adiwan (adiwan)

  1. @scribus I could get a bigger one but the monthly costs are way higher. 120L (the one I have) costs 15€ a month and the next size up would be two of them for double the price. In average I overpay for the size I use. In Winter I barely used 1/5th of the capacity. From May to November the pickup frequency increases from once every two weeks to once a week. That will do basically the same without paying more. In this regard I have to wait a month. Being patient.

    about a day ago from web in context
  2. I was doing some garden work today. Within an hour or two I managed to fill up the trash can for all the biodegradable garbage. I have to wait two weeks in order to continue cutting down the bushes. The weather will be bad anyway in the coming days, so I wouldn't do gardening anyway. If I am at the same point next time I'll probably have to ask a neighbor for using their trash can capacity.

    about 2 days ago from web in context
  3. @scribus Me too. At least healthy old and not asshole old.

    about 2 days ago from web in context
  4. There is a ton of talk from boomers that millenials and genz are social garbage. Yesterday I saw a pair of self-entitled 70-80 year olds (man and wife) packing out their shopping cart at a closed checkout line while the super market was clearly understaffed AND were demanding another checkout line to be opened and then saying (more to themselves) that they will go without paying.

    about 3 days ago from web in context
  5. I'll never recover financially: A glass bottle broke because it fell gently over. The fall height was literally the height of the bottle itself. The contents: a mate tea lemonade. It was the last full bottle. The costs: 98 cents + 15 cents of bottle deposit and the knowledge that I won't have a bottle for work.
    On the positive side: The kitchen floor needed some cleaning anyway. Also I can play the game of "find the invisible little pointy foot stabbers" for a few days.

    about 4 days ago from web
  6. @scribus I bought a locking nut that has a ring of nylon in the threads. I hope it will hold. I don't want to use Loctite as I fear it'll make problems in the future with maintenance. I have enough replacements right now. Whenever it will happen again I'll definitely try using Loctite.

    about 6 days ago from web in context
  7. 20 minutes later it is fixed. I fixed it temporarily with a zip tie and went to the hardware store to get the right screws and nuts. Obviously I bought more than I actually needed to fix that. What I learned is that I don't have enough screws and nuts.

    about 6 days ago from web in context
  8. Recently I heard a strange clank noise while cycling. It turned out I lost a screw that attaches my bike rack to the back mud fender to it. Nothing big but to my dismay I have not the right hardware right now. I lack a 35mm long M5 screw with an appropriate M5 lock nut.

    about 6 days ago from web
  9. @cabal The messiah has returned!.... Haven't thought that an IT job could be out-waged by a warehouse job. Good that you are more content with both the better pay and the kind of job you have now. I don't like to talk to people and yet I need to more often than I like. I bought myself a house and thus improved my sleep by getting away from noisy neighbours and I also got myself doing some creative things and low-key reviving my personal tumblr page.

    about 6 days ago from web in context
  10. @scribus https://i.imgur.com/JhifvYa.jpeg This is my before/after image of the repair

    about 7 days ago from web in context
  11. @scribus The thought did occur to me. The break was quite clean. Also I got the thought after the glue has already set. I also imagined if the handle breaks completely off that I get myself a good chunk of hard wood and make a wooden mug handle and glue it to the mug with an epoxy glue. The wooden handle wouldn't be dishwasher safe however it will transfer less heat.

    about 7 days ago from web in context
  12. My favorite mug that I own for about 25 years has finally cracked. The handle broke on its own from the handling and the temperature changes. The crack was relatively clean. I "fixed" it with super glue but I have little confidence that it'll hold more than a year and I think it'll show other crack in that time.

    about 8 days ago from web in context
  13. I haven't thought that speaking in English for over 4 hours was that exhausting. I guess it'd be the same with the same amount of trying to find the right words. I was helping a colleague to get started with C# and I was reviewing a CV.

    about 9 days ago from web
  14. Hmm... Depressed spammers. That's a new one.

    about 11 days ago from web
  15. I love it when there are over 600 broken packages in apt because some dependencies went sideways.

    about 14 days ago from web
  16. I'm low-key considering making an imprint of my butt so I can cast a butt-shaped silicone pillow. The desk seat is not bad but the seat cushion is practically non-existent and lost all its elasticity.

    about 15 days ago from web
  17. A little corner in my head want to see the world burn by angry people over a historic film, where there was an equal amount of white and black people but their roles are played by the opposite skin color.

    about 15 days ago from web
  18. Kung Fu Panda 4 OST doesn't disappoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadG2zToi1s Instant goosebumps.

    about 15 days ago from web
  19. Tried red bean mochi for the first time. Was fine. Not the best. Definitely 1000 times better than the mochi ice cream I tried a longer time ago. There I had the problem with it being both hard and gooey soft.

    about 16 days ago from web
  20. My miniature paint box is finished https://www.tumblr.com/adiwan/744764666193100800/

    about 17 days ago from web
  21. Maybe I'm getting old but I like After Midnight https://www.youtube.com/@AfterMidnightCBS

    about 17 days ago from web
  22. Liquidy and runny cyanoacrylate is superior to thick and gooey cyanoacrylate. I just run out of my bottle of runny super glue and had to resort to those extremely small tubes that have the thicker stuff. I was hugely disappointed how awful it behaved and how awful it was to squeeze it out of the tube: more glue came out of the tube than I needed and oozed out on its own.

    about 23 days ago from web
  23. Haha.... I got a request from a family member to make a Bulbasaur from concrete for their garden. I explained that I never did it and 3D-printing any kind of mold will be expensive and may result in many failures AND it will take a long time. I think I will 3D-print a positive and use silicone for the mold. It'll make it easier to remove the mold from the hard concrete BUT to conserve the extremely expensive silicone I need to create a tightly fitting box that can be reused for the concrete pour. I predict that there will be bubbles galore in both the silicone and the concrete. Nobody I know has a sufficiently large vacuum or pressure chamber for removing bubbles. I ain't gonna buy that. Gonna need to figure out what's the "real" size of Bulbasaur. The size entry in the pokedex seem to be quite off to what I see in screen shots of the anime. I think I'll stick to the smaller anime size.

    about a month ago from web
  24. @zeldatra If I were in the US I'd be called a filthy communist. I'm all for universal healthcare. In Germany you can opt-out and be privately health-insured. I'm against that as rich people dodge paying into the general health care fund, making the poorer pay more. I'm also for free public transport (bus, tram, trains) as they are a key part for poorer people to participate in society and make it easier for them to get or maintain a job (also environmental benefits). I think most of the political landscape would burn me like a witch, except is a giant BBQ with a US flag paint job.

    about a month ago from web in context
  25. I'm 3d-printing myself a grid inlay for a new box I acquired for my miniature paints. With this grid inlay I can insert compatible tiles that won't shift when the box is moved. I want to print this https://www.printables.com/model/638320-parametric-gridfinity-paint-rack for all my Army Painter paints and generic open boxes for my brushes and other random stuff. I could print specific containers for a few things but it'd be overkill.

    about a month ago from web
  26. Buying a proper dial caliper was an excellent decision. I was gifted a digital one but it turned out to be a hassle as the batteries drained way too quickly. Having an analogue dial isn't in any way better or worse in practice. I have to look at two places for number before the comma and after but it's an acceptable trade-off for not having to rely on stupid batteries. I also use another without a dial (cheap 15€) but it's hard to guesstimate the digits after the comma.

    about a month ago from web
  27. Cool! KDE 6 is finished and the features look cool. https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/ I wait until Debian releases their updated packages and see if my old Thinkpad X201 still works.

    about a month ago from web
  28. Did another thing https://adiwan.tumblr.com/post/743579949596819456/ho-oh-alph-ruins-puzzle-replica-i-was-yet-again

    about a month ago from web
  29. Posting my creations online make me yearn for the Like and Reblog high.

    about a month ago from web
  30. I just stumbled upon the statistics menu of my 3d printers. One of them (the oldest) has accumulated 56 days of print time. It has probably more because I did a mainboard upgrade.

    about a month ago from web