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Bahnd Rollard

@ Bahnd @lemmy.world

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  • Is a Dell Latitude 7430 any good for general school stuff?

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  • Perfectly fine, if your worried about the storage get a bigger one and reinstall what ever OS you want on it before you get comfortable (queue linux enthusiests here).

    16gb of ram is the functional minimum for windows 11 and I would not push for an upgrade at the current time. Just be aware of your memory useage, Windows 11, Chrome and Office 365 services are memory hogs.

    For the CS stuff, dont worry, your machine needs to run a terminal. You WILL be connecting to more powerful machines to do the heavy lifting. Leasing AWS time or using machines on your schools network is likely how all that will go.

    Furthermore, its a Dell, so you can throw the service tag into their support site and get the exact parts list and specs (if the bottom is scratched off, its in the BIOS too).

    If you need tech support, just let us know (nerds are always here to help).

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Come give Warmachine a shot, army sizes are usually smaller and the rules are less "my rule book was published more recently, that means I win" (Plus the models are slightly cheaper).

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  • And that for one to become a billionair, one must be completely lacking empathy and compassion.

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    How do you check if a story is written by a human or an AI?

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  • Hm... A likely story, a very human thing a human medical professional would say. Carry on beep poop.

  • What would you consider the ideal "stoner food?"

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  • Do you do what Calvin & Hobs do where the draw a line through the peanut butter jar and only eat from that one side, then scoop from the bottom on the other side, until the last of the jar is the perfect untouched half on top?

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    How do you check if a story is written by a human or an AI?

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  • I dont, I just assume you are all robots. Nice robots, who usually say smart or nice things, but unless I can drive to a place an punch you without breaking my hand... Best to just assume yall are to avoid the disappointment later.

    As for proving to the rest of the robots that im not a robot... For Lemmy, I completely turn off spellcheck and amy grammar assistance. The frequency of errors, poorly constructed sentences and bad use of frequent AI tells is hopefully enough to validate that im beep boop not a robot.

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • Incorrect, a raspberry pi will run off of a phone charger (it will whine at you if it provides less than 2 amps).

    And for some of the projects listed that are meant to be out in the field like Meshtastic, there are plenty of guides to get them hooked up to solar cells.

    In addition, to avoid costs of the RAMpocalypse/data centers butt-fucking the local power grid, reduce, reuse and recycle. Older desktops can run hypervisors like Proxmox or other VM/container solutions to split the work load into a bunch of VMs. (Dell Refurbished has decent deals, if you dont mind scratched up cases, but its beena bit since ive checked them)

    In my case, the same device hosts multiple services split into several VMs, and I just got the backup server taking nightly snapshots. Wont save my data from a fire, but if hardware issues happen, backups are being taken (still need to test them, but thats a problem for future me).

  • What are your top 5 anime shows?

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  • -Gurren Laggan -Trigun -Code Geass -FMA -Tanya the Evil

    For FMA, start with the original, because they spend more time during the opening chapters, and switch to Brotherhood at the exact scene when they vault the labratories fence.

  • What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?

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  • Your just not with it man.

    Oh, I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was, now what I am isn't, and what is it is weird and scary to me. And it will happen to you.

  • 'Very rare': Hegseth landing at LAX in Trump's 'Doomsday plane' sets off firestorm online

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  • I know he is an asshole, but I miss Chuck Norris jokes.

    They were never funny, but they were not funny in a simpler time.

  • Why did you decide to join Lemmy?

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  • I keep it intalled so every time I click a reddit link, the redirect gives me a 403: forbidden error.

  • What's a standalone movie that deserves a good sequel?

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  • For Total Recall, the point was that the state of the film was ambiguious. Were the events on screen the memories bought and paid for, or was it a real spy thriller.

    The remake answeres that question and ruins the entire premice of the film. This is a key example on why these Hollywoo "remakes" are widely panned, they usually miss the point of the origional art and audiences are dumber for it.

  • What song should be the national anthem of your country?

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  • Hey now...

    That song rocks when its played by a proper brass band, it only sounds silly when you make it silly. Otherwise its a good march.

  • What's wrong with Brave browser?

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  • The main issues a lot of the FF purists on this site take with Brave is-

    1. its a chrome fork, which is a hard stop for them, and thats a good enough reason alone to avoid a product given how anti-corporate and anti-google the residents of this site are.
    2. the systems in the opt-in list are still part of the application. There is an anxiety that the developer may decide at a future time that those features are not opt-in/enabled by default after an update.

    So the natural response is to advocate for browsers that simply do not have those features and are open-source so that users can verify rather than trust the dev team to not put features like that in the product. Or rigoursly vet every update installed on your system to prevent that stuff from being installrd in an update, which is not viable for most people... (Run apt update/upgrade and manually approve every package change, we will see you in a few days).

  • Whats the worst baby name?

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  • Who's on first?

  • Anyone miss all the colors?

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  • Note to self, car insurance is run by orks from 40k...

    Because painting things red makes them go faster.

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    Trump supporter apologizes for not heeding the warnings, still a Republican

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  • Thanks... Sorry, venting is helpful sometimes.

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    Trump supporter apologizes for not heeding the warnings, still a Republican

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  • [my response to the content of the post, not the lovely fediverse people]

    Apology not accepted. We appreciate that you finally noticed, but your stuborness has cost everyone dearly. You clearly have learned nothing, as you appear not to be changing your beliefs. You will still fall for the next shmuck to sing about how its ok to be an entitled mouth-breather, and we will do this all again in a few years.

    Have the day you voted for.

  • People who have used dating apps before, what was your experience like?

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  • Ok, ill bite.

    Was reluctantly on Hinge a while back (was 31M at the time). My sibilings twisted my arm to make a profile and helped design it (I dont take pictures of myself so it was challanging to make). Overall expirence was negative to neutral, over ~2 years of minimal useage just to the profile active, threw 15$ at the app to see if it changed the algorithm (it does). IIRC ~12 replies, 3 first dates/meet-ups and 0 second dates. Cant say I put a ton of effort It so I wont lose sleep over anything.

    The shocking part of the whole thing was compairing results with my sister. She functionally did not need to go to the default feed, dozens if not hundreds of contact requests... We had a joke back when she was in college that if she felt like it, she would never have to pay for a dinner (obviosuly that would be a dick move, and she never took advantage of anyone, but the data was there).

    Once it became obvious that the platform was full of bots, dumby accounts, and was noticably trying to prey on desperate people with credit cards, I just moved on. Over all advice, if you find an app thats very new and not owned by match group, go for it, you will likely meet people earnestly trying to make connections. Otherwise, dont bother, go find a date the old fashioned way, outside.