[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Please do not the cat.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I would end up with a farm that took all day to water, and never enough time to go down in any mine far enough to find iridium enough to make sprinklers out of, and then stop playing.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'm convinced it isn't.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know if it was a chain or a one-off, but a strip mall not far from where I grew up opened a frozen custard stall called Custard's Last Stand. I went in there exactly once. They served me a waffle cone full of a grey substance that resembled drywall plaster. It tasted alright but it needed some sprinkles or something.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Or, they knew what they were doing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well let's start off with just basic things like hobbies and interests. Let's LaForge this. Computer: run speed dating simulation three gamma. Add a typical bachelorette, approximately 35 years old, American, with a personality, hobbies and interests typical of her demographics. Run program. Alright, I'm going to go strike up a conversation with her about the heavy modular frame production line I built in Satisfactory, we'll see how she responds. I bet I'll respond similarly to listening her talk about the pointless knickknacks she bought at a thrift store or yoga class or whatever.

Like, you should enjoy sitting on the couch and watching TV with your partner, right? Okay, I'm about to binge watch Clickspring's clockmaking playlist again. That's three solid hours of a guy building a clock from scratch out of plate brass. He stops to build a custom wheel depthing tool. He experiments with different lapping plates for polishing the heads of screws, spoiler: Tin is better than MDF. Find me a woman that would actually enjoy watching this with me any more than I would enjoy watching some drag queen show with her.

I've got maybe 40 years left on this planet, I've reserved not a second for pretending to care about antiquing or pilates class, I'm sure there are few women on the planet who are interested in, say, hand plane sharpening. So why bother each other?

Beyond that, my "Never putting up with that again" list has grown quite long. Shit like being called "non-communicative" by little miss "If you don't know what's wrong, I'm definitely not going to tell you."

So...what's there to like, exactly?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

pretty okay, just had a shower and I'm chilling on the couch with my cat. She is steadily purring. comfort level is around a 7.8, maybe 7.9.

I bought HL1's GOTY edition when it came out.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

writing headlines like that should earn a nice lengthy face tazing.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

JK Simmons was the objectively correct choice. 100% perfectly cast.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that's literally it.

There's a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I'm not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.

[-] [email protected] 98 points 3 days ago

"Corsi-Rosenthal Box" sounds like it's some theoretical physics thought experiment, but no it's some filters and a box fan.

Be tempted to build one of those for my shop.

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I have a Porter Cable dovetail jig. It works reasonably well when it's properly aligned, but properly aligning it a hilariously clumsy process of guess and check. The alignment lines on the templates are on the top surface, so there's a quarter inch of parallax error, and the brass adjustment nuts aren't graduated in any meaningful way. The instructions say things like "If the joint is too loose, move the jig away from you." How far? Depends on where you hold your head. It results in a guess-and-check, guess and check mentality. There is no try, measure how far off it is, and adjust it based on that measurement.

I solved both of these problems with a knife.

I printed out a little wagon wheel looking thing to use as a guide so I could put some graduation marks around the brass thumb screws. They run on a 16TPI threaded rod, so 1 full turn drives it 1/16th inch, 1/2 turn 1/32", 1/4 turn 1/64", and 1/8 turn 1/128". I stopped there because that's about the limits of my ability or need to measure. It's not on an absolute scale, but now I can move both sides of the template with some precision, if not accuracy.

I also scribed an alignment line on the back of the template, and then down each side of each template tooth. The factory alignment lines are like 1/16" wide or better, so I just scribed the location of the center. That should eliminate parallax error.

I'll give it a test run tomorrow and see if I helped it any.

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Cleaned up my shop (sh.itjust.works)
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After several small projects, it was time for a cleaning and organizing. Spent like 3 hours and the place is still a disorganized wreck. I've just got too much shit in a little building.

I also dropped a clamp on my foot, -2hp.

But, the place is somewhat less dusty now.

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god. dammit I have to table saw this butcher block apart.

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What it came up with is too good not to share:

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Conventional wisdom regarding finishing cutting boards and other food prep surfaces is to coat them heavily with mineral oil and/or a food safe paste wax to "seal" and/or "condition" them. Seri Robinson asserts otherwise, her research has shown that any finish applied to wood decreases its natural anti-microbial properties.

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I had dental surgery like, a month ago. Posted about it here. Instead of a front tooth I've got a metal (titanium I think?) cap sticking out of my gums. The tip of my tongue constantly touches it and I'm really over it.

The weirdest part is every time I brush my teeth it feels cold for like an hour. The button has a female drive to it (I think it's Torx?) and it holds onto toothpaste.

At least I'm off my no biting things diet. There's stuff that's still impractical to eat but I can have sandwiches now.

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I've gotten several of the text-in-image variant lately from accounts on SJW over the last few days.

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SawStart(XKCD) (xkcd.com)
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So here's the state of things right now:

I've got a Synology NAS with stuff like my movie collection stored on it. I think at some point I'll move my music collection up there, too. It's an ARM powered 2-bay thing, I'm not particularly interested in using any of Synology's software, and there's some stuff that won't run on that box because it's ARM instead of x86. I don't really have a "server" box running.

A few years ago I bought a "commercial TV" aka one that doesn't have Roku or whatever. For awhile, I ran OSMC (basically Debian Kodi) on a Raspberry Pi, which...I had enough problems with that it's unlivable. I'd rather just not have a television than continue to use OSMC.

In the meantime, I built a new gaming PC for my desk, the old machine (which happens to be in a Fractal Node 202 case so it already looks like a TiVo) has been moved into the living room. It's a Ryzen 3600/GeForce GTX-1080 machine with a bit over a terabyte of SSD and 16GB of RAM. It's still kicking bubblegum and chewing ass. Yes, it idles at a greater power draw than the Pi pulls at full steam, but it'll spend most of its time asleep, we'll be okay.

I'm currently still using Mint Cinnamon on it. Which is a hilariously unusable home theater OS. Plus I have my desktop (a Ryzen 7700/Radeon 7900GRE machine running Fedora KDE) and my phone (A Galaxy S10e) that I sometimes watch media on. Some questions:

  • Why does VLC error out when trying to play mp4s stored on my NAS? Is it because SMB is Microsoft fucksewage that doesn't actually work? Because that's my working hypothesis.

  • I have so little information on what Plex/Jellyfin even are, I gather Plex is at least semi-commercial while Jellyfin is the open source but worse option. These may or may not have a server component that has to run on a server-like box, which I don't and won't have.

  • On the client side, I don't know if they take the place of a DE the way Kodi does, or if it's a separate app, or if you'd have to exit Plex or Jellyfin to use something like Steam, or if Steam Big Picture mode would work as a media center, but can it get to Youtube...

Is there anything out there that works better than throwing my TV away and forgetting about it?

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I finally caught a lunar eclipse. like five of them I missed due to weather, it's clear tonight.

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Did a lot of things like emptying the bathroom trash can, got rid of some packaging that was holding nearly nothing, put some stuff in some drawers, folded one load of laundry and loaded another. The place is technically better in a way that isn't apparent.

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