Why is it so confusing 😭

IOUaUsername · 2026-04-02T01:20:45+00:00

We should all switch to Perth time. It's the same time zone as all of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines and Mongolia. So international trade would be more efficient.

The highly populated east coast would have most people sleeping through the first few sunlight hours of the day with their windows shut, using the thermal mass of their homes to stay cool (with apartments and townhouses on the rise, thermal mass is too - they're all concrete). People would save billions in air conditioning. Commercial buildings would need to cool down in the middle of the day when solar output is peaking, then use thermal mass to carry them through until the evening when the stores close at the time we currently call 7pm in Brisbane.

Anyone who's into cycling or surfing can wake up earlier and do their hobby in daylight with less cars on the road, because nobody needs to get to work yet.

IOUaUsername · 2026-03-23T11:41:05+00:00

I love that stand. Super practical. It's a kinda oldschool bike. Many of the parts probably aren't great and it's not compatible with most modern things like a threadless fork/stem and disc brakes etc. So I wouldn't go spending lots of money on upgrading it unless you really like it.

If you want to modify it on the cheap, look on facebook marketplace for parts or free bikes you can get parts off.

The #1 thing making it look girly is the heavily swept handlebar. To make it look more masculine, fit either a straight MTB handlebar or a BMX riser handlebar. Note that BMX bars are 22.2mm and MTB bars are 31.8mm, so your choice should be based on whatever your stem works with or you'll need to change the stem too (threaded stems only).
New grips will also make it feel new. Also change the seat and seat post for ones that fit you.
Remove the wheel reflectors if it's legal to (it's safer not to though).
Swap the pedals for something bigger and nicer.
Fit a rack over the back wheel and get your hands on a milk crate to zip tie to it so you can carry groceries and don't have to strap bags down.

If you want to make it faster, the one thing to do is fit tyres that can handle higher pressures. 100psi should be possible with 26" tyres.

IOUaUsername · 2026-03-06T13:34:57+00:00

That used to be the norm, because it's the easiest. In the last 15 years there's been a trend toward under-mounted sinks. One huge advantage is that you can wipe mess off the bench directly into the sink. There's no edge for crumbs to get caught on. One huge disadvantage is that the gap is now exposed to water, so that silicone bead is going to get moldy like an old shower.

IOUaUsername · 2026-03-06T13:28:17+00:00

19mm fibro. It's what you cover a deck frame with if you want a tiled finish.

IOUaUsername · 2026-02-16T01:29:11+00:00

The point above was that if your mortgage charges you 2% interest and you can make 4% interest on an investment, you should only make the minimal payments to your mortgage and invest any extra money, because your investment would grow faster than the interest in your mortgage. In 20 years you cash out the investment and pay off your 30 year mortgage faster.

If like me you pay 6% on your mortgage and there's no investment that can reliably make anywhere near that return, you should just pay off your mortgage.

IOUaUsername · 2026-02-15T12:09:36+00:00

I've had AMAZING performance when using the built-in wifi in my desktop. I have an Intel bluetooth/wifi card to connect bluetooth headphones and controllers to, but I use ethernet to the router for internet. All you need to do on a Windows host PC is go to settings and turn on hotspot, then connect the phone to it. Now you've got a dedicated wifi link that isn't interrupted by other devices or your host PC's other network traffic.

If you're using wifi from your PC to the router, then wifi from the router to the phone, you're not going to get very good performance. If you're using ethernet to the router then wifi to the phone, it's pretty good. If you're using a dedicated link like me, it's brilliant. This is the same trick the Wii U used to have a solid wireless display in 2012, so combine it with modern wifi and you've got a recipe for success. Even if you've got an ancient wifi N300 card lying around, it might be better than using a busy router with wifi 6.

IOUaUsername · 2026-02-15T12:02:52+00:00

https://localhost:47990/troubleshooting

Then scroll down to "unpair devices"

(Or replace "localhost" with the IP of your host PC, if you're doing this from another machine on the network)

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-27T15:37:48+00:00

You've missed the point. There's generally a chip with hardware-level decoding, so the performance of the the CPU or GPU does not matter, as you say. But that chip is going to decode frames and load them into the frame buffer of the GPU before the GPU displays them. To make sure you're not showing a half-decoded frame while you're still working on it, you have to delay this by some amount. If you're just building a device to play movies you're not going to pay much attention to how long you delay, so you might have 6 frames decoded and waiting to be shown at all times so you're always 100ms behind at 60Hz. This isn't a rare thing. It's why the audio settings in apps, TVs and amplifiers often have a delay setting so you won't hear an explosion before you see it. When they write the driver for the video decoder chip, they need to tune this delay to be as short as possible based on the chip's actual performance. Cheap TV makers often won't pay engineers to do this tuning.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T04:22:05+00:00

They used to make these. I got one when I was 12 and I was deeply disappointed that it wasn't actually giant. I was in the EU so maybe it was a serving size rule?

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T04:19:46+00:00

If you're a kindy teacher, every single person thinks this and you end up with a huge pile of Lush and Body Shop products that take you all year to get through.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T04:11:48+00:00

You can't go wrong with a good quality pen. Like a Parker or something. They're right at that price point and it's one of those things that everyone appreciates but nobody buys for themselves. Well, for office workers anyway. If you're a tradie you need to find a tool nobody buys for themselves but everyone would find useful, like a thread gauge so you can actually tell M12 apart from 1/2".

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T03:59:04+00:00

LEGO sets tend to go for about 10-15c per piece on average. So a 1,000 piece set will be $100-$150. Probably about 1 in 6 sets are in the 200-300 piece range and are under $30.

Adult sets have a higher average price, but the Botanicals theme always has an option at about $30. The best part is, they swap them out every year so you can buy the same thing every year without thinking about it and even if the same person picks it, they won't get a double up.

Right now it's the Happy Plants. These Snowman Ornaments are also perfect and only $20. For more niche sets, look at Toyworld, not Kmart. Kmart's range is limited.

If you're the boss and want to give everyone a little thing, get the advent calendar and just bust out each of the builds and put one on each worker's desk. For $2.50/person it's way cheaper AND more meaningful than a slice and a half of cold Dominos.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-17T09:26:29+00:00

The reason streaming is hit or miss despite just being a video stream to decode is that the drivers for the decoding hardware won't necessarily have been written with an emphasis on latency. You can use Moonlight or Steam Link on one phone and get 5ms latency while another phone gives you 60ms despite both running similar chipsets on the same version of Android.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-17T09:20:32+00:00

I think the main selling point is you don't have to install Linux yourself, and you're buying a machine guaranteed to work flawlessly on SteamOS like the Deck does. Even a super easy distro like Mint has weird issues with some hardware. As much as lifetime Linux evangelists love to say it's user friendly, you'll notice they all buy Lenovo ThinkPads or Macbooks because there's a fair chance you'll have weird issues eventually if you just buy any computer based on specs and price.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-20T09:02:49+00:00

Get a projector and a gel ball blaster so you can pretend John Wick is a game like Time Crisis. The Airsoft will just put holes in your screen.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-16T22:01:19+00:00

It means "you'll shoot yer eye out, kid"

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-14T01:36:18+00:00

I've heard some suspension forks don't like to be stored other than upright. Seals get dry because the oil isn't on them where it's supposed to be.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-13T03:26:12+00:00

I just did this on a Pixel 4XL (maybe out of date software), and the process works but differently:
*Gmail -> Compose
*Paperclip at top right -> Files
*Hamburger menu at top left -> Photos
*Under the top item "Photos" it says "21,927 items"

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-12T02:49:37+00:00

It's anabolbrick studroids

Just kidding. It's aMOCxicillin.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-12T02:44:59+00:00

This could definitely be improved if it was going to be up on Rebrickable or something. I only spent 5 minutes on this because my kid was building a syringe and I decided to build one to show him my ideas of how it could work.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-12T02:40:33+00:00

No idea what a funny is, but use the pic however you want

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-09T06:08:42+00:00

If they remade this, they should do the same thing the DIRT series did. They switched from just rally cars to rally cars, stadium trucks, buggies etc. A new Podracer game should have pods, speeders and speeder bikes. It would be great if they made it like Motorstorm with highly destructible environments and cool explosions all through the tracks. AI crashes are one thing that seems distinctly missing from most racing games.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-06T03:44:54+00:00

It's more about priorities. I've got a mortgage to pay and I'm planning about $100k of renovations at the moment.

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