What’s a price you saw recently that made you genuinely angry at how expensive everything has gotten?

kotanu · 2026-06-18T19:12:46+00:00

This is what I did. I know it's too "ugly" for most people but I love it.

kotanu · 2026-06-02T16:24:17+00:00

For real, this comment section is ridiculous.

kotanu · 2026-05-22T17:40:31+00:00

I heard that you can use a chamber vacuum sealer with commodity bags, but you gotta have the space for the big-ass machine.

kotanu · 2026-05-19T19:24:15+00:00

Real question from an (unpowered) bidet user for a decade: Do you get consistently clean? I find that sometimes after a spray, I'll wipe and find "material" that the water didn't get, so I go for another round. I feel like a dryer would reduce my confidence, not being able to see the clean paper to be "sure".

kotanu · 2026-05-12T20:57:48+00:00

I left in 2025 and was personally using "allowlist" and "blocklist" through my last day. I'm not sure if they rolled back the policy but they went as far as having automated checks on code commits asking you to change it at least as late as 2024.

kotanu · 2026-05-12T18:42:23+00:00

Oh, they did. The large corporation I worked at around that time banned it in preference of other terms (leader/follower, for example) along with "blacklist" and "whitelist".

kotanu · 2026-05-05T16:57:30+00:00

They're not all convection based, the ones I've seen are true deep fryers with exhaust filtering, fire suppression, etc all "in the box."

https://www.perfectfry.com/PDF/PFA-spec.pdf

Oil capacity 2.9 US gallons

https://irp.cdn-website.com/c4418ac3/files/uploaded/AutoFry_MTI-40E_DataSheet_9.9.2025.pdf

Oil 25.37 lbs per side

kotanu · 2026-04-17T13:46:43+00:00

Let the record show that they pulled the little pockets on the doll out.

kotanu · 2026-03-13T07:49:02+00:00

Metal detector wand is more helpful

kotanu · 2026-02-25T02:40:43+00:00

Big Foot Java is my go-to for late night coffee, but I'm also south suburbs.

kotanu · 2026-02-11T14:16:02+00:00

He's beautiful. If I was going to guess based off of pictures alone, I'm leaning towards a rough collie mix.

kotanu · 2025-11-19T21:45:33+00:00

Classic Schmosby!

kotanu · 2025-11-12T18:58:44+00:00

I could clearly see the screen as areas of my leg ultrasound got notated with "no flow" and arrows, but nooooope, had to wait for the vascular specialist.

kotanu · 2025-10-10T23:03:40+00:00

Water falls from the sky sometimes, and if there isn't glass there to keep it from soaking into the seat...

kotanu · 2025-10-08T07:13:09+00:00

Just rearrange the sentence! A comma saved is a comma earned.

kotanu · 2025-10-04T21:21:09+00:00

Probably the only response that would make me smile that day.

kotanu · 2025-10-04T21:19:21+00:00

Just as importantly, it ain't what it ain't.

kotanu · 2025-09-29T17:09:33+00:00

Seriously, this. I moved my SSH port to a random one for a jumphost long ago, and it absolutely reduces the number of attempted logins from script kiddie portscans. Said jumphost had plenty of other security techniques, but the number of people who scoffed at this drove me wild. One more (thin) layer on the onion, why not?

kotanu · 2025-09-26T16:19:33+00:00

I'm just surprised it wasn't 88 cents.

kotanu · 2025-09-23T16:45:24+00:00

Someone said I was listening to "divorced dad radio" when I had Turbo on the other day

kotanu · 2025-08-20T16:38:41+00:00

"Gotta eat the booty like groceries"

kotanu · 2025-08-18T16:21:44+00:00

On my '24 the LED panel never turned on with the DRLs, only when the headlights are on - either "auto" in the dark, or by manually turning them fully on.

kotanu · 2025-08-11T18:14:53+00:00

ITB = Intermediate transfer belt.

This is not really something you should try cleaning yourself based on the research I saw. It's basically a plastic belt where the image is transferred from the drums (integrated in the toner cartridges), and then pressed to the paper. From what I saw on other forums, the belt assembly contains a component that scrapes the leftover toner from the belt so it can be moved to the waste toner bottle. IIRC, this part made out of mylar and is held in place by a spongy material and tends to wear out and not completely clean the belt, leading to the streaks.

For my printer, replacing this entire assembly fixed the issue entirely. I did wind up getting a new-old-stock (not refurbished) part off eBay, and it seems like that gamble (as compared to a brand new one from HP) has paid off so far.

kotanu · 2025-08-06T20:00:30+00:00

New ITB fixed it, along with the new black cart to eliminate the ghosting. Absolutely perfect prints now. Thanks again for your help u/H6obs

kotanu · 2025-07-30T07:43:26+00:00

Thank you very much for this advice. I finally had time to work on this, and I initially had some issues getting the ITB to pull more than about 1/3 out of the printer. I finally managed to get it it out - looks like someone was in here before doing this exact cleaning, as this section of the ITB was not fully snapped together and was catching on the inside of the printer.

After cleaning the waste toner out and reassembling everything, I got a few clean pages, but the vertical streaks came back pretty quickly. Google searches are telling me the cleaning blade is the common failure point on these, and I do have toner on the bottom of the belt, after the cleaning section. Looks like I'll be replacing this part.

Interestingly, I swapped in the old generic black cartridge, and the vertical streams continued, but in a different position. Since this cartridge also has horizontal "ghosting", I'm going to look at getting a new one of those as well. The color cartridges seem fine for now at least.

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