StrawberryPigtails
@StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Should I bring in the battery for my electric mower in the winter? 2 weeks ago:
Check the data sheet or user manual for your equipment or battery, but generally batteries should be stored indoors at a human comfortable temp and humidity.
Here’s the manual for mine, but yours may differ:
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Ryobi really needs a better URL for their manuals to be stored at. If the direct link to the file sketches you out, for the moment at least this, this link will lead to the same file:
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 5 weeks ago:
After writing this, I thought I could use another flashlight, but seems that Ryobi has discontinued the P705 and seems to have replaced it with the PCL660 which has a different form factor.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 5 weeks ago:
I know the feeling. Most of those features are only useful in low probability events.
If you’re looking for simple flashlights, Maglight has always made decent flashlights, though I’ve been buying Ryobi flashlights for the last 15 years as they are relatively affordable and I’ve already a bunch of their 18v batteries. Not sure how weather proof they are but I’ve never had an issue with the “new” (I think it’s a 10 year old design) led flashlights.
- Comment on Do drivers in the USA have to yield to alien UFO's? 5 weeks ago:
In my profession (trucking) the only thing that matters is preventable/nonpreventable. Liability is something for the insurance company to worry about (mostly).
This might be an interesting topic to suggest to Mike Rafi or Legal Eagle though.
- Comment on Do drivers in the USA have to yield to alien UFO's? 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s a joke question but here’s a serious answer:
I would treat it same as any other aircraft landing on the roadway. Give them space to do their thing because objects of greater potential energy ALWAYS have right of way, regardless of what liability laws say. Can’t sue ‘em if you’re dead.
As for laws, a quick search didn’t find anything in Federal or Alabama law about it except that the FAA here in the US says pilots consider it only as a last resort option due to safety concerns. If figure it’s probably not a common enough occurrence for laws to be made about it. Other states or counties may have something about it though.
- Comment on What careers are relatively easy to get into with decent unions behind them? 1 month ago:
Pretty much any “trade” job will have what you’re looking for. Most have good unions.
Probably the only trade that is the exception to that would be the trucking industry. This is where I am.
Decent pay, relatively easy to enter, but it’s a lifestyle, not so much a job and the Teamsters (the main trucking union) and I very much don’t get along. That is an understatement due to community and instance guidelines. We’ve had… words.
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 1 month ago:
Not always. I live in Alabama. Usually in and out in 20 minutes. But then I do live in a more suburban area.
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 1 month ago:
I suspect the fact that I had to think a minute before I could name a recently released western cartoon that wasn’t Disney or aimed at the under 6 crowd may have something to do with it.
Sadly Saturday Morning cartoons just aren’t a thing anymore in the US.
As for comics, when was the last time you saw a comic at a grocery store or gas station? I know Marvel still makes comics but I haven’t seen them in a store in almost 30 years.
Japan likes their anime and manga so there’s a lot of variety, but for whatever reason our corporate overlords here in America decided that we didn’t want our equivalent anymore.
- Comment on Request for aftershave recommendations 1 month ago:
Got it from Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy, when I was young. Good book.
- Comment on Request for aftershave recommendations 1 month ago:
First time I’ve heard that. Interesting read, thank you. Though, for my own part, I like the smell of their products and they haven’t caused any issues with my skin so I’ll continue using them. Each cat their own rat.
- Comment on Request for aftershave recommendations 1 month ago:
I’ve always liked TOBS, personally. Soaps and aftershaves. The sandlewood aftershave is great in the winter but is extremely overpowering during the summer. During the summer I prefer Jermyn Street, Eaton College or St. James.
Granted, the only soap I use that has a strong scent of it’s own is Arko.
- Comment on It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do? 1 month ago:
Spam email has always been a problem, and there is really no way to find out how they got your email address and no way to prevent it either. Email lists are bought, sold and traded all the time.
What I do is keep the email client Thunderbird running on my desktop. It has a really good smart spam filter that learns from the email you receive and what you mark as spam/not spam. With IMAP, even your mobile devices benefit from the filtering.
Every few days I’ll check the junk folder and mark “not spam” anything that it incorrectly flagged as spam and go through my inbox and mark spam on anything it missed. I think it miss-flags maybe 3 or 4 emails per week right now. Doesn’t happen often.
- Comment on Simple way to get emails for new Lemmy or Mastodon posts? 1 month ago:
Email notifications can be setup, but the option needs to be enabled by the instance administrator. Failing that, your phone app might support push notifications.
- Comment on Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station? 2 months ago:
I seem to remember a scene in Babylon 5 where Vir got sick eating at a place that sounded like a rebranded McDonalds. Londo was chastising him saying you know Centauri stomachs can’t handle fast food. I wish I had time to rewatch that show.
- Comment on How does app forking works exactly (ex: forkgram)? 2 months ago:
I’m short on time, but here’s the general idea. Telegrams front end, the part you use I the open source part. The backend is the closed off part. The two parts are separate but communicate via a protocol, kinda like email. The forked project can change anything they want, to make it do whatever they want, but it still needs to be able to speak to the backend server.
- Comment on Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you 2 months ago:
Here’s a better article which actually includes a link to the original journal article.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Off course! Though I bought the CD and ripped it. Dangerous and Moving was a great album.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, they appear to be shutting down soon. Looks like it is illegal to gamble on politics in the US, at least according to one multi national betting site I looked at last night.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Know of anywhere that will let you bet on political races?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
Of course they are a waste of money, and the plastic packaging is incredibly bad for the environment. And they are fun and I will buy them again next year.
- Comment on How would I troubleshoot an AC unit that isn't working well. 4 months ago:
Didn’t know that. Thanks!
- Comment on How would I troubleshoot an AC unit that isn't working well. 4 months ago:
134a is for automotive ac units. Unless something has changed recently, household hvac systems use a different type. It used to be R22 for both, but that was a long time ago. Turned out freon (R22) was bad for the environment.
- Comment on MicroMac, a Macintosh for Under £5 5 months ago:
It always amazes me to realize that we now have microcontrollers as powerful as early computers. It one thing to know that a graphing calculator has more computing power than the Apollo spacecraft, another to see it demonstrated like this.
- Comment on Anyway to make $20 a day online consistently? 5 months ago:
A couple of years ago I was using a transcription service, though that may be of less help nowadays due to AI transcription. Pay was crap, but it was better than nothing for me at the time. The service I was working with seems to have shut down, but you might try www.transcribeme.com/freelancers/
- Comment on Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial 5 months ago:
Good.
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- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 6 months ago:
I think that the Nazis or Japanese did experiments in that vain, but don’t quote me on it. They did quite a lot that makes my stomach roil. As to how far they could get, no clue.
Either way, once organs start to be removed, you won’t be around for long. Under most circumstances anyways. We do have the ability to sub in machines for failed organs, such as heart, kidneys or lungs, but I don’t know of any cases where all of them have been replaced with machines at the same time with the “patient” still awake during.
Full life support tends to be a “Buddy, your fucked!” sort of thing and if you’re not already in a coma, they will likely put you in one.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Well, I use NextCloud (via Nextcloud AIO) as my cloud backend for almost everything. If all you want is contact syncing, that is anlmost certainly overkill. It’s a Big project that does just about everything.
If I remember correctly, there were a few more focused project listed in the Awesome-Selfhosted repo that may be useful to you.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 6 months ago:
The logistics issue is not that big of one. We’re a warehouse that runs our own trucks. We could get it there with only a bit of extra fuel burn. HOS might cause issues though. Additionally, the need is great enough that many food banks and shelters would be willing to come pick it up if we weren’t all (Grocery industry and food banks) afraid of getting sued to death by some person that got sick after eating something that was a day after it’s arbitrarily set use by date.
We at the warehouse salve our consciences some by donating fresh products directly to some food banks local to our warehouse, and a few of our stores order a little extra to donate locally, but it’s nowhere near the amount that gets tossed by the stores.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 6 months ago:
I work in the grocery industry. For us it’s a liability thing. If you get sick and sue, it winds up costing us even if we win. Given the razor thin margins we operate on, we would have to increase prices to cover the extra cost.
The result is most grocery stores toss anything that doesn’t sell and lock the dumpster.
Some is donated, to be sure, but most is just tossed out.