Grabthar
@Grabthar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 3 hours ago:
For sure, most use oil or propane as a primary heat source when gas isn’t available. But those rely on both expensive fossil fuel and electricity to run, so a backup that doesn’t depend on either is handy, especially with all these once in a century storms we get every year now. Wood makes for a cheap, effective backup. Used to be so common in housing too. Now we just get gas furnaces and gas fireplaces for show. Still, I wouldn’t go out of my way to get a woodstove. I agree that a backup generator is plenty for most situations. But if you have an older home with a fireplace, keep a half cord around and make sure the chimney is clean.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 19 hours ago:
As you reach city limits in a lot of cities, it is increasingly likely that you will no longer find gas lines, city water, or sewers. Having a backup heat source is pretty comforting. Much like you, I used to rely on just gas with a generator for backup, but I’ve experienced frozen gas mains, so I like having a woodstove and a couple cords of wood to burn as a backup source of heat. Plus it’s very cozy on damp, cold days, and nicer than the fireplace channel on Christmas.
- Comment on Right... 1 day ago:
Guess you could say he was climaxing in “vein”?
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, what makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 3 weeks ago:
Morgan Tittysprinkles
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 4 weeks ago:
Shit, didn’t have to read past the first comment to find the first name that popped into my head. Agreed, he would be terrible. And yet, I have a feeling I’d still watch the shit out of it.
- Comment on Name him. 5 weeks ago:
Doing my marsh-wiggle boy dirty there.
- Comment on what 1 month ago:
I put in an offer on a house that had been on the market for months at 97% of their asking price. I was pretty familiar with the market, and the offer was probably more than the house was worth, but I had seen 80ish homes by that point, and this was by far the best fit. It was still very much a buyer’s market at this time, and people would crow about getting offers so close to their asking price. Well, my realtor came back and told me the guy said my offer made his wife cry and they refused to negotiate further. Well ok, I moved on. About six weeks later they came back and asked if my offer was still good. I guess they finally got another offer and it was much lower. We did close the sale, but I found out later that his selling agent said he was one of those nightmare clients that just had totally unrealistic expectations about the whole process. Facebook marketplace is basically this without the agents to facilitate the process, so its pretty messy at times.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 1 month ago:
Right, I forgot the Orleans one closed this winter. Ot actually seemed to be well stocked, too. 3 to go in the area, I guess.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 1 month ago:
We still have Toys R Us and Party City here, and they seem to be doing fine. Blockbuster isn’t really needed anymore. Old school Radio Shack would be pretty cool though.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
This taught me many lessons in life, but the one I carry in my heart to this day is piracy.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 months ago:
Once Bitten, Joe vs the Volcano, and Mortal Kombat are all way better movies than they should have been.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 months ago:
I’d watch it for the Europe-heavy soundtrack alone, but the film is a damned masterpiece.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 months ago:
Square hogs! Yeah, it’s fair to say I loved this one from the start.
- Comment on I knew it 2 months ago:
Gotta have room to fly downstairs to the kitchen for that late night glass of water.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I did three days once and was still lucid. Wasn’t even really tired, so I even went clubbing until 5am on the last night. I could have stayed up longer, but I had no reason to be up anymore, so I got four or five hours of sleep and was back on schedule. Some people just can’t do that kind of thing, and it seems to be easier for others. Dude from China sounds like a machine though. I’d guess be was the right combination of the kind of person who doesn’t require a lot of sleep and stubborn as hell.
- Comment on Anon needs medical attention 4 months ago:
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 6 months ago:
Why do all the 0 calorie sweeteners have to taste like a dead hobo’s arse?
- Comment on nope don’t like it 6 months ago:
This is my hole, it was made for me!
- Comment on guys... :( 7 months ago:
In case you want to use it more than once.
- Comment on Probably 10 months ago:
And I thought this was going to be a joke about her putting the audience to sleep.
- Comment on Nobel Prize in Lit 2024 10 months ago:
That’s just like, your opinion, man.
- Comment on Last channel rule 10 months ago:
We knew that if you pressed the satellite button and channel up/down, it let you manually move the dish, and it didn’t care how long you did it. There were also numbers to indicate the position of the dish. The rest was just sheer determination.
- Comment on Last channel rule 10 months ago:
Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could “fine tune” the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.
- Comment on Do deaf people play media with sound on? 11 months ago:
Yeah, I’d love that. I think a good number of subs I end up downloading are written by some dude trying their best, and if they don’t know the language, they can’t really begin to guess how to spell the words. But anything released by a studio or on a streaming site has no excuse.
- Comment on dataisbeautiful 11 months ago:
True, and it even tracks with the lack of success for Joan Rivers’ talk show career.
- Comment on Who says OSHA compliance doesn't have to be fun? 1 year ago:
Some say that forklift is still running today.
