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Weekly Ramblecast 189: My Fudgehog Is Infested
🕑 Added 2025-01-21 22:01:14 +0000 UTCThis week, a cautionary tale about leaving the candy in your commemorative piñata, ethical transfer of animals out of the home, warming your hands in a frigid office, the disappearance of newspapers, rudeness on the road, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:23) 37F is too cold for an office
(00:04:01) The phone bill is too darn high
(00:09:42) Why do we talk about Ryan Reynolds so much
(00:15:30) Google Gemini can gemi-die
(00:18:57) The fudgehog is infested
(00:28:40) Ethical animal removal
(00:37:04) Hey, do they make typing gloves?
(00:39:44) Vinny's voice has almost broken
(00:42:08) The newspaper, kind of a romantic object
(00:50:04) Is it just getting meaner out there, on the road or otherwise?
(00:58:27) Content and bye!
Comments
Pete
Jitterbug is the phone you guys are thinking of
Harith
You could look into a service like Fastmail to run your emails and calendars.
Shakezula84
For reference, Verizon's 1080p vs 4k on 5G and 5GUW is a cap they impose. They throttle your speeds to prevent you from getting 4k even if the speed is fast enough.
Tea Pain
Guys, please remember the NYT is the same paper that helped lie us into the invasion of Iraq. Also, their Gaza coverage has been atrocious. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/here-are-the-latest-examples-of-the-astonishing-dishonest-nytimes-coverage-of-israels-war-on-gaza/
Pantalones Johnson
Vinny: I switched from the ER-4 to the cloud gateway ultra. I'm sure my use case is nowhere near as complex but it's nice to just have all my unifi stuff under 1 cohesive ecosystem. I was hosting my unifi controller on the same rasp pi that I ran pi hole on and it was just just getting too unstable long term. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
Pantalones Johnson
Wife and I were on T-Mobile for a decade until they kicked us off a grandfathered unlimited plan and put us on a "new" unlimited plan. You get NOTHING for being a loyal customer nowadays. It's your responsibility to game the system to get the best deal. Moved the family to Verizon and got a couple of "free" iphone pros and our service is cheaper with the bundled discounts. It used to be that it was not in your interest to lock into a contract. With phones being so expensive and the upgrade cycle being stretched out to 2-3 years, it's kind of worth locking in at a low rate and getting $3k worth of phones for free and re-evaluating when the contract period is over.
Remix 26
Cricket is just a wireless provider just like mint and Verizon. You can use any phones on there. Cricket started back when the phones only did texting and calling but they’re just like any other provider but cheaper.
