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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Kirby's a big Nintendo property, is there any major region not familiar with Kirby? Like to they not sell the games in the UK or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Hey now, they used the indefinite article. The pilot typed a dildo and not their dildo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Takes the whole bird to make that sound. They have to bob up and down and move their wings and flick their tails to do it. Seems to be an effective way to settle disputes though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

John Stewart would be history's ultimate press secretary.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

For "people" it would be Santa. The "smoke" row would be fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I mean duh, he's in his 70's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Which is what I meant by "there can't be anything fun or amusing in it."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Jackdawius unidanius

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Which does make me wonder why not just re-release the original animated features to theaters. Surely "Returning to theaters this summer: Disney's Aladdin!" That seems to be the lazier way to make a buck off of old properties, you don't have to hire a cast and crew, build sets wardrobe and props, etc.

It is my understanding that broadway adaptations of their animated features have been reliable money makers, so were the coke addled executives at Disney thinking "Let's make Aladdin the movie the broadway show: The Movie! It can't fail!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Our cardinals seem to like peanuts but they can't really handle one in the shell; can't open their beaks wide enough to grip it. So we make sure they get the busted ones so there's an edge they can grab. Or they get safflower seeds which they have no problem with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A little bigger than a cardinal, about half the size of a crow. sounds like a rusty gate when arguing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ours are just peanut fiends. They're either nowhere to be found or gobbling up peanuts.

 

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I present to you The Tale Of The Cedar Planter Box.

Solid cedar, mortise and tenon joinery, with a nice bead detail on the slats. Garden hose sold separately, pine straw not included.

 

For tweens!

 

I use BackInTime (which is basically a front end for rsync) for backups, and I run one every night at 1 AM. This is on Linux Mint Cinnamon. If the computer is locked/the monitors have gone to sleep (computer isn't suspended), when the backup begins the monitors turn on, and will then stay on all night. I don't want to waste the power or wear out my backlights.

How can I stop it from turning the monitors on, or how can I get it to turn them back off?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I posted this one to [email protected] too, as I do most of my furniture projects, but I'm particularly proud of how this one came out. Solid white oak with genuine mortise-and-tenon joinery.

 

I'm working on replacing my porch furniture, and the side table was the worst of the lot so it got replaced first.

I've built a few little tables by now and I've got a lot of the process down. I used this one as an excuse to practice making actual mortise and tenon joints instead of the loose tenons I've used in the past. The mortises that the center brace sits in were chiseled by hand, the others are routed.

I'm thinking of making a couple outdoor-friendly morris chairs to replace those old iron ones. That'll be a minute though.

 

I think I saw this in a youtube video taken out of context so I'm not exactly sure when it was made, or if it was a TV show or a movie. And while it could obviously be from any time after 1980 because it references Empire Strikes Back it felt 21st century to me.

It seems to be a future post-apocalyptic setting, the power isn't on, everyone's dressed in rags, there's scavenging etc. and in a moment of down time two of the main characters act out the lightsaber duel from Empire Strikes Back to entertain the young children who live there, and the kids gasp at the "I am your father" bit.

What's this from?

 

It's actually just friction fit together in this picture; as I type it's in the clamps as the glue dries. Tomorrow some final touch up sanding and the first of four coats of spar varnish, then a few decades on my front porch under a couple potted plants.

There's an education in all this oak; it looks conceptually simple compared to the shaker tables I've done so far, right? IT AIN'T! Each leg cambers out by 5 degrees in both directions, and that tiny difference make this project SO much more obnoxious than a table with vertical legs. Laying things out accounting for that compound miter at the top and bottom is "fun." The upper and lower frame rails are no longer the same length, they're different but related lengths. That lower panel? Can't be installed with the frame assembled. Hell I didn't even bother attaching it in any way, it's just captive in there.

Unlike the previous tables I've built that are held together with floating tenons, the rails are thin and fit entirely into mortises in the legs, which meant some chisel work squaring the corners of the mortises, so I gained quite a bit of experience with chisels here.

But, another project nearing completion.

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I tabled again (sh.itjust.works)
 

A simple shaker style table in white oak, finished with spar urethane and kitty approved.

The breadboard ends on the panels were an education on this one; on the top they aren't strictly necessary, but I felt they were needed on the lower panel so that the movement of that captive panel wouldn't rack the legs. Found out I prefer making the tongues with a router rather than the dado set on the table saw.

 

This is the follow-up to my previous post about a Linux tablet for my workshop. based on the suggestion by @[email protected] , I went with a Lenovo Duet 3i, apparently also known as an 82AT and/or 10IGL5. Sprung for the Pentium version with 8GB of RAM. It has arrived, and I've got it set up to start using.

The Hardware Itself

For a shovelware-grade machine, it's not bad at all. I'm sure they were sold in big box stores as the budget tier barely capable of running Windows 10, which is why there's so many of them for sale in barely used condition.

2 USB-C ports came in handy for charging and installing Linux from a thumb drive. The screen is surprisingly good for a machine of this price point, and it runs cooler than my cat.

The Linux Experience

SHOCKINGLY good. Linux Mint loaded right up, though I wouldn't recommend it on this machine. Cinnamon is not intended for tiny touch screens.

Fedora KDE Spin ran quite nicely, but I ended up installing Fedora Gnome. I generally hate Gnome but for a machine that will run FreeCAD, a PDF reader and a web browser, maybe a calculator, it'll work.

So far, I haven't found anything that doesn't work. It suspends and wakes from suspend, keyboard works, backlight controls work, both cameras work, auto-rotation works, keyboard works in attached and bluetooth modes, Wi-Fi works...

I think I just saw that graphical glitch @[email protected] mentioned for the first time, I looked over at it and the top panel was near the bottom of the screen. Moving the mouse around seems to fix it, though yeah if that behavior continues or worsens I'm probably going to try either X11 or...something.

Overall I'd call it "quick but not fast." UI feels responsive, but...put it this way I watched Neofetch run. Any disk operation at all is a bit slow.

Gnome is...Gnome. I would hate to live in Gnome on my main machine. I think it'll do here; it's mostly navigable by touch screen.

FreeCAD works amazingly well and is surprisingly usable on a touch screen, though to do anything serious you do need to be able to right click and use the Ctrl key. I think it'll do what I'm after. Going to start building a shelf either today or in the next couple days, will report back how it works in service.

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