Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Anon buys a car 1 day ago:
Then a used car purchased for 25% less (or more) would’ve been an even greater value.
My last purchase was a 3 year old car from a small dealer that I paid half the new price - they depreciate that hard rolling off the lot. And it was in perfect condition.
Fuck buying new.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for many neccessary features 2 days ago:
Because I cook, and need that stuff back. I don’t have all day, I gotta cook again in a few hours.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 3 days ago:
From a cooling standpoint, you probably don’t want go any smaller than a Small Form Factor desktop. These are large enough to have a proper heatsink and fan on the cpu, enough space for a dedicated video card, have the motherboard connections for a card, large enough power supply, and can support a case fan.
Mini desktops have minimal cooling capacity, definitely no case fan.
For example, I run a Dell SFF (OptiPlex 7050) as a server for virtual machines, Jellyfin host, file server, and media converter. It’s an older machine with an 80 watt power supply, no case fan, and the stock cooler/fan is fortunately well designed.
That stock cooler also evacuates the case, but can’t move enough air to keep the large drive I installed at reasonable temps. Adding a case fan dropped the drive temps by more than 20F.
Without the sizeable cpu cooler and it’s fan, there’s no way to keep the cpu cool when doing anything more than basic desktop functions. A mini pc would quickly overheat.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for certain features 4 days ago:
Surveillance is too tempting, and the idiots of the world keep buying this crap.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for many neccessary features 4 days ago:
Hahaha.
I just replaced a 20 year old dishwasher with it’s newer equivalent: it has a grand total of 3 cycle options.
Screw this surveillance nonsense. Why does a dishwasher need connectivity?
- Comment on Can a Brit confirm this? 6 days ago:
Scotch Eggs… Omfg, those are fucking incredible.
- Comment on Why is it just ChoMo s have their identity and address released to the media? I get for the kids but would also like to know if I am living next to a murderer or serial meth maker or whatever? 1 week ago:
A type of document?
Now I’m really confused.
- Comment on Why is it just ChoMo s have their identity and address released to the media? I get for the kids but would also like to know if I am living next to a murderer or serial meth maker or whatever? 1 week ago:
Wtf if a ChoMo?
- Comment on Canadian Workplace Safety PSA 1 week ago:
Wish I could upvote twice!
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
It’s not required, it just seems required to non-technical people (I know, potato/potato, it’s effectively required).
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Linux is servers.
Hell, VMware migrated to a Linux base a while back, and with their new exorbitant pricing, large environments are switching to things like Proxmox.
The next ten years, VMware will be second string virtualization, even in data centers.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but there was a “BIOS War” in the 80’s,when IBM wouldn’t release their BIOS code, so other devs reverse engineered it. No reason why that couldn’t happen again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Hell, forward that to DOL - they’ll surely take a dim view of what that jackass is doing.
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 2 weeks ago:
Um, duh?
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Yep.
Re-engineering is expensive, and so is the licensing of USB-C (along with the port cost, and revamping the manufacturing process).
The device would no longer be inexpensive, and it has no need of USB-C capability.
There’s lots more involved than just the port connector itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about being a “bad dad”. The question is whether this is reasonable with this specific kid. Pros/cons, risks, etc.
- Comment on Is VHS back? No, but I bought a 'new' VHS release. (Techmoan) 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t had a VHS since 1999
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
I mean you picked an American car company. They’ve been garbage for decades, I’ve owned exactly one, a 90’s Taurus, probably the most reliable American car we’ve seen in decades, and it just barely approaches Japanese cars for reliability and maintenance.
I say this as someone who’s worked on every brand of car, from the 1940’s to today. You can’t give me an American car (or German, or just European). I refuse to own anything other than Honda or Toyota any more. I’ll sacrifice style and features for a vehicle that just works for 100-200k miles, or more.
Buick has been a style-over-substance brand in the GM lineup since the 80’s, at least. Not that any GM is particularly good, Buick just makes it worse with cheap gimmicks. Same with all Chrysler products.
But yea, all brands include some nonsense today.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
You don’t really see this with Toyota and Honda, just avoid any of the models that are joint venture with other companies.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
The racing world will have this cracked overnight.
- Comment on Could go for this right now 4 weeks ago:
No, God no, and I’m an avid reader.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
No, we haven’t, and won’t.
Take your spam/trolling elsewhere.
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 4 weeks ago:
They do? Who does this? I’d say ask them.
I use the terms “male” and “female”.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 4 weeks ago:
Quickly?
Every country is already a surveillance state, and has been for multiple decades.
Just look at Britain with cameras everywhere since at least the 1980’s.
Fucking Ring crap just doubled down on it, and idiot people don’t even care they’re providing the means. 1984 nailed it.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 4 weeks ago:
It’s illegal in most states in the US.
You’d get detained, and sent for medical/psych eval.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
You nailed it with the age thing.
- Comment on Anon is devilish 1 month ago:
Not even a student
Daaamn…
- Comment on I tried living entirely on IPv6 for a day, and here's what happened 1 month ago:
It boils down to cost: who’s going to do all the engineering work to re-IP a business, and that without considering lost productivity.
6 is great for the backbone, to relieve the pressure on IPv4. But I have zero need of v6 inside my flat network with a handful of machines.
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 1 month ago:
You get the upvote for shaving the pubes of a bear