RagnarokOnline
@RagnarokOnline@programming.dev
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 1 week ago:
Age is also something that matters here. Are you middle-aged yet? I ended up pulling the brakes on my career to get a better work-life balance, but it ended up stunting my career trajectory a bit.
Once I had more free time and realized I wanted to earn more, I had to hustle to get back to a top-of-market position.
In short: there’s always time on the future to pivot to Option B. If there’s more value to extract where you are, milk it for all it’s worth and then exit before it goes south (as all jobs do).
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 2 weeks ago:
The payback is knowing that one day their kids will do the same to them, right ;)
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 2 weeks ago:
The “slow mornings” one is my favorite.
- Comment on I even had the barbeque sauce all ready 3 weeks ago:
I can’t even share this in the boys chat, but this shit made me cackle
- Comment on Body horror, the skull kid, the impending doom when you look up at the sky... 3 weeks ago:
I think about this all the time.
Cremia and Romani’s failure state is so sad :’(
- Comment on A Coup Is In Progress In America 3 weeks ago:
Couldn’t agree more. Good message, but pontificating as hell.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 4 weeks ago:
I was a Reddit refugee.
A year or so into Lemmy and I don’t want to have a Reddit account anymore. I go back and view “All” every once in awhile, but Lemmy and Loops give me all I need.
No other social media or content aggregators besides those.
- Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 1 month ago:
Chemical weapon, maybe.
- Comment on Day 174 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
lol, the last screenshot
- Comment on Is there an extensive guide on how to protect kids on the internet? 2 months ago:
I think this is close to what you’re looking for: www.missingkids.org/netsmartz/home
Click the “Peer Learning” pdf on the home page.
- Comment on Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes' 2 months ago:
I just call them “wester-style RPGs”. It’s like the contrast to JRPGs.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 3 months ago:
I actually did some googling and there are some okay-ish articles debating this topic. All of them said “it depends”, which isn’t really helpful.
It got me thinking, though… how much savings would you need to make it worth it to you? ($20 savings? $100 savings? $500 savings?)
The oil heater is going to cost ~$50 to purchase if you don’t already have one. That means you’ll at least need to save $50 just to break even. So over the winter, your electric bill will need to drop by $50 plus whatever the dollar amount you need in order for it to be “worth the trouble” for you.
If an extra $50 over the winter in savings ($100 total) is worth it to you, I think you have a high chance of an oil room heater getting you that savings over your central heating. I’m doubtful how much more you’d be able to save beyond that. (I didn’t do the math on it, but based on the articles I read, the oil heater is going to be cheaper in general.)
Another thing to consider: The oil heater is likely to be a lot more convenient to use than the central air option and having to close all the other vents in your house though.
- Comment on Watch: Inside the FBI’s Secret Phone Company 4 months ago:
Really interesting talk. It’s funny to me how as the world gets more and more connected via the internet, more and more the law enforcement branches sacrifice privacy in order to “fight evil”
- Comment on Increasing the efficiency of (some) refrigerators with insulating foam, potentially cutting yearly energy use in half 4 months ago:
Holy shit this is some #theydidthemath stuff.
6 months at paying full price for the foam is a ridiculously quick turnaround given the lifespan of a fridge (easily 5 years). Plus, you can probably reuse the prior fridge’s foam on the next fridge, so that makes it even better.
Why don’t people do this more often? If the gap in my current “fridge space” wasn’t so small already, I’d be tempted to go find some foam.
- Comment on Increasing the efficiency of (some) refrigerators with insulating foam, potentially cutting yearly energy use in half 4 months ago:
Excellent point about getting styrofoam for free (I hadn’t even thought of that). With that in mind, the only cost would be for time spent gathering the foam and then covering the fridge (I could probably do this in less than an hour, tbh).
Thanks for this comment!
- Comment on Increasing the efficiency of (some) refrigerators with insulating foam, potentially cutting yearly energy use in half 4 months ago:
Very cool post (pun intended).
This got me thinking about the goal of this kind of insulation…
If it’s cost savings, what would be the timespan until the cost of the styrofoam is paid for by the energy savings? ( I have no idea what that type of styrofoam costs).
If the goal is environmental, how much energy savings would be needed to offset the footprint of the manufacture of the styrofoam and transport of the styrofoam to your location?
In either case, I’d have to assume the less efficient (and older) the fridge, the faster you’d make the extra insulation pay itself off.
- Comment on Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi – Krebs on Security 4 months ago:
Pretty eye-opening stuff on how deranged cyber criminals can be.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 4 months ago:
Thanks for bringing this up. I think I’ve heard this too and I have to say I’m of two minds about it.
In one end… I am frustrated with Reddit’s greed and I think they’ve lost most of my respect at this point. I think I’m kinda bitter toward them, so seeing them lose market share might bring me a bit of schadenfreude.
On the other hand, Reddit’s content quality really feels like it’s gone to crap in the last 5-6 years or so. When I came to Lemmy (and Mastodon), it was refreshing because the community seemed to have a bit of that scrappy, fringe attitude that I missed from early Reddit. I’d be sad if that went away due to over-population.
Basically, I like Lemmy and I want it to be even more successful so that algorithms have less control on our lives. At the same time, I dislike Reddit because they’re going whole-hog into enshittification. I guess I just convinced myself that I want Lemmy to continue to grow ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 4 months ago:
Thanks for sharing this perspective. Complacency won’t grow the userbase here.
- Comment on Data is a plural 5 months ago:
I just realized I do this too. I need to hit myself with a folding chair.
- Comment on Data is a plural 5 months ago:
😳
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 5 months ago:
I don’t end up playing new games much because I’m such a deal hog, so this is really nice to read :)
- Comment on In honor of the start spooky season (yay!), I have a question about an apparently beloved spooky meme/skit. What about "David S. Pumpkins" is so funny? 5 months ago:
You are not a buzzkill, I think. This skit had a couple of things going for it:
- Halloween can always use more “mascots” and this is one.
- I admit that I originally didn’t like this skit, but my brother-in-law did, and I like him, so after watching it always made me think of him until eventually it became something I genuinely liked.
- I quote lines from this skit to my SO all the time, so it’s become kind of embedded into my life.
- SNL during this time wasn’t very funny to me. I think that since SNL sucked during this time, even moderately funny skits ended up exploding in popularity just because they weren’t the usual onslaught of comedians stumbling over their lines and ruining jokes. Weekend Update was pretty funny, though.
So in short, my friend, it’s not really funny. It was a moment, and you may have missed it. But let me say this, I think you’re cool for kicking off Spooky season…
… Almost as cool as DaViD ESS pUmKiNs!
- Comment on Name generator 5 months ago:
Thaddeus Pai
- Comment on Jesus could have been an antique meme à la Chuck Norris that got waaaay out of hand 5 months ago:
That’s a cool thought.
Same with Julius Caesar, Nebuchadnezzar, Christopher Columbus, Henry VIII, Copernicus, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Ptolemy.
Really anybody famous could have their image embellished back before the widespread ability to read and write. (Some folks listed above may not have lived in a time of illiteracy, but it was hard to think of a list of historical characters lol.)
- Comment on Begone Beast - Announcement Trailer | gamescom 2024 6 months ago:
Looks kinda fun tbh.
Release date seems to be Q2 2025
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 6 months ago:
It is definitely scary. I want to remind you that you were once a decently happy person and that therapy (both individual and couples therapy) is likely one of the few options you have to move back in that direction.
It’s worth it (speaking from experience). That weight on your shoulders is just waiting to come off, but you likely need a bit of help to get things started.
“hire good private teachers, and accept the resulting costs as money well-spent.” - Marcus Aurelius
- Comment on [Official Art] Bongo Bongo - the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 6 months ago:
Always loved this boss. Volvagia was my favorite, but this one was a close second. Hated the dungeon, though.
- Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins 7 months ago:
The Winamp Skin archive he built was a nostalgia trip I needed:
- Comment on Unofficial Reddit API 7 months ago:
Gotta agree with this. Reddit is a shadow of what it once was.