I enjoy that you mounted a butt plug to your poop vent.

I havent messed much with my servers in 2 years. I think that means I’ll hit my RIO in another 5 :)

Cutting board extensions is exactly what I did on my first ebike build 12 years ago because the fenders were way too whimpy. Well done sir!

My college website in flash: https://wigg.lekatsas.us/

I’m a little biased as I work for Bose but we still use a metal yoke and hinge.

Dow Jones is up though, that means everything is fine and the future looks bright.

Live in MA, bought an old crappy house and wanted to upgrade the electric service for heat pumps and go underground. It was a nightmare, took over a year to just convert an existing service to underground because the telephone pole was at the end of its service life and needed to be replaced before it was touched. Power company requested the replacement but Verizon owned it and didn’t give a fuck. It was awful, no power, could not move into the house for months while we waited for Verizon to do their job.

Batteries have a logarithmic degradation of capacity, meaning using the quick charge function will cause the capacity to drop about 10-15% really quickly, likely within the first year. So dumping the phone in 3 years is likely right when you hit the shallow part of the curve and the battery stops degrading much.

This. I still keep my old 500mA phone chargers and use them on my phones to be gentle on the battery for slow, overnight charges. I am also a battery expert in my day job…

This is happening in all aspects of consumer electronics. Broad platforms of hardware and software that is cheap enough to meet all the needs then just water it down for the ‘cheaper’ varieties. The consumer has no attention span so everything has to be fresh and totally new with more features every 1-4 years max. Ita what the consumer demands from complex systems so engineers just need to churn shit out as fast as possible and everyone suffers.

My Radiohead cover contribution.

Think of it this way, they will procrastinate long enough to where they won’t have full control of the government anymore and perhaps the next generation can teach them a lesson in bootstraps and how to pull them up.

Pi powered cuckoo clock with a HASS UI

I have no apptettie to bail out all the idiots all over Plum Island and Cape Cod who insisted on investing on super expensive ocean side sand instead of something practical. I went way out of my way to ensure my property isnt near any body of water that could flood and I’m on the high ground.

I love seeing beaten up trucks, doing truck stuff. Why anyone would pay the money to commute in a harsh ride and terrible millage has always confounded me. Dont even get me started on Wranglers.

Everyone misses this point. Lawyers have turned into leeches of society sucking the empathy and fun out of everything so everyone is scared to get sued. On the flip side its so god damn easy for corporate lackeys to say ‘no cuz lawyers’ just to make their job incrementally easier rather than actually doing it. Its a shitty cycle and I’ve seen it too much in corporate America.

Here is the context you all are missing. The novel was offered for free so folks on Amazon could ‘buy’ it so it was number one on Amazon instead of the new documentary.

Just bought 10 acres and plan to grow the shit out of some veggies. I stare at a screen all day and deal with technical problems, at the end of the way I just want to dig in the dirt and stare at the plants.

From New England but I lived in Texas for awhile in the early 2000s and to me Tex-Mex is Mexican food made by gringos for gringos and Mexican restaurants were Meixcan food made by Abuelas.

Live in MA and pay a nanny about $55k a year. Its brutal and pushing our finances to their limits but we tell ourselves its temporary pain (2 years) to ensure the long term wellness of our child.