davidisgreat

joined 1 year ago

In my friend circle we will invite each other to stuff and ask "are you up or down?" Then schedule them regardless of response.

I tried AntennaPod but went back because of Android Auto. I just found this showing how to get AntennaPod on AndroidAuto!

https://antennapod.org/documentation/playback/android-auto

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I never really saw the appeal, but my friends keep wanting to play it. There is so much waiting. I'm just bored most of the time.

I have a 2060 super. It has all the performance I currently need. I would like to buy a non nvidia graphics card but I can't justify buying a new card for that reason alone.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Plus it can support Nvidia out of the box.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

When I was in Grade 9 we discovered how to make a smoke bomb with Potassium Nitrate and sugar. You can buy Potassium Nitrate at drug stores under the name "saltpeter". Potassium Nitrate is an oxidizing agent so releases oxygen as it burns. Sugar is naturally flammable but puts itself out. Together it burns hot and releases a lot of smoke. For Halloween we made 2.5 lbs of it and lit it in my back yard. It filled the yard with smoke.

In Grade 10 we tried to outdo ourselves. We found a much cheaper source for Potassium Nitrate at hydroponic stores. We made a 25 lb smoke bomb. We made a 4 minute timer from an alarm clock we got at a thrift store and it filled a park with smoke.

In Grade 11 we had a reputation to uphold. We took a collection from some of our classmates and got enough for a 250 LB smoke bomb. My friend's parents were out of town and he offered his house for making the smoke bomb. A lot of people showed up. We didn't plan for this but somehow alcohol showed up and there was a lot of underage drinking. The sugar has to be melted on the stove. We were making batch after batch of the smoke bomb and dumping it in a garbage bin in the middle of the kitchen on a dolly. We had only made about 20 LBs when some drunk girl came in and turned up the stove temperature. It lit prematurely which lit up the entire garbage can. We were instantly blind with the amount of smoke and had to leave the building. The fire department was called. The fire went up into the attic. We did about $18,000 worth of damage to the house.

My primary address is 127.0.0.1.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I briefly used it. It connects you to all of your neighbors. It's good for knowing what's going on in your community.

I run Transmission on a VM that is permanently connected to a VPN. It dumps the completed files on an NFS share. I'm open to trying something different. Transmission seems like the best option.

I had the same experience. It took a whole summer of searching to find a company that would do it.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first 4 HVAC companies I called told me the same thing. They said I had to have a back up natural gas or resistance based electric heater. They don't know what they are talking about. My current heat pump can operate down to -30 C. The coldest it ever gets here is -16 C and that's only for a few hours per year.

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His videos and others like it inspired me to keep looking when when all the HVAC companies kept telling me it wasn't possible.

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