hardcoreufo

@hardcoreufo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK Im an older millenial and pretty much stopped drinking a decade ago. Never had a problem, but I just got too busy going back to school and working full time. Then I started noticing how many people I knew who were using it as a crutch to get through the week. Others were amazed when I said I couldn’t remember the last time I drank. It just started to really turn me off drinking once I noticed how seemingly everyone had a terrible relationship with alcohol.

  Now I drink again but not much. i buy a small box of wine to make a recipe every now and then and will drink the leftover glass or two. In the summer I feel a beer goes well with yard work but i buy a sixpack or two all summer and probably have leftovers come fall. Ocassionally I’ll go out and have a beer with people. All in all maybe $100-$200 a year but probably less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can milk anything with nipples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just in time to “defend” the “results” of the 2028 election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Move fast, and kill all humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow stocks will go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Juggalos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fork and spaghetti frozen in place⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuvk ICE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually try and pick up a console a few years after its done. Its usually cheap and the nostalgia wave hasn’t hit yet. At that point its probably been hacked and the store shut down so I feel no qualms aquiring games however I see fit. Though there seems little reason to do so after the 360 and PS3 since most games play on pc too now.

  DS and 3DS are hard to replicate well on a single screen device. So i get those, but there are newer handheld emulators with dual screens. Nintendo also keeps shutting down 3DS emulators so progress is slow. Vita emulation is still in its infancy.

  PSP and GBA wouldn’t be worth investing in. Both play great on handheld emulators. Home consoles I’d just emulate or newer ones usually have a pc port. There are some games stuck on consoles that don’t emulate well, so if one of those is a fav maybe buy the console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Physical media does force you to interact with it differently and i do appreciate it in 2026. I like being able to put on an LP or cassette and not be worried about the algorithm telling me what to play or noy being able to easily skip tracks i don’t love. It makes me consider the album as a whole. I like being able to flip through my collection and find a record i haven’t heard in 10 years, that would never get suggestef by an algorithm.

  I’m not sure I’d like using a type writer, seems like it real pain in the ass. I’ve used film as a kid and remember it being very fiddly even without doing any of the development myself. I know I ruined more than one roll of film being dumb.

  That being said I do like digital devices that replicate that tactile analog feel. I love my remarkable tablet, its just an eink notebook/PDF reader. It helps me think out ideas and keeps me focused. Unlike a paper notebook if I lose it the data is saved to thr cloud. I chose a digital camera that had physical access to the main settings you would adjust, because i hate menu diving. Same with digital synths, get one with close to one function per knob.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just put my desktop on pika, its nice. Maybe a little better performance than stock Debian in games, but i could be imagining things.

  I like the bird sounds it uses as system sounds. Drives my dog crazy looking for whats making tge sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t get into the first book, but hearing that story will motivate me to give it another shot. Well at least put it back on the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. I think I did college every possible way (except ivy league). First two years at a small liberal arts college, left because tution went way up and scholarship stayed the same. Three yeara at a big univeraity, where i switched majors and graduated with a bunch of useless paper in time for the 2009 financial crisis. Never found a career and went back to community college for a focused degree. All had good and bad aspects but community college i thought was the best learning experience.

  Part of that may have been due to already being loaded up on gen ed credits, so i could focus on just the degree classes. It was also the fact that the teachers were real people who had experience in the field rather than career academics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but only Sega has Mega power and blast processing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Are You Guys Handling This?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe look into a BC-250 build. Basically a binned PS5 chip but you can overclock it to make back some of the performance.

  https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/

  That or i got a fairly recent office PC that had an AMD 8700G and 32 GB of DDR5 on ebay for 400 bucks. Slapped in a 9060xt and its a sub 800 dollar build. Didn’t do enough research though and found out the 8700 only has 8 PCIE lanes even though bios and specs list x16. Oh well, it performs well enough for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I go through the whole alphabet of options before giving up and rtfming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do too. Its pretty good but I feel not as good as search engines used to be. Though through no fault of its own. I just think garbage sites have paid for SEO and clog up results no matter what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk how anyone searches the internet anymore. Search engines all turn up so I ask an AI. Maybe one out of 20 times it turns up what I’m asking for better than a search engine. The rest of the time it runs me in circles that don’t work and wastes hours. So then I go back to the search engine and find what I need buried 20 pages deep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to a lot as a kid. It was pretty much the only way to get some more obscure games.

  I pretty much stopped in the mid 2000s except for some collectors editions of games that I was 99% sure were going to be great Halo3, Fallout3, New Vegas etc. I still do the same thing now with the odd switch collectors edition xenoblade chronicles, the final fantasy pixel remasters, unicorn overlord but those were games I was 99% sure would be finished at launch.

  The rest of the time I wait a year or so until the game is half priced and finished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who uses a sock? Cumrag or GTFO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wash once a week, replace as needed which is probably 10 years or so. Then they become dog towels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just bought a used HP office computer basically for the 32 GB of DDR5 (only 5200 but I’ll take it) on eBay. Just gonna throw a 9060xt in it for now. Combined its a sub 700 build. I’ll probably swap it to a new mobo and case next year as the power supply is a little underspeccd and I believe the HP pinout is nonstandard. Maybe I’ll just jam a flex PSU in there and pin the cables to match.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi 4B⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look into volumio to make a whole home music streaming solution. You can buy various pi Hats to get better DACs than the internal pi one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this colour?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1970 called and it wants its color back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DDNS providers you guys recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great question that is relevant for me this week. Been trying to set up a wireguard vpn and found I need a DDNS. Lots of good answers to look into in the comments. Thanks everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh good it can fit the next Call of Duty game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve gotten too much shit actually renamed though. Denali, Gulf of Mexico, sort of the Department of Defense, Institute of peace.

  They aren’t gonna get anynone government contolled stuff renamed unless the owner is a real MAGA brown noser. The NFL isn’t gonna do shit he wants. The owners have hated him since the 80s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF is Antigravity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, I don’t even know how you cheat in modern games. Retro games I’ll put in codes if they are built into the game but not game genie/ game shark codes.

  I got no problem what you do in single player games though, you do you. I don’t play online multiplayer anymore but you suck if you cheat online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhh... It's a work phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After 15 years of android I cannot get used to my work iphone. Everything about it is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhh... It's a work phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got three different playa phones. One for each part-time shorty.

  But I really have a work phone that they pay for because I am absolutely not putting any work shit on my phone. No teams, no outlook, no workday, no authenticators, no emergency alerts. I think a guy who got fired was using it as a playa phone or porn phone. My boss said his data use was always maxed out and everyone else used roughly 1-2 GB.

  I only take it home on weekends on the rare case i want to check an email or request time off through workday. It does come in handy while camping/road tripping. I charge it up and turn it off then toss it in the glovebox as an emergency phone.

  We used to have pagers as recently as 2022 which seems way more sketchy for the time but i miss them. Always worked, only got important notifications, smaller.