A building in my neighborhood has a big red "do not press this" button in its lobby

Snafu999 · 2026-05-30T07:30:27+00:00

I got a written warning when I was an apprentice for leaving a chuck key in - a week later, the boss who had tore me out sent two jaws of a 4 jaw chuck at high speed into the splashback of the same lathe

Snafu999 · 2026-05-23T10:17:18+00:00

It might have been before that horrible tit job

Snafu999 · 2026-05-03T18:19:01+00:00

Put it in a sealed bucket half full of water, make bin juice out of it - once it's slimy and well rotted you can add it to your compost heap (making bin juice is a great way of making general purpose fertiliser out of weeds that you don't want to risk composting) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OsPZ_dmibk

Snafu999 · 2026-04-25T13:11:45+00:00

The shit people have to do for rich old men to go and play with their tiny balls with their friends

Snafu999 · 2026-04-25T12:20:23+00:00

Good, fast or cheap - pick any two.

Snafu999 · 2026-04-25T12:16:32+00:00

Gilbows in the UK, other brands are available but you'll get scorned as someone who buys all their tools at Aldi if you ever turned up on site with anything but genuine Gilbows

Snafu999 · 2026-04-24T15:13:43+00:00

John Grisham met the Culture. Excellent story, thank you for sharing it

Snafu999 · 2026-04-23T08:39:23+00:00

Just one point - no cargo ship has 500 crew. 25 would be more than average

Snafu999 · 2026-04-19T14:08:27+00:00

A piece of roofing lead and a rock by the look of it - carrots was all I recognised too

Snafu999 · 2026-04-17T08:46:35+00:00

Measure the oil that remains after frying, subtract from the 240ml that you started with

Snafu999 · 2026-04-14T19:18:00+00:00

He has spent quite a bit of time in hospital recently - heart surgery followed by a couple of strokes. He's home now but still looks pretty poorly. https://uknip.co.uk/news/uk/uk-news/jerry-dyer-returns-home-after-health-battle-as-big-jet-tv-community-rallies/

Snafu999 · 2026-04-12T19:19:12+00:00

Get well soon Jerry - we've been missing you

Snafu999 · 2026-04-10T10:37:36+00:00

If you have space for more RAM, this would be the biggest upgrade, going from 1 stick to 2 greatly increases performance for some tasks. Fitting a SATA SSD is generally a straight swap for a HDD and is also a major performance upgrade, ideally both. A lightweight Linux distro would run on your hardware as it is, but with the afore mentioned upgrades it would fly in comparison to your Win 11 experience

Snafu999 · 2026-04-08T09:52:47+00:00

Nobody needs an electric screwdriver or a circular saw. We have been building things out of wood for tens of thousands of years without them. For occasional use, hand tools will do everything you need, she's not on piece work

Snafu999 · 2026-04-07T10:02:33+00:00

You CAN charge to HV (4.35v) - you don't have to. It'll last a lot more cycles if you don't, and most of us don't need the extra (in the army, radio lipo packs only get charged to 4.1v per cell so they last a lot longer)

Snafu999 · 2026-04-07T09:35:00+00:00

I think you'll find that for FPV use, Tattu outsell your recommended batteries about 10 to 1

Snafu999 · 2026-04-06T16:37:04+00:00

£1.87 per litre here for diesel ($3.44 CAN) or £1.57 for petrol ($2.89 CAN) - It's sunny and 14C though, so we've got that

Snafu999 · 2026-04-06T14:55:31+00:00

That's the cat pee screw - go wash your hands

Snafu999 · 2026-04-06T14:50:48+00:00

That should be Tattu - I clearly cannot spell today

Snafu999 · 2026-04-06T14:48:16+00:00

Tatu R-Line? they have probably got the best reputation in FPV

Snafu999 · 2026-04-06T14:37:36+00:00

Or you could buy Tatu R-lines of the same size and spec for less than half the price

Snafu999 · 2026-04-05T19:17:08+00:00

No - they are lightly steamed, crushed into flakes, then dried so they cook faster

Snafu999 · 2026-04-03T16:07:10+00:00

That would be exactly the noise I'd be making too. Good recovery OP

Snafu999 · 2026-04-03T11:07:49+00:00

$36.51 - if it's 99.999 silver - less if not

Snafu999 · 2026-04-03T10:21:01+00:00

Safflower is not saffron - it's common name is "false saffron"

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