SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to gaming in Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

Well he’s 61, and the average life expectancy for males in the US is 73ish. He is well-to-do, so he likely has better access to healthcare than most, meaning he will be one of those who lives past 73. I’d suspect we have twenty years at best, but more likely about 10 years if he retires at a “reasonable” age.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand?

Solid suggestions!

I don’t know why it gave me a memory of the server room at a building I worked at. If there was a fire, you had to leave the room immediately because the main fire suppression device was something that pumped all the oxygen out of the room, depriving the fire of the oxygen that allows it to burn.

Meaning, if you hung around in that room after the fire alarm went off, you’d have a good chance of getting stuck in there and dying of asphyxiation.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to piracy in [Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why

It’s not just Netflix, it’s every licensing issue in every country.

I love lots of foreign television, but quite a lot of it isn’t immediately available (or ever available) in my country.

If I want to watch those shows or movies, I am literally at the mercy of the piracy community helping me access them, because there’s a good chance that it’s either months or years away from release in my country, or that I’ll be unlucky and it will never release here at all.

It’s a completely broken system, and Gabe Newell called it what it was over a decade ago. Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem.

It won’t be solved without massive changes to international copyrights and how shows/movies are bought and sold on an international market.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to gaming in Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

Everyone loves Scotty Auks, doncha know?

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in 'They Want To Be The Gatekeepers': Car Dealers Are Stopping Customers From Buying EVs

As news started coming out about electric cars in early 2016, Michael Young, a self-described “car guy,” knew he wanted to try one. One afternoon, he strolled into his local dealership and asked to test drive the BMW i3, a small, sporty car with a range of up to 150 miles. The salesperson stopped him. “You can’t drive that car on the highway,” Young recalls the salesperson saying, explaining that the car couldn’t go over 45 miles per hour.

“I was kind of dumbfounded by that,” Young said.

Young knew it could go much faster — and, after convincing the salesperson to let him go on a test drive, ultimately bought the i3.

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James Richards, the CEO of a water heating company in Davis, Calif., spent days test-driving EVs at Volkswagen, Tesla, Chevy and Ford. But the 40-year-old found the dealership experience “cringeworthy” — the dealers didn’t seem to know much about the EVs they were selling. “I felt like I knew more than they did,” Richards said.

This just in: Old Boys Club doesn’t want to learn new technology, and would rather lie about new technology so they can keep hawking the same bullshit they’ve scammed decades of Americans into buying.

Seriously, that’s not just that they don’t know and don’t care to know, that’s straight up “we don’t care about this newfangled technology so much that we’re literally going to fucking gaslight you about it in hopes you don’t know enough to know better.”

I guess it’s not that far removed from the lies car dealers usually tell, but I mean, god damn fucking just gaslighting customers.

Fuck Dealerships. As much as Tesla sucks because of Elon Musk, I do hope their plan to sell cars directly to consumers pans out and other car makers start following suit as opposed to keeping these fucking grifting ass middle men in the game.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand?

I was in the middle of a city with a fully staffed and non-volunteer set of firefighters with four full size fire trucks and about eight other smaller vehicles for firefighting. It was staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

But yes, you’re correct, would be a bad plan if I lived out in the boonies.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in "They tortured him"; police used Taser on special needs teen for breaking window before shooting him

This just in: Cops turn out to be violent thugs attracted to a job where they face no consequences for being violent thugs.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand?

As I pointed out in another comment, leaving them untouched and not turning them over to get the dust inside the can moving around and not stuck settled at the bottom is a real issue. To “test” them you basically ensure that the pressure is still where it needs to be and turn them over to get stuff unstuck from the bottom. That’s all I was referring to.

The fact that no one has touched them in two and a half years leads me to believe that all the dust is settled at the bottom of the extinguisher, and when an emergency arises, they won’t function properly.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand?

I have lived in my apartment for two and a half years, and I’ve not seen someone come to test or check on the Fire Extinguishers once.

I personally wouldn’t trust them to work in a pinch, which is why I have my own. Hopefully your apartment managers are more diligent.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand?

The safest I ever felt was when I lived across the street from the local Fire Department. If I ever had a fire (I never did while I lived there) I could have ran across the street and screamed and pointed at my place in under the time it would take to make a 911 call.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand?

I have one rated for grease fires in the kitchen and one rated for Magic Computer Smoke next to the electronics.

(I live in a small apartment, so two is probably already overkill).

Also, second pro-tip from a Firefighter friend: Regularly pick up your Fire Extinguisher and flip it upside down and tap the bottom like you’re trying to get ketchup out of a glass bottle. Often the “dust” inside the extinguisher can settle for too long and when you go to use it… nothing comes out because it is all compacted on the bottom of the Extinguisher. So occasionally making sure everything is loose and ready to go is key. He suggested to me every few months to do it.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in What was your name again?

She lookin pretty Sus coming out of that air vent.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to gaming in Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

I wonder how much of Newell’s past at Microsoft helped with that? He helped produce the first three versions of Windows.

While Windows works wildly differently these days and the last one he worked on was Windows 3.0 (maybe 3.1?) and a massive amount of stuff has changed in how Operating Systems work since then.

However, I do wonder if his familiarity with the old systems helped at all.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in The finest organic suspension ever devised FTW!

I mean… Coffee is the love of her life.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to gaming in Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

They literally already did that with the SteamDeck, it’s absolutely groundbreaking. They created a whole new product category, but it took years of planning and patience and watching the market. It happened with prototypes like the Steam Controller, the Steam Link, and the original vision for Steam Boxes, as well as the nearly decade of work they’ve done on Proton to get Windows games to run well in Linux. It didn’t happen with a “stupid crazy idea” that they said “fuck it, go with it.” It started with a smart idea, well executed, over a long period of time, with many bumps in the road on the way to success.

Steam Boxes were originally announced in 2012, this is the result of a full decade of work.