This could be work or recreational related. Anything you’ve done that you sit back and go “hell yeah I did that”. I’m typically wary of working on cars because I have big hands and no auto specialty tools. But, I was able to make a pretty involved (for me) repair last week and I’ve felt really great about it since. What about you?
Talked to a girl
Spending a lot less time on my phone and actually being productive and getting back into reading. My attention span has also greatly improved since “dumbifying” my phone; no socials (including fedi accounts), no browser, no Youtube. Just calls and music. I feel so much better and my mental health has improved because of it.
I just replaced the flex tube p traps with regular p traps under all the sinks in the house we just purchased. Never did it before. Plumber wanted $600 to do 2 of them. No thanks!
My mother died from cancer three weeks ago. I held her face and stroked her hair as she passed away. I whispered to her the entire time, I told her that she’d done a great job, that she was loved and safe and that I hoped she had an easy journey. It’s a transformative thing to watch someone you love take their last breath. Hardest thing I’ve ever done and I’m proud and honored that I was able to bear witness to her transition out of this life. Heartbroken and shattered, but also proud. Fuck cancer.
My condolences. You did the right thing by being there for her and comforting her while she took her last breath. Kudos to you.
I just vacuumed my whole home.
Couple weeks back, but this is still one of the things I’m most proud to have ever done in my life
My friend works security at a bar. He texts me a pic of a guy sitting at the bar wearing a shirt with some SS lightning bolts, and said the girl he was with was wearing them too.
They’re not otherwise causing a problem, so the manager won’t let my friend kick these guys out, but he really wanted to.
I’m at work, probably 5 miles away, and I can’t leave to go start a ruckus. But I like this bar and I’ll be damned if I let Nazis get a foothold there.
So I think through my options. I remember that the bar has a jukebox with an app you can queue songs up on. I open up that app and see that I, for some reason, have a ton of credits on there.
And even better, you don’t actually even need to be at the bar to play songs there.
So I begin queuing up every anti-nazi, anti-fascist, anti-racist song I could find.
According to my friend, after a couple songs he got visibly frustrated and steps outside to have a cigarette as All You Fascists Bound to Lose comes on (sadly the jukebox did not have much Woody Guthrie, so I had to settle for the Billy Bragg and Wilco version)
He comes back inside and is created with Youth Against Fascism by Sonic Youth.
I keep it up. I find a version of Bella Ciao to play, Racist Friend by The Specials, This Is America, etc.
This bar has their jukebox set to a family friendly mode, since they also operate as a restaurant during the day. This limited my options somewhat, but I managed to put together a pretty solid dozen or so songs.
He starts looking around the bar, trying to figure out who is playing all this music obviously targeted at him. Of course I’m not even in the same town, so he finds nothing. My friend is keeping busy checking IDs and such at the door and occasionally texting me an update.
At some point in the middle of this someone queued up a single kid rock song, and I strongly suspect it was them.
It only took about an hour and they decided to close out their tab. He walks out to Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Care about Us.
But that’s not the end of this. I’m on a warpath now. I fire up a throwaway Google account and leave a 1 star review of the bar complaining about the Nazi. This causes a bit of stir with the management, and my friend is successfully able to argue for more authority to throw Nazis out.
Nazi punks can fuck off.
actually updated my website
I 3d printed and painted this guy.
My sister has an official, packaged undead beholder like this still in the package and this is how I imagine it could look once painted. If she doesn’t paint it, imma do it. 😬
I wound my own common mode choke to reduce noise in the power line for my mobile radio
tell us more about the process of calculating and making it!
It’s a mix 43 ferrite toroid with 3 turns of 8awg wire going opposite directions for positive and negative. The idea is that clean dc power can get by easily, but interference from stray RF, or nearby electrical switching (think dimmable LEDs or similar) will see a really high resistance as it goes around the ring and get lost as heat, letting only the clean power get to the radio.
This same idea is used on usb cables and all kinds of household electronics to protect against data loss and interference.
Pictured above as the knobby things at the ends of a usb cable, these guys are the little cousin of the big bertha version I made
Edit: It’s a really easy thing to make, it’s just the first time I’ve ever done anything like that completely from scratch, and I have been really happy with the result
Opposite directions? That explains why mine never worked!
It helps to wind in opposite directions since the opposing flow of common mode current is a big part of what helps it cancel out
Fantastic!
She thicc
She carries a good amount of current, and she don’t get hot doing it!
I’d bet! How many amps is it pulling?
Less than 30 with full modulation from the radio, but this is the low current side. The big side of the system can pull 150 peak
That’s a spicy meatball
Finished this lil guy 🖖 Probably the last job of the year
HELL YEAH LOVE STAR TREK.
You do some beautiful work. As a kid I collected a few of the metal miniatures from the board game, loved them. Models don’t have to be big to capture the imagination.
Is this printed or carved?
Carved :) oak and brass
Very cool and impressive!
I bought a Pentium II 450Mhz Dell tower for $40 at a flea market recently. It was in great condition except for missing a hard drive. Installed a 32gb ssd with a SATA to IDE converter kit and installed Windows 98. It works! This was my first time doing something like this.
Looking for a good graphics card now. I want a VooDoo 2 but those are like $300 on ebay.
Yo, I just set a Dell Inspirion 4600 out on the curb. Free! No HD. It’ll run Linux.
You’ll be playing Unreal Tournament in no time!
Keep on looking at eBay! If you don’t have to have an exact model, sometimes you can score deals. I outfitted my 486SX with cards from Romania for cheap!
Windows 98 is wild hahahaha.
I managed to… um… not die… cuz a part of me really just wanna kms for some reason…
Not before China friend :)
Everyday you wake up on this side of the grass has the potential to be the best day anyone has ever lived.
Glad you’re still here! 💖
I’m glad you’re still here. I see your posts enough to recognize your username. Lemmy wouldn’t be the same without you.
I replaced my 3-beers-a-day habit with a new bicycle-30-miles-a-day habit.
Still kind of an addiction, but one I can live and raise a son with.Thats a significantly more healthy habit, good for you bud.
When I get depressed or stressed, I tend to withdraw hard. I’ve ghosted friends for months at a time before. The guilt that comes with a relative ghosting makes it really hard for me to reach out again and usually I instead just let go of the relationship.
But I had a frank conversation with someone I recently withdrew from and it feels like there’s still a friendship there for us both. So it’s tentative and covered in bandaids, but we’re on good terms again.
It takes a lot of guts on both sides to have a conversation like that. Good for you, keep reaching out, we need people like we need water.
Your friends want to hear from you or they’re not your friends. Simple as. Reach out, I’m sure they miss you :)
I just wrapped my kids’ Christmas presents and put them under the tree. I really took my time this year too.
Nicely done!
Thats great! Lucky kids
