quixotic120

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[–] quixotic120 3 points 1 week ago

Tone chaser def the best here. Harbor freight (if op is USA) has shitty ones for like $10 that do the job fine.

If you can’t get one a multimeter in continuity mode with some long wire works if you’re tracing in one area. If it’s a huge area or across multiple rooms you can put low voltage on pins and use the meter to check for voltage on the other end. Make sure it’s not plugged in though

[–] quixotic120 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Instead of buying sheets of labels with numbers printed on for $12 you can get an actual label maker for like $15-$40 (or way more depending on how fancy you want to get)

Then you can label the wires with things like “living room cat5” instead of a cryptic “6” that you will forget the meaning of 3 years from now. If you spend a bit more (and maybe the cheap ones can do this, I dunno, I have a $40 one fwiw) you can get label refills that have heatshrink instead of labels. This is SO MUCH better because you can put it on the cable, shrink it, and it stays on forever. Unlike labels, which in my experience fall off when you pull them through walls (or just for no reason at all) 80% of the time. Downside is the heatshrink can’t go over big connectors so if it’s a cable you’re not terminating like hdmi it’s not as viable but for cat5/6 runs, coax, speaker wire, fiber, etc where you’re most likely terminating the cables yourself it’s the best. And even with big goofy hdmi cables you can still just get large heat shrink that has a good shrink ratio and write on it with a sharpie

[–] quixotic120 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think so, I use a different one at least

[–] quixotic120 4 points 2 weeks ago

at least then $80 for a controller would be somewhat justified. except they’ll probably make them $199 at that point

[–] quixotic120 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I have 2 GitHub accounts, one under a pseudonym and one under my real name. The pseudonym has probably 200+ repos and that is absolutely not a flex. Most of them are absolute garbage. Tutorials I expanded, projects I started and never fleshed out, documentation for stuff I meant to dive deep into (or sometimes actually did), etc. if a project actually moves along to a place I feel is respectable and worth showing off a bit I’ll clone it to the other account, which has like 10-15 repos maybe

That said I have no clue if this actually matters

[–] quixotic120 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the answer is basically all TVs are subsidized to some degree. A list is somewhat pointless because they all do some sketchy shit and as lg has recently shown they reserve the right to change the terms years after the fact with firmware updates, even if you buy a flagship model that cost 3-5k

Basically you need to use it intelligently. Either don’t connect it to the internet at all, only connect it to an intranet/isolated vlan, or (least effective) block every suspicious outgoing request with your router or a dns thing like adguard/pihole.

The alternatives are to buy a non consumer display (eg something for signage or for like a meeting room in an office) which are usually more durable but also often far more expensive (no ad subsidies), the panel quality is generally noticeably worse (unless you’re buying a mediocre tv), and you lose out on enthusiast features (earc, vrr, etc). Or you can get a solid projector; the cheap projectors are usually kind of junk but nice ones are quite nice and often (but not always, they’re increasingly “smart”) have barebones ui/os. This can be pretty impractical for your living situation though

[–] quixotic120 1 points 1 month ago

I think what the article is trying to present, poorly, is that the “relatively rare as a percentage of use” bit may have been because until relatively recently the sample size was significantly lower and the marijuana itself was far less potent.

For what it’s worth anecdotally I have seen a number of people who utilize marijuana, medical or otherwise, for anxiety. I mention this because I work in mental health and regularly give said people anxiety screenings. For a great deal of them their anxiety scores worsen over time as they utilize marijuana. It’s certainly not a study by any means but I’ve had peers note the same and there are some studies that have occurred and are ongoing to the same effect. It’s not surprising; it’s like treating anxiety with benzodiazepines. It lowers the intensity of the anxiety in the moment but as result also decreases your overall resilience towards anxiety as a result because you are less reliant on more traditional coping skills

[–] quixotic120 175 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There’s a Simpson’s episode about preppers where they assume the big bad thing happens and fuck off to their bunkers, stuff happens, and they eventually come back to town. When they come back everyone is happy and doing fine and Marge says something like “things were okay after the first few hours. We all worked together and made it work. It was like all the mean, angry, and resentful parts of the town had just disappeared!”

[–] quixotic120 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

pfsense running on whatever hardware that doesn’t use too much power

[–] quixotic120 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wait did they not mail you the sticker before? PA has since at least like 2014. Your sticker is so much better though, ours suuuuucks

It differs by county bc we are a commonwealth so everything differs by county but my county uses this:

https://www.pmconline.org/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2019-11/I%20voted%20sticker%202_0.jpg

suuuuucks

[–] quixotic120 10 points 1 month ago

or it’s just a potential case study on the sunk cost fallacy

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