HugeNerd

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

The bigger cities are expensive. Quebec city is smaller, very nice, but learn French, eh?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

I've been playing it wrong all these years!

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 hours ago

Oooohhh and pray tell, how can you know which molecule of a tornado toppled over THAT house in particular?

It's a bogeyman, the same way Russia hysteria has been for Americans since the 1950s. You are being manipulated, that's true, but look closer to home.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

As long as it's not your country's responsibility! Good thing you have a general purpose bogeyman.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago

For one thing they don’t vibrate themselves to pieces

..what?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

And they say the US doesn't manufacture anything anymore...

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Go ahead and do a whole Riverdance on that thing.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

So what? Being 100 is no pic-nic. Get back to me when we can figure out anti-aging and give me my 25 year old configuration back.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I assume that's why he created porn

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That makes no sense, you're not alive anymore to be judged. You are gone. If you imagine a dead person partying or having sex, does that do or change anything to the dead person? It's over.

However if you meant like in a general sense like the way people judge Stalin or Hitler, fine, but they're also gone.

 

Just as I was complaining that there's been fewer tech finds, along comes this. Sure, it's over ten years old and pretty basic, and the price is just fair, when you consider shipping it's good. It's pretty much new in the box, with the original AA batteries (soon to be replaced by some USB AAs). There are two receivers in there too, and a USB dongle I believe for RC simulators.

I haven't played with RC crap in a long time, I have an old quadcopter somewhere this will work with (I hope?).

 

Some kind of compilation of 1960s hits, I guess. For 2.50$, why not? Especially compared to $49.98. The box is in OK shape, and unlike many of these sets I find, no mold or cigarette smell!

The records themselves are immaculate, like new. The pretty lady could be Barbara Bouchet for all I know. Anyone got a record player? Have yet to find a reasonable ('70s or '80s brand name) turntable while thrifting.

 

I saw that logo and recognized it as a brand of super expensive German toys from a long time ago, this just seems to be a storage box with variable sized containers, I suppose for all the Fischertechnik parts.

The box is still sealed and is quite heavy, and has little damage. I think the quality of this old stuff is excellent. In any case, $5.85 barely gets you a cheeseburger anymore.

 

I saw this store on Jean Talon and looked inside. They have clothes at decent prices, but all the appliances I saw, that indeed look like they're off the floor from Home Depot, all had full retail prices.

Unfortunately I was pressed for time and had to leave.

The website just explains you should "or visit our socials.". I'm not going on Facebook to buy a washing machine.

Anyone try this store? Are the prices lower and they just don't remove the original store stickers? I might not go back for weeks so I ask here.

 

I try to find interesting items while thrifting. Over the last year I managed to find, incredibly, a vacuum-tube oscilloscope, various decent cassette decks, some ancient chunky VCRs^*^ for decoration purposes, usable Win 10 PCs, a bunch of physical media, a bean to cup coffee machine, even usable 500G and 1T external hard drives for like 15$. This stuff is just fun junk to play around with, and it allowed me to get a sense of offerings from Value Village and Goodwill.

I also got a bit of a kick from the thrill of the hunt. What will I find?

However in the last month, I've noticed a drying up of these items, a shrinking of the physical media sections, and re-arranging their store's layouts to increase the clothes offerings (nothing wrong with that).

Is it seasonal or have high prices for fun items made people check before donating? Or are thrift stores in Canada becoming more like American stores with "premium" items being offered online?

Guess I'll never find dbx vinyls at Goodwill now...

(*) Way too many dried or disintegrated belts and rollers in older VCRs. They simply don't work anymore.

 

I know this model. It's ~30 years old, can make a decent shot. This particular one didn't smell, looked clean enough, had all parts, powered up, but decided to leak coffee powder everywhere once I got it home. Pump doesn't prime but I think it should be an easy fix, the pump makes the normal pump sound. Worst case I need a 30$ gasket kit and a weekend of futzing around. Not bad huh?

 

I saw it when it came out and only remember that I thought it was pretty good. Maybe I'll watch it this weekend.

 

A good find this afternoon I think. 10$ for these two, and Strangelove is in a metal jewel case thingy. Pretty good.

 

Star Trek The Motionless Picture through The Undiscovered Country plus The Captain's Summit for 7.50$. That's decent

 

Not me! Maybe not the best selection, there were more Warner Brothers discs, infamous for bit rot (it's real, even their regular DVDs die prematurely), I passed on those. I have a few and they are all dead.

[For those who don't know, HDDVD was the HD format that lost the format wars of the early 2000s. There are very few readers any more out there. The XBOX 360's external reader is one, the Toshiba machines are the others. I have both!]

 

Pretty lame I guess but this is pretty fancy and looks like unused and unopened. It really slowly, smoothly AND silently opens up.

Now to find magneto-optical disks.

 

All 6 seasons with 6 still sealed. Nostalgia, baby. I miss the '90s!

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