MrMusAddict

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Speaking of "paying 10% for the privilege", one of the things irked me was my dad's insistence that tithes had to be monetary. Per him, volunteer work didn't count.

I was roped into running the computer, or doing the sound, for all 5 services Saturday + Sunday, plus practice before hand. 16 hour commitment twice a month.

My day job was only 20 hours/wk back then, so in terms of time, my volunteer work was ~30% of all my work. Yet my dad still insisted I payed 10% of the taxed cash I received...

That was one of many "cuts" in my "death by 1000" for being religious.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually, in 2022 there were 94m barrels produced globally per day. So this is 2%. Statistically, not insignificant. Hopefully it'll continue to grow rapidly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

This might be this earliest IASIP intro gag I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The problem I'm going to assume applies here is the same as why we can't train self-driving cars with a simulation. It's a paradox; if the simulation was robust enough to train cars for the real world, then creation of the simulation itself WOULD be the solution since it already knows all the rules and correct reactions.

In other words, I'm sure they got their simulation to work, within the confines of a limited, non-paradoxical, error-prone programming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's the an extension for Google Passwords? It's my password manager for all my devices.

I would love to switch to Firefox, but I don't want to open chrome every time I need a to retrieve/save a password.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My dad had the T-Mobile G1; if I recall, first ever commercial available Android phone!

That was handed down to me after a couple years. It has as much chill factor as it did nerd factor. People laughed and were amazed at the same time. I loved it, lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I might be mistaken then, but doesn't part of Net Neutrality mean that telecommunication companies can't throttle unlimited plans?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I used the phone app and started a chat. Here's what I asked, and their response:

https://i.imgur.com/dcbBes4.png

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

T-Mobile users; be aware that T-Mobile has prepared for this and are trying to automatically transition grandfathered accounts with unlimited everything into their new plans.

I'm not 100% sure if the coverage of the new plans are technically worse, but they're definitely more expensive. And I wouldn't be surprised if the new plans had contact language to do a rug pull in the future.

You need to opt out of the transition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is community browsing different than community searching? Because Jerboa has Searching.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm still rocking Jerboa on Android. It has been totally inoffensive, and I'll probably just stick with it until it offends me somehow.

 
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

As far as I understand;

A user is specific to one instance. In order to interact with the fediverse on that specific account, they need to log into that instance. If they're banned from that instance, they cannot log in and interact with the rest of the fediverse.

There's nothing stopping them from logging into an alt, whether on that same instance or on another instance.

 
 

I bought my son a Mindstorms Inventor set back in like February 2021 thinking we'd be able to buy cool expansions for like at least a decade. But, he was a little too young both to build and program, so it's collected dust since then.

He recently expressed interest in it again, and so we built one of the 5 robots. But, he doesn't want to disassemble it to make anything else. So I was just going to buy an expansion set.

Well... I just saw that the whole IP was discontinued like a year ago... So I'm trying to find parts that are compatible with the hub, so I can see about getting them individually.

When I look on lego.com and open listings for individual parts, I see "Connect to the 88016", but I'm wondering if other parts will work (such as Color and Distance Sensor 88007, which says it's compatible with the 88009 Hub, but not explicitly the 88016 large hub).

So I guess two questions:

  1. Are every motor/sensor with male plugs that physically fit into 88016 compatible with it (and with the Scratch software)
  2. Is there a master list of compatible motors/sensors for 88016

Edit / Follow-Up: are the Spike parts compatible? (45678)

 

I already have a Harmony M. I bought it over a decade ago; it's my first and only pedal. I was interested to see if they revised it and gave it some modern features, but it looks like they've fully discontinued it. I'm not well educated on what to look for.

I wad curious if you guys have any knowledge/recommendations of modern MIDI controlled pedals (or perhaps any non-foot-interacted musical equipment) that offers vocal harmonies, and maybe other niceties like looping and whatnot.

 

So first off, here's my lane balancer. As far as I know this allows 100% throughput (just a bit big).

And here's what I'm calling a 2-Belt Overflow Balancer. It will keep the inputs on their output belt (top stays on top, bottom stays on bottom), and will only actually balance between the two if either are backed up.

And lastly, here's two lane balancers, followed by the overflow balancer:

 

To clarify; I have not yet sprayed anything into the dial mechanism.

This used to be a light switch, but my son kept leaving it on. So I swapped it out for one of these dials about 2 years ago. Now it seems to be getting stuck around the 10-min mark and being left on all day.

I'd prefer not to replace this dial again; the house is old and the wiring in that receptacle was already pretty hard to work with. But I mean I'm not going to burn my house down in an effort to save myself 10 minutes and $10.

Is it safe to use a silicone based spray on it?

 

Funny that the first post on this Microsoft community is an emoji request, lol. But hey... gotta start somewhere.

I would genuinely use this all the time.

 
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