BarbecueCowboy
@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on There isn't a person on earth that doesn't look cooler with sunglasses on. 3 days ago:
I’ve always thought it was more about the fact that they hide our eyes generally. We mostly do stupid shit with our eyes that make us less cool, sunglasses take away one avenue we’d just use to embarrass ourselves.
- Comment on me trying to keep my sanity in a 100+ year old rental house 3 days ago:
I’ve purchased enough cans of spray foam that I think on average its probably down to a 70-80 year old house on average.
- Comment on Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance 3 days ago:
The actual chips are farmed out to TSMC, I don’t believe they’ve made any in house so I’m guessing maybe they’ve decided that they’re going to do that sometimes now? But then, even some of their CPUs are made by TSMC so I could be on a very wrong path.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Threats against the president are also illegal.
- Comment on Power through 4 days ago:
I’m going to start a fight with everybody.
Dr. Pepper is the best root beer.
- Comment on I sometimes worry that most of my posts from lemmy.dbzer0.com have been sorta doomeristic. Does anyone have any good Lemmy communities that would act as palate cleansers? 4 days ago:
No idea what else it could potentially stand for, but NWSL feels like it should be one of those acronyms I should avoid online.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 sounds like it's not getting a follow-up any time soon, but Obsidian plan to give Avowed some wacky cousins 4 days ago:
I couldn’t get into Avowed. There’s still a good game there definitely, but it feels like they had a committee for ‘Find things we can do differently than Skryim’ and even beyond the lack of a real open world… I personally found all their choices to be more annoying than fun.
- Comment on Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers 4 days ago:
I always had a bad feeling about this game, it sucks that it actually panned out.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
My vision is failing faster than resolutions are improving and most of the time I can’t even tell the difference between 4k and 1080p. More interested in higher FPS content becoming more commonplace.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
LinkedIn is mostly for establishing that you’re okay with not being a human being and really your life’s ultimate goal is to strive to be just the very best corporate robot.
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 1 week ago:
My containers are running containers… At least 24.
- Comment on there i fixed it 1 week ago:
South Nevada looks like it gets half of Las Vegas with the other half of Vegas going to Oklahoma, there’s definitely a great joke about ‘the Strip’ in here. I’m worried about North Nevada though… without Vegas Nevada is looking rough.
- Comment on thank you fb 1 week ago:
Some think that this one specifically was pulled from an older myth about another mythological entity who had slain a seven headed serpent and just kind of forced to fit in however they could. Note that it refers to plural ‘heads’ and not singular ‘head’ on this one.
The hero who slays a seven headed snake story has some staying power and it keeps coming up throughout time.
- Comment on thank you fb 1 week ago:
It’s probably leftovers shoehorned in from when the bible had adopted stories from a wider pantheon. Leviathan might have had a much bigger role somewhere at one point. May serve as a stand in for ‘controlling the waters of the earth’ and there’s going to be a dozen biblical scholars saying Leviathan represents one of a dozen ancient countries around when it was written (maybe one of them is right, but boring).
For the actual verses though… There is a passage in Isaiah where God will some day slay Leviathan with his pretty cool sword and this is one of the things that marks the end of maybe the end times. So, waking might be one step closer to this whole deal being over with. There’s also some passages in Job that kind of indicate that anything mankind tries to do to Leviathan isn’t going to work because only God is powerful enough to control it (So, trying to freeze it isn’t going to work).
- Comment on Schlip schlop 1 week ago:
There was a movie in 2002 called the Pianist. If you were around then, you get it.
- Comment on Fable's evil landlords won't grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery 2 weeks ago:
It’s like you’re not even considering the short term value this could generate for the shareholders.
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 2 weeks ago:
This is where I try real hard not to come off as an asshole, but…
Is there a correlation between wealthier regions and safer regions? I’ll admit I’ve never looked super hard on the veracity of the data, but that correlation has always tended to check out for me.
- Comment on Banan 2 weeks ago:
If you’re in the US, there’s a lot of options for ordering exotic fruits, including bananas, but they can be expensive and you got to be ready to eat them fairly fast once they arrive in the mail.
I have a friend who used Miami Fruit before: miamifruit.org/collections/…/banana-variety-box
- Comment on DIY, Full-Stack Farm Automation 2 weeks ago:
Probably quite a bit more expensive and this sounds like it’s focused almost entirely on sprinkler control but I wonder what it would look like to implement a more complex automated system like Farmbot at this level.
- Comment on Too much seriousness in the world, which Wacky Wheels character would you main? 3 weeks ago:
Morris, putting him in a kart removes the only weakness of the moose.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Love you too buddy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I might be a bit too socialist, but I think that’s the ideal. We should strive to elevate the worst off among us and that should be a cornerstone of modern society.
Kind of feel like we’re failing until we get to the point where we can’t tell who the bottom 10% is. It’s almost the same concept as “No One is Free until we are all Free”.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Their roll-out schedule for games is definitely unexpected, not making the new Pokemon a switch 2 exclusive was specifically a real weird move for Nintendo. Even if it wasn’t a mainline game, that’s usually their ‘sell that new console’ line.
Definitely grateful, but I really wonder why Nintendo isn’t pushing Switch 2 games more.
- Comment on You never know who you're arguing with 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, maybe…
Most advice is a pretty generic reminder to listen to your partner and treat them like a person. That’s something you know is a good idea as a concept pretty early on in life, but it’s just real easy to get complacent.
- Comment on How do you Sand Coloured PETG without loosing the Colour? Are there any Methods to Preserve or Regain the Colour? 3 weeks ago:
I would say clear coat it, but if you’re doing that, you might as well paint it and I know that may be more than you want to get into.
My process is covering with a light coat of plastruct, sand it (around 800 grit usually gets it done), prime it, then clear coat and it usually looks better than new.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 3 weeks ago:
There are trailers, if we go in not expecting anything more than a Populous sequel, I think we’ll be fine.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
I looked around a bit more after this site wouldn’t load and it seems like you are ahead of me, you hit the real reason.
Raw material costs seems to be the primary problem.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but these are not exactly complex parts, especially compared to RAM/etc. RAM fabrication is orders of magnitude more difficult than the parts we’re looking at here.
I’m not saying it’s something someone could get going tomorrow, but beyond the PCB for the PSU everything else is fairly standard and mostly interchangeable. People have made PSUs in their basements. And, for CPU coolers, it’s effectively a piece of metal with a fan attached. If we’ve lost the capability to machine more aluminum and copper I feel like our problems have evolved beyond computer hardware.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 3 weeks ago:
Are there notable constraints for ‘just making more’ of these items?
Like I know short term shortages are possible for everything, but what components of a PSU or Cooler are difficult to source or manufacture? Combined with consumer versions of these not typically having a lot of direct overlap with their datacenter counterparts, do we really think this is going to be a major issue?
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 4 weeks ago:
I bet you so much money that Sam is cute enough that he does not have to worry about that.