It sits behind my couch because it is 53 inches (135cm) long and nearly 18 inches(44cm) to the top of the masts. It has a clever pin system that you pull up from the top deck to unlock the sections from one another. It has details in the cross section for the different floors and such. Nothing too fancy but it’s there. It also does have a rotating engine that is hooked to the rear propellers. The easiest way to show where it separates (and more of its scale) is just to post one of legos images.

I own that set and added a light kit to it. It’s one of the few sets that aren’t a pain to build with multiple people. The main box has three smaller boxes that are essentially their own set. The ship when complete can be displayed as three individual sections or snapped together. The light kit I bought is also three separate powered systems. I just have them all plugged into a powered usb hub with a splitter. I also liked that the instructions have little facts about the titanic all throughout. Building the outer hull gets repetitive…I did the last 2-3 panels of it from memory.

We had one of these 12gb quantum bigfoots(5.25” drive) in ~1998 or so. Here’s a publication saying it was expected to cost $490 at launch. That’s a far cry from ~$450 per gigabyte.

Edit to add inflation graphic. Doesn’t add up even after accounting for inflation.

Simpsons of course comments on this as well…

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Work computer just updated as well. Same dock and monitors but now when the computer wakes from sleep/hibernate the monitors attached to the dock just won’t come on about 80% of the time. So you have to unplug/replug in the dock to get the monitors to kick on. I can’t recall that being the case ever when using 10. Not a single time.

To make matters worse the first time it happened it wasn’t immediately obvious because the laptop monitor was blank. The login screen only shows on the primary monitor which is one of the external monitors. So the computer knows the monitors exist but for whatever reason can’t wake them up. Again never an issue before the update to 11.

I’m sure work loved me spending 3-4 hours mucking with stuff to unclusterfuck windows…our corporate machines still had the Xbox app installed. Thanks IT department! This was a custom image of win11 with all kinds of corporate branding bundled in.

I had that Dan case…got tired of trying to find gfx cards that fit and keeping everything cool.

Just went open frame and I’m much happier…and has a handle.

Now I could slap a 3090 on it…and it’s still relatively small. Larger than the Dan of course.

I had one of these…

The matching case was like 48 pounds straight out of the box. Then you had to put a computer in it. Just the front door on the case was like 10 pounds of aluminum. That strap made that beast way more manageable. I still have that case in the basement. It was just too ridiculously solid to get rid of.

Now I have a gaming computer I can shove in a backpack. Computers have come a long way.

Popular lunch spot out here is a tire shop for tacos. The Potbelly’s sandwich chain started as an antique store and started selling sandwiches for extra income. It got popular…

Tesla has its fair share of boneheaded decisions like hiding the mechanical emergency release for their electric door handles. The front is fairly sane if you’re aware of it before hand but the rear requires disassembling parts of the door to get to it(if it’s an older model year they just don’t exist at all).

That recently killed 4 people cause the car lost all power in the accident and they couldn’t get out while the car was on fire and filled with smoke. On a similar note if your battery dies and you need to use that emergency release to open the door then it breaks the window. Teslas need to retract the window a small amount to clear the body/weather stripping.

I feel like it already is. Just not always from the government. I put three pallets worth of insulation into my attic(~$1500) and between the rebates from the gas and power company it ended up costing me like $350. I did have to front that cost though and the paperwork was kind of a pain. Had to draw a scaled picture of my house with the part of the living area covered with insulation on graph paper. They don’t pay for over the garage.

Just looked at what I bought again and insulation has gone way up in price. It’s close to $2500 now. No idea if the rebates also went up but I kind of doubt it.

Anyone with enough money to weather the shit storm. Look at how much money the top 1% made during Covid.

If this was from a shady shop repair I wouldn’t put it past them taking the steering wheel off and realigning it.

This is more common on solid rear axle trucks. It’s much easier for that to come out of square with the frame. Much easier to fix too. Unibodies…that thing is just fucked.

There is an alignment term for this but it’s basically the rear wheels are not square with the body. If you turn the front wheels to match the rears then the car goes straight but the body is slanted.

I’d totally buy Lego bricks by the pound.

It’s significantly better if you’re actually in the optimal range. Rest of article for image. HDR is fantastic on a OLED. Some cheap sets advertise HDR but it’s crap. I’ll also mention 4K from a disc is massively better than any streaming service I’ve come across. Netflix caps 4K streaming at 25 mbps and most of my disc are like 75-90mbps.

60% off…60% accurate.

I know a ton of people where I work don’t ever touch msbuild because it’s kinda convoluted. Sure if you take the time to learn it then it’s not bad. Cake is literally just chaining ‘Tasks’ aka methods together and writing c# to do anything you want. It has some helper functions and extensions to help out. Also supports pulling in nuget packages.

This device is marketed toward businesses and enterprise customers, especially as these organizations sometimes replace their computers every two to five years.

These only make sense for companies. Thin clients aren’t new in the slightest. They make even more sense for companies where people might be transitioning between locations frequently. Sit down, log in, and everything you need is there from basically any office computer. Same building or different continent…doesn’t matter.

For a home user…just don’t.

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