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Is this some kind of joke? lmao

Is this some kind of joke? lmao

Unsolicited opinion: T-Fal (aka Tefal) makes weird convex frying pans that don't heat evenly, and lack thermal mass. Even if you ignore...

Unsolicited opinion: T-Fal (aka Tefal) makes weird convex frying pans that don't heat evenly, and lack thermal mass. Even if you ignore the permatoxic fluorocarbons (y'know... the ones that have made their way into the water table and every living thing on the planet), they're just kinda shit.

That is all.

Either condos are a distinct ecosystem from that of houses just down the street, or there are different indoor spiders here (Southern...

Either condos are a distinct ecosystem from that of houses just down the street, or there are different indoor spiders here (Southern Ontario) now that our winters are so mild, and springs so summery. I've seen two of these little black spiders in here over the past ~a week. They're not big, but they're bigger than your standard issue [whatever those little off-white to beige house spiders are? The ones that like chilling in the corners of ceilings], but more dense. They're built more like jumping spiders, with curled legs close to their bodies, as opposed to the ones I'm used to with their thin spindley legs and whatnot.

Anyway, they're kinda cute compared to the ones I'm used to, but also not, because I feel like they don't belong, and one appeared on my kitchen counter while I was looking for snacks, lol.

Climate/critter people: what's gwanin'?

Just picked up my passport at the local portal to the 90s dirt mall, so you know I couldn't resist stopping at the game shop on my way...

Just picked up my passport at the local portal to the 90s dirt mall, so you know I couldn't resist stopping at the game shop on my way out and leaving with something.

Picked up an obscure (I think?) NES game I've never seen a physical copy of before, but have enjoyed immensely in the emulator.

$9.99? Sold!

If ZenDesk were a person, I would wish them great harm.

If ZenDesk were a person, I would wish them great harm.

I don't even know what to say 😔

I don't even know what to say 😔

I just got gaslit for like two hours by a bloody guitar tuner. I was setting up my guitar, which *really* needed it too, because it hasn't...

I just got gaslit for like two hours by a bloody guitar tuner. I was setting up my guitar, which *really* needed it too, because it hasn't had a setup for well over 10 years, and the last setup it did get was done by a PPE-wearing golden retriever who had no idea what he was doing (that would be me, lol).

Anyway, I adjusted the truss rod and saddle height, and the action now feels better than it ever has. Nice! Time to fix the intonation! No matter, intonation is the easy part. Right?

*concerned Natalie Portman*
It's the easy part... right!?

NO NATALIE. APPARENTLY NOT. Not if your tuner is set to an entierly different tuning system

So yeah. Pretty sure I had it most of the way there after the first pass, but somewhere during the second pass to dial it in, I unknowingly clicked on the teeny little temperment toggle, and then proceeeded to spend at least an hour, being very confused at how I could possibly make it progressively worse with every minor adjustment, before realizing that the tuner was not to be trusted 🤦‍♂️

I came across this during the inordinate* amount of time/digressions it took to write the above. It made me me chuckle:...

I came across this during the inordinate* amount of time/digressions it took to write the above. It made me me chuckle: https://niagaralaw.ca/municipal-lawyers-stcatharines-noisebylaw/

*relative to average; very much "ordinate" for me, however, lol (I apologize to any math nerds offended by my use of "ordinate," but I hope the etymology nerds among you enjoy your investigations)

Just want to remind whoever happens upon this that no-one ever interviewed you for this position before you were born, nor has anyone ever...

Just want to remind whoever happens upon this that no-one ever interviewed you for this position before you were born, nor has anyone ever paid you to inhabit this Earthly plane, so I have no standards for you to meet, or expectations for how you choose to spend your time here. I do, however, hope you try your best to enjoy it, and are able to give yourself the grace afforded by the belief that your worldview is as valid as anyone else's. <3

Okay, that's enough squishy sincerity for one night. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming—namely, hootin' and hollerin' and carryin' on about whatever I'm currently annoyed and/or obsessed with.

Oh fuck this is why people like humbuckers, huh? Even this highly microphonic noname pickup from a super budget guitar with the worst...

Oh fuck this is why people like humbuckers, huh? Even this highly microphonic noname pickup from a super budget guitar with the worst quality nut I've ever seen... I get it now. I mean I did just put humbuckers on the Squier, but there's definitely a noticeably different vibe between single-coil size hot rails and a kachunk-a-chunk full size humbucker, isn't there?

Could also have a slight something to do with the fact that it's only got a bridge pickup, which is the pickup I use the least on my Strat. Idrk 🤷

Got me a little baby guitar. Nothing fancy, it's a Rogue Rocketeer. Not exactly known for stellar quality, but also it's whole job...

Got me a little baby guitar. Nothing fancy, it's a Rogue Rocketeer. Not exactly known for stellar quality, but also it's whole job is to let me learn songs in weird tunings without having to retune to EADGBe when I just want to go back and noodle where I know my way around lol, so I wasn't trying to spend a lot and start another guitar collection (consider this the first step down that slippery slope though; daddy [🤢, its a figure of speech but I regretted it immediately] wants an Ibanez).

It actually feels kinda like a 3/4 scale, like a Start Mini or something, but the body is just really tiny. Anyway, it's adorable. Not really sure what the pickup sounds like yet. I just pulled off the ancient strings it had on it and am about to string it up with some Pure Blues that I intended to put on the Squier Strat.

Yeah... that makes sense.

Yeah... that makes sense.

NEVERMIND IT UNFROZE!!! WOO!

NEVERMIND IT UNFROZE!!! WOO!

Love it when Plasma spontaneously hangs for no discernible reason half an hour into looping over every line of a file over SSH and having...

Love it when Plasma spontaneously hangs for no discernible reason half an hour into looping over every line of a file over SSH and having zero clue how far it got before all hell broke loose. I honestly don't know if it's safe to assume it's still running or not? But I also don't have root access to the server so I don't know if I can `ps aux` from another session to check. Might as well try I guess?

Anybody know of a meta search engine that supports Google's search operator syntax, or at least something like it? I use SearXNG 99% of...

Anybody know of a meta search engine that supports Google's search operator syntax, or at least something like it? I use SearXNG 99% of the time, but when a query calls for specificity, my only choice has been to, begrudgingly, go to Google so I can get busy with quotes and parantheses.

I just updated Waterfox the other day, and they mentioned their new meta search engine in the changelogs, so I took a look at it, and unlike DDG or SearX, it seems like it's less of an aggregator that pulls results from multiple sources, and more of a privacy cloak between you and your selected search engine of choice, so I was hoping that if I chose Google, it would mean I could just use that when I needed to instead of going to the source, but based on initial tests, that does not seem to be the case.

I mean it works as a Google meta search engine in general, but the returned results implied that search operators were stripped/sanitized to some extend. Well, either that, or my super-specific query failed to return results and it defaulted to a more generalized version of my query without telling me, but idrk; I didn't really do any tests to prove/disprove that theory.

#search #searxng #searchengine #searchengines

It's kinda weird coming back to guitar after like, a decade of barely even touching it, and thinking "oh wait, I'm pretty...

It's kinda weird coming back to guitar after like, a decade of barely even touching it, and thinking "oh wait, I'm pretty decent at this." Obviously I didn't get any better at guitar in that time, so apparently I just got better at not thinking I'm terrible at things lmao

I am trying to approach it more systematically than I did as a teenager this time around though, by which I mean I'd like to be able to improvise in more than just the minor blues scale, lol. It would also be nice to know wtf a key is, and where on the neck I need to be to play in one relative to a backing track or whatever. I mean I know enough that I can mess around with some 12 bar blues, but if it's not in the key of C or A-minor, I probably have to look it up first lol

Bitch ass pathetic fallacy… Nobody asked for your input! 😤

Bitch ass pathetic fallacy… Nobody asked for your input! 😤

Good god I cannot wait to go on vacation. I only wish I actually thought a week would be nearly enough.

Good god I cannot wait to go on vacation. I only wish I actually thought a week would be nearly enough.

Neato

Neato

I wish Spotify never got into podcasting and convinced everybody and their dog to listen to podcasts, because now half of everybody and half...

I wish Spotify never got into podcasting and convinced everybody and their dog to listen to podcasts, because now half of everybody and half of their dogs have podcasts, and my God I hate so many of them… are we really analyzing sketch comedy now? It's four and a half minutes, he's a foul mouthed cigar smoking womanizer, and he has a cabbage for a head—please don't ruin this.