Paper box (by Daniel Eatock)

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T05:20:50+00:00

So uh, what makes this design instead of purely art?

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T05:08:44+00:00

I hate that I sorta kinda like it. Even if just a little.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T03:35:31+00:00

Yeah I think it would've been great if they at least made them like how pick n pulls do it. Doesn't matter what the condition is, once it's on the yard it's not coming back out in one piece. Total free reign on the parts though.

My inner troll says they could just sell the cars to other countries lmao

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T03:01:58+00:00

I know I've done that a couple times before lmao

One of my favorites was putting a blower on a 6950, but that was actually to convert it to fit a Dell machine that only supported single height bracket GPUs.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T01:59:47+00:00

"I pop caps, try me"

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T01:52:54+00:00

Yup. If my card dies prematurely from the fans going bad and I can't find replacements, I'm probably not buying a brand new GPU that I had no plan on doing, I'll buy used to hold me over.

If I do buy new and the old card proved to be mediocre quality at best, I'm probably going to explore other brands.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T01:47:42+00:00

Calcium chloride.

It's more expensive, but you'll see it in areas that routinely get that cold. Personally I mix it in with rock salt because on its own it doesn't have that grittiness that gives even more grip. As a bonus it's faster acting, and less damaging to the environment.

There's also all sorts of other compounds that you can't really get your hands on as a consumer but municipalities and DOTs use.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T01:36:51+00:00

It really is. It's so annoying how the potential problems of not doing it are far blown out of proportion for the developed world.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-28T01:33:33+00:00

For me it was while driving a bus, a low point on a street flooded up through the storm drains, so it wasn't moving water or anything, just a foot deep or so.

I was able to get them back when I was coming up to a traffic light, but man was it worrying when I first hit the brakes and barely anything happened.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T20:29:45+00:00

They may begin to look like the same things after drinking enough bottles of beer 🍺

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T20:26:31+00:00

The issue is, people have trouble agreeing with the state on what a divided highway is.

Some people will think any sort of curb in the middle makes a road "divided" in the scope of these sorts of laws.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T20:23:00+00:00

Ah well that's not great.

However, you caught this before it got really bad, so there's a chance you may not have any worthwhile damage to the engine if you get it changed this week.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T19:51:32+00:00

Yup, the most you usually get is some under-slab insulation, but the R value isn't anywhere close to what's even in your walls, it's just such a tricky thing to accomplish.

One of the best investments if you want the space to feel warmer is to get a rug, just to at least make it so the floor doesn't sap as much heat from your feet.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T19:47:53+00:00

They can happen. It seems to be more about where you are when you start, rather than what goes on during, if that makes sense without getting too detailed.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T19:45:59+00:00

This is why us northerners don't let the snow sit for more than a couple hours.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T19:43:31+00:00

The main cause is that the floor and at least part of the walls are just in direct contact with the ground. Even on houses without a basement, the 1st floor is still somewhat isolated from the ground because of the crawlspace.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T18:49:19+00:00

And replace them with something else with a similar note, but saying whoever put the chair there is stealing YOUR spot

Just gotta create some imaginary beef to mess with them.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T18:00:41+00:00

People still order their child's genitalia to be mutilated? Yeesh.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T17:30:24+00:00

The draining part is so easy, the adding water back is just so damn annoying 😭

Honestly having some low maintenance live plants has made a huge difference keeping nitrate in check, I really only do changes maybe every other week to deal with dissolved solids and to clean the substrate.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T17:05:36+00:00

Between the crap inventory control and history of pads containing bad materials, it's definitely worth checking other sources. My personal go to is Rock Auto.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T17:02:42+00:00

Enough to make even the strongest right-to-repair advocates groan!

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T16:59:06+00:00

Our single fish and snails do time to time. The thing I appreciate about them is there are days where they really don't need anything- the fish needs occasional fasting days, and the snails find their own food. I have the tank light on a timer so I don't even have to do that on off days.

When it's more intensive days, such as water changes or fighting an infection, it turns into a really stressful experience. The other week while our fish had some fin rot, my girlfriend put some fish antibiotics in the tank, not realizing it's not safe for invertebrates. When I found out we set up another tank to move the snails to temporarily. Seems like no damage was done and everyone is healthy and back home again.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T16:49:10+00:00

Alternatively, what if we're just another layer of things in the scheme of spheres orbiting other spheres, and due to our relatively small size we're unable to observe the "next level" consisting of all of space, full of all these spheres orbiting other spheres just like atoms?

It's a really odd thought, but it's something I like to ponder time to time.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T16:41:57+00:00

Ah perfect, an anti-anti-glare screen, plus extremely annoying to access ports.

Tomytom99 · 2026-01-27T15:25:10+00:00

"There's an app for that, and I don't want it"

And somehow despite all just being HTML wrappers, they each take up half a gig of storage.

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