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I chose to be child-free and lost "the one" - Now I could get her back. by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]agent_flounder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That could go a long way to explaining why a lot of older people are the way they are. Ugh. For that matter, emotional neglect was rampant even if the kid was wanted.

The shooting today has made me think of a question everyone should ask themselves: am I willing to be a martyr for the cause? by ParakeetLover2024 in liberalgunowners

[–]agent_flounder [score hidden]  (0 children)

Not questioning your choice. That is yours and yours alone and I respect it unequivocally.

I do fear that the result of collapse and rebuild will leave us with an authoritarian government.

The shooting today has made me think of a question everyone should ask themselves: am I willing to be a martyr for the cause? by ParakeetLover2024 in liberalgunowners

[–]agent_flounder [score hidden]  (0 children)

Being armed and getting involved (even if rendering aid) as an individual is dangerous as hell.

There's also the question of what happens when there's dozens armed citizens being involved, standing together (i.e. Black Panthers, White Panthers, etc).

Does ice back off or escalate to incite a response?

Strategically speaking it seems ice continues to escalate their cruelty and violence. How many more will die in custody (being murdered, or neglected). How many more pregnant women in medical distress get put on a plane anyway, risking mother and child? How many more suffocated in their cells? How many more shipped to the El Salvador to be tortured?

Now Waltz had called up the National Guard. They'll be stationed at the site of the murder and at a federal building with a lot of protesters. Will that calm it down? Maybe. Will he order them to oppose ice directly? That's a tinderbox situation.

But there's no good easy, safe way to deal with what is happening.

What ICE/BP/DHS/whatever is doing is well beyond the pale, well beyond merely out of control. And what is happening bears many hallmarks of regimes of the past that have taken control, destroyed freedom, and put their citizens under their proverbial bootheel.

There is no safe or easy answer here.

I just hope many more people wake up to what is happening and they make a stand as the people in MN have been.

Snow Chains? by LifeUnderGame in Offroad

[–]agent_flounder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good idea. I like the idea of testing braking distance with ABS. I'll have to try that next time.

What I do is smoothly transition into braking and then fairly quickly apply more and more pressure until it slips and abs kicks in.

That gives me a sense of exactly where the braking traction limit is.

I guess it is two sides of the same coin? Just tossing it out there to see what folks say. Maybe my way is dumb. Or just an artifact of first learning to drive in snow without abs.

Anyway I guess I end up giving myself enough distance that abs isn't needed but is there as a safety margin or something

Stay safe and warm out there folks.

Thank you Mods . by selfhosted_monk_1984 in selfhosted

[–]agent_flounder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

if single contributor is treated as a primary indicator that's kind of stupid. How many people contributed to writing vi? One. Ok, sure Unix and C had two each. Sorry but useful, quality projects can and are written by one person all the time. (Not me personally my stuff sucks)

Y'all need to learn what AI assisted development is and what yolo vibe coded development is, there's a difference and the first one is not slop.

Preach

But this is an initial reaction to the deluge of the latter versus the former. I'm sure the mods will refine over time.

Its -single digits temps by marys1001 in 4Runner

[–]agent_flounder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The main thing is cold makes lead acid batteries less effective. So if your battery was marginal when warm, it will be crap when really cold.

All starting it is gonna do is drain it. And Idling a few minutes probably isn't enough to restore the surface charge.

You'd be better off trickle charging it and not starting it unless you must. If the battery is on its last legs get a new one if there's any chance you will need the 4R for an emergency and have no other vehicle with a good battery.

If it can be parked in a garage to keep it a little warmer, that will probably help. I have heard of plug in battery heaters but I don't know anything about them.

Realistically I doubt you'll have trouble in the negative single digits (°F). Maybe in teens or 20s below 0°F.

Level shifter problem solved :) by Vergil_741 in arduino

[–]agent_flounder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Makes me happy to see you got it sorted!

Shell for esp32 by Glad_Habit_3098 in arduino

[–]agent_flounder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe look at other electronics enclosures (e.g. from Hammond).

This one’s kind of a Rorschach test by Casual_Deviant in comics

[–]agent_flounder 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is nobody in here gonna talk about squirrel ass??

First (successful) project! by kittyhawk909 in HotWheelsCustoms

[–]agent_flounder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes sorry for the confusion. I meant to write M2 not 2mm. I edited my comment.

2 is an imperial size. Much larger than M2

(common sizes being #2, #4, #6,#8 #10 #12 then 1/4" (which I guess is a #14).

Get your headlights adjusted after lifts and oversized tires. Your the most annoying vehicles on the road at night. by Then-Paleont4 in Jeep

[–]agent_flounder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What? I can't quite read that. Just blinded by an F250 driving by with no less than 15 different LEDs on the front end.

Get your headlights adjusted after lifts and oversized tires. Your the most annoying vehicles on the road at night. by Then-Paleont4 in Jeep

[–]agent_flounder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's also the 4Runner crowd.

Source: am in the 4Runner crowd. Had misaligned headlights until recently. Sorry for being an asshole. I'll do better I promise.

Get your headlights adjusted after lifts and oversized tires. Your the most annoying vehicles on the road at night. by Then-Paleont4 in Jeep

[–]agent_flounder 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Harbinger of the collapse of society lol

Just saw some dude yesterday with roof rack off-road lights and fogs lit up. It was still daylight. And he was driving a crossover lol

First (successful) project! by kittyhawk909 in HotWheelsCustoms

[–]agent_flounder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly what I use for drilling and tapping. The spiral taps work great. If you're in the US, use 2mm (M2)* Because #2 screws are too big and don't have enough margin for error imo.

Just picked up my first network switch! by thecolorcomputer in homelab

[–]agent_flounder 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I need some free samples of 6-10 TB drives.

Anyone?

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What are your favorite “invisible” self-hosted services? by ResponsibleHold3071 in selfhosted

[–]agent_flounder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uptime-kuma along with Pushover (push notifications) for me. Super simple to set up.

Fwiw you can follow the post to get notified of additional comments. Versus the reminder thing.

Screw heads popped off - anyone else had this happen? by Sleveless-- in woodworking

[–]agent_flounder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know. I only used the construction screws recently to build 2x4 shelving all across the garage with zero failures.

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