xmetal

joined 1 year ago
[–] xmetal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Had been on torrents for super long but never used a private tracker so reliability and speed was all over the place. Recently switched to Usenet and the speed and inherent security far surpasses my experience with torrents. Couple bucks a month and nearly maxing out a 1Gbps connection is fine by me.

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Dang, that is a primo niche! Well done ☺️

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

My best is easily when I had a sleepover with a cousin and we spent the entire night (literally no sleep) playing a Japanese import of Super Mario Bros 3 months before it was available in the US. Magical, I’ll never forget it.

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

That would ultimately hurt the children though, as they would suddenly not be able to take AP courses and therefore would fall behind competitively when compared to peers. It's not the kids fault they live here, so other solutions need to be found.

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While it has nothing to do with web dev, the app “Paste” gives you an infinite copy-paste history that is extremely useful in all kinds of ways, but I certainly make use of it when moving code around or needing to paste short strings in sequence from one place to another. You can just copy-copy-copy-copy a bunch of things and then be able to easily find the spots you have to paste into without all the flipping back and forth.

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it a lot but it was quite pricey and quite a wait. Still, it’s worked extremely well and is so light, particularly if you just forgo the big protection inner.

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Do you know the cartoon gif of the cat with a sandwich strapped to its belly that just spins forever in space and will never hit the ground? That’s basically Mike Pence, the ultimate flip flopper.

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I was all over Dialtone 1.0. That was rad, really responsive. Pick that bad boy off the wall and it was ready to go! Limited feature set tho 😆

[–] xmetal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m in Florida and so a lot of hiking in the vast swaths of scrub land that have no shade, so it’s really useful to cut the exposure. I take it on pretty much every trip.

 

I made this image a little while ago and (surprise!) it's already out of date in a few areas, but it was fun to lay out all the gear that makes up a normal short hike for me. I've tried to aim toward #ultralight but also not be dumb about, and I am kinda old so keeping some niceties like the chair make my. time out in the wilderness a lot more fun.

What do you all carry on a normal short hike?