GooeyGlob

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • GooeyGlobtoPet RatsQuestions About Pet Rats
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    27 days ago

    Honestly this seems a little excessive, BUT there is one important thing you can do to prolong your rats life and that is to always have two or three. Sorry if you already know all this, but just in case: Rats are very social and help each other’s physical and mental health; we might think we can provide enough social contact for them, but they just need at least one other rat in their life to be happy. IMO It’s best to just start with 3 from the same litter (in case one dies on the younger side).

    This is the real cost IMO, as you need a decent sized cage to be able to give them some room to move around, as well as lining, toys and food. This should usually be the majority of the cost of ownership.

    Truthfully most rats are fairly resilient, the hardest thing to deal with its that their lifespan just doesn’t compare to other types of pets. 3 years is really the max you’re looking at and we’ve had many barely make it to 2, so really you need to plan for end of life care and burial or cremation costs and the occasional vet visit, which very a lot by region.

    If you have a VCA or a local vet who specializes in rodents (cause trust me, we’ve had bad vets who accidentally did more harm than good) you should be able to get an idea of costs for a tumor removal should one occur, unless you just want to put them down once it starts hurting their quality of life. This is much easier said than done because they are such sweet animals.

    For us in central MA, for our least healthy rat is around $800 for a tumor removal (which has already come back about 6 months later, so another $800 upcoming), and end of life stuff usually is around $200-250. I hope this helps!









  • Yes you’ll fuck things up. Don’t keep anything remotely important on it and screw around with it. That’s how you learn. Blow your install away intentionally, try a different distribution the next time. There’s a lot more variability between distros, and more customizability compared to Windows too.

    If you want to learn something new and different anyway. It’s definitely not like Windows except at the most surface level; you can get by in the GUI for almost everything until something goes wrong, but that’s exactly when you want to have been learning cmdline stuff, so you can try to salvage it.



  • GooeyGlobtoLinux@lemmy.mlGaming laptop with good Linux support?
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    2 years ago

    I was looking for a smaller (14" and not bulky) gaming Laptop, and ended up with the Lenovo Slim 7 Pro X. And I’m very happy with it; feels fairly future proof with 32GB of Ram and runs NixOS like a champ.

    Only has a GTX 3050 though, so it’s not for the highest end gaming, but that’s never been my priority anyway, it runs BG3 quite well and that’s the beefiest thing I’ve thrown at it.


  • As mentioned, Minisforum and Beelink make great APU-based Ryzen systems which are going to give a great bang-for-buck. Get them from Amazon vs their dedicated website as some folks have had shipping delqys with the OEM website. ETA Prime does great reviews on YouTube of these boxes and shows what the FPS is like on some current, a few years old, and retro games for each one.

    If you want the smallest possible system, with room for one the smaller form factor discrete graphics cards I’d say the NUC 9 Extreme works very well. I have a GTX 1650 in it and it is perfectly fine.

    Steam Deck with a usb c dock is also a great option.






  • Was hoping for something enlightening here actually related to crypto, and found a very generic analysis of US debt. What actually matters is the deficit, and we will have to see if the US ever gets back to net positive.

    When the first article on the site you see is titled “Plot Against Simonyan and Sobchak’s Life Confirms ‘Terrorist Essence of Zelensky Regime’” and the other sources referenced have sputnik in the title, you really need to consider the biases of the source you’re reading. Is it generic Russian disinformation? You decide.

    I own more crypto than any other currency, that does not mean we should embrace every article which paints the dollar as facing imminent doom.


  • GooeyGlobtocryptocurrency@lemmy.mlFavorite coin
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    2 years ago

    I have to say PulseChain. Richard Heart is entertaining AF and has been accused of being every bad thing imaginable, but after some fairly long delays did release his copy of the entire Ethereum blockchain.

    People were (and are still) able to bridge out their copied assets if they didn’t want to stick around (recently this happened with the PEPE copies and he took a big hit on the pPEPE price, when after the initial pPEPE price spike, the OG holders swapped pPEPE back for ePEPE and bridged out), but it’s early enough in its life that some of these coins might eventually become meaningfully more valuable. Already some good farms to be a degen on.

    Still love ETH and hold rETH and regular old ETH but PLS is fun and exciting at least for now.












  • I finally got to catch a show earlier in the year. Was a bit of a trek, but the venue was very fun and did not feel like a traditional arena type event (was at the MA Museum of Contemporary art, very neat).

    Lineup was so fun (Flood plus some deeper cuts), though I do wonder if they really deep down believe that their fans only like Flood? They seem to joke about it a lot. Their more recent work is really fun to me, Nanobots is such a killer album, so many bangers on that one.

    Especially loved hanging out after and checking out other items at the venue and the merch area. From my last concert I believe they actually get the profits from their merch, so I was happy to contribute.





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