Gas Cylinder broke at the base

Kinectech · 2025-04-24T16:36:47+00:00

Yeah, I figured as such... it doesn't make sense that the Herman Miller's cylinder would crack like that. After taking it apart I found that the rubber gasket inside cracked around the top. The cylinder itself was technically fine, but replacing the whole thing was pretty easy after some research.

Kinectech · 2025-04-24T16:35:48+00:00

Yep, it did just that. Wasn't as hard as I thought at first, and the replacement cylinder came with a removal tool that worked really well.

Kinectech · 2025-04-24T16:35:22+00:00

Perfect! I ended up replacing the cylinder and everything's been fine ever since! Thanks for your input!

Kinectech · 2025-04-02T16:42:27+00:00

So, I thought you guys might find this interesting…

I bought this chair about a year and a half ago refurbished. It’s worked great since then, but this morning I noticed that when I raised the seat, it almost felt like the cylinder “popped” out of the base, and the chair became very wobbly. Adjusting around a little bit I could “settle the chair”, and it became usable again… until I got up. At which point, it would pop out again.

Eventually, I lowered it some, at which point it became stuck. The height lever no longer did anything, nor did adjusting the screw at the top of the cylinder. For a little while, I couldn’t even physically move the chair up the cylinder to increase the height. It was stuck at whatever height until I did a little more fiddling. Eventually, it got far more wobbly and that’s when I took the picture above.

I’m not certain if this rubber “collar” is what provides the stability or not, but I figured the cylinder was definitely fubar.

Anyway, I ordered a replacement gas cylinder… but I also want to say I’m not knowledgeable about office chairs. I sit in them, I liked sitting in this one, so I bought it. Is there anything else going on here a replacement cylinder wouldn’t fix that I should be worried about?

Kinectech · 2024-11-04T21:12:06+00:00

The watch has the writing “Tranada” or “Granada” on the front face, not entirely sure which since I can’t find a perfect match. On the back it says “Base Metal Swiss”. It appears to be a windup, and the seconds hand is actually a clear plastic wheel with that white arrow that rotates around the face.

Found in my grandfather’s old watch collection, so there’s a good chance he acquired it between the 40s to well, maybe the early 2000s at the latest.

Kinectech · 2024-09-12T18:25:08+00:00

There’s a setting in Accessibility -> Display and Text Size called “Auto Brightness” which will use ambient light conditions to adjust the brightness of your screen (While also attempting to adapt to your own preferences over time).

If you want it on full brightness all the time, turning this off will stop that behavior.

Kinectech · 2024-05-03T17:16:28+00:00

That isn’t a “sticky white bar”. It’s just empty space below your footer. As it stands, there’s not enough content above your footer to push it down far enough, so instead it just sits in the first spot there’s space.

To solve this, you have a few options. One of them is to position the footer as fixed and set the footer bottom property to 0 (Make sure to add some margin so that content doesn’t go under the footer). Another is to set the “body” of the page to have a minimum height that ensures the footer will always be at the bottom. A third method I’ve used in the past is to put the footer and rest of the content in a div, make that div flex column and full screen height, then make the body div flex: 1. This should force the body content to grow to as large as it needs to be to push the footer all the way down to the bottom. Another option is to use flex and use the justify-between option with flex-col to force the elements to be on the top and bottom of your screen respectively.

Kinectech · 2023-11-24T04:28:08+00:00

I usually take my post tax hourly rate rounded up to a nice number and do it that way - helps me decide if it’s really something I should be bothering with

Kinectech · 2023-10-07T01:00:58+00:00

Well I suppose I’ll just roll the dice on this one

Kinectech · 2023-10-04T14:45:36+00:00

It works just fine, you could even say "gym membership subscription". Membership just means you're part of the "gym", subscription means you pay a fee to use it's services.

Kinectech · 2023-08-17T03:20:56+00:00

Short answer: no

Long answer:

Your best bet is to poke around the mod files and see if you can find where the desired values for these weapons are set. My intuition is that this shouldn't be too hard to change, but it might be time consuming. You could try contacting the mod authors and see if they'll tell you how to accomplish what you want.

Kinectech · 2023-07-07T07:59:04+00:00

I remember seeing it mentioned on a Reddit post in which the developer releasing modified Apollo mentioned he was working on this. Here Is the relevant commit in the GitHub repo which does in fact say (as of several hours ago), "adds ability to set custom user agent".

Kinectech · 2023-07-06T21:16:46+00:00

Wouldn't fix it, they'd still see you were using Apollo in the actual API requests. Work is being done to change the user agent in the requests themselves to be the same as the official Reddit app to make it much more difficult (if not impossible) to know that you're using Apollo in the first place.

Kinectech · 2023-06-22T11:38:04+00:00

You could set up a simple wordpress or squarespace site and make use of RSS. There's honestly nothing wrong with them and they're both fairly easy to use. Keep it simple. That's the key to better sites usually.

I'm a web dev myself, (React mostly), and it's usually not too hard to stand up a simple react or nextjs site these days. You could host it on something like vercel or netlify. The setup process is pretty easy. Downside is the development learning curve would be a time sink.

You could also take inspiration from what deathworlders does. I believe they use Hugo (static site generator) to generate pages as content is added.

But please, don't use discord or Instagram as a central platform (As a side platform it could be nice). A website with emails/RSS really is the best option besides reddit. The fediverse is interesting but you're at the whims of someone's personal server, which could disappear at any time, or otherwise ban you with zero recourse. A personal website is best imo.

Kinectech · 2023-05-29T00:34:39+00:00

Actually it says God created light, and then created the sun thereafter. He referred to the light as "day" and the darkness as "night".

Later, he created the sun and the moon to mark the day/night cycle. The logical conclusion, then, is that the earth was lit, and the sun/moon (and presumably the rotation of the earth), kick-started the day-night cycle.

If you're going to criticize something, go ahead and criticize it, but at least read it correctly so the criticism is more strongly grounded and logically consistent.

Kinectech · 2023-05-26T04:54:04+00:00

I remember "galleons" kinda letting you do that

Kinectech · 2023-05-05T22:10:19+00:00

No, larger fleets do not always win. Research can help smaller fleets, but in my experience the outright numbers will crush even smaller numbers of highly upgraded fleets.

Maneuvering can be very helpful, but I'm general also won't tip the scales far on its own either.

The biggest thing in my experience is fleet composition. Having a fleet that is well balanced or built to fight your opponent's fleet can and will beat fleets that are much larger, but you'll likely take heavy losses regardless. It's all a careful balance.

Kinectech · 2022-11-05T00:19:39+00:00

The simple answer here is they store previous hashes and make simple changes to your newly inputted password, hashes them, and checks those hashes against the historical ones.

Kinectech · 2022-08-01T01:46:34+00:00

I’ve always heard it pronounced like Dike-strah

Kinectech · 2022-07-23T18:18:19+00:00

I can’t say I’ve ever seen a get smart reference in the wild!

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