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SolidGrue @lemmy.world

I'm just this guy, you know?

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Razor-tight races could leave House control in limbo for weeks
  • That's why we're concerned about a gambit to disqualify or at least delay seating Representatives from contested districts past the 6th. There isn't clear guidance on this, and House Rules are House Business. It'll come down to the US House Parliamentarian, perhaps.

    /maybe. Almost nobody knows this stuff
    //Not OP. I'm the other one.
    /// {edit) 'sup, grue?? We meet again.

  • What does being in a calorie deficit feel like?
  • As someone on semaglutide therapy, I can share that a large calorie deficit hits you in the wills to live. At some point even just eating feels like a stop at the gas station to fuel up, and it hardly matters whether it's 87 or 95 octane. Hell, rancid fry oil would even work. At some point, you stop caring whether you eat because it feels like another chore.

    Eventually your metabolism syncs up again with your energy demand and you start getting interested in food, except you're way more selective about how you're (edit: spending) acquiring those calories. I almost can't abide by junk food, fast food, or breaded fried crap anymore. But neither do I want salad or vegetables because they're "fluffy." Too much volume, not enough calories. I want about 6 or 10 forks full of food, and then that's it. And it'd best taste good, or I can't be bothered. Restaurants easily stop looking like a good deal.

    Anyway that's a digest of my diary for the last 22 months. Do with the info as you will.

  • Advice for making entryway light motion sensing? 3-way switch and two ceiling fixtures.
  • Are you looking for a system that is strictly motion sensors, or do you have a smart assistant that supports other wireless protocols than Wifi?

    My strategy as a home assistant user has been to lean on smart switches and dumb bulbs to the extent that I can, so that I can locally control fixtures without having to rely on the assistant being awake and healthy. I do have a few instances where I have dumb switches and smart bulbs, but only where I also want to control the light colors and where the bulb is controlled right at the fixture.

    That said, there does appear to be a tasmota 3-pole switch by Martin Jerry on Amazon. You'd probably just replace one of your 3-pole switches with the Tasmota and leave the other switch alone. You could pick up one of the Everything Smarthome presence kits and use that for your motion sensor.

    Hope any of this helps!

  • Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes?
  • When you simmer or slow roast tomato sauce over several hours, the sugars in the tomato release and caramelize which helps to offset acidity. If you're finding the cooked sauce is still acidic, you can try adding other sweet vegetables such as finely grated carrot, sweet onion, or half of a raw potato (which you'd remove before serving).

    That they pack your tomatoes with lemon might mean you need to actively neutralize the extra acids, which you can do with milk or cream, or just a little baking soda as you suggest. Probably not more than a pinch, though, or the sauce could lose its brightness.

  • I’m curious to know how you all handle the limited package selection in the default Debian repositories.
  • For me it depends in whether the publisher has a .deb file available or not. If there's a downloadable deb file, I just install that through apt/dpkg.

    I try not to use custom repos anymore because they rarely keep up with the named releases and can introduce library conflicts.

    If I can only get a tarball of the precompiled binary then I'll unpack it in /opt and drop a soft link to the main binary in /usr/local/bin. This is how I handle Firefox and Thunderbird at least.

    Otherwise, there's containers (Unif controller, for example) and flatpacks as a last resort.

    I personally hate building and installing from source, but I'll do that if I absolutely have to.

  • I went to the library today and asked the librarian where I could find the books about paranoia

    She whispered, "they're right behind you."

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    www.telegraph.co.uk Ship packed with explosive Russian fertiliser floating off Kent

    Maltese-flagged Ruby is carrying 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate – seven times the amount that caused 2020 Beirut port blast

    Ship packed with explosive Russian fertiliser floating off Kent

    > A cargo ship with links to Russia packed with explosive fertiliser is floating off the Kent coast after being denied entry at other ports over safety fears. > > Ruby, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser from a port in Russia, was ordered out of Tromso in Norway and turned away from Danish waters.

    More alleged shenanigans with this craft drifting around the North Sea, ostensibly enroute to the Canaries.

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    When was the last time I changed the oil in my mower?

    Now that I think about it, it was probably before the pandemic. 🤔

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    What is your favorite TMBG album, and why is it Apollo 18 on repeat shuffle?

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    If a deaf person had tinnitus, they'd probably never recognize it

    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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    VW is all about Van Week

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    EnkiSoft Excel 1.2 leaked: Base60 support, "zero," and date formattng!

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    Daily standup. Daily standup never changes.

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    Does anyone have a source for grinder screen?

    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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    All farts are funny. It's just a matter of degree

    Fartology is an up and coming science.

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    Breaking change in ESPHome 2024.6.0 ota component

    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

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    Are your kitchen knives angry knives?

    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....

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    My non-traditional family presented this dude a Dad-dude's Day brunch of premium ham, blueberry muffin top, and a frozen White Russian

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

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    God says He's sorry about creating Republicans

    Nobody's perfect.

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    Everything I know about being in my 40s is what I learned from Al Bundy

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    Remember these?

    Pretty sure we had the E9112 and E9116 back in the day. Now I have a legit B92FS but it doesn't squirt water. For work reasons.

    Ah, nostalgia. (Don't play with guns!)

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    Gun porn rules

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    Üntz, üntz

    That's, "boots & pants & boots & pants...." in American

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    It goes without saying that...

    ...

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    I don't make the rules

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