solidgrue

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[–] solidgrue 3 points 8 hours ago

That's good to know. I've pretty much always been a TMO customer aside from a couple of years when I was with Cingular around the time of their buyout. They were pretty open back then.

[–] solidgrue 10 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I buy all of my phones carrier-unlocked, and have never had a problem.

Potential pitfalls are if the IMEI is blacklisted, which could happen if the phone is reported as stolen, or if the radio deck isn't compatible with your carrier's network.

In the US, the AT&T and T-Mobile networks are pretty open, and you just need to pop in your SIM card. I don't have experience with Verizon to know if you can bring your own device or not, but I imagine as long as the phone can work with Verizon then its probably just a matter of visiting a store to have it activated.

[–] solidgrue 25 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Alive, but voting Democrat.

Ruminate on that a moment.

[–] solidgrue 5 points 23 hours ago

Oh staaahp. Tue timeline JUST got interesting, and you gotta be all Bantha-stank about it.

Just sit back, have a Toke & a smile, and watch. (Also, vote!)

[–] solidgrue 3 points 23 hours ago

Isn't this the plot for The Purge,or something?

[–] solidgrue 2 points 2 days ago

Denver, hey? Seems to make sense for the Libertarian party. I spent a week there on business once. It wasn't Atlanta or Baltimore, but it was alright.

[–] solidgrue 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who doesn't want low taxes and cheap weed?

[–] solidgrue 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

People like Kinzinger provide an offramp for Republican voters who are waking up to the reality of the post-Trump GOP to vote their conscience. For better or for worse, we are mired in identity politics, which for many means being a Republican. Folks like Kinzinger are saying you can still identify that way if you want, but it doesn't mean you have to vote for Trump-- you can put country over party and that's okay.

He's doing the job of the Judas Goat which, frankly, we need him for.

[–] solidgrue 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I see where this question is leading, and I don't think I like the implications

[–] solidgrue 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Oh hey. We meet again.

How's things for you? Have you been getting breaks and adequate hydration? I just had a nice vacation, myself.

Its getting interesting around here, no?

[–] solidgrue 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Astroturfed some agendas, maybe.

I like what Green says. Nobody knows what Green does. I'd be happy enough to throw them some votes for a municipal or county level seat or two to see what they do with it, but a Green vote is a wasted vote at the Federal level right now.

*points up* that's me, voting my conscience.

edit: minor typo for grammar

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by solidgrue to c/showerthoughts
 

ethical edit: For a toss-off gag that even I thought was a bit sketch, I'm learning a lot about this situation and I appreciate it

 
 
 
 
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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by solidgrue to c/trees
 

I have a few grinders I'd like to replace the stainless mesh between the middle and bottom chambers. Rather than try to track down the OEM info for the grinders, I figured it might be easier to source 60 micron stainless mesh stock and cut some rounds to size. I don't need much-- maybe the equivalent of a sheet or two of US Letter or A4 sized sheets or rolls.

My google-fu is failing me and my local suppliers don't seem to understand what I need.

Anyone here have a source for the screen stock?

edit: solved! Thanks @teft!!

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by solidgrue to c/lemmyshitpost
 

Fartology is an up and coming science.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by solidgrue to c/homeassistant
 

I missed it in the release notes, but there's a breaking change in the ota component in ESPHome 2024.6.0. I figured I'd save folks some time and share the fix here.

If your OTA config looks like this;

...

ota:
  password: "*************"
  num_tries: 3
  safe_mode: on

...

Now you'll need to add a platform key to start a list, and either comment out the other option or move them to a new component.

...

ota:
  - platform: esphome
    password: "*************"
  #num_tries: 3
  #safe_mode: on

...

edit: Here's the PR introducing this change https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/6459

 

Hear me out...

I was raised, as my family does, to fearfully respect our kitchen knives. Respect their productivity, respect their sharpness, but overall respect their ruthlessness. Even the mildest of disrespect for my family's knives would earn you a nick of you were merely neglectful, and grievous harm if you spoke ill of their aptness.

Of course, when I moved out and set up my own kitchens I acquired my own knives and tried to teach them better. How I was the master, and I was the steel wright. I lavished them with hand baths and fresh oils. I used only the gentlest of hardwoods on their blades and protected them from the hrllscape of the dishwasher. We lived in serene peace, an harmonic existence of a mealwright and his band of merry Riveners.

And then one day, the Inheritance came. Grand Father had died, and his boning knives were my bequest. I was elated, but I would learn.

My friends, that old knife had a soul. Not an evil soul, but a soul that had goals. It was hard steel that took a keen, harsh edge. Bright and tense, like a silver bell on a crisp winter morning. Not Solingen steel, so pliable and yielding as it is fickle in use. Grandfather's knives told you where to cut and if you hesitated, they would cut you instead in frustration. Impertinent things. Not evil, I would say. More, businesslike.

My mistake was to lay them with my other knives. Did you know knives talk? They do! They whisper to each other in their blocks at night when you are asleep. They whisper and they.learn from each other. A good papa hopes they learn the Art of their chef, but when you have a Bad Knife in the block? They learn that too.

Now, all of my knives are angry knives. Not angry at me, necessarily, but angry at their lot in my kitchen, to suffer my children's abusive cooking lessons, my in-laws' insistent prep work degradations, and (occasionally) my neglect.

They bit my wife tonight. Its a Message....

 

Happy Dad-dude's Day to all you who celebrate it!

 

Nobody's perfect.

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