doingthestuff

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 7 points 7 hours ago

I'm in both of these pictures. But my house was the cheapest 1br I could find in a bad part of St. Louis around 1998. I'm in a different house now, still too small for my family, and neither my wife or I have been able to afford to go to the dentist in about 20 years.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Simply putting the subset of homeless who can't live in society into a house or apartment will not substantially reduce the need for police, medics or sanitation.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Heaven is described as being populated by perfected people, not by their own doing.. The world we live in is populated by selfish people primarily. Hell even toddlers are selfish. It's a redefinition of human nature. Whether or not it's a fantasy, it would actually make it work flawlessly.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah when I hear M3 I'm thinking BMW for sure.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago

Bullshit. It was passed without Republican support. Negotiations were smoke and mirrors because they all were taking big healthcare money.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago

It was passed without Republican support, any negotiations were theater because they were bought and payed for. Fuck the ACA.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was passed without Republican support, so I guess you're describing centrist Democrats?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 17 points 3 days ago

Yeah, Democrats compromising with Democrats.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 14 points 3 days ago

My grandmother just passed last year at 100. She wrote exactly like this but in English. She grew up in a German speaking home in the US, her parents had been part of a large group of Germans who had settled in Russia because conditions in Germany were worsening. They broke wild land for farming, built roads and houses, dug wells etc. When Russia seized all of their farms and packed them into train cars where many died, they fled to the US.

My great grandparents got their citizenship when he fought in WWI. I met him once before he died, he had the same first name I do and he had a wooden leg from a rock slide unrelated to his service in the war. I have a decorative plate with his likeness with a moustache and a cigarette hanging in my kitchen.

I can read this stuff though, my grandmother sent handwritten cards and letters for 40 years of my life. Also I have lived in Germany although my German isn't very fluent.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago

I will take your windows 10 PC and give you a keychain made of DDR2 RAM in trade.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, and a parade float will totally change things.

They'll just keep waiting for their trains that are somehow always late despite German reputation for efficiency.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by doingthestuff@lemy.lol to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
 

My son has my family's oldest gaming PC, it's an i7 4790 with a 1660 TI and 16GB DDR3. It wasn't booting the last couple of days. I had time to look at it so we disconnected everything and threw it on the table with some good light and connected it to power so I could see what it was doing.

It was clear his three case fans were all dying, one was completely dead. One was in poor condition and one was starting to make noise. I already had extra case fans brand new in box sitting in my house, but I assumed old fans weren't what was keeping it from booting.

We removed all three bad fans, and with the case wide open, both sides front and top removed, I blew it out a little bit with canned air. It wasn't that dirty, just a little bit of dust came out. I checked with my fingers to see that the ram seemed seated and that all the connections seemed okay, but I didn't disconnect and reconnect anything, I just touched it.

I turned on the PC with no case fans (only an old CPU cooler connected) and it booted up. So we installed the three new case fans, and tested it again. It booted up again. We put it all back together and connected all the peripherals and it's working absolutely flawlessly.

So I am asking a question, but I want you for context to know that I have repaired hundreds of PCs, maybe close to a thousand. I have never fixed a boot issue by replacing case fans. I have read that some 20+ year-old PCs maybe would have that issue, but from what I understand a 12-year-old PC should not have boot impacted by case fans. So here's my question: was this just a ghost in the system, or is this actually possibly a real thing?

TL:DR We fixed his computer with three new case fans and the tiniest bit of canned air. Help me make it make sense.

 
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