Botzo

joined 2 years ago
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

+1 I finally finished my bachelor's at 31 so I could check a box on job applications. I wouldn't have my current position without it, useless and inapplicable though it is.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were famously at odds over that ... at least publicly.

It's also essentially the only thing on his platform today that counts as a "Democratic" position

This stooge is intentionally ratcheting the Overton window.

More neocons in the democratic party.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True! If the Democratic party apparatus can't galvanize and find a better candidate, it's just another sign that they're beyond fully cooked.

I wanted something different from "knife fighter" Ken Martin, but either he's getting the cold shoulder from the old guard, or he's pandering to them. Come on Ken, be the Brutus/Longinus to Schumer's (et al.) Caesar.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

This fucking thumb decides to run to the center in a heavily democratic district with his only Democratic bonafide being anti-trump. This isn't laudable at all. It risks losing a potentially progressive seat to a Lincoln project/bulwark conservative "Democrat."

If he wanted to do some actual good, he could primary a MAGAt republican in a safely red district. But no.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Final fantasy 7 for pc was also 4 cds in 1998.

I scratched one of them and had to beg a friend to lend me their disc so I could get through the story.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Definitely going on my list of "memes you can hear" ... Or at least we olds can.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Cowboy caviar

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think we're only missing Wham! Last Christmas for my nightmare list from working retail.

Well, and anything from the Amy Grant Xmas album, but that's my dad's fault.

Oh wait, can't forget Christmas shoes... (Shudders involuntarily).

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

They have some very premium brands as well, that definitely deserve praise: hardin's creek, little book especially.

Anything labeled Jim beam is swill to meh (except Lineage, but you'll never see that on a shelf). The old grandad (bonded or 114) line is bang/buck.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Love it. Gives a new meaning to JBOD too: junk box of disks!

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's the nirvana fallacy in action. Yes there are tradeoffs. And I get that it isn't for everyone. I also have a lot of privilege to make this a reasonable purchase financially.

The nearest non-uhaul day rental is a 90min round trip without traffic, which would be rare on a weekend or even weekday afternoon. So I was paying 80-150 for delivery, which really sucks when you realize you're one sheet short on a project because you forgot to account for something. But it isn't a super regular usecase.

And while I appreciate the concern for my suspension, I'm definitely not using this as a work truck. For sheet goods, I'm talking about a few sheets of plywood occasionally for personal cabinetry projects, not a house worth of drywall 4x a week. And I can run all my shop tools off the truck's battery instead of loading up the one 15amp circuit in the garage and running 80feet of extension cords for more. For landscaping, it's a yard of mulch or a few bags of soil amendment and fertilizer (my wife has a very green thumb and we live in clay country).

Regarding vans: if the id buzz could actually fit a sheet, I would probably have gone that route. But short of an Econoline or Sprinter (which afaik don't come BEV), you definitely don't have 8 feet of depth, and I can't thing of a smaller van with 4ft between the wheels inside, so now you're driving with the giant liftgate bouncing on your goods and you still need straps and a flag.

For charging yes, it's silly to think I'm purely solar charging. But I have 26 410W panels and we're at 400kwh this month so far (Winter solstice soon too). And the truck only has 2k miles on it in the 6 months I've had it, so yeah we're definitely net negative on the meter.

For house battery: I valued the truck as 20k worth of battery backup in my math. We live in wildfire country and there are safety shutoffs and outages from storms somewhat regularly. Knowing I don't need a generator to recharge batteries for an extended outage is more value.

Really dumb systemic problem bonus: my car insurance went down when I replaced a 10year old base model 5speed hatchback with this truck. I got a $50 rebate check.

So yeah, it's not a panacea and I don't think we're trying to say it is. But it made enough sense for me.

 

I don't really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it's an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

 

I applied some paste wax to the table saw and was pleasantly surprised that it made a difference.

I think I'll have to use this on the wood runners on the old dresser I have too.

In case you're concerned, it's just a little DeWalt contractor's table saw. No sawstop or powermatic here. That's for the cool guys on youtube.

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