HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on 22 hours ago:
Both? Both. Both is good.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 2 days ago:
I know. Isn’t great? When there’s no party in true “control” then whoever wants to think it’s the other guy’s fault can easily do so.
I was already an adult in 1996. It was definitely a bipartisan thing. Despite many tech insiders warning how it would cause the exact opposite of what it was intended to do, Clinton didn’t just sign it. He and Al Gore, for years, claimed it as their own.
Hell, it was this exact act Al Gore was referring to when he claimed he “invented” the Internet.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 3 days ago:
The deregulation in the 90s is what killed the local ISP. Thanks, Bill.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 1 week ago:
Or T-Mobile.
- Comment on I am working on a turn-based wargame, influenced by the old Win3.x era WinWar 2 game 1 week ago:
Winwar 2 was based on a dos version of it, btw. I played it all the time with some friends back in the early 1990s.
- Comment on FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse 1 week ago:
sings The cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiiiife.
I mean, the computer folder icon is modeled after a real folder, sooooo
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 2 weeks ago:
That’s less of a defense of AI slop than it is a condemnation of the entire music industry.
- Comment on 7 year old PC. CPU is getting WICKED hot (up to 100 C) while playing games. is there any software that can underclock/undervolt it? 2 weeks ago:
Why is it that so many people do absolutely zero maintenance on their computers, and think that’s completely normal?
Clean that bitch out at the very least. Allowing dust to build up in all the little books and crannies means it’s not getting enough air flow.
It’s typically common sense that when your AC isn’t working well, you clean/replace the filter(s) to keep it operating at peak efficiency, and if you don’t, you risk burning up fan and/or compressor motors.
Same thing with your car’s cooling system. Keep that radiator grill clean of mud and dirt, or it’s more likely to overheat and burn up your engine.
Why the fuck don’t people think of that when it comes to their computers just blows my damn mind.
A tube of Arctic Silver thermal grease is less than 10 bucks. A can of compressed air is like 20 bucks, and will typically last for months.
Once a month, take the PC case outside, and blow out all the damn dust.
Every year or so, replace the thermal grease/paste.
“My computer runs slower and slower as times goes by!” Yeah no shit, it’s trying not to burn itself up. Clean the fucker.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because why have 3 devices when one can do it for less cost?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There’s just enough disagreement and “infighting” to make people think their guy is the good guy and the other is the bad guy.
When you look at the overall picture, however, things start standing out.
There was much complaining and gnashing of teeth by most Democrats, and even a few Republicans, when the Bush era Patriot Act was pushed through. One particular Democratic politician even ran on the promise of eliminating it.
Guess what? It wasn’t eliminated.
Same thing with war and attacking other nations on their own sovereign soil.
It’s still happening, and it never stops, no matter which party is in control of the US government.
“But the other side does it more than we do!”
HOW ABOUT NEITHER SIDE DOES IT! HOW ABOUT WE MIND OUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!
- Comment on Crikey 3 weeks ago:
WTF, dude, get out of my pocket!
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
Aluminum is the original name for the element. It was changed to be more in line with the others in its group.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'd never do this obviously 4 weeks ago:
Nice. Now if y’all can only figure out how to get the boot back from us. Geaux tigers. 🤣
- Comment on What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮 4 weeks ago:
First step: Get permission from my wife to date.
- Comment on I'd never do this obviously 4 weeks ago:
They finish that rework of the 40 interchange yet? I haven’t been through there in about a year or so.
When I was driving trucks, I’d come up 530 to LR, then head west to FS, it was a pretty regular run for me.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 4 weeks ago:
You can get wifi pretty cheap. A $40 router will get you wifi. You’ll also need an internet connection, however…
- Comment on I'd never do this obviously 4 weeks ago:
Til little Rock is the judge of nowhere…
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 4 weeks ago:
I’ll just wait until the fitgirl sale…
- Comment on The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology 4 weeks ago:
takes picture of screen from another device yep, so secure.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a theory that we already are. That our entire universe is a singularity.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 4 weeks ago:
Mm, spaghetti…
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 5 weeks ago:
Because when they do, they start charging more for them. cough Kia/Hyundai
- Comment on We really did 5 weeks ago:
I drove 1500 miles with directions to the town center, and a phone number written on a paper plate. I then used a pay phone to call her and tell her “Surprise, I drove to your town, wheres your apartment?”
She bet me I wouldn’t.
I won that bet. Victory party lasted the entire weekend, then I drove home. 😂
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 5 weeks ago:
20 years ago:
"We need to stop using paper bags! They’re cutting down all the trees!” (a renewable resource)
"We should use plastic bags instead! They’re recyclable!” (so is paper, and it’s far more economically viable, but plastic is made from petroleum)
So now we use plastic bags made of a much heavier material, so we can reuse them, or cloth bags for a similar reason.
Cloth bags are made from cotton, like paper is made from trees.
- Comment on Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games 1 month ago:
But that would require me installing epic games.
Nope.
- Comment on Yes 1 month ago:
- Comment on Held back no longer 1 month ago:
Sooo: 2-Low?
Because, technically speaking, an 18 speed is just an 8 speed with power dividers.
1L, 1H, 2L, 2H, 3L, 3H, etc up to 8L, and 8H.
So where it gets interesting is low and reverse. Observe:
The gear shift only has 6 positions: R 1, 3 on top, and L, 2, 4 on the bottom. Then you flip the range selector to High and then the gear shift becomes: R-High, 5 7 and Low-High, 6, 8.
But there’s also a power divider on the shift, usually thumb activated that further divides those gears.
Which means Reverse can be split again… But so can reverse High. So you wind up with Reverse, Reverse High, then reverse High low and Reverse high high
And Low becomes even funnier: Because you can split low into low and low low, and low high into low high low…
But what’s even more interesting is that generally, gear ratio of Low high and 4 are very close, almost identical.
- Comment on Held back no longer 1 month ago:
I don’t know anyone who starts in 1st even with a full load. Maybe some very heavy haul guys.
In a bobtail, I would routinely take off in 4th or even 5th, in a 10 speed.
Another thing to consider is the amount of torque available.
I have on occasion went through every gear without ever needing to accelerate. Did you know that in a semi trucks, bobtailing, in top gear, that idling the engine will still have you doing about 40 to 45mph.
And due to all the torque, it won’t really be lugging the engine either to idle in gear while rolling on flat ground.
- Comment on Day 323 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 month ago:
stares in Determined Exterminator
