Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Metal genres 2 days ago:
Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)
My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it
- Comment on Metal genres 2 days ago:
Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) new band Light the Torch?
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 days ago:
I remember seeing something about fitting ACs for carbon capture. What ever happened with that?
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 4 days ago:
bet there’s a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can’t read yet
And for older kids apple made a scratch-like game for teaching their Swift programming language!
Scratch also works entirely in the web browser
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 days ago:
I mean it’s all licensed by the frequency and antenna transmit power, so long distance is possible with the right choice of protocol, antenna and frequency you can get a surprisingly long distance with unlicensed spectrum. Ubiquity makes some directional antenna for wirelessly connecting 2 sites that operate in the 2.4 and 5ghz ranges that can connect over distances of multiple kilometers
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 days ago:
Flash drives of banned foreign films are the one method of accessing foreign media that north Koreans realistically have. It’s extremely hard to prevent people plugging a flash drive into their computer in their home to view some media
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 days ago:
Wait you mean your organization doesn’t use some ludicrously expensive hosted database solution or 3 to aggregate data then instead of natively working with the data in that database it gets exported and transformed on a local machine which may or may not havd backups then ask the database people about weird data quirks coming from the local transformations performed on the data
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 days ago:
I need to sit down and actually watch Red Dwarf sometime. Like I did once watch the first few episodes when I was a teenager but I was way too young to fully appreciate it
- Comment on It is. Just accept it 5 days ago:
One week is plenty of time to stay up late and crank out a half-assed dissertation that might even pass you.
Alternatively, if there’s more needed than just a good essay and presentation, go talk to a guidance councilor or your prof or something. You’ve got time to save your degree that you’ve been working towards!
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 6 days ago:
Office 366 requires an account to validate the license. Potentially it might work differently for the long term licensed versions (which features released to O365 now wouldn’t reach until the next LTSC release), but I’ve not performed the initial install and licensing of those for clients yet
Or for home users who aren’t already invested in a Microsoft ecosystem your best bet is to just use Libre Office
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 week ago:
Is there a good guide to passing cookies to yt-dlp? Its one of those things I’ve been meaning to learn but never quite got around to yet…
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
My first kid was a perfect baby, she’d sleep 10 hours straight, she was quiet and never bratty…Then we had our second, an autistic boy with the energy of a thousand suns.
My experience has been similar, except they absolutely rile eachother up, and when separated they’re both incredible quiet and chill. One of their grandparents refuses to take my youngest overnight but begs for sleepovers regularly with my oldest. We try to make it special for my youngest by doing stuff we don’t normally do on those nights (and we try to arrange outings with just the youngest too to make it as fair as we can), but it is really shocking just how quiet and reserved both are without the other to encourage them to cause chaos
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the released CO2 while it cures too! Humanity really needs to use a lot less concrete
- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 1 week ago:
Once you have stuff running on an old computer you’ll get to know what you actually need and can spend your money more intelligently. If you do buy anything, buy an ~8 year old corporate desktop. They’re cheap as chips because they’re close to ewaste, but 4/6th Gen Intel systems have enough performance to really do a ton with in the homelab scene
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 1 week ago:
Wow lighten up. I throw a joke theory out there based on unix timestamps and that’s you’re takeaway?
Why do you have to intentionally try to ruin a bit of fun
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 1 week ago:
I like the (joke) theory that the world was created Jan 1st 1970 and every memory or artifact from before that point is simulated history, since that explains the gradually increasing insanity that’s been building up since
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 1 week ago:
have FTL travel…yet have mysteriously lost the arcane technology known as “email”
To be fair, you do realize how many meetings happen today that could have been emails. That’s just the interstellar social equivalent
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I’m honestly not shocked at all. My 5 year old who gets extremely limited exposure to YouTube has already said that she wants to make gaming videos for a living (she also regularly says she wants to work at her favorite fast food restaurant, so I guess I’ll take it haha)
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Incident 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like diaper aged kids, so they bump into things all the time and will cry for 30 seconds because it was scary then forget that anything happened and be fine. You should see the way my 3 year old will run full tilt directly into things sometimes!
To quote my parent’s favorite Cosby quote “all children have brain damage!”
- Comment on Incident 2 weeks ago:
Half the time I have to check with my wife what cares were done recently when my nonverbal kid gets fussy to try to identify why they’re fussy. Logging makes it so instead of asking one can check the log, especially useful if the previous care person isn’t available to be asked now
- Comment on Which way? 2 weeks ago:
Being barefoot (specifically not even wearing socks) for some of the day actually made a noticable improvement on a few funky things about my feet that bothered me. So maybe those weird toe shoe people were onto something after all…
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 3 weeks ago:
I mean the Great Lakes are truly inland freshwater oceans with tides, imense international shipping, famous shipwrecks, forgotten shipwrecks, folk songs about famous shipwrecks and even piracy
So the term “great lakes” clearly communicates that these are lakes (freshwater, not hydrologically connected to the ocean) but also that these are notable lakes as the “great” indicates the size, notability and gives a sense of wonder
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 3 weeks ago:
The specifics will vary by jurisdiction. The state I live in, you can collect unemployment if fired but it has to be determined that you were not fired for noncompliance with workplace policies or illegal actions. For example if you stole from the cash register and got caught and fired you would not be able to collect unemployment. But if you were fired for poor performance you can receive unemployment
I learned this after a recent workplace decided to make up performance reasons to fire me. The state opened an investigation to determine if unemployment benefits should be paid out, which involved asking both myself and the previous employer about the stated reasons for the discharge, if any written or verbal warnings were given, etc. Hilariously my old employer dropped the entire line of reasoning and just said “it didn’t work out” when the investigator for the state spoke with them. I also then learned that the maximum unemployment benefit in my state is only $1200/month which won’t cover most folks rents so that’s practically useless!
- Comment on New idea 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was so quaint but learning that the reason for milk delivery was due to a lack of pasteurization (and therefore very rapidly expiring milk), and how many people died by drinking unpasteurized milk quickly dispelled that thought process
- Comment on New idea 3 weeks ago:
Just keep running the hot water, it’ll get the cooled water from the pipes out of the system at some point!
- Comment on New idea 3 weeks ago:
If you run the hot water lines under the streets it can double as snow removal in the winter to help reduce road salt consumption!
…We’ll just pretend we don’t have to worry about making urban heat islands worse in the summer
- Comment on New idea 3 weeks ago:
Need a strawberry milk line too! We don’t want the pink cows going extinct now do we?
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 3 weeks ago:
I’ve just been thoroughly unimpressed by all of the American car brands. Crap vehicles with lousy interiors the lot of them.
- Comment on The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" 3 weeks ago:
The rule of thumb from data centers is every watt of compute equals 3 watts of energy consumption, 1 to power the thing and 2 to remove the 1 watt of heat, so high power components are really a ton of power