the random thought thread
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I’ve been using Molten Speed Wax (paraffin wax, MoS, PTFE) on my various bike chains for a good while now and I am converted forever, and convinced enough that I would recommend it.
My chains are hugely cleaner after rides
and wearing slower than ever.
It’s a longer process to set up, including making your chain nearly surgically clean to start with then dipping it in melted wax, but this is actually kinda fun and the upsides are totally worth it to me.
Anyone else using this?
My chains are hugely cleaner after rides
and wearing slower than ever.
It’s a longer process to set up, including making your chain nearly surgically clean to start with then dipping it in melted wax, but this is actually kinda fun and the upsides are totally worth it to me.
Anyone else using this?
Somewhere out there Al Gore has a smirk on his face
Nah but I did make some hot wax with paraffin, Slickoleum and some moly powder, seemed to work fine but my chains were a bit tacky but they seemed to go a while before they needed re coating.
I had two chains on rotation, now I just buy cheap chains and lube them without cleaning because I am lazy.
Chowder > Soup
Either. Both. The conclusion doesn't change.
New England or Manhattan?
answer carefully, this is going in your permanent record.
Don't insult me like that. Manhattan chowder is an abomination.
Both should be served as an appetizer or side at best
#manportions
#manportions
The Clam beds off the Jersey Coast are pretty abundant. Also Jersey is known as the Garden State for a reason. Plenty of good tomatoes. I like Manhattan chowder.
I used to buy issues of Mountain Bike Action Magazine just to look at the pictures of Bikes. Actually read stories about folks riding Bikes in weird exotic places. Some of them had multiple paragraphs and shit....
If you've been deaf since birth, what language/form do the thoughts in your head take?
Edit: at the time of the random thought I was missing the fact that reading in your local language would likely help define partially, but do you then think it in your version if you've never heard it...
Edit: at the time of the random thought I was missing the fact that reading in your local language would likely help define partially, but do you then think it in your version if you've never heard it...
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One of many:
What Language Do Deaf People Think In? Research and More
Deaf people think in whatever communication style is most comfortable for them. For some, that means words, and for others it's more visual.
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And in what language do you dream?
This is kinda interesting for me as well as my Czech and English brain compartments are strictly delineated.
I tend to resort to English in stressful situations. It's a lot more economical than Spanish and it seems my analytical thinking works better that way. Having worked as a L2 UNIX SysAdmin for an American company for the last 12 years has surely something to do with it...
I also speak Italian and Portuguese, and when visiting places where those languages are spoken I find myself thinking in them. I still dream in a mix of Spanish and English though.
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If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"
Sweet, another company making repairable phones-
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I'm actually eyeing Pine64's PinePhone, which will run KDE as its desktop environment:Sweet, another company making repairable phones-
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PinePhone KDE Linux phone is getting ready for pre-orders | ZDNet
The dream of a purely Linux-powered smartphone lives on in the new PinePhone - KDE Community edition.
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My concern with a linux-based phone would be keeping it secure. Every *nix system I have messed with has been a whore to maintain.I'm
I'm actually eyeing Pine64's PinePhone, which will run KDE as its desktop environment:
PinePhone KDE Linux phone is getting ready for pre-orders | ZDNet
The dream of a purely Linux-powered smartphone lives on in the new PinePhone - KDE Community edition.
The only secure system is the one which is kept powered off, in a safe vault, disconnected from everything ;-). As long as you have something connected, it has an attack surface.
I don't know how familiar you are with Debian Linux based distributions (Ubuntu, Mint, etc) but they are pretty easy to maintain. The number of critical CVE vulnerabilities is also a lot lower in Linuxland than in the Windows world.
Also, MacOS is a heavily skinned BSD clone and Android is a Linux derivative (it runs on top of the Linux kernel), so maybe 90% of all the stuff out there is UNIX. Enterprise level ones tend to be harder to secure/maintain, such as AIX, Solaris, HP-UX... But those also tend to be isolated from the Internet and provide fewer services over intranet/DMZs.
* Full disclosure: I have been a UNIX SysAdmin for 25 years and counting.
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The last time I mucked around with those distributions, which was years ago, I found keeping them updated to be a major PITA.
I have never been expert in *nix, my path in modern operating systems has been Windows. Historically *nix seems to have wanted a self centered script kiddie to keep alive. I'm aware of the roles *nix plays in modern IT.
I won't touch anything Apple with a stick.
At the end of the day, you're correct - since I'm using Android now, I'm on *nix, it'd be nice to dump the upper layer.
Nowadays you can pretty much create a local repository/mirror for any Linux distribution and run unattended upgrades for any flavor during a scheduled maintenance window at the enterprise level. At the domestic level, both my house and my wife's shop have been Windows free for 10 years, and that includes everything from the laptops/desktop PCs/tablets to the WiFi routers, which run up to date OpenWRT images, with content filters to minimize advertising/tracking/malware.
The laptops/desktop PCs would pop up a notification of the available updates/upgrades almost daily, and they would install seamlessly, without a reboot.
That has changed a lot in recent years. RedHat and Ubuntu have both centralized server build/patching/update solutions which greatly simplify the maintenance tasks for mid to big sized environments.
Well, I'm an Android user myself, and I have to acknowledge fragmentation and long term support are the plagues of the Android world. Unless you are on the latest of flashiest of any brand's flagships, chances are you will be left with a gazillion severe vulnerabilities at the kernel/hardware/drivers levels in less than two years. Binary blobs from Qualcomm which will never be updated are another attack front almost nobody cares about.
I wouldn't touch Apple with a stick either, but I have to acnowledge they take much better care for their older devices.
This is so like the majority of "technical" discussions on the monkey:
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I Have A Bike Thought So Tedious I Am Compelled To Share It With You
Every day I wake up and think my Bike Thoughts. I think about handlebar wrap colors. I think about about reach and bike fit. I think about riding the Pyrenees and Shimano’s eight-speed XTR cassettes made partially out of titanium. I normally text these thoughts to my bike friends and let them...
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I have a Sony 10 Plus running Jolla's Sailfish OS and having to use a 75% functioning phone at work is freakin' torture.I'm
I'm actually eyeing Pine64's PinePhone, which will run KDE as its desktop environment:
PinePhone KDE Linux phone is getting ready for pre-orders | ZDNet
The dream of a purely Linux-powered smartphone lives on in the new PinePhone - KDE Community edition.
Loses the second camera, the camera app is dreadful, the browser shuts down randomly, GPS takes forever to get a ping.
I have decided that I have to go back to Android to have a decent functional phone, I hate it but I hate having a phone that doesn't work properly more.
My experience is that the more aggressively someone tells you how good/smart they are or how good of a job they are going to do, the worse/dummer they are and the shittier the results.
Also never trust anyone who tells you to trust them.
Also never trust anyone who tells you to trust them.
QFT.
Same people that get promoted to team leads, cause they are uber savvy at getting themselves onto teams with high performers or associating themselves with success, to the point that perception becomes reality.
On my last project I worked with a guy who never added any value but took all the credit and spent all his time brown nosing leadership. He got promoted to manager mid project. He was a really shitty manager, would avoid making decisions and when he did they were the wrong ones, but I tried to work with him for the sake of the project.
At one point when the project was going poorly he claimed I violated company policy and had directed our suppliers to do work that they were not under contract for. That made me apoplectic and thankfully I had a paper trail to show that what he was claiming was actually the work of him and his manager. After that I was insubordinate and openly mocked him in regards to his fecklessness in front of his employees. I could get away with that as I was supposed to be reassigned to a different project but had requested to stick around until the current one was complete, if I left that project would have collapsed.
I was pretty much set on getting a Sharp phone but then remembered that they were bought out by Foxxcon, don't really want to buy from a company that had it's employees sign a bit of paper saying that they wouldn't commit suicide.
I have been trying to find something assembled its home country and I just found an extremely reasonably priced phone, the Gigaset GS4. They are assembled in Germany, have dual sim+memory card, replaceable battery, 2yr warranty, fingerprint reader, notification light,three rear cameras with no bulge and aren't running needlessly high pixel counts to slow the older processor down.
I should be able to get one landed for about $400 Aussie dollars with tax, awaiting a reply on postage.
Hopefully they employed some of the former Siemens Mobile people to add some head scratching quirks to the programming.
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If it is like any Siemens product I have used it will require 12 unintuitive undocumented steps to perform what should be a simple task.
In spite of honouring the thread title, I shall note until very recently in my town (La Plata) some of the traffic lights were the original German Siemens ones from the WW2. They were part of the spoils of war Argentina got after declaring war on Zee Germanz once they were defeated.
Some of the Nazi generals such as Erich Priebke ended up hiding here shortly after, but that's a story for a different time.