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Here’s an article for those who want to know a bit more but don’t want to click on that idiotic thumbnail.

I recognise this image from a ways back. Do guys still do the unsolicited dick pic thing? It’s practically a meme how stupid it is and how it doesn’t work.

You can re-putty the drain fitting for a better seal but the flex will require some kind of support or it will work itself loose again given time, even with a flexible coupling. Moving parts tend to get looser over time.

If it’s a broad drain, you could probably try to remove it, use the gap to add something underneath the pan and then close it back up? Or if the crawlspace has better access, you could try to do the same from below? You need to get a peek under the pan to know how easy/hard to fix it might be. Empty space could be fillable. Extant but soft bedding would have to be removed before adding something solid.

Game industry: Steam is a monopoly!

Customers: Yeah, but it’s because the rest of you suck.

Steam: Heheh, this is fun. Should we just sit on our laurels here and coast on this good will? Or maybe we should burn that good will by selling ad space? Nah, let’s add another feature people will actually like.

The salt doesn’t soften the water directly. If I remember correctly, it’s a resin that collects the charged particles of minerals in the water and the system is flushed with the salt to ‘reactivate’ the resin. Now that I think about it, it might be technically possible to mount a core in the cistern and then manually salt it every so often, but I’m not sure.

Edit: Looking into it for a minute, it looks doable. There are premade mesh pouches containing cation resin beads that seem to be for aquarists. If there’s a bit of acceptable loss of cistern capacity, it would be pretty easy to put one in.

Yeah. They’re still just very easy to lose because they are in such frequent use/motion.

Depending on your circumstances, you have options. A water softener is the strongest defense against hard water, but that’d would be a big upfront cost and a modest ongoing maintenance cost for the salt, and technically, given enough time with soft water, the minerals will leach back off the bowl walls, but that’s a long wait for not much action.

There are ‘toilet cleaner dispensers’ that can put out a dose of something with each flush, which could help in less time than the wait above, but still waiting.

Because toilets are porcelain, most more intense forms of removal are problematic. Pumice and other abrasives risk creating scratching/pitting that deposits adhere to. Mecahical attacks like scalers can chip/crack/break the glaze/porcelain, which is so much worse. If you were really desperate to escape the deposits maybe you could replace the toilet itself with a metal one and use wire brushes/scalers, or some other form of waste disposal like a composting/vacuum/incinerating toilet. I’ve been half considering going to composting toiletry just as a way to boost soil fertility, albeit slowly, but not dealing with water deposits would be a benefit in many areas.

Regarding the pressure washing, if you try it again, you might try tenting the toilet bowl with heavy plastic taped to the rim and a hole for the wand to enter, just to minimize splash.

Looks like you are using Voyager. I think that’s ‘new account highlightenator’ in settings>general.

Don’t pretty much all pens just end up getting lost long, long before they get worn out? I’ve managed to hold onto a few for a few months but eventually they just get stolen by a borrower or the pen gnomes.

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Real talk? Missing the third group that groups the other two under the same heading for political expediency. The bottom group is essentially never sincerely grouped with the top.

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I have an odd question. Does Islam have a position on corporate personhood? If corporations are not people, can one steal from them at all? Piracy is already not quite the same as theft because it does not remove the original from the source’s possession, so can copying something ‘owned’ by something that isn’t a person count as theft?

This will sound like heresy to some, but get away from the bleeding edge. You probably don’t need the absolute latest version of every little thing. It can feel cool knowing you know how to fix a borked install but actually having to do so sucks. Dump the hype and get to something stable for your daily driver. If you want to experiment, do it on another drive/machine. Building a custom rocketship is cool, but you should probably build it without breaking the truck you use to go get parts.

Are you trying to say earth life is a cheap knock off of alien life?

So… if consoles aren’t selling and PC part prices are increasing, is there going to be much market for games in a year or two?

It’s all interdependent. You need schools to educate the kids to become devs and medical professionals, medical care to keep the devs and students alive and healthy enough to keep up their work, IT people to keep the medical systems running and the schools connected.

A unique identifier potato.

"THIS IS MY POTATO!

THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE!"

I’m digging ‘login with caution.’ I like to think it’s mostly the same generic login page but with ‘Warning: you are logging into site X. This will involve the use of your sensitive login credentials. Take precautions against their loss or theft.’ and yellow/black hazard tape borders on every div.