Uncle_Brumpus

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by Uncle_Brumpus 13d ago
I guess it makes sense that there's an elevator of the year award, though it's never something I'd have thought of. The photo of one of the brake assembly components mounted to a welded tubular skid, bolted to a large structu
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by Uncle_Brumpus 16d ago
I read on the original Openbook lite, which despite only accepting .txt files, is still a great little device. I'm excited to get the touch and not have to pre-format massive files in a text editor.
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by Uncle_Brumpus 1mo ago
I definitely didn't have to wonder if my career choice would be invalidated by AI by the time I graduate.
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by Uncle_Brumpus 1mo ago
I drove ~3 hours to the Vermont-Canada border... and then drove 14 hours home. I'd also do it again in a heartbeat. I almost signed up for a live-work program for a big music festival happening in Iceland, but the flights (the only thi
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by Uncle_Brumpus 1mo ago
I'm currently reading Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. In the second book, there's a water-world where there are airships, and a whole city held aloft in the air by "vacuum bladders". I'll admit wh
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by Uncle_Brumpus 1mo ago
I think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on the funny-ironic side that we're all
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by Uncle_Brumpus 1mo ago
I've done some pretty stupid things in my day relating to various activities far* from civilization (my dumbest being an offroad motorcycle trip by myself for which I was not nearly experienced enough, dumped the bike several times, cr
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by Uncle_Brumpus 1mo ago
This reminds me of something I saw on a backpacking blog sometime last year. Project Remote, a family that's finding and hiking to all the "most remote" place in each state of the USA. Here's some of the statistics: htt
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by Uncle_Brumpus 2mo ago
Interestingly, I noticed this in aproximately real time. I had been checking up on the visible-light geocolor composite images every hour or so to look at the massive plume of Canadian wildfire smoke that was turning the skies in the northe
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by Uncle_Brumpus 2mo ago
I recently started Postcrossing. 5 sent, with 2 traveling to Russia and China (from the US, it's been ~40+ days, I figured those 2 would take a while, but we will see if they get delivered!) So far I've gotten 2 from Taiwan, and 1
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
I get all my 2FA through SMS or a Yubikey. It took a bit of wrangling from corporate IT, but it was "Get my yubikey or SMS working or buy me a company phone and pay for service that I won't use for anything else" I never real
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
I would have had no idea if it weren't for this post. It isn't displayed or acknowledged ANYWHERE on any page, through 3 or 4 pages of "Are you SURE you want to delete your account? You could pay us $5 per month in a differe
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
This is the real tip. Thank you. I had gone through a whole process probably 2 years ago now to "recover" my account that I lost the original email and forgot the password. I eventually got into the account before they paywalled i
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
Luckily our eyes tend to be closed when we're asleep. Evolutionary safety squints.
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
I saw the "Get $50 off!" and thought "Oh cool, maybe I could get this for $150!" then checked the actual page and saw $499... absolutely not. Also the whole store page just feels off. The weird mix of "beige" a
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
I saw the original post first and thought it looked fishy so wanted to see what the comments looked like. My muscle memory for immediately clicking the last link on the right under the post to check out the comments just hid the post, and I
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
This is only tangentially related to early high-quality materials, but since I'm already strolling down memory lane: My dad used to work as an after-hours maintenance tech at a graphic imaging company. For several years my mom worked d
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
I actually had to go check to make sure the DC did originally have a modem before posting. I've been dabbling in Dreamcast modding the last couple of years, and the only network adapter that came to mind was the broadband one which, co
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
I don't know, I've got a ~10 year old 1B+ sitting there running Pihole just fine. My ass remains un-kicked.
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
It's funny that this was my first thought, too. I am sure game console browsers were an entry point for whole generations of kids. Mine WOULD have been through the Dreamcast, but because my parents were early adopters of Broadband inte
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
That hit me, too, specifically thinking about my current gas/electricity provider. I have not heard one single piece of positive feedback from the public, and there's only ever problems. I feel like that's a pretty universal
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by Uncle_Brumpus 3mo ago
I am notoriously "bad" at texting. My phone's on silent almost 95% of the time, I don't even have a smartphone so the only way to get to me wirelessly is to call or text. I got really into sending mail last year, specifi
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
I think also to a degree, even if someone knows those other water use figures, it's easy to see an intrinsic value to the community from those sources. Many people do not see much value in pushing AI to such a degree where all this new
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
I somehow hadn't even considered Bluetooth as an option when I read the headline, I immediately thought about INFILTRATING via audio, which also sounds insanely cool, but I couldn't possibly wrap my head around how an audio circui
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
I have always preferred some kind of physical calculator for doing calculations. I never need to do excruciatingly complex math, but I have a cherished TI-34 from the early 90's that I have dragged through college and 3 jobs. Full scie
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
"You can just make it type words, what's the risk in that?" Makes you wonder what other peripheral companies out there are also operating with seemingly no security team. There must be other vulnerabilities like this just wai
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
"Diversify my portfolio. Lose no money."
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
I really like these. I went through a phase a couple years ago where I got really into cooking new fancy recipes, and having to scroll around on recipe pages, or try and read my own chicken scratch notes or understand the context I was tryi
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
I had to sit through a ~45 minute meeting once where an electrician and his boss sat and presented literal chat screenshots to justify their positions opposing or agreeing with a repair I requested. I had specified some high-temperature ele
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by Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago
"Hello, Aliexpress seller? Can you paint them gold?" Is about how I expect it all went.

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