Drain it through a filter and refrigerate it if you aren't using it constantly. It'll go rancid pretty quick.
Oils in a septic tank are a poor idea. It floats, so it never gets pumped out as effluent, and it builds up in the tank. When you get the tank pumped, it should go away then as the pumper guy will usually stir it up enough to get all the oils and solids, but in the meantime it's there interfering with the bugs.
Site that doesn't allow news links loses status as source of news.
You don't say.
I think the "read the bible" was kind of a shot at evangelicals that say that shit all the time.
Tried to cut off my hand on some sheet metal and it took a couple dozen stitches and two tries to get it to stop bleeding.
I hate that feeling you get when you do something like this and now you get to think "You know what, I didn't really need this right now."
Yes, but how much carbon emissions were released by this comment?
All too often. It's crazy but I see it all the time, and try to call it out.
It's pretty normal to keep the configurations. An inplace reinstall will just put the system files back that got removed, then a reboot will bring them up with the configuration files left from before the reinstall as long as they were put in the right place for user-configured files.
Good lord, what bullshit. On top of the fact that it'll get broken down anyway, you'll just burn a few tons of carbon excavating and filling a hole.
I doubt they know. This is where you have to learn basic troubleshooting steps, and get comfortable with taking things apart. Even things like appliances won't tell you how to fix them, they'll just get a parts diagram on the inside of the panel and it's on you to figure it out. I find stuff made in Europe will often have at least a parts diagram where you can get replacements. You aren't getting that from some Chinese manufacturer, so keep that in mind when you buy stuff. I would bet you if it were a deLonghi dehumidifier, you'd have something you could use to order parts.
At the other end, I have 10,000 page diagnostic and repair manuals with flowcharts and checklists for my JD combine to figure out specific error codes or symptoms. In between is things like Chilton manuals for vehicles, but things have to be something other than cheap disposable trash before you get actual help.
There's a balancing point. Most people aren't really able to process the idea of "they came for my neighbor and I said nothing" and do something about it.
They just have to be unpredictable and unexpected. The idea is to have everyone terrified at all times. That is the most efficient scenario for control, as you don't have to police actual rules if the rules are made up and the consequences are lethal.
This is pretty typical in totalitarian terrorist governments like Russia, NK and past dictatorships like Cambodia, Libya, Chile and Uganda.
It's not a bad job, but with a hernia you might find it distinctly unenjoyable. There's quite a bit of bending and kneeling as you skin, obviously.
Really, all you need is a small tractor to lift the steer after you've skinned it and to drop the gut. Skin the animal on the ground and roll it from side to side to get it all off, split the chest and cut out the anus, start lifting at the rear legs with chains through the achilles tendon, and pull the anus through, then as you lift more you can free the gut from the backbone and gravity will pull the gut down as you get higher.
Let it all fall on the skin, pull out the bits of organs you want or can feed the dog, and you have the carcass hanging now. Split with a sawsall and a long demolition blade. Make yourself a handhold between the fifth and sixth rib, then cut through the spine and breastbone above the 6th rib.
Leave as much fat on the inside of the cavity as possible so the tenderloin and brisket don't dry out when hanging. Try to hang it at 2-4C for a couple weeks.
They're edgy tweens, just block them and move on. They'll learn if someone doesn't slap them to death before they hit their twenties.
Good LTE/5G dongle for Linux?
I need a few of these for rpi's around the farm. Tired of dealing with LoRa.
What's changed in the Alexandrite interface?
If I bring up things like mail or a post in a new tab, I have to go into Login/Manage Accounts and choose my account to do anything in that tab.
Building a DIY solar panel mount: how would I calculate the parameters for a linear actuator to tilt the panels between completely horizontal and vertical?
I'm trying to figure out how long to make A and B here if I have linear actuator of length C (extended = 2C) in order to tilt my panels from completely horizontal to vertical so they avoid wind and shed snow respectively when I run up the actuator to the extremes respectively based on sensor input.
Is there a simple formula I can use to plug the length of whatever actuator I settle on to figure A and B out? I know it will have to be a certain minimum and maximum size to work properly and might have to experiment to get an idea of what works in the end, but I'd like a reasonable start point to purchase an appropriate actuator.
I've googled around and decided I'm not smart enough to even come up with the right search criteria, let alone figure this out myself since it's been 35 years since I've used anything except the most basic trig.
This isn't really homework except for the fact that I'm trying to make my home work right.
Edit: seems like if I select A=.75C and solve for B at horizontal, then it always works out. No idea why, but the couple examples I try seem to agree.
Laptop for non-gaming multi-monitor
I'm looking for a lowish priced laptop that I can put at least 2 extra monitors on. I want a second landscape 4k and a portrait 1080. Don't need anything special. One monitor has DP and HDMI, but the other just HDMI. Do I just get a DP hub and use a converter dongle for the second?
What would be a recommended laptop for this scenario? I only want AMD CPU and GPU as I can't be arsed to fight with noVideo and Intel doesn't deserve my business.
Maybe I'm just new, but I just realized you can Ctrl-select or Ctrl-dblclick individual, separate pieces of text and copy them to the clipboard in one operation.
I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able to sort out the words usually.
I post this in case you haven't been part of the 10,000 this day already, like me.
Edit: seems to work in Firefox and LibreOffice, but not Kate or Okular. I'd love to see this as a general feature, it's handy as heck.
A home automation and tech enthusiast stumbled upon the anomaly while troubleshooting issues with his home network.
4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
Vernor Vinge, 1944-2024
Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge, author of many influential hard science fiction works, died March 20 at the age of 79. Vinge sold his first science-fiction story in 1964, “Apartness”, which …
Thank you for the great work, Vernor. You'll be missed.
Do I need a separate HA Cloud subscription for the cabin?
We have our house and a cabin. While I guess I could make an area for the cabin, it has it's own areas that I'd like to manage separately (and copy automations directly).
I have purchased a HA Cloud sub but I don't seem to be able to get the cabin to connect to Cloud.
Do I need a separate sub for the cabin at full price? This seems a little over the top, not to mention clunky to manage with different Nabu Casa logins.
Or am I just going about this wrong? If anyone else manages two properties and integrates it nicely, I'd love to hear your solutions. I'm mainly subbing to Cloud because of the better TTS and STT response. Maybe I just invest in a skookum whisper/piper box instead?
VS Code in Home Assistant: any use for this outside of editing yaml files?
I don't see that there's any sort of integration for writing code to process information from HA entities like Node Red + Companion. Am I missing something and this is more than just an interface for the config files and maybe a git client for those config files?
Anyone seen or built an alternative to the M5Stack Atom Echo for HA voice pipeline?
These things aren't bad, I've got a few that I use sort of successfully, but the speaker and mic aren't very powerful. I was thinking of building one with an ESP32 and i2S (not i2c, that threw me off too) speaker/mic, but I'm wondering if I'd be reinventing the wheel here if there's a better alternative already out there.
Used laptop for gamer kid: suggestions?
Got a young guy that needs a reasonable used laptop, in the $2-300 range. Looking for smooth but not spectacular graphics, and a 15" screen or better. Preferably with 2 drive slots so he can have an NVME or other SSD for the OS and a large rust drive for installing games. It's going to be plugged in when used, and weight isn't a great concern, it's just for travelling with.
Any suggestions on what to look for on eBay?
Need help with most.
If I pipe in something to most that's wider than my terminal width, it'll page it sideways but only single character at a time with an arrow key. I want most to behave like less, which will scroll sideways with an arrow key almost a full page (60 columns I believe), which most will do also if I use Tab/Ctrl-B or ">" and "<" (as gleaned from the man page). But I have no use for single character scrolling, so I'd like arrows to do the same as Tab and <>.
Is there a way to change the default behaviour of most to the same horizontal scrolling behaviour as less? I would just use less except it displays the first page of a command like docker ps with lines wrapped for some reason (maybe this is some limitation in Dolphin?). If I scroll right the other columns show up right, but for some reason less and more both mess up the first page. No clue why most works correctly. Frankly, if I could fix less I'd be happier since my muscle memory makes me want to pipe to less all the time anyway, and it's installed by default in most distros I use, unlike most.
Also, trying to search up help on anything with a name like "most" is next to impossible.
I'm blown away by Piped. I want to thank the devs for a great job.
I did send a donation, but I want to make sure the people involved know I appreciates them.
I set up an instance and have been using it along with a couple friends. It's fast, private and doesn't have a bunch of algo bullshit wasting our time. I have my subs and I watch them, and then I go and touch grass because I'm not sitting there watching trash that is being pushed at me on the feed.
It's like a breath of fresh air.
Science Fiction titles from Banned Books Week Spotlight List: The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/2164461
I have been keeping an eye on this series over in !BannedBooks@literature.cafe and was intending to link the discussions for SF titles that I saw. The Handmaid's Tale is definitely an SF title that has seen it's share of fans and detractors. It has been banned or attempted to be banned in many jurisdictions including Western ones.
What is the communities thoughts on this book, does it unfairly extend Christian philosophy into questionable territory or does it not go far enough? Is it pornography, and if so, why? Let's hear your thoughts.
Bonus video: Margaret Atwood using a flamethrower on the unburnable edition of the book.
Despite their scarcity, science fiction books are highly sought after by elementary school students.
I got interested in SF because the librarian in my elementary was a SF lover. There were racks of paperbacks that I gobbled up and it's stuck with me for decades since. It makes me sad to think that kids don't have the same chance I did to get interested at an early age in the most imaginative genre of fiction. We all need to do our part to pass it on.
What are your suggestions for getting young people interested in science fiction?
A few I remember from that time:
Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series
Heinlein's juveniles like Podkayne of Mars and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern
Niven's Known Space books
When is the ability to server block coming?
Because having to block 2 fanaticus communities every time a game is finished because there's a post in the winning and losing teams community is rapidly getting old, and I have no idea how many teams of how many different sports exist on that server, but it seems like a hell of a lot.
How do I restrict the All feed to my language?
Having set up a couple of communities, there is a setting for language. Are these items showing up in my feed because the community has not set their language, or is something going on with language filtering on All? It seems like there's way more off-language things coming through on All in the last day or two.
Trump's coming baaaaaaaaaaack!
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