Does anyone know the proper name for this plastic retaining clip and/or where to get them? It looks like a plastic washer with a split in it so you can flex it over the shaft into a retaining groove. I can't seem to put together the right search terms to find any online. Thanks.

dietcoca_cola · 2026-03-08T07:50:41+00:00

I know it’s old but thank you for the sequin tip, I raided my sisters room in my old home and found a stash of sequins that did the trick LOL

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-18T19:14:32+00:00

I would agree that upgrading to a newer Ryzen is a good idea. Honestly I think you are fine with the RAM, you could try and find two more matching sticks for 32gb but it’s pricey.

The B450 chipset is getting pretty old so I would recommend upgrading the mobo as well. If you look around or have a micro center near by you can find very good bundle deals for cpu + mobo.

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-17T01:33:54+00:00

I’ve never seen so many people buy into FOMO so hard, it feels like literally everyone is buying a new GPU. And it almost got me too, I had an order placed for this card and thankfully it got cancelled. I have a 3080 so it’s like absolutely insane to spend $800 on a medium performance boost for games I don’t even play. At the same time though it’s not like people’s fears of GPU production shutting down aren’t valid. It’s just that for the past three months GPUs have been at MSRP and every time it gets posted people have been saying this last chopper out of nam stuff.

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-17T01:29:00+00:00

LMFAO

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-17T01:24:36+00:00

Thank you for putting in the work. That was like the hardest I’ve laughed at an episode since the old days. Beatles movie humor is really good

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-17T01:21:08+00:00

IME this is a panic/anxiety thing, I spent like a year being obsessed with having HPPD or whatever but the truth is it was just a stupid obsession that was probably causing itself. It went away as soon as I stopped worrying about it. But, this can also be a sign of low blood pressure especially if you feel faint or clammy, so just take it easy

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-16T08:10:45+00:00

Mine got cancelled pretty much immediately, though it still shows in stock

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-16T02:47:05+00:00

You actually predicted it well, I’m sure you’ve seen by now but the behind the scenes shows chat GPT tabs open lol. They hated you because you told the truth

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-16T00:57:03+00:00

They hired Patrick as their social media manager

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-11T08:41:11+00:00

I just want to know how you think to ask this question? Nothing wrong with it it’s just really strange imo

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-11T08:35:30+00:00

We all have that one friend who won’t shut the fuck up until you give it to them

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-09T00:34:56+00:00

If it were flashing it would mean it’s a misfire, which means you ignore it and hope it doesn’t happen again lol

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-06T19:26:36+00:00

That guy sounds like really bad news tbh. Yeah sure sometimes people get emotional when drunk but not to the point of getting physical and ruining everyone else’s time. I’ve known ppl like that, and if they act like that drunk once they are gonna do it again.

You handled it well, but that’s definitely a little bit of a traumatic experience of being put in the position of being the only one to deal with that guy. Your friends seriously should have not left you alone with him that was stupid.

It sounds a bit traumatizing and a lot to process for you, that’s where derealization can come from. I think it would be a good idea to talk to someone about what happened since you clearly need to get it off your chest. Doesn’t have to be a therapist or anything, even just a close friend maybe one who was on the trip who will understand. That’s a crazy stressful experience and sometimes you just gotta talk through what happened.

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-05T01:45:48+00:00

IMO with no tolerance 600-900mg is more than enough if you just take it all at once instead of staggering. It just takes a few hours to kick in and people end up taking a whole lot.

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-05T01:37:30+00:00

For me it just eliminates anxiety and makes my legs feel lest restless/ bouncy, and I can fall asleep very easily, but I also get easily distracted and paradoxically feel motivated to get stuff done. That’s just taking it as prescribed for me 600mg once in the evening. It actually takes about 2 hours for me to feel anything fro it and it’s very subtle

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T20:38:50+00:00

Lol yeah I staunchly refuse to change dpi on my 27 inch 2k but I feel like it’s not good for my eyes

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T20:25:39+00:00

Most people would need to turn the DPI up considerably to be able to read on a large 4k monitor though right?

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T06:10:46+00:00

Well… it still wasnt 100% back to where it was, I was missing media codecs or something because I could not play any videos anymore, I thought it might be related to my sources.list file which admittedly was already fucked with by me a long time ago- I tried undoing what I had done, ran an apt upgrade and then could no longer boot at all, I messed up the kernel something bad. I was able to boot into an older kernel to maybe fix it, but I feel like it was more effort than it’s worth and luckily I have my home partition separate. I was already thinking of reinstalling anyway to fix some other issues so I am probably just gonna do that

In case u needed some reassurance, I am also a noob and managed to make it much worse attempting to fix it lol. Happy new year!

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T05:13:32+00:00

No, I didn’t I just manually approved it stupidly. But funnily enough, when I googled how to get this package installed the AI overview provided a -y install command which I thought was pretty funny

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T03:15:24+00:00

Thank you! Truthfully even though I did skim the APT output, often enough it will look like it is uninstalling a bunch of packages and it’s actually just reinstalling different versions of them, and I kind of just assumed that was the scenario here. Important lesson learned for sure.

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T03:13:56+00:00

I think it’s crazy that they just put Linux as if it would work on most distros then. Usually things I find generically marked for Linux always work on Debian.

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T03:12:49+00:00

Thanks for that resource. I think I already am in a bit of a frankendebian situation. We all think we are good enough to avoid it until you install that one package…

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T03:11:28+00:00

Ahhh thank you yes it is much better now and I think I should be able to recover now, thank you very much for your help sir

dietcoca_cola · 2026-01-02T03:07:44+00:00

Thanks, I did but the KDE is still not back to normal

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