ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 3 days ago:
It’s not hoarding as long as it doesn’t impair your ability to lead a normal life in a livable home. Beyond that, to each their hobbies.
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 3 days ago:
…now
You have to be very patient and have an awful lot of storage space - and bet that the junk you’re storing will be worth something some day - to even bother keeping crappy stuff in any large quantity to turn a profit when the stuff is still crappy and not worth a damn.
The reason 386s are getting rare is because nobody in their right mind made that bet when they were still around and completely deprecated.
The only person I met who made a similar bet and won big money was a Brit who bought 6 Jaguar E-Types sight-unseen when they came out, and put them in storage for 30 years (prepared professionally for long-term storage too). When those cars came on the market, brand new with no mile on the clock, they sold for millions, the guy bought a nice house in Hampshire and retired in comfort.
He told me he just knew that model would be highly desirable classic the minute he saw a picture, and almost bankrupted his family to buy them as an investment. Ballsy.
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 3 days ago:
My Mom had a saying when I was young(er): vintage is all the crap we couldn’t wait to get rid of and couldn’t throw away fast enough.
Decades later, I totally get what she’s saying: 30 year old PCs are utter crap in my eyes. Good riddance. Who wants to restore that junk: it was cheap-ass commodity hardware at that point. A PDP11 on the other hand… 🙂
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure I guess. I can’t count the number of PCs I brought to the recycler simply because I literally would have had to pay someone to take them back in the days. I wish I had kept them to sell to today’s enthusiasts and get back some of the insane money that stuff sold for when it was new.
- Comment on What happens if an instance gets down? 5 days ago:
The idea is to migrate the community to Piefed (which I suppose simply creates a local copy from the content in the remote community) then tell all the members that the community has moved.
That’s why I haven’t done it yet, because it’s a massive inconvenience to everybody, and I’m sure Piefed will lose content in the process. And the SDF instance is just functional enough that it’s not worth doing. But I’m really, REALLY close to pulling the trigger.
- Comment on What happens if an instance gets down? 6 days ago:
We’ll soon find out: SDF’s Lemmy instance seems to have snuffed it permanently. It’s been performing really poorly - and been inaccessible - for as long as I’ve known it, but now I think SDF just doesn’t care at all anymore.
Unfortunately, I have 2 communities there that I was planning on migrating to Piefed soon, and it might be too late. Hopefully it’ll come back online long enough for me to save them at some point 🙁
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Being in a shelter hardly qualifies as having a home. Unless you like shelters maybe…
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Have you been to Finland?
6 months of the year, homeless people would freeze to death in short order if they were left outside.
Finland has homeless people, just not on the street.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 1 week ago:
Then don’t be ostentatious with your wealth. Don’t advertise it. And if you can’t do that, then maybe don’t get so wealthy.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 1 week ago:
Wealthy people don’t mingle with the rest of us. They literally live in a totally different world, and you ain’t invited unless you can clean their toilet or give them massages on a private Caribbean islands and shut your trap.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 2 weeks ago:
your MD believes you’ve healed. book says you should have years ago.
If your doc thinks that, change doc.
In my neck of the woods, doctors are so aware of phantom pains that I can literally walk into any doctor’s office, even one I’ve never met before, and ask for a prescription of Gabapentin or opioid of any denomination at any strength no questions asked. If I was still addicted, I would have no supply problem.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 2 weeks ago:
Well, I still have both my hands, so no 🙂
My feet however… Well no, I don’t have phantom limbs. Never had. Not everybody gets them. And I have very little phantom limb pain - which is a different thing. When I do get it, it’s either in the form of mild electric shocks, which are easy to deal with and possibly even pleasant like a TENS session, or in the form of terrible itching I can’t scratch that can last for up to 3 days.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 2 weeks ago:
Or get amputated.
The first times I went to the swimming pool in rehab, I remember feeling “more than 100%” naked in the changing room - if that makes any sense - because bits of me that used to be deep down inside of me were now only skin-deep. It’s a very strange feeling to feel even more naked than naked. Hard to describe.
- Comment on If Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects? 3 weeks ago:
Most computer engineers are only engineers in the original sense of railway engineer: they throw coal in the fire to run the engine.
Real engineers (with an engineering degree) are called “senior software engineer”
- Comment on If Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects? 3 weeks ago:
Computers architects are like real architects: they’re paid more to design buildings but they don’t know how to lay bricks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Jerusalem is the source of most of the world’s problems. It’s been an open-air madhouse for millenia.
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- Comment on Free AI Video Production Suite: LTX Desktop 3 weeks ago:
Finally slop you can afford!
- Comment on An identification key 3 weeks ago:
Diplodocuses (diplodocii?) do not cause gonorrhea? How are you so sure? Have you slept with one?
- Comment on He's been abducted by Iran 😥 4 weeks ago:
Damn right. There would be no war if the orange pedo in the White House wasn’t trying desperately to make everybody forget he’s a fucking pedo.
The Ayatollah really need to give an interview and ask “So… How many times is Donald Trump mentioned in the Epstein files again?:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The rest of the world is part of the global supply chain too. When it comes time to choose AI suppliers, companies will go “Uuh, maybe give Anthropic a skip just in case…”, however palatable they may be.
Anthropic’s tech would have to be overwhelmingly better than its competitors for AI customers to ignore the risk of losing potential business due to the supply chain poisoning effect of the DoD’s classification, and they’re not that much better.
That’s the tragedy of the DoD’s vile decision.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Buh-bye Anthropic…
The DoD just killed Anthropic, because they won’t be able to sell AI to any company that sells something to the DoD, or to companies that themselves sell something to the DoD. In other words, they won’t be able to sell AI to anybody at all, because no company wants to become a supply chain risk to potential customers who might have a DoD supplier somewhere down the supply chain.
Remember: the DoD initially approached Anthropic. Anthropic ultimately decided to reject their offer, so DoD killed them out of spite.
That’s what totalitatian regimes do.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 15 comments
- Comment on Game over 4 weeks ago:
Chipotle is to Mexican food what Olive Garden is to Italian cuisine.
- Comment on Game over 4 weeks ago:
“Mexican food”…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In fairness, if you’re Nazi adjacent in 2026, Israel looks like a dream come true.
Which never fails to remind me that I must have fallen into some really weird alternate reality at some point, and I’d really, REALLY like to find the portal back to a sane world…
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 5 weeks ago:
Not really. It’s just that only a lunatic fringe in the US calls it the Gulf of America. They can also call the country the Uber Stupendous Amazingistan, if nobody else ro-ro with that, it’s as good as nonexistent.
Point being, while there is no legitimate authority, usage is what makes it official.
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 1 month ago:
Can’t believe it’s been renamed for a year now!
It hasn’t.
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 1 month ago:
Speak for yourself. Who says I’m paying taxes?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I believe Ghost in the Shell provides the perfect answer to your question.
