HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 week ago:
Did… You just call my teenager a bitch?
I mean, I do that, too at times, but still…
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 week ago:
They don’t if you’re constantly taking them off to put stuff inside them between the phone and the black.
She refuses to carry a purse or even a wallet and just shoves her ID and her teen-limited cashapp card in. And sometimes even spare cash if she has any.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 week ago:
My kid does.
And I wish she wouldn’t. To clarify, we’ve bought her cases and she destroys the case in days.
She’s more careful with her bare phone than she is with it in a case.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 week ago:
I use a case to add magsafe to my android phone, because I like the magnetic holder/charger idea ,na swish all phones had it built in.
I have a cheap, clear magsafe case for my Pixel 9.
I also have a screen protector, and when I have the phone out of the case, it feels weird in my hand when I brush the edge of the screen protector.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
The Golden Child.
I I I I I want the knife…
Please…
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 2 weeks ago:
There. Was that at hard?
It’s apparently easier than you not being a jackass, at least.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 2 weeks ago:
Good. That’s what I was aiming for.
It is painful.
What was worse for me? I began suffering from a kidney stone when I was parked at a New Jersey turnpike rest area/service area.
In a semi truck.
Almost 1000 miles from home or anyone I know
With my dog in the truck.
Obligatory pic. Gina, the dog in the story, is no longer with us, but she is the golden/husky mix, while Zeus, the bigger black and white mutt still is.
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A dog that had horrible separation anxiety and would chew her way out of said truck if I left her in it with the climate controls on, for more than a few minutes.
I wound up calling 911, since obviously I’m not getting a semi truck into a hospital parking lot, and explaining the situation to the dispatcher. By the time the ambulance got to me, I was doubled over, dry heaving in the parking lot, with my dog freaking out thinking I’m about to die.
In her defense, by then, so did I. I still didn’t know it was a kidney stone, and my mind was going immediately to “burst appendix”, and me dying a thousand miles from home, in the middle of the night, leaving a wife and a daughter behind…
Ambulance crew loaded up me AND my dog, and one of the EMTs called the hospital, and got that handled.
The hospital security team babysat her, while the nurses and doctors fussed over me.
When it was time to get back to the truck, I tried to call a cab. None would take me back because of the dog. She wasn’t a big dog, but not a lapdog either.
Needless to say when the head ER nurse found out, she flipped her shit in perfect, foul-mouthed, Jersey attitude, and this southern boy loved her for it.
She said “I’ll take you myself if this guy doesn’t, and if he doesn’t, his fuckin whole company will be banned from this whole muthafuckin hospital!”
As an aside, that’s when it clicked that New Englanders ain’t rude or unfriendly. They just express love differently. 😂
Damn. I rambled like hell, but. It all needed to be said anyway
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 2 weeks ago:
Know what else is like pinball?
Kidney stones. Definitely feels like you’re getting your balls thrown into a lot of shit.
- Comment on Yeah yeah, we get it 2 weeks ago:
My work provided phone is, sadly, an iPhone.
But the case they provided for it (OtterBox) actually doesn’t have the window.
Meanwhile, my personal phone, a Pixel, has a case is 100% clear.
I bought a white phone, so dammit I want to see the white phone! 😂
- Comment on Yes 2 weeks ago:
laughs in C64 BASIC
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 3 weeks ago:
Materia Magica has had a playable race called dracon since the 1990s. Back then it was called Moongate Online.
It’s a MUD. The precursor to the graphical MMORPG genre.
And yes, people still play MUDs online.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 3 weeks ago:
We really aren’t. The difference is, the most successful of us are. And those are the ones you typically seem to meet overseas. Because the less successful of us can’t afford the trip.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 4 weeks ago:
When the government is powerful enough to cause genocides, that’s a problem. It’s far easier to just not give your money to a business that engages in such practices.
Not giving money to your government, however, is considered tax evasion.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t specifically planning to. And yeah, proxmox is a VM management system. I’ve never used it myself, but it’s apparently the “new hotness” and I’ve been meaning to do a VM/container build for a while.
I’m more familiar with FreeBSD jails, but not everything lends itself to that well. Bhyve was also something I looked at, but proxmox seems to leverage qemu and ZFS together.
Plus, since I’ve never actually used it, it gets me out of my comfort zone and I’ll maybe learn something neat.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 4 weeks ago:
That won’t do anything about Bluetooth audio compression.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 4 weeks ago:
I’m about to drop a supermicro Xeon board plus an E3-1275 and 32G of ECC ram into the guts of this old Optiplex 790 mini tower I have. (i3 2100, so a generation newer, and a Xeon instead of an i3)
I plan to eventually get a better case but for now this is fine. Right now it’s running Plex media server on FreeBSD on bare metal, but I’m planning to swap to proxmox once I get the new board installed.
Unfortunately that won’t be for another week. While the board will be here today, it is a little more power hungry than the old system, and I’m already pushing the OEM 375W PSU with 5 drives (SATA SSD and 4 7200rpm SAS drives) so I also have a PSU coming. But that is not expected until middle of next week.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 4 weeks ago:
Last week isn’t really that long ago. Going through my mom’s old things and found a PC she bought new back in 2013. A Dell Optiplex 790 with a dvdrw in it.
I just happened to have a couple of blanks so I verified that it worked before pulling it out and using it as an external drive. Works that way as well on my much newer Ryzen 5800x build in a case with no 5.25" bays. (Or externally accessed 3.5s for that matter. No external bays of any sort other than some USB ports on the front.)
My 2006 Honda also has a 6 disc changer and it sounds better than the Bluetooth adapter I connected to it. (It is wired to the back of the factory sound system, but Bluetooth audio just sounds flat to me, even on the best speakers)
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 5 weeks ago:
Zork. God forbid you forget to look mailbox
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 1 month ago:
LOAD “TREK64”,8 RUN
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 1 month ago:
Interesting, sadly I no longer remember my old number, nor do I have access to the email I used 25+ years ago.
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 1 month ago:
Bring back icq.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 month ago:
Did you just threaten Bill? Lol
- Comment on need help finding a racing game 1 month ago:
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 1 month ago:
People were using them to shoot car and house windows out here.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
Proton doesn’t always work, and what’s worse is it’s not consistent.
What works on one person’s machine, may not work on a different one. But in windows, the game works fine on both.
I’m looking at you, Distant Worlds and Distant Worlds 2.
I’ve never gotten DW to work, and DW2 worked for a while, but hasn’t worked for me in over a year.
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 1 month ago:
There was a string of people swapping marbles into paintball guns for a few years here locally.