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You have more patience than I do. Whatever it is you’re trying to get warrantied would have been thrown into the trash at my house as soon as I figured out the warranty was a scam. Things like that irritate me all out of proportion to their affect on my life.

Not to be that old guy yelling at clouds, but some old things were better than what you can buy today. Not all old things - a lot of new things are much better or didn’t even exist 20 years ago. Cars, for example. Electric yard equipment, streaming music and video, high efficiency furnaces, digital thermometers. They’re much cheaper now as well, especially electronics.

But I’ve always enjoyed well made things and tinkering on them. Things that I might have wanted years ago but were unjustifiably expensive are now available on FB Marketplace for little or nothing and YouTube videos make repairs easy. AI will tell you which ones have parts available and which ones don’t.

So I go around buying sturdy old things and fix them up. I guess a lot of old guys do this and I find it very satisfying. Kitchen Aid stand mixers, Sunbeam Mixmasters, 70’s stereo equipment, vacuum cleaners, knives, tools. I wouldn’t say that these things are necessarily better than the new ones but they are repairable, parts are available, and I get satisfaction from sinking $50 in parts in to a 30 year old $100 mixer and coming up with the mixer I wanted years ago and couldn’t afford.

Downside is that I’m running out of people to give them to.

Glad to hear they’re still honoring the warranty and aren’t screwing around with original receipts and such. It’s a level of class that’s rapidly disappearing from American companies.

I was able to see the graphics and they’re very good! Not sure that the format is good for conveying information, though. It’s too slow.

The story itself is disturbing. Not just the AI part, it’s not much different than leaving an autobiography, but the way the author is using it to air old grievances over and over. This can’t be healthy.

Then there is the gaslighting. The fabrication of the mountain story. Will the machine continue to make up more stuff over time? I suspect it will and to what end?

It’s not something I want to get involved in. When I die I want you to bury me, warts and all, and get on with your life.

Very clever, especially if you’re heating your entire town by burning wood chips.

Around here I see only walleye and lake perch.

I wonder why no one talks about whitefish?

Trunk

Spectacular! And that setting!

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@AndyD

Beautiful!