BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 2 days ago:
The entire bench seat :)
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 2 days ago:
I had an old Malibu, and I was backing into an alley and a telephone pole was somehow out of my vision. I hit it full force with the rear bumper. Got out and the chrome was still perfect, and no dent in the bumper…but wow what a jolt.
- Comment on Vroooooom! 1 week ago:
So this week I learned about putting a Prius engine in an Echo, and swapping the intake cam…and wow that thing flies.
- Comment on [2023] Some Transgender Women May Be Barred From Women’s Chess Competitions 1 week ago:
Why is there even gendered chess?
- Comment on It's rigged 1 week ago:
Ours is a sliding rate based on your income. It is a line item on your tax form for the pension plan. For say 75k earnings you’d pay about $4000 to the CPP, employer contributes an equal amount. If you are self employed you have to contribute both the employee and employer amount so about 8K.
The fund has investment managers growing it. But it is still a pyramid of new workers propping up the fund so retired people can draw from it. As life expectancy increases they will probably move retirement age.
- Comment on It's rigged 1 week ago:
I’m not fully versed on the differences, but our Canada Pension plan is invested in various things.
Although, lately has come under fire for investment choices they’ve chosen.
- Comment on Growth and cuck mindset 1 week ago:
You probably still pay the service fee even if you only had water to drink and didn’t buy food.
- Comment on She was churning plastic 2 weeks ago:
Nope. If you bought it new off a dealer they would nag you for maintenance. But if you bought private and were oblivious to maintenance needs there would be nobody reminding.
Personally I don’t get it, because I always want to know how stuff works or care info, but she saw it as an appliance. You run it till you call a repair person
- Comment on She was churning plastic 2 weeks ago:
Many people just throw instructions away. Have you seen IKEA returns. Much of that is people not following the pictures
- Comment on She was churning plastic 2 weeks ago:
When I met my wife she complained the car was often smokey and lacked power up hill.
First think I checked was oil level.
It had none.
So I asked when she had the oil changed last, and she replied with something like “Oil change? What’s that?”
That car got donated to the wrecker for tax receipt program.
She’s not good with details, but also never had a dad or car guy influence in her life to explain what maintenance was all about.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 2 weeks ago:
Its the worst one I have encountered. Typically its just a lot of not caring about figuring stuff out and hoping somebody else can do the work for them.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 2 weeks ago:
That’s the worst one I’ve encountered. Usually its just disengagement. Like they ask for help, our techs start showing them the solution steps, and rather than watching the steps as we go, they are on their phone checking Instagram. Like they think help is somebody else doing their job for them.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 2 weeks ago:
They’ve already made it into the job roles.
I was helping somebody (a professional with a degree) on a software and they were, among other things, struggling to manually tally over ten items with the cursor as a pointer. They kept starting back at 1 and recounting. After many attempts they asked me to count the items for them.
So I had to stop helping and explain they needed to speak to their manager about the issues. 🙁
- Comment on Copper 2 weeks ago:
It’s a monsterlabo case. They used to make a few models that were all heatsink so you didn’t need fans. I think they might have gone out of business because their website has no stock left for ordering, etc. Too niche a product to sustain sales probably.
- Comment on Copper 2 weeks ago:
Its a monsterlabo case, they made fanless heatsink systems…I think they may have gone out of business a few years back because a silent case is very niche.
- Comment on Copper 2 weeks ago:
The case has an opening for a vertical fan but it is not needed unless you do heavy gaming and run a high end GPU. For video rendering and other tasks the fins are rated to keep it at a decent temp.
I have good hearing, and a HDD spinning or even a “silent” fan is still audible droning noise to me.
This build is totally silent. The PSU is over-rated on purpose because it has a below 30% max draw mode that is fanless.
So this case makes 0 noise. - Comment on Copper 2 weeks ago:
The empty copper block is for a GPU, but I’m running this primarily as a silent server so I didn’t bother with the GPU since it has integrated Graphics.
- Comment on Copper 2 weeks ago:
Till it all gets to temp then it won’t do much. It needs some more surface area to covect heat better.
With enough fins you don’t need fans.
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 2 weeks ago:
You are right to be skeptical. They’ll probably send an image link to an infected site, or send an image file extension but its actually something else
- Comment on Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? 2 weeks ago:
Some kind humans keep this site going even though the author passed away. Its a trove of info.
- Comment on May not buff out 2 weeks ago:
That day is probably coming, where you tap your license to start the car.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 2 weeks ago:
Your brain is an electro-chemical machine, it gives of waves and electromagnetic signature. That’s your soul. Upon death if we captures that signature and held it in a containment field (like soul in a can) you could then disgard it because its useless.
- Comment on Is there any other meats that are a good comparison for the taste of venison? 3 weeks ago:
Have you had wild game before? As an analogy wild game is like the difference between iceburg lettuce (farmed beef) or fresh Arugala (Moose). It has actual flavour and people aren’t used to it.
- Comment on usb 3 weeks ago:
Lol. I have a mouse and keyboard switcher that has the USB ports upside down. It is very frustrating.
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 3 weeks ago:
And if that is the situation, at least skip some pleasantries and contribute to a fund that has growth so you can afford rent later in life. That’s the issue I see, people with get to 65 and have a tiny government pension that won’t cover groceries and such, let alone rent
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 3 weeks ago:
This. I was going to mention the depracating property. Our place needs a new roof soon. I have seen people skip it as well as lots of other outside water shielding maintenance and the place is a rotten mess 50 years later
- Comment on It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently 3 weeks ago:
Try the great lakes region during Fish Fly season
- Comment on Large portrait of Hagrid 3 weeks ago:
This is glorious
- Comment on Thanks, little buddies. 3 weeks ago:
It must be a personal issue because I have been a screen starer for 35-40 years and don’t have this issue. One of my kids got itz and the remedy was morning and night eye washing.
- Comment on Thanks, little buddies. 3 weeks ago:
I like the meta of this comment
