Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Anon starts talking to a girl 3 days ago:
I’ve learned from my female friends that the bar for men is so fucking low. Basically shower regularly, listen to what other people say, know how to keep your home relatively clean and don’t be a creep and you’re immediately in the top 30%
- Comment on Late 1900s 4 days ago:
My local classic rock station classifies “classic rock” as released >25 years ago. They play Green Day fairly regularly now
- Comment on You're* 5 days ago:
I believe getting fucked is in fact the intention
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 6 days ago:
It would be funny if they struck a deal with Canonical to start offering an upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 using some of the same dark patterns they use with Windows 11
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 6 days ago:
I got a pallet of PCs for about $200 a couple of years ago in an auction I didn’t expect to win. The only thing that stopped me from doing exactly that was the cost of enough cables to hook them all up for that purpose
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 6 days ago:
The prices have already been cratering for anything with 7th gen and older Intel CPUs. Full systems seem to be under $100 now where just a year or two ago they were around $200 or more
- Comment on Anon builds a new PC 1 week ago:
Yeah this is the easy way to do it. My bank even makes it super-easy to spin up separate savings accounts with just a few clicks and then create auto-transfers.
Right now I instead of a set dollar value have it set to transfer 1% of my checking balance into such an account. Usually that’s about $10-20 at a time 1-4 times a week depending on what I’m saving up for. The nice thing about doing percentages is if I’ve spent less than usual in the last couple of weeks it will transfer more, and if we made more/larger purchases it will transfer less
- Comment on Anon builds a new PC 1 week ago:
PC gaming is a really cheap hobby as far as hobbies go. A good experience is only a few thousand dollar a decade
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Oof 32-bit support is becoming less and less on all OSes these days. Debian still has 32 bit releases at least
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 1 week ago:
Dude modern needles alone make it so much better
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 1 week ago:
Dude medical science is progressing at a rate where I might genuinely be able to cheer science on to outpace my natural aging for certain age-related procedures and ailments that commonly afflict people late in life
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 1 week ago:
I remember they were really worried that I wasn’t waking up from my surgery that was scheduled from 7am to 8am. They also scolded my dad for coming in and telling “c’mon get up it’s time to go” until they saw me finally getting up and groaning about it being too early. You’d think it was their first experience with a teenager…
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 1 week ago:
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 1 week ago:
Nah any question about it went out the window when he seig heiled twice on national television without hesitation
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 1 week ago:
Sad thing is, he was ahead of his time. He imagined micromobility about 20-30 years too soon and never got to live to see it take off
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 1 week ago:
According to what I’ve seen on Billiam’s channel it looks like it’s mostly trying to claim various myths and legends are real and intentionally misinterpreting evidence to support their claims. A master class in crafting an argument of misinformation of you will
- Comment on life changed due to shrimp 2 weeks ago:
Having someone who’s dependent on your care can absolutely be a driver for kicking executive dysfunction’s butt! For me it was my first child. She’d wake up in the middle of the night and I’d try everything except for the diaper and save the diaper for absolute last because I didn’t want to change it, and it was just a little wet so it was fine. Quickly learned that was just a waste of time and forcing me to be zombie awake for longer so I finally just stopped putting it off and would change her diaper as one of the first steps of the middle of the night wakeup routine. Routine complete much faster and with much less laying back down and then getting back up.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
Generally the best option is for all property taxes for education to go into one pot to by divided up fairly across all school districts in the state, that way wealthy areas don’t end up with over funded schools while rural areas and poor areas get poorly funded schools
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
It’s more like a tax, you choose to purchase land from the city, and in exchange you must pay the city annually for the privilege of owning the land, and if you don’t for long enough the city might seize the land from you. Could even call it a property tax…
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly asking: what other way would anyone suggest to bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs?
The bigger question is “do Americans actually want these jobs?” According to the JOLTS surveys for the last several quarters there’s about 100,000 open manufacturing jobs that are not getting filled, in a labor market sized about 500,000. Simply put, it’s abundantly clear that people don’t want the manufacturong jobs that do exist
I also saw this from the inside when I worked my last job with a company that does contract cleaning services for industrial facilities. Nobody wants to work industrial sanitation, and they end up primarily hiring immigrants and ex-convicts as they’re the only people desperate enough to take these industrial sanitation jobs. And it’s not for lack of pay or benefits, the fact is the nature of the work sucks!
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 weeks ago:
He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? I’ll
This is exactly what they were the last time around. They poked so many holes in that tarrif policy it was a seive
- Comment on gigachad 3 weeks ago:
Lately I’ve been replaying the campaign in Railroad Tycoon 2 (available for a just few bucks on GOG) and I’ve had just as much enjoyment as playing a full priced modern title. Granted it’s got pretty timeless 2d(ish) graphics and a studio recorded bluegrass soundtrack at a time when most games just opted for midi soundtracks. It’s even got a complete stock market simulation where every action you take affects your company’s stock value, and you as an individual can manipulate the market to benefit your company and vice versa. I’ve had particular enjoyment by personally selling a bunch of stocks to artificially depress the value of another company right before attempting a merger. That and trying to survive margin calls without being forced to sell my 90% stake in every single railroad company that inevitably tanks the value of every single railroad in the game
Pretty dang good for a nearly 30 year old game!
- Comment on gigachad 3 weeks ago:
Are you trying to tell me that this doesn’t look amazing? Look at those lovely hills and fjords! I think I even see a fox poking it’s head out
- Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath? 3 weeks ago:
When my child started holding her breath when tantruming the doctor made sure to tell us not to worry and that if they manage to hold their breath until they pass out they’ll start breathing as soon as they go unconscious. Kids are wild
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 3 weeks ago:
Both WordPress and Ghost support federation to some degree, so that would also enable interaction via the Fediverse!
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 3 weeks ago:
Everyone I know who has a deck absolutely loves it
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 3 weeks ago:
My local arcade has a pair of Crazy Taxi machines and that’s always where I put my quarters
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 3 weeks ago:
Just throwing out a fun game from my childhood, Lego Racers 2. I’ll have to read through later for ideas because I’m in a similar boat in having never really been in console circles and never owned a PS2
- Comment on Meow 3 weeks ago:
Both of my cats came from my in-laws farm and it’s been funny with the older of the two as she needed to learn from another cat how being friendly gets you pets and scritches, meanwhile the younger one who basically came inside as soon as she was on hard food hasn’t had that difficulty
- Comment on Indiana is a great place to hire child labor 3 weeks ago:
The sad part is Indiana is such a nice state. That was one state I’ve visited that I did not expect to like so much
