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by duffyjp 2y ago
I lived in rural Japan for two years, and there were a number of akiya in my town and this was 20 years ago. I wasn't aware property taxes are higher on vacant lots but that explains things. The akiya I saw were 100% beyond repair, t
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by duffyjp 2y ago
You're giving me ideas-- My oldest is nine and that's probably around the age when I first got my own computer (a 286) and dove into QBasic. There's no way he'd choose to spend time in BASIC unless it was his only opti
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by duffyjp 2y ago
In elementary school my uncle gave me his old LASER 286S. It was too old for all the games my friends played so I mostly just farted around in QBasic all day. I really wish I still had that system and all my BASIC scripts but those are lon
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by duffyjp 2y ago
I went to UW Madison and now work there and know someone who did a rotation at IceCube (doing tech support). It would be a really neat life experience but Wisconsin is already too cold for my taste. What they do it totally out of my field,
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by duffyjp 2y ago
We switched from MySQL at work probably ~5 years ago. Half following the hype, and half because we had a couple instances of DB corruption on MySQL and weren't ever able to determine the cause. Postgres has been great, and it's f
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by duffyjp 3y ago
That was a fun read. I fired up a Valheim server for my kids (and me, let's be honest) and it censored part of the word "Basement" in my server name. :)
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by duffyjp 3y ago
False memories are incredibly easy to induce in kids, but the opposite is also true. I've found with my kids if I periodically and repeatedly ask about events that occured before they could even talk it cements those memories more com
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by duffyjp 3y ago
You mean you didn't want 400 info windows that have to be closed individually?
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I've been seeing a lot of buzz around the BYD Seagull. I'm doubtful Chinese cars will be allowed in the US market at all, since a $11,500 EV with a 200+ mile range would destroy domestic sales. If Tesla ever actually releases the
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Is it a 2012-2016 model? Those have the PowerShift transmission (known as the PowerShit on forums) that had a class action settlement, though I think it's too late to cash in on that.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I think my chair does this, but only when I'm not sitting in it. Maybe my body absorbs the ESD? If I'm doing anything nearby and bump the chair there's a good chance my monitor will lose signal for a second. It happens w
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Ours was from Google Fi. They had a promotion where you could buy the Moto for $50 on the condition of using it with them for 90 days. So we did and then she just popped her SIM back in her Pixel and I took the Moto. It has an unremovable
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I use both an iPhone and a Motorola G Power 2020. My Moto came with absolutely zero bloat. It’s annoying they’ve tapped into that revenue stream but as long as it’s uninstallable I wouldn’t get too upset. The first thing I do on any phone
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I unfortunately have the exact kit of ram you mentioned to avoid, it came with the Microcenter bundle. I live ~2.5 hours from Microcenter, so I took a gamble-- reviews were very mixed but the price was insane. If I had bought this setup fr
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I built a 7700X system as an upgrade to my previous i9-9900K system. Performance and efficiency wise it's fantastic, but I've had TONS of problems. Memory unable to run at its rated speed, GPU not initializing at boot, glacially
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Our kitchen countertops are MDF covered in some sort of laminate. The laminate is great, but the MDF is swelling over our dishwasher and looks hideous. I'd be careful near moisture even if it's covered.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
We were able to get a 3% commission when we bought our house ~10 years ago since the listing agent and our realtor were with the same firm. They were doing us a favor for sure and it was at a time when the market wasn't completely cra
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by duffyjp 3y ago
> Standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up Still only 20 up? Moving from 300/10 on cable to 300/300 on fiber has been huge. You can’t realistically use offsite backup on 10 or 20mbps up. Uploading a YouTube video can take an hou
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Oof, $80 is encroaching on Aliexpress N100 Mini PCs and used "Tiny/Mini/Micro" territory. I have the original and updated Pi Zero W-- unbelievable bargains at ~$15 but if I needed any horsepower I think I'd rather h
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Too risky for my taste! What I ended up doing is lowering the TDP in the BIOS from it's default 105 to 85 watts and now temps are great. I have a 7700X. Before doing that I tried lowering the max temp instead but I think 100+ watts i
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Off topic, but other than the goofy green touchpad I gotta say I love the aesthetics. I'd totally rock a transparent laptop.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Ryzen 7000 series all have a TjMax of 95C. I was quite surprised to observe this getting one recently. The motherboard's fan controller seemed unconcerned until the chip hit 100 and even then didn't throttle the CPU, it just cra
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I don't think I could give a concrete count of how many times I've "bought" that game. My wife lost her account due to ignoring the migration. Then we end up buying it again, and then again on iOS and then again on Andr
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Even web browsers can’t do FTP anymore which is crazy.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Your Lexus is presumably an SUV? A bone stock 2024 Prius gets 57 mpg and has almost 200HP. I'm in a 2013 Prius C that gets nearly 50. My previous car was a 2000 Lexus ES that got 17 mpg. I basically paid for the Prius' loan wit
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Redwood is amazing. My dad has a picnic table with redwood boards he bought in the 1980s which is in basically perfect condition today despite living outside in Wisconsin the entire time.
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by duffyjp 3y ago
Madison WI checking in. We get two passes in March then monthly until winter. I checked our city website and the volume of debris was pretty surprising to me: > In 2023, 6,633.46 tons of debris was swept from the roads and hauled to the
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by duffyjp 3y ago
> I successfully turned a 7KB image into a 9MB video!
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by duffyjp 3y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/got-you
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by duffyjp 3y ago
I'm having flashbacks to owning a Matrox Millenium as a kid. I never did get that 4MB vram upgrade. https://www.512bit.net/matrox/matrox_millenium.html

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