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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Boobs are the milk of human kindness. Testicles are the seeds of evil.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Yeah and if you have alcohol you wait eleven minutes for the one employee who is supposed to be helping, to actually notice there are people waiting. Then she realizes five people need help. Gets the cigarettes for the one guy but it takes three trips to the cage and back to get the right ones. Helps the lady with the coupons they grabbed the wrong items for. Helps the really old person who can't even stand scan and bag all of their groceries (why were they in self checkout anyway?).

Finally comes over to my white-bearded ass after 20 minutes and they could just hit the "customer is over 40" button, but they want to see my id. Yeah I'll just wait in line for the one cashier.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Spring is very unpredictable in many places. Could be freezing, could be hot. Could have terrible damaging storms. Maybe all three in the same day. I'd go with October 2nd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Additionally, Lemmy would be a hostile place if you happened to be a conservative-leaning Linux user. I know quite a few, but they aren't on Reddit either.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Not only is it AI, but also floating away in disgust is actually a reaction.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago

I'd buy a Tesla honestly but I can't afford one. I can't afford a gas shitbox either. When my car gets too expensive to repair I'm going to be so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't like fish, but ill eat fish if I'm hungry. I don't like squirrel or cat, but I'll poach and eat anything if there aren't other options. I don't like your uncle, but if I'm starving...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It would be cool if it was an option everywhere. I've cycle commuted. Hell I commuted on a skateboard for two years. But it is not an option where I live now. We can't let mandates get ahead of real world options. Let's make it an option everywhere. The next Dem president will champion this, right?

Right?

Edit just realized this was posted to the europe community. I've lived there a couple of years. You're light years ahead of anywhere else in the world on this stuff. Good job! But don't forget the rest of the world needs at minimum a few decades of massive infrastructure investment to come anywhere near what you already have. If we punish people for not riding bikes where riding a bike is impossible, we only lose support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that? The Wikipedia page about it doesn't mention it and mentions other sources, which I guess could be tied to the heritage foundation but even clicking through links I couldn't find any connection.

I'm not saying there isn't plenty to criticize about the concept and where they place particular individuals. That's just the first time I've heard this claim, and I'm curious about it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

On the political compass subreddit they called them watermelons - green on the outside (libertarian left), red on the inside (authoritarian left). I realize they're not really left at all, but the authoritarianism is baked in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Naw, separate machines. One for VR, opening my office Access files, the Adobe suite. And another one with Linux I use for most everything. Dual booting is sometimes problematic.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

My son has my family's oldest gaming PC, it's an i7 4790 with a 1660 TI and 16GB DDR3. It wasn't booting the last couple of days. I had time to look at it so we disconnected everything and threw it on the table with some good light and connected it to power so I could see what it was doing.

It was clear his three case fans were all dying, one was completely dead. One was in poor condition and one was starting to make noise. I already had extra case fans brand new in box sitting in my house, but I assumed old fans weren't what was keeping it from booting.

We removed all three bad fans, and with the case wide open, both sides front and top removed, I blew it out a little bit with canned air. It wasn't that dirty, just a little bit of dust came out. I checked with my fingers to see that the ram seemed seated and that all the connections seemed okay, but I didn't disconnect and reconnect anything, I just touched it.

I turned on the PC with no case fans (only an old CPU cooler connected) and it booted up. So we installed the three new case fans, and tested it again. It booted up again. We put it all back together and connected all the peripherals and it's working absolutely flawlessly.

So I am asking a question, but I want you for context to know that I have repaired hundreds of PCs, maybe close to a thousand. I have never fixed a boot issue by replacing case fans. I have read that some 20+ year-old PCs maybe would have that issue, but from what I understand a 12-year-old PC should not have boot impacted by case fans. So here's my question: was this just a ghost in the system, or is this actually possibly a real thing?

TL:DR We fixed his computer with three new case fans and the tiniest bit of canned air. Help me make it make sense.

 
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