wreckedcarzz
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- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 6 hours ago:
“nom” 😼
“MEOW?!?” on fire🙀
- Comment on 🌳🚗 👍 3 days ago:
I’ve had 7 accidents in my own car (and 2 as a passenger in other vehicles), but only 1 where I was at fault… I may be in this advertisement. Go hard or go home.
- Comment on Portainer on Debian or Proxmox? 3 days ago:
Have the system do something intensive and see how much the temps climb. Let it work for a few minutes and see - that will tell you if your system is thermal throttling or not.
- Comment on Portainer on Debian or Proxmox? 3 days ago:
Yeah, that all looks okay. Did you put the system under heavy load while checking/monitoring?
- Comment on Word. 3 days ago:
You called?
- Comment on Word. 3 days ago:
You literally ‘print’ to pdf. Instead of a physical page appearing from the demon box, it will give you a prompt of where to ‘print’ your file. Windows has it too, though I always use the pdf export and not the print. But in a pinch it’s good.
- Comment on truly thought-provoking question 5 days ago:
This halo lore is getting wild
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 5 days ago:
Unsure if joke or not, ha. I don’t even remember what I set in my bio for FL, its been a couple years since I set that account up…
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 6 days ago:
Why make 4 cylinder engines when you can get 12 cylinder engines instead?
(cost, hardware requirements or restrictions, use case…)
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 6 days ago:
This grinds my gears any time that a product is touted as lasting X time. Did you put it through a typical use case or scenario for that X time? No? Then you cannot definitively say that it will last that long.
Based on their bullshit statement, I can last 7 years pounding someone’s ass relentlessly without pause for any reason. Trust me bro.
- Comment on Portainer on Debian or Proxmox? 6 days ago:
Thermal throttling is when the system (usually the cpu) becomes so hot from the lack of cooling provided to it, that it limits its performance to save itself from certain death. AMD chips usually throttle at 80C, Intel chips 100C, but it could be a few different components. You need to run software that can properly read and report the temporatire of various parts in your system to see if you might be hitting the throttling threshold.
I know software to do this for windows, but not any for *nix.
- Comment on why the heck do cockroaches fly 1 week ago:
Don’t kinkshame
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 1 week ago:
I was 110% a Google fan until about 9 years ago, when Project Fi was headed towards public release, and devices purchased from them (effectively through the Google Store with a different sticker on the box) kept mysteriously going missing in transit, and the customer got an empty box/a brick/whatever. This is annoying on its own, but G/Fi cs response to these instances were awful. As I was a Fi user (woo closed beta gang), and I bought my devices thru Fi, I became concerned that this might happen to me. That thought quickly snowballed, and I started migrating out of the G ecosystem because the realization that their cs is useless and if I ever have a dispute or situation, they can just delete my account without giving a single fuck.
To pay a company money and not receive some assurances that my data won’t be wiped out of the blue while I asleep, is - in my opinion - fucking stupid as hell. I don’t know how the apple situation is, but until proven otherwise, fuck both of them for anything you care about.
- Comment on If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score? 1 week ago:
42, says an online calculator
- Comment on Is this real life? 1 week ago:
No escape from reality
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
And yet lots of it is hoarded by people who think that being shiny and heavy are qualities that are worth lots of money
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
“this rock I found is special” “why?” “it’s shiny and heavy”
And some poor dumbass was like “fuck yeah gimme that shit”. Same with jewelery…
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 1 week ago:
We already have the slow agonizing death part down to a science
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 2 weeks ago:
Let me know when my phone starts generating shit, so I can promptly light it on fire. Until then, I’ll be over here making out with it. Come here baby, give me some of that nasty 5G wavelengths. Oh yeah, that always gets me going~ a little tongue in the USB port and 💦
Signed, a gay dude who is basically oral-only because of experiences.
- Comment on When you are watching porn and someone is looking at you 2 weeks ago:
Watching? Some of us higher beings prefer lewd art instead. Come across something really spicy, set it as your wallpaper and pass it around like a collection plate for all to appreciate.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
No actually requirement to remain on pci, other than not wanting to buy new hardware if I don’t have to (money is tight too, being disabled and all) - I’ve been using pci sound blaster cards for 20 years now, and one of the current two has been in my box for nearly (maybe actually) 15 years now? The SB Z, and SB AE-5. There’s also the slight preference of not having more stuff dangling out of the back of my box, but I could get over that I guess. I’ve never looked at USB solutions (or anything external really) so I don’t know anything about them, other than they exist.
I’d also like to retain software settings (I guess hardware switches, if available as an alternative) if at all possible, which as far as I can tell, I cannot on the cards I currently have (SB software is windows-only). Since currently my use case is gaming + music on the one card, while voice chat on the other, that way I can get clear voices on my headset at a lower volume while my 5.1 gives me louder, positional game audio. Both speakers and headset are 3.5mm, as I know the SB cards work well, so (at purchase) I wanted the only thing altering the signal was the SB card itself, instead of using say a Logitech USB headset with its own independent controls or something, bypassing. I swear off wireless headsets for this reason.
It basically comes down to ‘it’s what I’ve always used’ and ‘don’t fix what isn’t broken’, with a sprinkle of ‘I don’t trust anything else or know of what to look for’ :P
Got suggestions on where to start looking/brands to check into?
Thanks ^_^
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Well, when you are approached by someone who doesn’t read nor understand the conversation or arguments brought forth, who then argues with you regarding said topic and situations - in which you have personal experience with - and who reiterates the same argument that is based on flawed data and assumptions, causing you to stay up for several hours as you try and explain the situation and points, while you grow more and more frustrated (see all points ststed above)… and at the conclusion of the conversation, they have added no value nor insight to the original discussion which, again, they didn’t fully understand… you let me know at what stage you’d be a bit frustrated.
Myself, I give people waaayyyyyyy too much credit, leeway, benefit of the doubt. Way too much. And most of the time, yeah, it’s a misunderstanding, they appreciate the kindness, everyone is happy. But others, it’s just malace, trying to harm me, break me.
I can be the nicest guy in the world, and people will still say I’m an asshole because they disagree with something, or they don’t understand what my core statements are, or any other number of reasons. I used to be that way, nice to everyone all the time, even those who used me, exploited me, manipulated me. I stopped being a pushover after I suffered my stroke, effectively losing function of half my body. After that, nah, not anymore. I wasted my whole life up until that point kissing behinds and getting shit in return. I don’t do that anymore.
I don’t care if you dislike me. I don’t care what you think about me in any capacity, frankly. It would all be wrong anyway, so why get worked up over it. But what I’ve learned in the twilight hours of this morning, is that all your aggravation pointed at me, isn’t my fault. And that is so… relaxing. Comforting.
Anyway, I’m finally off to bed now. The sun is rising, and I’m exhausted.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Forum posts and my own experience say that cards from Creative Labs and Asus, which both work correctly under windows, fail to achieve correct output above 2.0 (2.1?). There are almost no other options for pci add-on sound cards, being a niche market for the last 15 years or so.
So, unless you can point me to a card that I can purchase today and that has either a manufacturer-backed statement of compatability, or there are current owners who own that card, this conversation is over. I’ve given you way too much of my time, misunderstanding and misinterpret what is a basic concept and statement, such that you are not acting in good faith. I’d be happy to find a card that fits my quite basic requirements, but everything that I came across myself had reports of issues, or dead-end forum posts where no solution was reached.
So, do you have a card for me or not?
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
‘I cannot find an add-on sound card that claims compatability with Linux at a reasonable cost’ != ‘everyone with a Linux machine doesn’t have sound’.
Find me a pci sound card that can handle 5.1 channel audio over 3.5mm. I spent a couple hours several weeks ago and came up empty (excluding the aforementioned card for creators).
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
In my initial comment, I state that my situation isn’t typical, and that I’m outside the bubble of typical hardware and use case. I state why I use two sound cards. I state what is wrong with the drivers, my attempts to resolve it, my search for alternative hardware, and why falling back to a more basic setup in unacceptable.
I’m not ‘making a specific scenario’, this is my main machine I use daily. You are literally proving my point, about the ‘bubble’ of users that use basic hardware and think everything is fine, but those who use things that aren’t common hit snags and issues. And then you want to blame me for using hardware that I’ve used for years? Are you actually kidding me?
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
…no? I said I searched for sound cards that are made by other companies, like Asus, that also have similar problems. And then I looked up if there are any manufacturers that claim to support Linux, if which I only found one, and who charged an absurd amount of money since their target market is creators, not consumers.
Like, I’m not sure how to got to that conclusion, but it was wholly on your own.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
See my other comment :p
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, lol, I figured it wasn’t a real thing but search turned up this immediately: www.getinboxzero.com
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
I can - they asked for an example, I provided one. Most users don’t need to use custom input controls, or aren’t running a home theater system. They are in the bubble of ‘typical’, and they don’t think about situations other than their own (why would they?), thus people like myself who don’t fit in the bubble struggle.
Also do note the fact that my sound card issue has been a known issue through forum posts for basically a decade. Like sure, eventually sure, but it’s been a decade now and my current experience matches that of years ago, so…
Also miss me with that fake sympathy. I’ve heard ‘it’s sucks what you’re going through’ or something very close to it, for yeaaaars now, and the inevitable ‘but’ just tells me ‘that was a lie but I wanted to pretend to care’. Every time, always the same thing.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Okay, I was curious what Inbox Zero is, and I went ‘ew’ at the ‘ai’ angle, but then I fucking lost it when I got to the prices. They went $18 a month (per user) on the annual plan, to:
- basically tags your email, which you can set up yourself using folders, and probably near identical through gmail or something
- get ai replies written up for you… which I think gmail also does now
- ’blocks cold emails’ which is just the spam filter with a fresh coat of paint
- ’bulk unsubscibed / archive’… you can do that in most modern email clients? I guess not in bulk but how many shitty newsletters and promos do you subscribe to, really?
- and an ‘analysis’ of your email…?
I do everything except the ai replies through cpanel and my email client, for free. Fucking hell, that’s almost 3x what I pay for my web/email hosting. And I don’t have to prepay for a year of service, and I get way more granular control over incoming messages. That service is highway robbery, and they have 15k users?! What the actual fuck. $18 a year, kinda high, but a fucking month…