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by wincy 7mo ago
I run with no RGB in my computer case, I got a very nice $250 case used for $40 with a broken tempered glass panel that looked like it had been dropped out of a second story apartment, but a $20 replacement panel and a little bit of hammeri
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by wincy 7mo ago
There’s the Silverstone FLP02 [0], for a mere $250 you can get a case that looks like it was built in 1996, complete with a turbo button that spins all your fans to max. [0] https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product&#x2
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by wincy 7mo ago
That’s sad to hear, I remember how good Logitech was back in the mid-2000s, the Logitech G15 keyboard had 18 programmable macro buttons and a media LED screen and media buttons that had a custom plugins SDK for stuff like Winamp, so I could
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by wincy 7mo ago
My m1 air with 1TB ssd and 16GB of ram is a little champion, I use it during travel to play indie games like Hades II or Slay the Spire, and it works really well, better than my Steam Deck which broke. The only issue it really has is when I
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by wincy 7mo ago
I often look at these and think they’d be fun for me to display, then think I’d prefer an actual Game Boy disassembled as a piece of wall art [0]. This sort of stuff is just so cool in my opinion. Edit: now that I look on EBay building my o
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by wincy 7mo ago
My kids got a Minecraft set and just use the Warden as a toy and build with all the other bricks and a mat to put the poor lego characters in bad situations where they’ve woken the Warden up (he’s a strong enemy in Minecraft)
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by wincy 7mo ago
And I’d call entertaining thought experiments such as this “having such an open mind your brain falls out of the back of your head”.
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by wincy 7mo ago
That’s wild to me. I’d hazard a guess that 0% of my friends would push the button (okay, lizardman tax, I’m sure I could find someone I know who would say yes). I think they’d also feel a need to go find whoever made said button and lock th
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by wincy 7mo ago
Don’t worry, pitchforks and torches are still cheap.
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by wincy 8mo ago
I mean, I’m a pretty ADHD guy, very in the moment, and although I sporadically invite friends or old colleagues to catch up for lunch, I mean to do it regularly, but I might forget to invite them for years at a time, so this might be good f
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by wincy 8mo ago
One of the nicest things anyone ever did for me was the day after she was born, when I had just started at a new job, an older dev asked if he could talk to me and pulled me into a meeting room. I didn’t know anyone there and was confused.
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by wincy 8mo ago
It’s a losing battle me trying to tell my wife to close her Firefox tabs, haha, but yes, Firefox does use a lot of ram when you have 500 tabs. Maybe I’ll get her a 64GB MacBook Pro for the premium web browsing experience she so desires!
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by wincy 8mo ago
My wife’s 8GB MacBook Air crashed yesterday with Firefox and Find My open and nothing else because of running out of RAM, so, sort of, but they’re not magic. (Find My was using 3GB of memory!)
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by wincy 8mo ago
Ah yeah you’re right, thanks. I tried to at least make my post useful and pull up prices for the different tiers. Overall, those prices are surprisingly competitive now compared to the rest of the laptop market!
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by wincy 8mo ago
I typed “RAM” to search for it and boy they hammer home how lucky I am to be getting 1TB SSD standard, but no mention of RAM anywhere on this page. Anyway, the MacBook Pro starts with 16GB of RAM. It’s $400 to go from 16GB to 32GB. Interest
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by wincy 8mo ago
Another sb parent here, my kid is seven now, she’s also on track intellectually. We got the decompression surgery for the Chiari II a few months after she was born, and the VP shunt even earlier than that. Aside from some stammering (which
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by wincy 8mo ago
This is amazing to see. Spina Bifida is tough as it can range anywhere from “wheelchair bound and substantial intellectual disability” to “has a hard time with potty training”, and you won’t really know until your child has been born. My da
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by wincy 8mo ago
Sadly, the divorce rate is over 50% for parents of spina bifida children. My daughter is almost 7 and my wife and I are happy, we have a good life and I’m fortunate to have a career that lets her stay at home to tend to our daughters multip
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by wincy 8mo ago
Orgs have had sensitive skin like this for a long time. Gamespy was a service for launching and playing multiplayer games with lobbies before Steam, and if you “accidentally” typed “GaySpy” (it was the early 2000s) it would autocorrect to “
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by wincy 8mo ago
In 1989 or so the man who later became my programming teacher at community college night school was at a party and a man who he knew came up to him and told him he was a programmer now too! This confused my teacher as he knew this guy wasn’
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by wincy 8mo ago
A very aggressive noprocrast could certainly get you there!
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by wincy 8mo ago
Isn’t Gemini $300 a month for their most expensive plan? That includes stuff like Genie and all that though.
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by wincy 8mo ago
My wife still uses Facebook sometimes but I have it blocked on my phone and laptop, I’d have to get on my desktop to even check it.
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by wincy 8mo ago
Similar experience for me and it’s just been replaced with… nothing. My gaming buddies talk on Discord but I just don’t really hear from my aunts and uncles and cousins anymore. It’d be a hassle to even figure out how to contact them. Only
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by wincy 8mo ago
Facebook messenger is so annoying to use too! My extended family group chat is there, but I had to turn off notifications because Facebook realized I only engage there and started serving me stories and updates from the messenger app as not
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by wincy 8mo ago
I did a blind taste test of Starry, Sprite, and 7-Up the other day. My wife was amused when I nailed all three. As a recovering fat guy, I’m a bit of a soft drink connoisseur (diet soda now!). Unfortunately then the question became “well, w
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by wincy 8mo ago
Well luckily I mostly just read the comments on HN, and I didn’t watch the superbowl, so unless someone tells me about the amazing Frito Lays commercial they saw, I have no idea which company is being talked about. Except I have been remind
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by wincy 8mo ago
Reminds me of how Nassim Taleb (famous for Black Swan among other books) says that he wants his surgeon to look like a butcher. The thinking goes that if despite all that roughness and sticking out, he’s a surgeon, he must be a pretty damne
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by wincy 8mo ago
It was a little jarring when Sam Altman recommended this on X awhile back. https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1952070519018373197?lang=en
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by wincy 8mo ago
My wife has had an autoimmune disease that’s caused inflammation for years. Absolutely terrible back pain. She had to rent a motorized scooter when we went to Disney World, and could barely walk a few hundred feet before having to stop and

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