manicdave

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[–] manicdave 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I'd like some kind of visual task scheduler instead of having to read up on how to do cron jobs every time.

[–] manicdave 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A very silly but useful hack I did to get the MS flight sim install down to about 40GB (normally ~270GB) before I gave up on windows was this.

Set up a nextcloud server on a raspberry pi.

Install the client on your windows machine.

Add your games install folder as a connection on the nextcloud client and enable VFS (virtual filesystem)

Once synced, right click the folder and select "free up space..."

This will basically delete the file data from your local machine and redownload it whenever windows tries to access a file.

Now launch your game and it'll take a while to start as it has to redownload the files it actually needs to run, but it won't bother getting what it doesn't have to.

[–] manicdave 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I prefer an oversized black hoodie and a spotlight positioned to only reveal my chin

[–] manicdave 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate how everything has to be stupid culture war nonsense these days.

I'll probably get the game but be disappointed I don't get to play as Geralt.

I'd also be disappointed to get a new Horizon game where I don't get to play as Aloy. Does that make me a misandrist?

[–] manicdave 8 points 1 month ago

I live in a pretty diverse area and everyone loves talking about where they're from. It's like a universal ice breaker that can start an engaging conversation with people you otherwise have nothing in common with. Honestly if someone asks where you're from there's a far greater chance they're trying to get off with you than fine tune their racism.

[–] manicdave 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it's possible to have a Lemmy UI without JS because it serves up JSON not rendered pages. You could sign up on a kbin/mbin instance though to get a static frontend.

[–] manicdave 2 points 1 month ago

Pro tip: Use a stolen laptop with live GPS tracking to do your computer crime and the police won't have the resources to deal with it.

[–] manicdave 26 points 1 month ago

I bought a convertible car that was completely ditched once. The canvas roof was in such a state that it consisted mostly of black bags and duct tape.

I ring a friend and ask him what he's doing and if he wants to go for a drive in said car.

He said he's too busy 'cause he has a bunch of jobs to apply to and wants to spend the day handing out his CV. I say that's a perfect excuse to drive the new car round.

Get to his house and show him the car and we decide we should drive round with the top down because it's sunny. The top is made of duct tape and bin liners though, so we grab a kitchen knife each and set to work on getting it off.

First place he wants to go is a job for a theatre tech. We drive over to the next town and I pull up and he runs in with just his CV and leaves all his possessions (coat, phone, wallet, etc) in the car.

Unbeknownst to me, the guy he handed his CV to gave him a tour and a bit of an interview on the spot so I'd be stuck there for an hour in the same parking space.

Also unbeknownst to me, the theatre was at a high school so I'm now suddenly surrounded by kids leaving at the end of the school day.

It's awkward enough that I'm a guy in my late 20s parked outside a school in a convertible, but it took me a few minutes to realise that all the staring I was recieving from the kids was because the back seat was covered in black bags and duct tape held down with the two biggest knives I could find in my kitchen.

The police even came and I was hoping they would stop so I could explain but they just kept driving past me at walking speed.

[–] manicdave 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Wait. Does that mean sellers are not obliged to track sales of uppers and barrels and the rest? Yeah I can see why lawmakers are pissed off now lol.

[–] manicdave 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

What's the point in those beyond a tech demo though? Don't they use so much of the donor gun that it's effectively no different to just scrubbing the serial number but with a lot more effort?

[–] manicdave -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cold water falls to the bottom of a kettle and boils on the bottom. Microwaves can miss the bottom, possibly?

[–] manicdave 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I'm also sceptical of the ghost gun thing. AFAIK the only real ghost gun is an FGC9 which is about the size of a submachine gun and is definitely not what is seen in the video.

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