BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 day ago:
I mean your original argument was it was more convenient - everyone having to buy a milk bag holder already seems less convenient than one guy inserting a few shims in a few moulds every couple of months.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 day ago:
Milk specifically, no, other bagged liquids, yes. An absolute pain in the ass compared to a bottle.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 day ago:
Apart from when you want to use them.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 6 days ago:
Just in time for AM6.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
How do you take that from the comment above?
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
They don’t care, my parents laptop was decently mid-range spec bar storage, manufacturer put in a 5400RPM spinning rust drive. It was damn near unusable, crap from the factory.
Was forced to use it once when visiting and noticed the performance, put an SSD in it and it’s been a fine laptop since. They’re perfectly willing to hobble a laptop to save a buck.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Had a friend who wrote his french oral presentation out in 1337, he was allowed notes but not the word for word presentation. He showed the teacher beforehand, she said that’s fine, looks like gibberish.
- Comment on The Good Old days. Wish I had lived through them. Seems like lots of fun 1 week ago:
Yeah but cigarettes were healthy back then!
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 1 week ago:
Glass is absolutely not guaranteed to be flat or without defect. Some glasses are. Mirrors have to be or they don’t work, they come precut in 300x300mm plates for cheap from IKEA. You’re free to check absolutely any thread from the time to see what people’s motivations were. Moving mass on a bedslinger would’ve been a bigger consideration.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 week ago:
My comment was more about the Chinese monopoly that would ensue if TSMC were taken out.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 1 week ago:
No they don’t, they pick mirrors because they’re guaranteed to be flat at a low price.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 week ago:
Have Intel and Samsung stopped making chips recently?
- Comment on Selling my old printer, looking for feedback 1 week ago:
Oh nice plan. Rack Robo’s wire EDM kit is interesting looking too (though they seem to be sold out). My old CR10 is earmarked for a voron-ish build but that’d be my second choice I think.
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 1 week ago:
Sometimes gendered stuff makes sense - like urinals. As you mentioned they’re efficient and I’d imagine a large part of why the gents toilets don’t have big queues. I’m all for trans folk using whatever toilet they want, I’m more worried about the folk who are presumably checking everyone’s genitals to make sure they’re in the correct toilet.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Cheap slop?
- Comment on Selling my old printer, looking for feedback 2 weeks ago:
Do you already have a resin printer? I guess it depends what your plan for it would be, but honestly they’re a pain in ass most of the time, the resin is Satan’s own fluid and you need to set the time aside for a post print wash/cure cycle. Have you considered converting the ender to something else?
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 2 weeks ago:
Not a fan of putting up more surveillance in general, even less so in public toilets. Also what happens to the urinals in this scenario?
- Comment on THIS is an inventive idea 2 weeks ago:
Fair, I misread the tone. What it does to the soil, I couldn’t say. Though assuming they aren’t burned it’s probably decent carbon sequestering. I’d guess a tree farm isn’t all that different than a forest.
- Comment on THIS is an inventive idea 2 weeks ago:
What problem? It’s a tree from a tree farm that was grown for this purpose.
- Comment on wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize 3 weeks ago:
This sounds entirely reasonable. American rugby is a much better name.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
Full of dust
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I can’t say I’ve really noticed the fan noise enough to bother me yet, but wasn’t sure if that’s because I’m running some generic driver or others were just more sensitive to it than me. Jellyfin is at least fourth on the list of maintenance/upgrade tasks at the minute, as long as I can display the terminal at the minute I’m happy enough.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
I’ve not desktop environment on the NAS, it was plug and play in terminal. I did get an error about HSW/BDW HD-Audio HDMI/DP requiring binding with a gfx driver - but I’ve not yet even bothered to google it.
I read somewhere the sparkle elf I have just ramps the fan to 100% at all times with the Linux driver and has no option to edit fan curve under Linux (suggested fix was install a windows VM, set the curve there and the card will remember, but after rebuilding the NAS and fixing a couple of minor issues to get it all working I couldn’t face installing windows, so just left it as is until I have the time lol).
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 weeks ago:
Literally did this migration this weekend. Still need to install the A310 drivers and I don’t run Jellyfin (streaming handled client side with minidlna or SMB) but how do you find it?
- Comment on Happens everytime 4 weeks ago:
It’s more holding the sheet in place while you tuck in the mattress than anything. Perfection should be preserved.
- Comment on Happens everytime 4 weeks ago:
Bend the mattress up, hook it on, do the same on the other side and then kinda tuck it all back down to stop it pulling up again.
- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 4 weeks ago:
I felt like we were brothers for the entire first sentence, then you had to ruin it.
- Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed. 5 weeks ago:
Lol, early 2000s diesels can get 60+mph
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 weeks ago:
Pfft Ubuntu has existed for years.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 month ago:
I feel this characterises it as more of a border dispute between nation states. I’m not going to get into the rights and wrongs of any side in this (because it’ll take far too long and frankly I doubt I could be completely objective). I’m commenting only to say it wasn’t that.