SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 17 hours ago:
Sorry, I recall some really bad fansubs from back in the day. I can’t say whether the translator actually knew Japanese.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 17 hours ago:
That is true, you do have a point. A translator should know enough Japanese to handle things.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 23 hours ago:
You have a point. The translator should know enough Japanese to be able to step in.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 23 hours ago:
They have a point. The translator should know enough Japanese to be able to step in.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 1 day ago:
Honestly, I’d prefer not to steal. I WANT the anime industry to have something for my appreciation.
To have it simultaneously decrease in quality AND go up in price is a slap in the face.
Anime was made popular by nerds sharing VHS tapes. A friend of a friend of a friend would get some episodes, another friend would add on to it, and it would end up a whole season on one tape that was a copy of a copy of a copy. The first time I saw the correct opening scene of the original Ranma 1/2 I was surprised by how the music didn’t actually warble from being copied. Digital piracy takes away from that because nobody is buying tapes.
Guess I could still buy merch.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 1 day ago:
Honestly, I have been considering cancelling. The price is going up and the quality is going down. Any 2-bit translator can crank out what they are putting out with raws, screenshots, and voice to text. With the resources they are gleaning, this shit should sparkle.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 day ago:
Huh, guess you are right
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 days ago:
Easy! Assuming the earth is the center of the universe, coordinates are 360,360
± the current position of the Earth in the solar system ± the current position of the solar system in the Milky Way. In the Local Cluster, in the Local Group, in the Virgo Supercluster, in the Local Mesh
In order to return, we just go that way: Image
- Comment on Switzerland no longer wants American cloud in the public sector 1 week ago:
No, no, no, no. It’s fine! We won’t give up your information unless specifically requested by a warrant! Otherwise, it will totally be anonymized before we sell it to data brokers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m suggesting either using the secure erase utility built into your efi if available or using hdparm and calling secure erase.
grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716
I suggest calling these utilities with no other drives connected.
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 10 discussion 1 week ago:
Why did you manipulate her into betraying everyone?
I just think she’s cute.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
True, but it’s not clear to me that both drives are exhibiting the behavior and it sounds more like a copy between two drives. I wouldn’t rule it out and do think it is a possibility, but in my professional experience drives fail much more frequently than controllers.
It makes sense to me to test the drives individually, in another system preferably, using smart long test, which is non-destructive. Next test other drives in this system. If there are errors, try changing out the SATA cables, too. If you can shuffle the data off the drives, do so and then try running them through a secure erase in another system. A bad drive should fail the same way in another system.
My other thought for probably not being the controller is that 4TB is a very long time for a sustained transfer to fail on a flakey component. Also, there are no reports of other errors.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sounds like a bad drive, TBH. Not as much the platters but the electronics.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
It’s no longer about saving money at that point.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Not sure about that, and not sure if I could trust that.
Another option is to have the doctor prescribe insulin pens or another brand of the same kind of insulin. It’s technically a different prescription and the insurance company usually covers it.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Insulin is not permanently shelf stable, and will still expire in the fridge.
Diabetics usually start with a long-acting insulin to keep blood sugar from naturally rising plus a fast-acting insulin for corrections and to compensate for food.
The old style of just giving 2 long-acting shots of mixed insulin is mostly obsolete, except for legacy patients, some pregnant patients, and other special cases I can only theorize.
A good number of diabetics only use fast acting insulin in a pump, receiving microdoses every minute.
To switch brands of insulin, much less therapies in any circumstance requires a doctor’s visit.
With all that said, the insurance company will often replace a medication in the event of an accident, typically only once a year.
Without that, a patient might be able to find a charity they will assist them.
You also may be able to travel to the next state over where the cost of insulin is regulated.
Failing all other options, it is better to check yourself in to the hospital as your sugar begins to rise and tell them that you cannot control your blood sugar.
- Comment on Symphonic Suite: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1 week ago:
The opening reminds me of a Western I once watched. Could be Fivel Goes West for all I know.
- Comment on Home Depot hit by "ICE scraper" protest as dozens line up to buy 17¢ item 2 weeks ago:
A hundred and score, give or take a half dozen. That’s my final offer.
- Comment on Home Depot hit by "ICE scraper" protest as dozens line up to buy 17¢ item 2 weeks ago:
Dozens makes me think of 40-80
This was over a hundred, which is nearly ten dozen. Scores would work too, but over a hundred is probably the best
Technically, there are scores of people in the world, but it’s a terrible description.
- Comment on Hytale gets a cheap price point, all because its devs don't think the game is good yet 2 weeks ago:
Great info. That makes a lot of sense.
- Comment on Hytale gets a cheap price point, all because its devs don't think the game is good yet 2 weeks ago:
Not sure the devs do either. The gameplay seemed interesting, but it appeared to be a lot of Minecraft mechanics.
I’d try it for $10.
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s comforting. I was mildly concerned about my memory.
Guess I’m do my part in the future.
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 2 weeks ago:
Outside of your question, there has been some rage bait:
lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/38413203
I think it would be appropriate for these conversations to be flagged and locked. I thought there was a lot more, but it seems to have been a while.
- Comment on Norwegian Man Arrested for Playing Dorei to no Seikatsu 2 weeks ago:
Supposedly he was being investigated for something else, according to one comment.
- Comment on Recommendations for an all-SSD home server? 2 weeks ago:
The last board suggested with 5 ports would handle 4 drives in raidz2.
This is smaller even. pcpartpicker.com/…/asrock-motherboard-970mpro3
I would prefer having the smaller board with the hba and putting 8-10 smaller drives in raidz3. That would give you 6 TB with three drives for failure to prevent loss.
Outside the drives, the cost would be under $200 for the board and the hba.
If you have an old system with two PCI-e 16 ports, then your cost is about $90 before you start buying drives.
I’m doing similar with a DDR3 system and spinning 1 TB disks. It’s fast enough to serve video streams.
- Comment on [Episode] Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! • Akujiki Reijou to Kyouketsu Koushaku: Sono Mamono, Watashi ga Oishiku Itadakimasu! - Episode 8 discussion 2 weeks ago:
They called this moment much earlier in the show. I think everyone wanted to see it happen.
I imagine it sounded like Mythbusters making a cement truck disappear.
Also, I missed the fact that he was shielding them with magic, and I was wondering why the wind was so gentle.
- Comment on Recommendations for an all-SSD home server? 2 weeks ago:
Ok, so if you want to do a bunch of drives in a box:
pcpartpicker.com/…/gigabyte-mw50-sv0-atx-lga2011-…
pcpartpicker.com/…/crucial-bx500-4-tb-25-solid-st…
However, that’s expensive. I would go with spinning disks.
pcpartpicker.com/…/western-digital-wd-blue-4-tb-3…
If you want to bring the cost down more,
pcpartpicker.com/…/asus-prime-b550-plus-ac-hes-at…
You can drive the price down more by buying a used system.
The pile of SSDs will be easiest to stuff into a box.
You will need to get creative with cooling.
- Comment on Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous 3 weeks ago:
I suspected this was actually guerilla marketing.
Based on the disinformation (take news) principle, most people remember the initial report, not the correction.
- Comment on Discotek Announces Project A-ko Film's 4K Release 3 weeks ago:
Oh, there are sequels!
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing all the old games were most likely less than 50mb, if you include everything up to SNES, guess if you make AI upscaled images you can bloat that space.
