Famous example… a man spent $44b to push his memes.

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    I once met this girl who let me touch her boobs and do other fun stuff. In order to make that more convenient, we rented an apartment together. Which meant I needed a job to pay rent. Eventually we wanted a nicer place, so we bought a townhouse, which meant I needed to make more money and get a better job. Then we wanted kids, which meant a bigger house, car, etc etc. So needed a promotion to keep up with growing bills and spending.

    Now I’m in my 40s, have a bunch of kids, work too much. And all I wanted was to touch some boobs and stuff.

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    I play the sims sometimes. A few years ago I realized that I only really enjoy it when I have a fully fleshed out story of every sim in the game, their relationships to each other, their personalities, etc. So I began the extensively tedious task of making a save like that. I have an excel file with hundreds of lines of text and several sheets detailing every personality trait, every relationship, their hopes and dreams, their ages so I can age them all up appropriately, and more. I also use it to make sure that I have a balanced amount of traits/goals, since the NPCs as EA made them are almost all identical with very small differences (~60% of them had the “family oriented” trait, and if they had that there was a very high likelihood they had the cheerful trait). I will work on it obsessively for a few weeks at a time then stop for months, repeat 1-3 times a year.

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        Yes lol. I actually don’t really get to play when I do this, but my goal is to have one save that is 100% designed by me (well, except the architecture, that I leave to the people on the gallery)

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    A coworker once said I sounded a little flat on Teams, so I bought a USB Audio Interface, boom arm, shock mount, shotgun mic. Couldn’t stop there, of course. Bought two studio monitors, foam pads for the speakers, and audio foam for my bare walls. A little over board, but now my coworker can hear me apply chapstick like I’m two inches from their ears.

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    I learned just enough coding and firefox framework to compile my own version of firefox with middle mouse closing tabs disabled

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        It was weird man, i was in the dev forums and there were previous requests for this feature. And they wouldnt put it on the config page because users might not find it there. So cant have it at all.

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      lol why not just not use the middle mouse button? Did you remap it to something else?

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        Yes i have it mapped to a thumb mouse button for other applications. And then im browsing firefox, i wanna switch to a tab on the left, the button bumps against the keyboard, tab gets closed.

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          Are you aware of ctl + shift + t to reopen a closed tab? You can hit it multiple times too. Totally fine if you prefer this solution, but this is a useful tip regardless!

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          Not saying it wasn’t worth it, but some other options that might work:

          • bind middle mouse to an extension (e.g open lastpass)
          • buy a mouse that lets you change keybindings on the mouse instead
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            you cant bind middle mouse to anything in firefox, or in any browser I looked at. and I bound this button to middle mouse myself, it’s used a lot in Blender and this is more comfortable than the default.

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      Can feel you right there. I once bought a new computer just to bring compile time of Firefox core from 1h to 15m. To fix a bug which was on my nerves.

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    This may not be at the top of my “excessive” list, but it’s the most recent. I bought a pair of ex-enterprise HP servers and a 32RU rack to hold them, so I could cancel my Netflix subscription.

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      I did the same thing, but didn’t get around to actually using them… so I just sold them after a year of running an FTP server for no reason.

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        I used the opportunity to get into Proxmox for my self-hosting (instead of docker on RasPis) and it’s safe to say I’m now deeper into the rabbit hole than ever before. Lol.

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        Link to what? The person is either pirating or buying digital copies of TV/movies and storing them on a server. Likely being served with Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin.

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          How I wish you could buy digital copies… the only option is pirating or buying physical copies and turning them into digital copies.

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    I wanted to do a small tray icon plugin showing me weather alerts but the European weather alert system (whatever it’s called) was using shitty API that would only return all alerts at the same time which was quite heavy. So I wrote a small server that would pull those twice a day, save in a DB and expose API with location param. Then I wrote lua plugin in awesome WM to get this and display info. After couple of months they changed the API and allowed filtering alerts by location…

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    When I was 19 I tried an IRC Vampire the Requiem game. I got banned after arguing with the admins about the rules (in retrospect I was right about how things worked but they’d already house ruled it and I should’ve just gone with it). In response I wrote a whole website for managing character sheets, and a connected IRC bot to handle dice rolls, and pull things from character sheets.

    I did all of that, and then proceeded to run a terrible vampire game on IRC for a couple months. The code was all in PHPNuke so it’s useless now. But it taught me a lot about coding for the web. During that time I showed my work at a job interview as a software dev, and I got a job while still in college. But as part of the coding questions, I learned that you can use sql to join tables. I went home and started rewriting a lot of stuff, but the game died before I was finished.

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    I’ve been working on a video detailing a video game I’m making and for one of the sections in the video I talk about Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. For those parts I tried downloading some footage for it but it always came out blurry and low quality so I decided to record my own footage. I kinda regret that decision because I forgot how long that game is. So now I’m playing through this 30 hour game to get a few seconds footage from different chapters in the game.

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        Edit - I corrected a few errors here and there: If you are willing to read until the end, you deserve proper structure and grammar

        Director’s Cut:
        I was dating this girl back in university. It was the sort of relationship that, looking backwards now, we were more friends than partners. But I liked her, she liked me and we both wanted the best for one another. And at the time we were invested in making the relationship last, more by stubbornness than by commitment.
        Back then she had this friend that was really close to her, they had a nice chemistry going on and those sort of things. I did not worry about it since he was also in a relationship and jealousy has never been my thing.
        But I liked to joke about it, saying to my girlfriend things like “if we ever leave each other, I know you’ll end up with him” or “you two will marry for sure one day”.
        And she always got mad when I did that.
        But a weird kind of mad. A “whoa dude, take it down a few pegs” kind of mad. A “what are you not telling yourself?” kind of mad.
        And she always stressed how I could be not wrong, how my whole judgment system was wrong and my whole brain was WRONG.
        This was taken to an extent where she started to get mad at me every time she got out with him.
        One night we were in a fight and she brought this thing up just to say again how I was wrong. That time I just calmly said “at this point I know I’m not”.
        She left without saying a word more, shoes still untied and crying in frustration.
        She called me the next day saying that she was sorry, she apologized for how she overreacted and such, just like she apologized a million times before that.
        I was numb at this point, I had rough months with my studies, quite a few familiar issues and I didn’t want to be in a relationship anymore. So I just told her “I feel like taking a break” and hung up.
        Seconds later I messaged him “Dude, this is your chance”. He didn’t answer.
        He broke up with his girl the week later and the month after that they were together publicly. Rumors say that he even broke his engagement to do so, but I’m not 100% sure it’s true.
        She never really talked to me again because she is a really prideful person and I get really snarky when I’m right.

        Fast forward a whole year, one day I’m back home from work, I switch on my laptop and start scrolling through social media: I see a picture of them.
        He’s in a really elegant tuxedo, she’s in a white dress, people throwing grains of rice at them. Everyone’s happy.
        I open the fridge and crack a beer, thinking “feels good to be right”. I try to smile but I can’t.

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            A romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. 🤔 🤔
            And probably Margot Robbie because she has to be in every cast of every movie ever

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    I wanted physical books out of something that was only available as PDFs. So instead of going the sensible route I bought a color laser printer, learnt how to bind books, bought tools and materials, made a simple book binding press and made my own books.

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    During COVID I couldn’t find any distilled water to make cocktail pods (which are already pretty extra in their own right), so I bought an alembic still and learned how to use it to distill water, which led me to figure out how to rig it up with a hot plate, food grade tubes, fish tank pump, and igloo cooler so I could run it in an out of the way spot in my house. It takes days to make a few gallons…but the cocktail pods came out great and now I’m slightly closer to being a survivalist! (My smartass friends: Why didn’t you just make Jell-O shots?)

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    Purchasing a self-hosted server to avoid having to pay a truckload of money in storage space. Well, not only did I have to rent a smaller VPS anyways to bypass my ISP restrictions on incoming traffic (curse you CG-NAT!) but I also managed to brick two $100-ish microservers in two different attempts to patch them against BIOS vulnerabilities. If I ever manage to get the circuitry to save those devices though, they might work as a nice TV box each

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      Are you me? That’s the reason my basement looks like a storage locker from a tv show with a huge metal box in it which makes funny noises.

      And the part about the isp is true as well. 3.95 a month just to circumvent some bullshit restrictions and to prevent having to switch to a ridiculously overpriced business plan just to get a static IP.

      But it was a great learning experience and I now know my way around wire guard and basic iptables V4 and V6.

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        Yes I do - in fact I’m using a VPS with Wireguard to serve the website I’m replying to you from. I also use Zerotier at times to connect to my desktop computer while outside of my house.

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        Is there a good guide out there on how this would work? I tried to host my Plex server at a friend’s house while I am traveling but his ISP uses cgnat and the router wouldn’t let me do any sort of port forwarding so I gave up and now my family is bugging me about when Plex will be running again.

        I’d also like to move beyond just forwarding ports to the internet because I know it’s a security vulnerability. I got everything to work correctly and I wasn’t worried about someone gaining access to my Plex server, but I’d like to do things the right way.

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    It’s not unspeakably excessive but I bought a laser printer just to print out the „manual“ of Shenzhen I/O. Played the game for a week or so.

    I do use the printer about once every two months though.

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    I’m trying to convince my 24 hours of lemons team to establish a corporation so we can start a probably failing marketing business to offset racing costs and start actual marketing, ride alongs, etc. I’m also as of today as a first step trying to convince them to purchase some fucking worthless land for 150k (between 8 people, I’m well off not rich) that we can use as storage, base of operations, and a place to meet up.

    It’s the most unorganized fucking version of Red Bull racing you can imagine and while in my wild dreams we are successful I have no real hope and it would help cover costs of doing auto racing.