Underwaterbob

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[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I understand. I throw obscene amounts of money at the cash black hole that is rent. I understand entirely how people think that people who make money simply by sitting on assets they own and otherwise provide nothing to society should be, ahem, obliterated. I just think it's still possible to obliterate them with regulations instead of actual murder.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

power doesn’t just fucking let you do whatever you want.

No, but power can be subverted. Maybe I'm hopelessly optimistic, but I think there's still a non-violent solution.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I get the violent rhetoric, I really do. But, at the same time, I can't help but feel like more people would be more amenable to social reform that benefits the little guy to the mere detriment of the rich, rather than murdering them horribly. I could be wrong, but doesn't history teach us that violent revolution more often just begets more violence than actually solves problems?

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

60s-70s rock is pretty darn good, but like you say, there are a lot of people who think music begins and ends there. They're so wrong.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Works great for me. Definitely not as many seeders as they were during it's heyday, but still a decent number. I've downloaded a couple semi-obscure films in the past couple of months and they downloaded just fine in an hour-or-two even with only one seed.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, for every Pearl Jam, Nirvana, or Soundgarden, there was a Counting Crows, Bush, or Ben Folds Five. Not to mention the boy bands that absolutely dominated the late 90s charts.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is most evident when it comes to music. I see loads of older musicians, producers, and listeners constantly trashing new music, when the reality is there is loads of great, new music coming into existence regularly. It's just harder to find since the tools are so accessible now, everyone and his dog can make a "professional" sounding recording. And then, the top 40 or whatever has always just been the lowest common denominator.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

That's encouraging. Wind Waker might be my favorite.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Hmm. That doesn't sound particularly enjoyable. I haven't played a Zelda game since Skyward Sword, and that one really rubbed me the wrong way. Formulaic and dull. I suppose that's why the next entry made such drastic changes. I might just emulate BotW someday to see what all the fuss is about.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I've got it up and running in Yuzu with prod.keys 18.0. At least I watched the opening cinematic. Not that interested in playing. Just seeing if it was true.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

LOL at people worried about spoilers for a Zelda game.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

The best I can figure is that the 4M$20 track was popular on a streaming service that pays better, and vice versa for whatever reason.

 

So, my work machine was getting long in the tooth. Occasionally not booting and requiring me to jiggle memory sticks or tighten CPU cooler screws. It was a DDR3 machine with a Xeon E3 1230V2 with 8gb of RAM (and oddly enough an RTX 2060.) The fans were getting pretty loud, too.

I had a Ryzen 2600x and 16gb of DD4 from my home PC lying around, so I bought a cheap mainboard, tore the old one out of the case, attached all the hardware to the new mainboard - including the SSD with Mint installed - and BOOM! It booted first try without issue. Even going from Intel to AMD, DDR3 to DDR4. My mind is blown!

I can't imagine how borked my machine would have been if I'd tried that with Windows.

Now, what do I do with a still-working Xeon and mainboard?!?

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