Trainguyrom

@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💩.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My metabolism is funky. If I lump around all day I’m usually at the low end of this scale, but start doing some cardio and I leap into the ideal zone.

  Case in point, last week I was traveling so I got no real walking or biking in for a full week. First day back I get a good walk and bike ride in and immediately back to the good zone. No transition just an immediate leap back to where I should be

  On the upside my metabolism will automatically reduce to asking for a less than normal adult amount of calories when not exercising then start demanding a normal amount of calories once any exercise enters my routine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you kind sir and/or madam, that’s a million times better!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to a casino once to see what it’s about. Ultimately just felt like I was staring at a visual stimulation machine more than anything (my local casino is basically only penny slots)

  I spent an hour that felt like 3 there and turned $40 into $60 and I don’t feel like I ever need to do that again. Also worst of all was the ice cream place I was hoping to go to afterwards closed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I attended one of Corey Taylor’s solo concerts at a casino once and as all of these rock and metal fans come out of the oldies concert (because he was performing the music of all of the bands who inspired him) and walking out at midnight from the concert I got the dirtiest looks from the old people pressing the buttons at the slot machines and it was honestly kinda hilarious being judged by retirees spending the night gambling for heading home after enjoying a concert. Also absolutely nobody looked happy to be there as they started glass-eyed at the screens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Go buy a cheap $20 bookcase at $bigboxstore find the nearest thrift store and buy $20 worth of picture books. Read one every time the child is being out to bed and you’ll figure out which ones go back and which ones become favorites pretty quick. It’s one of the best things one can do for their kids (and once they’re in school teachers can immediately tell what kids have parents who read to them and what kids don’t)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always appreciated Douglas Adam’s take on this:

  The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to take a more The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street approach to the worst acts of humanity, is not that it comes from a place of evil, but instead a place of fear that a very small handful have used to manipulate those who wouldn’t commit these acts otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me when I realized I was more grown up than the adults around me, I realized I could relax a bit and not hold myself to such an unsustainable standard. On the other hand I still have lofty goals for myself that I still strive to reach so I’ll pick up a ton of cool experiences along the way and maybe I’ll achieve those pipedreams or maybe I won’t but either way it beats just stagnating and aging in place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with mostly female friends, all I can think is hell yeah potentially more friends! More natural conversations with an extra body, plus first date is more about vibes than anything so if a trusted friend improves the vibes then bring that trusted friend!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who cares what it looks like? It works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is definitely a risk with that kind of mod. Trunks are designed so that if someone were to become entrapped they can be opened from the inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's really not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s two sides to this really. On one hand there’s folks like myself who spend years hemming and hawing over a $20 purchase and therefore never get the things they want in life because they’re too busy focusing on what’s financially responsible, but then there’s also so many folks who spend hundreds of dollars a month on things they don’t need but struggle to keep up with their savings, loans, etc.

  Some people need to be reminded that it’s okay to buy something for yourself every once in a while, and some people need to be reminded that that doesn’t mean spending $500 every month on doordash and random crap from Temu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There might still be an operating wigwag signal at Devils Lake State Park. When I was last there about a decade ago it was still there and operational (and for revenue service no less!)

  Otherwise the IRM has a really good collection of railroad signals. Many are actually in use on the mainline (so crews have to be familiar with even the biblically accurate railway signals along with all sorts of fun obscure variations. And if I remember correctly as you first enter and cross the streetcar loop and the steam shop/long barn sidings (long enough to store the entire Zephyr trainset on one track, as well as where quite a few cosmetically restored locomotives are stored including multiple articulated locomotives and a DDA40X) there’s a wig wag protecting the crossing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give you the same advise I recently took to heart and started following for my hobbies: don’t wait until you can make it perfect. Start working on the garden you can do right now…er next spring?

  If you start small now, you can start enjoying it now, then you can build up your experience, skills and tools, and once you have the time and money for the epic garden you want, you’ll also have the skills to absolutely make full use of it!

  I’m doing the same thing with model railroading. I’ve been waiting for the perfect time to start on my first model railroad as an adult. A few weeks ago I finally said “fuck it” and bought a door at the hardware store and some mounting hardware. I’ll have a car I can fit a 4x8 sheet of insulation foam into in a couple of weeks so then I can get rolling and start building a nice little starter layout and enjoy that right now. Then later on I can build something bigger and better (plus have more skills and experience under my belt to do it better!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The good news is that soon there’ll be the California High Speed rail line. I’m hopeful that I can make a good long trip over there once it opens in a few years to check it out. Heck maybe I’ll move to California for a year or two? Who knows!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those aren’t necessarily tracks but services. 3 services can share one mainline and several stops. Makes (dis)boarding easier for longer distances if passengers don’t have to change trains after they get out of the peninsula, plus 3 services hitting the same stations means 3x as much frequency along that corridor. Someone going Jacksonville to Miami can pick between the Chicago, LA or New York route and someone going from Miami to LA can just hop into the LA route and stay there until they arrive without changing trains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The above map basically connects every major city in the country with a high speed rail route, makes it easy to travel by high speed rail from any major city in a region to any other major city in a rrhion and standard speed routes to connect some of the smaller major cities and provide alternate cross connections for less populad itineraries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By memory this was a group of enthusiasts realistic dream for a high speed rail network. Basically a possible but lofty goal to lobby for.

  The grey lines would be standard speed rail service topping out at 87MPH (some match current Amtrak services, and I’m going to assume without verifying that the others match existing rail infrastructure because the Venn diagram between foamers and river counters has quite a large overlap)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s a shitpost and AI has come a long way but holy cow it still made a ton of mistakes in that image. Rails are only spiked on one side, perspective changes between the foreground and mid-ground, wrong wheel arrangement for Thomas (he’s famously an 0-6-0, which is established within the first 30 seconds of the first episode of the TV series) no vacuum breaks which Thomas should have, the white house sign can’t decide if it’s a station sign or a sign for the building (styled like a British station sign but it’s the wrong color, wrong shape and half in the grass)

  Honestly I think I’d prefer a shitty image macro of Thomas with a red tie pasted into the Whitehouse lawn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The California railroad museum is definitely one of the best in the country but if you want to see potentially the largest collection with lots of cosmetically and mechanically restored equipment, you have to check out the Illinois Railway Museum

  Of course if you’re more into narrow guage the Colorado Railroad Museum is hard to beat. Or if you just want an epic train ride, take your pick of the Durango and Silverton, the Cumbres and Toltec or the Royal Gorge Route

  Personally I’ve been to the California Railroad Museum (back when they were still Orange Empire), the Illinois Railway Museum, the Cumbres and Toltec and the Colorado Railroad Museum. The IRM is great anytime but especially if you come during an event weekend like Labor Day or Memorial Day because they run their mainline and trolley loop at full capacity during the holiday weekends with as many as 8 trains running at once, but they also have enough accessible equipment even on weekdays when they just run a single electric interurban to make it still worth a visit. The Colorado Railroad museum whelmed me when I was there on a weekday, but I’m sure it’s far more exciting on a weekend or event day with more going on. It’s pretty small but has pretty unique collection (including 3! of the galloping gooses) Cumbres and Toltec was definitely a worthy bucket list ride, and when I was at the California Railroad Museum I joined a tour group, had the entire group split off, so the guide took me off the beaten path and gave me a really in depth tour of literally everything he has keys to and shared a ton of neat information about a lot of the equipment (such as the interurbans that were specifically built to serve one of the college campuses. As he put it “y’know how in Wisconsin bored college kids will go cow tipping? Well here they’d go street car tipping, so they built these to be much heavier so they couldn’t be tipped and ran them exclusively at the campus”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not seen freely available software to split such a workload across multiple machines, but realistically if I did I’d be looking at less performance that if I just got a single used datacenter card (like one of the Nvidia Tesla cards) off eBay for the same price and popped it into a computer, or if I got a single much more modern server.

  I can however cluster them in fun ways for redundancy! Most hypervisors support clustering so that VMs can be migrated to another host if one needs to be taken offline for anything, or if one unexpectedly powes off the others will continue the workload. Or clustered storage where it spreads the storage across multiple hosts for redundancy as well as speed. I definitely want to get some of those old 25GB or even some of those 40GB infiniband cards and run a glusterFS or Ceph cluster to really see what clustered storage can do (I ran a Ceph cluster in a lab in college but it was over a gigabit network so everything was painfully slow)

  But those projects will account for only about a dozen computers at most, so I have to find more projects and more willing people to have these systems foisted upon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a similar boat. When I moved in there were lovely flowers that kept popping up every time the last ones finished blooming throughout the entire season. Then I went back to college and next thing I knew some sort of fast growing something or other has completely taken over all of the flower beds. It’s probably killed everything that isn’t hosta already. My new next door neighbors are clearly shut ins like me and their flower beds have gotten overrun as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a pallet of computers at an auction at a local college for $250 a year or two ago. HP Elitedesk GenIIs specifically (4th Gen i5, 8GB of RAM, 256gb SSDs, and space for add in cards and more drives if needed) I did not expect my throwaway bid to win but it did. So now I have a bunch of computers. I have some projects in mind, but honestly I’ve mostly been tossing them to friends and family when they need a computer for something. Eventually they’ll all be allocated, sold and given away but it’s certainly taking a bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autism has been announced!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully it means more trains. The train autists seem to be less numerous than they once were

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't fit in⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But in the UK half of its illegal and the other half requires land owner permission which pretty much makes it for the rich only as they own the land.

  Weirdly enough this is one of the freedoms that Americans have that doesn’t get talked about enough! The laws in the US make it very easy for any average person to pick up hunting or fishing as a hobby. Basically just fill out a form on the Department of Natural Resources website for a permit, pay the fee, and only kill what you’re permitted to and when and release everything else and you’re golden. There’s tons of public places to hunt and fish (and in many states you can take a boat anywhere the public waterway goes, so if that cuts through private property then you’re allowed to take the boat through that private property because you’re on a public waterway) and there’s lots of land owners have a bit of undeveloped land that they’ll charge a small fee for permission to hunt on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is in boadcasting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’m in the same boat, but if I can stay just 10 years behind I at least won’t be like one of those boomers who only listens to glam rock when I’m their age and still listening to 90s/2000s punk rock.

  I actually learned of The Interrupters when they opened for the Hella Mega Tour at Wrigley Field! One of the twins joked that they’re an arena rock band now and played the opening riff to Sweet Child of Mine while other band members were drinking some water and catching their breath

  Given the bands you listed, here’s a couple of others that maybe you’d like that aren’t new but certainly aren’t as well known or receive much radio play:

  Streetlight Manifesto Crown the Empire Stitched Up Heart

  Honestly I think the real problem is we don’t really have DJs anymore who find those deep cuts to give airtime to and maybe take a small time band and give them to enough ears to grow. I knew a really awesome punk rock band that was stuck doing shows for tips in bars and whatnot that fizzled out despite the incredible talent they had because they didn’t have any real ability to get seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is in boadcasting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been on the lookout for new to me artists and new artists to explore the catalogues of because I’ve realized my music library is very much trapped in the early 2000s and I need to keep finding new stuff so my taste doesn’t become stagnent and boring. My approaches are:

  1. Go through current and former band members of bands I like and see what other bands they’re in and see if I like them (for example the vocalist Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage fame moved on and is now the vocalist for Light The Torch so you can get more of his incredible vocals)
  2. Watch smaller live music venues and see who is performing including who is opening for performers and dig through their music catalogues
  3. Look up all of the bands that play in the morning and early afternoon at music festivals. (This is how I recently learned of The Haunt, a newish band that just released their second album and is brilliant if you catch them live!)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is in boadcasting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love buying CDs but almost never insert them into a drive after initially ripping them to add to my MP3 collection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a car⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  almost all used cars at lots are lease returns or repos. In both cases the car is beat and unmaintained.

  I was with you until this point. You forgot about trade-ins. Dealers love getting folks trapped in a revolving line of car loans especially if they can convince those folks to keep coming back to them every 3 years for a different vehicle to buy on a 72 month loan, max out their debt to income and convince them to buy an ESP or two. With customers like that they can sell cars a bit above market price, pocket the kickbacks from the both the ESP provider and the lender and the finances are kept simple because all of the money is coming in B2B. This requires keeping folks coming back and trading in vehicles before the vehicles are too worn to be worth their effort. It’s scummy as shit and preys on consumers not understanding loan terms, and their fears as they are not knowledgeable of how vehicles work and wear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a car⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it would’ve required him to have a buddy in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone identify this colony formation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has generally had several kicks of revivnig old memes and old meme formats. A few months ago folks were doing the beans thing from several years ago, I’ve seen folks trying to bring advice animals and demotivational posters back, etc.