there’s a metal band called Zao that’s been around for ages and have had all members replaced. they wrote a song (called ship of Theseus) about it.

even flashdrives have gotten more expensive

AI doesn’t necessarily use ddr tho, they stick to HBM which is a different thing entirely.

I know a dude who has had me fix 2 separate 800$+ DACS and then listens to only YouTube music rips on his 500$ headphones through the DACS. he swears his 1300$ setup makes a difference on his 128kbps aac YouTube downloads…

that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen lol. I’d love the know how audiophiles think ssds work if they think this could actually make a difference.

really cool idea. ty for sharing!

this one doesn’t work quite as well without speaking. but

“how do you think the unthinkable?”

“with an itheberg.” (iceberg with a lisp)

I use a virtual machine with all traffic routed through a VPN as it provides far more isolation than a container.

my Xbox elite series 2 works a treat, just has to stay plugged in unless you wanna spend like 30$ on a dongle sold separately

totato fries with pomato ketchup sounds like a great way to convince someone their having a stroke

definitely reminds me of dnc fundraising emails in a way

I think there have been some pretty major improvements in that sound tech recently. I remember when I was still using windows 10 a few years ago there wasn’t a good way to have two audio outputs. Android only added that a few years back as well iirc. maybe was possible with some major modifications but now it’s all included oob.

all the time. they would tell me they were gonna search my room as I left for school, then the entire day I’d be thinking about what they may find (usually nothing, but they always managed to make a big deal out of something). I’d come home, they’d make me do homework, eat dinner, etc, then they’d finally sit me down. one time my mother found a dried maple leaf for my 7th grade life science project and assumed it was weed lol. then I would get to go piece my room back together as stuff would kinda be strewn everywhere.

I did have some alcohol hidden every now and then in high school but with how often they searched my room I was able to put it in spots they’d never find.

I pay like 10/year for my domain name.

I also have Spotify (I know it’s a shit service but I don’t have the time to collect all the new music I want to listen to as it comes out).

I pay 3/month for f1tv as well which lets you watch replays all the way back to the 80s.

so in total maybe 15/month towards subscriptions.

agreed on games. no horror movie or book has ever made me the same way as the time I found out the AI in alien isolation will learn your hiding spots and kill you if you resuse the same one enough.

my grandmother was a programmer at bell in the early 60s and 70s. really curious if she had hands on any of this. wish she was still around to ask lol.

you only realize how cool your grandparents were after they’re gone.

PC stays on until I find a reason to reboot it. most of what I do is in vms so I’m not that concerned about security patches. it’s at 30 days right now without issues.

similar for the server. everything is in docker containers that I restart once or twice a month. it’s around 70 days right now as I had to rebuild a lot of it due to some catastrophic failures.

my HDD with 80k power on hours is gonna have to keep kicking for now I guess

going through the laguna seca corkscrew on a mini has to feel insane

I meant that devices purchased within the past 8 years or so have hevc decoding now. so even your grandmother who’s known for holding on to old tech most likely has something that will work with it.

just in the past year or two I’ve found that those devices have become common enough for incompatibility to be extremely rare. and the software support is far better within that timeline too. firefox had issues with it as of a few years ago, but it’s become pretty seamless on most browsers and devices.