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Is clipping cat nails good? in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 36 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Declawing and trimming are not the same. Trimming is fine. Declawing is not.

Most people don't want holes in their skin, clothes, furniture, etc.

Which office chairs do you recommend? Having a look right now, is Ergohuman a good brand? in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's definitely a splurge, but if you sit at your desk for a long time it's worth it. Check used markets, the chairs are built well and last a long time. I got mine used.

Which office chairs do you recommend? Having a look right now, is Ergohuman a good brand? in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've had the Herman Miller Embody for 4 years now and I love it. I tried their Mirra 2 and also had a Steelcase at work, but I find the Embody much more comfortable.

What is your go-to slow or pressure cooker meal that has under 5 ingredients? in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 3 points 3 weeks ago

Probably. I'm just lazy and microwave it.

What is your go-to slow or pressure cooker meal that has under 5 ingredients? in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Chicken fried rice. It's a few more than 5 ingredients, but it's all easy prep.

https://therecipewell.com/instant-pot-chicken-fried-rice/

The texture isn't quite right since its not actually fried, but the flavor is solid. I make double and freeze in portioned baggies.

Emmy Predictions: Lead Actor (Drama) — Noah Wyle Has Never Won an Emmy. ‘The Pitt’ Can Finally Change That in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 1 points 3 weeks ago

This feels more like competence porn to me. The situations are serious but everyone knows their place and just fucking handles their business.

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 5 points 3 weeks ago

People's expectation of twitter level service doesn't match up with the reality of federation. Devs tried to make it work anyways, with predictable results.

I’m loving SG-1 (first time watcher) in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I want to enjoy it, but I've tried multiple times and I just can't make it through.

I’m loving SG-1 (first time watcher) in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 19 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Atlantis is great too.

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/09/optimized-stargate-watch-order/

What is the worse vendor you have worked with? in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 28 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Oracle. We weren't even a customer. We just had an ip space with a bunch of customers on it. Yhey tried to claim we needed to pay for all their virtualbox downloads since we weren't a home isp.

The garbage some people will put on their body... in c/shittytattoos

[–] Shadow 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, feels like a child's drawing or something.

Unplanned downtime and update to Lemmy 0.19.10 in c/[email protected]

[–] Shadow 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Interesting, I've got some reading to do. Thanks for the links.

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Sky ECC: The crime messenger (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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2 hour maintenance window on Tuesday Nov 26th, 8am - 10am PST (self.main)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

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One of the drives in our server has failed. =( Even though it should be a 10 minute job OVH needs a 2 hour window to replace it.

I've requested they schedule it for Tuesday from 8am - 10AM PST. Hopefully it'll be reasonably quick, but expect cloudflare tunnel errors while they perform the work.

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Upgrade to 0.19.7 on Sun Nov 24th at 10am PST - Complete (self.main)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

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Hey All!

I'm going to upgrade us to 0.19.7 tomorrow (Sunday Nov 24th) around 10am PST. I don't expect significant downtime, but expect a few minutes at least.

Update: All done!

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The opposite of a void, unless you have treatos (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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Nintendo's latest product, "alarmo" (www.nintendo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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Schematic problem - It gets hot and smells like burning (self.askelectronics)

submitted 7 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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I've been messing around with circuits my entire life but this design was time sensitive and I've never done my own PCB designs before, so I hired someone to put this together. After getting some test boards, when I plug them in the charger chip gets very hot and smells like burning....

Circuit is just a simple li-ion usb charger and a switch. I've gone through the datasheet for the bq25302 more times than I can count and I'm missing something obvious here. Using it just for delivering power seems to work fine, the problem is only when charging.

I do see R6 + R7 off TS don't have the recommended 10k values, but I don't feel like that would cause what I'm seeing. This is being connected to a 21700 lipo.

Someone mind lending me their eyes please?

bq25302 datasheet - https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq25302.pdf

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Hexbear - Refederation? (self.main)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

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Recently I was asked if we'd be willing to reconsider federation with Hexbear, followed by CARCOSA reaching out to me to see if it was something we'd be open to.

They made a post asking if their community was interested in refederating with us, similarly I'd like the opinion of our local users.

Why refederate?

Hexbear has a decent number of sizable active communities:

These all seem fairly well moderated, giving us access to more diverse posts and viewpoints. A lot of our feed right now is dominated by US centric communities, and it'd be nice to get some more variety.

Why not?

They love trolling and I don't expect them to follow our rules when commenting (primarily "be civil").

Just looking at their thread about us, there's a significant number of immature replies slandering us / Canada. I'm not confident their users will engage in actual discussion in our threads, rather than just showing up to throw out insults and memes.

We can try to handle this by banning users / blocking specific communities, but that's going to increase moderation workload for both admins and mods. Hexbear is self admittedly quick to ban users on their side, but they also don't mind ban evasion - not ideal for us.

So what's next?

This is where we solicit your opinions, how does our community feel?

Edit: Well, it looks like the community is overwhelmingly against refederation. Decision made, thanks everyone for your feedback!

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Eminem - Somebody save me (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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How fiber optics are made (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Shadow to c/[email protected]

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