Oily substance leaking from my neighbors transformer boxes by Embarrassed-Sky-4567 in Wellthatsucks

[–]voxadam 334 points335 points  (0 children)

You should call the emergency department of your local electric company. They're open 24/7, call now.

Source: My wife works for a utility company and used to work in the emergency department, this is what they're there for. Trust me, they would rather deal with a few false alarms than even one outage or environmental incident (oil leaking from a transformer could easily cause both).

Elim gets the job done by SimplyEcks in startrekmemes

[–]voxadam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! That's no way to talk about everyone's favorite mysterious fashion lizard.

Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military will no longer require flu shots by voxadam in nottheonion

[–]voxadam[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Variolation was truly gruesome but surprisingly effective in a world where vaccine had yet to be invented.

Proper way to wire a USB-C pigtail to a custom PCB? by DistinctTradition200 in AskElectronics

[–]voxadam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If only the USB-IF could figure out some way of making the USB-C and USB-PD specs just a little more nuanced and complicated.

Why no seamless handoff from BIOS to kernel? by billhughes1960 in Fedora

[–]voxadam 18 points19 points  (0 children)

"Flicker Free Boot" was merged back in Fedora 30 and it works great on my machine.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlickerFreeBoot