dghughes

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by dghughes 21d ago
Cell towers failed in my region after a hurricane. SMS is pointless in that situation.
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by dghughes 21d ago
My 81 year-old mother has never owned a computer. So yes it's not good to have critical government services only on apps or websites that require log in or subscriptions. Although to her it doesn't matter since she has no clue of
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by dghughes 1mo ago
Yes I was there it wasn't as bad as now. TV or radio it was never the same three ads over and over and over. And the media is now truncated so cram in more ads. Plus the time between ads is shorter. So it's basically ads with a br
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by dghughes 1mo ago
Yeah I bought a five bay Synology NAS two or three years ago I think it and three 18TB WD Red drives total cost $3,000CAD? I was going to save up for two more drives. Now each drive is $1,000 CAD a 150% jump. edit: I checked $1,350 each so
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by dghughes 1mo ago
I hate how normal ads seem to be to young people (under age 30). Just seeing TikTok videos secondhand on YouTube the videos seems stuffed with people pushing crap. YouTube channels none are without ads either by YouTube or by the channel ow
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by dghughes 1mo ago
And that's with management. Here on the east coast of Canada cod was a big industry and was managed by Dept of Fisheries and Oceans aka DFO. The problem was foreign fishing freezer ships just over the maritime border. They took whateve
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by dghughes 2mo ago
I have hypothyroidism I don't experience "as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump." Are you drinking coffee or tea? You shouldn't eat or drink for an hour after taking a synthroid pill.
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by dghughes 2mo ago
The jump from 1.44MB on a 3.5 floppy to a 650MB CD was astonishing.
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by dghughes 3mo ago
Hi, from the other coast. I wish I had solar maybe someday. Do you ever watch Artisan Electric from the UK? He tried to run his shop on 100% solar+battery. He ran into a problem where sunny day batteries full shop using power but the panels
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by dghughes 4mo ago
I guess my hasty purchase meant as only a temporary, times were tight, placeholder Dell Inspiron in 2015 has to do me for another ten years.
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by dghughes 5mo ago
I never used to drink any caffeine. In fact the few times I had tried it when I was a teen or my 20s it made my chest pound my heart raced so much. It was Lebanese strong cardamom coffee so maybe not the best example. Then at age 34 I start
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by dghughes 6mo ago
That reminds me of when I was undiagnosed with hypothyroidism only in reverse. In my late 20s I made an effort to dress better, no jeans or dirty sneakers, hair cut, gel, gym at least three times a week. Then all that started to slide, brai
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by dghughes 7mo ago
Someone misheard iris for anus? lol
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by dghughes 7mo ago
Here in Canada when the new CPC took power its leader PM Harper muzzled scientists from speaking about most things but most of all anything about climate change. It also destroyed climate data claiming the ledgers were old fashioned, but th
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by dghughes 7mo ago
Believe it or not I've never seen it. I'm a big sci-fi fan but it was never on any station in my region of Canada years ago. Plus over the years it seemed to be really hard to find in any form whether torrents, DVDs, or anywhere
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by dghughes 8mo ago
You hear of media companies that delete old music and video from their own archives. People saving what they can may have the only copy left in existence.
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by dghughes 10mo ago
But not where it is in real-time or its location history.
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by dghughes 1y ago
Bill Hammack The Engineer Guy has a video series on this subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dW6VYXp9HM
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by dghughes 1y ago
I'm 56 now and I'd agree. I bike in the summer for exercise and I drink while on the go as needed. I always got a headache after exercising. A regular headache not a migraine (never had one). My discovery was Pedialyte it's m
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by dghughes 1y ago
Here in Canada there is Bill S-210 Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act aka "think of the children". I don't think the politicians thought of or could conceive of the technological requirements needed if
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by dghughes 1y ago
It started off as a way for people to get info on cars via fax machine. You ask or enter the vehicle VIN and you get a report. If it was in a crash, in a flood, see if mileage matches actual odometer. It's all web-based now. https:&#x
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by dghughes 1y ago
>our weird lack of fur, the strange way we never clean ourselves by licking, and how bad we are at catching small animals to eat. Or some of us with our tail on backwards.
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by dghughes 1y ago
Here in PEI I'm sure every isolated community has thousands of sayings. The island as a whole I'm sure has many. Canada is probably like that small communities with slang none of us have ever heard. The ones that break out regiona
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by dghughes 1y ago
The term Hydro for electrical power (power lines) is not used in PEI the older generation would call it the "light bill" younger people now may call it the "power bill". If it was out we'd just say the power is out.
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by dghughes 1y ago
> Renoviction That's very common word these days at least here in PEI. Kicking people out to "renovate". It basically means renovate as in sweep the floor and paint a small patch on the wall, done. All so they can kick out
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by dghughes 1y ago
I've often thought how my cat must think I am insane. I sit in from of a medium-sized glowing rectangle, I occasionally look at a small glowing rectangle, then in the evening stare at a really large glowing rectangle.
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by dghughes 1y ago
>neanderthals were "outcompeted" because homo sapiens had language I think any small groups of humans were just one virus away from extinction. Even we almost disappeared. A species that has a very low population for the entire
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by dghughes 1y ago
Sega in 2025? I thought they disappeared decades ago.
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by dghughes 1y ago
I did the same after imagining it. Plus I have a half eaten banana in front of me. My life is an illusion!
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by dghughes 1y ago
I yawned after reading the title and imagining a chimp yawn at a robot.

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