Horsey
@Horsey@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
This person is seriously underselling how expensive Teton county is. It’s literally millionaires and locals who are now millionaires, or locals who are so poor they only stick around to work in hospitality. Any given “pretty” image from Wyoming is most certainly taken in Teton county as they’ve said above.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m from the Boston area, lived in rural NH as well as in Lawrence:
If you move to Wyoming, you will regret it. It’s got the coldest weather in the country outside northern Alaska with killer wind chill worse than Minnesota. Yeah, 2 hours away from doctors sucks, but now imagine that in the winter, driving conditionsbeing the same thing as 495 after a snowstorm but constant. In retirement, for me, I don’t think it’s wise to fight against weather… I get that the city and hot weather isn’t for everyone, but if you’re looking for temperate weather that won’t kill you, look into Eureka, CA or Coos Bay, OR; those places are basically Boston springtime but all year round.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
Portal 1 & 2. Far too short.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 1 week ago:
I assume California was the first to change
Nope, that designation goes to Massachusetts. First state to enact gay marriage and never had a prop 8 pass as late as 2008. California was a red state, redder than Florida is now, until very recently.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely can’t believe it’s been so long
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
“Village” isn’t used anywhere in the USA as far as I know. Places with <500 people call themselves a town usually. Where I’m from in NH (close to these towns), residents call themselves townies. “Small” is kinda just used as a grammatical intensifier in all the cases I’ve heard it used. YMMV in the south or Midwest though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Visit a AAA location and get an “international drivers permit”. It’s super easy and a good insurance policy for yourself. I highly doubt the police speak much English and aren’t corrupt, so it may save headaches. Also, watch out on neighborhood streets for potholes.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 month ago:
There’s no tax on buying property, however, property taxes are a percentage of your property’s assessed value. In my locality, the assessed value has a lot of deductions whereby my 400K house is only taxable as 32K in value, so I pay 3K/year in taxes.
I can’t speak for Florida, but if it’s like Arizona, their property is worth a lot more than 4M if their total tax burden is 90K/year.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 month ago:
NH, OR, AK, DE, MT
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, but that’s not typical for a high school dropout; he’s exceptional. Highschool dropouts are not super well read, as a demographic, either. I’m was not being hostile towards people who didn’t go to college.
critical thinking<
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Considering that critical thinking has to be thought to you, I think most people who skipped college may not have a good grasp on it.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
Electric? Nothing under 20k that’s new. We had a Chevy Bolt on the market at 28k, but it’s discontinued now.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
Even if it were 1000kg, that’s still way below what a truck would want to tow though.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
I struggle to understand the point of a truck that can only tow 500kg… that and such awful range. If the range were doubled this would be a great deal, but as is it’s just dead in the water.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 2 months ago:
I remember seeing a clip a long time ago of someone asking Gates how much a banana is and he was like… 5$?
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
on Notion: aren’t the desktop clients just electron apps anyway? The website is really solid from my useage.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
KDE Connect was rock solid when I was testing it out with an S24u. The only real issue I had with it was that it was missing RCS (RCS is locked down to only proprietary google messages/iMessage systems) and a seamless way to go from desktop notification to SCRCPY/screen mirroring.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 2 months ago:
I think the biggest draw to Synology now is the ultra low power consumption. Yeah, you could totally repurpose an old PC, but it’s crazy to run 500W perpetually. The reason they use old Celeron processors is the low power draw. In time, hopefully, RISC V can produce some low cost systems that would slot in well for this use case.
- Comment on Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked 2 months ago:
How long do we reckon until they figure out the decryption keys and Switch 2 games become piratable on stock hardware?
- Comment on What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? 2 months ago:
you should definitely request your data to be deleted before it’s too late
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 months ago:
third year was my favorite as well; it was easily the most compelling story and makes the death of Sirius that much more painful in 6
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 3 months ago:
Issue with waiting for the R2/3 is that the tax credits will probably be gone by then.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 3 months ago:
The issue is that the alternatives generally aren’t that much better in a vacuum. Infotainment vs Tesla infotainment (removing the CarPlay merits): It’s not even close, Tesla is like 10-15 years ahead of everything else on the US market in their price range. Car manufacturers famously lock in their tech and designs something like 3 years before public release.
Will there be meaningful software updates for your Kia EV6 in 2028? Absolutely not, no way.
Do you want to tow anything more than 1000Kg? Good luck outside of Tesla.
NACS? Not one single other car available yet.
Do you want a dashcam? Rivian is the only other brand, IIRC.
I’m not apologizing for Tesla, but it’s really painful how awfulall other cars are compared to the competition.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 3 months ago:
Not necessarily Carl Benz himself, but the company has been litigated and has been proven to have had ties to the nazi regime. I’m not arguing that Mercedes was founded on Nazi values, I’m just saying there was a connection and a less than stellar history.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 3 months ago:
Everyone forgets where the German cars, Henry Ford, etc came from politically.
I was looking into my first EV, and politics just didn’t weigh that much into the decision. Now, the “infotainment as a perpetual service”, that turned me off and away from Tesla. With CarPlay my car dash will never lose service, and will always be free to use with updates from Apple/Google. I can’t imagine why people would ever pay for their infotainment when CarPlay is better or equal in all cases to the alternative.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 4 months ago:
to anyone reading this comment:
I strongly recommend going to this government website and checking out the superfund sites located in your area. If you live anywhere east of the Mississippi, your chances of living near or not far from an illegal dumping site are really high.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
He’s South African, he can’t be President lol.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 8 months ago:
I quit RuneScape in 2011ish after squeal of fortune introduced legacy loot. I’m sorry, but for a game that was all about 100% completion, making loot legacy and unobtainable if you didn’t gamble for it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.