Yup. I recall that. Got my PC bunged up by it and I ended up getting a budget 160GB hard drive and reinstalling a fresh copy of WinXP on it.

Learned the hard lesson about ripping CD's and ended up pivoting to jumping the analog gap and doing line-in recordings of my music and treating much of it like I do vinyl LPs. Have a PowerMac G4 (one with zero latency) with an Avid audiophile card that I use so the quality of the recordings are fine.

Only Sony products I have now are a couple of digital cameras - which are actually decent.

LOL - Is this a justice boner or a justice boner?

Be proud my man!

As I remember it, the colors were more business pinstripe gray for the conservatives and blue for the democrats.

Ohy yeahhh. let's put every goddamned appliance and industrial/retail food service machine online - there will be no problems ever.. at all.. right?

Jesus fucking christ, whomever pushed this tech forward needs a swift kick in the ass.

God, wouldn’t that be a dream!

It only ends up being really "there" if the stake- and stockholders withdraw their shares and cash out. It's all paper valuations.

Many billionaires are actually what is known as paper tigers in that their wealth assets aren't real, (as in real estate) because the "wealth" is based on numbers on balance sheets and little else.

Looks like it's a stump at some factory or warehouse that hasn't gone out of business... yet.

Because Trump will sic FCC chair Brendan Carr on them, if they mention anything "bad" about Dear Leader.

Mainstream media's been cucked by a NY conman grifter with a penchant for lawsuits.

Ehhh. I've found them to be more reliable for certain kinds of searches - government records and the like - than DDG, yahoo or bing.

As far as general websites and social media shit - yeah, it's a hot mess.

Image search on bing is pretty decent right now, though there's no guarantee how long that will last.

Google's image searches (I primarily look for royalty-free graphics) are now keyed to the sites like shutterstock, dreamstime and adobe which leaves a lot to be desired.

Nope.

Seems to be if you've been a steady, daily poster, you only get to tunnel back a year before you hit the post limit.

The older posts are archived and you can no longer reach them via one's profile page.

This happened about the time the IPO rolled out and few people noticed it.

As I'm big on being patient on these things, and also sorta noticed how the other social media platforms work, (facebook was my main teacher) it made sense to wait and see what rolled out instead of getting what I could then saying "fuck it" and deleting the account.

Glad I was patient as once I saw it, the penny dropped. Facebook does the same thing in that as you delete your comments from your home page, it dips into your older posts to pull up stuff you'd put up years ago.. First on your own page, then on friends pages. (It's the latter comments that people make which keeps them in facebook's system even if they delete their account.)

It's built to positively affirm your presence on the site, so if you get all your current stuff deleted and maintain the account it WILL crack open the archived posts so you can get to them.

I was honestly pleasantly surprised when I saw this, and instantly understood how to work it.

Seems like everyone's copied facebook in that aspect. Constant engagement starting with YOU, right?

Easy peasy once you understand how it rolls.

Google released an API for the web results. People need to learn to use it.

tenbluelinks.org

You're most welcome!

The trick is that when you get booted, do NOT close out your account. Start manually deleting and when you get to the years prior posts and can't go any further because you've hit the archived content wall.. leave the site for a few months or so, keeping your login active.

Just wait.

It's like facebook, in that when you show up after a time it will dig up your most current post to put up on your profile page.. the system is designed to show you your own shit to keep you engaged, so it will unarchive your older content to bring it up. I'm now three years deep into my posting history on old.reddit and I delete a few pages worth every week. When I get to the end of this current batch and can't go any further back.. I'll just wait. I don't even logout.

Patience is the key esp. if you'd been on the site for a super long time (I had 15 years..)

Rinse and repeat until it is all gone.