Tech-literate non-programmer who gets most of the jokes posted here… that’s what I thought at first, but it seemed like a clunky joke.

The moment I clicked into the comments and saw someone mention interrupts, the joke made so much more sense!

Is posting this to c/theonion some kind of double satire, or are there real people who don’t have a drawer full of USB cables??

As a longtime McMaster user, our work recently tried to get us to switch to Fastenal and/or Grainger as preferred suppliers because of some bullshit procurement dick-waving (they wouldn’t offer us a blanket 1% discount like the other guys, or something)

It’s honestly astounding how bad their websites are, compared to just about anything else, even if you have the manufacturer’s exact part number.

But yeah, McMaster is awesome,and there was enough hell raised that they were back on as a preferred supplier within a few months. Like, what even is a 1% discount when it means your engineers and maintenance guys are spending untold hours fighting a shitty website to find that one specific component that McMaster serves you up in 4 clicks?

inb4 coolstorybro

Honestly, what are you going to do with more than the 3 primary genres of “Hot new movies you’ll love”, “Trending films this week”, and “Throwback to last month’s Top 10”?

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a minute!

Barbeque SAWSE

Really? Those people who cant figure out how to engage their cruise control are the bane of my road tripping existence.

Especially when they pass you oh-so-slowly forcing you you to slow down to get in the passing lane behind them when you encounter the next few cars, then they slow down while passing, only to speed up again 2 miles later after you overtake them…

Its about the mildest possible of infuriating, but its like water torture.

In that case, I would unironically love to know what you thought “young man in colonial America” and “woodworking apprenticeship” were slang for!

… but don’t worry, here’s a 1yr subscription to an identity monitoring service you’ve only ever heard of because that popular reaction vid youtuber reads lines for them. They’ll send you an email when their database gets hacked, which will get lost amongst the daily ad spam they send you, after you signed up for their service.

I’m convinced that private trackers are the pirating equivalent to snipe hunting.

Like, I’m sure they exist, but mostly just for sake of trolling casuals who aren’t willing to spend hours and hours min-maxxing their client and torrent list.

No weirder than any other accent, TBH.

From a US-centric POV, I always thought the stereotypical Aussie accent kind of sounded like a Texas-ification of the “standard” UK accent. Including the use of wacky phrases and slang.

Right… I suppose next you’re going to say it could be one of those fusion reactors that are always just 10 years away!

I see qbittorrent has “experimental” support for i2p, but I would need to look into what all that setup entails.

Gotcha. Yeah, I just have a standard 1gig residential fiber connection with unlimited data from a large US telco. I’m sure there is some provision in the T&Cs where they could cap your data, but so far they are holding to the “unlimited” statement.

I don’t necessarily prefer them, I just honestly haven’t put much effort into getting into any private trackers.

I see no downside!

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4523 is insane! Like I mentioned in another post, my top is about 400:1, and that’s romcom I’ve never even heard of, but that my wife wanted lol

I that case, I got nothing 🙁

Anyway, I know some folks just can’t seed for whatever reason. No biggie. To each as they need, from each as they can provide

Even so, I’m not gonna judge. It took me awhile to realize my mistake there as well. 🍻

Are you using a VPN that allows port forwarding? It took me a couple months of slow uploads to realize that was my problem.

Honestly at least in US the ISPs couldn’t care less until a studio or something comes after them. But I have qbittorrent bound to a VPN, which is enough.