BarbecueCowboy

@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too much seriousness in the world, which Wacky Wheels character would you main?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Morris, putting him in a kart removes the only weakness of the moose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Love you too buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet you so much money that Sam is cute enough that he does not have to worry about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this may not be a useful point, but just wanted to note that paying the equivalent of €380 here in the US would be an absolutely crazy price for a used edition of one of those. I’d expect those to go for the equivalent of 65-70 euros at the low end, around 100 fully loaded with the most useful parts. Even with international shipping, I’d think you could do drastically better.

  From personal experience though, I run 4 of the Lenovo Tinys in my lab currently. I can highly recommend the M700/M900 line, M920 if you can get it, but the M70Q is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like it would be very easy for them to never know with this system.

  Amazon seems to have jumped in as a middle man and will automatically complete the purchase on the site seemingly forwarding the item itself to the initial purchaser. They’re basically just creating an invisible front end for other peoples stores and absorbing it into the main amazon interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it fits...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are laws that specify wheel within a specific distance from the curb when parking on the side of a road like this. Some are vague and just ‘wheels’, but some do specify front wheels or back wheels and this could technically be in violation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it’s just me or maybe dude is just getting older or photographers prioritizing different things, but I kinda love recent pictures of Jensen Huang.

  Lately, I feel like whenever he is talking to anyone he always has this face that makes it seem like he’s wondering if whoever he’s talking to is going to finally be able to convince the world that all of this is falling apart and he’s wondering “Is this where this train finally goes off the rails?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏳️(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?🏳️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An extra perspective, hard drive prices are mostly expected to get even worse next year.

  It may hold on for months to years but all drives will likely die eventually and this one is giving you a warning, I’d replace it now and save some money if you can afford it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are correct that there is a connection to ensuring fill levels, but incorrect on it not being intended to provide structural integrity. It is both.

  You can disable javascript to get around snopes adblock block: www.snopes.com/news/…/milk-jug-indentations/

  You can also view the original patent here: patents.google.com/patent/WO1999022994A1/en

  Notable excerpt from patent:

  When the horizontal ribs are not provided completely around the container, the face panels may be provided with indentions of preferably a circular configuration. The size and depth of the indentations may be varied to control fill level of a given volume of contents in the container in addition to further stabilizing the sidewalls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to prove, but even the idea that the world can barely support the current population is likely just propaganda trying to reinforce a scarcity mindset.

  We could probably pack nearly everyone in the entire world in to an area the size of the United Kingdom, and most could be living better lives than they do now. Population Density comparable to New York City would get you around 7 billion people. Obviously, we can do better than that, but just trying to put it into perspective.

  Even for agriculture, you could support the current population with what we’ve got and a lot more if that was your priority. There are dramatic gains to be made by reducing or eliminating meat and unless we made some new unfortunate discoveries that would 100% get you there, but you might not even have to. Might have to focus on prioritizing fertile land for agriculture but having everyone in the world eat like an average american would likely be doable at current levels if we actually wanted to prioritize that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I legitimately think that we could do a tremendous amount of social good with a pokemon dating app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winner takes all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking up pics of him is kind of a trip, you can tell he gets them trimmed regularly, but not regularly enough. He’s constantly cycling from normal human eyebrows up to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winner takes all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  His eyebrows are cosplaying as Londo from Babylon 5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest problem I see is that retailers generally don’t want to increase visibility for their competition. Competition usually lowers prices, good for consumers, but business is not a fan. Even in non competing markets, consumers only have a limited amount of money. That $50 you spent on clothes is $50 not spent on power tools. The main reason some sell on markets like eBay/amazon/etc is because they’re so large and centralized that you can’t really avoid them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any abandoned fediverse community you'd like to see resurrected?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I play, but I just have no idea how I would go about discussing mahjong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  having to call shitposts in meme communities “articles” in “magazines”?

  That is super clunky and I do hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They should make a reboot of Freakazoid where he gets his powers from the 2025 internet instead of the 1995 internet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d buy one of those obviously bogus AI items off Tiktok and would end up with a superhero serum instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why we need billionaires⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I downvoted the post specifically because you said it was against the rules.

  You ain’t my boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve discontinues the entry-level Steam Deck, considerably raising the starting price⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes some sense, the parts cost on the lower priced models could be a lot more painful.

  I’m not gonna try to do a proper estimate on build prices on the Steam Deck, but the price of 16GB of DDR5 RAM was around $40 or even less a year ago and now we’re looking at $140. If that’s comparable here, that makes the margin look a lot rougher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sounding like you are afraid of some ghosts. I think I have someone for you to call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it, but awards are mostly barely disguised advertising campaigns. I can see why negative ones are rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music aficionado ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, I am super interested in Star Metal.