I can always hear snakes, they move in short hurts before they run away. If they’re stressed they have an obvious smell as well. Dangerous snakes are rare where I live, so these are not useful skills aside from catching them while hiking.

I want to watch the hound and aria bitch at each other while walking arounf for 15 seasons.

I’m running openWRT on a nanopi R5S. It’s tiny, robust, cheap, and uses very little power. It came with FriendlyElec, a fork of openWRT designed specifically for the device, but if flashed the standard version onto it so I could get more support from reading forums. I don’t know if that was the right move.

It was a bitch to get set up right, but that’s due to my lack of experience, not the device. It didn’t help that there was a major update to OpenWRT/LuCI right in the middle of my figuring out the program, that drastically changed the GUI. It also didn’t help that I was setting up a NAS, and a proxmox server at the same time, so anytime something broke I had 3 system to troubleshoot.

All that aside, it’s been working great since setup with zero maintenance. It does get hot enough that I don’t set it on any other device, but it never throttles itself or overheats.

Fun idea, but to the majority of passersby who won’t look closely, it’s just an ad for Walmart.

I’m more okay with China spying on me than US companies. China doesn’t really have a way or motive to effect my life.

When we had home games in high school, varsity players could play an intro song over the PA.

I went with the intro to The Salt in Our Wounds- Thulsa Doom Remix by HIM.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQBU9PMuHY

I was super-heavyweight, so I was always the last match. That was my final-boss theme. I thought I was such a badass.

Edit: my best friend at the time, who was undefeated since 8th grade, went with the choral part of the greatest man who ever lived by Weezer. It was funny every time.

There are some damn fine manufacturers that know that and are working to change the perception. Zen-Wu toolworks makes some of the best chisels available.

I’ve seen this posted before, and people with inside experience with several of the approved brands showed up to call bullshit. Going through the list, I bumped into several companies listed as trustworthy that i know have either lost their edge or were trash to begun with.

And so, I don’t believe this list is trustworthy.

Maybe in January of 2020 we should have told everyone to stay home and pray for three or four months.

I woodwork, set up servers, build guns, garden,play guitar, design furniture, and teach others to do each of those things.

I try to do anything that regular people have figured out on their own. If someone can do something without training, I can probably figure it out in a few weeks.

I don’t watch things, and I don’t use social media outside of Lemmy on occasion. Because of that, I seem to have far more time than the average person.

Jack Johnson covered Badfish by sublime for a tribute album. I’m not really familiar with his music, but damn his version is better than the original to me.

And iron and wine’s cover of waiting on a Superman by the flaming lips. It’s a heartbreaking song in his whisper-singing.

For a different feel, Tool’s cover of No Quarter.

I read her books and sing to her. Sometimes I play rain sounds or crickets if I intend to make noise after she’s asleep.

I feel like that describes half of Elton john’s music

Ceaseless ascension? Songs that keep building up to a major crescendo

Yes, but i save things far more often than i comment.

This seems ideal.

My comment has no substance because I just want to find this post easily later.

The concept of wooden things with LEDs and simple devices is cool, but the absolute last thing you want in a wooden object is about two liters of water.

You’re putting textbooks together from loose pages by reading the numbers on the pages. Each time you finish one, you give it to the publisher, that photocopies it and sends it to the schools. Some pages from other books ended up in your boxes of pages. It’s easy to tell if they don’t belong there if they’re the wrong size, different font, different color, etc. Some pages have typos, but if they end up in your book, it doesn’t necessarily hurt anything. Unfortunately, some of the pages have bad information on them. They have the right number, they fit in the book, but what is written on the page is totally incorrect. If you accidently include one of these pages, the next generation of students are taught bad information. If this information was really important, like building code or growing crops, and the next generation of students start building and farming wrong, society falls apart.

Prions are the bad pages.

Oh shit, I just realized AI summaries are prions.

If you aren’t aware of them, look into scleral contacts. They’re large lenses you fill with saline before putting in, so they bypass your cornea entirely. They’re not cheap, but they last for years and give you vision that’s much better than normal lenses.

I’m not the suicidal type, so I won’t pretend to know the dread you’re dealing with. That being said, to me, rock bottom is less of a temptation to leave, but a temptation to change drastically. You could absolutely just jump off a bridge, but afterward there’s no other choice to make, no change is possible. Instead, why not take the chance to do literally anything else? Try living in a forest. Try breaking into buildings. Try walking to a warmer climate. Try to start a cult. Try being a vigilante. Try being a criminal. If it doesn’t work out, or it’s not fun, try something different. Worst case scenario, you can always kill yourself later, once you’ve tried all the interesting ideas you could muster.

Life always ends in death anyway, no point in rushing into it before you’ve experienced as many unique things as possible.