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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?

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  • Whenever I hear a running hit and miss engine it brings a smile to my face, similar with small stationary steam engines. There's a club in Baraboo WI that does a big meetup once a year where there's just tons of early tractors and stationary engines powered by all sorts of different types of combustion with all sorts of creative new engine designs that stopped being viable around the time of the first world war. I haven't been able to go most years but it's really incredible to see so many wonky engines wirring and popping and hissing and clanking around, all while struggling to reach the performance of a present day lawnmower (and not a good one at that)

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • They have a slim chance if they keep subsidizing VR headsets to hold a and luceative chunk of the VR market when that actually takes off. VR is genuinely cool enough that enough people will get hooked once they experience a headset on their face with a VR experience that jives with them

  • Americans that have moved to Puerto Rico, what's it like and would recommend it?

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  • In my late night brain-to-keyboard dumping I forgot to specify it would be for a couple of years that I'd want to live somewhere like Puerto Rico or Alaska so that I can have that experience under my belt. It's a thought that's danced around my brain for a while as a "what if"

  • Americans that have moved to Puerto Rico, what's it like and would recommend it?

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  • In short, money. My career is taking off and I might be in a difficult place to match my current income in the EU for example. When I've looked at listings for jobs similar to and a step above where I'm at and adjusted the income for the exchange rate it would be half or even less than I could expect to make in the States. It's not a good place to live if you're poor, but it's a great place to live if you're in the upper-middle class which my current career trajectory might well put us into by the end of the decade.

    If there's a sudden boom in prison construction in the next few years I'll reconsider of course

  • Americans that have moved to Puerto Rico, what's it like and would recommend it?

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  • The thought crossed my mind as well as "what if I did something crazy and sold everything and moved as far away as I could without the logistical challenges of changing countries" and who knows, maybe I'll seriously consider doing that once my grandparents pass away. There's bound to be someone looking to hire an IT person in Puerto Rico for a year or two. On the other hand I'm sure there's a lot more heat and sun to deal with which I'm not a huge fan of...so Alaska maybe?

  • Even the ones that trick you by starting out cheap

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  • Over a decade+ that's not horrendous. I've probably spent around $2000 on computers for gaming in that same period. I know people who've dropped far more than that in a single day for their hobbies so gaming really is a pretty cheap hobby

  • M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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  • New business idea!

  • M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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  • You raise a good point

    Honestly for me it's muscle memory from the Windows 95 days of "it is now safe to turn off your computer" but I also don't trust the OS to correctly interpret the ACPI signal sent by the power button 100% of the time. Obviously I'm not an average user, but I could see where an average user might consistently single press the power button to turn off a computer

  • M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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  • Well like a lover you must reach behind and underneath to turn them on!

    ...I seriously do not like Apples design language that basically requires me to fondle unseeable parts of the computer to find the power button. Too much risk of spiders back there!

  • M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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  • Dare to be Stupid?

  • Matrix 2.0 Is Here!

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  • I need to give Matrix another try

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  • Depends on the shelter. Some are gender specific, some are simply there to help anyone who needs it

  • October 14, 2025...

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  • Yeah the one saving grace is it's a very long lifespan compared to all other computing platforms, plus one can actually install an alternative operating system or even hack Windows 11 to install in an unsupported manner, but it still means millions of computers going to the ewaste bin

  • October 14, 2025...

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  • Unless something has changed they took an axe to all 7th gen and older Intel CPUs and Ryzen 2000 and older AMD CPUs. This is the big challenge since this includes some very capable systems that are now just ewaste because Microsoft didn't want to maintain compatibility all the way back to the Pentium 4 and Core 2 Duo and cut off platforms that still have life left in them

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  • In recent months YouTube has been suggesting content that screams "meninist/right wing onboarding" so if I just watched whatever it recommended I might be in a very different place right now...

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  • My biggest problem with short form content is I want to pick what I'll watch based on the uploader, title and thumbnail, not be algorithmically fed videos I may or may not be interested in. All of the video providers are going straight for the algorithm so I have zero interest.

    The algorithm won't know what kind of content I'm in the mood for so I want to be in control to choose. The algorithm also likes to try to feed me content by some creators who aren't worth my time and I don't want to watch one second of their videos

  • The Stop Wall Street Landlords Act has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Ro Khanna. The bill would raise taxes on the purchase of single family homes by private equity and corporations.

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  • Worth noting that private equity only owns a very small percentage of homes in the country so while this would have impact, it's not going to change house prices, it simply might make the line take slightly longer to go up. What will impact housing affordability is simply building more housing. Eliminate single family zoning and replace it with a residential-compatible zoning that allows for quadplexes, ADUs and quiet businesses.

  • Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner dies after plunging into empty swimming pool on lawn mower

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  • They even make mini tractors for those with acreage too. Handy for attaching different attachments to as needed, but obviously only necessary if there's enough land to require it

  • Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner dies after plunging into empty swimming pool on lawn mower

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  • I firmly believe there is no such thing as a true “accident”

    I've been teaching my kids that "accidents happen because either someone did do something they shouldn't have or they didn't do something they should have, and it's important to learn from accidents and near-accidents to avoid them in the future"

    It's incredible the number of adults I encounter who lack this wisdom and just shake off accidents as random chance without seeing the choices that led to them