SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on Snitches get switches 3 days ago:
Guess it’s lost in translation.
Conservation land is a protected wild area. Sometimes it’s what we refer to as “the woods,” and not properly marked from a local standpoint.
In my region, there are many county and state (vs federal in US) parks, with recreational areas and rules about how to interact with the wildlife. Greatparks.org.
There are also private nature preserves, and those appear to us as hiking trails. www.cardinallandconservancy.org is an example.
There are also smaller conversation areas. I know of a little bog about the size of a football field with a little sign saying it is maintained by the local college.
- Comment on Florence Nightingale's Kink 5 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/stay_night
Stay/Night is the original.
- Comment on Florence Nightingale's Kink 5 days ago:
Gacha mobile game based on the Fate/Stay Night franchise, which comprises an Anime about different paths one could take within a 2004 Windows game.
The franchise is massive. I watched one and moved on. There are fans ranging from devoted to deranged.
The original game had sex scenes in it, and the people thirst for more.
- Comment on Misspelled learning center, no children inside: Emmer presses Walz over Minnesota daycare tied to $4M 1 week ago:
Pretty sure I would stop answering the door if Internet celebrities were attempting to use me for attention.
- Comment on Chilis 🌶 3 weeks ago:
In that case, you can use red chili peppers, but feel free to substitute any chili pepper to your taste.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 4 weeks ago:
Huh, guess you are right
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 4 weeks ago:
Easy! Assuming the earth is the center of the universe, coordinates are 360,360
± the current position of the Earth in the solar system ± the current position of the solar system in the Milky Way. In the Local Cluster, in the Local Group, in the Virgo Supercluster, in the Local Mesh
In order to return, we just go that way: Image
- Comment on True 4 weeks ago:
It’s the truth. 2 weeks of vacation, 6 sick days (the last two are write-ups), and 6 holidays are not enough.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. Fixed
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 5 weeks ago:
I could see this working, but it’s a ton of effort to maintain. If you have the right mindset, after organized enough, and have the space, I guess it will work.
My other beef is just cost in general. At 500 pages for CMYK each, and $20 a cartridge, that’s $80 for 500 pages. You get about 10x the yield for the same cost with third party toner. Even if you were buying OEM toner at 4x the price, you are still getting 2.5x the yield for the same cost.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 5 weeks ago:
Funny enough, that was the last model I had to do that to, a 9000 series. We had several, but they are dying off steadily to print head failure errors. Reminds me of the Whack-a-Mole scandal.
I would 100% buy a used enterprise printer if I could get a proper deal on it, but that is because I have been a certified HP printer tech and have fixed hundreds of printers. If you count receipt printers and other brands of office printer, I have probably touched over a thousand for anything from rebuilds to jams. There was a year when I rebuilt 10-20 printers a week as part of a schedule.
Anyhow, what I’m getting at isn’t that they are better built or anything like that. There just happens to be enough third party vendors that you never have to pay them a cent to keep a printer running. Someone else already paid them the 2-6k for the printer, and it’s e-waste if it goes into the dump. I can ship of Thesius it indefinitely, even if I have to buy parts from God knows where.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 5 weeks ago:
The M477fdw is pretty solid. You can find parts and manuals aplenty for that.
Definitely check before you buy a used HP to see if there is a firmware lockout for toner. I have seen other newer models complain about counterfeit toner and still print.
That being said, I endorse HP printers. They are anti-competitive and have terrible software.
No problems with their enterprise desktops, but again, buy used!
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 5 weeks ago:
My routine for unclogging a printhead is to get 99% IPA, blot the head on a paper towel and then drag the head down a sheet of paper until it is leaking ink. As an IT guy, I have recovered several ink cartridges this way.
After you have done this, do several prints until the ink flows properly.
If you have the ability to do so, you should look into buying a used laser printer. The toner is more expensive upfront, but you don’t have these issues and total cost of ownership is significantly cheaper.
Word of warning, do not buy consumer HP printers. These only exist to make you purchase HP toner.
- Comment on Insulin 5 weeks ago:
It’s no longer about saving money at that point.
- Comment on Insulin 5 weeks ago:
Not sure about that, and not sure if I could trust that.
Another option is to have the doctor prescribe insulin pens or another brand of the same kind of insulin. It’s technically a different prescription and the insurance company usually covers it.
- Comment on Insulin 5 weeks ago:
Insulin is not permanently shelf stable, and will still expire in the fridge.
Diabetics usually start with a long-acting insulin to keep blood sugar from naturally rising plus a fast-acting insulin for corrections and to compensate for food.
The old style of just giving 2 long-acting shots of mixed insulin is mostly obsolete, except for legacy patients, some pregnant patients, and other special cases I can only theorize.
A good number of diabetics only use fast acting insulin in a pump, receiving microdoses every minute.
To switch brands of insulin, much less therapies in any circumstance requires a doctor’s visit.
With all that said, the insurance company will often replace a medication in the event of an accident, typically only once a year.
Without that, a patient might be able to find a charity they will assist them.
You also may be able to travel to the next state over where the cost of insulin is regulated.
Failing all other options, it is better to check yourself in to the hospital as your sugar begins to rise and tell them that you cannot control your blood sugar.
- Comment on A blog re-used one of my Reddit posts as a genuine comment on their blog 1 month ago:
Along with the other comments, your review may have been supplied or archived well before you obfuscated your history.
As I tell my daughters, the Internet is forever.
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 1 month ago:
Well, that’s comforting. I was mildly concerned about my memory.
Guess I’m do my part in the future.
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 1 month ago:
Outside of your question, there has been some rage bait:
lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/38413203
I think it would be appropriate for these conversations to be flagged and locked. I thought there was a lot more, but it seems to have been a while.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Lucky for me, my kids are past it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Also no Roblox, if you were still on the fence.
- Comment on Goodbye Windows, goodbye nvidia and sadly goodbye EVGA. 1 month ago:
9060 here. I’m sure you already have a distro picked, but I found Fedora quite good for gaming.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 1 month ago:
If you have a botanical garden nearby, you could see if they’ll adopt them. You could also check with any greenhouses.
- Comment on all hail to the comment section 1 month ago:
No joke, my dog is very sick and I should have taken him to the vet when he stopped eating. Instead I took the long route and now he’s in the hospital.
Good news is he’s feeling much better today!
- Comment on all hail to the comment section 1 month ago:
Thank you for this. I have been having a very bad day and this straightened me out.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
It took one hour for you to reply, and another for me to reply to you. Op may eventually return.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 months ago:
Pop ate punk.
- Comment on Dear God 2 months ago:
Nukenado.
- Comment on Chicago elementary teacher mocks Charlie Kirk’s assassination with vile gun gesture at No Kings protest 2 months ago:
Hell yeah. Even if the government protects you, you are still liable to be shot in front of a crowd.
- Comment on Chicago elementary teacher mocks Charlie Kirk’s assassination with vile gun gesture at No Kings protest 2 months ago:
Whoa, speech crimes. Someone call the police!
