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- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 1 day ago:
Solvent does not remove rust.
You degrease the part, then manually remove the rust, then clean with the solvent just before welding. Acetone or alcohol are better cleaners for weld prep than brake cleaner. These solvents are volatile enough that most of the time, the part is dry and not-flammable by the time you get your gear on and are ready to weld.
The really damaging thing here is not the fire but if you use chlorinated brake cleaner when welding it created concentrated chlorine gas and will kill you.
Welding produces a ton of nasty fumes and you should ALWAYS be wearing a welding rated respirator and using a fume extractor when welding, especially with flux core, galvanized, or stainless unless you want extra nasty cancer.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 days ago:
How long until the forks get deprecated? Is that even a possibility? I don’t really know what goes into making this but I would imagine if it depends on some chunk of the mozilla source code, eventually it will be out of sync with the major releases or current browser standards. What does that mean for the TOR browser since its based on firefox right?
I ask that as someone moving from firefox to libre/waterfox.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was mostly addressing the immediate reason. The historical ones are way more complex as you mentioned. Now, you have to overcome suburban sprawl and hostile urban development where everything is spread out, requiring a car to use as a direct result of our past shitty choices/lobbying efforts.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 week ago:
Switching to something new usually inherently costs money. (Capital expense) If you are scraping by, you can’t afford another $500-$1000 a month car payment for a new car.
The option to convert an older already paid for internal combustion vehicle basically requires another $10k minimum, not including any regulatory stuff and that would be parts cost alone, no labor. Add to that regulatory/local registration issues with the diy route and you basically bake continued demand for fossil fuels into the system.
You can mitigate some of that by doing public transportation but you have to have a functional system AND an public that wants to use it.
This basically means that a large portion of the population who won’t/can’t buy new EVs. Is stuck using gas vehicles until you get lower cost used EVs. The problem there is that they are expensive to repair and NOT diy friendly. Add to that battery deg and lower reliability (in general see used teslas) and people are scared to buy used EVs.
Its a pricing problem that we have not gotten around yet. The subsidies helped but weren’t enough to get more people in. Couple that with a bad economic situation where people are holding onto their older stuff for longer and you basically get only progress on the higher income side while lower income brackets have to still use their gas vehicles which means the producers keep producing and supplying to a captive market.
- Comment on In place 1 week ago:
Very nice, what did you use for the counter?
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 2 weeks ago:
Where did you order it?
- Comment on Chimes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I bought the Emby lifetime license about 2 years ago when the plex remote streaming stuff first started getting talked about. It coincided with my server refresh so it ended up working out. I have been really happy with Emby so far.
One thing to note is that music streaming on remote devices is WAY better on plex, Emby behaves more like a mapped network drive running over the internet to a local music player that then forgets your position on pause or when you move away from the remote app/device whereas Plex is actually functional as a modern music player. I keep a local copy of my music library on my phone anyways and okay through Gonemad so it is a non-issue for me but Emby should work better than it does in that case.
Plex also allows/provides “live” tv (with ads) which can be nice if you are into that, and there is the “free” streaming library too which Emby doesn’t offer. I’ll keep plex around for those features but non-of my stuff is/will be hosted on Plex.
- Comment on Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, you aren’t really supposed to layer packages they want to use something like distrobox or similar. I know some things basically have to be (I am fighting with openjdk) but that is where 99% of my issues on bazzite came from. I started just spinning up a vm to run all my random bullshit that required layering in and its been solid ever since.
- Comment on Console(s) to TV 3 weeks ago:
There is also a dongle for the SNES that works the same but requires usb power. It works well.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 4 weeks ago:
Oh look, another example of a product that worked fine without internet connectivity and was improved by adding extra bullshit you don’t actually need that then gets worse when those features can’t function properly because their server is offline.
We got a basic roomba 650 (the one that crashes into stuff and randomly cleans) like 10 years ago and it still works fine (well, as well as it ever worked which wasn’t great), you program the time and day of the week with physical buttons, and leave it alone.
- Comment on YSK: Your local library card often gives you free access to streaming services, digital magazines, audiobooks, and even online courses. 4 weeks ago:
You can often also checkout cd’s and dvd’s.
Completely unrelated but did you know you can rip your own dvd’s and cd’s to your computer as a backup in case the physical disc gets damaged? The process is quite simple.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 5 weeks ago:
Good question, I got an ad on my fucking banana the other day…
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- Comment on "BYOSB, bring your own seat belt" (Snakeybus) 5 weeks ago:
I love Snakeybus. It is a fantastic game to zone and chill to.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
Get them from Vessel Tools, best screwdrivers I have ever used.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
Torx is superior. I could accept Robertson as well.
- Comment on Azure is having issues 1 month ago:
Ah yes, more reasons to local host.
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 1 month ago:
Yeah, I already have the hdmi scalers/adapters for the non modded consoles I have. I specifically don’t want a modern tv or the features on it.
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 1 month ago:
Do you know the model offhand?
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 1 month ago:
Yeah, I am not super worried about the performance of the snes, its really for the later ones.
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 1 month ago:
I have a snes, wii, gc, hd modded og xbox, 360, ps3, and an analogue 3d that will exist eventually. So a range of them.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 1 month ago:
When you do any kind of stone work, sanding, or grinding, PLEASE where a dust mask or filter. Its really not worth it to skip out.
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 month ago:
Thanks for explaining, I didn’t get that from reading it. My original question and this reply were both absolutely serious and not sarcastic in nature at all.
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 month ago:
Werewolf or “where woof”? Those would very different guns…
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
They get really loose. While no slouch, these trucks are not world beaters.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
First gen tundra controls really are excellent. They and used mechanical linkages for the diverter and for the hot/cold control. The only problem is the knobs get loose over time and can break or fall off when you accellerate.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
In the Galaxy’s Edge series this is tangentially addressed, the TLDR is that there are other implications of being on a ship for generations that outweigh the genetic problems. The Savages have a well earned title fwiw both in origin and action. It is a bleak outlook on the concept but I don’t think it is farfetched given everything we are living through right now.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
I have noticed more people inferring things from a small part of a reply and rather than read and try to understand it, they insted get upset about it and reply back about what they think the op said.
