LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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About fucking time a positive step was made.

I got 2 expensive (over £30) ones and the worst one became my travel cube. My cheap but decent cube is my work cube. Work in a factory so I have to not give a single fuck about it.

Thing is, now it's just sat in my pocket at work for 6 months it's actually pretty decent. When I bought it and tried to make it decent I couldn't. It's like the grease and silicone has made it a half decent cube

Makes sense since the internet is made of cats https://youtu.be/zi8VTeDHjcM

I'm into home automation and self hosting services and the only time I go to Reddit is when a Google search of something I'm researching takes me there.

I don't log in (which sometimes fucks me, weed subreddits for example need a sign in for ages verification) so if I have to log in I just nope out, and I will actively try to not use Reddit if I can help it.

Honestly the short answer is practice.

Long answer is also practice, but with information lol.

I spent a long time moving from 2 look to 1 look (oll and pll) using this website https://jperm.net/algs/pll I've linked the PLL but there's OLL there too.

On this page I learned as many of these as I could. You can click on the picture and change the status from unlearned to learning to learned, then go to the trainer and you can select those 3 statuses and it will show only things you've selected. You can also click on the alg to get alternatives or even put your own alg in.

So I've gone to that page and set an alg as training, then just practiced that one alg until I have it in muscle memory. I aimed at trying to get each type of alg learned, so corners are there, or middles need moving, or headlights are there, or even that there is no pattern.

I was advised to learn PLL first then OLL algorithms, but I kinda picked out the patterns I see most in both, or algs that seemed the simplest first. So I have been learning both together and working from easiest to remember to hardest, and also making my own up for the ones that are most complicated.

This meant that I could practice a few, then go and do solves and when the patterns I knew came up I'd get faster solves for those patterns.

Ok so that's the big time saving out of the way, takes a lot to learn all the algorithms so it'll take time. But there's also taking time to plan your cross. That can save you a good chunk because there's less head scratching when you start.

Then there's the look ahead, which I'm only just getting. I did a lot of slow solves to get this in my brain and it's quite big. This is what I'm practicing to get from my 40second average down to 25

So as you're solving a corner and edge into the corner, once you have it set up into a 3 move insert, you don't need to look at it anymore. It's 3 loves to insert, so instead of looking at it as you put it in, you have to train yourself to look for the next 2 pieces you're putting together.

While your learning the OLL and PLL and just doing solves (not training algs), when you get one you don't know, try and alg you do know on it. Sometimes this changes your top pattern to an easier pattern that you can solve. It's like a stopgap 2 look (pll or oll). Eventually as you learn all the algs you'll find that you can "wing it" with some of the harder algorithms by just doing a couple of easier ones, which is all the harder ones are anyway, a couple of easier algs with a connecting move in the middle.

Hope all that helps. I'd also advise you have a "travel cube."

I have an extra cube that lives in the pocket of my leather jacket (yes I'm a metal-head Dad, doesn't quite fit the stereotype does it?) and it comes in useful when I'm stuck in a queue, or at the Dr waiting room or A and E (or emergency care as it's called in the US). This allows me to cube instead of whipping my phone out when I have time to kill out of the house.

I have up FaceFuck after Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

They brainwashed people into voting against their own interests by "Targeted Advertising" which is basically brain washing.

Of course nothing came of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and I can't do anything about that as a Plebian, so I just left.

I left Reddit when they took my favourite app. I used it to Doomscroll and that wasn't great for my mental health, so it was a no-brainer

So Lemmy and only Lemmy for me. I got over my addiction to social media by taking up the Rubik's Cube.

I'm currently working on getting an average solve under 30 seconds...

So if you use your social media time to do something productive instead, you can do some crazy shit

It's Cock Nose

I have a mini PC and Proxmox, a Debian VM with a Portainer stack, and plex

Guybrush Threepwood. Still got the new one to go at

I get "Can I talk like a pirate" from Jake and the Neverland Pirates appear in my mind.

"I've been talking this way, since my birthdays began"

Then I artistically move my brain on to something I prefer. Alestorm

Yeah I've tried that search multiple times myself and end up back on Google for driving, it's just superior

My car has Bluetooth only. I wanted Android Auto because it was awesome on my phone, so I got an Android Auto tablet off Ali Express.

It's not arrived yet, I'm expecting it after the weekend, but I can't wait to have that UI back, that ease of use while driving.

It can connect to my Car by Aux or FM radio so can be wireless. I'll be changing to connecting to it instead of my car over Bluetooth. Then I'll be able to use the UI or Voice to control my phone while it's still in my pocket.

I hope it turns out as well as it is in my mind. For £30 it's worth a go

Just Google "Booting a pi from an SSD" and follow the steps

I can't remember the steps (they were simple though) but when my Home Assistant raspi SD card died, I bought a 128gb SSD from AliExpress and a usb-sata cable.

I then did something to the pi that meant it can boot from the SSD, and flashed the SSD using Balenetcher or RUFUS or whatever (same program I was using to flash my SD cards basically).

Then it was just a case of plugging in and turning it on.

Runs exactly the same as with an SD card with less dying because SD cards aren't meant for a lot of read/write but SSDs do.

Even if you manage to stop the WiFi hack he can still get in to your network through the ethernet ports. He could train an army of ants to pull a wire through a small hole in your wall and attach it to your router.

Just in case, fill all your unused ports with yoghurt. This will drown the ants

...can you tell I didn't read it? Thanks for that. 9% is fuck all really innit?

When they tell you a number is so you go "HOW MUCH? WOW" when they should be telling you the number as a percentage of profits.

0.5% of yearly profits doesn't sound as big does it? I mean I've made that number up, but the point stands.

In a community without a lot of content, complaining about added content is a bit rich, but some people are just dicks, it's a fact of life.

Scroll on with your day

I bought an E off eBay from a charity shop and mine did the same thing. The WiFi chip burns out over time and they dgaf.

My solution was to just buy another satellite or whatever you wanna call it second hand off eBay. Gambled that the WiFi chip still worked and yeah, paired it and going again