It was moving at the time of the photo. They poop, it turns over, and these two are utterly mesmerized by it.

They’ll come tearing ass from another room if they hear it just to watch.

Tbh, I’m super happy with the performance I’m getting. I did dig through my bios and found an old OC to 4.7 GHz that got me a few extra FPS on the low side.

I’m playing on my TV right now. My monitors are also over a decade old. I couldn’t run faster than 60 FPS right now even if I wanted to lol but I appreciate the thought.

But aside from ray tracing being off, I’m running 1080p at ultra settings perfectly fine. I’m just super stoked my ancient CPU can still run newer/more intense titles. It’s like being around in 2010 using a CPU from 1999. If you were using a Celeron that went in a slot, you probably weren’t running Windows 7, let alone Crysis lol

I actually dug in my BIOS and found a very old profile that I saved. So now I’m running at 4.7 GHz. I forgot I saved that. It does make her toasty though. But hey, who cares? These aren’t rare. Replacement cost is 50-70 bucks. Suppose I can swing that if I roast it to death lol

I mght have to play with RAM speeds. I unlocked the frame rate and was hitting 110 max. My TV only runs at 60 Hz so that’s where I’m leaving it. Still, the minimum was up to like 53 from 48. So it was still worth it.

I guess I didn’t get it across that I do already run Debian lol I love my Debian. It’s outdated, as is my '97 Honda. But like my '97 Honda, it just works every time. And I do use KDE. :) Ran GNOME for a long time and finally made the jump earlier this year. My customizations make it look and feel a lot like GNOME (because I really liked GNOME a lot), but with extra customizations that GNOME just wouldn’t let me do ootb. I like it so much. It doesn’t feel like Mac. It doesn’t feel like Windows. It’s totally its own thing. I love that.

My bad that it didn’t get across that I do use Debian lol I have been for a while now. I don’t mind dealing with outdated packages because it’s stable. Would a more up-to-date distro be more or less stable? I don’t know enough to comment on it, but with the stability issues I experienced in Windows (unrelated to the oc), I really wanted something that I could throw on there and leave alone for a few years.

I also drive a car from the 90s and I look at any IoT device with contempt. The refrigerator stays off my network.

But yeah, with the Win 10 EOL coming up, I wasn’t gonna upgrade because my machine really still does everything I want it to do. This was a bit more of a shit post. My PC didn’t hit 60 FPS in a game that it doesn’t even meet minimum spec for. Iirc, Cyberpunk requires at least a 7700K. Wasn’t looking for advice. Just messing around. ;)

The most I use my PC for outside of gaming is surfing the web, spreadsheets, and hosting files. Nice to have my own collection of movies to stream when the Internet goes down lol

I’m not implying that my PC running Debian is twice as fast as it was on Windows. I just really appreciate two things about it: 1) This CPU is still fast enough for what I want from it a decade later, and 2) That Linux was so much easier to learn than I ever anticipated. I guess it helps that I ran Ubuntu on various laptops for a decade before moving my gaming PC to a Linux distro.

My dogs sleep at least sixteen hours a day.

Maybe half of one, tops.

I gave 100% for the first maybe hour, then gave up on the rest of my day. So that averages out to like 12.5%.

This is a heck of a post to come across for me right now.

Nope. I was at the drive thru in the front of the line waiting on my food with the engine switched off. I never touch my phone in the car unless I’m off the road and stationary.

I’m not gonna make a post saying this guy’s a moron for driving with an icy windshield while I’m taking a picture of it doing 40 miles an hour and uploading it. That’d make me kind of a major hypocrite, wouldn’t it?

But they got to the drive thru with their windshield like this. Which is kinda terrifying.

If you want to stay truly legit, buy used physical releases. They cost less money and you could support your local record store. Movies and music on a home NAS + Plex Server are god tier.

Mine is my '97 Prelude that runs and drives but needs work. So until I get jack stands, it’s not getting worked on yet. Once I do have jack stands, it’ll probably get parked on them for a few months while I address the things I can.

It mostly needs fluids and suspension work. It does have an oil leak that needs addressing. Then I’ll get to the body issues. Two big dents. I’d like to see what PDR can do to pop them out. If they can be done relatively cheap, I’m going to give it a new coat of paint in the original Milano Red. Myself. Because Maaco would have charged damn near what I paid for the thing. So I’m gonna try a roller paint job. If it’s really expensive to get the dents taken care of, I’ll probably leave the body alone. I kinda like the concept of a car that’s mechanically sound but looks like a piece of shit. It also needs the spoiler because the Type SH does not have an interior third brake light. It’s in the spoiler. Someone along the line must not have liked the spoiler and took it off. The trunk lid was obviously repainted. So anyway the car has no third brake light.

I paid $2,700 for the thing. So I’m not about to spend another $7k to have a car that’s worth at best $5k. It’s got 253,000 miles on it. It’ll never sell for what top shelf 5th gens command. And I do so little driving now. I did the math that it’ll take another 17 years for me to roll the odometer to 300k.

Horrible Products applies just as well today as it did in 2002.

Craftsman and Kobalt hand tools are honestly pretty great for like 99% of homeowner-handymen. My dad uses Snap-On because he’s a farmer and he’s hard on his tools. But me? Most I’m doing is tightening something in the house or wrenching on my car. I’ve never in my life had an issue with Craftsman tools.

Fair use does allow you to back up your stuff. That’s why you can rip CDs in the US. Nbd. They tried to make it stop, but it didn’t. And I buy CDs specifically to rip the lossless audio off of them. You can also rip DVDs legally.

But Blu-Ray gets a little muddy. It’s not the content that’s the problem, but the DRM. You’re allowed to back up the content, but it’s technically illegal to defeat the DRM in order to access said content.

Hasn’t stopped me. I don’t make my MKVs available on the Internet. I acquire copies of my movies legitimately. What I do with the discs when I get home is honestly nobody’s business.

It’s such a bullshit argument. Imagine buying a Snap-On wrench because of the lifetime warranty, and they told you, “Oh no no no no, we meant the lifetime of the wrench.”

I went to Houston once.

I just checked Amtrak. I can hop on a one way train from Houston to Portland. The journey takes 4 days (not counting delays) and costs $1,700.

It’s cheaper to fly and faster to drive. Are we really to believe that companies like Ford, GM, BNSF, CSX, Union Pacific, Boeing, American Airlines, and Delta have nothing to do with this and that it’s genuinely the free market at work? Ofc not. Amtrak is a government agency. The government can and should use eminent domain to seize ownership of the entire rail network and fairly compensate the current owners for their stakes. In short, nationalize the rails.

We use it for basically everything from food and beverage sweetener to car fuel.

I’ll pass up on the lack of a standardized work week, the child labor, and the general robber barons, but passenger rail does need to make a comeback.

Car guy checking in. I think Teslas are cool and all, but trains are the future. I want trains to be so good that people would rather take them so that people like me, who care a lot about driving, get to drive. And people who would rather read a book or play a game while commuting aren’t forced to drive when they clearly don’t want to.

I have a 1997 Prelude Type SH manual. And I’m looking to replace my 2012 auto Civic with an 8th Gen Accord LX manual because I really missed driving stick daily and want a cheap manual I can daily.