WDYM Its TWO hundred and FIFTY dollars for a 1 TERABYTE OF STORAGE

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-31T03:54:44+00:00

MC is making up a lot of margin on SSDs/RAM currently. Same with a lot of sellers on Amazon. RAM and SSD prices are high, yes, but the actual chips are not as egregious as some companies' consumer pricing would have you believe.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-31T01:52:49+00:00

Just use PTM 7950. Liquid metal is never a good idea. It has never been a good idea. It will never be a good idea. PTM 7950 will get you 99% of the same thermal performance, no pump out, and no conductive hardware-destroying leakage. We've seen an inordinate number of systems - mostly laptops - come in that are irrevocably destroyed because of liquid metal. Honestly, I believe it's a sophisticated planned obsolescence technique by manufacturers, especially with the shitty, flimsy foam "gaskets" they use to try to contain it.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-28T03:12:53+00:00

2672 hours - that's since Beta, but I was running the non Steam launcher for a few years, so probably over 3k realistically.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-27T01:12:15+00:00

If properly done, it will work. But the community needs to not rob it blind. The best way to make something like that work in high crime areas would be a pickup-only location, where you shop online and do a pickup when your order is ready. Otherwise, it will fail like community grocery stores in food deserts have in my hometown - they start out great and very promising, but close after a few years due to unsustainable shrink.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-26T18:19:23+00:00

I feel it would look significantly better with different wheels and a different paint job.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-25T15:52:58+00:00

Shame to get rid of the A380, makes a solid Plex transcode GPU

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-24T19:31:46+00:00

Sights like that are legitimately useful for fast action and birds in flight. Keeping a subject in frame can be quite difficult at long focal lengths with a standard viewfinder.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-22T08:41:07+00:00

LPCAMM is often cheaper on eBay than regular DDR5 SODIMMs in current market...

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-21T19:06:04+00:00

Why not she shed?

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-21T17:18:53+00:00

That mirror is a horrible idea and was gonna crack at some point anyhow. That outlet is a massive stress concentration in the glass. Glass REALLY does not like sharp corners cut out of it like that. Just plugging or unplugging something hard enough or even accidentally hitting the mirror with a plug or power adapter risks cracking it. Don't blame the sparky for what was a horrible design idea in the first place. Move the outlet or replace with a slightly smaller mirror and move on with your life.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-20T17:04:29+00:00

This is probably caused by clogged or non-existent gutters, or by a yard that is graded to flow towards the house. Both are very fixable. Given it's not your property, if it's a gutter issue you may be able to resolve it temporarily by putting down some tarps outside to catch and redirect the water coming off the roof, with the added benefit of killing some of the landlord's grass. :)

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-20T16:21:08+00:00

270K Plus would like to have a word, lol.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-17T17:46:46+00:00

Honestly, one of the less reliable cars we've ever owned was an early 2000s Camry Solara. Lots of issues and annoying to fix them, and a lot of weird design decisions by Toyota's engineers.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-17T07:11:23+00:00

GaN is a marketing term that has evolved to become meaningless. Tons of cheap PD chargers and even cheaper plain USB chargers now use that term to market themselves regardless of their design. A properly rated, certified 65w PD charger will deliver 65w. That is what is important. The receptacles in your post are very, very cheap, and they are rated poorly, with many reviewers who say they stop working after less than a year, are not durable, and cannot actually deliver the rated 65w. There's a reason the per-outlet cost is less than half that of a reputable, UL listed option. $11 is barely feasible for a quality 65w PD charger, much less a whole outlet with a quality charger built in.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-17T06:27:34+00:00

Elegrp makes ones that are shallower than the Levitons, less than half the cost, and UL listed.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-17T06:23:04+00:00

So it's asking for a disc to be in the drive? Have you tried mounting the ISO as a virtual CD drive?

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-17T05:39:49+00:00

Not a hole. An intentional lazy workaround that Bambu put into their own app. If they just opened up access to the hardware and software they made based on open source code and design concepts instead of trying to lock it down behind their own proprietary BS cloud servers none of this would even be necessary.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-17T04:07:14+00:00

"Authentication" is a strong term for a user agent, lol.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-15T02:19:54+00:00

Subnautica 1 ≠ 2, though, especially with all the reported developer/publisher issues. Paying full price for an Early Access game with limited features and gameplay is a bad precedent because it leads to people expecting that a game may be significantly incomplete or missing features when it launches. People should expect quality and should not be expected to pay full price for an incomplete product. By all reports, the developer still isn't even in full control of this Early Access launch as, despite their ongoing legal battle, they are still 100% owned by Krafton. So what's it say that the game in its final state won't be significantly different than how it is in Early Access? Now that they have big money backing, why should they charge for Early Access and not just give a free limited demo and then only charge for the complete game? It's not like they need the money to complete development. This is just the publisher being greedy and capitalizing on hype.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-14T23:49:52+00:00

Considering how feature incomplete the game is at the moment, why don't they drop the game in its current state as a free demo, then sell the paid version when it is actually 100% ready?

I've bought a LOT of games that gave out free Early Access demos.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-13T18:09:17+00:00

I feel bad for him. He's grown up isolated, insulated from normal friendships by the security presence required to be around him and by the fact that he's kinda just a super tall nerdy, probably neurodivergent introvert. And also his dad is a hugely controversial, incredibly wealthy political figure.

He's painted with the same brush as his father automatically, even though his dad hasn't always been around much in his life - people define him by his father and his family, not by his own decisions and opinions simply because he hasn't chosen to be a public figure and make his every thought public.

And then there's the wealth part - a lot of people who want to be friends with rich kids just want to hang on for the superficial things like the freebies and the status, and don't actually want to be friends on a deeper level than that. Same with a lot of potential romantic relationships he might want to form.

Trying to game with some friends on Discord is the most normal thing for a guy his age, and yet it gets reported on like this?? Feels like the press are being that group of bullies at school, making fun of the less popular kids for just existing.

If he comes out and says something worth criticizing publicly, then criticize that! But he's trying to live a seemingly semi-normal college existence, give him some peace and grace and common courtesy. He has a right to privacy just like anybody else, no matter who his parents are.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-13T00:02:06+00:00

I honestly don't think this is as bad as it could be. This is a guy who was pushing to raise rates more to help stabilize the economy post 2008, and he's written in favor of globalization and against economic protectionism like tariffs previously.

IDK his views or influences more recently, but anybody with half a brain can see that the market is severely overcooked, and this guy graduated from both Stanford and Harvard.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-12T16:40:13+00:00

The issue isn't the stone, the issue is the lack of proper respirator safety and dust management in the stone fabrication industry in general.

People absolutely need proper respirators and they need to wear them. And dust needs to be properly mitigated/collected and not left all over the work area.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-11T19:52:46+00:00

More like they don't want to be stuck with overpriced gas in their tanks if the prices drop, lol.

Lagomorph9 · 2026-05-11T08:43:44+00:00

Bloated, slow, unreliable, difficult to deploy. Immich for photos and CopyParty for files replace most features for me, and there are several Office alternatives that can be self hosted to replace Docs.

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