Botzo

joined 3 years ago
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I see what you did there.

I'll get some more coffee now.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Stitching leather.

Jacket, pants, belts, upholstery, bags, tack, etc. anywhere 2 pieces of leather get joined.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is a mix, but the permanent residents are definitely not extremely wealthy.

This place is really a time share shithole where the loonies get to larp the prepper life.

Things they missed:

  • there's a couple dozen permanent residents at the most.
  • it's an active cattle ranch too. You might wake up to cattle on your roof.
  • it's fully off grid, you have to build your own septic and electric. They have an aquifer and you can pay to have water run to your bunker.
  • your lease gets you a bunker. God only knows what condition it's actually in and what former army munitions catastrophes have happened in it.
  • the family that owns the surrounding property with the easement for access is internally feuding and hostile to residents (they're also the cattle ranchers).
  • trash is taken to a "burn bunker" where yes, they burn the trash in one of the bunkers.
  • nothing is permitted or inspected. And no self-respecting crew wants these jobs in the middle of nowhere to build non-standard stuff. These are the drunks and the swindlers that have burned every bridge on their way out. Their work is shoddy and substandard when you can get them to show up. And your 3 month build out might be several years in the building. And you won't get your money back once you pay up front. And a contractor might get you (and himself) killed on the way back from your night drinking hard enough to get kicked out of the bar.
  • you can be evicted, and might not have any recourse to recoup the money you put into building it out.
  • the "improvements" are laughable. They used former railroad fill on the streets. It is full of shit that will blow your tires out.
  • no guarantee that an ambulance or firetruck will show up, and someone has to let them through the gate

Yes, I know a bunker owner. And yes, I have visited.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Je ne sais croire.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

King of kings: the early years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Kings:_The_Early_Years

A mediocre set of platformers interspersed with bible trivia. I played the crap out of them because it was the only thing other that super Mario we had.

Later we got Joshua and the battle of Jericho. A bomberman clone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_&_the_Battle_of_Jericho

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Kids are dumb. "Moolania" was right there!

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It does cloud. Feels more like Raki/lions milk at that point though.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hah, my absinthe is clear (though in a green bottle). And no, no Midori probably for 15 years, lol.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

Google will ignore this if you use their built in search, but it works everywhere else.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fluid ounces (your jigger is a volume measure).

For extra maddening credit, there's a slightly different uk fluid ounce as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Evo VI TME needs a word.

Source: I am old.

 

I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it's like this is the way everything was always meant to be.

HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.

I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).

No ragrets.

No regerts.

Team red 4lyfe (again).

 

Installed a 40amp circuit for the EVs after charging a PHEV for 5 years and a BEV truck for almost a year on a single 15amp circuit.

50ft x 8 AWG x 4 wires isn't cheap ($1.32/ft with tax), plus conduit, straps, breaker, wet location boxes and outlet cover and the extra cost for an EV rated outlet.

Wasn't room between the post and the garage door king stud for a flush mount box, oh well.

I'll pay the electrician for a proper hard-wired charger when we upgrade service and run it from the main panel instead.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/36184560

Inspiring

 
 

I don't really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it's an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

 

Anyone else spending their weekend with the Sonoma action?

I've been jumping between the feeds for all the races/qualifying today. The Toyota GR Cup was particularly fun to watch. The new McLaren series seems like it could shape up pretty well too!

FWIW: https://youtube.com/@gtworld

 

Got the uppers painted and installed.

Time to find some MDF for the face frame, drawer fronts, and shelves. Which reminds me, I need a router bit for the integrated drawer pulls she wants.

 

My first project is really coming together!

Built a set of drawers cabinets to my wife's specs for the closet. Still have uppers, face frame and overlay fronts to do, but the garage was too full to keep going.

4ft (122cm) tall bank of drawers with full extension soft close undermount slides. 88in.(222cm) wide.

Feel free to make fun of the 2x4 toe kick! Rest assured I've learned my lesson.

All cuts made with my portable DeWalt table saw after breaking down sheets with my Ryobi circular saw and a harbor freight clamp as an edge guide.

 

I applied some paste wax to the table saw and was pleasantly surprised that it made a difference.

I think I'll have to use this on the wood runners on the old dresser I have too.

In case you're concerned, it's just a little DeWalt contractor's table saw. No sawstop or powermatic here. That's for the cool guys on youtube.

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