Your Very Own Personal Shopper

Real lemon/lime is quite nice indeed. You can also muddle berries into water and it’s tasty, especially sparkling water.

If you’re okay with other faux sugars, there’s sugar-free syrups out there that don’t have sucralose.

Herbal teas are not what I’d call an addition but… they’re good. :wink:

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Iced hibiscus tea is a highlight of summer IMO

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I also like cucumber and mint

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fresh ginger slices
orange-cinnamon tea bags overnight

I bring external hard drives everywhere, I haven’t had a non-SSD since 2012. I usually have an external HD with me at all times, you can get 1TB the size of a credit card these days.

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:exploding_head::exploding_head::exploding_head:

I remember my freshman year of college literally walking 30 min each way with some friends to some guy who I’d never Mets place so I could see a 1TB drive. It was such a big deal, as far as we knew he was the only person on the entire (large) campus to have one.

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This is one TB @Bracken_Joy

You can go bigger but I am cheap. This about $99

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I remember chatting with someone on AIM who claimed they had a 10 gigabyte drive and I was like “that’s made up. No one has a 10 gigabyte drive”

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That’s the one I have too.

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I had to buy a zip disk (anyone remember those? Iomega made them) for the gis computer lab because some of our data files were bigger than what could be accommodated on a floppy drive (yeah, remember THOSE?) We were still using mostly 3.5" floppies in 1994. Each one held 1.44MB. DVDs didn’t hit the scene until 1996 and blank recordable ones sometime after like 2000? Anyway this would have been between 1994 and 1998. I got one that was 100MB, which I think was their base model. It was SO EXPENSIVE, like $50 or maybe even more in 1994. It was a LOT. I still have it. (But I don’t have a drive!)

100MB.

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We upload more than 100MB of cat photos to the forums every day.

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I would love to know the 1999 cost of storage space for the memes BJ has uploaded to keep me sane this year

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Oh yes, many a late night with Adobe files split across 3 zip disks…

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My father was a programmer before this time as well. I remember him bring home stacks of punch cards!!! But I was born too late to actually experience that in the wild.

I have some microSD cards still from super old digital cameras that would hold like… 3 photos nowadays. :joy:

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At least I never had to split files! Just projects. :joy:

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I want to know how much I cost Lily by being on this forum :joy::grimacing:

But also maybe a conversion ratio to therapy dollars saved for me :laughing:

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Yes! Our scratch paper was stacks of punch cards my mom brought home.

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Yup, my first thought was wondering how much space the meme threads alone take up. :laughing: Worth it! (Says the person with no actual financial responsibility for forum upkeep)

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We used the green and white striped dot matrix printer paper (that you pulled the sides off of). :joy:

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Yes, but that came later.