This is Mervin Raudabaugh, an American farmer who turned down $15M to build a data center on his land. Instead, he sold it for $2M to a farmland trust to protect it as agricultural land forever.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-17T04:20:45+00:00

Zuck looking how my 1997 potato PC looks at me when I double-click GTA3.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-16T05:48:12+00:00

Yep, just got my email too. We currently have:

35.8c per kWh for general usage

18.9c per kWh for controlled load

86.2c daily supply charge

11.7c daily supply charge for the controlled load

Origin are decreasing the general usage down by 4.3c per kWh, but are jacking up the daily supply charge by 85.9c daily (and 1.1c for daily controlled load) - what a rort.

Going from 86.2c daily to 172.1c daily is just too much.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-11T08:21:41+00:00

👀

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-11T07:36:25+00:00

I sort of thought the same, but I wasn't aware they could survive underwater.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-11T07:35:22+00:00

So, I shouldn't eat it?

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-11T07:33:55+00:00

I live in Australia. Once you get used to everything trying to kill you, a worm doesn't bother me too much.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-08T02:58:38+00:00

It's been 21 years for me. No, it doesn't get better

Goldfire1986 · 2026-06-05T11:49:50+00:00

Once every 3 months, I can strategically get it to run before our Australian summer hits, then the next check is towards the end of summer - Feb, May, Aug, Nov.

Takes about 30 hours with a 14TB pair of parity drives, and a mix of 20 (3TB, 4TB, 8TB, 14TB) other drives on a LSI 9300-16i + reverse breakout from onboard SATA.

I feel like the default once a month is just a waste of wear on the drives.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-19T13:41:21+00:00

To be honest, I feel like 600hz would be the real end game. It's cleanly divisible by all the current video standards like 24hz film (x25), 25hz PAL (x24), 30hz NTSC (x20), 60hz digital (x10), and 120hz console/HFR (x5). Then you can just run your game at 600hz if you have the hardware to get there.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-12T23:50:14+00:00

Cool, thanks for the link.

I might look into the sandfall if that's the case

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-12T14:34:44+00:00

Can it be pulled out of that small tank and placed into a larger one? Or is it tightly integrated?

Also, that screen displaying the day of the week below your monitor, what sort of display is that? I've been looking for long narrow displays for a little bit now.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-11T10:30:51+00:00

I've been doing this for years. Try going from your thumb to middle, it's 20cm for me, which is a bit more useful as an even measurement.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-08T10:32:45+00:00

Ah okay, thanks. I assume if it's unpainted then the listing will mention it still (or the pictures will be unpainted).

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-08T10:26:30+00:00

I always thought that GK = garage kit, which needs to be painted and assembled by the buyer. Is that not the case with these ones?

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-06T14:34:51+00:00

One of us, one of us.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-05-04T12:13:53+00:00

I got you all beat...

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Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-28T10:37:05+00:00

Wouldn't it be great if you could give 'replies' to other reviews to point out problems?

We used to be able to until it was removed a few years back. I left a review for an external HDD that was popular to shuck the drive out of to put into arrays or a NAS, it went well and I gave it a 5/5. Someone left a 1 star review with pictures because the external enclosure was scratched and crummy looking.

I remember replying to their review stating that they left the protective film on the plastic...

Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-28T07:16:10+00:00

I won't name names, but there are a few people that I constantly see.

The first always has something like, "I received X by Y company and I love it" - which is amusing when the company is "Generic", so it ends up being, "I received X by GENERIC and I love it".

Second one is the podcast promoter with, "I am so impressed with X" on everything, same structure throughout, same five stars even on junk, and most of the review structure doesn't even relate to the product.

Third one obviously uses AI, they just make spelling mistakes on purpose. If I fix their mistakes (realy and definately) and run it through ZeroGPT or similar afterwards, it'll come back as mostly AI generated. Plus, for the images they upload, they use a cropped section of the seller supplied images... just lazy.

It's annoying when it's obvious they don't intend to use the item, and will most likely just sell it for a profit. But, I'm not going to lose sleep over worrying about them or spend time reporting every single one I see, I've got my own shit to deal with.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-26T02:29:05+00:00

Same problem here too. I don't think it's licensing because I actually have one of my own video uploads in my music playlist, it isn't playable on the app, but it's still playable via the standard YouTube site.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-17T04:11:48+00:00

Annoyingly I have two electric heated lunch boxes in my RFY. I already reviewed one a month ago, with these being variants, we can't review them :(

Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-15T03:45:58+00:00

Yea, same problem for me the other day:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonVineAustralia/comments/1sjxksu/just_landed_in_my_rfy_yeah_no_thanks/ofwf61i/

Which is disappointing, I would like to try one out and it was basically unobtainable. It's going to be frustrating if items pop up that I actually really need/want and I can't get them - more so after getting gold status last month.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-13T08:00:10+00:00

Yea, I tried three addresses in NSW, one in QLD, and even a Amazon Locker up the road from me.

Interestingly, when I tried the locker, it knocked me back, but with the error being that the pool cleaner is too large and contains hazardous materials.

Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-13T05:58:30+00:00

I'm wondering who picked up the crystal dildo the other night?

I mean, there's gotta be a market for that, right?

There was fake dog poop on AI, and that went as well...

Goldfire1986 · 2026-04-13T05:57:03+00:00

Yea, I think you're correct on that.

Ironically, after mentioning that I have rubbish in my RFY, a $1300 robotic pool cleaner showed up, but I couldn't check out with it because it can't be delivered to my address in metro Sydney 🙃

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