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Duct tape of course
It keeps happening too. That wired article is 2018.
This was published at the end of October
You can harvest the transformers for a couple junk microwaves to make an arc welder.
If you aren't experienced then pretty much all power supplies, battery backups, and motors should be left to someone else.
I saw someone lose a finger (later reattached) to a washing machine with a jammed tub. It was plugged in and on when they reached underneath it and yanked the belt, their sleeve ducked their hand into the drive wheel.
That said, if it fits your personality it can be both fun and satisfying to learn how to fix stuff. I try to teach anyone who's interested and asks. Except LG washing machines, those things can fuck right off.
No it wasn't one of those, though I have gotten a surprise from them a few times.
This was a small wall mounted unit with a thermoblock heater. There was no ground of course.
I know I shouldn't be surprised, maybe I'm not, but I find it very strange that my opsec is better than people that actually need opsec.
I always think about when Facebook allowed targeting of the us military in Afghanistan.
In 2007 four US Army helicopters were destroyed in Iraq after geotagged photos were posted on the internet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17311702
Or Strava exposes secret bases
In a series of images, Ruser pointed out Strava user activities potentially related to US military forward operating bases in Afghanistan, Turkish military patrols in Syria, and a possible guard patrol in the Russian operating area of Syria.
https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/
I'm just a rando on the internet who wants to stay off corporate databases as much as possible. Why is this kind of shit obvious to me but not to people whose lives may depend on it?
Honestly I thought about it and I'm not sure what the intention was. It could have been mounted on the other side of the wall (outside the bathroom) just as easily.
I'll have to dig it up but I have a photo of the old electric meter from the same place. It was buzzing quite loudly, then it melted. It would have been marginal when installed and was connected to only lights and ceiling fans, then they did a reno and added aircon and water heaters.
The wood bullet into the tile grout was a nice touch I thought.
This is a 20 amp circuit breaker, not only is it unprotected, when it failed someone bypassed it instead of replacing it with something correct. If you took a shower in the morning and water splashed on these open contacts you wouldn't need coffee to get your heart started.
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This was in a guesthouse bathroom, there was a showerhead pointed right at it.
The first hit with Searx for 'lemmy' is https://join-lemmy.org , so far so good. Then you have two buttons 'Join a Server' 'See All Servers'.
I'm new, dafuq is a server? And why would I want to join one? I just want to Lemmy.
Why are there two options? Couldn't I have all the options together? Are some servers better than others? Why do I want a server, I still don't know what it is. Why don't these people talk to these people? Do I want to talk to them? Yes/no/why.
The onboarding is still very confusing. I am OK with Lemmy at its current size, many want to see substantial growth (I'm OK with that too). For that to happen I think the documentation needs to be easier to follow. Lay out how and why things work in an easily parsed way.
Things have settled quite a bit since the Reddit API fiasco but it is still a bit of a clusterfuck. I'm posting from my very stable main, but my first 3 accounts are lost to the ether. .fmhy, latte.is.not.coffee, and I can't remember the third.
Sorry to jump on your post, I just did so because I agree, and for visibility. I promise to eat off a Trencher for dinner as way of apology.
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Cheradenine
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Can Gnomes become a standard unit of measurement for drugs? That would be sweet.
What do ya need my man?
Gimme a hat