[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And depending on the OS on the other end:

Windows - SyncTrayzor

Android - Syncthing-Fork

iOS - Möbius

Linux - Syncthing

Syncthing is just such a great sync tool. Best alternative to it is Resilio Sync. They each have their pros/cons.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Another hero we didn't know we needed.

Have my grateful uovote.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It means that mechanically it can't bind with dextrose ("right handed" sugars) to form crystals. Think of the game Tetris, and how you sometimes get an "L" shaped piece - that's your dextrose, and it's mirror - that's the invert. They don't fit into the same spaces, so can never neatly "bind".

Corn syrup is an invert, and used to prevent sugar crystallization in things like caramel or even ice cream.

It takes a very small amount of an invert sugar in a recipe (maybe 10%, depending, but I forget) to prevent crystallization from starting.

Episode 25 of Good Eats, "Citizen Cane", has a great explanation by a food chemist, and Alton Brown demonstrates it while making caramel.

(I may misremember some of this, so any food chemists please clarify as needed).

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

God I hate compressed file support in explorer.

I even disable zip support. Let me use my own app for that.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Wow, I never made that connection

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

I've not met a single "boomer" that does this.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

(cough cough) Note their name - "gullible"

They got me too until I read their next comment. Haha

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Except decaffeinating coffee really messes it up.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

I've never met an engine that doesn't need valve adjustments, even with hydraulic lifters.

Now the adjustment period is far longer today, like in the 100k miles range.

Just be glad you rarely see shim/bucket adjustment these days. Boy was that a bitch.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Very good point about Agile.

As an end-user (that is, the IT staff that will be deploying/managing things), I prefer less-frequent releases. I'd love to see 1 or 2 releases a year for all software (pipe dream, I know). Once you have a handful of packages, you end up with constant change to manage.

I suspect what we end up with is early adopters embracing the frequent releases, and providing feedback/error reporting, while people like me benefit from them while choosing to upgrade less frequently.

There are about 3 apps that I'm a beta tester for, so even I'm part of that early-adopter group.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

I figured the question was kind of "wrong" from my lack of understanding.

The improvement from increased barrel length is a good example of what I don't know.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Since they're on a garage door opener, they're probably designed to be very simple to operate. Not to malign electricians or general contractors, but they don't have the time to deal with fussy mechanisms - they'll deal with it once, then never use that brand again.

Since the hole is at an angle I'd guess they're spring loaded but manually operated. That little slot on the top of the orange buttons looks designed for a flat screwdriver to push it down, opening the clamping mechanism, and it's spring loaded to come back up and clamp the wire.

Also, looking at the shape of the body and orange parts, they can only move in/out.

Just my guess. Can you shine a light into the hole and see the mechanism at all?

Try pushing an orange piece in with a small screwdriver and little pressure.

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