curbstickle
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- Comment on PISS 5 hours ago:
For the price of a 12 pack of condoms I can get 300 water balloons.
- Comment on PISS 5 hours ago:
Why are we focused in water balloons when condoms exist? Are they too resilient?
Water balloons are designed to be broken on impact. Condoms are engineered to be resistant to breaking.
I’d prefer the water balloon.
- Comment on PISS 11 hours ago:
Requires sufficient pressure. It is easier with warm liquid though.
Leaving it out in the cold overnight can freeze the balloon, but take care to check how thin the walls of the frozen balloon are. The goal, IMO, would be to freeze it enough to use a launcher, but not enough to be frozen solid.
This provides a secondary benefit of unexpected shards of piss distributed at impact.
Please note that current testing has been with standard balloons, in -5F to 15F, in the shade, with only water. Methods may be improved with water balloons - a bit smaller, with thinner latex to ensure it breaks, but more flexible, and designed to handle being filled with liquid.
Field testing is highly recommended.
- Comment on Sonarr and the codecs/formats...what am I missing? 13 hours ago:
You’ll need to share your custom format json (or screenshot) and your quality profile.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 14 hours ago:
I prefer rapist/child rapist to describe him, a bit more direct and accurate.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 14 hours ago:
PedoTUS
The president (POTUS)
Jeff
Epstein
never should have been used in the first place.
Yes, and now its much, much worse.
- Comment on What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable? 1 day ago:
You dont say what kind of website it is, just not blog or documentation style.
But SSGs can be skinned a bunch if different ways, and have been set up for a bunch of different purposes.
https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators
I have been using Zola for myself lately, its less blog post and more article oriented, but still doc heavy. I like the duckquill theme (with… More than a few changes, but still), which I doubt fits what you want. For comparison, here is duckquill: https://duckquill.daudix.one/
But you may like the Portio theme: https://quentin-rodriguez.github.io/portio-zola/
If you don’t need to update often though, I think some basic html could be the way to go rather than using an ssg.
- Comment on Switch from American tech companies !? 6 days ago:
I have a bunch of TBs in a NAS and jellyfin/navidrome/audiobookshelf. Because I’m excessive and like making my life harder.
No ads, no subscriptions, just self-inflicted bullshit.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 1 week ago:
Which apps for Lemmy have a form of karma.
Voyager, for example, tracks how much you have upvoted or downvoted each user, which is so highly localized I can’t consider it a karma system.
The person you replied to is probably mad because they get down voted a lot for being shitty.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 1 week ago:
Probably any with tags is what they mean, considering I have them tagged as a transphobe, I’m sure lots of people have.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 1 week ago:
Even better would be them posting to PTB after…
- Comment on Unifi Teleport 2 weeks ago:
My setup doesnt matter, I don’t use Unifi for my main home infra.
You can use the Unifi device itself. Teleport is just a single click Wireguard service, with no need for port forwarding or additional configuration.
Last I saw it, you can export the config from the browser for use with client devices, you can use that with wireguard tunnel and set it as always on.
- Comment on Unifi Teleport 2 weeks ago:
I am, though I’m not using unifi.
Teleport is just Wireguard with unifi stacked on top. You can just export the config and its literally a Wireguard connection. Unifi Teleport is just using their online services to replace a step.
But teleport (which is Wireguard under the hood) is not meant for an always-on connection, its meant for ad-hoc connections.
So if you want always on, export the config and run it as a Wireguard tunnel. Its exactly the same service, running on exactly the same device, without using wifiman and allowing for an always on VPN.
- Comment on Unifi Teleport 2 weeks ago:
If you want it to run all the time, I’d export the config file and use Wireguard tunnel rather than wifiman for teleport.
VPN only access for just you is a perfectly appropriate solution.
- Comment on Unifi Teleport 2 weeks ago:
Unifi teleport is a Wireguard VPN.
If you want to access your internal devices/services from elsewhere, and dont require public internet access, yes, this is perfectly fine.
Traefik (and other proxy tools) are generally used for public internet based access, not VPN.
- Comment on We really need a community for AuDHD info-dumping 2 weeks ago:
I really like the noise they make when they get pressed
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 2 weeks ago:
I see you didnt actually read the title or the writings.
Goodbye.
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 2 weeks ago:
So is everyone.
Saying “he’s just another dude” as if his opinions on politics don’t matter is that same as saying your opinion (or my opinion) doesn’t matter. Its saying only politicians opinions matter, which is about the polar opposite of reality.
- Comment on The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026 2 weeks ago:
I was curious what this nonsense looks like - and found out that the $5k is the preorder price. It goes up to $5600 once its shipping.
Looking at it in their videos it just reminds me of every “Robot turns bad and kills everyone” story. Just needs red eyes to replace blue.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 3 weeks ago:
I’d be hard pressed to think of one that wasn’t, yeah.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 3 weeks ago:
I would say by their judgment that is what makes them “good”.
- Comment on My recent modifications to an old industrial(?) air filter (and a brief rant about appliance design) 3 weeks ago:
I have a full set of security bits, not just torx, but the really annoying part was that its a mini set (I mostly work with smaller electronics), and the shaft isnt very long. That 4” depth I mentioned? I had to chain adapters because even my flex extension was too thick to fit.
What a pain in the ass.
That said, now I can save myself the headache of remembering what I need for when I have to go in there again. I’m just waiting for the stupid and completely unnecessary touch control panel to die, and its going to get some physical buttons instead I guarantee it.
Ridiculous Honeywell crap. At least it does a good job of filtering the air.
- Comment on My recent modifications to an old industrial(?) air filter (and a brief rant about appliance design) 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this is a huge problem specifically with Honeywell tbh. I have one of their air filters, and had to take it apart over the weekend - my youngest had shoved any random thing possible in there, from magnets (learning letters sort of thing) to a metal ruler he nabbed from my office.
The screw holes were obvious, but set back around 4” or so. Checking in with a flashlight, I thought “Oh, that looks about a T20, this should be easy peasy”. About 10 minutes and a bunch of random expletives later, I realized that they were security t20s. Seriously. Wtf Honeywell? Its an air filter. AN AIR FILTER. Why the hell would you use security screws???
I have those bits of course, but aside from me (and my dad before he passed away, though the bits are still in his toolbox in the same spot) I don’t know anyone else who does. Maybe a couple folks I work with, but its a short, short list.
And why? No one is calling Honeywell for repairs on this unit. It was a fairly cheap HEPA system. It would just end up in a landfill rather than be repaired.
So now written on the inside under the vent cover that’s removable to replace the filters, it just says “T20S” so I don’t waste my time if I need to reopen it and I forget.
Sorry, needed to vent/commiserate on the very stupid designs of Honeywell products.
I think you did some solid adjustments to make it easier for next time - and yeah, it looks fine, its no less attractive IMO because its just a filter. Its not a center piece and it should not be.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 weeks ago:
Yeah everything is a player (including the piano), and aside from the instruments themselves there are hundreds of rolls - originals (which my kids saw how they are made with an old Mr. Rogers episode I put on for them), customs my FIL made of his own music, and some modern pop we’ve picked up for them.
And yep, AMICA is a great option, my FIL is a member still I think. We are definitely going to take at least one of them, I have a feeling it will be the big pneumatic upright. Which I’m prepping a controller conversion for to allow him to do midi with it to test playback before making a new roll. The controls all work but I need to replace one of the relays…
And now you know why that’s the one we’ll likely end up taking (and its also one of the bigger ones).
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 weeks ago:
Now that’s the kind of thing my wife would love to have. Maybe at some point we’ll take away someone else’s space occupier.
We’ve got a few pieces of furniture, the one in really not looking forward to is the musical instruments. We’re talking full grand piano, player piano, pneumatic uprights, etc. They are huge. There is no way my wife won’t want at least one, and I’m probably the only one who knows how to do the maintenance despite it being her parents stuff and she has a few siblings.
- Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 4 weeks ago:
Card games is pretty much it for us. Though with 2 kids, events are generally out right now. Once they are a bit older that will probably change.
I used to self host a cards against humanity style game that was browser based, but cards are just easier. There are a few I think on the awesome self hosted list, like a mincraft clone and a scrabble one, so the games section there may be worth a look.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 5 weeks ago:
I have them tagged as “right wing PoS” so I’m not sure youre getting anywhere with them.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 5 weeks ago:
Its also gloriously hilarious, plus….
Your magic is strong, but my squats are stronger
Is just pure poetry
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 1 month ago:
I use technitium, but there is nothing “wrong” with using a pihole. I used to run several (containers, plus one physical), and have set up quite a few for family and friends.
- Comment on Announcing Linkwarden for iOS & Android 1 month ago:
LinkDroid and LinkGuardian are android apps for LinkWarden available on F-Droid, FYI.
Linkguardian via IzzyOnDroid repo:
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/dev.elbullazul.linkguardian
LinkDroid via F-Droid repo: