Balthazar
@Balthazar@lemmy.world
- Comment on ach, aye 5 weeks ago:
How’d they get away with those keywords?
- Comment on Where do milsim video games occurs nowadays ? 3 months ago:
I grew up on Jet Fighter 2, so I’m also curious about modern versions.
- Comment on xkcd #2878: Supernova 4 months ago:
Pretty sure the curve should turn up on the right side at some point.
- Comment on Amazon's Union-busting training video 4 months ago:
If you refer to hints of union activity as “warning signs”, then you’re anti-union.
- Comment on This Asteroid Mining Startup Is Ready To Launch The First-Ever Commercial Deep Space Mission 6 months ago:
Assuming all goes perfectly, the company will have a survey of an asteroid with a commercial worth of several million dollars or more. Surely there’s no way they will share that openly with the scientific community, for fear of corporate competition, which is a terrible shame.
- Comment on I'll never not want to 6 months ago:
Isn’t a pączki a kind of donut?
- Comment on Paint brand preferences? 6 months ago:
$83 a tin. What makes it worth that?
- Comment on Paint brand preferences? 6 months ago:
I don’t think it matters which color samples you get. Everyone has to be able to reproduce everyone else’s colors. The only differences might be that if you use a different company’s color samples, then it takes them a little bit more work to do the color match, rather than simply giving them their company’s name for a color; and you may get a guarantee on the color if you use their own colors.
- Comment on Paint brand preferences? 6 months ago:
As a DIY homeowner that paints maybe a room a year on average, my current favorite paint is HGTV Home Showcase by Sherwin Williams, available from Lowes. It has a red label. It’s a small step up from the cheapest, but it’s still far from the most expensive; but it seems to me that the gain in quality that you get from paying a bit more than the cheapest is much more than you would expect, so it’s got a great quality-to-price ratio. With the cheapest paint, you have to work to get it on the walls smoothly, but this goes on nicely.
- Comment on New homeowner lots of questions 6 months ago:
This is all great advice! I would add:
- Youtube is great for how-to videos that will allow you to take care of a lot of small repairs more or less for “free”, but it’s not interactive. Use this Lemmy community and/or diy.stackexchange.com to crowd-source solutions to your problems (explain the problem and post a few photos) that you can then watch videos about.
- In regard to tools, I like the following rule: when you first need a tool, buy the cheapest one that will get the job done; then when it eventually breaks (because you’re using it for new jobs) buy a good-quality one. This way, you’re not spending extra money on stuff you’re only going to use once or twice.
- Laws in the United States allow a lot of work to be done by the homeowner, especially when you’re replacing “like for like” (e.g., swapping out an electrical socket); but if you’re doing more than that, check on whether you’re going to need a permit from the local government. In other countries, laws may require licensed contractors perform certain work (e.g., electrical and plumbing).
- Take care of emergencies, but then get comfortable. It’s your home, you’re going to spend lots of time there, so you don’t want to be living in a construction zone for a decade. Work towards a standard of living that you (and your family) can not only tolerate but have some level of comfort in.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 7 months ago:
I’ve heard this in Australia but nowhere else. Is this Australian slang, or does somewhere else use it too?
- Comment on Any recommendations for joint compound? 8 months ago:
I take it back… it’s 5 minute mud. Sounds like an insanely short working time, but it’s just to take care of only a few little dents in a small area, and it gives you very fast turnaround.
- Comment on Any recommendations for joint compound? 8 months ago:
For the odd small drywall repair around the house, I like to keep on hand a small packet of 15 minute mud powder. You can mix up a little, apply it, and then sand and apply another coat soon after, so you can get the whole job done in an afternoon. And it never goes bad.