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  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Books
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    28 days ago

    Theodore Roosevelt could read several hundred page books every night in a few hours and have all the information on total recall …from what I’ve read. Apparently he would impress world leaders by studying their entire culture before meeting and it allowed him to deeply connect with them. My grandfather was the same way.

    I wish I was that lucky but my brain doesn’t work like that

  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Books
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    28 days ago

    A buddy called me to fix some plumbing in a house he baught , he said the previous owners were hoarders. So I went over and the whole fucking basement was wall to wall book shelves with fucking isles!

    He said the lady that owned the house was some eccentric type that hung out in NY back in the 50’s around artists and writers, traveling the world etc. her husband was some sort of critic and they liked books.

    I asked what he was doing with it all and he said he sold the contents of the house sight unseen to some guy that wanted it all and was going to be arriving any minute but if I wanted anything to take it now. My brain was scrambling, I didn’t want to be a dick so I just grabbed two books; Tropic of Cancer and Future Shock ( and a bunch of lab equipment that was in a secretive back room lol). They were both first edition books and had newspaper clippings about Miller and Toffler among other reviews that were stuffed in the pages.

    It was crazy because they had so much bad ass shit , old leather bound stuff etc. It was just too much to process and I hope it didn’t all wind up in a dumpster. I wish I could have spent a few days pillaging those shelves.

  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•This is a PSMA!
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    1 month ago

    Ahh , I see , i still have no clue 😅. But at least the acronyms are kind of giving me an idea. Thanks !

    So these are not like a physical 1 terabyte external storage thingy that I’ve seen on ebay etc.? Would one of those external drives work for backing up physical media collections, or are they a bad idea? Is that considered NAS?

    I’m sorry I don’t understand any of this stuff , I really should. I will check out the RAID wiki !

  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•This is a PSMA!
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    1 month ago

    What the hell is RAID and NAS ? I have a bad ass DvD collection to the tune of 3k films ( no pineapple express bull shit ) that I’ve been wanting to back up. I don’t know shit about computers but have a 2014 MacBook pro with a disk drive that has never been online just used to watch movies when the power is out and to load my cd collection to mp3 players.

    Help me out here !!!

  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Hubris
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    1 month ago

    It just isn’t worth the risk. A scaffold could be built in ~30 minutes ( an hour tops) with almost no risk at all. I’ve worked at a facility with many tanks of water over 90k gallons each and we never would have pulled a stunt like that. Most had a permanent catwalk to service utilities above like lighting and plumbing.

  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Its like seeing those high-tech pop machines for the first time
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    1 month ago

    A buddy of mine was locked up from 03 - 17. He was asking me, questions like " do you have Playstation 3, what kind of phone do you have?" …

    He said " man I know I missed a lot but people are so rude now. I was talking to my cousin and instead of talking to me he was looking at his phone. That is disrespectful." I said yeah man the world changed a lot. Felt terrible for him trying to integrate back into this bull shit.

    He went away for the craziest shift in society I could imagine.