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TV Host turned Speaker & Educator for Open Source, Privacy & our Right to Repair. 300k on YT, Founder @geebeacon & @thegeeksabroad 🤗 https://nitter.gq/t.co/QR7kiGeXrg

Raleigh, NC
Joined December 2008
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This one hurts. I lost my dad years ago, watching TNG with him as a kid was such a fond memory. I looked up to both Captain Picard, and my Dad. 😭
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Wait so you're saying Alice wasn't just a winner of a #Nvidia 5090 giveaway?
NEW: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to cheating on his wife two days after a report dropped that U.S. intelligence believes he had a relationship with a Chinese spy. "I was unfaithful to my wife," Huang said in a letter to Nvidia staff. "My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did." "I love our country and our company, and I am committed to protecting Nvidia and supporting America's national security," he said. The company has launched an independent investigation into Huang to determine whether he was the "target of a foreign intelligence effort." The woman in question, alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang, is suspected of smuggling chips to China. Photos show her with the Nvidia CEO, and she is accused of funneling information to Beijing.
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Tech support people: what's the most chaotic request you've gotten? I'll go first. I was teaching tech 101 in a retirement home. I held up the mouse to show them how to hold it properly....then 2 dozen old folks also held their mice in the air. 😂 Tried to say "no not that way.." but it was too late
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I know you have stories. I want the stories. 🤓
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He missed my 16 GB in my PC that I can't upgrade cause $$$ COME AND GET ME CLAMMY SAMMY
People are amusing. Someone created an open source project that emails Sam Altman once a day to report the RAM he missed.
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Your house is on fire and you can only save one #retro console. Which one? I'm grabbing the N64 and not looking back. 🎮 then again...
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Did your school ban Tamagotchis? They taught a generation that a pet could die because you were in math class. Tbh, our phones beg for attention just as loudly, but at least the Tamagotchi admitted needy 🥚💩
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'We value your privacy,' says the pop-up with 847 partners and a 'Reject all' button.... hidden behind more buttons. Try Consent-O-Matic and let software click no for you 🍪
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What other privacy extensions do you use?
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Microtransactions in a $60 game is like having steak at a fancy restaurant and they sell the knife separately. 🙄
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Then again we've had expansion packs forever, but they somehow felt different
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Do you restart your phone at least once a week? It clears stuck apps,memory, etc etc. Even the NSA's mobile security guide says to reboot weekly... so, yanno
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Have you tried charging your phone in another room at night? It sounds tiny, but 'one more scroll' at 1 AM turns into logging on your computer and losing all the sleep. Trust me I know
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What's your bedtime phone rules, if you have any?
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The amount of social security scams that happen to the seniors I work with is so upsetting 😢 A famous billionaire sent them (deepfaked) promise that they'll pay you? Yeah sending money to randos is not how they became billionaires. If it's live, urgent, and asks you to send first, it's a scam. 🚩
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Even one of my younger friends got scammed to buy gift cards... I think scam baiters are doing a huge service
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The Pomodoro technique says work 25 minutes, then take a 5 minute break. ADHD version: work 3 minutes, break for 40, then hyperfocus for four hours and forget the timer exists. 😅 still, visual timers help
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Do you set alarms or timers? Watching time disappear is weirdly motivating imo 🍅
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The listing photos feel AI-generated, the reviews all say some variation of 'very good product thank you,' and the brand name is seven random capital letters. That's the full Scam Slop combo. But I still like my JORTZY USB cables. 😛
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oh hi I'm just going to leave these non-partisan voting memes to remind you the polls are open for another few hours and to go #vote
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Downloaded a 'complete' game, then a 90GB day-one patch, then a 40GB update. The disc in the box is now a coaster. Back in my day, the cartridge was the whole game, and if it didn't work you blew on it, which also did nothing.
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