SolOrion
@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on My boyfriend feels weird about sleeping over at my place because I live with my parents. How can I help him loosen up? 6 hours ago:
It’s taller, but not as wide.
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 4 days ago:
OP said they have an SSD as their boot drive, too, so that would explain why it’s not constantly going. I’m not sure why GPU usage would spike every time the noise happens, though.
Entirely possible it’s a fan bearing instead, but ime if a case fan is going bad you hear it 24/7. And since it’s not the GPU’s fan…
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 5 days ago:
the noise I’m hearing is a more grind-y noise like a motorbike or propeller airplane that keeps going in and out
Do you have any HDDs? Because that sounds like a bad hdd.
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 1 week ago:
The PRC has the political weight to make others pick a side, at least openly.
The DPRK, on the other hand, absolutely does not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It depends some on where you are.
Where I live, driving is absolutely a basic skill. It’s just not realistic to get anywhere via any other means in a reasonable timespan. So you either have to drive or be driven basically anywhere. The scale involved isn’t kind to biking, and public transportation is nonexistent. It would take hours to get a taxi that would be egregiously expensive, uber isn’t even an option last I heard.
And this is from the perspective of someone that hates driving- it stresses me out because of the exact reasons you’ve mentioned. I’m in charge of a ton or more of plastic and steel sometimes moving at 70mph, and ignoring the physics based implications, these things are fucking expensive.
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 1 week ago:
I’ve heard of them having newbie games scheduled on certain days. I don’t know how welcoming general games would be to a complete beginner, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I just limit how much news I get- basically just what pops up in my lemmy feed and a news show I watch a few times a week.
Being exposed to awful headlines 24/7 is almost definitely going to be rough on your mental health.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’re required to do it, personally, but I agree that it would be rude to not even hear someone out. It could be anything from, “can you hold this for a second” to “do you mind splitting this $8000 timeshare with me?”
If it’s just a completely random person on the street, and their first word is “can you do me a favor” that’s different. Especially if there’s an actual reason for you to feel unsafe- if you’re alone/it’s a shady area type thing.
This probably depends on the area, though. I’m from the southeastern US and from my understanding people engage with each other waaay more in public here than they do in- as a random example- New York.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
TIL. Kinda cursed. Then again, lots of stuff about language is weird asf.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 3 weeks ago:
No. That doesn’t make you a bad person. Frankly, I think it’s awful that she’s asking you to, but I imagine she’s going through some things herself at the moment.
I think you have the right take here already- your relationship with your dad wasn’t the one impacted.
- Comment on Can I replace honey with maple syrup? 3 weeks ago:
…can I get that granola recipe? That sounds fantastic.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 weeks ago:
The only one that confuses me is “they”, but it’s still refering to just one person. Luckily I don’t know anyone like that, because that one I’m sure I’d constantly accidently fuck up.
I ran into a person a long time ago on Lemmy that asked that people use ‘its’ as pronoun. So it/its. Even for second person- so not you/yours, it/its. Absolutely broke my brain.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about being open and honest. It’s about that not being relevant. Your opinion on how someone looks isn’t relevant, helpful, or necessary unless it’s directly asked for.
There’s nothing awkward, nervous, or repressed about not going out of your way to open your mouth and make someone feel bad about themselves. You can simply not fucking say something that crosses your mind.
“Brutally honest” people are incredibly annoying. They think they’ve discovered a social cheat code so they can get away with being an absolute ass because they’re just an Honest Person™.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 4 weeks ago:
Lots of sexual assault allegations. I wasn’t a fan even before all of that came out so I didn’t follow it too closely.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not unique to Japan/Korea, you can definitely get it in the US. Fryaway is at least one brand of it, but I’d be shocked if you couldn’t get others.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It depends? Video can get across an explicit concept easier for me. If I’m learning something that I’ll struggle with, I find that video is usually a better bet for me.
For fiction, I prefer books because it can get a lot more across. It’s not even just that they cut corners or parts of a book, sometimes a book will have the protagonist basically run an internal monologue, or just notice something in a particular way that conveys a lot of information in a way that a movie or show can’t really do as seamlessly, if at all.
Video is better for showing details and small things, but I can fill in the blanks myself- I find it really frustrating when authors don’t let me fill in the blanks. I don’t need the entire feast described in depth to me, I don’t give a shit how the pig is coated in honey and the desserts look delicious unless the reveal is that the pig is poisoned and the desserts went bad last week.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 4 weeks ago:
I just went through what’s on sale, I didn’t verify the release dates or anything.
Kerbal Space Program is a great time. It’s the kind of game where it either grabs you and doesn’t let go, or you’ll drop it pretty fast.
I liked Sunless Sea, but then you really just have to give a game an Eldritch aesthetic and I’ll probably be there for it.
The Escapists is a neat game to play with some friends.
Fallout 4 has some flaws, especially if you’re a fan of the previous games, but it’s a decent game anyways.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 4 weeks ago:
Ah, that’s true! Anything with flavor text- red text in the description- is an exception to the normal rarities.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 5 weeks ago:
If it ain’t a purple I can basically guarantee it’s shit. Just keep the rarity order in mind, and you can generally assume anything that’s less rare than what you have is also worse. One of the load screens in BL1 or BL2 said When Grandma Burps Patrick Obeys- White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange. Got absolutely burnt into my brain.
But hey, if it’s stressful fair enough. I think they’re fun games, but they’re nothing is for everyone.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 5 weeks ago:
It’s not like I need to do the math to figure out which gun is better and why. Find something with green arrows? Hold E to equip it immediately. If I use it for a bit and aren’t a fan I’ll just swap back to what I was using before and mark it as junk so I sell it next time I buy ammo or fill my inventory.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 5 weeks ago:
Hello, I’m an American and I’m probably as shy and sociall awkward as you lol.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 1 month ago:
Swapping entirely to renewable energy is cool and all but not as easy as “just use a bunch of solar panels???” The issue is that most renewables are some mix of a: unreliable, and b: geographical.
Wind isn’t going to be blowing 24/7 in most places, so wind is unreliable. The sun isn’t always shining in most places, so solar power is unreliable. Hydro is amazing if you have it, but it isn’t the kind of thing you can just build anywhere. Geothermal is also great if you have it, but again isn’t the kind of thing you can just build.
Meanwhile, the power grid requires reliability. It’s incredibly important.
Also, like other people have said: coal/gas are cheap and ubiquitous. Both of those words might as well be synonyms for ‘more money’. Realistically, that’s the primary reason.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 1 month ago:
Reinstalling windows is hardly a laborious task, but even then my main point was that buying a 32GB SSD is pointless when you can get much larger ones for extremely cheap. Even if you don’t use it as a boot drive, more fast storage is never going to be a downside.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 1 month ago:
You could add an SSD specifically to serve as a pagefile location and nothing else, in which case you could just get a small cheap one (a 32GB SSD would be more than enough for 16GB of RAM)
Honestly, assuming OP isn’t somewhere that the market for PC parts is extremely wonky compared to the US, if you’re going to get an SSD you might as well go ahead and get one big enough to serve as a boot drive. A 256gb SATA SSD is ~$20, and should be fine for that purpose. It probably won’t have DRAM at that price point, but realistically it’s not really necessary and still going to be a night and day upgrade over an HDD.
- Comment on Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you? 1 month ago:
Okay, so: is it because you reasonably expect that from your friend? Have they given you reason to expect these things? Or is it more just an anxiety thing? Like, you know it’s not a reasonable fear, but your brain still won’t let go?
If A: no, that’s not normal and he’s hella toxic. Especially the online anonymity thing- what the fuck?
If B: no, that’s not exactly normal but anxiety is a bitch sometimes.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen ‘drag race’ used in this context, and I was wondering how you were about to compare drag racing (like with cars) with wrestling.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
Nah, at least this once it’s definitely not a US defaultism thing.
As an American, this is the first time I’ve thought about pro wrestling in a very very long time.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
Why not? What definition of ‘athlete’ are you even using? Did you just decide this?
- Comment on I feel that lines are drawn, and I'm no longer on your side. 2 months ago:
Okay, bye.
Also, I’m utterly shocked that an ai generated header is even a minor issue in comparison to the rest if your fallback instance of choice is Hexbear.
- Comment on How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring? 2 months ago:
You don’t need to be wired in order to self host things? It’s better, ofc, but far from required. You can just do it via wifi.
My experience with self hosting begins and ends with video game servers and jellyfin, though, so maybe I’m wrong here.