woodenskewer
@woodenskewer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 2 days ago:
I just recently adopted an old gateway PC with this intent in mind. I’m excited about it.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
Cerberus was next in line to the house of Hades, but Charon was not his master. Hades was.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
I enjoy the mythos around Charon. If you lived your life to the point where you didn’t have a single person to care for you enough to make a small payment in your name (think 2 pennies), you suffer the fate of merely waiting. He’s like a minimalist renown filter of sorts. It’s like a judge of character, so to speak, based on what others would do for you when you can’t act.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
You swear correctly. He is the boatman of the river Styx. He ferries souls to Hades in the afterlife if the individual was buried with the ferry toll. If they didn’t have the ferry toll they’d be fated to wandering the banks of the river Styx for 100 years before they could cross.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
I put this on an unlabeled squirt bottle once at work. It was wrong to do because technically it’s an OSHA violation for being improperly labeled because it was just in sharpie and not a standard label. But it was night shift I was bored and the bottle was already unlabeled so it was already out of compliance. Why not write on it?
A week or so later I heard people talking about this squirt bottle that said dihydrogen monoxide. Two safety guys were there so I didn’t take credit for my shenanigans based on the reception not being great.
I said I think it’s just water, but the chemical name. Ya know? Nope, they didn’t get it. The kind of doubled down and started talking about things in that link because they “researched the name” and it was actually harmful.
It was a strange experience.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Buy a commercial TV. Its a plain jane TV. I put one in as a SCADA, but it’s just a tv with no frills. When I saw what it was, I knew when I’d need to purchase a tv this would be the type I wanted.
- Comment on Lingering damage 1 month ago:
If you don’t know someone that burns old oil put it in an old container and throw it away in the trash.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
“Just plug your device in, you little bitch”
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
“substantial harm to television program copyright owners,”
Give me a fucking break
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
My experience got noticably worse that time they tried to make their UI look like tictok. I cancelled and deleted my account and have been on tidal ever since.
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
All fed to you on the not updated data line that caps at 800 MBps
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I should have said copilot, that’s what I actually meant. I didn’t realize autopilot was a thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I was given windows 10 pro with the computer I adopted. I didn’t realize it was an enterprise feature.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
how about fucking autopilot too instead of having to find a registry to disable it.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Lutris is what i should have said, that’s what I was using, but I think what made me think wine was the dependencies of sorts in the settings of lutris. I really wish I could get it down because I liked PopOS a lot.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I was able to get an indie title to work but it wasn’t the two games I was playing at the time. Guardians of the galaxy and RE4. I’m currently on FFXIV which has a silver or gold on the “does it work” site I forget what it’s called. But not having adrenaline is kind of a bummer. I use that too. The frame generation is a great feature.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
4 months ago when I got an unsolicited ad for starfield on my lock screen.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I’m wine inept so it’s not viable for me either. I spent a total of 4 to 6 weekends trying to get shit to work. I just can’t get it right.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I was able to disable autopilot with a registry change but I don’t remember where I found the link. It wasn’t easy to find at the time when I looked. That being said if you reply asking for the link I’ll try and find it but otherwise, yes.
- Comment on A round of applause for Mike Drucker. 9 months ago:
Seems to be double line or no lines if you enter only one line spacing.
- Comment on I dont understand why I have to bring a bottle to the restaurant 10 months ago:
Wasabi ketchup would just be DIY shrimp cocktail sauce with a green tint.
- Comment on 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever 10 months ago:
iGun patch incoming
- Comment on It's a good thing they aren't in charge of adult toys... 11 months ago:
not if you jump first!
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
turn the phone off and try fishing it out with a sewing needle. maybe 2 and try and chop stick it. i got one out like this, happened to me frequently because i used to work in plastics.
- Comment on the Perks of ownership... 11 months ago:
too complicated to bring in the busted piece
time to get good at projecting your project visually on the ceiling like beth harmon in the queens gambit.
- Comment on WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL 11 months ago:
Get out of the pit if you can’t hang, boat.
- Comment on A good deal of IT work, too 11 months ago:
i work in controls and I couldn’t imagine how life was working with allen bradley stuff pre internet. there’s a manual for everything
- Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet 11 months ago:
i mean technically, you could use it but it sounds gross to do without a filtration of some sort before it goes to whatever storage you’re referring to.
another thing to note is that most baseboard heaters are OK to use on 12 AWG. If you’re tight on space in your panel, you’ll likely free up 2 spaces in your box eliminating the heater but still will need to run whatever gauge wire is suggested in the installation manual. (if i’m understanding your intention of removing the resistance heater)
- Comment on The Sacred Hole 1 year ago:
Nothing wrong with some trench brace awareness.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
I did. I started trying with guardians of the galaxy and gave up after I couldn’t get re4 working, which like you said was gold. I’ll probably give it another shot soon. I’ve been playing a lot of FFXIV and apparently that runs well.
I have an extra m2 slot I’m going to buy a drive dedicated to trying to get off the Microsoft teat.