BoxOfFeet
@BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 5 days ago:
That’s wild. Mine posts just fine, though it was very particular about the ram. I had to re-seat most of the 8 sticks several times. And one time it posted with memory errors when I had a dirty cpu pad on cpu 0. But now, it boots perfect every time.
Do you leave yourself running for extended periods? This thing seems like a power hog. Ive got dual Xeon 5355’s, 120W each. The GTX 980TI is 250W, and I’ve heard those sticks of ram are 10W each. I have been turning it off when im not actively doing something on it.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 5 days ago:
What do you use yours for?
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 5 days ago:
Actually, it’s a Precision 690! Same case, though I’m pretty sure. And yes, I do have the second CPU installed. Dual Xeon 5355’s! And 32GB of DDR2. And a GTX 980TI.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 5 days ago:
I’m using hardware encryption, i.e. my data is too heavy to be stolen. The manual actually recommends two people lift it.
- Comment on Anon saves up 6 days ago:
I mean, I am aware of that. But 16k wouldn’t even cover my mortgage, let alone food and utilities. Adding up just the essentials, housing + food + electricity + natural gas + phone + water, I’m at 27k. Being in the US, I’d say car and health insurance are also necessities. So, you can easily add another 5k or 6k to that.
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
No idea. One coworker of mine said they made him, he was gone for a month.
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
Well, I could have just bought it. But it’s a 0% interest loan. Same thing I did with my other two luxury watches, and it’s almost done. Having a two year commitment to it definitely keeps me from looking at any more! I really like watches. It’s probably my last one for a long time, anyway. Kids are expensive. $8600 for a watch over two years is cheap compared to $15k a year just in childcare. That’s just one kid.
You can have a car for a lot less, but we have relatively new cars and I opted for a lot of insurance for my own peace of mind. If we had any public transit options, we could get by with one car for sure. But there is nothing here. There is a city bus system that primarily caters to the low income, which is a great start. But it really only goes to like, the grocery stores and the urgent cares. Nowhere near our daycare, and definitely way short of the 30 miles to my office. We also have a shuttle bus that you can call for, that’s only $3 a ride, but thats really just for the disabled and elderly. I’d say we have better transit than a lot of metropolitan cities I’ve been to, but obviously our society is completely car-centric.
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
I was thinking wrong. I was going off my salary rather than my take home. After taxes, health insurance, and retirement, it’s about $6k.
$1360 for my mortgage, which is really quite good as it’s only 3.25%. Im pretty stuck in my house with current interest rates. $516 for one of my cars. $343 for one of my watches. About $300-400 for electricity in the summer, $80 for natural gas. $368 for car insurance. $168 for phones. $87 for internet. And $309 on a loan for some renovations. $30 planned parenthood donation. Typically about $40/week for gas.
Amazon prime, Disney+, Spotify, Netflix, Paramount+. Idk what else. I guess the rest is just groceries, eating out, and hobbies.
That’s just the stuff I pay from my income, my wife and I never got joint bank accounts. She takes home about 3k, and she pays for our other car, which is $327, her student loan, which is $300, and childcare which is $295/week. Plus she puts money in the savings account.
This discussion is making me think about the number of subscriptions I have, and the amount of expendable income I waste.
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
My last job, I was an engineering team leader. They had me working so much, with different time zones, I was regularly working 70+ hour weeks. There was no time for vacation. So, I had weeks left at the end of the year. It would have gone poof. There was no carry-over. So, December 4th, I made myself go poof. That last paycheck was absolutely delicious. It was multiple paychecks worth. Suck it, old company.
What really sucks is that it was a German company, and the Germans got awesome perks like 35hr work weeks. Beer in the cantina for lunch. They were FORCED to take all their vacation. Instead of asked to cancel.
- Comment on Anon saves up 1 week ago:
I have questions. How were you able to live for a year on 16K? Even if we disregard healthcare, that wouldn’t even cover my mortgage. Let alone food, or especially travel and fun. You Were able to afford a phone? Utilities? Did you have any extras, like streaming services? I’m guessing you have the luxury of public transportation, so I can understand no car payments or gas and maintenance costs.
Granted, I do live in the US. But I can’t imagine everything is that much more expensive here. £16K is like, $20K right now, I’d live for maybe 2 months on that.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 week ago:
I can just imagine him awkwardly leaning his head way in, with exaggerated kissy lips, and she gives him a brief peck. Then, they embrace. At one point, she says “ow!” And grabs her boob in surprise. He just says “sorry” as he looks to the camera and goes “can we… can we just cut that part?” He turns back to her, attempting another kiss, and she just pushes him away. She just hands him the diskette with the secret plans and asks him to leave. He asks if he can call her sometime, and if they could go out again. To which she just flatly replies with a curt “no” and shuts the door.
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 week ago:
Every year, my company has a company-wide cornhole tournament at our all-employee bbq shindig. I entered it last year, assuming it was a casual fun thing and everyone there played once or twice a year, like me. I’m from two states away, and it really isn’t as big here. It was not casual. These people brought their own bags, some well over $100 a set. I was embarrassingly outclassed. Out in the first round. This year is corn hole and go karts. I’m going to try that instead this year.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 weeks ago:
It gets to the end of the movie, and he says "OK, i think I’m ready to do this for real. It pans out to a huge set. The whole thing was just The Rehearsal for James to actually go on the mission.
- Comment on Piss Post 2 weeks ago:
You rip the bag out of the trashcan and youre good to go. Been there many times.
- Comment on Is it possible to sell semi-old computers/parts? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, thats really cool. I never had any pre-pentium stuff. I used an Apple ][ in school, and I remember playing Oregon Trail on 5.25 floppies, on a beautiful green monochrome monitor. But my first computer at home was a Pentium 133. It was a Compaq LTE 5300, with the docking bay, the CD drive, extra batteries, all the fixings. I loved that thing.
- Comment on Is it possible to sell semi-old computers/parts? 2 weeks ago:
I wish I still had my old computers. I really miss my 98 machine with an 8mb 3D Rage Pro. I used that until 2005. Ive been buying some WinXP errands stuff recently, since it seems to be in the sweet spot for buying right now. I got a pair of quad core Xeons for $10! Ive got 32gb of DDR2 for $35. The GTX 980ti wasn’t super cheap, but thats a card you maybe still could use today. This is going to be the bitchin’-est XP machine. Im excited.
- Comment on crypto investment 3 weeks ago:
Spending every dime, for a wonderful time!
- Comment on crypto investment 3 weeks ago:
Taco, you say?
- Comment on Everything is a problem 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but that’s pretty miniscule compared to booting any of the linux based retro handhelds. An Bernice, Powkiddy, R36S, they all have like a 30-40 second boot time.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 3 weeks ago:
It’s completely comparable in this circumstance. They are performing similar functions, playing handheld games. My R36S is a pretty impressive little device, and it performs excellently at playing games. But using it is much more complicated and longer than popping a game in a gameboy.
Gameboy: insert game, turn on, play, turn off. R36S: turn on, 30-40 second boot time, locate game, play, exit emulator, shut down, 10 second shutdown time.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 3 weeks ago:
I helped my dad install a new dumb thermostat last winter. We just had to drill a couple of new holes to mount it, and moved the wires over. Boom,there was heat again. I thought about how much of a pain in the ass it was to get my Ecobee working, and how refreshing it was to just have something work immediately.
It’s a very similar feeling to playing my GameBoy Color again after messing around with retro gaming linux handhelds. You just turn it on and play, then just turn it off. No boot sequences, no emulator settings to tweak. No SD card corruption that ruins your game library. Just on and off.
- Comment on I require nothing more 5 weeks ago:
I need three desks. Modern PC desk, retro PC desk, and a soldering desk. Otherwise, perfect.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 1 month ago:
To demonstrate the power of flex seal, I SAWED THIS CHICKEN IN HALF!
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 1 month ago:
What is Phil Swift going to do with that chicken?
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 month ago:
This reminds me for some reason about the time I found a half-full can of vintage rat poison at an antique store. It was basically entirely arsenic.
- Comment on Dots! 1 month ago:
Why the pelvis specifically? How did it get there? What were you doing with it?
- Comment on But Ma Couch! 1 month ago:
You could tell me that was somebody from the 1980’s WWF and I’d totally believe you. Like, a cross between Captain Lou and Tugboat.
- Comment on But Ma Couch! 1 month ago:
- Comment on But Ma Couch! 1 month ago:
Why is it 8-bit style pixilated like it’s being censored?
- Comment on What the fuck 1 month ago:
Loss will never not be funny.
