4grams

joined 3 years ago
[–] 4grams@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago

Mine has turned every conversation into a political fight and now refuses to speak with me unless I accept their prejudices and medical quackery.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I miss my Nokia 8210. I had a case for it that slid open like the one at the start of the matrix. Dropped it in a puddle one night, pulled it out the next morning, dried it off and it kept working just fine. Had no waterproof rating.

I waded into a pool with my supposedly waterproof iPhone in my pocket by accident and it immediately died.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because the republicans have control over all three branches, and the party has dedicated itself to authoritarian rule under that orange asshole.

This is the government that they have been wanting for my entire life. This stupid fucking country decided to finally gift it to them.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

Allen Pan still puts out something amusing once in a while.

I miss the days of 3 minutes of insanity. Now every video is 25 minutes, and it’s all personality driven. It’s turned into regular TV.

We need a classic YouTube type site back again where people share shit for the fun of sharing. Monetization killed the platform.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

Well said.

Ultimately it’s a capitalism problem, it makes the value proposition drift towards addiction in every single case.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

I don’t know, I think the destructive potential makes up for any lack of imagination. StyroPyro is hands down my favorite YouTuber.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Man what an incredible trip that channel was.

Back in the day there was a whole slew of crackpots (in the best way). There was another who took the washing machine crown from PhotonicInduction, went by the name Aussie50. Used to love his content but he very sadly passed away quite some time ago (I won’t go into details out of respect).

These days the crazy backyard scientist vibe on YouTube has nearly dried up. So glad we still have StyroPyro.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, mine is a dumpster dive. It’s an old small form factor office pc. Tore out the guts and stuck them in a silver stone case with a SATA backplane and loaded it up with refurb hard drives.

Previous iteration was a broken g5 tower case I got for free, hacked with an old server motherboard that had been decommissioned at work.

So, definitely spent money on it with the additions, but all my home servers have started out with free spare parts.

Oh, I do of course run Debian.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’m already kicking myself for buying into them in the first place. Fuck cameras, I’m going back to wired headphones. My $20 IEMs sound better than my AirPod pros, without all the fancy over processing.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 23 points 6 days ago

I’m a very middle aged dad, I still have t-shirts from high school that I wear on occasion. Granted, they are in the survivor pile now, but it’s a point of pride that I still have them, and still fit into them. Fun to dust off my old concert t’s every now and again.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I have literally never felt the impact of slower RAM speed and I’ve been building PC’s for 30+ years. In every case, adding more was a boost, even if it wasn’t “needed”. Memory timings make a tiny difference to FPS in a game, or might slightly slow down rendering by a tiny fraction, but the increased performance of reduced swapping and other improvements it brings will definitely help out.

Stick with 16.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

I tried buying a box of borax for some ant control, but accidentally ordered a case. So I toss some in to every load or laundry these days and it’s really helped my results. I swear colors are brighter and the scent is fresher.

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