saltesc

joined 1 year ago
[–] saltesc 3 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately it depends on who's doing it. Who's creatively in charge and what freedom they get.

At the moment, it's reliably bad. Even when the vision is good, it's dominated by invested poo poo.

[–] saltesc 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really loved your comment. I tried to reply to you, but obv couldn't. Then tried to PM you, but couldn't figure it out or I just can't.

It was really insightful for both perspective on myself and on the community.

[–] saltesc 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Go on....

Just curious if you can.

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And no, you cannot find the original post anymore. At least it's missing for me, the OP, unless I locate it through inbox history.

Coincidentally, the meme was about mods on shitposts lol. I'll be banned soon 🫡

[–] saltesc 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have personally yelled, "Fuck off! No means no you fucking creep!" at the top of my lungs in a crowded bar. It was genuine, but over the top so every other person would turn and see them, ruining their chances of "picking up" at that establishment, forcing them to leave.

"Are you okay?"

"Oh, yeah I'm fine. That guy just needed to learn a fucking lesson."

[–] saltesc 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That does work too, but not on the ones that put shit on you and demand payment, usually operating as 2+. Their tactic is intimidation and drama—playing the victim to you—but it can not be beaten if you're playing the role of a happy idiot, providing random or exact opposite behaviour to what they're attempting.

[–] saltesc 96 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Scammers abroad: Troll with randomness. Laugh at inappropriate times. Nod at them while making the eating food gesture. Randomly start pointing down a street like you're trying to give directions but just shrug. Pick a random sports team name and say, "Gooooo EAGLES!" while nodding and dancing. Basically pick some random thing, pretend they said it, and you're going along with it.

If they're pointing to friendship braclets, you say "9 o'clock." even though it's 1:30. If they keep doing it, you just laugh, nod, and clap.

My favourite is pretending I'm deaf and making up signing. When they start gesturing, I repeat the gesture in shock. When they nod, I act disgusted like they're sick in the head.

They will very quickly move on since you're a waste of time. The more awkward you make it, the better, especially if you're drawing looks from others.

[–] saltesc 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, I've never looked into it, I just noticed it sometimes. I don't say anything harmful or nasty, just unpopular so I expect downvote burial even before I hit the post button haha. I figure that's how it's always meant to work. Downvotes handle dipshit remarks, mods handle malicious ones. But seems entire conversations with multiple people get removed because, despite all the positive upvotes and people involved in a good ol' fashion discussion, a mod has a different personal opinion and it all goes. Even the off-hand comments connected to that thread.

[–] saltesc 14 points 3 days ago

Gee. Would hate to be the crew meant to be returning on that thing. Was a bit of a shitshow getting up there.

[–] saltesc 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think it's worse here.

Reddit

"The grass is blue."

"No, the grass is green. Here is a source."

"Oh."

Lemmy

"The grass is blue."

"No, the grass is green. Here is a source."

"Bro, your own source says it's the chemicals in grass that make it green LOL."

"That's correct."

"So you think just because it appears green from the chemicals, it's green?"

"Yes. It's certainly not blue."

"Actually without the chemicals it would be translucent which would be reflective of the sky, making it blue like how the ocean does."

"Sure. Except there's chemicals that make it green instead."

"I don't see how you're not understanding how stupid that is. It's not the grass that's green."

"And in your analogy it's not the grass that's blue."

"You clearly don't understand science and I pity you. I won't waste any more of my time. Good day, sir."

🧠💥

[–] saltesc 1 points 4 days ago

Spain's one of my fav circuits, especially after the last chicane got opened up again. And at the moment, rain may be in the mix on Sunday. Spicy.

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Seeing him wave to the Lance Stroll Grandstand, I got wondering on his popularity with F1 fans from his home country.

 
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Gaming

  • Mostly a huge array of co-op games, performance doesn't matter much, just good 1440 frame rate with high settings.
  • HOWEVER, sim racing is my exception and I'm wanting to upgrade from a single 27" to something more immersive. Considering I'm on the most minimal, a TV, triple 24s, or VR are all big immersion upgrades, but each with their pros and cons. But all demanding more of the GPU,ideally keeping rates at 120, even 90 maybe... 1080 for triples, but ideally 1440 all-round to make use of FSR better.

Data Science

  • I need my PC to be a workhorse. Many hours of my week are ETL of big datasets and complex models. Lots of calculation time and lots of loading tables/arrays into memory for queries and transforms.
  • Ive recently gone up to 32GB DDR4 3600 (going to go to 64) and an R9 5900X. It's done nothing huge for gaming, but it's increased my data crunching tasks significantly.

What I have right now...

Guts

  • Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard
  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor
  • MSI MECH 2X Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card
  • Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory

Storage (This is way behind)

  • Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
  • Silicon Power UD90 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
  • And some ancient 2TB 7200 HDD that's a dying archive only drive

Primary display

  • Acer Nitro XZ272U Pbmiiphx 27.0" 2560 x 1440 165 Hz Curved Monitor

Cooling

  • Lian Li Lancool II Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case
  • Deepcool LT520 85.85 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Where I'm stuck...

  • Should I go up to AM5 even though I just got the 5900X?
  • Do I then go DDR5 instead of 64GB DDR4 or am I getting too many year's ahead of myself?
  • The 6700XT is not overclocking friendly, for sim racing I may need to bump up if going for more display.
  • For storage, what's the best way to go for a bunch of games installed, but also not having stuff get in the way of data crunching applications and calculations? Should I reserve a drive purely for data? Can I dedicate anything to it on top of the 64GM RAM coming in?
  • Lastly, the display conundrum for sim racing; VR, TV, triples... 49" UW on top of any above upgrades is just way over budget.

I'm basically just after ideas of what to prioritise next, what can wait a while, and what path I should be starting on for future-proofing without spending the budget on future gear too soon while it's all expensive.

Advice much appreciated.

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Hello. I do the golf and am about a 3/10 at it. I sold my old set when I moved but am looking to get a new set again but immediately hit a conundrum...

Do I get a cheap new set? Do I get a second-hand set? Do I take time to build a secondhand set?

The other problem is; I have no clue when it comes to what makes a good club. My previous driver was brutal, but highly rewarding when hit just right. Whereas I'd use friend's drivers and found them much more forgiving. I have no idea why that was except I noted my club head was smaller, maybe that?

I also don't really know what clubs I should have in the bag. I figure I'd go with what I've used most, or maybe just go Driver, 3, 5, 7, 9... and then we go with the speciality clubs. Never had a hybrid, never had a wedge apart from PW and SW. I used a friend's loft wedge no idea what it was, but I loved it.

Does anyone have good advice on all these queries? Or have a good source that isn't a crappy algorithm article?

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Okay (self.lemmyshitpost)
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