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Autobody projects near freezing are never going to go well. Every product from filler to clearcoat wants to be above 15C. And I say this as someone that has done exactly what you're doing here, with roughly the same results.
The hard part of all this is that you probably haven't fixed it because if you're just using spray bombs over rust converter, it'll be back in a couple years.
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That's always been the way of it. Cities start where people settle, and people settle on the best land they can find. Then the city expands into the farmland surrounding it. This happened in Europe and Asia, and then NA. This isn't a Canada Bad thing.
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I hate to say it, but that's likely still better than President Mike Johnson.
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Yah, that's optimistic.
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Short of popping the head, you aren't really going to know until you can get a better look that that camera and feel it. It might just need rings and a hone. IDK if anything more than that would be worth doing.
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My prepping involves knowing how to make beer/whiskey from the dirt up. I figure anything else I can trade from there. Including your women.
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Yah, double down on the ignorance. That's a good look.
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Having used every GPS system out there (there are plenty besides Deere's), the best one I've used is one I built myself with the opensource project AgOpenGPS. Deere's is second best but well integrated with their equipment. Trimble, Raven and Outback are expensive shit.
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Because parts are readily available, if expensive. When the snow is coming and you have a thousand acres left to harvest, you want that part right fucking now. And contrary to what everyone here "knows", you can fix pretty much anything that doesn't directly interface with the ECM yourself. I have 10,000 page repair manuals that Deere supplies that details, step by step, how to fix nearly anything on their equipment. I've never seen manuals 1/10th as good on CNH equipment.
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If you're particularly bored and get doomscrolling /c/all, you'll get into the various anime subs eventually. You know you've gone too long when it's nothing but anime shit.
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Other than printing, it goes well because they know if they were on Windows or Mac, I'll have nothing to do with it.
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We want your liver.
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And there will be criminal charges against those that did the deals? Right?
Right?
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This is the US we're talking about; if you've clicked the EULA, it's probably legal for the X janitor to kill you and wear your face as a mask.
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Software that killed a pedestrian recently.
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If you asked me to clean a bird, this is exactly what I would think of. Though usually it involves removing lead shot, not labels.
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted. That is exactly what this is.
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That is not even a remotely accurate euphemism.
Vigorous fellating, maybe?
I'm not sure if this is related to Night Light (which I don't have enabled) or even just the monitors dimming in power settings, but I constantly have to go and bring my brightness back up from 20% when I sit down at my computer in the AM. I have disabled Sleep as well, and the only thing left is the regular Energy Saving features of dimming after X minutes and Turn Off Monitors after X minutes, but I've set both of those to short timeouts and when it comes back, it's at 100%. Edit: For some reason I was on X11. I've switched to Wayland and will see if that changes anything. Any ideas what's causing this?
Why do the vast majority of these seem to either block off the 40pin header or convert it to female header that's incompatible with further hats? And why are they full sized, despite having minimal circuitry on them? I can appreciate the ones that build in a cooling system, but that doesn't need to block off all the pins that aren't being used by the hat. It seems like all this could be accomplished with a small board that doesn't interfere with everything else one intends to do with a Pi or Pi-clone. In fact, I'm surprised at the lack of built-in POE Pi boards out there.
I need a few of these for rpi's around the farm. Tired of dealing with LoRa.
If I bring up things like mail or a post in a new tab, I have to go into Login/Manage Accounts and choose my account to do anything in that tab.
[Terrible diagram 1](https://i.imgur.com/bnTMhMp.png) I'm trying to figure out how long to make A and B here if I have linear actuator of length C (extended = 2C) in order to tilt my panels from completely horizontal to vertical so they avoid wind and shed snow respectively when I run up the actuator to the extremes respectively based on sensor input. Is there a simple formula I can use to plug the length of whatever actuator I settle on to figure A and B out? I know it will have to be a certain minimum and maximum size to work properly and might have to experiment to get an idea of what works in the end, but I'd like a reasonable start point to purchase an appropriate actuator. I've googled around and decided I'm not smart enough to even come up with the right search criteria, let alone figure this out myself since it's been 35 years since I've used anything except the most basic trig. This isn't really homework except for the fact that I'm trying to make my home work right. Edit: seems like if I select A=.75C and solve for B at horizontal, then it always works out. No idea why, but the couple examples I try seem to agree.
I'm looking for a lowish priced laptop that I can put at least 2 extra monitors on. I want a second landscape 4k and a portrait 1080. Don't need anything special. One monitor has DP and HDMI, but the other just HDMI. Do I just get a DP hub and use a converter dongle for the second? What would be a recommended laptop for this scenario? I only want AMD CPU and GPU as I can't be arsed to fight with noVideo and Intel doesn't deserve my business.
I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able to sort out the words usually. I post this in case you haven't been part of the 10,000 this day already, like me. Edit: seems to work in Firefox and LibreOffice, but not Kate or Okular. I'd love to see this as a general feature, it's handy as heck.
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
Thank you for the great work, Vernor. You'll be missed.
We have our house and a cabin. While I guess I could make an area for the cabin, it has it's own areas that I'd like to manage separately (and copy automations directly). I have purchased a HA Cloud sub but I don't seem to be able to get the cabin to connect to Cloud. Do I need a separate sub for the cabin at full price? This seems a little over the top, not to mention clunky to manage with different Nabu Casa logins. Or am I just going about this wrong? If anyone else manages two properties and integrates it nicely, I'd love to hear your solutions. I'm mainly subbing to Cloud because of the better TTS and STT response. Maybe I just invest in a skookum whisper/piper box instead?
I don't see that there's any sort of integration for writing code to process information from HA entities like Node Red + Companion. Am I missing something and this is more than just an interface for the config files and maybe a git client for those config files?
These things aren't bad, I've got a few that I use sort of successfully, but the speaker and mic aren't very powerful. I was thinking of building one with an ESP32 and i2S (not i2c, that threw me off too) speaker/mic, but I'm wondering if I'd be reinventing the wheel here if there's a better alternative already out there.
Got a young guy that needs a reasonable used laptop, in the $2-300 range. Looking for smooth but not spectacular graphics, and a 15" screen or better. Preferably with 2 drive slots so he can have an NVME or other SSD for the OS and a large rust drive for installing games. It's going to be plugged in when used, and weight isn't a great concern, it's just for travelling with. Any suggestions on what to look for on eBay?
If I pipe in something to `most` that's wider than my terminal width, it'll page it sideways but only single character at a time with an arrow key. I want `most` to behave like `less`, which will scroll sideways with an arrow key almost a full page (60 columns I believe), which `most` will do also if I use Tab/Ctrl-B or ">" and "<" (as gleaned from the man page). But I have no use for single character scrolling, so I'd like arrows to do the same as Tab and <>. Is there a way to change the default behaviour of `most` to the same horizontal scrolling behaviour as `less`? I would just use `less` except it displays the first page of a command like `docker ps` with lines wrapped for some reason (maybe this is some limitation in Dolphin?). If I scroll right the other columns show up right, but for some reason `less` and `more` both mess up the first page. No clue why `most` works correctly. Frankly, if I could fix `less` I'd be happier since my muscle memory makes me want to pipe to `less` all the time anyway, and it's installed by default in most distros I use, unlike `most`. Also, trying to search up help on anything with a name like "most" is next to impossible.
I did send a donation, but I want to make sure the people involved know I appreciates them. I set up an instance and have been using it along with a couple friends. It's fast, private and doesn't have a bunch of algo bullshit wasting our time. I have my subs and I watch them, and then I go and touch grass because I'm not sitting there watching trash that is being pushed at me on the feed. It's like a breath of fresh air.
cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/2164461 I have been keeping an eye on this series over in !BannedBooks@literature.cafe and was intending to link the discussions for SF titles that I saw. The Handmaid's Tale is definitely an SF title that has seen it's share of fans and detractors. It has been banned or attempted to be banned in many jurisdictions including Western ones. What is the communities thoughts on this book, does it unfairly extend Christian philosophy into questionable territory or does it not go far enough? Is it pornography, and if so, why? Let's hear your thoughts. Bonus video: [Margaret Atwood using a flamethrower on the unburnable edition of the book.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpsMsAMY4eM)
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I got interested in SF because the librarian in my elementary was a SF lover. There were racks of paperbacks that I gobbled up and it's stuck with me for decades since. It makes me sad to think that kids don't have the same chance I did to get interested at an early age in the most imaginative genre of fiction. We all need to do our part to pass it on. What are your suggestions for getting young people interested in science fiction? A few I remember from that time: Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series Heinlein's juveniles like Podkayne of Mars and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern Niven's Known Space books
Because having to block 2 fanaticus communities every time a game is finished because there's a post in the winning and losing teams community is rapidly getting old, and I have no idea how many teams of how many different sports exist on that server, but it seems like a hell of a lot.
Having set up a couple of communities, there is a setting for language. Are these items showing up in my feed because the community has not set their language, or is something going on with language filtering on All? It seems like there's way more off-language things coming through on All in the last day or two.