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rabidhamster

@lemmy.dbzer0.com

rabidhamster 10 points a day ago

Everything floats down here

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rabidhamster 2 points 2 days ago

Kinda where the Venture Bros went with their 6 Million Dollar Man spoof.

That's what everyone was meant to think, though I was barely alive after my test ship broke up, but the army saved me. They spent six million dollars to give me all new bionic parts. Made me stronger, better, faster than I was. Then you know what they did? They put me to work! They expected me to pay it all back! Do you have any idea how long six million bucks takes to pay off on a government salary!?

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rabidhamster 14 points 5 days ago

Artillery coordinates?

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rabidhamster 74 points 2 months ago

"What, do you expect society to accommodate your special needs vehicle? You some kind of woke commie?"

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rabidhamster 71 points 3 months ago

Stop advertising your name at the top of every comment.

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rabidhamster 47 points 4 months ago

I built a computer in 2012 with the idea of having 3 OSes to boot from: Windows 7, Mac OS 10.7 (hackintosh), and CentOS.

I partition the drive into three main parts, and install each OS on one each. Except that I had to do it again, because Windows 7 lost its absolute shit that it wasn't on the first partition. Just threw an absolute shit-fit that it didn't come first.

So I re-do the installations, let Windows be first in the partition order, Mac OS second, CentOS third. The next problem was that I couldn't download any drivers on Windows, because it couldn't recognize the absolutely bog-standard network controller on my motherboard. So I boot into Mac OS X, which (with a couple of quick kext edits) already recognized all of the hardware on the mobo despite none of it being Apple or Apple related, download the drivers for windows, throw them on a FAT partition I set up to exchange data between the OSes, and finally get Windows running in about 4x the time it took to get Mac OS running on the exact same built-for-windows hardware I'd cobbled together.

And of course I fire up CentOS, and it was pretty much, "I got this" right off the bat.

I've been using Windows and Mac OS since the late 80s, and linux since about 1999, and I still have never encountered a more fussy OS than Windows.

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rabidhamster 33 points a month ago

Just like the swastika was fucking everywhere for decades before Hitler usurped it. I've got an early 1900s Sears catalog with swastika watches, pins, clocks. All when Hitler was basically a tween.

Point being: Fascists always steal culture, they never create it.

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rabidhamster 31 points 4 months ago

Intel celeron N150?

I mean, yeah, technically it's got more ram, but that's literally the only thing going for it. I've got a mini-pc server with that exact CPU. It's good enough for what I need it for, by my wife's 5 generation old M1 Air from 2020 trounces it several times over in terms of speed, even with 8GB.

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rabidhamster 28 points 6 months ago

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rabidhamster 26 points 6 months ago

I remember it as far back as the 90's. Usually referred to things like SCSI dongles that authorized the use of expensive software like Maya (which was ~$50k at the time), because online DRM activation wasn't really a thing yet. Probably goes back further than that.

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rabidhamster 25 points 2 months ago

Judging by these comments: People do know that lava lamps don't have actual lava in them, right?

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rabidhamster 23 points 7 months ago

HDMI has always sucked. I used DVI for the longest time, because HDMI couldn't push enough pixels to a 1920x1200 display (topped out at 1080p for the longest time). Then jumped straight to display port when I finally got a 4k monitor.

HDMI was always 4-5 years behind other contemporary protocols, and for your trouble, you also got a stack of proprietary bullshit to go with it.

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rabidhamster 22 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I hate that too, but db0 still works for me in literally every other facet.

But the pro gen-AI stance is really at odds with the otherwise anarchist-ish outlook of db0: replacing individual human creativity with something that by its very nature requires large corporations to even run, or just a TON of personal capital to run yourself.

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rabidhamster 21 points 2 months ago

A few fun things Google Maps has done recently:

Going to a friend's new house in a rural area with long, long driveways. Google maps told us to go up their neighbor's driveway, park at their neighbor's house, and walk 1500 feet across a canyon.

Getting to a train station in Philadelphia, you know the kind of place that's had a steady address for probably at least a century: Sent me to a MicroCenter (I think it was) about a mile away. Finally figured out it was because there was a hotel behind it, and a lot of the reviews mentioned convenient access to the train station.

Google audio directions are also garbage if you're relying on audio (like riding a motorcycle). Often doesn't repeat the street name when you have to turn, which is fun when there are two or three streets in close succession. Also seems to pick a random distance from your turn to tell you to turn. Sometimes it's several hundred feet before, sometimes it's only just as you're passing the turn.

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rabidhamster 19 points 2 months ago

GUBMINT INVENTED CLIBBINS TO STOP US FROM CRANKING OUR HOGS GONNA ROUND UP A POSSE AT BINGO NIGHT TO TAKE OUR FREEDOM BACK GOBBLESS

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rabidhamster 18 points 8 months ago

What's wonderful is that isn't even a chainmail shirt. It's loose-knit sweater vest. I'm not sure if they were hoping no one would notice, or if most of us watched it on 480p VHS.

I like to think that his grandma knitted it for him.

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rabidhamster 18 points 3 months ago

Or Meshcore if you're in a fairly populated area.

Everyone should try both, and see what's more established in their area!

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rabidhamster 16 points 9 months ago path: 0 19746140 19746337, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 0
rabidhamster 16 points 4 months ago

Silent gen: Makes all the music that defines half a century

Boomers: We made that

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rabidhamster 15 points 5 months ago

From YZY Prints:

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