BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here 23 hours ago:
Anyone else reading this in 2037?
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 3 days ago:
Oh! Planet Money just did a really good episode on this exact topic.
It’s complicated and I recommend a full listen to the episode, but the big two reasons are:
- The cost of building out all the new infrastructure is partially paid for by the data centers, but the majority is paid by all customers.
- The demand for electricity is growing much faster than supply can be built.
Those two, combined with the deregulation in most markets, has meant that the price for everyone is going up.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?
- Comment on 3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF) 1 week ago:
It has all of the typical YT influencer bullshit. “Wait 'till then end”, slightly faster than normal speech, reaction memes, overly long descriptions of things in order to pad in more time for ads, flat out ads in the middle, etc.
My old person trait is that I’d rather spend five minutes reading an article than 15 minutes watching a video.
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 2 weeks ago:
They’ve gotten cheap, in fact, that the panels are sometimes less expensive than the labor and mounting hardware.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious, what AI features do you use and why? I can’t even figure out what one is supposed to do.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, no. Most members of most militaries haven’t directly killed anyone, even during wartime.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
My ex-brother-in-law killed a family of four while DUI. The cops really screwed up the investigation so he was able to get the charges down to a minor moving violation. He never saw the inside of a jail.
When I was in high school a friend of a friend that I knew and had hung out with at a couple of times was a serial killer/rapist. He was one of the last people executed by that state.
- Comment on Piano man 5 weeks ago:
What?!? Someone played with the English language in order to make lyrics rhyme and scan? How terrible!! glances at Shakespeare
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
I love 1&2, but haven’t played any of the others. I’ve played some of The Dark Mod and it also has that same feeling.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Ive started a replay of BATTLETECH (2016), this time with all of the DLC. I need something turn based for now and this really scratches that itch. I love how good the gameplay is and the gritty graphics fit the setting so well.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
The mount point changing like that means that it disconnected and then reconnected. That really makes it sound like the drive isn’t getting quite enough power, which causes a brown out, which Linux detects as the drive getting unplugged and coming back, which is why it gets a new dev entry.
A look through the usb logs by using something like usbrip would confirm that.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Interesting. When you say that they show up as a different drive completely, do you mean that their UUIDs change, or that they get mounted at a different point?
Anyway, random disconnection sounds like a hardware issue, maybe a USB brownout, as much as anything else. What’s your connection setup, distro and kernel version?
- Comment on Looking for an Itch Recommendation? 1 month ago:
My partner, who is a non-gamer loves WytchWood, which is a rather slow paced crafting and wander around the woods game in a fairy tale setting.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Eh? I’ve never had a problem with reading NTFS drives in linux, including USB sticks and SATA/USB adapters. Are you just wanting to read them or use them as read/write? Write is a bit more tricky, requiring ntfs-3g, but most reasonable distros come with that nowadays.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Mint. It’s a great, simple, well supported first distro. And last distro, TBH. I know plenty of people like to distro hop as a hobby, but if you just want to use your machine pick a well supported basic distro and stick with it. Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora are all good options, but Mint is really aimed at newcomers.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 month ago:
Except, you know, for everyone that has an iRobot device that is going to lose connectivity soon.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to support anything from iRobot. I’m hoping that there will be a jailbreak made available before they go bankrupt, but I doubt it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, I’m pretty upset that I won’t be able to see a living pentaceratops, seismosaurus, or T-Rex. So, no, I think it’s fine.
- Comment on A list of open source games. 1 month ago:
Two thumbs up for The Dark Mod, which started as expansion of the best stealth games of all time.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 1 month ago:
I know you’re joking, and that would be enough to get me to buy one even though I don’t really have a use case for it.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
Or even unscented.
- Comment on plump pumkins 2 months ago:
Sure is a good thing that you don’t have any hobbies that use any resources whatsoever otherwise you’d seem awfully hypocritical complaining about someone with a checks notes gardening hobby.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 months ago:
It’s all good, most of the US doesn’t remember that NM is a state.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 months ago:
Like I’m from the US state New Mexico.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 months ago:
New Mexican here. Get some green chile on there and it’ll be fine.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it suddenly stopped spinning? 2 months ago:
Couldn’t even listen to the first five seconds to hear the full question, huh?
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 months ago:
- Sid Meier’s Pirates!
- Centipede
- OutRun
- Spy Hunter
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not at all. Until roughly 150-200 years ago infant and childhood mortality was almost 50% worldwide, which of course massively brings down the average lifespan. If someone made it to 20, they would probably make it to 60 and have a good chance of seeing 70 or more.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 months ago:
It’s my car ibuprofen and antacids , my work ibuprofen and antacids , and my home ibuprofen and antacids thank you very much.