[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I always liked racing games combined with violence like Carmageddon and Twisted metal! Others along those lines are RC Pro Am, Spy Hunter, Road Rash 3D.

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Best part of the opening ceremony!

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

I'm interested to see how this plane performs compared to the Concord. It'll be interesting to find out how bad the maintenance will be.

Also the criticism and the "whatabout other important things" people commenting here should know that more than one type of research can be performed at the same time. This is an aerodynamics problem. The other problems related pollution from engines, fuel sources, and environmental impact are also being worked in parallel. A planet of 8 billion people is able to work on many problems and ideas in parallel without having one be a detriment over another. It's not like an aeronautical engineer can be repurposed to be a fuel chemist!

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[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Glad to know that others still love this movie! Bill Paxton nailed his Hudson character to a T! This is the apex of 80s movies that cross over between action/comedy sci-fi/horror genres and still tell an awesome story! H R Gigers alien designs were also creepy as fuck and on point. Hats off to James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver as well, and even Paul Riser nailed his sleazbag corporate stooge character. There is not one bad scene in this epic movie!

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submitted 1 year ago by dishpanman@lemmy.ca to c/music@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3466688

Al still has it! I can't wait for the new album!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dishpanman@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

I'm trying to figure out how to create a post that shows up in more than one community. There is a pull down menu to select one community but it doesn't seem like more than one can be selected. I think that I've seen other people do it. I've searched for it but haven't found an answer. The join lemmy intro website does not seem mention it either. on https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html . Is there a Lemmy posting tips and tricks summary somewhere other than the RTFM option?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dishpanman@lemmy.ca to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

On !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl I am unable to click on the links provided there with sync. Link just shows as a different blue color. Links work with Jeroba etc. Is anyone else having similar issues?

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Port forwarding, got a good deal, reviewed well. It exports Wireguard and OpenVPN files easily, so you are not tied to their Eddie client. I'm happy with it so far.

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dishpanman@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm looking at different options for getting a NAS/RAID array system that is tolerant to not just hard drive failures but also to hardware/firmware and board failures. I've utilized a RAID array in the past that was built into the motherboard, which resulted in the motherboard failing and me having to ebay another one to get the RAID array back up and running. Then I bought a NAS 2 bay drive that was only compatible with drives up to 1.5TB. I've also used external drives for backup since I've been burned by hardware/firmware/software issues related to RAID arrays. Are there are any PCI RAID cards, NAS boxes or software RAID or other options where the hard drives would still be readable by other RAID cards if the boards failed? Maybe a software RAID solution? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Firefox and ublock on desktop. Revanced on android.

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Set up an openvpn/wireguard server at a "home" with bandwith, and have family/friends route their Roku/streaming device route through a router with openvpn/wireguard client back to the same "home" .

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Like others said, this is an evaporative cooler aka swamp cooler. It takes energy to convert liquid water to water vapor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmy.ca should be mentioned. It's like midwest.social, super chill...

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Handbrake reads and converts DVD movie and video ISOs. If they are encrypted, MakMKV and DVDDecrypter can be used to get them ready for Handbrake.

[-] dishpanman@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

It feels like 20 years ago migrating from large chatrooms to bulletin board forums with a smaller more specialized community like setup. Posts and threads don't instantly get buried, and there don't seem to be as many assholes looking to pick a fight.

I see that by scaling down, some of the the more niche forums don't get the traffic, but that will likely change over time. I'm digging the integration with Mastodon so links to people and articles don't have to flow through Twitter. It minimizes having to sift through tons of ads to read what I want.

I also like the region based instances like lemmy.ca and midwest.social having communities and news that is of interest to those regions. It would be cool once more countries have their instances / communities.

Reddit had a good idea with having subs, but many of them got too big to be able to have meaningful discussion for many people. What is the point of trying to comment and engage in a topic that has 5000 posts? Lemmy hopefully can solve that by having the same community in different instances to keep the size where more people can discuss topics in a smaller more engaging setting.

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