pelotron

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What are you buying now to avoid upcoming price increases? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh fuck, seriously?

What decision did you change your mind on and not regret? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

Welcome to Hell

What is the movie like thing that has happened to you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 11 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately I didn't get to have a conversation with him. But he did seem nice.

What is the movie like thing that has happened to you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 73 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In the early 2010s, Cape Girardeau, MO was chosen as a location for some of the filming of Gone Girl. I lived there and it was the talk of the town. People were running into Ben Affleck at the local Andy's and shit.

Meanwhile they put out a casting call for extras. I didn't care about it but of course my girlfriend and her cousin went psycho about it and signed us up. We waited in line with at least a thousand other people only to finally get up there, and all they did was take a headshot and send us on our way. The girls were all disappointed that there wasn't anything else to it while I the introvert just laughed about it.

Until I was the one they called back. Not only that, but it turns out they picked me to be a stand-in for Boyd Holbrook. I spent a week hanging out on David Fincher's set, occasionally doing work while trying to avoid getting in trouble for doing things like accidentally sitting in Rosamund Pike's chair. Then one of the assistant directors' mother died and he had to leave, so they "promoted" me to production assistant. At one point I was sent to look for and found David Fincher's missing iPhone.

Fucking surreal man. But I've got the 20th Century Fox W-2s to prove it.

The DNC gave Kamala Harris a big boost in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These people are gonna be pissed anyway when they find out the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in this war is one of the lowest if not the lowest in urban warfare history.

Podcast recommendations in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Just shilling away in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Walmart snapshot

Good advice! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

I'm calling the police

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LAN party network security (midwest.social)
 

Hey all. I'm heading to Quakecon 2024 tomorrow and will be repping the penguin. I've got all my games set up and ready, but was now wondering, are there any extra steps I should take as far as network security goes?

I'm sure I'm not as vulnerable to random badness as the flock of Windows machines that will be on the network, but you never know. The only thing on my list so far is to disable sshd. I thought about installing Portmaster but it has always messed up my DNS in the past...

I'll probably run Wireshark just to see if I can capture anything interesting there. Do you all have any other suggestions for prepping my PC?

If you were the president of USA, how would you make more people work in skilled trade jobs? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You know what I think about sometimes is how it's so weird that in America it's the duty of our employers to provide health insurance, meaning it's a cost to the business. Universal healthcare would free up shitloads of capital and have a huge impact on small businesses' staying power.

If you were the president of USA, how would you make more people work in skilled trade jobs? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

Damn, what a good way to think about this. Thanks for the post.

Golden again. Simone Biles wins gymnastics Olympic individual all-around title in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] pelotron@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

I want do a metal cover of Suni Lee's floor routine music.

Look At These Fucking Weirdos in c/politics@lemmy.world
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AI will capture carbon through reverse buzzwordolysis (midwest.social)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by pelotron@midwest.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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RIP James Randi (midwest.social)
 

RIP James Randi who died before anyone could claim the his prize for playing RB1 over the board against Levy.

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Newly built BKB Duo with custom battery (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pelotron@midwest.social to c/micromobility@lemmy.world
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Sorry for the messy work bench but that's how it is with my DIY projects. 🙂 This is the Build Kit Boards Duo kit with a custom battery setup.

The battery enclosure is one from their site that is on fire sale due to being left over from their previous kit version. It doesn't exactly fit so I did a little work on it with a hacksaw. It is bound to the board via 8 thumb screws that attach to steel threaded inserts that I installed on the deck. I do have to remove all the screws to take the batteries out and charge them... I'd like to come up with a better solution but no good ideas so far.

For batteries I'm running three 5000mAh 4S LiPo batteries in series, so effectively a 12 cell. There is room in the enclosure for three more of these so I can have two 12 cell packs in parallel. I'm hoping for a 25 mile range from that setup.

I commuted to work on this this morning and had a blast! Electric skateboards kick ass.

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I can't use AMD (midwest.social)
 

It's necessary for my very important hobby of generating anime nudes.

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Ihsahn - THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US (Black Metal) (www.youtube.com)
 

This song popped up on Sirius XM this past weekend and I loved it. It's like a blend of Dimmu and Wilderun.

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On the windswept plains of southwest Kansas, loneliness and isolation confirm policy failures (kansasreflector.com)
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Anyone have Garuda experience? (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pelotron@midwest.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I've been gaming on Kubuntu for over 2 years now but recently have been getting interested in Garuda. I've booted into the live Dragonized Gaming iso and was really impressed with the out of the box gaming-centric setup.

I've also been looking for more reasons to switch away from Ubuntu, and have been hit with the EOL countdown for plasma in 23.04, so the time is right for a distro hop. With the latest Garuda release they added an official Hyprland variant which looks really cool too.

Does anyone use Garuda? What are your impressions/thoughts/experiences? What should I expect from switching to an Arch base? Same questions for Hyprland too.

I have 16 gigs of ram, an Intel i7 something and an nVidia 2080.

Edit: I booted into the Hyprland live iso last night and I must say, Hyprland is cool af. Really a breath of fresh air and very intuitive. I'm going to run with the install this weekend.

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Perseids meteor shower tonight (blogs.nasa.gov)
 

Anyone have any tips on good places to view this outside of the metro area? I live in Olathe and have tried the area around Hillsdale Lake before which was alright, but still had quite a bit of glow in the horizon.

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Johnson county election today (www.kansascity.com)
 

Don't forget to vote in these elections today! Local elections are where your votes carry the most power!

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Who has the most poorly maintained highways? (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pelotron@midwest.social to c/askmidwest@midwest.social
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I nominate I-80 in Illinois or I-70 in eastern Colorado. Crossing the border from Kansas to Colorado is like "holy f- OW I BIT MY TONGUE"

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Kaw Point on July 4th (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pelotron@midwest.social to c/kansascity@midwest.social
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Went on a bike ride around the city with some folks yesterday. This is one of a few pics I took along the way. It was a great day to ride, if a little hot.

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