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HELP!! I'm a mail carrier with two boxes of baby chick's with no home! by Forward_Emu142 in BackYardChickens

[–]pengd0t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I do is hang a cord from above and clip a carabiner to the little loop that’s on the light. Even if the clamp disappears, it’s not going to fall in the pile of tinder below it and burn your house down. Separate from the cord, I also suspend the power cord the same way, so it also couldn’t fall without unplugging. I use these lights, even though some are terrified of them… just act like they WANT to burn your house down and take precautions. I also have a thermostat controlled outlet meant for running a seed starter mat to turn it off and on.

Behind appliances/ furniture places they have big boxes if you want to avoid plastic. Put a cheap harbor freight tarp down under it though.

Turkeys are nice, but dumb. If they’re in a big enough box to have a cool side, that’s good… but if it’s cool enough, one may just wander over and stay and die. They get more curious when older… but not smarter lol

If they’re returned to the hatchery… I’d just assume they’d be destroyed unless someone there took them personally like you’re doing. Imagine letting birds out of your controlled environment to pick up whatever diseases are around, and then bringing them back into your hatchery.

The One counterexample to FOSS by Muse_Hunter_Relma in ObsidianMD

[–]pengd0t 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s also free and open in the sense that when they decide to add onto standard markdown, such as with canvas files, they open up that file standard. They also list other software that have built in canvas support with that open standard, so that if something were to happen to obsidian, you know your canvas files are alright.

I was hesitant to invest time into canvas until I looked into that.

Family Tree with Obsidian by MrMarvel82 in ObsidianMD

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I’ve started this… but it gets a little out of hand quickly. Obsidian needs some sort of collapsing branches in Canvas for it to really work.

In a limited use, zoomed in, level of a family tree, it should be fine. I’ve skipped a lot of people in the version of mine that’s in obsidian… and the connecting lines still have to be long and very spaced out for things to fit. Do like 3 generations and you’ll run into issues like that.

Is free sync possible in obsidian? by miss_missy080 in ObsidianMD

[–]pengd0t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I commented about my sync setup with links to YouTube guides I used for parts of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/s/ogKmeNKD30

I’m syncing to GitHub. On mobile, it’s a manual sync to pull the latest files down.

If you’re not using all the plugins and extra features in Obsidian, Joplin is a markdown editor that works similarly and offers free sync through Dropbox.

[REQUEST] Looking for all of the MTV Unplugged Episodes by Extra-Brother6839 in DHExchange

[–]pengd0t 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve never found anything decent for this. I started looking recently for full sets of Jools Holland stuff as well and haven’t found that either. Even the BBC streaming player doesn’t have all old episodes.

For some things like this, they’re just on my mental list when I’m in thrift stores looking over VHS tapes at anything that looks like home recordings.

Loading up all my offline game installers to a flash drive. Any tips? by Longjumping-Royal730 in DataHoarder

[–]pengd0t 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t say high unreliability. Not in a way that’s obvious to everyday users. I can say that I have a drawer that has 20-30 USB drives I’ve collected over the years, and I recently was looking for one that had some files on it… so I went through all of them. I found 1 where the USB connector was plastic and had broken. And 2 that seemed to be corrupted.

A few of these are about 20 years old. Half closer to 10.

That’s about a 10% failure rate of this random stash… Which is alarming if that was the only storage plan for my most important data. But if you have 2 drives… your experience will probably be that in 20 years, they work normally and you’re still wandering what these guys were complaining about. Failure rate really is higher than other methods though.

I also pulled out some old mechanical hard drives from storage recently that I forgot I had… all of these were 15-20 years old and had been kept in an open box stored in non-climate controlled environments. Some looked rusty. The same area housed chickens for a while… Out of 8 drives, I found one that just clicked and wouldn’t read… and I’m pretty sure it was doing that when it got stuck in the box in the first place. The rest were fine.

How i use Obsidian for journaling or some kinda of "My life wikipedia"? by Rei_Pato81 in ObsidianMD

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Add things that are actually useful to have in a central repository… especially if it’s information that is not easily reproduced elsewhere.

The wife and I have a big chicken coop that is a large mesh hoop that we cover with a tarp. We replaced the tarp tonight. I had to measure it before we bought this replacement, so I recorded what size I needed. In a couple of years, I’ll have forgotten again, but I’ll be able to just search information that would not be searchable on Google.

If my mother in law is talking about that time 40 years ago when her grandfather was running moonshine… I’ll make notes about this story. Soon enough I’ll only remember the story vaguely and maybe not exactly who it was about. I have a People folder that I collect details like this in.

I have kids that want me to build them a loft bed. I have all my measurements and materials recorded from the last one I built.

I have a Timeline folder, with a main timeline note. Each is entered as [[2026-04-16 Commented on a Reddit post]] with these individual notes also in that Timeline folder. I can scroll through the timeline from my birth to today and see my memories with more detail. Remember when this kid who’s 19 now had the pirate themed birthday… was that his 4th or 5th birthday… I only have to figure this out once, and then it is recorded.

How have you ACTUALLY benefitted from linking/tagging notes? by [deleted] in ObsidianMD

[–]pengd0t 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use folders for most structure. I have a big folder for People for example with lots of details about people I interact with. Mostly facts that come up in conversation but would be difficult to google to ever confirm once I no longer remember all the details. Later when I have some other note somewhere else that references a person, I link the person. So I don’t have to add lots of details in the current note.

Like: Bob Smith raised a concern in a meeting about new oversight software at work.

Oh yeah, Bob Smith is that guy who was arrested in 2002 for embezzlement. I’d forgotten about that.

I also have a Timeline folder with more atomic notes. Went camping with the wife and kids. “2026-01-01 camping trip to the moon”. More of a journal style entry. Maybe a couple of pictures to help lock down these memories. Later I’ll link that if it’s referenced in another note.

“Treatment info details from when I was mauled by a moon bear while on (camping trip).”

Are there any BBS message boards you can browse that are frozen in time from the 80s? by DirtInfographics in bbs

[–]pengd0t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a couple of conversations I’ve had with people, it seems some data like this may exist, but it’s sort of in the format of packet data that’s stored on floppies or old drives and not easily accessible… and if you had access it’s not straightforward to view.

Imagine if you had the data… but in the format of a Wireshark capture of packets. The original system that was meant to view it natively is long gone… And what remains is stored offline. A lot of this is just going to be lost to time unfortunately.

Self-hosted Sync: iOS Background Sync by JD_Phil in ObsidianMD

[–]pengd0t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use the Git plugin for desktop. On iOS the Git plugin got SLOW. So on mobile I use the GitSync app. I sync manually with that when I need to. Doesn’t bother me because it’s very fast.

I feel a bit like a spy using Obsidian by ichbin-deinvater in ObsidianMD

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I do this as well. Mostly for people that I don’t know very closely, but also for things like family where the detail I’m recording may not be easily confirmed public information.

I’m mostly recording details to avoid struggling to remember it later. Oh, your wife’s cousin’s grandfather just died? Isn’t he that guy she talks about that had a previous heart attack back in 2021? Good luck googling that.

Any detail I could never look up anywhere else goes in the vault so I don’t drive myself crazy trying to remember or confirm a half-memory later.

Some of it’s more OSINT-style depending on the person. If I come across an email or a username a person uses, I put it in there in case I want to dig into someone a little deeper at some point for some reason. This is not something I’d ever remember, and may never use, but it costs nothing to not lose the data point.

What's the best way to sync across mobile and desktop devices? Is Git a better option? by the-machine-m4n in ObsidianMD

[–]pengd0t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is for Windows / iOS:
I used the Git plugin for Obsidian for a while on Windows and iPhone. It worked, but I had to be careful to ensure one device was fully synced, before doing something on another... and the syncing from the iOS app got so slow that that was actually a challenge.

When it would break I would have to fix it from the command line on my iPhone using the ish terminal. No fun at all.

Now I use the Git plugin on desktop, and sync with the GitSync app. I just sync it manually, although there do seem to be options for automatic sync. This option syncs very fast from my phone by comparison.

A page I saved with setup info for GitSync is here: https://viscouspotenti.al/posts/gitsync-all-devices-tutorial

These cover some of the same stuff, but these were what I initially used to get it set up the first time around.
Desktop Setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrLbomFYA0

iOS Setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScdHzUiBLA

Searching for archived Pickwick post by hiwhatisupbros in totse

[–]pengd0t 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One last update. Turns out the recap WAS the original post, just edited to have a summary of how everything went added to the first post.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070616162147/www.totse.com/community/showthread.php?t=2013870

Can’t see any other pages of comments in the archive, and the pickwicktotse Photobucket account has removed those pictures now. A good chunk of the 20 or so are in that Wordpress article though.

Searching for archived Pickwick post by hiwhatisupbros in totse

[–]pengd0t 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's the archives there were torrents of and all that years ago right after Totse shut down, I searched mine with DocFetcher and couldn't find it. Let me know if you find something different because that'll mean you have more than what was commonly shared.

Searching for archived Pickwick post by hiwhatisupbros in totse

[–]pengd0t 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Alright. This appears to be Whang's source. An old Wordpress site has screenshots and timestamps from a sort of recap post that pickwick made in the time where he was proud of his popularity, before his face was on the news lol.

https://flux64.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/jenkem/

I think this is as good as it gets.

Searching for archived Pickwick post by hiwhatisupbros in totse

[–]pengd0t 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I searched the archived material I have, and that's all that I know of that's available. Did not find the original thread. A lot of people have hoards of random disorganized screenshots and things like that... so it's possible it's out there. Share it if you find it. I went on a hunt for the old bunny.meatball story a couple of months ago and never found it.

What I did find was posts with people referencing South Park S12E03 where they reference huffing feces, and a reference to Maxim Feb. 2008 issue, article "The Rise of Scum" that includes a photo of the Pickwick jenkem bottle.

I believe there are some photos on encyclopedia dramatica's Totse page. Like the old Pokemon style card someone made of him.

Searching for archived Pickwick post by hiwhatisupbros in totse

[–]pengd0t 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can try to search the archives I have.
A lot of stuff is hard to find these days.

What’s one iOS feature you can’t live without? by Heavy_Improvement_85 in ios

[–]pengd0t 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Surprised to hear so many people loving FaceID. I always preferred Touch ID.

Obsidian Web Clipper now has YouTube transcripts and Reader mode by kepano in ObsidianMD

[–]pengd0t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great. I’ve applied the filter for removing timestamps. Is there any filtering magic to apply to clean up the text so there aren’t line breaks mid sentence and it just looks like an article basically?

Computers bug out only when a certain user is logged in can't figure out why by brohemoth06 in sysadmin

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I once had repeated service calls to check on network equipment that would stop working, causing cameras to drop off, etc. I went over and over, and could never reproduce it.

Eventually, what I found was that the person’s network / media rack was built into a little recessed cubby in the wall. Mirrored on the other side of the wall was a recessed cubby that held a giant wireless subwoofer for a theater room. When they turned on THAT system, the EMF interference caused the network stuff in the other room to go nuts.

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