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After I looked up my stalker, ... (I love you and your attention, plz keep it up!) ... I looked up myself.
I'm very happy to find that I've almost entirely upvoted. And yes, I went on a couple sprees and downvoted some crap. That's kinda ugly to look at now.

It made me think about how I behave here. You know, in that its so damn easy to see.

And back to the question at hand. What's your upvote/downvote percentage?

Are you a Lemmy Shitbird?

...
EDIT ... The author of lemvotes posted about it here.
https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/

Going to an office and pretending to work: A business that’s booming in China by dbtng in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 21 points 2 weeks ago

Well that's just it. You might know Joe. You just don't know.

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I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. (eviltoast.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Steam had the entire Witcher series on sale for a few dollars. I bought everything for the first 3 games.

There was some discussion of it at the time, and folks seem to agree that the first one in the series sucks hard.
As that seemed to be the worst plan, I went with it.

Yes. "It's rough." I guess the engine and content have gotten some backports and extensions. I'm not sure if you could ~~play other characters besides Geralt before, but now you can~~. (EDIT ... Sorry, this seems to be BS. My bad.) They updated the graphics a lot. Its not great, but I think they fixed most of the really bad problems.

I don't know about the story. Seems pretty awful. Awkward acting. Its been fun just trying to play the damn thing.

Um ... I sort of like it. Gonna play some more now ...

Which distribution should I recommend to beginners to scare them? by dbtng in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Ya there's Arch. There's NixOS. There's still Slackware.
But have you heard of 9front?
9front is useless. You won't be gaming or working with it.
Mostly, you'd learn how operating systems are constructed.

Or DoomOS or DoomLinux. It's a basic linux system where DOOM is the shell.
I forked this and tried to get it running. Learned some interesting things. Still doesn't work for me. :]
https://github.com/fl64/DoomLinux

Reddit will keep old Reddit online ‘as long as people are using it,’ says CEO by dbtng in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 16 points 1 month ago

I guess this does matter to me, because every time i see new reddit, I take the requisite 10 seconds to retype the URL and change to old reddit. I never log in anymore, but I do make sure its old reddit.

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The Electromagnetic Spectrum - Westinghouse Research Laboratories -1961 (eviltoast.org)

submitted 1 month ago by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/science@lemmy.world

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Art was science. Look at the gorgeous color. The fabric is like a thin canvas. Metal rails top and bottom. Its going on my wall. ... After I figure out how to safely mount it.

'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know by dbtng in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You should look at the External Funds thing mentioned in the article. It gives a different spending breakdown than Purchase History.

Help > Steam support > My account > Data related to your Steam account > External funds used. (Its the 13th item on a huge page full of stuff.)

'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know by dbtng in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 14 points 2 months ago

I got Steam so I could play Half Life 2 when it was released. May 4, 2006. 153 games. $1,725 spent.

This thing about not owning the games ... um ... Steam is a more reliable, stable, all around better repository for my games than any device I've ever owned. Other than the Ubisoft games that are designed to not be re-usable (never buy Ubi again) I have access to every game I've bothered to spend money on for the last two decades.

Poisoning AI scrapers by dbtng in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 11 points 2 months ago

I like this guy.

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Radiation from 5G networks, vaccines, reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, consumption of Doritos, and even chemtrails. (eviltoast.org)

submitted 2 months ago by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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That is all ...

Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was? by dbtng in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 20 points 2 months ago

This was the good kind. The gear moved the head cleaner back and forth like a brush.

BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE by dbtng in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 20 points 2 months ago

Ok, this is a shitpost community. I should not expect a real answer here. But I'm gonna float this question and see what people say.

This person has (of course) spammed me multiple times from apparently (just?) 2 different accounts now. nicole9@l.henlo.fi bogymanstout@quokk.au

Ok. So its spam. I block it. But what on earth is going on? This doesn't seem to make sense. I assume somebody has actually tried to talk to this Nicole person. How did that go?

Too Hot for Lemmy.World: "Quantum Fraud" by dbtng in c/science@lemmy.world

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 11 points 2 months ago

Quni settle down. You don't have to alienate everyone on the whole internet.

Dang dude. Chill.

And stop posting garbage.

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Dell PowerEdge - Replace DVD w/SATA Bay (eviltoast.org)

submitted 3 months ago by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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This is a hack to add an extra bay to a Dell Server. Tried with both PowerEdge R230 and R430.

Replace DVD w/SATA Bay. They make replacements for laptop DVD bays that allow you to put a second sata drive there instead.
This replacement part can also drop right in place of the slim DVD bay on a Dell PowerEdge. I've seen multiple references to this setup working. This guy's blog has screenshots of it. https://tachytelic.net/2019/10/install-ssd-optical-13th-generation-poweredge/

I don't see the disk. At all. The OS doesn't. PERCCLI doesn't see it. iDRAC doesn't.
When I got into Lifecycle Controller to manage the disks, It used to see the SATA DVD drive at the end of the list, but now there's no entry. (On the R230 when I removed the drop-in and put the original DVD back, it went back to normal. The bay is in the R430 right now.)

I've got the right bay, it fits. More important, the electrical stuff all matches up. The drive light activates. Got a brand new drive in there. It hasn't been tested otherwise, but I'd like to think its ok. In the post I've linked, it looks like he has his SATA set to ATA, not AHCI, so I tried that, but no change. Poked at it quite a bit. Can't think of anything else to examine.

Alright ... so there's all the setup. And here's why I think it doesn't work. My main disks are all SAS on both machines.
R230 PERC H330 - 4 x SAS 7.5k 3.5" spinners R430 PERC H730 mini - 6 x SAS 10.5k 2.5" spinners

I've read that you can't mix SAS and SATA drives. As the DVD seemed to be a normal SATA, I figured I could use that port with a SATA SSD. But maybe not. It's not worked on either server, and all the gear involved appears to be operational. It's worked for other people. But every reference I've seen to this working seems to be all SATA setups.

Does anybody know for sure?