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[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

A skunk and a porcupine

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t even hook it up to internet.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh that's easy - the Zanclean flood.

What is now the Mediterranean sea used to be a land mass full of grass fields. A few million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar gave way and hundreds of millions of cubic feet of water poured in. It's debated how long it took to fill up the Mediterranean. Could've been weeks, could've been decades. But for whatever period it was, it'd be nuts to sit there and watch it all unfold.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I’ve done a lot of digging (pun intended) on pumps and if you wanna save some $, get a 1/3hp Little Giant at Menards. They’re full cast iron, they have a vertical float, and they’re under $200.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

precisely, yup.

note: to be to code, you need 1 back flow valve per pump, so keep that in mind. you'll need 2.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

The first 5 biomes are pretty balanced. It’s everything after that becomes an absolute grind

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

I’ve had a ridge for years and it’s held up very well. I recommend blue loctite on the screws, with that it’s been pretty much invincible

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago

It’d be hilarious if they tear him apart like the kids in Weapons

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 30 points 5 days ago

If I can still parry Ganon with a bottle, I’ll be content.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is Minority Report shit

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Was this with a finger? Gloves? Curious as to the technique…exquisite

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

That's a good point...I have a new furnace, and I've been here several years without pipes freezing (knock on wood).

 

Sump pumps are one of the most boring parts of home ownership. Until that one storm comes and suddenly they're interesting.

After losing power one time this summer, I got paranoid and decided to build a battery backup. Home Depot had the basement watchdog systems, but they seemed high maintenance and I wanted something that would let me be lazier. I went with a LifePo4 battery system, that will (hopefully) get me 10 to 15 years. The battery charger has a float/storage mode so it can stay on 24/7. Doing some test runs, I think I can get about 400 cycles out of the battery before it hits 0%. I added some additional safety features (DC circuit breaker, GFCI with auto-on, Lithium fire extinguiser, etc), and added some battery powered lights and a basket of hand tools, so in the event the power goes out in the dead of night, something goes wrong, and I have to get my feet wet, everything is there ready to go.

 

I'm an old reddit user, going back to '08. Like many of you I'm sure, I've seen the site rise and fall. Killing 3p apps was a major blow, along with the purge of so many subreddits, and now you have to log in to even view it...it's getting real bad.

I had heard of the fediverse back when Mastadon was first announced. Briefly checked it out, but didn't give it much mind. This morning I was browsing reddit and read a thread about the continual degradation of the site. Someone mentioned Lemmy (new to me), but I thought "hey! I'll check it out, why not''. A brief google search gave me some iOS apps, and I wound up using Voyager (10/10 btw, Voyager reminds me a lot of Apollo in it's hayday). I applied/logged in....and just...wow. Wow y'all. Lemmy reminds me so much of reddit circa late 00's. Sure, there is a smaller user base, but so was reddit at the time. I remember the subreddit you were supposed to go to when you made an acccount and introduce yourself :D

And here on Lemmy, nothing looks like obvious bot posts. Content seems real. In correlation with that, the post titles seem pretty reasonable and not based around rage bait / click bait.

After setting it up on my phone, I found the desktop site (I'm on a laptop some times) and I adore a.lemmy.zip. To me its the perfect layout. The other incredible thing about Lemmy is just how seamless it was to set up, on both mobile and desktop. It feels super accessible to non-technical users, which is something I don't think is true for a lot of fediverse things.

But seriously, I used to adore reddit so much. Watching it fall apart has made me sadder and sadder over time. There was seemingly nothing in its place. I really felt like that era of internet over entirely. Just my first few hours on Lemmy has made me realize I was wrong, in the best way possible. It gave me chills. I'm looking forward to this platform growing. So anyway, thanks for any/all of you who developed/are developing Lemmy. It really, truly feels like a return to the golden age of social.

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