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[–] Usernameblankface 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That one seems like it would be easy to remake with current day components. Keep the display the same to extend battery life, give it smarter internals and slimmer design. That could be the work phone, the texting phone, the going hiking phone, the daily driver that has several days of battery life.

But the more I think about it, a Bluetooth keyboard paired with a normal smartphone would not need its own phone plan and would provide the physical buttons for typing. It just won't be as cool as that thing.

[–] Usernameblankface 16 points 4 days ago

But a service worker knows lots of loopholes, and they can help you take advantage of them or choose not to bring it up if you're treating them badly.

[–] Usernameblankface 3 points 4 days ago

Wow! That thing looks great! So many angles and so much attitude but yet not as overdone as the average small sporty-styled car

[–] Usernameblankface 2 points 5 days ago

English, because word history is fun, communication is important, and teaching kids that language is constantly evolving would be fun.

[–] Usernameblankface 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for reminding me of Thinkpads. I'd like to track down a used or refurbished one for home use to survive kiddos

[–] Usernameblankface 3 points 1 week ago

Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.

Also, why extend it vertically?

[–] Usernameblankface 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is very interesting. Does it clog up with hard water?

[–] Usernameblankface 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looking at the prices on those filters, wow! That's like an extra subscription each winter to fix dry air. Getting one big enough to get the whole house at once seems good, but 55 to 80 dollars a month is a lot!

[–] Usernameblankface 2 points 1 week ago

We did think of this, apparently too late. I'm gathering from other comments that I am dealing with hard water, and the seals on my humidifiers had already crusted over when we got the Brita filter, so it did not fix the issue

[–] Usernameblankface 2 points 1 week ago

I wish I had a heating stove or fireplace for this purpose, but alas, it's a gas furnace connected to a central air system

[–] Usernameblankface 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Could you link me to one of these bucket or bowl type of humidifiers?

[–] Usernameblankface 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was a cool mist type, so no wick or heating element. It was dirt getting into the valve that allows water to flow down from the main reservoir to the tray where the ultrasonic magic happens. Kept propping that valve open to let a constant drip of water through

edit, seems like hard water ruined the seal rather than grit messing things up

 

Please redirect if there is a more appropriate community for this question.

I'm dealing with dry air, and the humidifiers I had bought before got the tiniest grits of dust or something in them and leaked their whole tank of water. Turns out they needed purified water or distilled water to function long term.

I just want to put tap water into a thing and get humidity into the air. Any suggestions?

Edit, they were indeed ultrasonic humidifiers.

 

Tell a fish success is measured by climbing a tree, and he will spend his whole life thinking he's a failure.

What skills, attitudes, personality traits have you seen mismatched to a certain job that later made the individual an awesome worker in another job?

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My idea is that Frosty has taken my Christmas tree off my hands to carry it to the North Pole for safekeeping. This way, I don't have to redecorate next year.

In Copilot Designer, DAL-E 3 Prompt: a muscular snowman running through a snowy meadow. he is carrying a large, lit Christmas tree

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Inspired by MommaCusses discovering a toy DJ machine that actually works, she found it so much fun she said she'd keep it for her own. What if Santa found this toy?

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I just wanted to say, in case you didn't know, that E-6000 can glue a patch of denim to a pair of jeans well enough to survive the washing machine and heavy use.

I cut up one old pair of jeans to patch several other old pairs of jeans. One bead of glue around the edge of the patch, one bead around the edge of the hole I'm patching. Some wax paper made sure I only glued what I wanted to glue, and a stack of books on top of the patch for a few days let it cure in place.

They've survived several months of regular washing, as well as working outside with no issues.

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I like the idea of eating a gingerbread house, so I thought of a large bell jar to cover a cake topped with a gingerbread house as a way to display it and also eat it later.

What do you want to see in your gingerbread house?

 

He says he can't. I'm so bummed.

This club can't even Handel me right now

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I just thought it would be great to hear a metal band screaming a repetitive song about how much they like French toast.

I put in a few lines into the Suno lyrics generator and hit generate. I deleted about half of what it spit out for me, (like the ever present lyrics that include "night and day" and "feels so right")

Then ran through some changes to the prompt as well as fine tuning the lyrics to get this short little ditty.

Another result from the same prompt: https://suno.com/song/13b61691-2d30-4332-81a1-c04a7986fa75

 

After a lot of lyrics edits and rerunning the prompts to get a beat, melody, and voice I liked, I finally got a fast song about being slow.

 

In Copilot Designer, DAL-E 3 Prompt: lavender garnish cocktail themed show car with a large speaker system

Rolling through the "surprise me" generated prompts, landed on the lavender garnish cocktail. Added the rest and hit generate.

 

An obvious opposite of a recent question

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