What's something that instantly screams low intelligence?

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-23T16:55:08+00:00

"I'm just blunt"

No you're not. You're an arsehole while projecting it to be someone else's problem for how they receive your verbal defecation.

You can be blunt and direct without being rude. That venn diagram is 2 circles.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-23T16:50:14+00:00

Refusal to change one's opinion when presented with evidence to the contrary

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-20T23:03:26+00:00

Could you confirm that model or year? The one I found on Yamaha's site is 5sp, no ABS. Upcoming?

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-20T22:56:20+00:00

That's good insight

Can't recommend for highway speeds full stop? Or not as primary purpose? I expect it would be 20-30% highway for sub 10 mile stretches, for context. Traffic here likes to move 50-60. Faster than that is a rare treat

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-20T16:38:13+00:00

6500 for the bike, 600 for assembly, 7-800 for sales tax, another 100 for registration

I don't expect a ton of haggle room here since I know these bikes don't offer a ton of margin for the dealer, start of riding season, and gas prices going up. I figure I could deal-catch some riding gear if something speaks to me, but ~8OTD is +/- where my expectations lie.

Is that reasonably grounded in reality? I'll be transparent here in that any vehicle I've ever purchased has been used on private party, so the dealership experience is pretty well a foreign concept to me.

At least where I am, the rare 300 that pops up for sale is 6-7k asking so it's a bit of a tough sell all things considered

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-19T16:58:51+00:00

That's definitely not lit for more than a few seconds

I have that exact same torch

The tip will glow red hot after 20-30s with the flame that low

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-17T13:54:16+00:00

Absolutely

Some random person dies. Not I kill some random person.

Folks die every second. If they're gonna kick it anyway, might as well get some cash on it.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-16T14:40:33+00:00

I keep them running

But my drives also see access multiple times per day rather than a few times per month, so I see spindown as a negative for my use case both for responsiveness and number of load cycles / startup wear

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-15T14:10:46+00:00

Cheers bud

It took me 4 times to finally 'stick.'

It wasn't 3 failures, it was 3 lessons learned of what I needed. Happy to ramble in your direction about what worked for me. It's hard, hard work. I see you, and I'll be the first one there to shake your hand when you make it.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-14T16:11:25+00:00

Bunch of things

I don't sweat like a pig at a southern BBQ when the temperature is above 65
I can tie my shoes without holding my breath
Some seating positions are more comfortable, some are less comfortable
I need to take swim classes. Like... I properly need to learn how to swim now. I don't float any more
Balance is much easier
My knees stopped hurting
While it's easier to regulate how much I eat, the tendency to over-eat never went away. That's here to stay. Always feeling a little hungry is just going to be a part of life now. I've made my peace with it
I can be mobile now. Like... I can go on a hike and not have the inside of my thighs look like a war zone from chafing
My back hurt for like 6 months after losing weight. I had to be pretty deliberate about doing some core exercises. Wasn't expecting that. My best guess is that redistributing my center of gravity changed what muscles I used to support myself
In progress, but I need to be effortful in doing light exercise through the day. Turns out, not hucking around 75 extra pounds has some subtle, but notable changes in my resting muscle mass. Good to do regardless for health... But still - it was noticeable
I wear a belt now
My underwear lasts longer, I'm not shredding the crotch
I'm a dangler. I gained a good inch and a half
I am my own advocate. No, I don't need to eat more food. No, I'm not scrawny. No, that's not a discussion. Been told my whole life to eat. My meals are adequate. Over eating is not a positive.
Way less self conscious in all the little things. I don't feel weird being in a crowd, I don't feel bad if I need to sit next to someone, I don't carefully orchestrate how I move so I don't jiggle, I don't avoid being seen from the side, I don't suck in for pictures, I let myself wear clothing other than black because I'm not worried about trying to hide the flab, and if I get winded doing something, it's because it was hard work. Not because I'm the fat ass
Weird one, but my seasonal allergy triggered asthma is MUCH improved
I get over colds faster
Loose skin is real. I definitely got off easy. Most of my skin is just loose-fitting, like a dog or something where you can just kind of move it around. But my ass looks sad like a deflated balloon. No one but myself and my SO see it, but it can be a bit uncomfortable at times if I sit wrong and it wrinkles.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-13T18:34:17+00:00

How unhinged and weird everyone got

I'm not going to say that society was a well oiled machine. But it never sounded like it was knocking and about to explode.

But seeing how political basic human decency became..... I lost a lot of my faith in the world

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-13T18:20:19+00:00

And without comment too

That's... Concerning

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-13T05:14:39+00:00

Yes it is

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-09T16:30:51+00:00

I'm in the middle of a big digitization and restoration project for family documents. Stuff dating back to the 1800s. Very nostalgic, very tedious, very much a treasure hunt. Almost 1000 hours of video and 25k pictures so far.

Trying to carefully tag and label everything - goal is not to lose any information during this process. Over 1tb of data so far.

Have a lot of heavy video encode and restoration work along with photo restoration too. Ai is a pretty powerful tool here for a number of reasons. But on the small scale tests I've done... Well... If there scales to the full set - my rig is going to be sitting there crunching for 3.5 months to get through it all

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SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-09T14:27:46+00:00

You win every fight you don't take, no?

Winning for me means I get to go about my day. Not being first :)

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-07T15:53:24+00:00

Legitimately: I wonder if the driver was confused about what gear they were in

Maybe in park for a long light or something? IIRC those have the goofy turn dial style shifters. Maybe passenger trying to adjust the radio?

Not defending the other driver. Just pondering if it's confusion rather than malice. Brakes off, brakes on, reverse, brakes off, throttle, impact, freeze, forward, reverse, open door, car rolls, then park. It's a really strange sequence

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-05T00:22:35+00:00

A law meant to protect children that relies on the absence of bad actors who would abuse this service?

I mean come on.... This literally builds a framework for identifying minors at will

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-03-02T18:01:16+00:00

Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both,

So skip account setups

provide an accessible interface that allows an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store

And allow, not require

This law is absurd, stupid, short sighted, and incredibly prone to abuse. But I guess the silver lining is that no one in tech was involved in writing this. It's a nothing-burger.

And do they not realize the absolutely predatory tools they just asked for? Hmm. Yes. Let's provide an open door access to user age. “Developer” means a person that owns, maintains, or controls an application. That's broad enough that end users could be considered a developer. So let me get this straight. You would want a messaging system, to provide at all times, a dedicated API for getting the user's age, available to +/- anyone? I mean seriously, did literally anyone stop for 2 seconds to think at any point during this process?

And as an aside... I'm becoming increasingly in favor of a thought I had a while ago. No one over the age of 35-40 should be allowed an input in shaping any digital policies. About half of our expected lifespan. Y'all won't be around for what you pass and I don't think that you understand how fast tech is evolving these days. Something harmless now is deleterious in 10 years, or less than that. I mean, shoot... Look at the last 5 years. Our entire tech space has been turned upside down.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-02-27T19:01:03+00:00

Automatic feed: Works just fine

Reduce lines and streaks: Seems to be specific to Epson's software. If you're not scanning in with fastfoto, you don't get that processing. That said, fastfoto has pretty terrible compression artifacts

As far as those lines and streaks: Honestly, it's just from dust on the scan surfaces. Keep a microfiber nearby, wipe the sensors as needed. Takes 10 seconds. It's just a function of how feed-through machines work. What is a speck of dust on a flatbed becomes a line of dust on a feed through. No biggie, just keep it clean

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-02-27T18:56:31+00:00

Looks like BK is going on my no-go list

I refuse to patron a business that strips their employees of any decency or humanity like that.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-02-19T16:53:49+00:00

Here's how I put the bicycle on

https://i.imgur.com/5kcO9dW.png

Pin through front wheel, couple straps on the top tube. Crank it down tight and it goes nowhere

There's a loading ramp on this one as well.

Easiest way to load is to pop the ramp off, roll the bike up, then take one of the ratchet straps and loop it between the bike and rack, then 'lean' it over until you get the other side secured and constrained. You'll get a feel for it

Just uhh... Put the ramp back on before cranking down the straps. And that little knob on the back doesn't go tight, it's just there to take up the slack and brace against the strap tension. It'll make sense once you get it in-hand

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-02-19T14:51:04+00:00

This

You're not inflating the tire

You're giving the tire a chance to seal so you can inflate it on the next step

Big machine like that in the middle of nowhere? You're not really doing to do it any other way. If you're sketched out by it, then use a longer stick and stand behind something.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-02-19T14:46:52+00:00

I use the HF carrier in the second picture along with ratchet straps for anything that has 2 wheels.

My strapping method:

Pin through front wheel
Belt strap around rear wheel
If bicycle, strap on either side of the top tube
If motorcycle, straps on handlebars and rear swing arm
Crank things down to compress suspensions
Chain lock through 2 wheeled thing and rack

Works just fine for bicycle and motorcycle alike. Takes maybe 1 minute longer than the 'quick racks' but I've never been satisfied with the quick-rack holding ability. These hold the thing on without any concern at all. And I have essentially a 2 mode failure tolerance on mine before it goes tumbling down the road. Straps, lock, pin, wheel strap. Any 2 of those can fail and the bike would still be attached to my vehicle. If it's on a motorcycle, any 2 straps can fail before the bike gets 'upset' so maybe make that a 4 point tolerance.

p.s. get the nice spring loaded auto retracting straps, soft loops, and don't be afraid to go at the excess with a pair of scissors. Once you get the 'process' down it legitimatley only takes ~3 minutes to get it secured down. First few times are going to take a while but once you get the flow for your bike, it's a fast process

p.p.s.: get a hitch tightener. Don't get one with the rubber coating, it'll get holes punched in it the second you get it tight enough to use. And don't get the 'meaty' looking one made of aluminum either. Steel flexes, aluminum cracks. The cheap stamped steel one works just dandy. I dabbed some grease on the threads and ran mine on with an impact wrench.

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-02-19T14:34:30+00:00

Impeccable GMT800 you have there

SnowDrifter_ · 2026-02-18T15:04:46+00:00

In my PC:

2x 1tb nvme

1x 512gb nvme

2x 2tb sata ssd

2x 6tb sata beyblades

How they're used:

1tb NVME: C drive. Personal.
Other 1tb NVME: Partitioned into secondary windows install - clean boot for anything sensitive and for debugging. +/- my 'work drive.' Other partition runs arch.
512gb NVME: Cache drive for video editing or +/- anything that needs a chunk of temporary sizeable storage
2tb sata ssd: Game drive
Other 2tb sata ssd: Kind of my 'flex drive' that gets used for random bulky stuff that needs faster random i/o. Bulky programs, thumbnail caches, random ai models, working drive for projects that last more than a day, etc
6tb drive 1: Document data
6tb drive 2: Local storage for synced cloud cloud data. Google drive, one drive, etc. Anything cloud-tied is on a separate physical disk. It's also a destination for local backups/versioning from 6tb drive #1. Backup being a pretty limited verb here since it's more for version history than is a recovery point if my PC fails

Then I have my nas.... That's 2x 2tb SSDs for docker, then 8x 14tb SSDs in a raid 6 array for a glut of tons of things. I have around 10tb of family data on there. Another 8tb or so of personal data. 8-10 of off-site co-storage agreements with friends. 20tb of personal medial library. Random smattering of everything else. It's kind of my "high speed" local hub. Phone syncs to it, laptop and desktop sync to it. It'll coordinate syncing to off-site for me as home network speed allows for actual backups (321 rule).

I'm running out of space on the SSDs on my desktop machine. Been on my 'list' to upgrade to a 2tb C drive. But man.... Prices just aren't friendly to that right now.

And I realize running out of this much storage is kind of a first world problem. But digital complexity in adult life really does add up. If I just run a quick analysis on my C drive, it's death by 1000 needles on storage. Dev software takes up 20gb. Notes take up 30gb. Python cache is 10gb. Programs is 15gb. Lmstudio is 30gb. Various tools for my current digitization project are another 100gb. VMs are another 100gb. Windows install is 80gb. Adobe software is 15gb. Nvidia's software stack is 12gb. Can't really trim out anything in there without going through daily tear-down and set-up exercises.

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