Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Hotel prices 5 days ago:
Isn’t that a screengrab from one of the muppets films?
- Comment on This is unfair! 5 days ago:
Link for anyone like me who’s one of today’s lucky 10,000
- Comment on I do this all the time when both my hands are full and I'm a bit excited in my pants 5 days ago:
I give that a 50/50 chance that the sign is a prank vs the sign is actually necessary
- Comment on Release the kraken 1 week ago:
It’s a direct reference to At The Mountains of Madness. The penguins make exactly that call in the book and are friendly with the Ancient Ones, and really only present in the story while the humans are in the domain of the Ancient Ones.
Although the choice of showing Cthulhu in the final panel rather than one of the Ancient Ones is inaccurate. Perhaps it’s meant to be a sculpture, since in Call of Cthulhu it was made clear that Cthulhu was specifically the shaman of the ancient ones, meant to wake them when the time is right
Anyways I’d highly recommend reading the stories since they’re quite a unique style and dripping with a mounting, growing intensity. You can even listen on LibriVox. Call of Cthulhu is about an hour long and At The Mountains of Madness is about 4.5 hours long, so one decent car trip’s worth of audiobook basically
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
LLMs have been trained so heavily on Linux documentation that you can even have it hallucinate a Linux terminal at you!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
The “support” most importantly includes security updates. You better bet every hacking group has been working at finding fresh zero days for Windows 10 and is stockpiling them to start hammering any PCs that can’t be upgraded this October
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re vaguely describing a ground effect vehicle, basically a plane which coasts along the water. They’re more efficient than actually flying due to exploiting the ground effect on the lift surfaces, but ultimately it’s closer to a plane than a boat
- Comment on ONE OF US 2 weeks ago:
Rape is never a matter to joke about, and anyone who thinks otherwise is not worth associating with.
- Comment on ONE OF US 2 weeks ago:
The fuck makes you think that’s an okay thing to say?
- Comment on ONE OF US 2 weeks ago:
God forbid men have hobbies smdh
- Comment on ONE OF US 2 weeks ago:
A friend of a friend is dating a dude in prison for being a hitman (needless to say she has terrible taste in men and we’ve told her that many times). He apparently accepted $7k to travel across the country to kill someone then travel again to Mexico to called the payout, meaning probably like $6k all said and done, and all I can think is that’s way less than I ever would have thought one would accept for such a service, especially when I can’t even get a second car key included when buying a car for 2-3x that!
- Comment on Anon starts talking to a girl 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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* 3 weeks ago:
I believe getting fucked is in fact the intention
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 weeks 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" 3 weeks 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" 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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" 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Dude modern needles alone make it so much better
- Comment on I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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…