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- Comment on nets 2 days ago:
Now I feel better about my weird dietary preferences.
I’m doing my part!
- Comment on This is ridiculous 1 week ago:
You’re looking at now sir, everything that happens now is happening now.
What happened to then?
We passed then.
When?
Just now.
When will then be now?
Soon.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 week ago:
Phone is for work only. Tower PC for everything else.
I’m probably an outlier.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
PCL is a “language” not a driver.
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 3 weeks ago:
Alright lemmy users who aren’t part of THIS thread, but I still remember from 8 months ago…this is your time to shine! Go make new communities and show us all how your ways are realistic in real world scenarios…and not just, ya know, group jerking the group about unrealistic concepts and thus not a real solution.
I mean; It does work that way. See the 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone drama. People didn’t like what the mods wanted to do, so they started their own (onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone) and it currently has more than twice the number of active users.
So it does work when most of the people give a shit. Problem is, most people don’t.
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m sorry that happened. But literally no one, even the shadiest shop, is doing that intentionally. Laziness and using air tools, probably. Trying to save a buck by using the original crush washer and just tightening it down harder, also likely. Intentionally over tightening so you have to come back to them; extremely unlikely.
After we finally got it off we both agreed on one thing, neither of us are bringing our vehicles back to that shop again. That was over 10 years ago now and I’m still holding true to my word fuck them I’ll drive the extra 20 minutes to another shop
That’s exactly what you should do if you’re not happy with the service. But be prepared to wait to get into a decent mechanic. The ones that provide shitty service are able to stay in business because there is always someone in a hurry. And this is why I say they aren’t intentionally over torquing your drain bolt. They don’t give a shit if you come back on not; there’s plenty others waiting.
I’m glad my professional wrenching isn’t in the automotive field any more.
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t sweat it until I had to remove it for some reason either.
Those old Civics are indestructible.
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 3 weeks ago:
Devils advocate: As a mechanic, if I tighten the oil filter too little, I’m liable for thousands in repairs. If I tighten the oil filer too much, some rando curses me but I don’t hear it and continue sleeping like a baby. Or it comes back to me and I don’t care if it’s tight, Ive got the tools that make it easy.
So, sorry, not sorry. I’m gonna keep cranking those puppies down.
Also your PCV hose is starting to look pregnant.
- Comment on Who doesn't enjoy a good basement brick wall stare session now and then? 3 weeks ago:
“I really need to repoint this mortar”
- Comment on Thanks 1 month ago:
This is pretty much an instant return for me.
Exactly. Because you know they are going to refund your money and let you keep it.
- Comment on It shows you love them 1 month ago:
Because they’ve already moved to Newsmax?
- Comment on Hubris 2 months ago:
I popped one open on my cat’s head one time and they never forgave me :(
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 2 months ago:
Yeah. I keep one of these around just for older Yamaha and newer Kawasaki equipment. You’ll end up drilling half of them out if you try to use #3 ISO.
I’m in the powersports/agricultural industry, so we tend to lag behind everyone else.
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 2 months ago:
Kawasaki is still holding on strong to JIS screws in it’s machinery.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 months ago:
IMO if it’s exclusive to one store, sailing the seas is morally just.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 months ago:
One reason is Valve has put a fuckton of effort into linux support. So for linux users, buying a game on Steam means it’s probably going to work right out of the box. Buying from Epic, it’s a crapshoot.
For example, I spent hours trying to get Red Dead Redemption 2 that I had bought from Epic to work. Never did, something with rockstar launcher compatibility. Gave up and bought it again on Steam, worked the first time I hit play.
- Comment on Will the price of Freeze Driers go down? (USA question) 2 months ago:
If you’re backpacking, wouldn’t you have to carry the same amount/weight of water to re-hydrate it?
- Comment on Meal prep 2 months ago:
“And it tastes faintly of the bacon I made for breakfast.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
60% of the time, it works every time.
- Comment on Former LA Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Reveals Plans to Buy TikTok 4 months ago:
That would make more sense. These are all incomprehensible sums of money to me anyways.
But after a second read it kind of sounds like he’s trying to “invent” the fediverse,
The proposed system would work similarly to email, where users can communicate across different service providers. In this vision, social media users could maintain their connections and content regardless of which platform they choose to use.
- Comment on Former LA Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Reveals Plans to Buy TikTok 4 months ago:
Twitter sold for 44B. Tiktok has nearly an order of magnitude more active users and this guy thinks his 500m offer is even in the ballpark?
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 4 months ago:
The active electronic ones may. I’ll admit I don’t know a lot about those.
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 4 months ago:
The prevention of rust does slow scale accumulation because rust is a rough porous surface that scale likes to stick to. But other than that (anodes also are rough porous surfaces) I’m not aware of any way they actively reduce it. Maybe the electronic ones, but that’s out of my wheelhouse.
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 4 months ago:
Anodes protect against corrosion. They don’t do anything for hard water scale.
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 4 months ago:
Anodes protect against corrosion. They don’t do anything for hard water scale.
- Comment on Is setting a box outside a viable trapping strategy for felines? 5 months ago:
It’s not so much a trap as there isn’t anything to detain them. But they do make pretty good lures for outdoor or even big cats.
- Comment on People on Tik Tok peddling these scams 5 months ago:
I just slam a shot glass of baking soda and water when it gets bad.
Disclaimer: Not sound medical advice. Probably not good advice at all. But nothing works faster.
- Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online 6 months ago:
I can remember the Yahoo chat rooms of the 90’s. It’s always been doods cybering lesbian sex with each other.
- Comment on Skyblivion Quest Showcase - Fingers of the Mountain and Killing Fields 6 months ago:
I love GOG, but I hope not. GOGs lack of linux support and forcing the mod to install through their client made FO:L take more work to figure out than if it would have been on Nexus or Steam.
- Comment on 2024 Plymouth Grand Voyager fucking shit up 6 months ago:
Reminds me of Gus and his van. RIP (he died a couple months after the last update).
