spongebue
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- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 6 days ago:
Oh, for sure. Especially during pumpkin pie blizzard season. Plus they always seem to feed my FOMO with some other flavor so I go twice during that season alone
- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 1 week ago:
Here’s the fun part: while you’re all talking about their ice cream, technically it’s not legal to call their product that. You won’t see it anywhere on the menu. I think it has to do with the milk/cream/egg/sugar amounts? There may not be egg at all, but can’t remember for sure.
Anyway, all you’ll ever see on the menu is “soft serve”
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
The “120 volt cable”, assuming you mean NM-B aka Romex, is rated for up to 600 volts if you look at it closely. It is absolutely acceptable to use that wiring for a 240V circuit, as long as you wrap colored (not green) electrical tape around the white neutral wire to indicate it’s another hot.
Yes, there are 3-conductor (plus ground) wires one can also use for switches and 240V circuits with neutral. That neutral can be used to have 120V and 240V together (your oven may use 240V coils, but the light bulb probably runs on 120). Doesn’t mean you need to have it, if your 240V circuit doesn’t need a neutral. My air compressor is just a motor that can run at 240, no neutral needed, and its outlet is wired up with the same kind of Romex used for a 120 right next to it (with black tape to indicate a second hot)
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
Dat toaster
- Comment on If youre bi do you have to prove it? 1 week ago:
If you like both vanilla and chocolate ice cream do you have to prove that?
- Comment on Driving through Nebraska twice nearly broke me. The people who live there must be among the hardest motherfuckers alive. 1 week ago:
Eastern Colorado might as well be west Kansas. Both areas I mentioned are in eastern Colorado.
- Comment on Driving through Nebraska twice nearly broke me. The people who live there must be among the hardest motherfuckers alive. 1 week ago:
I drive through it a few times a year, living in Denver but have family in Minnesota/Wisconsin. As crazy as it sounds, at least you have small towns and corn fields along I-80. There are some areas in Colorado (stretches of I-76, US-287 between Hugo and Kit Carson) where there’s just… Nothing. Like, you’d be surprised at how much more empty a corn field can be, and it totally does weird you out how far you are from a simple gas station, let alone a familiar McDonald’s (neither of those towns have that; I believe you’d have to go from Limon to Lamar to get from one McDonald’s to the next on that road, which is almost 2 hours)
- Comment on Holy shit I got Retro Achievements working on my Pi Gameboy! Lmao this is so cool. I get to achievement hunt in my favorite game, earthbound after 30 years. Amazing 3 weeks ago:
Especially in the last month or so I’ve been noticing how uninspiring technology has been. I used to love seeing whatever the gadget of the season was at Target while my mom shopped. Now it’s all… Phone cords, and um, printer ink cartridges. The same wireless speakers we bought years ago. Nothing about it is cool anymore!
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 3 weeks ago:
His Bluesky is also a delight
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 5 weeks ago:
I worked in the airline industry for years and learned a GUI overlay for one system and another entirely green screen system called SHARES (see if you can guess the airline). Honestly I kind of enjoyed working with those systems; there’s some refreshing “back to basics” feeling kind of like driving a manual transmission.
In my current job I’ve been using another legacy system. Well, my job was to create a relatively modern service for the legacy system to call, but none of the remaining developers knew how to use the extensions of that system that does SOAP calls. So I had to learn just enough of that legacy system to hold their hands through the parts that call my service. Kind of fun, to be honest!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
At 6 years old, you hardly understand how the world works. People generally realize that and act accordingly.
If anyone is getting divorced from something a 6-year-old did, either your parents don’t understand that (not your fault) or there was something much bigger going on already (not your fault) and whatever you did was the straw that broke the camel’s back (still not your fault, given the grace needed with a SIX-YEAR-OLD!)
If someone else said to you what you were saying to us, would you agree that “yeah, you must have been ‘born bad’* - that sucks”? And hold them to that same standard? Probably not. Don’t do it to yourself
* that’s not a thing, by the way
- Comment on Of all the vegetables beets is the most metal 1 month ago:
Huh?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
At first I thought it was Instacart with fewer things available. After reading the
press release“news article” it looks like it’s a way for people to buy things (no doubt at inflated gig economy app prices) for a party they aren’t necessarily hosting. Basically chipping in however many dollars but with a thing “attached” to it.Yeah, if I’m hosting a party I’m not making people use that.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 month ago:
Basic geography could go a long ways, if people believe you. At this point people were exploring the world trying to find the spice Islands, but didn’t know WTF they were doing. Magellan navigating the strait that would be named after him was impressive at its time, but now we know the best way from Europe to Asia (and spices and stuff) by sea without any modern canale is by going around Africa. Like, it still sucks and it’s a long trip but it’s doable compared to going to damn near Antarctica.
This assumes I don’t die, can communicate, and am not in the then-unpopulated (and quite landlocked) current location of Denver, Colorado.
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 1 month ago:
Totally with you there (probably a big selection bias on Lemmy, of course). Especially the draft. It’s… Announcements of people getting job offers. Yay?
That said, look up some of Jon Bois’s videos on YouTube if you have some time. I only learned about him because he’s a delight on Bluesky, and he has a kind of interesting/entertaining way to tell stories about sports. At least, the couple videos I just started watching have been!
That said, it may not be the best for current events.
- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 1 month ago:
The original is blocked in the US, but I found this and it seems to work: youtu.be/tDYjZ36IGfE
Definitely a pretty good representation! You know, as good as you can get when your instrument is grooved asphalt and rubber
- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 2 months ago:
It’s a different song that I don’t recognize, but it does sound correct for whatever it’s trying to be, if that makes sense
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 months ago:
Congratulations. You did a great job ignoring the rest of what I had to say.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 months ago:
And tying it to the Bluesky system? Not sure the cost of that (I swear I saw it was a potential monetization they were looking into) but also the time to figure it out isn’t practical for everyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Must be 4/20 somewhere…
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 months ago:
That’s great for an organization like NPR which may have the resources to tie its own domain name into Bluesky. For some freelance reporter or otherwise verifiable person, I’m not sure it’s quite so practical.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 months ago:
If they are, and there isn’t anything to display it, how are were to know what’s been vetted and what’s slipped through the cracks? Especially on a new account?
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 2 months ago:
In my broken mind, it has been for years!
- Comment on Yesterday's mystery print revealed 2 months ago:
I thought the wire of the fence was just unrolled filament!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How much could it cost to have a handful of requested groceries for a few chefs, knowing some of whom won’t move further, compared to the entire cost of producing the show?
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 months ago:
A good workspace is a thing of Zen. Enjoy your clean workbench, because that will change in a week and it will never be this clean again!
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 months ago:
Couple photos before caulking. Too many soulless, sterile, monochromatic kitchens out there. I have some white/gray stuff, but only with some strategy involved. Gray counters hide food. White cabinets are timeless and easy to match. I was sure to add color where I could otherwise, and the backsplash was a great option!
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 months ago:
Been working on a kitchen renovation, bit by bit. Floors, cabinets, counter… Basically everything except for appliances and general layout. The last big step was the tile backsplash, and my friend helped me with caulking it this past weekend (she said she has a pretty good touch with that, and I know I probably don’t). Turned out pretty good!
Normally my dad would help me with stuff like that, but he lives a few states away. He knows I’ve been working on it, but hasn’t seen any progress pictures in a long time. It’ll be fun to show him when my parents come to visit this week!
Down to some trim work (floor, cabinet toe kicks) and a few other odds and ends!
- Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 2 months ago:
It’s more like pranking your granny in the nursing home. Still plenty easy to do, but sad and cruel.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 months ago:
Sounds like you’re looking for something that only exists in the used market, which may be your plan anyway.
The Mitsubishi imiev never took off, but it’s probably the least-frilly EV you can buy. But as Doug Demuro will tell you, it’s a bit quirky. Assuming you’re American, yes, is was released in the States but no, you probably wouldn’t have heard of it. I’m not sure I’d recommend it necessarily, but it’s an option
That said, I have a Chevy Bolt. Pretty easy to find on the used market (and with that, get service if you need it) no dumb features nobody asked for. It does have Android Auto/Apple Car Play, which is actually pretty awesome (I believe it’s the 2022+ models with wireless car play). Their base models are pretty barebones (some don’t even have DC fast charging, watch out for that) but higher trims do have some nice features to them. It’s kind of a car you’ve seen on the road but didn’t know you actually wanted.
By the way, backup cameras became mandated a while ago. I’m not sure the screen size requirements (I’ve seen some cars put it in the rear view mirror, which was kinda cool actually) but since most cars need a screen now to support that, and higher trim levels will use that screen for other things, and making multiple pieces of hardware for the same car is an annoyance for car makers, you’ll probably see a screen on most cars. Just FYI.
