YetAnotherNerd
@YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz
Nerd of many hats.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 4 days ago:
Allow me to share a culinary secret that instantly upped my chili and other Mexican food: Either buy cumin seeds and toast them in a pan on stovetop then grind it, or buy mcCormick brand “organic roasted ground cumin”.
And yeah, definitely the flavor of chili.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 4 days ago:
Cumin
- Comment on How would you describe that post sneeze smell? 1 week ago:
Boogers. It’s when you realize you can smell boogers.
- Comment on Can anyone help me decipher the words in Those Who Ride With Giants' track The Knocking Lord? 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried emailing them? There’s a contact link on their site, thosewhoridewithgiants.com
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 3 weeks ago:
Wicking everything. 32 cool makes wicking underwear, there’s a wicking sweatband with a silicone band to keep it out of your eyes (and something called a gutter that is JUST the silicone band that routes it down the side.
Form fitting wicking undershirts - The more body contact, the better, since you wanted to grab every bit of moisture and wicked away from your skin. But in my case, the sweat drips from my head to the sweat band, goes from the sweat band down to the back of the sweat band, which winds up touching the back of my wicking shirt, which winds up soaking it up, and then the wicking shirt absorbs a bunch of moisture off of me, and then the underwear also soaks up a bunch of the moisture
Now, the problem you’re going to run into is everything is going to try and drip down that clothing to your shoes, and that I don’t have an answer for - but I know the stationary bikes have a fan and I wonder how much air that moves. But maybe you tuck a towel in near the shorts level and that soaks it up, and immediately afterwards it gets washed?
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 3 weeks ago:
Wonder if there’s a book/novelization, since that would be canon.
- Comment on Real and True 4 weeks ago:
Yup. But both are more difficult to use in practice, and I’ve been on enough calls where the person shares their entire 40” ultra-wide, to encourage it. I run with three monitors, and replacing any of them is trivial. The biggest problem is the KVM, and that’s ~$200.
- Comment on Real and True 4 weeks ago:
Easier to move windows around using the windows+arrow keys this way. Easier to share screen this way. Easier to switch context this way.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 5 weeks ago:
Because he figured they wouldn’t care and wouldn’t put up resistance
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 1 month ago:
Looks more like bad design unless there’s a ton of other cables or if some of your cords/cables are in loops. I just checked my amp/preamp, and surprisingly they’re not using grounded plugs either, and it’s fairly high-end gear.
Only other thoughts:
- plugging directly into the wall if you’re plugged into a surge protector, or plugging into a Surge protector if you are plugged into the wall.
- I would also try moving the volume up and down a little bit because I’ve seen gear where that caused hum issues (god knows why).
- try plugging in a source in case they’re somehow using the connectivity to other gear to provide the grounding (grasping at straws here).
Unfortunately, it’s been long enough since I’ve dealt with ground hum issues that the I’ve forgotten all the tricks. :( You might need to find an audiophile group. Because even cheap-ass gear shouldn’t do that.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 1 month ago:
Google “60 hz hum”. It can sometimes be helped by plugging the various components (amp and preamp) into the same power strip.
There are also devices to fix the “ground hum”, but I’d say to read a couple of the articles on some audiophile sites. Also: see if it happens with nothing plugged in. If that’s the case and the outlet/plug is properly grounded, it might just poor manufacturing/design.
- Comment on Just say what you want! 1 month ago:
The kind of people who do that can’t be bothered to read the link, either. Alas.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 month ago:
I use News Explorer which is Mac/iOS, runs locally, and uses iCloud to sync status++ between devices.
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 1 month ago:
Specifically: the three wise men brought gifts to baby Jesus: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. So it’s tied to Christmas.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
I typically have 100-200. It’s usually a “let me come back to this in a day or three”, which may or may not happen. Or a thread of “doing research on a topic” and then getting pulled to something else, but not having time to summarize/organize for later. Plus, as others have mentioned, sometimes you need the tab session history.
I really appreciate y’all saying what a monster or computer illiterate I am, though. Don’t tell my boss, she’ll wonder what I do all day.
- Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term? 2 months ago:
Thanks. Apologies for derailing your point which is that this stuff can run for years without changes.
- Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term? 2 months ago:
Why does bespoke have to mean no development? If it’s custom code, big whoop - provided the dev either made it easy to modify, or still helps out with it. Our company has tons of bespoke apps that get developed regularly.
(That said, I don’t know what metafilter is)
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 months ago:
Ironically, none of that was why she went to jail. It was for defrauding investors. Fun!
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 months ago:
CEO of Theranos, currently spending time in jail for fraudulently saying they could do this.
- Comment on I swear half the posts on here are just slop now 3 months ago:
Almost scores!
- Comment on does anyone else have this impression of gruyere? 3 months ago:
French onion soup.
- Comment on Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles 3 months ago:
You can’t use the steering wheel to tell the Bluetooth to pause the iPod? That seems off.
- Comment on Where can I post my Halloween outfit? It's awesome. 3 months ago:
Pics would make sense, but unsure of anywhere specific
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 3 months ago:
There are some where there’s no hub, just a standalone (I can’t be arsed to check if you still need the job for switchbot itself). Worth looking at the knockoffs since I know some exist that don’t need anything else. And I wish the security were better, but for a simple case like this I think they’re fine.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 3 months ago:
Yes. SwitchBot is the biggie but there are a ton of knockoffs (google “smart button pusher”). The catch is that the security is crap - fine for what you’re doing, but I wouldn’t use it for a garage door, for instance.
I think you’d need a shortcut or script on a computer to run a scheduled task or cron job to start it, but pretty sure that’s available too. (Note - looked at them briefly, just wanted to respond while it was fresh in my mind)
- Comment on CNC 3 months ago:
I love how you explained both.
- Comment on Is it true that Bill Gates has been committing genocide in Kenya? 3 months ago:
No. It’s not true. You need to think more critically and check sources and seek alternate views. This isn’t a stupid question per se, but it’s hard to tell if you’re asking it in good faith.
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 4 months ago:
Just curious, does that amount of stupid ever burn? Because when I see that amount of ignorance I saw “the stupid, it burns”.
- Comment on Why do adults have such big noses? 4 months ago:
oops. Sorry. flushinghospital.org/…/truth-or-myth-our-nose-and…
But webs says the same thing. webmd.com/…/what-to-know-about-nose-and-ear-growt…
