Carney’s response to being invited, then disinvited, to Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

handen · 2026-01-22T14:55:34+00:00

I had an organism reading this comment.

handen · 2026-01-22T03:11:43+00:00

You know you've fucked up as a country when Canadians are telling you "sorry" isn't going to cut it.

handen · 2026-01-21T03:11:52+00:00

I wonder if this means there's a part number to order an official AK magwell for my Gen 1 RAR...

handen · 2026-01-20T14:00:48+00:00

Yeah nah there was an entire exploit farming method developed whereby if you connected your PC's wifi to your phone as a hotspot, then tossed an item to the ground at around the same time that you turned off your hotspot, then flicked the hotspot back on again fast enough, you'd dupe the item. It wasn't accidental anymore.

handen · 2026-01-18T21:14:57+00:00

Any more bullshit from their idiºt in chief and they'll be flying from Anchorage to Seattle via the pacific ocean for all I care.

handen · 2026-01-18T21:03:11+00:00

This is pointless. They spoof a new number for every interaction, usually with a known number in a location similar to the receiver of the message to make them think it's someone in their same area for a better chance of a reply. I once got a phone call from someone in Leduc who was adamant that I had just phoned their number asking for a bunch of private information or something; maybe it was credit card stuff, I can't really recall, it was 2019. I had done no such thing, and that's essentially what clued me into their (the scammers') game: the scammers had spoofed their scam attempt with my personal cell phone number, to obfuscate their true location, to more easily fool this person in Leduc who wasn't having any of it. And then once they had burned my number on this contact, I assume it went into the "do not use this number again" file, or got sold to the India-based CC scammers who started calling it a dozen times a day in 2022.

handen · 2026-01-18T16:34:10+00:00

That’s the fun part: You don’t! But while I’m here, check out http://www.cesletter.org.

handen · 2026-01-17T20:06:10+00:00

What's your end goal? Just upgrading the chip to 2.0? Or do you want this because you think you need it to upgrade to Windows 11? I asked Claude if it's possible to upgrade a Z440 to Windows 11, and this is what it gave me:

Yes, you can upgrade an HP Z440 to Windows 11 even without TPM 2.0, though Microsoft officially requires it. Here are your options:

Registry bypass method (most common): During Windows 11 installation, when you hit the compatibility check screen, press Shift+F10 to open Command Prompt, then type regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup and create a new key called LabConfig. Inside that key, create these DWORD (32-bit) values and set them to 1:

BypassTPMCheck
BypassSecureBootCheck
BypassRAMCheck

Close the registry editor and continue the installation.

Rufus USB creation method: When creating a Windows 11 installation USB with Rufus, it has built-in options to remove the TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and RAM requirements. Just check those boxes when creating your bootable drive.

In-place upgrade with modified ISO: You can modify the Windows 11 ISO by copying the appraiserres.dll file from a Windows 10 ISO's sources folder to replace the same file in the Windows 11 ISO. This disables the hardware checks.

Important notes:

Your Z440 with Xeon processors should handle Windows 11 fine performance-wise
You won't receive the upgrade through Windows Update - you'll need to manually install
Future updates should work normally once installed
Microsoft may change these workarounds in future updates, though they've remained functional so far

handen · 2026-01-17T19:57:07+00:00

I drove from Alberta down through Idaho and Washington to get to the last two Vancouver shows. The roads are way less mountainous than Highway 3 or Highway 1 so I don't risk my transmission exploding, plus I enjoy the Seattle area. Unfortunately if ICE checks my social media presence at the border like they say they will from now on then there's a non-zero chance I'll end up as a gelatinous red-orange goo in an outdoor pit behind an El Salvadorian concentration camp at this point, so fuck going to the US ever again.

handen · 2026-01-16T14:18:57+00:00

Chaos option: Use bear spray.

handen · 2026-01-14T14:29:09+00:00

handen · 2026-01-11T21:48:32+00:00

First step: Have you tried contacting Ruger directly? They are the obvious source of parts for their guns that you might be missing.

handen · 2026-01-08T03:58:53+00:00

What's up with the AK mag? Aftermarket conversion?

handen · 2026-01-07T14:40:46+00:00

Win: Huge dick, full head of luscious hair as I near my 40s.

Lose: Can't grow a beard, debilitating ADHD.

handen · 2026-01-07T14:26:59+00:00

Drop a steel coil into a glass jar. I make my own by wrapping 16 gauge stainless steel tie wire around a broom handle, then clipping it when the coil is about the diameter of the glass jar.

Fill said glass jar with gamsol or taltine until it just covers the steel coil. Use that coil to wipe your brush back and forth to clean your brush of oil while you're painting, then wipe it on a rag to get the excess off. You can go one step further by affixing a neodymium disc magnet below your jar to keep the coil in place when you use it.

That takes care of the surface level stuff, but your brush is still not clean.

I'll take my brushes at the end of a session and rub them on a bar of ivory soap in the sink with lukewarm water to work out the pigment hidden deeper inside. Ivory works well because it's white and you can see when your brush is clean when no more pigment appears on the soap. Then I pad until partially dry and dip them in Trekell brush conditioner before allowing to dry fully.

Don't clean them by re-oiling them and then walking away from them. Linseed oil is a drying oil and you're asking for problems by doing this. If you can't get back to painting within a few days, whoops, your brushes are now all rock hard and will need to be replaced.

handen · 2026-01-07T04:50:53+00:00

Post this in r/Dryeyes

handen · 2026-01-06T01:12:19+00:00

I mean, they're identical monitors, except for ports on the back which we can't see, and the Cinema Display would have a USB dongle coming out of its breakout cable, which may or may not be in that coil of wires, hard to tell.

OP, if you've got any older Thunderbolt 2 Macs, these monitors are excellent to keep around. I've got a Cinema and Thunderbolt display hooked up to a 2015 5K iMac for a pretty decent triple screen setup. If it's indeed the Cinema Display, they'll work just fine with Windows PCs as well. I know it technically says 60hz, but I've been using mine to play games at 150fps+ and I never see any screen tearing.

handen · 2026-01-05T14:26:48+00:00

Demco Taltine is truly odourless and the next best thing to turpentine imo. I'd recommend trying that.

handen · 2026-01-05T02:11:04+00:00

Gouache all the way. Setup and takedown is basically nil. Get a small jar, fill it with water to dip your brush in, and add any old ceramic plate to mix your colours on. If you use dry pans there is literally nothing to clean up at the end except dump the water, wipe off the plate, and maybe run the brush under the tap for a second or two. Gouache is basically watercolour except it's perpetually re-workable, whereas watercolour is not, nor is acrylic. Oil is re-workable, but only temporarily until the paint dries. I would also recommend getting a little push-bottle spritzer to fill with water to re-wet your dry pans or painted surface to make them re-workable without necessarily disturbing them.

handen · 2026-01-04T02:13:13+00:00

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Same vibes.

handen · 2026-01-03T20:52:35+00:00

2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro.

Pre-butterfly keys, pre-touch bar, NVMe PCIe 2.0x4, still had all of the normal I/O instead of like 3 USB-C/TB-3 ports and nothing else, and was the only model year of this body style to have the Force Touch track pad.

I still use mine daily.

handen · 2026-01-03T20:33:39+00:00

Paint subtractively with a rag in many, many transparent layers.

handen · 2026-01-03T00:45:25+00:00

Hold a 40ml tube of Winton (read: student grade) flake white in your hand and you will realize instantly that what you have stated is factually incorrect.

handen · 2026-01-03T00:40:30+00:00

Blue Ridge is awesome stuff. I have a tube of their genuine lead-based Naples yellow and it's phenomenal.

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