CosmicTurtle
@CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
- Comment on MFW I'm cutting back on groceries (yet again) so that a line goes up somewhere 7 months ago:
Fwiw, the cheap olive oil is really good for mayo you make yourself. EVOO should be used for things like salads and bread, where the taste makes the difference.
If you want oil in a pan, cheap stuff works just fine…only you have to be careful because olive oil in the states isn’t always olive oil.
- Comment on I fixed my dad's angle grinder with a ball bearing I salvaged from my gerbil's old excercise wheel a few years back. 7 months ago:
I recently took apart my weed whacker and it used the same ball bearing. I actually learned that these ball bearing casings (?) are super common. I replaced mine with a skate board bearing and it’s as good as new.
- Comment on Massive Thank You 7 months ago:
Shit, I’m even grateful for when you all tell me off.
Oh fuck off!
Just kidding! I haven’t seen any of your posts here (mostly because I sort by all) but yeah the people in this sub are top tier.
A few weeks ago I came here to ask about building my own computer and which parts to get because it had been years since I’ve done so and everyone was nice about it.
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs 7 months ago:
Microsoft is using copilot to find more intrusive ways to install copilot.
It’s called reinforcement learning.
- Comment on democracy in Russia 8 months ago:
No GOP wet dream is basically what North Korea does.
You stand in line to vote and are handed a card. There is one box for the “candidate”. You vote by putting your card in the box while everyone watches.
You have the choice to not vote.
Guess how many don’t vote b
- Comment on Spider cats 8 months ago:
I’m imagining the scene from Step Brothers:
Spider: Can you eat the ants but not my eggs?
Frog: YUP! Can you protect me from other things that want to eat me?
Spider: YUP! Did we just become best friends?!
Frog: YUP!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
These states:
- Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming
- Arizona
- California
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Washington
- Comment on Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions 8 months ago:
At least Amazon is thinking of the shareholders.
- Comment on Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now 8 months ago:
I tried a bunch of questions. It seems okay on giving you instructions on forming a union at Target, Starbucks…but not Amazon.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 8 months ago:
Maybe but it’s almost a $2trillion dollar company. Might be a shell, but it’s popular.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
The hardest thing about Linux Mint is installing all of your software. It’s daunting even for very established users.
I moved from Ubuntu to LM a few months ago and I’ve enjoyed it.
- Comment on Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery 8 months ago:
RvB was like '00s at it’s best.
“It would be ironic if we were made of iron.”
Hard cut to the next scene.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
Oooh, I had not considered that but thank you for the recommendation. The only thing I don’t like about these PCs is that they all have RGB lighting. I really don’t need this and I don’t get their appeal.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
Are CUDAs something that I can select within pcpartpicker? Or is this like a cloud thing?
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
With the conversations I’m having here, I’m leaning in the direction of integrated video (assuming I can get one with display port) and a discrete card just for AI work.
I use VirtualBox for VMs. I’m assuming there are instructions on how to give the card to the VM? My cursory google search came up with dubious results.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I just checked the specs for the M.2 NVMe drive that I pulled from an old laptop. It’s read speed is 3000mbs so it looks like I’m good there. Thanks for the heads up though.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I know that this is the self-hosted community but I very much agree. The way I run my desktop is that I can, in most cases, lose my primary hard drive and I’ll survive. It won’t be pretty and I might have a few local repos that I haven’t synced in a while but overall, it ain’t bad.
Now, that doesn’t mean I don’t want my primary hard drive restored if I can do it. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to restore them from the drive. But if I can’t, the most I lose is some config files, which I should start to version control but I get lazy.
I can’t back up my media. It’s just too big. But yar.
My greatest fear is losing my porn collection. 😅 But not enough to RAID.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I actually did. And the quantum twin that succeeded is now solving global warming.
I am the twin that didn’t succeed.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
And if you want to join the “I use arch btw” crowd…
I may be a linux nerd and pedantic, but not that pedantic. 😅 I’ve looked into Linux Mint and not opposed to an distro switch. I’ve been very happy with Ubuntu over the years. My first distro was slackware, then Fedora. Settled in Ubuntu and haven’t turned back.
if CUDA should be part of your calculus or not.
Probably not, if my cursory google search is correct. But happy to be convinced otherwise.
Though another nicety for my latest builds, is multi-gig nics (though 2.5Gb was my ceiling, since you’ll also need the network gear to utilize it)
I’ve had the benefit of laying my own CAT-5e in my house. Given the distances, CAT-6 was going to cost twice as much with a negligible increase in bandwidth. That said, I’m restricted by the narrowest straw, which is wifi (when streaming media to my phone) and ISP (which taps out at around 300mb/s). My current PC has 1gb/s card and I’ve only occasionally had issues.
I use newegg for its reviews of items, specifically so I can search for the term “linux” in any given product’s reviews.
Oh that’s a good tip!
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I was really hoping to cannibalize the 32 GBs of DDR3 RAM but I couldn’t find a MoBo that supports it anymore. Then I saw DDR5 is the latest!
I don’t really do any gaming. If I wasn’t going to tinker with AI, I’d just need a card for dual DisplayPort output. I can support HDMI but…I prefer DP
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I’ve gone back and forth on whether I need RAID locally. Giving up at least a third of your storage capacity (assuming RAID 5) for the off-chance that your hard drive dies in 3-4 years seems like a high price to pay. I had two drives fail in the lifespan of my current desktop. And I had enough warning from SMART that I could peel off the data before the drives bricked. I know I got lucky, but still…
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
Two GPUs? Is that a thing? How does that work on a desktop? Honestly, if it wasn’t for my curiosity into AI, I’d just go with the onboard video though given my need for specific resolutions, I find comfort in having a dedicated card.
I’ve been using ubuntu exclusively for 10 some years and don’t use snap at all. tbh, not even sure what snap is.
If it’s not apt, then I don’t use it.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
is that really a concern? 2 cables vs. pushing a card into the mobo?
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I for one would not purchase any Intel hardware as long as AMD is around. Not that they’re bad or anything, but AMD gives me much Kore “bang for the buck”.
If you have a processor line in mind, let me know. Happy to give them another look, given my experience with AMD is 30 some years old.
And then there’s the cooling. I see you went with a radiator and fan, but I strongly suggest getting some type of liquid cooling. The prices are not that bad anymore (unlike about 10 years ago, which was insane).
I’m not tied to the cooling solution I picked. I just picked something that looked affordable and did what I wanted. I’d love to do liquid cooling so long as it isn’t a pain. I helped my friend back in high school do liquid cooling and it was a proper mess. We came close to shorting his entire rig.
As for the board, you’ll get all kinds of different suggestions. Some people swear by Asus, I’d rather go with Gigabyte (love the Aorus line), so it’ll come down to brand trust at the end of the day.
I have zero brand loyalty here. The boards I’m looking at right now all have embedded wifi with the annoying antenna…I really want bluetooth embedded so it seems like I’ll have to have wifi but just not use it.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I’ve been learning the same. Though, I don’t get the sense that SATA is going out of style. I could be wrong though.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
I remember working on a PC back in my Geek Squad days that had a lever.
For air circulation, what should I be on the lookout for? Making sure I have clearances, of course, but should I buy more fan that I need?
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- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 8 months ago:
Today you. Tomorrow me.
- Comment on Can someone explain why authors do this? 9 months ago:
If you ever go to r/relationship_advice and read posts where their friend T did S with P and then A (23 F) got into with G, then yeah…Alice and Bob suddenly makes a lot of sense.
- Comment on Paying people to work on open source is good actually 9 months ago:
The problem is companies that fully take advantage of open source, as is their right, and then fully expect the volunteer dev to provide support them when they have a Sev 1.
Sure they read the license and saw that it was free, but they didn’t read the part that it was free but offered literally no support.
The amount of money that my company has made on the backs of open source developers is probably in the literal billions. But we don’t give fuck squat to them outside of one day a year that we contribute code back to a few select libraries.