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- Comment on What did you accomplish during the twice monthly outage? 23 hours ago:
I installed clips onto the bottom of my sectional sofa that prevent it from separating. Which is good, because it’s been separating a lot since I installed wheels onto it.
The wheels were to make it easier to move because stuff kept falling behind it, but they worked too well. They even just slid around while locked. With all the sections clipped together it doesn’t seem to budge. The clips are the alligator style ones that you push the couch together to cinch, or lift the couch section to release.
- Comment on The Legion Go with Bazzite is an excellent machine for gaming 4 days ago:
I got my wife a Legion Go in May and immediately installed Bazzite on it. I think I had a few minor issues, but nothing like what this blog post is talking about. It was a shockingly easy process!
And yeah, it totally rules as a gaming machine. I’m honestly jealous and am waiting for generational improvements to happen in the space before I buy another handheld. (Or possibly, I’ll buy the Steam Frame instead.)
- Comment on They are German, of course. 1 week ago:
Science vs religion, baby.
- Comment on Pizza styles 1 week ago:
It’s too socialistic by the standards of capitalists and has been run out of most cooking schools. It’s occasionally taught as an ‘alternative’ recipe, but for some reason, despite rendering a better pizza, it’s never widely adopted.
- Comment on Pizza styles 1 week ago:
I think the joke is that might be AP style pizza.
- Comment on What did you accomplish during the monthly outage? 1 week ago:
I got the ingredients for, cooked, and then froze about a weeks worth of breakfast burritos.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 week ago:
In the U.S. milk comes in half gallon and gallon measures, which look like your 2L and 3L containers, respectively.
Sometimes you will find milk in waxed paper cartons, but that is not the norm. (It’s very common, however, for dairy products that are often bought by pint and quart — typically half and half, heavy cream, or coffee creamers.) Our fancier non-dairy creamers tend to be in tetrapaks, with less expensive (or at least distributed in higher volumes) creamers in plastic bottles.
- Comment on The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector 2 weeks ago:
It’s okay! You can buy an upgrade to use a stainless steel milk tube! 😒
- Comment on The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector 2 weeks ago:
It also has you pour coffee syrups into a little plastic dispenser so you have to clean that, too.
It appears there’s some sort of cleaning mode where you let the machine heat water into to a specially shaped tub that fits across the drip tray, where you also stick the siphon end of the milk tube. But it looks like the dirty milk water is ejected into the drip tray tub, so your wash starts off with clean boiling water before beginning to reuse cooled, dirty water.
Also, what’s the wisdom on encouraging customers to keep dairy at room temperature? You know people are just going to forget the dairy container on their counter. It’s like they tried to stand out but all their features add more complexity and failure points than solved problems.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 weeks ago:
When I was younger my grandmother died of cancer. She wanted to pass at home and we lived with her.
For months she just declined, until she was bed-bound in the living room, having carers and family members feed her, clean her after she pooped on herself, sometimes randomly screaming in pain, having nightmares, and was largely incoherent. In the last week she didn’t have the strength to eat and her doctors told us to just stop feeding her. She had a death rattle that lasted for days and echoed through the house every time she breathed, until finally something just gave out.
It was not dignified. It was not peaceful. It was deeply traumatizing. I wish we could cut her suffering short somehow – for us as much as her. - Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 weeks ago:
Well, don’t join the mob blindly. Do your own research. The above information was gathered from one internet search using the available context clues from this post.
It did not take very long and was easy. - Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 weeks ago:
The sources for this video indicate the person wearing the armband:
- Harassed a black man on a bus.
- Walked around downtown Seattle for an hour dressed that way.
- Had several verbal confrontations with passerby who commented on his clothing.
Source 1
- Several 911 calls were placed about this man attempting to instigate fights.
- The man declined to file a police report after the police did appear.
Source 2
For at least an hour at any point leading up to this, the person wearing the armband could have taken it off and stopped interacting with others. To my knowledge, the person who was punched has never spoken to media to explain why they were dressed as such, despite the massive internet fame of the video.
Do you still feel uncomfortable? Do you know in your bones if the person deserved it?
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 4 weeks ago:
Tiny Batman is not taking the divorce well. At first he thought losing the tiny mansion and being forced to downsize from Twayne Manor (Tiny Wayne Manor) out in the burbs to this high-rise apartment would put him closer to the action downtown. A refreshing life change after all that’s happened.
However, his neighbors yell at each other all day long while he’s trying to sleep, and seem to have even more sensitive hearing than him during the nighttime quiet periods. He can’t rush out the door because every slam or even loud footfalls seems to trigger a call to building management. He’s even gotten calls about his scanner radio being too loud, no matter how softly he plays it.
Most nights he just sits on the balcony, quietly listening to the scanner and drinking. Anti-suicide netting makes it impossible to just glide down to street level with his bat wings and the elevator takes so long that by the time he gets to the Tiny Bat Mobile, most vics are dead and the perps are long gone. More and more, he just turns the radio off, drinks until he staggers over to his pee spot, and then stumbles over to fall asleep with his back against a stack of bottles - he knows they’ll keep him safe from the memories that are trying to sneak up on him. - Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 5 weeks ago:
It’s one of those thought terminating statements that people throw out to disingenuously “win” arguments on the internet.
Your post was useful and interesting. The image accompanying it was not, but it doesn’t change the information relayed.
- Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
Can gay people still be gay, or is this like a colonizer situation where the straights realized the gay identity is valuable, so now the gay people lose access to the gay identity and have to become Oklahoman?
- Comment on I’ll just be over here… 1 month ago:
Well first, I was on drugs at the time.
But second, you don’t think that wide nose with the flared nostrils, the hooded eyelids, and the smarmy smile that screams “I have no respect for humanity” makes them resemble each other? - Comment on I’ll just be over here… 1 month ago:
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 month ago:
Huh.
Here’s a Popular Mechanics article that’s exactly one year old: A Secret Parachute in the FBI’s Possession May Have Finally Solved D.B. Cooper’s Identity
And here’s the FBI’s web page over it, which notes they diverted resources to other investigations in 2016, but specifically names McCoy as a suspect: D.B. Cooper Hijacking
As far as updates go? I only have sardonic comments about what the FBI is to these days. But I don’t think they are going to work on this one anytime soon.
- Comment on monumentale 2 months ago:
I have no memory of this place.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 months ago:
I commented elsewhere, but I once had a soundbar that just had a no password ssh login. It was one of those ‘connect to your WiFi’ to stream music through models and for whatever reason, after connecting it to my WiFi, it continued to broadcast the publicly joinable setup network.
SSH was open to both the unsecured and secured networks, so anyone within WiFi distance of the device could have gained root control of it. Or if I had a sufficiently weak network setup, anyone online could have taken control of it.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 months ago:
A few years ago I noticed an annoyance with a soundbar I had. After allowing it onto my WiFi network so we could stream music to it, it still broadcast the setup WiFi network.
While dorking around one day, I ran a port scan on my network the soundbar reported the port was open. I was able to log in as root and no password.
After a moment of “huh, that’s terrible security.” I connected to the (publicly open) setup network and successfully logged into ssh and copied the wpa_supplicant.conf file from the device and verified it had my WiFi info available to anyone with at least my mediocre skill level, and factory reset the device, never to entrust it with credentials again. - Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 2 months ago:
You can disable the Outlook addon that nags you about Adobe cloud, btw. Small part of the puzzle, but it helps.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I know. I was just seeing if you would notice. awkward laughter
(But thanks, I was trying to wing the conversion and started off with 3.3ft =1m and then did the numbers meme while my fingers typed gibberish.)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I have an FDM printer (Ender 3 clone) that is mostly 2020 aluminum extrusion as the frame. A few years ago I found some 2020 on sale and built a set of shelves for my wife’s plants out of it. (Now - I know. It’s not the most economical use of materials, but it was the middle of winter, and I didn’t want to go work in the garage. Plus the 2020 was on sale.) It’ll support a slew of plants over a 4-foot span (~3.2m) without any sagging or other concerns. It can be wobbly side to side, but that’s a matter of bracing and connectors.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 months ago:
In my community, street racing seems to be the entertainment du jour for people with nothing better to do. I live about a half mile (800m) from a major roadway, and very often am jarred by the noise of people racing full tilt. There are a few people who even have modified their cars to be louder, and you can distinctly pick out the sound of their cars.
I’m a light sleeper, and these people will wake me up in the middle of the night with their ‘shotgun exhausts,’ racing down the street. They kill about 5 people a year. Earlier this year, a street race injured over a dozen people, and killed a kid.As a result, the city has re-timed the lights so that when traveling at normal speeds, traffic is stopped at every stoplight, which means that most drivers now just wontonly disregard speed limits to beat the light timing and not get trapped in a frustrating cycle where a 2-mile drive down the road takes upwards of 15 minutes instead of 5. This just causes the street racers to race later, when they can run the lights and wake everyone up. Plus the increase in speeding by normal drivers decreases safety on the road.
Both the direct and network effects of their stupidity are pretty significant.
So - yes. Street racers are bad people. They are callous, immature, and both actively and passively endanger other motorists. Also, I’m fucking tired, and my dogs are traumatized. - Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 3 months ago:
I just had this funny thought— so boomers adopted and settled into Facebook after millennials made it popular. And then everyone except for boomers stopped actively using it. It’s kind of their “retirement social media platform.”
Now you have TikTok, which the millennials flocked to after GenZ popularized it. Does this mean after Gen Z flees the platform that it’s just going to be the Facebook equivalent for millennials? - Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 3 months ago:
It’s like people forgot about that.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 3 months ago:
I honestly have no recollection. It was about 10 years ago. I probably just used like half the seasoning packet with salt and pepper. (Because that seems like something I’d do.)
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 3 months ago:
I once forgot about it in a crock pot using the fast cook method and basically boiled the whole thing into mush. It made for a delicious bean dip.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 3 months ago:
Amen to that. I thought about having a serious look around, but I’d rather not deal with their nonsense.
