Expensive refills on ink/toner I can accept. It’s been like that forever. What I can not accept is how useless the HP printer/scanner is without HP smart. In windows I literally cannot do anything unless I’m signed into their stupid service. In Linux I just grab generic drivers and do whatever I want. So it’s obviously not baked into the printer. I can’t wait to get a new one from another brand, just need one good reason to make more e-waste.

Pretty much lol. Only instead of going to the store to try you just end up with what you get and make it work from there.

Don’t forget about thrift store style! Which wasn’t a style back then. Advantage though, us thrift store kids could switch styles daily. ‘Gangsta’ Monday, ‘emo’ Wednesday, poser Friday.

I’m glad you had a good time. My experience with Air BNB has been very different. I’ve never used their services but I’ve been ‘evicted’ from two affordable rental properties that are now Air BNBs by the property being sold to new owners. They’re very nice homes to rent for a weekend, I should know I lived there for years until I was kicked out for people like you.

I’m not saying that home had someone who was evicted to make it a hotel for you, but it happens to a lot of people. I’m not alone. Property owners kick people who are paying their rent, out onto the street because it could make more as an Air BNB. But that’s just capitalism baby.

Presumably yes, and for historical context look to Napoleon Bonaparte. It’s presumed that when he attempted suicide the mercury cyonide had “expired” (humidity and water got in) and that’s why his suicide failed. I still wouldn’t go around eating expired poison to prove a point though.

Oh man, I was the first kid on my block to figure out how to replace a rigntone file with whatever that program was. Felt like a legit haxor until everyone else realized how easy it was.