hawgietonight @ hawgietonight @lemmy.world

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A 19" monitor was quite big for the day, and expensive! I hope your gf didn't beat you up too much for that :)

Not the installation strictly speaking, but my most "funny" fuckup was setting up xfree86. There was a configuration for crt monitor scan frequency that you had to setup. I messed up something and the monitor started to squeel like crazy and quickly hit hard reset in panic.

The monitor didn't die, but it had a slight high pitch noise to it after.

Being fluent in English and native Spanish, my first choice would be Chinese, because it opens your reach to another half of the world. But a language I would really like to learn is Japanese.

Picture 18 y/o me in the 90's with my new Marin Bear Valley SE and trick wellgo clipless pedals. No YouTube at the time, so had to figure stuff out intuitively... so I started to practice doing wheelies (while clipped in), and before you know it, I overshoot it a bit and my inexperience getting loose from the pedals had me land hard on my back.

Now doing tricks with the bike is second nature, but it did take some bruises. Just remember to cover the rear brake ;)

I learnt (the hard way):

• There are electrified fences
• You don't learn to wheelie while clipped in
• Some dogs shouldn't be touched
• Binging on sugar free candy will keep you close to the toilet.

Just recently I found out that my new razer mouse can enable/disable scroll wheel indexation by pressing the small button next to it.

Keeping people that don't like to drive off the roads is only a good thing.

I don't see a problem here.

Some easy examples you can relate to:

• do you work overtime, even for a minute, and don't get paid for it? Wage theft!
• does your company make fun of people using their allowed days off, making you not use them? Wage theft!
• does your company make you buy tools required for your job, because the ones available are shit or non existant? Wage theft!
• does your boss call you during your days off, holidays or vacations? Wage theft!
• are you assigned tasks that are more suited to a higher compensation level, but don't see a dime? Wage theft!
• are your coffee and lunch breaks interrupted early or entirely canceled and not compensated? Again, wage theft!

Software Engineer and Bike mechanic here. Since this community is filled with computer geeks, I'll stick to some bike knowledge that you should know.

• Tire logo should line up with valve stem. It looks nice and allows to find the stem really fast.
• To seat a stubborn tire, try some water and dish soap on the bead.
• To lube a chain correctly, you must clean and dry it first. I use biodegradable deagreaser and shop air. If you can twist the chain and feels gritty, clean and dry again.
• Avoid non bike chain lubes on chain. Using WD40 on a chain does more harm than good.
• After a ride, apply a finger dab of suspension oil to fork and shock and cycle the suspension a few times to push the grime from the seals, and wipe it off.
• Get a good chain wear tool. Catching a worn chain on time can save a lot, by not having to replace expensive chainrings and cassettes.
• Don't get a bike specific toolset, because half of the tools you won't use. Make your own toolset base on what you need. Nobody needs a crank extractor or a axle cone spanners anymore. Start with a decent hex set (2 to 8mm), small torque wrench, brake bleed kit, presta valve extractor, shock pump, 25Torx bit, tire levers, chain breaker, chain wear tool, cassette extractor + chain whip, adjustable wrench, cutters and assorted screwdrivers and pliers. And a floor pump. From there it just goes on, but it will be for specific uses on forks, hub, rims, etc.

Well, my older one was on raspberry os for a while, because she just needed a web for school stuff, but I couldn't get movie streaming working, and she was starting with video projects the SD wasn't enough so I ended up getting her a laptop without pre-installed os and set it up with Fedora, and to date no serious problems.

The younger one has my old Ryzen 1700 PC, and tried Fedora first and couldn't get his games (Roblox or Fortnite) to work, but did get Steam to work.. So without much investigation I just tried another distro based off Debian, and gave a try to popos. Same thing. Reading about it, it's deliberate these developers don't want their games working on Linux.

So I've temporarily swapped his ssd with a windows 10 setup until I can get him to give up these games. I guess age will do it :(

You get used to them, and in a way look very cool because of their use and what they represent. Although I wouldn't like to see them in a natural reserve.

I have another neat use for them. Since I can see some out of my window and use this sight to check wind direction and plan my bike route to have tail wind on the end of the route!

They can't be set next to residential areas for many reasons. One freak reason most people don't know is that ice can accumulate on the tip of the blades and get thrown into the air. Having a 5kg ice blocks randomly falling on your house isn't nice.

I finally got myself a pihole up and running. Yeah and the regular stuff.. ditched reddit, got protonmail and trying to move my kids to using popos.

On the other hand, if you are buying cheap it's usually because you aren't familiar with the product and it's characteristics. So you can take it as the price for learning about said product and what you really want from it.

For example, I got a cheap electric scooter for my wife on her birthday. We are new to these things, and didn't even know if we would use it at all. Fast forward a year and we have used the crap out of it, even the kids can't stop taking it out for a spin, and we now know what to look for and what sort of power and features we want when it comes time to replace it.

Ulefone Armor 21 has it, and 3.5 jack, and notification lights, and FM radio,...

Quantum entanglement. Having two particles latched in the same state even if separated by light years distance is something I currently cannot believe. Maybe too dumb, but my belief is that it 'has' to be some experiment error.

In this situation the magnets act much like a spring, so imagine changing the magnets on the stick and the car for a simple spring. That is much more easier to visualize.

Last finished was Black mesa few months ago, and had a blast remembering playing HL1 and 2 in the day. Just to show you don't need the best graphics to enjoy.

Prior to that was Metros Exodus, and it was one of those games you remember well after a year of playing.

In between, I have started RDR2 but can't get to keep it going, I'm not hooked on that one.

Edit: Played Stray with my son on his ps5 and was really great! Had me wanting more.

Ulefone Armor 21 has a RGB notification led on the front and a light ring on the back.

It also has audio jack and get this.. FM radio!

It also weighs as much as my bed, but I wouldn't want anything else!

We have a budget for streaming services. ATM Netflix, HBO max and Showtime. About 20€ a month. Me and my wife like a good classic flick every now and then, so the two latter stay. The kids eat up crap Netflix series like candy. Everytime they ask to get prime or Disney they have the choice to give up Netflix to change.. but they don't.

If ads come, or the price goes up too much will consider canceling. Until then, it suits our wants.

When I was about 12, my father brought from the airbase thrift shop two books of the "Tell me why" series. It blew my mind knowing how stuff, iI never paid attention to, worked.

From then on I knew that there was an explanation for almost everything, it just required looking for the right book :⁠-⁠)