Life is a long game. Sometimes I have to remind myself that many of the most important changes in my life came from seemingly small, gradual decisions. Much of life is repetitive and mundane. That doesn’t mean it can’t be good.
Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul - They were the backbone of Pantera and I won’t be told otherwise. We’re nearing 20 years since we’ve lost Dimebag and 5 years since we’ve lost Vinnie Paul.
AFAIK it all boils down to the fact that during embryonal development our cells, which at that point were just a blob of undifferentiated autonomous chemical machines, somehow managed to unanimously agree upon the cardinal directions (up-down, left-right, front-back) for future development - and thanks to this, we don’t have...
The other day I was talking to a friend who served in Vietnam and he said something kind of along the same lines. “I don’t get these people who want to kill other people; their fellow countrymen. I’ve done it and those guys were trying to kill me but it was bad enough that I don’t ever want to do it again.”
Personally I’ve never experienced that. I hope I never do. People that wish for such devastation are extremely ignorant at best and malevolent at worst.
Methheada is sort of like Godzilla. Except Godzilla destroys Tokyo whereas Methheada steals your catalytic converter, water pipes, and Romex from Home Depot.
Technically the land under the power lines is the utility right-of-way. The utility has an easement so they essentially own it. How much land on either side of the pole they own varies based on a bunch of factors. The main goal is to keep trees from growing close to the lines because they can short out the phases if the branches come in contact with them.
The voltage on the lines in OP’s photo probably isn’t that high since at least some of them are distribution lines. If you go to a substation where you’re in close proximity to the transmission lines that come from the power plant, those can be well into the hundreds of thousands of volts. They can literally make your hair stand on end. When the weather is just right, you can hear the static electricity in the air crackling around them. It’s freaky.
So I have a few 5TB external drives with all my media. I mainly just hook them up to my xbox and use kodi to play the files locally. I should probably be investing into a NAS or some sort of JBOD, but that’s a whole other issue....
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
They already are. I have a teenager. She is technologically illiterate as are most of her friends. Oh, she has an iPhone, iPad, laptop, etc. But when it comes to doing anything more than using her favorite apps on it, it’s like she’s completely lost.
We lose some of our capacity to learn as we age but I think we also kind of get to a place where our plate is pretty much full and you just let a lot of things go that aren’t important to you. I feel that way about certain things sometimes. Hell, I work with technology for a living but there’s so much that changes so fast. There’s a lot of stuff that sounds interesting but I’m not going to spend a bunch of time learning about it because I don’t have time and don’t care. Unless it has an impact on me getting paid of course.
This recall involves 42 models of dehumidifiers with brand names Kenmore, GE, SoleusAir, Norpole and Seabreeze, manufactured between January 2011 and February 2014.
This explains why ventless heaters and fireplaces produce, in addition to toxic exhaust gasses, enormous amounts of water vapor. Enough to make it condense on your windows and walls.
The average person, even in the southern US where it’s warmer, seems to understand that it doesn’t snow as much as it used to. I’ve heard numerous people mention it over the years. It’s when you try to get them to consider why that might be the case that their brains start turning to mush.
EDIT: So because of my $0 budget and the fact that my uptime is around 50% (PC, no additional servers) I ended up using NextDNS. For the time being it works (according to dnsleaktest), an added benefit was improved ad-blocking (100% in this tool). I now have plans for a proper router in the future with a Pi-hole. Thanks so much...
So is your ISP blocking or redirecting outgoing requests on port 53? You said you can’t set dns servers on your own devices so I’m just trying to understand why that doesn’t work.
Wow. What kind of bullshit ISP blocks outbound DNS requests? I would bitch loudly at them as they have no valid excuse for doing that. Anyway… In that case you have a few options. You can use DNS over https but that’s supported primarily by browsers. Not so much other desktop applications. I would get a router that’s capable of WireGuard and connect it to ProtonVPN (or another VPN service of your choice). You don’t have to route all traffic over VPN if you don’t want to but at least you’ll be able to use whatever DNS server you want.
OneDrive. Not because I love Microsoft. I do not. I just dislike Google more and it’s …the least inconvenient. I switched from Proton mail to Exchange before Proton offered file storage because I wanted a groupware solution. I’ve considered switching back to Proton but just haven’t had time to seriously look into it yet.
Edit: I just remembered the other hangup. Fucking Excel. It’s a monster but it can do things that no other spreadsheet program can do. Every once in a great while I need to use a bunch of VBA code or some obscure function that doesn’t exist in Libre Office. Most people aren’t going to have this problem though.
I worked for a big manufacturer for a while and every year at the company wide safety presentation the CEO would tell a story from when he was a plant manager. Someone climbed into one of the machines to do to maintenance on it without following lock-out-tag-out procedures. The machine kicked on and the guy was crushed to death.
The CEO would kind of wrap it up with, “I want all of you to go home to your families at the end of the day and I don’t want any of you to ever have to call one of your employees or co-workers family to tell them that their dad/mom/SO is never coming home again because of one little mistake.”
I’ve been around an astonishing number of people who don’t take safety seriously. I’ve been very lucky but I’ve had more close calls than I would like. All it takes is one time.
That’s not the plot of the bible. The bible is a collection of texts spanning hundreds of years. With a huge variety of stories and themes. That’s the book of Revelation. Honestly, I’m not even sure why Revelation was included or what John of Patmos [the alleged author] was smoking when he wrote it.
I can’t think of a worse marketing strategy for a company that relies on remote work to remain relevant. This would be like if General Motors forced every employee within 50 miles of an assembly plant to ride a bike to work.
Any executive who has “lost control” of their business by allowing their employees to work from home is no more than the ring master of a runaway circus that they never actually controlled to begin with.
I’ve had the unfortunate displeasure of working for at least one company that made a full time job of keeping their employees under their thumb and I can say this much: the more you micromanage your workforce, the better your workforce becomes at professional time wasting. By that I mean finding creative ways to look very busy while achieving nothing of benefit to the organization.
But then again, much of the corporate world runs on incompetence so poor business decisions based on some executives feelings, rather than statistics, aren’t exactly rare.
My dog can hear asteroid collisions on the other side of the galaxy. At least I’m assuming that’s what he’s barking at when there’s literally nothing going on around him.
Beaver Bridge is a one lane wooden swinging bridge that crosses Table Rock Lake in Carroll County Arkansas. It’s the only bridge of it’s kind still in active service in Arkansas. The bridge made national headlines a few years ago when two tourist busses, each weighing over twice the load limit drove over it causing some...
Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa Oklahoma. One of the few examples of Art Deco religious architecture in the world. It’s unique and quite impressive to see in person. I don’t know if they still do but they used to offer tours of the building on Sunday afternoons.
The figures are of a some of the key characters within the history of Methodism. I’m not a Methodist and my memory is a little fuzzy but I believe one of the “circuit riding preachers” on top is Francis Asbury (the first Methodist Bishop in the United States). I’m not sure about the other two.
Below is, I think, John and Charles Wesley with their mother.
That’s some dumbass sexist bullshit which was/is wrong on so many levels. First, it degrades women by equating them all with “delicate flowers” who are supposedly incapable of doing any damage. Second, it implies that domestic violence is acceptable, or at least not as serious, if a woman is the abuser and that a man, supposing the victim is a man, should not be allowed to defend himself. For normal people, not to mention someone who sells himself as a sort of therapist, that’s some fucked up logic.
As a general rule, nobody should be hitting anyone else. Gender is irrelevant. If someone is assaulting you, and you are unable to get away, then you should absolutely fight back until your attacker stops attacking you. Once again, gender is irrelevant. The fact that “Dr.” Phil’s tiny little brain can’t comprehend that is simply mind boggling.
I think the “Super Troopers” rule always applies to pranks (aka Shennanigans). Talking about Farva’s pranks: “Our shennanigans are cheeky and fun. His shennanigans are cruel and tragic.” Moral of the story is, when you playing pranks on someone, don’t be fucking Farva. Nobody likes Farva because he thinks he’s funny but in reality he’s just a dick.
Reject modernity. Embrace tradition. (feddit.cl)
edit: Don’t do this. Embrace modernity and don’t pollute the soil.
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How's work? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Who's death(s) do you feel, make the world feel like an emptier place?
Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul - They were the backbone of Pantera and I won’t be told otherwise. We’re nearing 20 years since we’ve lost Dimebag and 5 years since we’ve lost Vinnie Paul.
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash (www.bbc.com)
Oh where, is my hairbrush. (lemmy.world)
I just realized how incredible it is that we don't have toes growing out of our ears.
AFAIK it all boils down to the fact that during embryonal development our cells, which at that point were just a blob of undifferentiated autonomous chemical machines, somehow managed to unanimously agree upon the cardinal directions (up-down, left-right, front-back) for future development - and thanks to this, we don’t have...
US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network (www.theguardian.com)
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What kind of music should you listen to while fishing?
Something catchy!
US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows (geopoliticaleconomy.com)
I LOVE MY COMRADES AROOOOO (lemmy.world)
[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…...
WOULD RATHER BE CRANKING MY HOG (lemmy.ca)
I'd pick the person. (lemmy.world)
A dog park near my house (i.imgur.com)
HDD Health and things of that nature
So I have a few 5TB external drives with all my media. I mainly just hook them up to my xbox and use kodi to play the files locally. I should probably be investing into a NAS or some sort of JBOD, but that’s a whole other issue....
Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
YSK that 1.5 million dehumidifiers have been recalled (www.cpsc.gov)
This recall involves 42 models of dehumidifiers with brand names Kenmore, GE, SoleusAir, Norpole and Seabreeze, manufactured between January 2011 and February 2014.
Hey guys, why is it getting warmer? Did y'all leave the stove on? (reddthat.com)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Survey_on_existence_of_global_warming_and_responsibility_for_climate_change_-_bar_chart.svg
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Oh my golly (infosec.pub)
DNS hijacking
EDIT: So because of my $0 budget and the fact that my uptime is around 50% (PC, no additional servers) I ended up using NextDNS. For the time being it works (according to dnsleaktest), an added benefit was improved ad-blocking (100% in this tool). I now have plans for a proper router in the future with a Pi-hole. Thanks so much...
Merry Christmas. (lemmy.world)
Is... Is this a threat? (lemm.ee)
18+ Putting your arm in na unsecured machine, what could go wrong? (i.gifer.com)
Never forget what Netflix did (infosec.pub)
Show your rubber duck debugging ducks
A blue rubberduck with an Australian flag and the text Australia printed on it, positioned on a white cup
If Christians want more people reading the Bible, they should stop spoiling the plot
Lift it off y'all (lemmy.world)
I see a lot of people talking about the UI experience. I’ve found liftoff to be pretty enjoyable.
End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work (nypost.com)
I guess this could just as easily be posted in an anti-work community
The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent, who view flexible work as equivalent to an 8% raise (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1125686...
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Beaver Bridge, Arkansas (sh.itjust.works)
Beaver Bridge is a one lane wooden swinging bridge that crosses Table Rock Lake in Carroll County Arkansas. It’s the only bridge of it’s kind still in active service in Arkansas. The bridge made national headlines a few years ago when two tourist busses, each weighing over twice the load limit drove over it causing some...
Boston Avenue Methodist Church (sh.itjust.works)
Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa Oklahoma. One of the few examples of Art Deco religious architecture in the world. It’s unique and quite impressive to see in person. I don’t know if they still do but they used to offer tours of the building on Sunday afternoons.
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He's not a real dr, but he sure is a real jerk. (feddit.ch)
Talking about you mr phil.
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