supdawg813 [comrade/them]

Maybe? Only if the surface is sloped to the sides and otherwise perfectly flat. And this is a vast surface to have the resin set like that, if such a thing is even possible without some shaping and polishing after it cures.

That reminds me, let’s not talk about the water that would collect on top lol

Aesthetics of solids vs flowing liquids aside, resin just doesn’t hold up very well under constant UV light. I don’t want to know what it would cost just to tear it up, nevermind replace it when that happens. Unless there’s some super resin I dont know about.

Other considerations:

• a million particles would get trapped in the resin before it cures.
• resin heats as it cures which could do massive damage to the basin at such large volumes.
• that amount of resin would be a nightmare to mix/pour evenly and cure quality would be highly dependent on weather. You’d probably have to do it in layers, which just creates more opportunity for debris to get trapped inside.
• wear and tear. I bet you would have all sorts of people and wildlife walking around on it and scratching it up.
• stains from said people and wildlife.
• yellowing and clouding over time, which will make it not so reflective plus plastics in general are a bitch and a half to buff/polish

…honestly you’d be far better off filling it with polished concrete or stone. Just commit to the bit at that point. You can even dye it.

Fair enough. Mine is secondhand off ebay, far from “new computer” expensive, but I get having to make-do for things you don’t really need.

I recently installed mint myself! I have it set up to dual-boot with windows.

It’s been relatively pain-free and the OS itself is great! but I fucked up not partitioning enough space for my home directory (thinking I’d store most things on a separate drive or share with my windows partition until I was ready to fully jump to linux - this was very dumb of me). The fix has been annoying enough (my installation media won’t run anymore so I either have to fix the media or find a way to partition a drive while it is in use) that I have just defaulted to using Windows most of the time.

I also had some windows-mirrored drives that I just decided to split for the time being until I find a way to re-mirror them without accidentally torching my data, or I at least have it backed up somewhere first.

Techno-babble aside, the install itself is easy as long as you don’t try to do anything complicated like I did. If you do decide to dual-boot despite this warning, just make sure you partition ample space for all of your applications and data. Otherwise you should be just fine and tbh I wish I’d done it sooner (and better lol).

I just have a cheap media laptop for when my desktop is not an option.

No my friend this is very much a dumb tv I will never own a smart tv in my lifetime if I can help it

I inherited a 2000s-2010ish? era flat screen that was missing its remote, plus the built in power button was on its way out, but I happened upon a remote from the very same (possibly now defunct) brand in a thrift store in the same week the power button stopped working so uh I think this 36 inch 720p tv was destined to live out the rest of its days on my wall and who am I to deny fate

That’s a massive part of the problem I have with it

Roku has always been an absolute garbo user experience for me I can’t believe anyone does that shit willingly