PancakesCantKillMe
@PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 18 hours ago:
Thank you for the comprehensive reply! I am curious: do the ponds not produce mosquitoes as well?
I live on a hillside and creating water spots might get tricky on our rocky soil. It could be done I suppose, but it’ll have to be the next place to try.
The forest must help. We have some thick western red cedar groves and do have a lot of dragonflies at times, but no water other than birdbaths. I love seeing them scanning the hillside and the few flat spots we have. I’m always rooting for them. Funny about the frogs. I like em too, but we don’t see many. Lizards and snakes mostly.
Thanks for the Ted talk! 😂
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 22 hours ago:
Thanks for the TLDR. Dragonflies are the worlds most efficient hunters.
You mentioned that you “use” them. Do you introduce them or do they exist naturally where you are? If so, are there ways to increase their numbers? We have some dragonflies, but we have far more mosquitoes! Just curious.
- Comment on kingdom come 22 hours ago:
He told me to get off his lawn and he’s keeping the ball.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 4 days ago:
I am not aware of bored panda or their reputation. But I have edited my comment to the preferred site. Thank you.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 4 days ago:
Okay, this got an actual laugh out of me. Imma hafta look up Max Garcia meow.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 6 days ago:
Maybe Bob is a slob at his job, but Rob has a knob on his hob at home.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
bhphotovideo.com/…/seagate_st24000nt002_ironwolf_…
They are a retailer in NYC. Their specialties (historically) lie in photography and all the tech surrounding that.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
Newegg was the nerd’s paradise 10+ years ago. I would spend thousands each year on my homelab back then. They had great customer service and bent over backwards for them. Then they got bought out and squeezed and passed that squeeze right down to the customers. Accusing customers of damaging parts, etc. Lots of slimeball stuff. They also wanted to be like amazon, so they started selling beads, blenders and other assorted garbage alongside tech gear.
After a couple of minor incidents with them I saw the writing on the wall and went to amazon who were somewhat okay then. Once amazon started getting bad, I turned to B&H and fleaBay. I don’t buy as much electronic stuff as I used to, but when I do these two are working…so far.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
Yes, fuck Newegg (and amazon too). I’ve been using B&H for disks and I have no complaints about them. They have the Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB at $479 currently, but last week it was on sale for $419. (I only look at 5yr warranty disks.)
I was not in a position to take advantage as I’ve already made my disk purchase this go around, so I’ll wait for the next deep discount to hit if it is timely.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 1 week ago:
“The net itself measures 3.5 by 3.5 meters, with an effective range of up to 25 meters.”
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
Excess coffee cups received as gifts work too.
- Comment on Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS 2 weeks ago:
I found Mint rather simple to install. That said, I am a techie. I am using several different distros in my house, but I wanted to live in Mint for a while to see how well a non-techie might fare. My reasoning was that since Ubuntu (Mint’s parent) is rather ubiquitous, there is more development and more attention paid to support and troubleshoot issues. So far, so good. Yes, being tech literate does help, but I think a non-techie could live with Linux. And over time, the environment will become more known like Windows is now.
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried swapping out the part (CPU/videocard/memory/random component) whilst the patient is still running?
Doctors do this all the time! ;)
- Comment on I dont need to camp, I am homeless enough already. 3 weeks ago:
One year whilst out group camping, one of the campers awoke in the middle of the night to relieve himself. He was still very drunk from the previous evening’s festivities and thought the opening of the tent was right there. Well, it was the *new * opening for sure now.
- Comment on OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’ 3 weeks ago:
There is a device that allows for the head to be easily separated for a more thorough analysis. I say we start building some.
- Comment on uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS 1 month ago:
I’ve used Swappa before and it worked out fine. I sought a private seller instead of the cellphone shops that sell there.
- Comment on Fresh 1 month ago:
So precious!
- Comment on Fresh 1 month ago:
My dog taught me that years ago!
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 month ago:
Hope you like satellite internet.
Not as much as I revile Musk.
- Comment on New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam 1 month ago:
K-k-k-k-killing spree!!!
- Comment on New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam 1 month ago:
Isn’t that plastic already?
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 month ago:
Perhaps your comment wasn’t clear. People probably saw your first sentence and clicked the down-arrow. There are tons of great videos to watch on YT obviously, in nearly any facet of life you can think of. I watch many things that would bore others, but that’s part of the deep. rich sea of content that YT has.
Do I go there to watch network-style shows and movies. Hell no. But I don’t frequent Disney, either.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 months ago:
I am unsure as to how “good” it is, but it does give off “made for TV” vibes (IMDB rating is 6.9 from merely 100 votes). It appears that the film was intended to be a series that never happened. I think the premise is quite interesting and was the initial reason I sought the show out. The search is made more alluring now because it is nowhere to be found. So far…
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 months ago:
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 months ago:
I’m doing my part!
I’ve loaded Mint on my prime system and a laptop, another laptop with Fedora, Manjaro on another main system I test with and EndeavorOS on all my media systems. I’ve also loaded about 8-10 other distros on Proxmox to play/test with.
Where I had doubts on whether I needed anything off of the old MS system, I P2V’ed the OS and spool it up on Proxmox if needed to review any history within the OS/browser.
I still have a couple of W10 VMs lingering and a Windows server. I’ll “upgrade” the workstation VMs to W11 (and shut them down) since I have the license and I can see sometimes having to use Windows for whatever dumb reasons. I’ll leave the Windows server for now to maintain the domain as that allows me to block telemetry with GPOs. I may tire of that at some point though as MS will further wane away on my network.
My summer task is to convert all my 'Arrr software over to Linux versions. Still on W10 there. Wasn’t sure which distro to go to for that…
- Comment on quick health tip 2 months ago:
I smell chicken….
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 2 months ago:
VPNSecure is the company.
- Comment on New grill has been chosen! 2 months ago:
You’re not allowed to show us anything anymore.
~*Shamelessly stolen yt comment.~
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 3 months ago:
With the lights off and playing alone that game was unnerving. I don’t think I ever finished it.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 5 months ago:
Yes! Shouldn’t your parents tell you before you come home from school???