OpticalMoose
@OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de
Technology fan, Linux user, gamer, 3D animation hobbyist
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- Comment on Getting into Civ 6 6 months ago:
I think 5 is what I’m looking for. Sometimes Civ (in general) gets out of hand with the micromanagement. I want something that’s kind of casual.
- Comment on Getting into Civ 6 6 months ago:
I’ve been looking to try Civ 5 or 6, but haven’t decided which one yet.
- Submitted 6 months ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 0 comments
- Comment on All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed 6 months ago:
And they were taxed enough to keep them from getting “too big to fail”.
- Comment on Unhoused Man Builds Entire House On The Side Of A Los Angeles Freeway 6 months ago:
I wonder how many offers he’s gotten for it so far.
- Comment on Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more 7 months ago:
I guess “It’s not for everyone” is the real takeaway here. I’m not a phone guy in general, but I’ve been using cards since BK was still selling 99¢ Whoppers. I’m guessing both of us are ready to pay before the cashier has our order rung up.
To each their own. (I’m finally admitting that I’m fighting a losing battle on writing checks though.)
- Comment on Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more 7 months ago:
Using a phone sounds inconvenient to me. I usually just pull my card out of my wallet, wave it over the terminal until I hear a beep and that’s it. Worst case scenario, I have to insert it into the chip reader or God-forbid swipe it through the slot like some kind of Neanderthal.
I’m kidding, but seriously, that’s easier than screwing around with a phone, to me.
- Comment on Trump’s stake in Truth Social falls by $1bn after company reveals $58m loss 7 months ago:
As far as I know, he still has to pay the full amount if he looses his appeal trumpdebtcounter.com The judge just lowered the bond amount Trump has to put up in order to file an appeal.
At this point, I don’t care if he’s still rich as long as he doesn’t get back into office. We’ve already seen that justice isn’t blind, some people are above the law, and Trump will never be held accountable. He’s going to weasel his way out of paying most of the judgements against him.
I don’t know what’s wrong with that debt counter. It was showing $474mil a week ago.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1 was in 1978 10 months ago:
I was hoping to come up with a joke to follow that, but it would probably just be a FLOP.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1 was in 1978 10 months ago:
Yep.
“In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1”
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Raspberry Pi ARM CPUs - The comment above was for the 2012 Pi 1. In 2020, the Pi 400 average Livermore Loops, Linpack and Whetstone MFLOPS reached 78.8, 49.5 and 95.5 times faster than the Cray 1. - Comment on Hardware question 10 months ago:
It’s probably a pain to set up in Windows. In Linux, it just works, there’s nothing to set up. I’m using it right now.
OP really should have mentioned their OS.
- Comment on Hardware question 10 months ago:
I just did a quick bing chat search (“does DRI_PRIME work on systems without a cpu with integrated graphics?”) and it says it will work. I can’t check for you because my CPUs all have graphics.
I CAN tell you that some motherboards will support it (my ASUS does) and some don’t (my MSI).
BTW, I’m talking about Linux. If you’re using Windows, there’s a whole series of hoops you have to jump through. LTT did a video a while back.
- Comment on Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward 1 year ago:
So true. Where I am, a podunk town in the deep south, most of the homes being built are 4 bed, 1800sf+. The ‘starter’ homes with 3 beds, 1200sf are still like $185k which is ridiculous compared to what people make around here.
Even building condominiums would be an improvement. Personally, I hate condos (because I own one) but at least it gives people the chance to own something.
- Comment on Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward 1 year ago:
I don’t think it will burst. It’ll just slowly deflate as new houses come onto the market and demand eases. The main problem (at least where I live) is that there just aren’t enough houses being built. I don’t think we’ll see a sharp price drop anytime soon because there are so many people waiting to buy.
- Comment on Practical file manager on Linux Ubuntu 1 year ago:
You could try Dolphin. It’s the default file manager in KDE, but I think you can install it by itself.
It should be available as an apt package in Ubuntu.
- Comment on Could we possibly get old.discuss.tchncs.de? 1 year ago:
That definitely looks cool. I’d love having it as an option, but I wouldn’t want to push it on everybody.
- Submitted 1 year ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on What is the need for so many instances? 1 year ago:
That’s especially a problem since people absolutely don’t want to see ads, they don’t like the idea of a coin/reward system, and generally don’t contribute (less than 1 out of 20 ppl donate, and that’s being generous)
- Comment on What is the need for so many instances? 1 year ago:
In addition to what the others have said, we’ve lost some big and popular instances (Vlemmy, FMHY and others) along with the communities they had. Also, with the 2 biggest (lemmy.world and lemmy.ml) coming under attack every week, some users want to be on a smaller instance that’s under the radar.
Finally, people want to choose an instance that fits their interests/beliefs. I chose mine mainly for what they don’t allow and who they’re defederated from, but to each his own.
