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ballskicker

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  • Attempting an endgrain cutting board

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  • Gorgeous. How did you do the glue up? I showed my wife and told her I could make the cuts and glue everything if she wanted to set up the pattern. I don't have an eye for that kind of stuff like she does What I've seen others do is glue up smaller (2x2) blocks, then glue those together, then glue those bigger chunks together until it's all one piece. Was that your approach? I've done standard cutting boards so an end grain one is next on my list

  • power tripping admin thinks hosting their own instance grants them immunity. embarrassing!

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  • More input. Just strange. I blew it off and moved on but if the same thing is happening to others even more aggressively then that's not okay

  • GrapheneOS

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  • Yeah, that's on me. I didn't read the sidebar and assumed a community named similarly to "askreddit" would require posts to have questions

  • GrapheneOS

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  • I've been eyeing Graphene for a while now but I'm not really a tech person. I fumbled my way through installing and doing basic tweaks on Linux Mint but I don't know the first thing about coding or programming. Is that kind of knowledge a must for this OS or is it more dummy friendly? And what's a good cheap phone to grab to start messing with it and getting familiar, do you have any recommendations on that front?

  • 'Borderlands' Bombs at Box Office; Lionsgate CEO Responds

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  • Sounds like I've got my next several weeks sorted then! Thanks for the mod recs, I'm looking forward to those games

  • 'Borderlands' Bombs at Box Office; Lionsgate CEO Responds

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  • A buddy who loves the whole franchise said he thought 3 and New Vegas were the best but the graphics were pretty dated. Now that I've actually got enough of a taste of the lore I'll go back and try those

  • 'Borderlands' Bombs at Box Office; Lionsgate CEO Responds

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  • I never gave the Fallout games a fair shake until after watching the series. Played 4 and powered through the slow start that had turned me off of it before and ended up really enjoying the game.

    So yeah, I guess you could say I'm something of a statistic myself.

  • Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey

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  • I'm not really a tech guy at all and I let these nerds talk me into trying Linux Mint, I haven't bothered with Windows 10 for several months now. There was some frustrating troubleshooting at first but once the settings are tweaked how you like them, the updates don't negate your tweaks like with Microsoft. I'm sure there's a lot of functionality I'm not maximizing but I don't feel the need to. I got my productivity stuff figured out, my game stuff figured out, the last thing I really need to get sorted is why my printer is being such a wiener but I use it so sparingly that there's not much motivation to mess with that. I did dual boot for a while so I wouldn't feel overwhelmingly stupid when it came to Linux, so I was able to familiarize myself with the new setup at my pace and that helped quite a bit I think. No harm in going that route, then you can see what happens with Warzone before fully taking the plunge

  • Trump praises Chinese president for controlling citizens ‘with an iron fist’

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  • JustWatch has some choices, I'd be partial to Pluto unless you wanna rent/buy it

  • Trump praises Chinese president for controlling citizens ‘with an iron fist’

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  • My dad's the same way, he hasn't pleaded with me about my vote but that may only be because I don't talk to him.Have you seen "The Brainwashing of My Dad"? I think that's what it's called, a friend recommended it to me and I need to make some time for it, sounds like it covers the impact of garbage like fox news on old men

  • Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini | The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.

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  • I grew up in the eastern half as well and they've talked about that merger for decades, seems it's little more than another talking point to keep people angry and give them another thing to be complain about regarding all those godless communist child-eating liberal coasties

  • I am getting inundated with calls from some sort of tax scam and it's driving me nuts.

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  • Turns out I can unmute my phone when I realize it's a person I want to talk to. It's just crazy how tech has improved over the years

  • I am getting inundated with calls from some sort of tax scam and it's driving me nuts.

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  • I answer unknown calls and then immediately mute my mic. Most of the time it's a bot that might call back once more, occasionally it's somebody that gets an explanation of why i just made things weird. been doung that for years and now I only get spam calls maybe once or twice a month tops, if even that much

  • How to fix this glass that is no longer in place?

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  • This is the best way of doing it. I'd recommend some paint thinner and paper towels to help clean up the silicon. Even people that have been doing this work for years can get enthusiastic with caulking stuff in and silicon can get messy fast. Plus make sure to give the whole space enough time to fully cure and be good to go against water exposure. I'm also surprised at the apparent lack of retention screw or something in there, pretty strange

  • Foundation crack

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  • That crack isn't bad at all, especially if it's following a mortar line. Are there doors/windows nearby, or is it close to a corner? Insurance will almost certainly tell you it's nothing. My area had a quake a few years ago and I got a bigger crack (maybe 1/4") above the basement walkout door, also through the mortar like this one. If you wanna seal the crack then you'd have better luck with caulk, mortar would have a hard time taking to such a small crack; and sealing it would make the area more difficult to monitor. Just keep an eye on it over time and bone up on the water management around your house to make sure it's all flowing away from your foundation, not loitering. I really don't think you've got something to worry about right now based on what I see, and I've worked on or evaluated hundreds of houses. Rest easy, friend

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    How do you start a car and move it with manual shift "the right way"?

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  • I always left mine in neutral but when I'd take it to a shop they'd leave it in gear and I'd lurch forward like an amateur when I left. I'm not convinced there's a difference between the two but I'm no mechanic

  • Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug

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  • I installed Mint this past spring and fiddled around with it briefly every once in a while but I'm not a tech guy so there was a little bit of a learning curve on stuff like getting a second monitor to work, stuff like that. I'm sure you've already found out that there's TONS of documentation and forums for questions, it's just a matter of feeling kinda dumb for a little while as you troubleshoot. I switched over to Mint full time a few months ago and haven't looked back. I've still got Win10 on an extra hard drive just in case but I think more and more of reclaiming that space for Steam now, I don't miss Windows at all

  • Asiago and Habanero Sourdough.

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  • Looks fantastic! And now you've inspired me to make myself one

  • Homeowners are increasingly re-wilding their homes with native plants, experts say

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  • This is something the wife and I have looked at doing for our next house but is clover less resilient to dogs than grass? We were figuring on natural stuff for the front yard but keeping grass in the majority of the backyard because of our pets