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  • Nah, it’s for the same reason they never went to a jungle world.

    Back in the day they just shot everything in the desert outside of LA. It’s the whole reason westerns were a thing in the first place, free setting.

    So there was a bunch of props and sets from the studio, and Star Trek could do it for free.

    I mean, wasn’t even MASH in the desert for some reason?





  • Federation with lemmy.world seems luck-based at this point.

    I mean, it seems pretty obvious the problem is .world let all these tiny instances that can’t even get 500 user a month federate…

    But .world now has to serve them up every post from the other tiny instances whose user post to .world because no one is on their home instance.

    I highly recommend any such tiny instances mutually defederate from .world, because the tiny instances are what’s causing the problem.

    Unfortunately they don’t want to do that because they’ll be cut off from the majority of Lemmy, instead they usually want to bitch and complain and demand .world treats them as the special unique people they truly are.

    It’s like back in the day when people would make huge posts about leaving social media on social media and the never leave…

    If you want to go, just go.

    Most people will never even notice

    Edit:

    To be clear, what causes delays and issues with federations and .world is the sheer amount of instances they federate with.

    The two options to fix it is upgrading infrastructure which costs money, or pruning federation until infrastructure has been scaled up.

    There’s just nothing else that can be done.



  • Pete and Bas, they’ve been doing it for a while now, couple years at least started during Covid.

    The story is one of their granddaughters showed them modern UK rap and they got into it. Some people say they used to be proper hardcore organized crime members in top of that.

    They do live shows and everything tho, like it is really them doing it

    Lately there’s more rumors that their earliest stuff was ghostwritten by another (much younger) duo who just started up with incredibly similar music, Nine and Dex:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLW5rQe4ziA

    Edit:

    Went back and listened to a couple of there songs…

    T-Pain and the one I linked both even start with a woman saying

    Nine… And One…

    And one of the younger duos has a dude named Nine. So he’s probably producing both or something. It’s weird I never saw anyone else mention that before.

    But even if Pete and Bas didn’t write their first stuff (they might have) them being old as fuck is why it went viral and the style is catching on. More variety in rap is always a good thing.

    But if you want the first old British guys rapping, it’s The Northern Boys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLQFLXz6VE

    And they’re in one of Pete and Bas’ first videos.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e5oKp-tCY4&pp=ygUZcGV0ZSBhbmQgYmFzIG1yIHdvcmxkd2lkZQ%3D%3D

    So like, maybe it’s all organic, but after watching the Kneecap movie, I really really really want one about how all this shit went down starring the actual musicians playing themselves




  • Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

    I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

    Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

    Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.


  • Depends.

    If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

    If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

    But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

    I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

    Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.