BoxOfFeet
@BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
- Comment on So that's how they're made. 5 days ago:
Ah, so it was originally called an I Scream Sandwich.
- Comment on Anon reaches enlightenment 1 week ago:
I look back at pictures of myself at 25, when my hair was thinning pretty bad. And I really regret not shaving my head sooner. I love having a shaved head. I especially don’t like looking at my wedding photos. I have a nice round head, I should have been proud about it.
- Comment on Anon goes on holiday 1 week ago:
The entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan is pretty awesome. The Soo Locks, the Marquette ore dock, Pictured Rocks, and a whole bunch of mine tours and shipping museums. Not to mention beautiful national and state parks. Brockway Mountain is truly an experience in the fall.
Does anybody come to Michigan from abroad for holiday? Or does everybody just conflate it with Detroit?
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 1 week ago:
To be fair, with less people there wouldn’t be a housing crisis. And our carbon emissions would be lower.
- Comment on A Nation of Homebodies: A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic. 1 week ago:
What’s the point of going anywhere? There’s really not much of an incentive to go out there. We have better games at home than in arcades. You can stream an endless amount of content for your entertainment. You can work from home, you can have food and groceries delivered. No need to ever deal with strangers. It’s great.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
I barely remember it, which is think is a compliment because it just worked! Never had any driver issues or temperature problems, didn’t demand too much power. It just did its job until I needed something more.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 2 weeks ago:
I built a PC in 2011 with an AMD Phenom II. Can’t remember which one, it may have been a 740. And I’m pretty sure a Radeon HD 5450 until FO4 came out in 2015 and I needed a new graphics card. Upgraded to a Radeon R7 240, and some other AM3 socketed CPU I found for like, $40 on eBay. By no means was I high end gaming over here. And it stayed that way until 2020, when I finally gutted the whole thing and started over. It ran everything I wanted to play. So I got like, 9 years out of about $600 in parts. That’s including disc drives, power supply, case, and RAM. And I’m still using the case. I got my money’s worth out of it, for sure. The whole time we were in our apartment, it was hooked up to our dumb TV. So, it was our only source of Netflix, YouTube, DVDs, and Blu-rays. It was running all the time. Then, I gave all the innards to my buddy to make his dad a PC for web browsing. It could still be going in some form, as far as I know.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s both!Image
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 weeks ago:
I hope you have to point at the person for it to work, so they know it’s you.
- Comment on The writers have run out of ideas 2 weeks ago:
I by no means want to make light of a terrorist incident, but that is a stupid plan. 9/11 set the bar pretty high for terror. Driving a truck through a crowd is basically at the same level as one angry psychopath. I mean, our own kids do worse in their own schools, so it really was a pointless act. It barely even registers on the terror meter for me. Terror just doesn’t work. Even 9/11! All that did was piss us off to the point of re-electing Dubbya. And now we have the TSA. I suppose if the goal was to make us suffer in the long term, I guess they won there.
- Comment on Anon memes 3 weeks ago:
I laughed uncontrollably at this. I’m really glad I didn’t see this last night while I was high, I probably would have had a huge asthma attack. It’s gold.
- Comment on Hurry 3 weeks ago:
I hope so, too. But you really can’t do much with it without a disk drive. Even Bill there has the expansion unit. Just the computer itself with the tape drive is a horrible way to live. The tape drive can’t play assembly games like the cartridges or floppies, just basic. And of the other popular 8 bit computers of the time, the 99 had the slowest basic implementation. Like, truly a slog to write or play anything with. I found myself never wanting to use it, and so I let it go. It was gorgeous, though.
- Comment on Hurry 3 weeks ago:
I just sold mine this summer. Complete in box, with a tape drive and a bunch of games.
- Comment on Hurry 3 weeks ago:
No way. That’s from WNEM? That was one of the 4 channels we got in my hometown.
- Comment on Hurry 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Player two has entered the lobby 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I saw all that. They probably have like, 4 engineers. Im in that industry, in the area. Never heard of them. Just looking at the fixtures and molds and stuff on their websites, I would be willing to bet they do well under $10M a year. Maybe even under $5M. Tiny.
- Comment on Player two has entered the lobby 4 weeks ago:
You guys realize this company is tiny, right? The guy stabbed isn’t some rich CEO. He just runs a machine shop. In Muskegon. Which is basically nowhere. Also, the guy is expected to live, and Nathan was arrested in 15 minutes. This story is no comparison, it’s just sad.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I choose innovation. 5 weeks ago:
That’s the only problem? What about how the blinds are outside of the tub, directing all the water directly to the floor?
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, I don’t think he’s going to be doing that either. I think this is plain old uninstalling pre-installed HP stuff and hoping for the best kind of situation.
Mint is definitely at LEAST as easy to install as Windows, if not easier. As long as all the stuff on his laptop is supported out of the box. I love my Mint install, but last month I spent 40 minutes on github trying to find the right release of the open driver to work with my revision of network adapter, and the amount of work in the terminal was undoubtedly more than somebody asking this question would be comfortable with.
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d say that is too complex as well. I kinda think his best bet is uninstalling whatever HP crap he can, and just hope for the best.
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 5 weeks ago:
I’m concerned about OP’s ability to upgrade a drive based on the nature of the question. I’d like to also throw in some help with cloning a drive.
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 5 weeks ago:
Guy is asking if he can download free software to get more ssd space. And while TECHNICALLY Linux does fit the bill for this (and is awesome), I’m willing to wager OP does not have the technical skill set for it at this time.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 weeks ago:
Something like a hike can be a scary location for a date for him as well. Imagine how scary walking all the way out of the woods by yourself is.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAAA 5 weeks ago:
Hey, I have that edition, and I love that book. I also have the later one with John Travolta on the cover, but that one is in much rougher shape since that was the one I had in high school.
- Comment on It's insidious 5 weeks ago:
Most of the episodes were just fillers between episodes with Jeffrey Combs.
- Comment on Anon holds her bf 1 month ago:
I cried the other day, and my wife laughed at me as the tears rolled down my face.
Of course, I was waking up from a colonoscopy and crying about the fact that McDonald’s doesn’t serve Big Macs at 9:30am.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 1 month ago:
I don’t buy hardware until it drops below a certain price point, so when I finally have a PC capable enough, the game price is coincidentally also lower.
- Comment on Anon is an engineer 1 month ago:
Man, I know it. I love talking about work. I love the stuff i design. But I’m pretty much the only one in my office like that, and it’s kind of a bummer.
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 1 month ago:
Well, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve read in a while. I have a Trackman from 2004 that’s still plugging along, no subscription software updates required. If your stuff isn’t shit, it lasts forever anyways.
