cosecantphi

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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Typically I don't. When I watch ridiculously long Youtube videos I have them playing in the background while I do other things, most of them aren't very reliant on the visual aspect of the medium and work perfectly fine as long podcasts with more structure. It's nice to not have to come back to my laptop and select a new video to listen to every 10 minutes.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

It's kind of impressive she has the correct number of fingers, too bad about the remaining anatomy

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I really enjoyed his Man in Cave video, so I took a look at the other videos on his channel. Clocked him as fash within seconds, and asked Youtube to not recommend his channel again. What a shame.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

like it says in the book, we are blessed and cursed

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Was it true that these things have a literal kitchen granite fucking countertop as a dash with no airbags? I'd expect you won't be seeing them around for much longer once most of their drivers end up either dead or with traumatic brain injuries.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Fuck, imagine taking all the time, effort, money, and risk to do THIS and not even managing to grievously injure a single officer. I'd be absolutely livid, kicking myself about it for the rest of my days in my cell at ADX Florence

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After thinking it over for a little while, this seems like the way to do it. The weights should be inside the RTX box itself in place of the card, right?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You gotta be shitting me. We criticize China's dogshit foreign policy (especially during the fucking cold war) around here all the time, including their unfortunately positive opinion of Kissinger. Someone should send this asshole a collage of all the celebration posts we made when that war criminal fuck suddenly found himself in hell.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They'll really, actually refund for this? I figured that in cases where the package is actually stolen from your doorstep that Amazon would just tell you to pound sand by saying it's your fault you didn't secure the thing soon enough.

Will they require a police report? I'd loath to talk to the fucking cops about anything, but hey, if it saves me nearly a thousand dollars on a GPU, then maybe I should just get over it for few minutes to do so. I guess I could simply be as vague as possible in filling out the report. If the police really wanted to, they could probably get permission to look at my neighbors ring cameras, some of which probably have a view of my front door, but I guess that's a moot point because the cops aren't going to put in anywhere near that kind of effort into solving a petty theft when they could be spending their time on more productive pursuits like shooting family dogs and planting drugs on black people.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

I feel exactly the same. I'm so very grateful Hexbear exists as a reprieve from the incredibly reactionary English speaking internet. The one and only reliable forum where we can rest easy and know we won't be judged or insulted according to the standards of capitalist hegemony.

The terminally boot addicted, paypig assholes of reddit are such an underrated element of why reddit's radioactive cesspit of a community is so insufferable. This thread would have been removed by mods if posted anywhere on reddit but r/illegalifeprotips (which I am absolutely stunned the reddit admins have continued to let exist despite having effectively become r/shoplifting 2.0 but with a much broader criminal subject manner).

The icing on the cake is that these people just get more and more emboldened as reddit hemorrhages leftists and continuously lurches right. More and more often these days I've noticed that comments complaining about Nvidia's extortionate pricing tend to result in these freaks crawling out of the woodwork to literally outright mock and shame people for being too poor to afford mid-end GPUs anymore. Reddit has always been bad, but holy shit, I don't remember reactionaries being quite this mask off about these things back when r/CTH was around.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

That's what I was thinking, but I'm unsure if good standing is enough for them to not check the serial number on a product worth over two grand. Maybe swapping something worth less than like 500 dollars would go unnoticed, but more than two grand feels like it's really pushing the limit here, especially when felony theft charges could very well be the worst case scenario.

I'd give this a shot with a cheaper card if I could figure out how to flawlessly swap the serial number label.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

What I've heard previously is they are much more likely to check with electronics worth several hundred dollars, something about how such returns automatically get flagged to be inspected separately.

That said, I'm wondering if maybe the GPU isn't the component I should be doing this with. Perhaps it'd be more foolproof to just swap the IHS of an i9 and Celeron of the same socket and return the Celeron wearing the i9's serial number. I've never heard any stories about Amazon literally testing parts in a test bench before.

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