Brkdncr
@Brkdncr@lemmy.world
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Inspector came to look at the house for some reason and was impressed to see a house built in the 50’s with a giant length of walnut(?) something like 8”x 12” by 20’
I have an old house on my property that has a similar piece of wood holding everything up.
They don’t/can’t build like that anymore.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 5 days ago:
Allspice racks mounted tomatoes would require your landlord to cumin to the kitchen to at least approve the modification.
- Comment on Is there a chance America one day will elect a Progressive? Or will we keep going the elder dipshit route? 6 days ago:
Yes. If you look at the last couple of elections and when they were born you’ll notice an outlier that got that vote because they promised something different.
It’s doable, but it seems like the current voters like people born at the tail end of WW2.
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 6 days ago:
The Northwest Sasquatch tick can grow to 6” in size and kill a person overnight.
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 6 days ago:
What has your own research found?
- Comment on CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads 1 week ago:
Oh sweet summer child…
- Comment on Do office going men still wear suits in the US? 1 week ago:
DC area still has lots of suits, even for not political white collar jobs.
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 2 weeks ago:
Valve is going to have to pull an intel/amd thing and start licensing tech from gog just to keep them from folding.
- Comment on We show you how NVIDIA RTX Remix can upgrade your classic games with Quake III - PAX East 2026 2 weeks ago:
Talk to a VC about your AI dev shop.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A multi-plug charging system would be great. It could be a strip of power outlets maybe? Call it “Strip-of-Power” or “power strip” even.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
Oh wow I forgot about that game. I couldn’t figure out any of the mechanics or even the goals.
- Comment on People Who Love Corporate BS Are Bad at Their Jobs, New Cornell Research Confirms 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t this a 100-person survey with dubious questions?
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 3 weeks ago:
Not tie fighter, just the original x-wing on a 486.
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 3 weeks ago:
X-wing.
- Comment on Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish | Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Metal: gear - solid
- Comment on Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish | Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
No opinions about the game, but I’ve always hated games with 3 names in the title.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 4 weeks ago:
Viewers like you.
- Comment on I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year! 4 weeks ago:
It’s been over a decade but I remember fondly taking that route and getting murdered by a Cazador almost immediately.
I may be on my deathbed not able to remember the names and faces of my loved ones while screaming at the recurring nightmare of seeing one of those homing in on me from a distance.
- Comment on A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning" 5 weeks ago:
I was a QA tester for a mobile game company back when feature phones had games. Some of the shit was silly like jumping against the left wall 300 times would crash the game, or rapidly putting the phone into and out of a faraday cage would crash the game.
Any time we crashed the phone things got spicy, and we had special instructions to follow if we found a way to disrupt the micro cell in the office.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 5 weeks ago:
Lawyers don’t lie. They massage the truth.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 month ago:
Is the original dev team even working on the game? Most projects go into maintenance mode after release and DLCv1. The talented folks move on to new things and you’re left with regular folks if you’re lucky and outsourced high turnover cube farms if you’re not. Of course the current devs are out of touch, it’s just a 9-5 for them.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 1 month ago:
Instead of chaining them together, try to put the “router” in a central location and do what’s needed to limit your repeaters to a single hop away from the router. Chaining them together will lead to problems.
A proper mesh system will work better than repeaters. Some systems can use powerline networking to use your existing power outlets as a network, but it’s not always that great.
Some locations such as apartments/condos have really bad interfering neighbors on 2.4ghz. If that’s your situation then using 5ghz exclusively might help.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 1 month ago:
They will close. If you look at how many gas stations there are you’ll see that they are everywhere. I was driving through Iowa and saw an intersection that had 6 gas stations.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 month ago:
You can easily search for news on Linux malware. Most recently npm was affected.
Npm is used by a lot of software, so updating your software from valid sources could easily infect your machine.
It’s also dead simple to misconfigure something on Linux, like your firewall, leaving your machine exposed to the internet. Linux doesn’t bother you nearly as much as windows does when it comes to updating and restarting. Windows used to be that way too but had to adapt to the changing threat landscape.
With VMs you can try as many at once as your system can support, with less risk than booting up on a livecd, and the ability to switch between them without having to reboot.
Moving files manually is fine.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 1 month ago:
Don’t use an EoL/EoS OS, full stop.
Start up virtualbox or any virtual machine on your windows machine and test drive a few different distributions until you find one you like.
Use windows built in backup services or something like the Veeam free backup agent before blowing up your system.
I would also move my files to a cloud services, even if it’s temporary.
Install the distribution your choice.
Spin up virtual box again and restore your machine into it. You may have license activation issues but you’ll have access your data. Move your data out of the VM and onto your home folder.
Also note that win11 isn’t nearly as bad as people here say.
Linux has malware. It’s just different. Linux supports nvidia, a usb boot would help you determine how well your hardware is supported.
- Comment on Is toothpaste supposed to be sealed or is this how shitty the products just are now? 1 month ago:
Two companies, the manufacturer and the store. And it’s happened a lot in the past.
Glad you’re trying to steer one of them into the right direction.
- Comment on Is toothpaste supposed to be sealed or is this how shitty the products just are now? 1 month ago:
I recently bought a perishable that I opened the following day. It had mold on it, while the “best by” date was 2 months away.
The contact info they listed on the package didn’t work.
I contacted the store I bought it from, just to let them know they might have a bad batch
A week later I get contacted back. They said bring it in and the receipt for a refund.
No one at these companies really gives a shit.
- Comment on If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently? 1 month ago:
Expanding the seats of supreme justices, executive orders to undo Trumps, replace every person Trump assigned, then instructing congress to put some laws down to fix all the holes the GOP used and abused.
Put the DOJ onto prosecuting a number of people that were performing illegal activities.
He can also instruct DHS to rake the forest instead of doing much anything else.
- Comment on How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend. 1 month ago:
Harbor freight sells battery powered hammer drills and masonry bits that are cheap and powerful enough to drill a few inches into concrete in under a minute.
They also had saws and saw blades used for cutting up masonry.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 2 months ago:
orb.net monitors your internet performance.
tailscale.com access your home internet or devices when you’re away from home. Usually only helpful if you have a NAS, but I’ve used it to stream tv shows without having to get bothered or blocked because the service can only be used in the US. I watched some NFL over youtubetv while in Germany for example.