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I have a GFCI in the garage that tripped and keeps tripping. I traced it to an outlet in the basement but there is something weird going on. I'm not an electrician, but I've done a bit of wiring, but I don't know how to interpret this.

In the picture is the basement outlet pulled apart and the power is on and the GFCI is reset and working. This basement outlet has 3 14/2 cables coming in. I think one is power from the garage, and the other two lead to outlets outside the house. I checked the wires until I found 120V and then marked them with yellow tape, which is what is shown in the image.

However, if I connect the multimeter to the black/yellow and one of the other whites I get a reading of 101.8, and the other white reads 0.7. This shouldn't be happening, right?

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I've got a couple questions about this.

If the timestamp is off, how does the share link with timestamp work?

If I quit watching the video when an ad starts and then start watching it again, does it continue with the ad? I watch yt on my Samsung tv and it's an ad minefield, but it's kinda fun and easy to report the ads or quit the vid and start it again to avoid the ads. Id rather spend 30 seconds bouncing around menus than watching ads for stuff I don't use.

If it's injected video, can I just skip ahead like I do for sponsored content?

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Megastructure, I learned it in Moonfall.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I'm a little late to this post but if I remember correctly, and for anyone who needs something to research, Tommy Chong drives hot wheels cars across women's breasts at the end of a good bad movie named Evil Bong (2006).

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submitted 5 months ago by dodeca@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

My daughter (19) works at a warehouse job and listens to a lot of audiobooks.

I'd like to gift her a subscription to a service, but I don't know much about the options. She had audible for a while. I just use Libby.

What audio book services do you recommend?

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Incredibly gross that someone would wear it.

It's a play on the song titled "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat" is a song by Fatboy Slim, Riva Starr and Beardyman.

A quick internet search will find that it's an old shirt, which makes sense with the song, has had numerous articles written about asshole wearing it, and apparently you can buy it on Amazon, but I didn't click that link.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Why does he think about trans people so much? Hmmm.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Is that a silencer? On a revolver. As I understand it, it can work but generally won't.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Frank Reynolds the Warthog on a Mexican hot dog

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submitted 8 months ago by dodeca@lemmy.world to c/appletv@lemmy.world

I'm not complaining about the content, I'm upset with the experience. It has the worst user experience I've ever used with a streaming service, and I have Hulu with ads. FWIW we're watching on a Samsung TV that's a couple years old.

My wife and I have had Apple TV off and on since it came out and we always quit watching it and cancel. It's a bad, frustrating chore to use so we avoid it. This time we got it because it's included with our new phone plan, but we quickly remembered why we don't watch anything on it.

Apple TV doesn't remember where we were in an episode. If we stop watching and come back to the episode it starts from the beginning. If we pause the video and wait too long it jumps back to the menu and we lose where we were. If we stop watching at any point, hopefully we remember where we were when we start watching again because we have to fast forward to it.

If we pause the video too many times it becomes unwatchable. It plays back in this amazingly weird jump back, jump forward, playback of stuttering weirdness. So if we pause but don't want to let it pause too long we unpause and pause again so we can keep our place. But the only real option is to pause and note the time so we can start the episode over and fast forward back to where we were.

Apple TV can't even remember what episode we are on, continually jumping back to an early season episode even though we are on season 2 or 3. Say we just finished episode 8 of season 3 and credits are rolling, we press the back button to go to the episode selection (it doesn't have a next episode option, which seems weird) and it jumps all the way left back to e1s1. So to get to the next episode we have to move the selector right dozens of times to the next episode to start it. If we come back the next day the show is listed in our "continue watching" as e1s1. We can tell it we've watched that episode by long button press then 'Mark Episode as Watched', but who wants to do that after every episode?

The audio drifts, often off by seconds ahead of the video. We hear sound effects before they happen, talking is weird, etc. CC text appears and disappears before we see them talk. This might get fixed if we stop playing the episode, and restart it and then fast forward to where we were, but often we just deal with it because of the hassle. Imagine watching Ted Lasso and you hear the goal happen 2 seconds before the video. Super cool.

We want closed captions on, and it says it's on, but they aren't. We have to go into the menu which says CC is on but change it to something else then back to get them to show up. Amazon Prime video has a similar bug but it still shows CC but in the wrong language sometimes.

Watching anything on Apple TV is a chore and annoying and I would never pay for this "service".

Is this the actual user experience Apple designed? I get that they are a walled garden with the "best experience" on Apple devices, but this is horrible and would never make me consider Apple devices as a good thing.

Oh, and I've searched for solutions but they are crazy. Why would I need to go to iTunes on a different device to change settings, to log out and back in etc? We don't have any Apple devices associated with this account, so apparently a fix isn't possible? 3rd party device problem they say. Call Apple support? Why? We have 10 other streaming apps that work without these horrible issues. We've uninstalled and reinstalled the app, logged out and in, but it just works the same way as I've described. It seems to be designed this way.

This is the user experience they give people. No wonder they need to pump their subscription numbers with free offers.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

I have a geology joke, it rocks.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

There is no way he could put on that shirt with those arms.

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Zelda dressed up for Halloween.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 95 points 10 months ago

Threads? I completely forgot about Threads because this is the first time I've seen news about it since the week it launched. And I doom scroll Lemmy Everything every night.

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Oh look, a clever advertisement for a TV show...

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submitted 10 months ago by dodeca@lemmy.world to c/badmovies@lemmy.world

We all know and love martial artist stuntman turned actor Paul Logan and his filmography, but did you know there is an internet influencer turned actor turned boxer named Logan Paul who's been in some low rated movies, souring our main man Paul's good names? Well here is your chance to throw your hat in the ring and vote for your Logan of choice in 5 rounds of movie vs movie, Logan vs Paul, democratically elected bad movie b-movie bliss. I'll propose two movies each round, one movie from each Logan, and we all vote on which Paul movie we watch. Who will win, Paul Paul or Logan Logan?

This Bad Movie Marathon starts at 11 AM CST (4PM GMT) on Saturday October 7th. Point your browser at our Cytube channel badmovies.fun. You can also join our discord to be part of the voice chat (or just listen, you can type chat in the Cytube channel.)

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Kenshi. Take a look at it. You control people in a very active world, but you build settlements and mine iron, stone and copper and build things, and explore to get more research to build better things and improve your people so they can build even bigger and better things. Deep lore if you like that as well, but easy to ignore.

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