glorkon
@glorkon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gaysadilla 2 days ago:
prepares Cock au Vin
Wait… what?
- Comment on An identification key 1 week ago:
Here’s my theory: All diplodocuses, much like all brontosauruses, are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
- My ICQ…
And when young people ask me if I ever play multi-player games… my dude, I played the first one. Midimaze on Atari ST.
- Comment on Stop bogarting that good stuff 2 weeks ago:
I’m at the age where I sometimes start sentences with “I’m at the age where”.
- Comment on What brings you peace in your life? 2 weeks ago:
That’s awesome, man. Huge respect, I know how hard it is. I was very lucky to somehow get out of my debts, and it really gave me back an inner peace like I last felt when I was a teen without any obligations.
Life isn’t perfect, but hey, it never is. But I can at least take out my wife for a fancy dinner each wedding day and I don’t feel like a total loser anymore. Keep going, even if life throws shit at you, never ever give up.
- Comment on What brings you peace in your life? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not good with people as well. You can’t solve all your problems at once, but you can take some weight off your shoulders. Every bit helps, every small step forward gives you a little more energy, a little more emotional wiggle room and belief in yourself.
Not gonna lie, it’s not easy. It took a long, long time for my brain chemistry to readjust so I could feel joy again from something else than weed. And I’m not sure if I could have done it without help from family and friends (the very few that I have).
But I am so glad that I somehow made it. You will be, too. I root for you, my friend, and I wish you well.
- Comment on What brings you peace in your life? 2 weeks ago:
I hate to be that annoying fuck who mentions having money to get by.
But I have been broke for such a long time (until I started working on getting my life back on track), I even once got evicted from my then relatively cheap apartment in Berlin. I spent all the money I had back then on smoking pot. Tried getting away from my problems, mainly caused by being broke, by being stoned off my face 24/7. You can imagine how that went.
So yeah. 15 years later, having saved enough so I don’t have to worry about these things anymore is a huge deal for me.
- Comment on Political leaning 3 weeks ago:
“Kommunist Metafisto” made me chuckle. Thanks.
- Comment on Smokin' meat 3 weeks ago:
I’d prefer it if the AI gave it to me straight, like a pear cider that’s made from a 100% pears.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
No fair. We all know this is the coolest car ever.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It looks cool? Well, we have completely different ideas of cool looks, apparently… I think this car looks cool. Image
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That may be true, but in case of the Cybertruck, I doubt that there is any lipstick you can put on that particular pig that can somehow turn it into something I would even remotely consider buying.
I mean, I’m European, I can’t buy the fricking thing anyway, but I am also rather glad that I’m spared from ever seeing it in the wild.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Leaving all the downsides of the Cybertruck aside - the fact that it’s built by a fucking nazi, the fact that it can turn in to a death trap, the fact that the build quality is shit…
Who the fuck buys a hideous, hideous car like this…? Who suffers from such poor taste that they think a piece of junk that looks like it was designed by a five-year-old is something worth spending money on, let alone so much?
- Comment on How kind! 3 weeks ago:
It was several teams from different German cities, five people per team. Don’t remember how many teams exactly, but at least eight. I got 9th in the solo ranking but we won the team title.
- Comment on How kind! 3 weeks ago:
Same here. My balcony faces North. No way I can grow my own peppers, but I know some places where I can at least get decent quality habaneros, scotch bonnets and jolokias.
Recently made a mango habanero sauce using fermented yellow habaneros. Lovely stuff.
- Comment on How kind! 3 weeks ago:
Well, I don’t like it, but you definitely have a point. :)
- Comment on How kind! 3 weeks ago:
Definitely. I have stopped using extracts altogether, I go for best taste now, make my own sauces, I frequently attend Chili Festivals here in Berlin and I’ve tried hundreds of hot sauces. It’s become a hobby.
But I will never, ever again participate in a hot food contest.
- Comment on How kind! 3 weeks ago:
To be honest I only backed out because some medics who were present took my blood pressure and emphatically recommended that I stop.
- Comment on How kind! 3 weeks ago:
That particular extract tastes very awful, really bitter. There’s a British manufacturer named Grim Reaper who has figured out how to produce extracts that aren’t bitter, but “The Source” will ruin the taste of your food along with making it extremely hot.
- Comment on How kind! 4 weeks ago:
Um… thanks, I guess. I’m one too…
- Comment on How kind! 4 weeks ago:
So I participated a bit longer ago, the hottest pepper extract available at the time was called “The Source” rated at 7.1 million Scoville. To put that into perspective, Carolina Reaper peppers, depending on how well they’re grown, can reach 2.5 million Scoville.
I quit when they served a lemon sorbet with a large amount of that in it - which was the most sadist thing they could come up with in my opinion. Imagine you’re in a lot of pain from having suffered through all the enormously hot rounds before that one, and then they serve you something icy cold, which you are desperately longing for, but you also know it will inflict immense pain.
It’s like throwing a drowning man a barbed wire rescue rope.
- Comment on How kind! 4 weeks ago:
Well, then I shan’t.
- Comment on How kind! 4 weeks ago:
I once participated in the German Hot Food Competition, it started off with having to eat a whole Bhut Jolokia chili pure and only got worse from there.
- Comment on The greatest subtitle in history 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 4 weeks ago:
I’m a software architect. I work with large amounts of data. And a sizeable RAM disk is generally useful for many purposes. And yes, I also run AI locally, though that’s what my RTX 4090 is for.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 4 weeks ago:
IBM stopped their support for LTFS, unfortunately. Which I kinda want to use despite all the drawbacks. And well, the RAM disk workaround does the trick, so there’s not enough pain to compel me into investing more time into the issue.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 4 weeks ago:
Oh, there can be all kinds of uses.
For example, I own an LTO tape drive. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the IBM drivers to compile on my particular flavor of Linux, but I do have a dual boot system.
Now, Windows is a shitty, shitty OS that I only boot up when I really need to. It interferes with all kinds of stuff in ways I hate, for example - copying files. It just refuses to read large files from my SSD when backing them up to tape. This causes the LTO drive to slow down, speed up, rewind, which is not a good thing because it causes additional wear on the tape.
Fix: Create a large RAM drive, copy files to RAM drive, run backup with RAM drive as source.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 4 weeks ago:
Built my new PC in late 2023… so glad I put 96 GB of RAM into it, despite several people asking me why the fuck I need so much RAM…
- Comment on This guy gets it 5 weeks ago:
Whenever I read Schopenhauer’s name, I’m reminded of this part in a song by German punk pop band Die Ärzte.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As a fan of Terry Pratchett’s wonderful discworld novels, just like the orange douchebag writes his messages on Truth Social, I would love him to meet someone who speaks only in all caps.
