Trainguyrom
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- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 day ago:
Dude I didn’t even realize until your comment that I completely interchanged “mobile phone” with “smart phone” because that’s just how long it’s been since non-smart phones were really a thing
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 day ago:
The early smartphone era was wild. Motorola made the very first phone with iTunes on it for example
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 day ago:
I still enjoy finding my way around a new city without a map though
Heck this is a blast even at home. If I’m given an address in a small town it’s pretty fun to just drive around and try to find the address without looking it up
- Comment on Foot In The Door 2 days ago:
In the US you are famously required to report income from illegal sources on your taxes, which was famously Al Capone’s downfall
the Sixteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to levy an income tax, comes into conflict with the Fifth Amendment, which includes a right against self-incrimination. The conclusion of the matter is unsurprising; it would be absurd to exempt criminals from reporting income on their tax forms while asking it of honest workers. However, Fifth Amendment privilege allows one to report illegal income without revealing its precise source.
- Comment on Careful, he's a hero 2 days ago:
Yeah I’m in a similar spot, I’d be pissed, but honestly, that wouldn’t be too bad of a repair cost. Exterior doors are like $200-400 for the builder grade ones it almost definitely was, and the fence would be similar cost. If it were me I’d want to drop the charges and just settle for a check for the repair cost and a good apology for going too hard on the acid
- Comment on When you realize it's time to trade in your old sedan for an SUV 4 days ago:
Yeah that’s the sad thing is my sonata had more trunk space than most 2 row SUVs, but people swear there’s more hauling space in an SUV for some reason
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 5 days ago:
Real talk, there are not enough minor gods in the modern world. GIVE ME DICKOCALYPSE DAMMIT! (nsfw link)
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 5 days ago:
These are cool because they add efficiency by both preheating your water for your water heater and help cool the photovoltaic cells so they can run more efficiently too. Downside of course is that there’s now a bunch of water pipes on your roof too
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
So hardware that may still be perfectly usable but predates NVMe should be tossed out then?
The exact same thing you already have to do to upgrade the memory on such a computer, you go buy used/old stock DDR3 or cannibalize from another system. Pre-NVMe systems are DDR3 era and older. Time goes on, interfaces update and anyone looking for compatibility with their older system will need to either use an adapter or buy used/old stock. If there’s enough demand like with motherboards there can be a random Chinese brands making new hardware for old platforms using a mix of new and cannibalized parts
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
I did similar when preparing my wife and I for windows 10 EOL. I went back to Linux on the new drive, my wife to Windows 11. Honestly both have a similar amount of issues (mostly wake from sleep challenges on Linux, although my PC wasn’t great about waking from sleep on Windows to begin with) and most importantly my wife can still play Fortnite and I can have fun trying new stuff out and reveling at how every single game I try just works on Linux whereas 5 years ago it was more of a 50/50 chance whether or not a game would work
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
Does require you to have the PCIe lanes for it, BIOS support for booting to PCIe (which Intel 6th gen core CPUs were the first to support. 4th gen never did but some had m.2 slots and NVMe support for secondary drives and the 5th gen X99s had some receive BIOS updates to support but that’s its own can of worms) and both Intel and AMD have historically been pretty bad about being stingy about PCIe lane availability
Plus to run more than a single NVMe on a single slot your motherboard either needs to support PCIe bifurcation which is almost exclusively an enterprise feature or they need to have the right lane configuration available to support that x16 slot handing out 4x4 lanes (or 2x8/2x4 for dual NVMe)
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
Yeah my recent IT experience is similar. I redeployed monitors that had “vista-ready” badges on them during the monitor shortages of 2021-2 I’ve replaced so many of those analogue to digital adapters (usually because the computer only has 1 digital output and 2 displays to drive, or 1 HDMI and 1 DisplayPort but the displays only support HDMI and I only have VGA to HDMI adapters, etc.)
The challenge simply comes down to the fact that displays tend to last so much longer than the computers they’re connected to. Heck my wife is using my old 1080p monitors because they were an upgrade over the even older 720p monitors she had before which may well find themselves mated up to my kids’ new computer
- Comment on I've always thought THIS was unfair 1 week ago:
They’re called ozone generators. Handy machines for getting smells out of stuff but not anything you can be in the room while it runs
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 1 week ago:
Hilariously I thought it was nuns at first glance
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 1 week ago:
Just some good ol Fediverse fun. Don’t forget there was also that period of retro meme templates, and everyone was posting like peak circa 2009 memes
- Comment on Do not recommend. 1 week ago:
But if not drinking cocktail why cocktail shaped and named?
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
Could be 10 people making 50k a year in a shed with a couple of managers making more. Whether that’s a just a warehouse or actually making widgets or some such that’s easily a profitable business with a million or so in revenue. Or just a small shop with a handful of minimum wage employees. Maybe an office cleaning service? Some business models can be perfectly stable with a million or so per year in revenue
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 weeks ago:
You ever do something and realize you actually kinda enjoy it? I have a feeling that’s the case. He was probably already an avid hiker when he started too
- Comment on PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup 2 weeks ago:
Would a safety deposit box at a bank be an appropriate option for your off-site backups?
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 2 weeks ago:
For an rail network that runs 24/7 they’re going to have crews specifically to wake up should there be a problem on the bushing sections of mainline as this hoax indicated there were. That’s a significant amount of dollars burned if they close the line due to a citizen reporting heavy damage to the bridge, and just waiting until 8am on the next business day to actually look at anything.
I strongly suspect what happened was they woke up their on-call inspectors (or scrambled an inspector who worked nights, which a rail network may very well have) informed them of photos circulating showing significant structural damage to this 150 year old viaduct, so they roll up and see the exact same viaduct in the exact same shape it’s been in for their entire life and call up their boss and say “oy you wakin me up for this shiv? The bridge is bloody fine! Check your sauces mate!” (And after reporting that it was a hoax probably went and did a more thorough inspection to make sure their bases were covered)
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
So it’s honestly something I’ve been noodling about for a while, which is how to manage a soft landing from the current capitalist system given the overall trend of population decline and how capitalism as it’s currently structured can’t handle a sustained decline like we’ll eventually be looking at.
The best vision I can come up with (and this is US-centric since it’s what I know best of course) is to first expand Medicare to all, next expand SNAP/Foodstamps benefits to all, then expand the housing assistance programs to all. Somewhere in there a universal pension and later on a universal income. This would decouple working class folks’ everyday and long-term needs from the wider economy. Basically eliminate the micro-economy so that the macroeconomy can do whatever it will do without too much pain for everyday people
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Something something not all boomers. There’s selfish rich people in every age group. In the case of Boomers they happened to be born at the same time as a ton of other people, so they became the most influencial voting block (and later the wealthiest voting block because of the political influence)
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
With the projected population decline, the inflationary effects of creating money in order to pay pensions could actually be beneficial
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 2 weeks ago:
The cat would get upset if not left a chair to sit at during family gatherings, so at one the cat took over a relative’s seat and was unhappy there was food left there
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
But more seriously, watch the water in your sight glass, keep it about 3/4 full at all times and check it like you check your rear view mirror in your car, and don’t forget to open the cylinder cocks every time you stop (or at least when you first start moving) and you should be pretty good to avoid unexpected damage to your locomotive!
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be real, I absolutely loved the first story, it took a little bit to get into the second one (but thoroughly enjoyed it after all) and I gave up partway through the third one because I was struggling to get pulled in and my library book was due soon anyways. So absolutely worth it for the first two stories at least, and hopefully you enjoy the third one more than I did!
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
Hilariously this was a plot point I read recently. Isambard Kingdom Brunel replaced the firebox with some poorly shielded uranium, but the initial locomotive that was to demonstrate the technology was sabotaged and exploded, killing his parents.
This same book also had a fictional mad inventor who created a part newt-human hybrid named Victoria with womanly assets if you catch my drift, who upon failing to educate it he sent to a brothel because he couldn’t stand to “dispose of it” but when the princess and heir to the throne Elizabeth went missing, the newt-human hybrid Victoria was installed on the throne to prevent a constitutional crisis. And this is all events that occurred in the first 2 pages, so I’m not even spoiling anything!
spoilers for ending of the story *Victoria* in *A Steampunk Trilogy*
To spoil where the Queen to be Victoria was so well hidden that she couldn’t be found, she was in fact working in the newt-human hybrid Victoria’s room at the brothel! Seriously bonkers stories in that book!
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of one of my favorite photos, a steam engine being delivered by steam engine!
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 3 weeks ago:
Hey it’s never too late to get things better under control! My parents only just started that journey and they’re old enough to be grandparents
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 3 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely without actual government action the overall population decline will be catastrophic. Basically if it’s handled the way that climate change has been, our kids/grandkids/great-grandkids will be screwed because it’s a similarly significant world-wide challenge for humanity that like climate change will require some changes to how people live and run the world. However, unlike climate change, population decline won’t necessarily kill off humanity entirely, because it will self-resolve one way or another, either by society collapsing due to the medical system collapsing or by actual social change to adapt to the normalizing population level
