mainly for the same reasons. All the pipes were old, and there were clips underneath digging into the old particle board that had broken down over 30 years. I ended up buying a whole new sink so the top lip would go over instead of under, then used caulk between

After four years:
Calibre - free. Amazon Kindle ~$15/mo.
Minecraft server - free. Paid ~$8/mo.
Running multiple websites - free. Digital Ocean ~$10-20/mo
Self-hosted password manager - free. Paid $8/mo
NAS storage 20+TB - free. Google Drive $99/mo

Disconnect from paid cloud services where you can!

The more I work with cloud, the more I see how much the cost goes up for little benefit. Cloud gives you peace of mind, sure, but after working with cloud providers for years, there's nothing quite like being being self-sufficient with your own data, security, and hosting.

Bye bye, cloud services!

The amount of money I will have saved on cutting down cloud subscriptions services for password management, etc. pays for a multi-thousand-dollar NAS with equal perf in ~3 years. 20+ TBs storage, no cost for compute, high capacity ECC RAM, M.2 read+write caches, and 2x 10gbit links LAN & WAN.

I bet his favorite artist is Amy Whinehouse.
(Sorry, Amy, rest in peace.)