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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Well, I specifically mean something like the Intel A380 or A310. Both have a 75W TDP and run off PCIe slot power without a connector from the GPU, but yeah, that'd still be spending money on a...

    Well, I specifically mean something like the Intel A380 or A310. Both have a 75W TDP and run off PCIe slot power without a connector from the GPU, but yeah, that'd still be spending money on a fairly low power GPU ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    6 votes

  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I’ve heard (at least like two years ago which is forever in computing, I guess) that the lowest tier Intel GPUs are really good if you just need a low TDP GPU for transcoding video

    I’ve heard (at least like two years ago which is forever in computing, I guess) that the lowest tier Intel GPUs are really good if you just need a low TDP GPU for transcoding video

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair | Official trailer in ~tv

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    As someone born in 1999, something I never really thought about until reading the Wikipedia page for format wars (I think that was it, at least), was that before VHS, there wasn't really a way to...

    As someone born in 1999, something I never really thought about until reading the Wikipedia page for format wars (I think that was it, at least), was that before VHS, there wasn't really a way to watch movies at home at all. That's crazy to me now as someone with a home server with dozens of *cough cough* Linux ISOs *cough cough*.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on ‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: US candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate in some products in ~food

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    Not just profiting from slavery, but child slavery. They're both abhorrent but I feel like the optics of child slavery have to be even worse.

    Not just profiting from slavery, but child slavery. They're both abhorrent but I feel like the optics of child slavery have to be even worse.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on How's everyone doing? in ~talk

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    I hope you feel better soon! A was sick ~3 weeks ago and it was brutal for a week and then just pretty bad for another week before I really felt better. One thing I miss about the peak Covid years...

    I hope you feel better soon! A was sick ~3 weeks ago and it was brutal for a week and then just pretty bad for another week before I really felt better. One thing I miss about the peak Covid years was everybody actually masking and I didn’t get sick for like 3 years straight.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on How's everyone doing? in ~talk

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    I'm going, I guess. This *gestures around wildly at the state of the world* isn't looking so hot and I'm not really sure where my career will be in a few years because of AI, but I guess I'm...

    I'm going, I guess. This *gestures around wildly at the state of the world* isn't looking so hot and I'm not really sure where my career will be in a few years because of AI, but I guess I'm going. Hopefully getting a job offer later today at a new company but I looked on glassdoor and the reviews mentioned a bunch of layoffs last year that I didn't know about so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My company laid a decent amount of people off in December so I guess it's not too different anyways, but I hope I like it (if they give me an offer and I accept it). I've never changed jobs before (well, since high school working retail), so it's kinda scary.

    E: I got the job! A massive pay increase and it's fully remote, which I've really been looking for (I loved it during Covid and felt way more productive, or, I at least forced myself to be more productive at home than now when I'm hybrid). I'm still kind of scared and maybe I messed up because the recruiter said "so what do you think, are you in?" and I was prepared to definitively say yes or no during that call so I said "I think so, yeah" and then she basically asked again and I was like "well it sounds great". Anyways, I'm probably over thinking most of this and the team/manager seemed great during interviews, it's just scary leaving a job you know to one you don't!

    16 votes

  7. Comment on US trade court takes first steps toward ordering tariff refunds in ~society

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    lol of course businesses will get refunds but what about people who paid tariffs themselves?

    lol of course businesses will get refunds but what about people who paid tariffs themselves?

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men

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    Yeah, I fully agree with you. Like, shit sucks for people right now and the wealth gap is growing and social media makes it easy for these alt-right grifters to make money off young men by blaming...

    Yeah, I fully agree with you. Like, shit sucks for people right now and the wealth gap is growing and social media makes it easy for these alt-right grifters to make money off young men by blaming every problem on women/"liberalism". I mean, I guess that's honestly kind of the same reason that Bernie has a bunch of fans, he addresses the issues and puts the blame on the wealthy (which, I mean, is the real cause but anyways).

    3 votes

  9. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been continuing working on my window manager, beansprout, for the river Wayland compositor that I mentioned back on January 28th. Since then, a lot has changed! I moved the project to its own...

    I've been continuing working on my window manager, beansprout, for the river Wayland compositor that I mentioned back on January 28th.

    Since then, a lot has changed! I moved the project to its own "organization" on Codeberg, for one, but I've also started using it as my daily-driven window manager, which is pretty exciting.

    I've also added a basic bar and wallpaper support directly into the WM (with the option to turn off both) and a clone of river-tag-overlay for when switching tags. I've honestly added most of the main features I want/need but there's still a decent list of TODOs that I may or may not get to.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Do you have a PCIe slot available? I'm not sure if maybe that CPU just isn't strong enough to even handle the streaming in general, but if you're just worried about transcoding, I've heard the...

    Do you have a PCIe slot available? I'm not sure if maybe that CPU just isn't strong enough to even handle the streaming in general, but if you're just worried about transcoding, I've heard the cheapest Intel ARC GPUs can handle that really well.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)? in ~music

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    Best concert I've ever been to was when I saw my favorite band ever, The Wrecks, on their first headlining tour. It was the last show of the tour and it was between the end of the semester and...

    A thing I would recommend is also to just find smaller artists

    Best concert I've ever been to was when I saw my favorite band ever, The Wrecks, on their first headlining tour. It was the last show of the tour and it was between the end of the semester and finals during my sophomore year in college. The venue fit like 200 people max, maybe? And it was amazing.

    Nowadays they're a lot bigger (like ~1000 person venues maybe?) but that concert in a restaurant basement was still the best. I definitely try go to concerts when bands I even kind of like come through town and go to any smaller venues.

  12. Comment on Inside the rebuilt Scrubs hospital with Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke in ~tv

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    Meanwhile I was going to start the new season but my girlfriend had never seen the original so now I have to watch through all 8 seasons of that first :)

    Meanwhile I was going to start the new season but my girlfriend had never seen the original so now I have to watch through all 8 seasons of that first :)

    6 votes

  13. Comment on What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)? in ~music

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    It looks like yeah, it is. I think part of the issue is I live in Austin and the music scene is very popular but also most of our venues aren't super huge (and there are lots of tech bros with...

    It looks like yeah, it is. I think part of the issue is I live in Austin and the music scene is very popular but also most of our venues aren't super huge (and there are lots of tech bros with money to throw around). Last year, LCD Soundsystem's shows in Austin sold out in like 5 minutes, but the ones in Dallas still had tickets available for reasonable-ish prices a few days before the shows. For Fontaines DC (exact same venues and same week as LCD Soundsystem, even,) both shows had tickets available week of but they were like twice as expensive in Austin, so I actually drove up to Dallas for that one instead.

    NIN has a few tickets for like $130 but from what I can see on Ticketmaster, they're in the nosebleeds and basically diagonally behind the stage, so I don't really want to pay that much for those seats lol.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)? in ~music

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    Hey, NZ being included in that is impressive :P Nine Inch Nails is playing here literally this Sunday and that's how I've felt about it, though I think Trent Reznor will still be making music for...

    if you consider the world to be London, a few cities in the US and NZ

    Hey, NZ being included in that is impressive :P

    Nine Inch Nails is playing here literally this Sunday and that's how I've felt about it, though I think Trent Reznor will still be making music for at least a few years, I'm just not sure I can justify $400 for a single concert.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)? in ~music

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    I had something similar happened when Catfish and the Bottlemen cancelled a concert (and the entire tour) like 2 days before I was supposed to see them. At least for them, they're still playing...

    I had something similar happened when Catfish and the Bottlemen cancelled a concert (and the entire tour) like 2 days before I was supposed to see them. At least for them, they're still playing some shows, but I think all their shows since them have been in the UK and I don't love them enough to go across an ocean for them.

    2 votes

  16. What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)?

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    For me, the biggest is definitely Modern Baseball. To set the scene, it's 2016, I was in high school, and a girl I was friends with told me about this band Modern Baseball. I liked them a lot, but...

    For me, the biggest is definitely Modern Baseball.

    To set the scene, it's 2016, I was in high school, and a girl I was friends with told me about this band Modern Baseball. I liked them a lot, but I wasn't quite at my peak emo phase (that would come about a year later during my freshman year in college lol), so I didn't get super into them or anything. Anyways, a few months after that, MoBo came through our city on tour and that girl and one of our other friends literally offered to pay for my ticket to the concert if I DDed for them... and I said no.

    Fast forward like 7 months and Modern Baseball goes on hiatus in early 2017, a hiatus that continues to this day, though they played a few one-off shows throughout 2017. Anyways, fall 2017 comes around and I listened to Modern Baseball more and realized I really liked them... but they're on hiatus and I missed my chance to see them!

    Anyways, I mostly made this thread because the fact that I turned down going to that concert is something I still think about from time-to-time and I wish I went, but I'd love to hear if anyone else has similar stories or just stories of bands you wish you could have seen.

    30 votes

  17. Comment on Legacy sequels and remakes you think were actually good and worth making? in ~movies

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    I just finished watching Twin Peaks S3 for the first time yesterday and that was a wild ride. Last Saturday I went and saw Fire Walk With Me in a theater and that was really good, too.

    I just finished watching Twin Peaks S3 for the first time yesterday and that was a wild ride. Last Saturday I went and saw Fire Walk With Me in a theater and that was really good, too.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Norway is a Winter Olympic giant. Why isn't it better at ice hockey? in ~sports.hockey

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    Watching the speed skating is funny because it seems like every skater the commentators bring up some story of how they transitioned from hockey.

    Watching the speed skating is funny because it seems like every skater the commentators bring up some story of how they transitioned from hockey.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Palantir was allegedly hacked, exposing CIA collusion and deep-rooted global surveillance/meddling in ~tech

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    He's mostly known for founding Megaupload and Mega, but he's also a massive conspiracy theorist/racist/PoS, as you've noticed.

    Who is KimDotcom?

    He's mostly known for founding Megaupload and Mega, but he's also a massive conspiracy theorist/racist/PoS, as you've noticed.

    23 votes

  20. Comment on Border czar Tom Homan says Minnesota immigration surge is ending in ~society

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    Good fucking riddance.

    Good fucking riddance.

    15 votes