Adm_Drummer

joined 11 months ago
[–] Adm_Drummer 2 points 1 day ago

LE gang rise up!

[–] Adm_Drummer 13 points 2 days ago

This is extremely non-credible. I'll allow it.

[–] Adm_Drummer 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

For better effect one side of the timbits box needs to be reinforced with a steel or delrin plate to create a directional effect.

Blast weapons are cool and all but directional blast weapons are multi-purpose.

[–] Adm_Drummer 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They could actually be Cat-eye friend or foe markers . They're luminescent strips usually put on the back of the head or shoulders that reflect just enough light to see someone is ahead of you in dark spaces.

Most military helmets or hats have them. At least the ones I know of.

[–] Adm_Drummer 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

As a gorilla, they could do nothing to stop me.

[–] Adm_Drummer 7 points 1 week ago

I know people who work there that used to steal my parking spot with their baby Blue Ford Mustang, on a residential street two blocks from the Ubisoft building. They can all go away.

[–] Adm_Drummer 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely true. It's funny that at a cursory glance military indoctrination seems to create mindless followers and yes men. In reality modern military ethos forces members to think critically, beyond orders and find intent. You end up forming bonds with people and creating a sense of "Service before self". So you tend to think about the tribe more than yourself. At the end of the day the job is to protect the idea of a nation. No allegiance to any one political party or person. But a nation as a tribe.

So, you end up with a lot of service members that love their country and hate their politicians. After all, the politicians sign the papers that make people die.

[–] Adm_Drummer 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In addition to this; lots of people in the military are not fans of cops and as long as they aren't a far right nutty they generally recognise the benefits of living in a socialised system that provides food, shelter, kinship and reward with a balanced paycheque. You know... Like the army does.

There are a surprising number of anti-establishment service members when you actually sit down and talk to them and break down the system they live in.

[–] Adm_Drummer 5 points 1 week ago

This is reasonable time to wash your chicken and also likely where this habit comes from. Before the age of factory farming and the advent of reliable home refrigeration a lot of meat was improperly stored before and after selling.

Washing your produce was likely a good defense mechanism to wash away actual dirt, grime and bugs that may have adhered to it. Nowadays it's largely unnecessary unless you're still living in a place where butchering and processing techniques may not be of the greatest quality.

[–] Adm_Drummer 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But rinsing chicken under water will do what now?

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Adm_Drummer to c/[email protected]
 

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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Adm_Drummer to c/budgetaudiophile
 

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 picturedas pictured.

Seems there's no space for the captive pin 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.

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