yea. there used to be two full doors or more in the freezer for just frozen concentrated juices. now there’s one little tiny shelf and all the variety is gone.

there’s more profit in “premium” refrigerated “ready to drink” product.

the standard size has made 1.5 quarts for as long as i can remember… at least the 1970s. there used to be smaller and larger ones in some brands, though.

it was disney channel musicals here. and i actually didn’t mind (too much). some of those are ok movies.

it hasn’t been a ‘value’ option for at least 20 years now… based on per-unit price, it’s often more expensive than the lowest cost refrigerated carton

you can actually still do that! enable the desktop icon for ‘computer’ in settings->personalisation->themes->desktop icon settings, then go to that icon on the desktop and right click it and rename. although i have gotten used to win11’s ‘user files’ one with quick access and recent and use that one instead—when it works, anyway (right now it is not)

that’s one reason, the other is that the large display coolers where those items are often located are just a wall of a large walk-in where other stock not on display is stored. those are along a side of the building, and the back wall is nearest the loading docks (usually) so those items can be rolled right from the incoming trucks to the cooler easily.

i also bring my own shopping bags. the grocery store here (the only one, a walmart) disabled the scales because they don’t have the staffing to deal with all the false positives, i guess… but anyway, i’ve gotten to just taking the wireless hand scanner (which is much quicker than the register’s scanner) and scanning stuff in the cart and then bagging it right away–all right in the cart. only produce gets put up by the register, since it needs to be weighed anyway.

the thing is… you shouldn’t have to “search up the settings to turn off the saving redirection in Office programs and toss it in the default Group Policy settings”. cloud shit in windows and ms office needs to be optional, and explicitly opt in

SOP. They only care when it affects them.

and then when it comes time to vote again, they’ll line right back up to take another beating themselves.

mullvad also has encrypted dns that anyone (don’t need to be a vpn subscriber) can plug-in to their browser or (compatible) operating system–including optional domain-level blocking (adult, social, gambling, and ads). yes, you can use a basic ‘pihole-like’ dns without needing to actually set one up.

I am pretty set with Firefox in Android and desktop to be honest.

been using firefox since before it was called firefox, and netscape before that. while i do use ‘other’ browsers, too, their use is limited to testing and a few select sites or purposes only (for instance, i use a ‘portable’ opera for mail, and only mail).

dell’s been going down the crapper for at least a decade… ever since dell and the vultures took it private ~ 2013.

‘entry level’ specs have been 4gb ram for over a decade, and they’re still selling shit-tier laptops with only that today.

that would require the software companies to actually spend money on competent developers instead of tossing peanuts at prompt writers.

an 8gb pc with win11 is today’s equivalent of running vista on 1gb.

there’s a number of laptops already that do have 8gb on the board and no sodimm slots.

Not long ago that would feed you McDonald dinner for a month

in the 00s, that 75 dollars would have bought SEVENTY-ONE double cheeseburgers (including a typical sales tax rate of 5.5 percent). today, it would only get you seventeen of them.

decline of about one-third of a percent

something that can be easily offset by switching that in-person meeting into an email or cutting a useless middle-management position.

the poorest are cutting back their expenses

those people have nothing else left to cut back on.

hey now. there was that three-year window, jan 2020 to jan 2023, where win8.1 was the best.