dmtalon

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[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago

My point was a response to the comment I replied to saying he didn't understand why people would pet an elephant but not a lion or bear

Of course literally all large wild animals are dangerous and I wasn't disputing that one bit!

[–] dmtalon 4 points 1 year ago

Ya, I'm not walking up to an elephant either.

My aunt owns a herd of Hyland cows (which have huge horns) and they are not aggressive at all but can accidentally hurt you with them.

[–] dmtalon 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

Well, there is a pretty big difference between a carnivore/omnivore and a herbivore animal when it comes to how dangerous they are to other animals including humans.

But certainly not "safe" since they're so huge, powerful and wild animals.

[–] dmtalon 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sad... I was never a huge Frisch's patron, but seems like the modern equity firm comes in and bleeds dry long standing companies.

From the wiki

Leadership of Frisch's passed from founder David Frisch to his son-in-law and finally his grandson, until 2015, when the company was sold to Atlanta-based NRD Capital, an equity fund which focuses on restaurant development

[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, my current whole house audio is powered by Chromecast Audios. Unfortunately they no longer make them. But you can still get them new off eBay. I know because I just bought 5 more (unopened from Japan) as part of finishing our basement

Mine feed two 12 channel (six room) amplifiers. I've got a mini in each room whose default speaker is the associated CCA and it works great. I have speaker groups so I can ask "hey Google, play music in the basement" and all rooms play.

Previously I used casatunes. They don't do this anymore, but I bought a PCI card from them (it was a sound blaster hardware) but it was a 6 channel sound card and associated software that ran on windows IIS. It allowed both hardware and software streaming. I liked it but it never supported Google music and eventually I switched to the CCAs

[–] dmtalon 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe, just maybe let us uncheck some of those expensive channels we don't want or need?

All we managed to do was move cables infrastructure to the Internet. Still the same BS packaged overpriced garbage.

[–] dmtalon 1 points 1 year ago

After quickly searching saw you can disable automatic updates in developer options. Since I use AA exclusively I don't want it messing up!

[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll just keep rocking my 2008 Tundra (5.7 V8) that I bought new in December of 2007 until the wheels fall off. Been paid off since 2011.

It is a shame to see Toyota not at the top, my truck has been amazing.

[–] dmtalon 3 points 1 year ago

I complain when it's hot and when it's cold :). The difference is, in the heat it's easy to leave the house, but the run sucks. I. In the the cold, it's hard to leave the house, but the run is good :)

[–] dmtalon 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ran in the coldest weather of the season this Thursday. It was about 19°f when I left. I didn't look at what it was when I got back.

This is also the season of running in the dark during the week 😩. Still rocking a Black Diamond headlamp from 2015... No idea how it's still going

Also missed my Tuesday run because life got in the way and didn't get home until I just didn't feel like going.

I plan to run 10k tomorrow morning, which will give me a bit over 11 miles for the week.

[–] dmtalon 3 points 1 year ago

Glad you got one! I'm sure you'll love it

[–] dmtalon 63 points 1 year ago (17 children)

My dad's bringing his PC to my house when they visit for Christmas so we can setup Linux as a dual boot for him to see if he can switch from Windows 10 to Linux instead of buying a new PC

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