MSI recently pushed a firmware update on my motherboard that somehow reset the device ID, so windows decided I wasn’t running genuine windows anymore.

I lived with the watermark for a few months, then kept running out of space on my old 256gb windows drive (all I could afford at the time) and I decided that instead of just migrating to larger drive and buying another copy of windows, I’d take the leap and just do it. It was unexpectedly painless.

My one concern was gaming, specifically helldivers, which has been pretty much the only thing I can play with my friends. Turns out, it just… runs… everything else… just… runs…

The last time I tried linux was like 10 years ago, and its definitely come a long way, at least with some of the more consumer level distros.

Oh and the album is called “Pandemoniumfromamerica”

Okay but for real, they have actually produced music together. There’s an album that Virgo Mortensen produced with this weird fucker called buckethead, who just wears a KFC bucket on his head, and a white mask, and just… is really good at guitar. There are a few appearances of frodo, merry, and Pippin in that album. No Sam tho… :( The music isnt really my speed, but I can definitely respect it.

The flag is just an object. The only ones bound to treat it with respect by any laws are those who work for the government. the flag code does not apply to civilians. The flag should be treated with the same respect that our government treats us with.

I live in a fairly blue state which tends to lean into highlighting the atrocities of the south during the Civil War (and all other eras to be frank) and I never learned about John brown until after high school

Good eyes! I wonder how theyre actuated?

At what point does it become prudent to actually add brakes to the trailer like a truck would have? 300kgs (plus trailer, rider, etc) is a lot of weight for two bike wheels to stop.

I wonder what that would look like from a bike builders perspective.

Where can this 10 hour midwest emo Playlist be found?

Most likely for performing maintainence on a vehicle without having to lift it with a jack. For simpler stuff like changing oil it can be easier to just use a couple of ramps instead of a jack and jackstands.

There’s an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I’ll see if I can go find a link.

I dont think it’s a banjo fitting. Fairly certain banjo fittings are not meant to move once tightened down. Another poster is right though, if you take it to a hose shop, they will probably be able to cut the old hose off and crimp a new one on. Just google “hose shop in [your town]” and there’s likely to at least be one in the next town over. I live in a mid sized city and there are like 3.

A pretty typical 5th gear transmission ratio is somewhere in the 0.75:1 (engine rpm: transmission output shaft rpm) range, meaning the driveshaft would be rotating at somewhere around (definitely plus or minus) engine rpm. My subaru cruises at 50 at somewhere around the 2k rpm range, so the driveshaft would be spinning at a similar rpm. The diff pinion to ring gear ratio in the differential slows things down quite a bit so your wheels aren’t spinning at engine rpm anymore.

I have a tree like this in my front yard. It fell down in the 60s during a windstorm when my dad was a kid, and then the stump grew a new shoot. The “new” tree is 60 years old and covers most of the front yard. Every may, it turns into a giant pink ball almost overnight.

Wow. What a throwback. He ranted about those movie titles on harmontown how many years ago? That had to have been close to a decade ago.

The Portland (Oregon) airport recently finished remodeling their main atrium area and they used some pretty incredible engineered wood beams. I know a guy who worked on the mill that built those beams. The mill assembles plywood veneer (thin sheets about an eighth of an inch or so, usually in 4x8 foot sheets) into like 16 inch thick, 12 foot wide, however long you want pieces, and then they can basically cut out anything that isn’t a beam from this massive brick of engineered wood.

Here’s a pic

The picture doesn’t show these massive plywood beams, but if you ever fly through pdx, go check out the main atrium just past security. It’s absolutely breathtaking, and it’s mostly wood.

That’s a pretty boilerplate criticism. While true to a great degree, it’s also true of a lot of western capitalist nations.

It’s pretty hard to find information about real communist societies because media companies have it in their best interest to bury any good that has possibly been done by a communist society, meanwhile demonizing them and making them the enemy. You really have to dig to find honest information about communist societies.

Moreover, a lot of otherwise successful communist regimes have been sabotaged and poisoned by capitalist interests. Either by literally arming fascists, or just by demonizing them with foreign policy and media coverage.

A bit late to the party and maybe you’ve already come across this in your search. But i figured just to add to the conversation, here’s an article about how to sew a dart (more in the non leather sense. Apparently there’s some a real skill to it, but I’m sure with some practice, you can nail it.

https://www.westada.org/

As close as I could get. I couldn’t find in a brief search of the site if there was a staff lookup. But I’m pretty sure you can look up an licensed teacher if you know what state they’re in, which Is how I found that she’s licensed and active in that district.

Hooooo boy. There’s a lot you can’t do. If you have a rifle (that uses a ‘rifle’ round as opposed to a pistol round), your barrel must be over a certain length. But if you have a “rifle” that is chambered in say 9mm (a pistol round), doesn’t matter. Barrel could be 4 inches long. But then it can’t have a stock. So you have a “wrist brace” (read:totally not a stock I promise) instead. There’s a bunch of wacky shit the atf and congress have come up with.

Liver spots are a skin condition that fairly old people sometimes get. They’re like big, dark freckles. Usually pretty harmless. The above poster is referring to Debian not accepting packages unless they’re quite old.