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Comment on The Deku Trio - Gerudo Valley Reprise (2024) in ~music
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The Deku Trio - Gerudo Valley Reprise (2024)
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Comment on Request for recommendation: A kids cookbook with meals adults will enjoy in ~food
goose Link ParentFair question! Mostly content and delivery. As well as my oldest can read, I wouldn't expect her to do well if I just dropped one of our most used cookbooks, The Food Lab, in front of her.Fair question! Mostly content and delivery. As well as my oldest can read, I wouldn't expect her to do well if I just dropped one of our most used cookbooks, The Food Lab, in front of her.
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Request for recommendation: A kids cookbook with meals adults will enjoy
Quickly posting from mobile, hopefully my intent is clear and post is mostly typo free. I'm looking for a recommendation for a cookbook for kids (target age around 10) of meals they can prepare...
Quickly posting from mobile, hopefully my intent is clear and post is mostly typo free.
I'm looking for a recommendation for a cookbook for kids (target age around 10) of meals they can prepare (with the help/supervision of an adult), and the meals are things adults would also eat for dinner. The only one we already have isn't meant for meals.
Thanks in advance!
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo
goose LinkPrevious update. It's done! And decorated with Legos. They're not the best looking thing I've ever made, but for the low low cost of free, I'm happy (enough) with them. In update #2 I discussed if...It's done! And decorated with Legos.
They're not the best looking thing I've ever made, but for the low low cost of free, I'm happy (enough) with them. In update #2 I discussed if I wanted to use 3" wood screws or 3" lag screws, for how heavy dimensional lumber can be. I ended up going with 3" wood screws so I wouldn't have to counter sink a hole for the screw heads, and they hold up just fine.
Thanks for having me!
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Comment on I would also like some PC build advice (workstation build) in ~comp
goose LinkBeware, as I learned this the hard way: ECC RAM is not compatible with most consumer motherboards. They may have the same DDR spec and physically fit in the slot, but you'll fail to POST. If your...got a bunch of rackmount computers at auction and got pretty lucky
Beware, as I learned this the hard way: ECC RAM is not compatible with most consumer motherboards. They may have the same DDR spec and physically fit in the slot, but you'll fail to POST.
If your server RAM isn't ECC, or if the motherboard you're plugging it into can accept ECC, then you're good.
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Comment on rex: a media server for the Plex apps that owns no files in ~tech
goose Link ParentSo as I understand, it's functionally a proxy from Usenet to a screen, avoiding the use of disk space? Very interesting idea. Is the indexing done internally or does it rely on something like...So as I understand, it's functionally a proxy from Usenet to a screen, avoiding the use of disk space? Very interesting idea. Is the indexing done internally or does it rely on something like Prowlarr for indexing? What sort of connection are you testing it with? And are "downloads" (streams I guess?) chunked? I'm wondering for home users with poor connections how much the buffering might be noticeable.
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Comment on Help adding LED lighting to bookcases in ~life.home_improvement
goose Link ParentI have a suspicion, but I'll take a look at your video before I go down the rabbit hole. Here's my Discord profile, although I'm not sure if you have Nitro or not (I don't), and depending on the...I have a suspicion, but I'll take a look at your video before I go down the rabbit hole. Here's my Discord profile, although I'm not sure if you have Nitro or not (I don't), and depending on the file size of the video that may or may not work. Hopefully it's not an issue.
And just to confirm my understanding of your setup:
There are 2 bookshelves, each with 7 shelves. The shelves on an individual bookshelf are about 10 ft in length. That's a total of 14 "individual zones", each one being a 10 ft strip. You purchased four of those iWonbrey 12v 150w power supplies, and four of those Elite 6 WLED controllers, with the intention of grouping those 14 individual zones into what I'll refer to as 4 "macro zones" of 4/4/3/3 individual zones. You're going from your controller to some kind of distribution block, at which point you break out to the desired number of individual zones. It's 22g wire to everything, except 12g wire from the power supply to the controller (both leads), and 12g wire from the positive of the controller to the distribution block. And everything works when it's a combined zone of 3, but the flicker is present when it's a combined zone of 4. That sum it up?
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Comment on NPR investigation finds that more than 15,000 US military veterans were put into higher cost home loans due to the Donald Trump administration in ~society
goose LinkI'm sure it's no surprise to anyone, but that doesn't make it less disappointing. The US government already has a poor track record of taking care of its service members after discharge from...I'm sure it's no surprise to anyone, but that doesn't make it less disappointing. The US government already has a poor track record of taking care of its service members after discharge from military service. Despite this, an overwhelming number of service members voted for the Trump administration, and many continue to fervently voice support for him. And despite that, here we are, seeing them let down again.
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NPR investigation finds that more than 15,000 US military veterans were put into higher cost home loans due to the Donald Trump administration
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Final Updates in ~creative.timasomo
goose LinkUpdates from my last update! I sanded! First with the belt sander, for ease of speed, using 80 grit. Then the orbital sander, with 120 then 200 grit, to finish it up. It did a decent job taking...Updates from my last update!
I sanded! First with the belt sander, for ease of speed, using 80 grit. Then the orbital sander, with 120 then 200 grit, to finish it up.
It did a decent job taking the "edge" off, but in hindsight, using the belt sander for speed was a mistake. It left some directional scratches I couldn't quite get out with the orbital sander. But for the low low price of free-ninety-nine, I'm not that upset about it.
I decided to stain with a dark jacobean stain I already had lying around, in hopes it would help mask the scratches. Also pictured are some sterile towels from work, which were accidentally dropped on the ground, so rather than being used for the sterile procedure they were intended for they were donated to my workshop.
Wiping on the stain, they came out fairly decent. The scratches are still visible, but again, that's okay.
I sealed them with penetrating oil today, they're still drying right now. I'll put them on the wall, maybe tomorrow but more likely Friday, and the project will be a wrap! I'll post follow up photos once they're on the wall.
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Comment on How is your current TTRPG campaign going? in ~games.tabletop
goose LinkMy group is playing an entirely homebrew campaign our DM puts together on the fly. We're slow going, one session every two weeks, and coming up on one year in. The plot hook the DM provided us is...My group is playing an entirely homebrew campaign our DM puts together on the fly. We're slow going, one session every two weeks, and coming up on one year in. The plot hook the DM provided us is
The Mana Plague
Nestled in the foot lands of the of The Decree Peaks lies Termes, a prestigious center of learning and light that unknowingly sits atop a hairline fracture in reality. Within its ivory towers, scholars debate the laws of magic while, beneath their feet, the ancient membranes between the Warrens begin to fray and bleed. A "Magic Flood" is rising -- a volatile tide of arcane energy that turns commoners into conduits and sanity into ash. As the sun sets on the age of order, the gaze of competing gods turns toward this hub of learning and commerce, and the spaces between worlds unlock to release a long-forgotten chaos. While the elite cling to their titles and the counting houses hoard their gold, a darkness is being unspooled that no ledger can balance and no wall can contain. Heroes, bound by shared scars, secret histories, and moral grit, must rise to navigate this new, lawless landscape, choose which world is worth saving, and perhaps, redefine what it means to be a savior in a world gone mad.
The general ideas are that it isn't clear who's "the bad guys", or even "the good guys". There's multiple factions with different degrees of alignment. There's also multiple "quest routes", some relating to the main plot hook, some relating to PC back stories, and some we are unaware of what their purpose is thus far. The arcane flood has what can be compared to "wild magic effects". My non-magical fighter had an encounter with such a disruption, and received a Message cantrip as a result.
The DM has done a great job with spiral story building, being dynamic in generating where we're going to go next based off the previous session. Currently, we're in a cavern under the main city, where we've encountered some abnormally enchanted spiders who the local militia is trying to exterminate. The spiders have promised us aid and information in our current overall quest to seek out the source of something causing arcane disruptions throughout the city, if we can stop the extermination of their nest of eggs.
We ended our last session having prepped the battle space for a fight we're outnumbered two to one, and the militia just entered the battle space unaware that we're hiding for an ambush. I just used my cantrip to try and trick a guard into peeking into a bit of bones containing some kind of enemy creature we bypassed on the way in, hoping that doing so will thin their numbers some before formal combat begins. Next session is tomorrow!
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Comment on How is your current TTRPG campaign going? in ~games.tabletop
goose Link ParentScheduling is our biggest bane as well. With my current campaign our DM wanted to move to dynamic scheduling, "One session every two weeks, day is variable". There's plenty of "Find a day"...Scheduling is our biggest bane as well. With my current campaign our DM wanted to move to dynamic scheduling, "One session every two weeks, day is variable". There's plenty of "Find a day" scheduling tools out there, but I wanted one specific to DnD, with Discord webhooks, and such. So I had Claude help me whip up a tool to make this happen, which has been really effective. And being Claude coded doesn't bother anyone, since the most personally identifiable information anyone could exploit would be Discord user ID's. No real names, email addresses, or anything else.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
goose (edited )LinkI continue to play an unhealthy amount of Heroes of the Storm, and have been enjoying seeing my stats on Heroes Profile as I upload my replays and see just how good, or more often not good, I am....I continue to play an unhealthy amount of Heroes of the Storm, and have been enjoying seeing my stats on Heroes Profile as I upload my replays and see just how good, or more often not good, I am.
However, I've had a run of not enjoying it as much recently:
I tend to play solo QM, which is a grab bag on any given day, you win some you lose some. But recently, there's a 5-stack premade party I've been encountering, who are obnoxiously try-hard in their game play, and it's ruined any element of fun when I see I'm up against them in the loading screen. If I were a part of a 5-stack premade and (presumably) also on voice chat, perhaps I could play a reasonable game against them. But in a mixed-to-none party QM lobby, it's usually us getting shitrolled until the game ends with something like 32 deaths on our side, and 3 on theirs.
It tends to tilt me, but I've started just waiting in the post-game score screen until I see them as either offline, or back in game, and then I'll re-queue up. I guess on the bright side, at least they usually shitroll in 10-15 minutes, they're quick losses? The party has some cocky B steppers in it though, which is obnoxious.
For the HotS uninitiated:
You can't chat with the enemy team at all in HotS, it's been disabled in an effort to prevent toxicity. So when people want to be a dick to someone on the other team, they'll spam B step, as
Bis the hotkey to return to base.Example one, 42 second clip. The enemy Murky started B stepping me when he thought he escaped me at 34 seconds. He forgot I have an AoE melee attack, I hit the gate he was standing behind, and got him anyway.
Example two, 39 second clip. The enemy Nova spent the whole game B stepping us any time she was getting away, so our whole team started B stepping back as we were slapping the core to win/end the game at 16 seconds, because we are mature adults who know how to handle our emotions.
Edit: Random and recent bonus clip for your viewing pleasure. 41 seconds long. Me winning a (mostly) 4v1.
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Comment on How have you improved your living spaces? in ~life.home_improvement
goose Link ParentPaperless (then -ng, and now -ngx) was one of my first home lab projects, and it has hands down been one of my best QoL improvements. The amount of paper it's enabled me to recycle has been very...Paperless (then -ng, and now -ngx) was one of my first home lab projects, and it has hands down been one of my best QoL improvements. The amount of paper it's enabled me to recycle has been very gratifying. Highly recommend this project for anyone home labbing already.
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 3 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
goose Link ParentIt's more than I'm weary of the dust the sanders create. I'm fairly conscious of the health hazards of breathing in foreign particles from my first career. And he definitely won't keep my P95 on...It's more than I'm weary of the dust the sanders create. I'm fairly conscious of the health hazards of breathing in foreign particles from my first career. And he definitely won't keep my P95 on his face.
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 3 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
goose LinkSince my last update, I have done a hot NOTHING!! One of my primary means of child care for this week had a last minute drop in availability, and I'm hesitant to try and take my almost three year...Since my last update, I have done a hot NOTHING!!
One of my primary means of child care for this week had a last minute drop in availability, and I'm hesitant to try and take my almost three year old down to the garage while I run the belt sander and orbital sander. So, maybe I'll get some done tomorrow. Still expect to be done before Halloween!
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Comment on I survived the certificate expiration of October 19th 2026 and all I got was to make a silly shitpost in ~tildes
goose Link ParentYeah I get that. Just add my pubkey and I'll use dirtyfrag to take care of it for you.Yeah I get that. Just add my pubkey and I'll use dirtyfrag to take care of it for you.
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Comment on Help adding LED lighting to bookcases in ~life.home_improvement
goose (edited )Link ParentSeparate reply to ensure you see it: I plugged the data into a few wire calculators, and read up on piggybacking, and I'm glad I did. I would not recommend piggybacking. It would require larger...Separate reply to ensure you see it:
I plugged the data into a few wire calculators, and read up on piggybacking, and I'm glad I did.
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I would not recommend piggybacking. It would require larger gauge wire, and you. Can't piggyback on the strips themselves, which are under rated for the amperage the whole setup would draw. If you wanted to piggyback, you would need to use 12 gauge 6 conductor wire, and do wire taps to the strips.
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If you're going the junction box route, you should use 12 gauge wire for your positive feed from the controller to the junction box. You could use 22 gauge for the individual runs out to each shelf, but the way the math works out:
At max output, typical high-output strips draw around 6 watts per foot. Across 70 total feet (7 runs of 10 ft), that’s roughly 420 watts. Over 24VDC is about 17.5 amps. Because RGBCCW strips are common anode, all 17.5 amps flow through that single positive wire. On the return, that load is split across the five negative color channels (R, G, B, CW, WW), meaning each individual channel only sees around 2 to 4 amps at any given time.
That's why your main positive trunk wire needs to be heavy (12 gauge seems to be the safe minimum to avoid voltage drop and heat, according to the online calculators I used), while the individual shelf wires (including the positive wire) from the junction box can safely step down to 22 gauge wire since each 10 ft strip only pulls around 2.5 amps max.
So functionally: 12 gauge wires for both wires going from your power supply to your controller. 12 gauge red wire from your controller to the Wago nut in the junction box. 22 gauge wires for everything else. Hopefully that makes sense?
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Comment on Help adding LED lighting to bookcases in ~life.home_improvement
goose Link ParentA cursory search indicates that Zigbee doesn't have native support for Google Home; however, this one appears to. Any controller that is 24V DC, RGBCCT, and supports your cloud platform of choice...We use Google home assistant, can we hook up that controller to be able to say like "hey google, make bookshelf lights purple" etc? If not is there a similar alternative for which that would work? (if there's IFTTT-style integrations that works, i can write basic routines)
A cursory search indicates that Zigbee doesn't have native support for Google Home; however, this one appears to. Any controller that is 24V DC, RGBCCT, and supports your cloud platform of choice should work.
For matching the wires together, I'm assuming we should pick colors from that 6-wire bundle and ensure we're fully consistent, and then match colors within the lever nut. Is there a standard for this that we should follow? and once we've done that, how do we know which wire to put in which port of the controller? I also notice the controller has 8 output slots, but there are only 6 connectors on the strips. I do see there are some labels, but will it be extremely obvious which connects to which?
Matching colors is nice, but as long as you're using the same standards on either end, I don't know of any explicit standard for something like this. The controller you use will have instructions on how to attach RGBCCT LED's, but it should be pretty straightforward. In fact, the product description page for the linked product has a visual reference.
When you're talking about doing each shelf individually..we were thinking of doing each level individually. Does that seem fine to you? Or would you really recommend each shelf having its own strip?
However you want to do it! I'm just visualizing from afar, whatever you would be happy with is the way to go. Doing each level individually will definitely save you some runs, I just wasn't sure how much space you had between your shelves. You could save yourself even more runs by piggybacking, then you'd only have one wire going to your controller and you could skip the Wago nuts and project box. As mentioned, drawback is no failure redundancy. Also I'd be slightly hesitant to wonder how much running the entire project through one set of wires would cause those wires to heat up -- but it might be fine, I'd have to look more into recommended wire gauges for that voltage/current draw.
I listen to a lot of Lofi and piano covers of video game music, and there's lots of good stuff out there. But this piece in particular feels, to me, as if it's being played with true soul in the music. Like the artist(s) are really trying to not just channel the soundtrack of an iconic game, but the memories it left with them. Hopefully you enjoy as well.