RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 4 days ago:
Right, I bought that shit in 2014 I think. Haven’t played it in several years.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 5 days ago:
My experience has been that they last for more years than I tend to notice which ones are which. I’m not mad at all about their longevity.
I had 2 LED bulbs that I know for sure that I bought prior to 2015 that only recently failed. Those bulbs lasted at least 9-10 years. The rest of my bulbs I haven’t kept up with but those 2 older ones looked very distinctive with aluminum heatsink material for their bottom halves.
- Comment on USPS rolls out EVs and charging infrastructure as part of $40 billion modernization plan 1 week ago:
Man the russian-oil-propaganda-polluted trumptards are going to lose their shit when those goofy looking things start delivering mail. Communist mail trucks from O’Biden! Etc
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 2 months ago:
It’s really not if you have the right setup at home, instead of using somebody else’s servers. Like nobody has a NAS or their own servers?
It’s much nicer not worrying about who can get to my files in the cloud, when they’re not in the cloud.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 2 months ago:
Well they could still just blacklist all 3rd party drivers except storage drivers. Many categories of 3rd party drivers could be excluded fully during a selective recovery boot process.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 2 months ago:
The OS should be mature enough by now that it could automatically recover from crashing on the load of a bad 3rd party driver. But it was not, wtf.
- Comment on Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones 2 months ago:
I agree about ripping the CDs to files, but disc rot is not a big deal to worry about if you’re storing the CDs properly away from sunlight and heat. Recently I’ve been going through my collection and ripping old CDs of stuff I didn’t have in the digital library… and all my CDs from the 90s that I’ve tried are still good. Many of these are 30+ years old and still sound perfect
- Comment on Eric Andre and the millennial experience 2 months ago:
Danson hit the ranch so hard his hair went white
- Comment on Speed 2 months ago:
What are you doing in the bathroom, Keanu? I thought you were driving a bus???
- Comment on The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy 2 months ago:
Most of Congress probably thinks an AOL CD is how you get on the Internet, they might not be the most qualified to craft our cybersecurity policies.
- Comment on Donald Trump 2024 - Don't let them get away with this 2 months ago:
And bullets barely missed
- Comment on Donald Trump 2024 - Don't let them get away with this 2 months ago:
Trump for prison 2024.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 2 months ago:
Because the discs will safely store that data for decades longer than any of your hard drives will likely work.
- Comment on Sitting and shitting on my high horse 2 months ago:
Perfection
- Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days 2 months ago:
I know lots of Americans who buy their phones without those stupid contracts. It’s not uncommon at all. I have never have a phone on a contract.
- Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days 2 months ago:
I’ve had that freedom for the entire duration of the existence of smartphones, in the USA. I buy my phones with no contract, at discounted prices, then I flash them with custom ROMs to improve everything, and I use no contract cell phone service. Since about 2007, that is.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 2 months ago:
It looks like an archery release, used by compound bow shooters to pull the bow string back and release with a trigger or button
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 2 months ago:
I think you cracked the case on that one, that’s gotta be what it means.
- Comment on is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital? 2 months ago:
The only one of those responses you listed that might not make people upset is this one:
‘I don’t talk about religion, politics or my private life with coworkers and I hope you respect that’
All of the others are going to go over poorly, if you are concerned about that.
- Comment on Blow dart 2 months ago:
I have actually done this too, I have pics of the darted roach somewhere. I think it took me 3 shots to get one to hit it.
The roach does not die from the dart, it’s just going to keep moving until you pull it down and squash it or something. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you just want to get some live target practice and need to kill a roach.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 4 months ago:
Streaming in general is great. Streaming services are a mixed bag of results, but overall our options are excellent at this point in time. You can have streaming services with no contract, pay for one month and abandon it if you don’t like it. There are also numerous FREE streaming services with lots of great content.
It’s important to understand the above in the context of how it used to be before Streaming was an option. There was basically only the option to have a cable or satellite TV on contract, or use OTA antenna TV, or watch everything on disc / tape. So yeah I think streaming is great.
Having said all that, I buy anything I want to keep perpetually on disc. 4k Blu-ray for movies and CDs for music (I bought 3 albums on CD over the last couple weeks). Games don’t fit on discs anymore so I try to get stuff on GOG when it works out.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 4 months ago:
I still buy everything on CD that I can get from good bands. Nothing beats CD quality and durability. My CDs from 30+ years ago still play just fine except for the few that have too many scratches from abuse.
After I get a new CD I rip it to high quality MP3 and add it to my personal streaming library.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 4 months ago:
That’s great, but the question from that OP was “are you able to” and your answer should be yes. I make less than that and I definitely am able to. But I’m waiting on the market to correct first
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 4 months ago:
Shit I hadn’t heard about that sealed transmission thing, that’s fucked up. Transmission fluid replacement seemed pretty important on the maintenance schedule of all the cars I’ve had
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 4 months ago:
What, did you expect a nice response after you replied with an attempt to insult my ability to read? You get what you pay for, dude.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 4 months ago:
That’s just a fantasy that will never happen though. Guns are already here in the number of hundreds of millions, and we have the right to own them, and we choose to keep them.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 4 months ago:
I’ve probably read more books than you’ve ever smelled. So why don’t you take a big whiff of farts and think on that?
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 4 months ago:
If you look at statistics, it’s extremely unlikely for any school to have a shooting. 99.99999% of children from ages 0 to 18 in the USA are not harmed by firearms.
So you can waste your time and sanity worrying about that or just live without fear and find what makes you happy in life. Either way you and your kids will be safe so it’s your choice to be crippled by irrational fear or not.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 4 months ago:
Well go right ahead then. I’m going to stay in my comfortable home here in the USA though.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 4 months ago:
It really isn’t, you’re probably just not aware of all the “proper” games that are out there for VR. Browse the Steam store and look at all the VR games sometime.
I have about 40 VR games in my Steam library, for example. I admit I haven’t played them all yet but I’ve played a lot of them and most of them are great. There are tons more that I could buy if I had the time to play all that shit.