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TIL A restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was found to be serving Popeye's chicken and passing it off as their own. in c/[email protected]
Same in c/microblogmemes
[–] slingstone 2 points 5 hours ago

If you mean that you can literally fly, I imagine you could be a god in the new order. If you mean that you're a pilot, I imagine that'd be useful, too.

FRAG OUT! in c/lemmyshitpost
[–] slingstone 13 points 3 days ago

Meal Team Six

FRAG OUT! in c/lemmyshitpost
[–] slingstone 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What are your favorite pre-2000 computer games? in c/retrogaming
[–] slingstone 2 points 6 days ago

One time, in Civ I, I was living my best life as Rome on a big island until the Chinese sent a battleship to my shores and started destroying my triremes. Somehow, I used a diplomat to take over one of their cities and production was stuck on mobile infantry (must have been a bug), which gave me the ability to make units that could defend against their tech. Then I sent more diplomats to steal tech. The list of tech ran off the screen, but it allowed me to still select tech I couldn't see. So I started scrolling beyond the visible point and blindly stealing tech. When I accidentally stole nuclear weapons, I built one, loaded it on a trireme, and sent it to Beijing. Their empire instantly split, and I was able to survive. It's still my best memory from any Civilization game.

What are your favorite pre-2000 computer games? in c/retrogaming
[–] slingstone 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Campers who disagree are silly cows and we will have to dance with them.

What is the history of modern male gender roles and where did it come from? in c/nostupidquestions
[–] slingstone 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just read the first section of The Will to Change. As a man, it's fascinating and enlightening to see a feminist deal with men and masculinity rather than dismiss them.

Florida Sheriff Decided It Might Be A Good Idea To Manufacture Crack And Now 2,600 Convictions Might Be Vacated in c/[email protected]
[–] slingstone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I thought entrapment was the one thing cops couldn't do. Were the lawyers defending these people just completely incompetent? Were the victims just gaslit into thinking this was legal? It just feels like the prosecutors and courts had to be complicit to allow this to go on for so long.

rule in c/[email protected]
[–] slingstone 2 points 6 days ago

From what I can find with some quick searching, the red giant phase should only last about a billion years. The white dwarf stage should last much longer (tens or hundreds of billion years) as the sun slowly cools.

You're absolutely right that there won't be a supernova, though. The sun will shed much of its mass in the form of a planetary nebula, but it won't explode or implode.

What is the worst website you have ever been on? in c/asklemmy
[–] slingstone 1 points 6 days ago

A lot of these have a link near the top to go straight to the recipe, which helps me avoid much of the dreck.

Florida Sheriff Decided It Might Be A Good Idea To Manufacture Crack And Now 2,600 Convictions Might Be Vacated in c/[email protected]
[–] slingstone 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would have thought this was entrapment. Is this somehow not entrapment?

Hurry in c/lemmyshitpost
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Buy or No Buy: 2015 Toyota Avalon Hybrid (self.cars)
submitted 5 months ago by slingstone to c/cars
10 comments fedilink
 

It's got 250,000 miles and is $5,500. It's a former taxi service car, apparently. Obviously, a pre-purchase inspection would be a must. I've heard these cars are very reliable, but the mileage, accident history (3, not sure how serious), and potential status of the high voltage battery give me pause. I'm leaning against traveling to look at it, but I'm wondering if the model is just so good it's worth a try at that price point.

It would be replacing a 2015 Kia Soul with about 80,000 miles--Kia's engine woes have me spooked, so I'm considering trying to get something more likely to go for several hundred thousand miles. Any thoughts?

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SSD for Old Laptop (self.buildapc)
submitted 9 months ago by slingstone to c/buildapc
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I'm looking to replace the HDD on an HP Pavilion dv 6 6130-us. It has an i-3 2330M CPU. I know it's old as dirt, but I'd like to use it to run old games. It's also the only thing I own with a CD drive.

I've upgraded the RAM to the maximum it will support (16 GB). I'm thinking an SSD will help it run a great deal faster, but I'm stuck on what to get. So far, the Crucial MX500 seems like a good choice, but I'm wondering if any semi-reliable cheap SSD will do for something this old. I have to stick with something with a 2.5 inch form factor that uses SATA. Thoughts?

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First PC for My Son (self.pcgaming)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by slingstone to c/pcgaming
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So my eight-year-old wants a desktop PC. He's kind of a budding gamer, but right now, he almost exclusively plays Roblox on his iPad and will definitely carry this over to the PC. As he gets older, he may want to graduate to more demanding titles. On the other hand, he may also get bored with it and stick with consoles and mobile gaming.

I don't want to spend a ton on a PC for a very young child who may not take to PC gaming seriously, but I also want to get something that might be upgradeable as he grows if he wants to join the PC master race.

In my research, I came across this.

The recommendation I saw in PCMag that led me to the PC above suggested that the integrated graphics with the Ryzen 5 5600G could serve as a starting point for low level gaming and allow me to spend on a GPU card later if it's justified. The price and functionality appear to offer exactly the path I want.

I've seen other, more expensive versions of this pre-built, and I've also looked at the possibility of building it myself. I like this particular chip because it's only a generation or so back and it still appears to be well-regarded by the community. If I went with one of the cheap old workstation conversions, I'd be limited by proprietary hardware and fewer options--a lot of the stuff out there, especially Intel stuff, is very old and won't be able to run Windows 11 when it becomes necessary. What I'm finding suggests this path could see us through quite a few years to come and allow us to upgrade as needed.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here, or does this seem like it could work the way I want?

UPDATE: I've decided to buy the pre built deal I found with the 6500G. I would like to go to a fancier build, but the price of the AM5 chips and motherboards takes them off of the table for me right now. I think what I'm getting will be good enough as some of you have said.

Thanks to everyone for your help! If y'all are interested, I'll post an update when I get it.

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Can you filter out posts on Lemmy that are in languages other than one you speak? (self.nostupidquestions)
 

I'm getting a lot of parts in languages I can't read. Can I filter for just my native language?

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