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.

Side note for your analysis paralysis, I’ve used a few box sets and can give opinions. Milwaukee is too expensive and the connection system is irritating and overcomplicated. Klein and stanley are both a lot more flimsey than the major sets, but I still haven’t broken my stably box after several years of abuse. It just bends a lot. The FLEX toolboxes seem like the highest quality of the bunch, but I have no idea how much they cost. If I recall correctly, they’re also slightly smaller than the toughbuilt and Milwaukee, in a way that makes them seem more convient.

I looked at some clones by Keter, but the quality seemed like a major step down for not much of a discount.

I got a killer deal on toughbuilt boxes when Lowes first got the stacktech. They’re great. Heavy as hell, but I’m big so I don’t mind it. With how expensive they are, I’m not sure i would get them again if they were normal price, though. I also lucked out when the toughbuilt modular belts were being clearances out through menards a year or two ago. Got way more pouches than I’ll ever need for 3 or 4 bucks each. Again, at the regular price, I’d stick to my leather apron belt. 50 bucks for a tool pouch? Get fucked.

Menards just recently got stacktech stuff in, but it’s regular price at the moment. Anything that ends up there will eventually be on clearance though, so if you live near one, keep an eye out.

I use a modular toolbox setup. Each chest or box has everything I need for one task. One box for electrical work, one for plumbing, one for painting, welding, simple repairs, power tools, etc. I also have a modular tool belt, and the most used tools in pouches on the outside of the box. On top of that, I have a small drawer with my inside tools in the house, screwdriver set, multitool, tape measure, utility knife, markers and hammer.

It helps immensly

Some of the projects have to be isolated, since they’re so drastically different. I don’t totally understand it, but I can’t woodwork and homelab in the same evening. It’s like they use such incompatible parts of my brain they have to be separated by several hours, or I’ll just stare at the terminal or workbench and not know what to do.

I’ve been trying to be for 20 years. You’re the second person in that time to call me that, and you made my day for it.

Hand tool woodworking, refurbishing antique tools and furniture, building a home lab server, learning Ubuntu/Debian/arch, welding/soldering eyeglasses, 3d printing, milling rifles, lockpicking, cooking Indian, Japanese, and Cajun food, building custom furniture, fixing clocks, rebuilding engines, removing rust and japanning metal, playing piano, identifying specific architecture, being more supportive to friends, building a community action group, sharpening blades, trusting others to make decisions, sign language, and raising a daughter to be an assertive mastermind.

You’re lucky your momma died giving birth to you. If she saw you now, she would’ve died of shame.

Looks like a binding of Isaac boss

Left front phone. Right front knife or multitool. Coin pocket zippo. Rear right wallet, rear left key fob. On the occasion I have my keys me, they’re on a short leather strap clipped to my belt loop in my right front.

Due to my job, all my jackets have a millimeter ruler and a staedler 319f marker in the front pocket, and my left inside pocket has a fountain pen with blue ink, and a pilot gtec C4 with black ink. Right Inside pocket has a hairtie, toothpicks, and a carved jade turtle figurine (skjoldpada).

When I open Facebook every 4 months, I’ve always received several pokes from a guy named Keith, who’s been referred to as my uncle.

You got uncle keithed too?

I’m saying those are the only two I see that aren’t blatantly flawed. Put newer graphics on halo, and there is nothing modern shooters have on it. The only bad mechanic I can think of in Zelda was the camera, which wasn’t even that bad ,and was modernized in the GameCube and DS versions.

Theres nothing that makes them feel like old games, is what I’m getting at.

Zelda and halo aside, I don’t disagree. I love RE2, but I’m not going to pretend it holds up in any way compared to how drastically refined games have gotten. Halo is still as fun as ever, it just shows it’s age in graphics. Zelda, though? If OOT wasn’t part of a franchise, and dropped on steam today, it would still blow people away.

The rest of these are pretty much nostalgia boners. Great at the time, but riddled with terrible controls, wonky character design, and absurd voice acting and dialogue.

Go ahead and tell me morrowind and deus ex aren’t jank as fuck, gramps.

I’m pretty sure Tool wrote something about that