DarthBueller
@DarthBueller@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you leave your consoles on? 3 weeks ago:
Bet you a nickel that old Wii now has a toasted GPU chip and graphical artifacts. The Wi-Fi chip apparently cooks the GPU if you has Wii24 enabled.
- Comment on What's your financial cutoff point on game collecting? 4 months ago:
The price of the console, any modern quality of life upgrades (RBG out, in game reset, etc), the price of the best flash cart and an SD card loaded with ROMs.
- Comment on Have video games become expensive now? 6 months ago:
Why did Dr Mario cost $120?!? I never saw SNES games costing that much. Sounds more like Neo Geo game prices from what I remember.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I’m just flat wrong. I’ll own it :)
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I thought skoda is just Eastern European for VW? In 2000 all of the cabs in Israel were skoda which were just rebranded jettas.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I have a metaboHPT Brad nailer and it was absolutely the most affordable I could find outside of harbor freight level, and at the same time one of my highest quality tools. Truly a joy to use.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Green vs Blue.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
The Lidl tools give me some serious Harbor Freight vibes.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Wait TTI does dewalt too? I thought dewalt was same co as Milwaukee.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for a Belgian or something to drop in here to say that they’ve had fully interchangeable batteries for the last twenty years, and then make fun of us for building houses out of wood because we didn’t clear cut our continent.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Metabo
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
And sometimes the harbor frieght is a direct clone of the name brand but for inferior plastic parts where the name brand would have metal. You can often upgrade the knockoff to be a near equivalent.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Maybe where you’re from. DeWalt is the premium brand, Milwaukee is the second tier from the same manufacturer.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Disappointed metabo isnt represented. Used to be hitachi? I’ve got a pneumatic brad nailer from them and it’s both wondrous and affordable.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
Allahu’s Snackbar with a lifelike painting of Mohammed over the cash register and morality police, fuck yeah.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
Are you dumb? Or just not capable of understanding that some of us are in the legal world and think in terms of what the courts will do, and what rationale they will have? I didn’t stake out a position. However I absolutely think this legislation is terrible.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
The right to privacy is now in question because of Dobbs. It’s a fucking nightmare of possibilities.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
I’m curious about why. The one law that had been overturned so far was on the basis of government compelled speech, because in addition to age verification, the law required porn sites to have a paragraph talking about how porn makes baby Jesus cry. I’m not so sure ID requirements by themselves are going to have the same outcome.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
Elsewhere, Linux support areas seem more likely than not to have a large contingent of “WHY ARE YOU ASKING A DUMB QUESTION, you horror of a human being? Why didn’t you Search the site for words you don’t know using our broken search engine, instead of infecting us with your congenital idiocy?” folks.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
2013 Dell XPS i7-4470 up in this jawn.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 10 months ago:
My ex-wife once got intestinal worms. The medicine to get rid of them, which has been on the market forever, and which is on the short list of medicines that the WHO says should be freely available to everyone as a matter of public health? $800 for Americans, literally free everywhere else in the world. Apparently intestinal worms are now so uncommon in the US that the drug is only distributed in extremely small quantities, which The Invisible Hand apparently allows big pharma to charge a fortune for. I brought in the worm in a jar in case the doctors needed to identify it, and apparently so many of the doctors and nurses had never seen one that they asked us if it was alright for them to pass around to take selfies with it. LOL.
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 11 months ago:
Since 2000, they’ve used all-American steel vs. our quarters, which are copper at the core. PS: I don’t really know if the Canadian quarters is made of all-American steel, I just like the ambiguity of the statement.
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
It’s a huge part of the culture of generational poverty as well. I used to work in Legal Aid and some of the schemes that folks used to milk the system to illegally (yet understandably) avoid the trap you’re talking about were absolutely brilliant. One couple used domestic protection orders to have a legal paper trail that the male couldn’t legally live with his partner (to avoid “household” income counting as your income). There was zero domestic abuse going on, but the women would lie, get her protection order, and have something to hand to the social service workers. Male partner would sneak in and out to avoid being too obvious that it was a sham. Absolutely brilliant, made it a shame that such smart fraudsters never had a life that gave them a vision and hope for something greater.
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
Wait, so they got rid of the Poles and other Eastern Europeans they loved to hate—who are they importing for labor now?
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
They pay more if you consider that they frequently pay SS if they have a fake SSN but don’t get any benefit from doing so.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
Why isn’t anyone mentioning that there are arrrrr streaming sites that won’t land someone a cease and desist?
- Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. 1 year ago:
How? I keep having to clear cookies. Now use Firefox. With logged in window I find the video I want and I open it in private window with ublock origin enabled. No warning in private logged out window.
- Comment on Voyager 1's Golden Record 1 year ago:
There is a cover on it. Also a stylus was included. Don’t know how much protection the cover affords, but at least they have a fighting chance of figuring out how to play the record since the stylus was included.
- Comment on Voyager 1's Golden Record 1 year ago:
I was expecting it to say “Sir, I do not have the intellectual property rights to play this mixtape to the public.” The golden record is like MLK’s speeches - we know they’re epic, and we’re not allowed to listen to most of it/them without throwing some cash around.
- Comment on Best of both worlds 1 year ago:
I definitely find myself hankering for a 4:3 monitor - I don’t care if its CRT or not, but are there any 4:3 LCD monitors that have a decent dot pitch? I’ve been spoiled by modern LCD tech and late-stage CRT tech - all the 4:3 LCD screens I see feel fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy.