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submitted 10 months ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/makerstuff@lemmy.world

I'm making a Halloween costume that features my head inside a box. All good if In use my hands to support said box, but I'd like my hands to be free.

This seems like a solved problem, got any hints on how I might support the box so its stable while leaving my arms and hands free?

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 17 points 10 months ago

"...police confiscated a crossbow, a BB gun and various documents among other items, they added."

Am I a joke to you?

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submitted 10 months ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/food@beehaw.org

Is there a LLM/ChatGPT tuned to help with weekly meal planning that doesn't suck? Why not?

As a home cook, I'd like to get a weekly meal plan for dinner plus a shopping list focused on my interests, so I can use it for inspiration.

This seems like a really good LLM application:

  • it doesn't have to be factual
  • huge corpus of data to work from (recipies, meal plans)
  • can tune to suit my (or a users) taste
  • ideally it cood avoid repeats (by knowing what it suggested last week)

And, so far the ones I've found seem... Underwhelming. Has anybody found somethig good? Ideas about why not?

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submitted 10 months ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I want to be able to search for content on my phone, then have it automatically downloaded and posted to plex, so that I don't have to fuck around so much every time I want to backup a show.

I am running Plex (on a TrueNAS Core box), Radarr, Sonarr, and QbitTorrent today. I have a preferred tracker.

What other apps do I need to make it easy to find out of a show is avaliable, automatically hand it off to Radarr/Sonarr then download it and move it to my NAS share then get Plex to refresh and tell me it's done?

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submitted 11 months ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/bicycle@lemmy.ml

I couldn't bring myself to spend hundreds on a bike bike, at least not without more travel on the horizon. So card board it is. But... Wheels sound nice. So, I got some castors and trimmed some spare 2x6 and now... Wheels!

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 13 points 11 months ago

Seattle year round commuter. For my current short commute: a rain cape (poncho).

  • it's comfortable to wear both wet and dry
  • easy on/easy off. Less fucking around trying to get geared up.
  • I don't sweat through my clothes because it ventilates like crazy

So many more reasons, but good lord those 3 are reason enough. Putting on still-wet gear at the end of the day is nasty.

I also wear rain-legs. I wear wool socks and sneakers (1 less piece of wet gear to deal with). No gloves (cape deals with the rain and wind).

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submitted 11 months ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/makerstuff@lemmy.world

Hello Making Friends

I am making a footprint for a tent from tyvek: should I hem the exterior so that the fabric folds over from the top side and is sewn (or taped) to the underside? What about adding gromets?

I am thinking that the hem would keep ground water from seeping between the tent and foot print if it were to rain.

I am also thinking this is too much work for very little benefit, and an unfinished edge is simple, easier, and just as durable (this is freaking House wrap).

Thoughts?

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 33 points 11 months ago

We have 3 (three. Three!!) redundant monitoring and alerting systems and have yet to detect the issues routinely found by our customers. Its not because we didn't detect them, it's because we have so many false positives we stopped looking (but still run the monitors).

Uuuuuugffhhhhhj

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

Well now I feel like an ass - this is what I'd tell my parents.

And yeah, that fixed it. I'm tempted to delete this whole embarrassing post, but I will leave it for the edification of others and to memorialize my shame.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/android@lemmy.world

On my pixel 6 the home button returns me to my home screen, or it used to. Recently, if I am on a google search (from the home screen google search widget), home does nothing.

I'm expecting it to return me to the home screen - that's what it does on a pixel 7.

I don't think I've made any changes to cause this, any idea how to get it back?

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 44 points 1 year ago

I met Danny at my local coffee shop. I am a total ass and said "Abed?". He said " Danny. " and shook my hand. Thus confirming my status as Total Ass, and his as a mensch.

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Ahh the Midnight Mellon Mounter

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

Shoes.

Shoes, with the Aglets of the laces resting upon them.

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submitted 1 year ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/xbiking@lemmy.world
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Tressle (reddthat.com)

View over a tressle on Vancouver island, summer '23

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submitted 1 year ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Low effort post. Higher effort: change bees to beans.

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submitted 1 year ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/xbiking@lemmy.world

Back to Duncan on the rail trail

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submitted 1 year ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/bicycle@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/422448

Rolling around on Vancouver Island.

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submitted 1 year ago by Dave_r@reddthat.com to c/xbiking@lemmy.world

Rolling around on Vancouver Island.

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Give Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents a look. Wilkerson's got well researched links between India's caste system, U.S. Slavery, and the German Nazis. I was really surprised to learn that the Nazis researched national policies to find out how to best institute 'purity'. They ended up modeling theirs after the United States.

Fascims might not look the same every where, but it shares more than was obvious to me...

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Good lord I hope they find them in time...

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

This is a classic feedback problem: you use a microphone to amplify your voice, but If the mic picks up the amplified sound it creates audio feedback + a sharply increasing wail.

I can't imagine what LLM feed back 'sounds like', but a guarantee you it ain't pretty.

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

If I read it right: the government is paying for commercial (phone) location data. There are 3 issues:

  • creepy: the government shouldn't have this
  • costly: they are buying it with our tax dollars
  • comprehensive (?): They are getting everything (money can buy)?

If the government were to require this (like via a search warrant) rather than pay for it it would go through a mountain of legal oversight. It seems like the interpretation is: commercially available = publically available.

I guess what I would want to know next is: who gets access to this?

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