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Harvard to offer free tuition to families with household income under $200,000 in c/upliftingnews

[–] Adm_Drummer 1 points 23 hours ago

Oh no! A bigot doesn't wanna talk to me.

Harvard to offer free tuition to families with household income under $200,000 in c/upliftingnews

[–] Adm_Drummer -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do you think people can do that? Just go on the internet and lie?

Harvard to offer free tuition to families with household income under $200,000 in c/upliftingnews

[–] Adm_Drummer -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

People of colour aren't a thing anywhere? Damn, gotta inform like.... 6.5 billion people they don't exist.

Do you fail to see how people of certain socioeconomic backgrounds and racial backgrounds may have different values and viewpoints thus making them worthy of inclusion by virtue of having different values and viewpoints?

Like... I feel like you're focused on the racial background of this while ignoring the fact that -to paraphrase you- Poor little Mayo kids will also benefit from DEI practices that admit people based on personal experience over "qualification".

Isn't part of the American dream that anyone, of any make and model can find opportunity if they talk to the right person?

Harvard to offer free tuition to families with household income under $200,000 in c/upliftingnews

[–] Adm_Drummer 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The gays vs Gays

The blacks vs Blacks

The poors vs the poor

Coloured People vs People of Colour

Harvard to offer free tuition to families with household income under $200,000 in c/upliftingnews

[–] Adm_Drummer 1 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Okay, so since you don't recognise that people of colour are a thing outside of America...

Is it not a DEI program to provide Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive school admissions to the poor.

Harvard to offer free tuition to families with household income under $200,000 in c/upliftingnews

[–] Adm_Drummer 2 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Not American here: isn't a large proportion of the USA's impoverished population made up of immigrants and people of colour?

So... Would that make poverty BS a pseudoscientific category (partly) defined by skin colour?

Toronto protesters demand engineering firm cancel bike lane removal contract with Ontario in c/fuckcars

[–] Adm_Drummer 18 points 1 day ago

You misunderstand the hubris of the Ford government.

It's a full removal of lanes that were recently put in because they believe adding them worsened traffic despite evidence showing the contrary.

Fist of the North Segmentum in c/grimdank

[–] Adm_Drummer 7 points 1 day ago

Me playing the Ogryn in Darktide when the Daemonhost wakes up from their nap.

Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale? in c/showerthoughts

[–] Adm_Drummer 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, RFID may be a shit way to go tbh. I was definitely thinking just traditional barcode scanners attached to a small computer on the cart.

Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale? in c/showerthoughts

[–] Adm_Drummer 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm with you. Automatically charging sounds like a nightmare. I still always want a human to verify everything a computer says. I don't trust a corporate entity to not try and rio me off.

Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale? in c/showerthoughts

[–] Adm_Drummer 5 points 6 days ago

Very interesting! I haven't had the chance to do groceries in France yet. I'd love to see it though. It just seems so nice.

Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale? in c/showerthoughts

[–] Adm_Drummer 4 points 6 days ago

Well it's a good thing they hardly ever employ cashiers and make me go through self-checkout. I'd never steal from self-checkout.

I'm guessing those checkouts you linked use some sort of RFID chip in the tag? Pretty interesting!

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Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale? (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 6 days ago by Adm_Drummer to c/showerthoughts

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Pretty much the title. Like, get those handheld scanners and attach them to the carts. I scan items as I put them in, roll up to a "register" where the cart is weighed and verified by a cashier. I just hand over the cash then leave. Or even better, install load sensors in the cart.

Usually I like to pack my groceries into my boxes as I get them into the cart. Keeps things orderly and neat and I also don't buy more than I can carry home. But this means I have to unpack them to place on the belt then pack them all over again after paying. It would be kinda nice to just pay by the cart load.

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Black Company Chaplain WIP [C&C Welcome] (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Adm_Drummer to c/warhammer40k

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My first ever fully painted miniature that didn't come free in a box with paints.

Paints used:

2:2:1 Black Templar:Lahmian Medium:Ultramarine Contrast (Citadel)
Pure Red (Warpaints)
Skeleton Bone (Warpaints)
Greedy Gold (Warpaints)
Cobalt Metal (Warpaints)
Skeleton Horde (Citadel)
Nuln Oil (Citadel)

I've got some places I definitely want to touch up. Places where my brush control was lacking for sure and I'm not happy with the tone on the belt. I find it mixes too much with the gold. I'll be adding some more layers to that as well as touching up any spots I missed with paint.

Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I'll be continuing to edge highlight with the cobalt Metal on any exposed armour and will attempt my first OSL from the eyes.

Funny thing is, this isn't even from my main army. I have 2500 points of Nids I need to prime and paint. I've just been having a bit of the winter blues so I forced myself to paint something to try and kickstart my engines. Building has been really therapeutic though and painting was even moreso.

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[Fixed] Dual-Boot causing slow boot, solutions? (self.linux)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Adm_Drummer to c/[email protected]

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Quick and dirty is this:

Running a new dual boot system. Windows boots fine and fast. Grub bootloader grinds and grunts to startup. Systemd checks point to Fedora waiting on the Win10 disk to boot (+45s!!!). Obviously, I don't need that drive to run, but Fedora/Bootloader thinks it should.

Disconnected the Win10 drive, Fedora booted in 3.6s.

So... Windows bootloader knows to ignore the Fedora OS drive and launches fine. Fedora Bootloader insists it try everything to get that Win10 drive running to my own detriment.

Is there a way to just ignore the Win10 drive the way Win10 ignores Fedora?

Been scratching my head on this one for a bit to be honest.

EDIT: Seems the issue was caused by RAID incompatibility from my internal backups for Win10. The RAID drives wrongly pointed the finger at the boot disk because the only thing I could really make sense of in diagnostics was the Win10 boot stalling for 45+ seconds. Once I disconnected all the drives and incrementally reconnected them I quickly realised it was the backup drives and not a boot disk conflict as I wrongly assumed.

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Anyone handy with repairs? (self.budgetaudiophile)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Adm_Drummer to c/budgetaudiophile

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Hey folks, I recently found a 1980s Yamaha PX-55 turntable for $20 and figured I would give it a go. Only issue with it is that its missing the entire headshell. I figured this would be an easy fix as they're (mostly) plug and play.

Now I'm looking at universal headshell and realising I may be SOL. The tonearm connector is as pictured as pictured.

Seems there's no space for the captive pin on this tonearm. Now, I don't have a spare headshell to check... Is that pin removable?

Do I need a different type of headshell/will a universal connector even work with this tonearm?

OR

Will I have to replace the tonearm connector to a universal type in order to get it all working nicely?

Any help is appreciated. Happy to discuss as required. I'm somewhat familiar with electronic repairs but new to turntable repairs, parts and terminology.