dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world

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IIRC all of the past ones have worked over LAN, including over a private VPN if you so desire. I definitely played pirated copies of 1 and 2 with my mates. I had no real desire to get very deep into 3 because the campaign storyline was so stupid, but I don't doubt you could.

It's only online matchmaking with randos that you'll be blocked from, which if you ask me is not really that much of a detriment.

There is no incorrect way. The typical shoelace knot is actually just a square knot, but one where you make the second part out of two loops (bights) rather than the standing ends. What technique you use to arrive there is completely irrelevant as long as the end result is the same.

(You could use a traditional square knot instead if you really wanted to, but it would be annoying to untie.)

"Produce" is presumably fruit and vegetables, although that's a pretty broad category to lump together given that so many vegetables behave differently. Consider a tomato versus lettuce or a yam, for instance.

I will add another bullet point to the list above, specifically regarding cutting boards. Poly cutting boards are also acceptable and primarily what I use. However, if I see you using a glass cutting board or a plate as a cutting board, or chopping directly on your granite countertop, I am afraid I am going to have to hurt you.

I am, as you can imagine, the default knife sharpener within the circle of my family and friends. However for quite some years I would not sharpen any knives for my sister anymore because she refused stop using her stupid 1980s glass cutting boards. (I believe they were probably actually intended to be serving trays, but good luck making people understand that.) She kept complaining that my sharpening was "no good" because her knives dulled so quickly.

I was eventually able to coordinate with my brother in law who was also sick of it, and we located all of the glass boardlike objects in the house and surreptitiously threw them away.

It doesn't help them save on material since the knife is ground from an originally flat slab of steel. The amount of material they remove from that bar is irrelevant to their materials cost, although it does add a bit of machine work.

The scallops in the blade are effective at preventing some foods from sticking only if you are using a long slicing motion. When chopping down from above they accomplish nothing.

True, but I'll wager most of the things people are filching for these purposes get displayed on the screen at 100% scale anyway. Unless you're sniping a picture for large format print, in which case I figure you'd probably be under less restrictive conditions... Hopefully.

use on a locked down school computer.

Shift + Win + S

I'll bet they didn't disable that in Group Policy. Lasso that sumbitch right off your screen and then just paste it into whatever.

The solution being, for the singular person on Earth who hasn't heard already, "If you were the other guard, which door would you say is the safe one?"

Alternatively, the barbarian in the party just splatters one of the guards in one hit and asks the remaining one, "Which door? You'll go through it first."

At least you didn't try to open the bleed valve via the righty-loosey technique my neighbor tried on his near-new N series Elantra the other week. Snapped that sumbitch clean off. Bailing him out of that one was fun.

Bikes are dead easy to bleed; you don't need any kit. You should be able to reach the bleeder nipple and the lever yourself without outside assistance which is all I've ever needed. Unless this is on the rear brake of a 'Busa with a 27 foot long swingarm installed on it or something. Pro tip: Loosely put the cap on the reservoir when you pump it, otherwise the master cylinder (especially for the front) tends to act like one of them ornamental fountains.

Hose that brake fluid off of everything right away because it'll eat the finish off of just about anything that's not bare metal. You probably also want to make sure both the piston and its bore are real clean before you put them back together.

There is indeed. Teslas use keyless ignition exclusively, at least to my knowledge. Because it's "modern."

Note also that you can't even open the doors from the exterior on a Model S if the battery for the 12v subsystem is dead.

Notwithstanding all of the points already made in the comments here, a large number of these people are informed (I use that term loosely) wholly by right-wing media sources anyway, which happily lie to them about the causes of their problems as well as the effects of what their politicians are doing. In short, they don't believe GOP policies are personally harmful to them because Fox news is constantly blaring at them that the price of eggs and gasoline, why they can't find a doctor, why they haven't had a raise in 20 years, etc. is actually all Joe Biden/Kamala Harris/AOC/Obama's fault, or because the Mexicans up the street stole all the jobs, or whatever.

These people live in a constant roiling, seething ocean of propaganda largely comprised of utter falsehoods that are nevertheless plausible sounding to the uneducated, and they believe all of it.

If you experience runaway acceleration due to a mechanical fault, just grab the key and turn it --

...Oh.

Uh.

Hmm.

I don't hate Discord, I simply hate that so many projects and companies have unanimously decided to use it as the wrong tool for the wrong job.

It's fine for its intended use case, which is bickering with my friends about video games and fiction, and spamming each other with .gifs and meme images.

Ditto. Primarily mine is used to "sweep" the shop and dry off motorcycles after washing.

This is in contrast with how pi is otherwise consistently expressed on the Disc, which is "three and a bit."

Notably, Bloody Stupid Johnson is so skilled/inept that he actually does make pi equal to three within the machine... somehow... which breaks reality in a small amount of space inside it.

Apparently King David had this skill as well, since this is mentioned twice in the old testament:

1 Kings 7:23: And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Everyone knows at least 3.14

And biblical authors.

There was also the Hasselblad camera back for the Moto Z series.

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Sadly, probably not the ones from his first term. Whether or not his second term election was actually legitimate and the machines were not fucked with is certainly more questionable. Plus there is a 14th argument that Trump should not be qualified to serve as president after the January 6th coup attempt.

Anyway, Alito and Thomas were appointed by George W. to begin with. Part of this shitshow is also down to Obama failing to successfully appoint someone to replace Antonin Scalia under the objections of Mitch fucking McConnell.

I have, but in general I find Inkscape to be superior overall. The last time I tried the LibreOffice component it did not handle multiple pages very well.