Kethal

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[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I could never fully understand the explanation for lift. It turns out it's not the explanation for lift.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I recently learned that in my car the same light is used to indicate that the parking brake is on and that the brake fluid is low. Nothing bad happened, and it's getting worked on, but my first thought was that the sensor on the brake must be broken. It's poor design, seemingly without reason.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I have heard that the reason for this is that trucks in that size range are less regulated by the EPA. Companies didn't want to put in the research to develop trucks that met emissions standards, so they just make them really heavy for no purpose, evading regulations. Take this with a grain of salt, because I've done zero research of my own on it.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe something about learning how to use apostophes or whatever.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Use infinite monkeys.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have a fairly new, expensive (not $5000 expensive though) laptop from work. It's quite a high powered laptop. It's full of administration crap that constantly runs in the background using 8 GB of RAM and at least 20% of the CPU, nonstop. Daily I run out of RAM and it freezes. I have a 15 year old laptop that, without exaggeration, is faster to use and can run more programs without running out of RAM.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Volts are not a unit of power. Watts are a unit of power.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Never heard of Android I guess?

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

There was a game called Mind Trap that asked about this. It said the right answer was that running didn't get you less wet, and that it made no difference how fast you walk. The explanation said to imagine the rain was stationary in the air. Then as you walk at any speed you'd walk into the same number of rain drops. Such a bonkers stupid explanation.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Require all LLMs to provide answers in the form of haikus.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Although there is a common adjective order, it's not always clear which category a word belongs in. People insisting that the words "modular" and "versatile" fit into whatever category they chose are presenting a lot more certainty than is warranted. I am a native speaker, and either order sounds fine in this case.

[–] Kethal@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People know what it is. That's why they're down voting it. These don't build communities.

We all have access to RSS and can create our own sets of feeds. Posts are for the things that are worth talking about. Spamming a community makes it harder to find the interesting things.

 

I've never built a PC before and I don't know that I know all of the considerations.

I'd like something as a server for automated backup from other devices, like phones. I may also do video reencoding on it. I'd like it to be fairly small, but it doesn't need to be that small. This is what I've picked out: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L3pxGP.

The case, motherboard and power supply I plan to use is the AsRock Deskmini, but it wasn't an option on Part Picker: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmini-x300w/p/N82E16856158068. This was attractive because it says it has a built-in RAID setup. This is for backups, so I'd like RAID, but I don't know anything RAID, so a built-in option sounded convenient. The Deskmeet would have been fine too, but it's out of stock.

Is the cooler OK for that processor? I don't care about a video card, and the 5700G has integrated graphics, but I don't know if I need something else to get the graphics working. Is there anything else I should consider?

Thanks for any help.

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