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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a recent thing, but I would say there has been a decline over the last decade or so. Not only does it seem like spelling and grammar are getting worse but I feel it is much more likely these days to find comments defending improper English rather than correcting it.
I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?
Maybe they had just come from dealing with large quantities of paper? Or enlarging a bunch of holes?
- Comment on Car sun visor with built-in navigation 3 weeks ago:
How does it handle the heat of being in a car? The mirror housings I made for my dirt bike got a bit soft just being outside in summer sun (until I annealed them), and inside a car can get pretty toasty. My mirrors were PLA though, if you’re printing with higher temperature material it might not be an issue.
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 2 months ago:
The only time I’ve resorted to the screwdriver technique (due to not having enough room to tighten and then turn a strap/chain wrench) the screwdriver shank just tore through the filter when I tried to turn it, a broader tool like a wide chisel might have a better chance of success.
What I ended up using that time was an air hammer with a broad headed chisel (pushing on the side where the impact would unscrew the filter). The angles wouldn’t work well for this in OPs case but if you have enough side access to get the air hammer through it’s a decent last resort.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 2 months ago:
I am also not opposed to banning x links - appreciate wider feedback on this though
I would generally prefer to see a screenshot of a xitter post rather than having to follow a link to it, for both my own ease of use and for reducing traffic to their site. However I do think a link to said xitter post should be able to be posted in either the body text under the screenshot or in a comment as a way to show the source of said screenshot.
- Comment on They just don't write good fantasy like this anymore. 3 months ago:
The cover art is real, but the words have been changed. The real book is The Sword of Bheleu.
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 3 months ago:
It already is for some specific rail freight, iron ore haulage in Western Australia being one example. Rio Tinto has been running them in WA since 2019.
The Sydney Metro is also driverless, albeit a passenger only line rather than freight.