Canopyflyer @ Canopyflyer @lemmy.world

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Seconded on the Bosch 800 series. Have had mine for 4 years now. It does a great job cleaning dishes, much better than the GE it replaced. Mine is run just about once a day and the screen needs to be cleaned every week to two weeks.

It's also very quiet. You can't even tell it's running when in the kitchen.

You came in that?

You're braver than I thought.

Keep your starship out of my backyard.

(JN Chaney book reference)

Former Skydiver here.

At least for the Skydiving community... Skydivers are not better, nor are they worse than the general public.

What skydivers are... is different. Your average jumper will not experience fear on an average jump. I've actually fallen asleep on the way to altitude. There are things that can scare us though, usually when we're in the plane. I've experienced two bailouts (both from the same plane), one crash (fuel starvation on climb out), and multiple rejected take offs. All of those events gave everyone aboard those planes a good dose of fear, including me.

We all still jumped the very next time we could, even after the crash.

As I said... Skydivers are just a bit different, but we still experience fear.

Why did I quit skydiving? I got bored. Yes, literally. Made a skydive, it went perfectly with people I was good friends with, got to the ground and started daisy chaining my main and realized... I just didn't feel anything any longer. Felt it was better to leave the sport than to try increasingly crazier things to find that feeling again. I know people that did that and it usually doesn't end well.

My (53m) idiot older brothers (61 and 59 respectively).

The oldest decided to scam me and the middle brother out of our shares of the family farm. It's not a huge amount of money, but the fact he did what he did is enough.

My middle brother informed me, at Thanksgiving 2 years ago, that he was a member of the oath keepers and that essentially he was the new patriarch of the family. All of my political beliefs are bullshit and I had to subscribe to the right wingnut bullshit he adhered to. Military this and guns that. The stupid fuck was in the army for 6 years back in the 80's.

Haven't spoken to either of those assholes in years, nor will I ever again.

"Attractive people in absurd situations." --- Samantha Carter Stargate SG-1

Amen!

If the recipe isn't great, you'll know and maybe make changes to salvage it. My family has several recipes like that, where the original is "meh", but after tinkering it becomes a staple.

Most notable are our chocolate chip cookies. They started out as Toll House, but now includes browned butter, better chocolate chips and a few other techniques that makes complex tasting cookies.

Oh thank god. I was starting to think I was the only one.

And it's not even about Trans Adults, or Trans Kids, or other LGBTQA+ groups, or any other small marginalized group that really doesn't have a real political power.

What it is about are sociopathic assholes that want political power and money, who are using the bigotry of simple minded assholes to create "boogie men" that only the sociopaths can "fight" to protect the bigots' children. When the last "boogie man" has been defeated, there WILL ALWAYS BE ANOTHER that requires the bigoted to vote for the sociopaths to "protect them" yet again. These groups, LGBTQA+, are targeted because there are not enough of them, or they are so marginalized already, that they are unable to push back effectively in the political arena (actually don't think that is true for LGBTQA+ as a whole, as long as they fight together).

It's LGBTQA+ now, next it will be some other group that poses a "threat to society". In 1930's Germany, this marginalized group were the Jews and, if you read your history, you know how that went. With 4,000,000 Jewish men, women, and children killed. All so that some sociopathic assholes could have power and money.

If you really want to see this in action, read about Germany's history in the 1930's.

It is sick, it is disgusting and it is happening in the United States RIGHT NOW.

There are no appropriate apologitics for this type of behavior, PERIOD THE FUCKING END.

How to fix what is going on? If you are of age (18 in the U.S.) to VOTE, then make sure you go to EVERY FUCKING ELECTION you are eligible to vote in. There are a LOT more elections going on, than the Presidential and and mid-terms. You are on the internet, the list for all elections you are eligible to vote in is easily available with a simple search with your favorite search engine.

Tl,Dr: If you are over 18 in the US... GET OUT AND VOTE! It may not be cool, or rad, or whatever the current thing to say is, but if you do not want a future where politicians are living in your uterus and bedroom, VOTE. Especially if you are in the younger generations (Gen Y and Z). Full disclosure, I am a Gen X'er with Silent Generation Parents (pre-Boomer generation).

Did the same thing two weeks ago. It was an 11 year old account.

Now it's all gone. Every bit of advice I gave, things I learned, knowledge I passed along, and pointless arguments I had, have all gone to the bit bucket.

And I feel good about it.

Lawn equipment:

Mower: Toro 60V Leaf Blower: Toro 60V Hedge Clipper: Toro 60V I absolutely love all of the above, they work extremely well for my less than 1/5th acre of land. When it was time to replace my 16 year old Toro 6.5hp gas mower, I wanted a battery powered unit. Looking at Ego and the others, I went with Toro as it seems a lot better built. It also helps that in a distant past I worked for a company that provided Toro's IT services, so I got to know the company.

String Trimmer: Black and Decker 20V (My first battery powered yard tool purchase and it's been great. Will replace with a Toro 60v when it dies.)

Tools: All are Makita LXT powered Circular Saw Sawzall Drill

Best thing would be to run it through am activated charcoal filter. That would catalyze (I think) the O3 to O2. Even HEPA filters would have no effect on ozone, as it's a molecule made up of 3 oxygen atoms.

How do they plan to deal with all the ozone that will come off of those plasma speakers? I've made a plasma tweeter in the past and it sounded excellent, but the ozone it produced made it rather unhealthy to run for long periods of time.

Does the Narwhal bacon again?

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Licensing fees can be a bear too. I would avoid true Enterprise gear, such as Cisco, Alpine, etc.

Ubiquiti makes very good enterprise grade gear that is more for the home. I'd call it "Prosumer" rather than enterprise, although I'd have no reservations running a small to medium office on it. My previous home router was a Unifi Security Gateway. Until I upgraded to 300/300Mbs fiber. The USG is only good to about 120Mbs. That's when I put PFSense on a virtual machine on my Proxmox server. Picked up a 4 port server NIC and am running it all on a Dell Precision workstation that has a Xeon processor and ECC memory. I picked the workstation up off of Dell Refurbished, with a 40% off coupon for $300. Both the WAPs in the house are Unify AC Pro's.

Since doing the above, our internet service has been rock solid. My wife was the president of a national non-profit for two years. One year, during the lockdown, she had to run the national yearly meeting for an entire week. Thousands of users all over Zoom. She had to stream video, audio, presentations for 6 hours a day for a week. The only things I did was take one of the WAPs, put it on its own isolated subnet, which only her computer connected to and gave the PFSense VM a bit more memory (which I was thinking of doing anyway). It ran rock solid that entire week. Even with me working from home and the kids having virtual school.

I'll just drop this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EriZ9ruZq1E

Using an enterprise grade networking equipment in the house. My setup uses PFSense (free), which runs in a virtual machine on Proxmox (free) and Ubiquiti WAPs (2 X $100). I have not heard the "Dad the wifi is broken!" call from anyone for a while.

My first post on Lemmy!

Anything to do with garage doors, except for painting and oiling. Garage door springs are not something to mess around with. When the door is closed, the springs have an enormous amount of energy stored and can send metal shards easily through walls and people.

I will do electrical, plumbing, drywall (I hate mudding), framing, you name it. I will NOT mess with garage door springs.