Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • Warm cashews, strawberry, and buttery popcorn also known as the “Hill’s Snack Bar” smell. I always remember that smell associating with getting a new toy or picking out a birthday present.

    There’s a novelty candle that tried and largely succeeded at recreating that smell, and I bought one several years ago. I still have half of it left, but it got buried in a box when I moved and is probably still there.

    Stock picture, but mine looks exactly like this:

    For those too young to remember Hill's or not from the area

    Hill’s was a department store chain and as soon as you walked in the front door, there was a massive snack bar that would put even the fanciest movie theater to shame. They went out of business sometime in the late 90s but were a staple growing up in the late 80s/90s.








  • It varies widely in my state. Until I moved, I couldn’t get anything above 768k DSL, spotty 3 Mbps 4G, or 25 Mbps highly-capped satellite (this was pre-Starlink). I tried all 3 but ended up using a 3G and eventually 4G hotspot until 2019 and managed a few Mbps on average.

    I had Optimum (fiber to the node) from 2020 through 2023 and paid for 400/40 and generally got that in practice (even upload). In 2023 I switched to 1 Gbps symmetrical fiber to the home and it’s been everything I’ve always wanted. I think I can get up to 5 Gbps now if I want it, but honestly, I rarely saturate my current one. And it costs about $10 more than I was paying for 400/40.

    A good related question for this post would be how reliable is your home internet, and is your provider “Frontier”? lol.








  • Yes, please!

    The Titan 2 Elite looks awesome though it appears to be just a render right now. I was looking at the original Titan a while back but it was pretty dated even then. Gonna keep an eye out for the Elite.

    The phone will come powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 processor, have 12GB of RAM, and 512GB of internal storage. There is no word on the display or the battery, but going by the previous release, it should be an AMOLED screen, and the battery should be 5,000mAh. Neither is there any word about the release timeline, pricing, or other features of the device right now. The sole official render of the phone suggests a sleeker-looking body, erringly similar to the Clicks Communicator.





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    4 days ago

    I really like my Ninja one but it’s got some weird mechanical sensors in the base that tell it what attachment you’re using (blender pitcher, food processor, single-serve cup, etc). I’ve had it for about 5 years now and use it regularly, and it’s held up, but I always worry about those little sensor things messing up.