Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 16

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Got a flyer from the extreme right wing political party Alternative für Deutschland (AFD) (Alternative for Germany). It's disgusting what they demand like harsh deportations. There are many points that even contradict. "We want to strengthen the EU" and then "We want to get back to national currencies and weaken the EU parliament to the point it's even less effective than a paperweight made out of one sheet of paper.". Getting rid of the elements that bind the Union together is quite the opposite. Also they want to get rid of taxes. Between the lines they believe in trickle down economics. What a bunch of racist clowns.

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Minor pet-peeve: Youtubers that have an additional camera setup for showing a person talking in a 3/4 angle shot and the person is not looking to the camera, when there is no other person in the scene. It feels super off to me. Imitation of the "professional" shot not only takes time in setup and editing but also takes me, the viewer, out of the viewing experience. The person is talking to the viewer and then suddenly not and somehow still.

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I LOVE POWER TOOLS.... I got myself a basic miter saw, however it is too powerful for its own sake, especially for my electrical box. I can only operate on the circuit where I have my washing machine. It has a 15A breaker, where the other circuits have only 10A. In theory I can use it there as well, but the startup power draw spikes too much for the breaker. I could buy a soft starter but it costs as much as the miter saw itself. At that point I could buy a better miter saw with a soft starter built in.

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Bought myself two "chocolate" tomato plants. I'm curious if they really taste chocolatey. Gonna have to wait a few months.

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It hurts when about 150€ were converted to C02 and NO. I blew one and a half fuel tanks just to visit my grandparents and to take my mother back home (she was got there by bus).

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I built myself a small little "phone holder" for my car. In the middle console, between the console and the shift stick, there is a little open compartment to store small things. I used the space to put my phone when driving, however it's impossible to throw a glance on the map when navigating when the phone is buried in a well. So I grabbed some off-cuts from my raised bed project, measured some critical dimensions in the car, and then cut the wood pieces with my mini bandsaw. I used cyanoacrylate (super glue) to put everything together. It holds remarkably well. Surprisingly well. I had to fix my work a few times and the glue was so strong I couldn't pull the parts apart. I had to use my saw at the seam. After all has been done I added some felt everywhere, so the phone doesn't slide in the curve and the whole doesn't rattle in the compartment.

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I'm on the verge of buying a Sony Xperia 10 V. I have more and more problems with my Blackberry's battery performance and Android 8 is not the newest anymore. Also whenever I wanted to look up something the browser performance got abysmal. I have modest requirements for my mobile device so I don't need a flagship phone. I want a 3.5mm audio jack, a decent browsing experience, a micro SD slot, and NO STUPID NOTCH on the display. I found one for 320€. It's in the ballpark of when I bought my Blackberry. I think about it a few more days before I'll bite the bullet.

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I miss the distinction between the different defense types in D&D 5e. In 4th edition there was other than AC also Reflex (DEX, INT), Will (WIS, CHA), and Fortitude (STR, CON). I have a slight distaste for the amount of spells and attacks that require saving throws in 5e. In 5e it's easy to resolve a simple attack as it has only one value to check against, however a spell caster might not wear strong armor but has to rely on luck. I'm aware that saving throws are kinda the inverse of attacks but I don't like the mechanic direction and implicit flavoring. I guess in 5e it's slightly easier for a DM to keep track of.

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I filled all my raised beds with gravel at the bottom for drainage and then composted earth from the store. 320 litres of stinky earth. I just finished putting in all the tomato plants that I could. A few pots were contaminated with my attempt to grow jalaños. I reused the earth and failed to remove the seeds. The jalapeños decided to take a lot longer and grew alongside the tomato. I wait a little bit until it's clear what's what.

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Been playing FTL lately again. I play it on easy and the game still kicks my butt. I've unlocked all A-type and B-type ships (except Lanius Cruiser) and am two ships short of all C-type ones. Still missing the last unlockable ship as I didn't find the unknown sector with the rock ship but I'm on my way to do it with all successful B-type ship runs.

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It sucks that The Bad Batch is over. Great finale.

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It took me 3 hours to dig out this 40-50 year old rhododendron bush stump https://i.imgur.com/AbYRYNI.jpeg The roots were super nasty. They were as thick as branches. I had to literally dig in with my hand saw and cut the roots under ground.

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Driving the car in the afternoon is a nightmare with all the traffic jams. I wanted to haul some bigger things that I cannot do by bike. Coincidentally the store also had a cheap bike trailer on offer, however upon closer inspection it was CRAP. I mean that it was manufactured garbage. The trailer attaches to a coupler on the saddle stem. I'm not a fan of that but the final nails in the coffin were the flimsiness of the material of the coupler alongside the lack of any wheel dampening and the horrific assembly of tubes that make up the trailer frame.

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It's ludicrous that Windows update download of 5GB is still at 0% for over an hour. I have 250MBit downstream!

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Today I removed a damn big rhododendron bush the size of 4 fridges. There is only a stump left, which is the biggest hurdle right now. I need to dig it out or get a tool that shreds it while being in the ground. I need the space for my tomatoes.

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Aw man... My company PC will be "upgraded" to Windows 11 soon. That sucks.

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Complete! https://i.imgur.com/8WSgOVB.jpeg It looks simple but it took longer than anticipated but fast enough before the days are over when there are frosty temperatures at night.

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I built 3 more raised beds for my tomatoes. There are 6 of them In total now. The paint is drying and the the 3d printers are about to finish the last feet. I think that all of these raised beds have enough space for 18 tomato plants. I'm not really happy about the build quality I achieved and I feel I could do a lot better. On the one hand the wood was awful and not really straight, the dimensions off by a few millimeters, a lot of branch holes, and the glued parts were barely holding together on their own, but also my own work was compromised by not properly marking the lines where to cut, and the very small band saw I own making the cuts harder than they need to be, and my manual sawing precision. If I had a proper table saw it'd be so much easier and could do proper box joints.

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Inhaled too much wood dust. I was sawing laminated pine wood boards for a raised bed for my tomatoes. I got a headache pretty fast and I could only finish 3 out of 4 boxes because of that. It doesn't matter that much that I haven't done them all because the feet for them weren't all 3D-printed. The last pieces are almost done. I cannot make huge noise tomorrow I'll apply some protective paint. I have also bought some gravel for drainage that I'll put as a bottom layer to the DIY planter made out of a bucket. I don't want to have the roots rot away in standing water.

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I'll gonna build at least 4 more of those boxes. I'll get the hang of it.