stoy
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- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 days ago:
I can see two reasons to pick an AIO over an air cooler, none of which has been a concern for me.
- Using a small case. In a small case you may not be able to fit an air cooler large enough to cool the CPU, an AIO is more flexible and is a great alternative in these cases.
- Needing to move your computer from place to place. The traditional tower air cooler puts a LOT of strain on the motherboard, this is fine for when the computer is in a static place, but when moving a computer, especially if you are driving, any bumps can cause the cooler to pull on the motherboard, possibly cracking the motherboard. An AIO with it’s smaller footprint is far less susceptible to that. I have a Noctua D15s as my cooler, and if I had to transport my computer in my car I would either remove the cooler and GPU before loading the computer in my car, or lay it down flat.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 days ago:
I don’t want water in my computer, simple as that.
- Comment on All Delisted Steam Games 6 days ago:
I don’t see it listing Microsoft Flight, I had it on steam for a while, and then it got removed…
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 1 week ago:
That is incorrect, they are just comically evil when it comes to protecting/creating business opportunities and preserving their power/influence, which is just 99.9%
Eh, who am I kidding, the US government is so tightly intertwined with business that their diplomats might as well be marketing officials for private industry.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 week ago:
When I grew up here in Sweden, milk came in these containers:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Brik
The design of milk packaging is quite interesting;
kommerduihag.se/kommer-du-ihag-hur-mjolkpaket-sag…
15 years or so ago the Brik was changed to this:
www.arla.se/artiklar/var-vanligaste-forpackning/
It was apparently done for two reasons:
- EU regulations started requiring that milk packages were sold in resealable containers.
- Customers had requested the same to enable storing the packages lying down.
A smaller version of the tetrahedron style package is still in use for coffee milk.
- Comment on Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way. 1 week ago:
I recently discovered Turbo Overkill, it has some brilliant arcade shooter feel, a great 80s style, and some unique quirks.
I highly enjoyed it.
My favorite FPS is however Unreal Tournament 2004, which I heard will be handed off from Epic Games to a fan community, so the fan community maintains it. I don’t know if that means it will be open source, but it sounds good.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
Paying back quickly reduces the amount they can earn, lowering your credit score.Straight-up lie.
No, it doesn’t fit the definition of a lie, I didn’t know any better, so it was ignorance, not a lie, it would be nice if you could edit and correct this line.
The way I understand it, to raise your credit score you need to slowly pay back your loans, so you pay back maximum interest.You don’t understand it.
I wholeheartedly agree with you there.
Overall you do seem to know the subject better than me, so I will mostly defere to your judgement (apart from the thing about me lying).
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
I get what you mean, and agree to some extent, but the reality is that handling cash is expensive and dangerous.
Back in the early 2000s, there was a large wave of high profile armours car robberies in Sweden.
Some even completely blew up the armoured car.
This lead to a debate and a deliberate effort to reduce the ammount of cash used in Sweden.
I remember reading something about 97% of all transactions inside Sweden are now done electronically.
This has lead to banks having offices that don’t handle cash, and that banks are looking at cash deposits with suspicion, since you can’t trace cash.
This, as usual, only really affects normal poeple, and criminals have ways around it.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
Thank you, I have been training daily
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
Here in Sweden, that would also have been rejected, most stores won’t accept cash at all.
I had to pay for my car using a wire transfer a few days before I picked it up.
I do think that it would have been funny to just use tap to pay, but apparently that would have increased the cost by a lot.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
Credit scores are used to tell companies how much they can earn on lending you money.
Paying back quickly reduces the amount they can earn, lowering your credit score.
Not paying it back obviously lowers the score.
The way I understand it, to raise your credit score you need to slowly pay back your loans, so you pay back maximum interest.
Note however that I am just a cynical IT guy in Sweden with zero actual exposure to US/UK style credit scores, and that I may be talking out of my ass.
- Comment on Uphill both ways in the snow, too! Ong, no cap! 1 week ago:
Not in Sweden, we use proper sugar in our ice creams
- Comment on Sign the Petition: Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide 2 weeks ago:
This has been done too much, I’d like to see a campaign to ban sodium chloride instead.
- Comment on I wish manufacturers would make a dPMR446 with a keyboard for texting 2 weeks ago:
Alright, thanks for a detailed answer, I don’t know much about radio, but I have been looking into meshtastic
- Comment on I wish manufacturers would make a dPMR446 with a keyboard for texting 2 weeks ago:
What about meshtastic?
- Comment on life hack 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of the northern part of the current Prästgatan, “Priests Street”, in the Old Town in Stockholm.
Before 1885 that part of Prästgatan was called Helvetesgränd, “Hell’s ally”, which is an amazing street name in Swedish, and a brilliant metal album name in English.
The entire block was known as Helvetet, “Hell”.
This is the location:
maps.app.goo.gl/DGCAT98vZ7e8HwDUA
This is where the gallows were located.
- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 2 weeks ago:
Almost, it is more like they hear it, they don’t see it.
- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 3 weeks ago:
That has actually been answered.
Beavers react to the sound of running water.
Researchers put a speaker playing the sound of running water in an area with beavers and came back to find the speaker buried in a beaver dam structure.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 weeks ago:
I keep a pair of ear defenders and a large pack of ear plugs in my car, just incase I decide to go planespotting, then I can also help friends who forgot to bring theirs.
- Comment on It comes with an add on countdown timer. 3 weeks ago:
I saw a company presenting a silent gaming mask thing for use with VR, it was basically a combination of a gasmask, ear defenders and a microphone…
Looked a bit kinky…
- Comment on Screw MS 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but I don’t know if any software on windows can actually send ctrl+alt+del to windows given that the key combo is a system interrupt sequence…
- Comment on Screw MS 4 weeks ago:
Not all laptops have the ability to remap keys in the BIOS/UEFI
- Comment on Screw MS 4 weeks ago:
I hate that they defined a Copilot key on standard keyboards
- Comment on Remember the whole covid thing. Well instead of wearing a useless mask THIS GUY had the solution that actually worked 4 weeks ago:
Back in my early school years, I attended a school built on top of a hill, it had an exciting school yard, it had a wooded area, a small field, two football pitches and a secluded steep stone staircase where few teachers could see you.
Anyway, during one winter I was down at the bottom end of the staircase playing during recess, and there was a brown plastic pipe leaking warm water coming out of the ground.
I was fascinated by how it melted the snow, so I started playing with the water, it went on for a few days, possibly a week, only then did I suddenly see a tissue paper and brown stuff coming out of the pipe…
Yeah, it was a pipe with raw sewage that I had played with, shortly thereafter the pipe was dealt with by the school.
I am 37 now, and I was seldom sick as I grew up…
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes when my room is very cold, I sleep with socks on, though the rest usually stays off.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 4 weeks ago:
20 at home, 18 when away.
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 4 weeks ago:
Simple, since the system knows the VIN of every car, it knows who to send the bill to.
You could even have a Terminal at the entrence of the facility for those who want to prepay.
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I am currently looking for a Trimui Brick Hammer, though I may start with an Anbernic device and they are easier to come by for me…
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 4 weeks ago:
Why does the cars need to move?
Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.
Example
Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.
No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 4 weeks ago:
R36?