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Ethanol won’t just gum up hoses. I’ve had it EAT the hose on a wood chipper of mine to the point of sorta flaking apart on the inside. Still need to replace that hose and rebuild the carb.

Yeah that could be better.

2.) I’ve always wondered, but didn’t want to get flamed for asking: What if you have pet chickens? I don’t eat them, they live a great chicken life, but I end up with a ton of eggs that I give to people I know. Obviously those eggs are eaten. Does this count as some kind of horrible animal cruelty?

Eh, it depends on how you look at it. Chickens are just domesticated Red Junglefowl, and we’ve bred them over the last few thousand years to be bigger, (probably tastier), and lay a lot more eggs.

IMO, egg layers and other common breeds are probably perfectly happy and comfortable birds without any ‘real’ cruelty. The way we’ve bred them certainly has made them more susceptible to certain health problems and shortened their max lifespan some (compared to their wild ancestors), but my experience with my birds has been that as long as they’re healthy, they seem to be perfectly happy with life.

I think of it the same as how we’ve bred Border Collies into existence. They’re very different from their pre-domestication ancestors, but they’re also not so severely altered that they have inherent health issues or other severe issues.

Broilers (meat chickens), however are definitely on the crueler side. Those poor things are only meant to convert feed to meat, and the whole living part is probably considered undesirable. Most only need to live somewhere between a month and a year before slaughter, and I imagine if you let them go any longer they’ll drop dead from health issues.

Rock Auto for stuff you need next week. AutoZone for common stuff you need immediately. O’Reilly for uncommon stuff you need immediately. eBay for used OEM stuff.

Rock Auto is cheap but you’ll have to wait for shipping. AutoZone is not too expensive but won’t have rarer items. O’Reilly seems to warehouse almost anything but is more expensive. And if you have no other choice, NAPA.

Had a starter die on me. Autozone had one in stock in store nearby and I had the car fixed that day.

I had a rat chew some wiring all the way down to the connector on a Saturday evening. Rock Auto carried a replacement, but I couldn’t wait for a week. AutoZone didn’t carry it at all. But O’Reilly was able to get the part to a store by noon the next day, and I had the car working by evening.

In the last 4 months I’ve picked up welding and haven’t coded. Ez.

For some reason, there’s a weird 8TB 5640 RPM Blue that’s CMR. I have one.

Dunno about the rest for sure but I think they’re all SMR (except maybe 1TB).

In my experience, all that truly matters is that the drive is on the right recording technology (CMR, SMR, and maybe someday HAMR will be in the hands of us consumer plebs).

There are two reasons to care:

1. SMR has horrible write speeds. Data can read off the drive at the same speed as a CMR drive, but writes will be unbelievably slow.
2. More importantly, for some reason or another (I assume the write speed), SMR drives might get rejected by ZFS. There was some pretty loud talk about it several years ago, but I haven’t heard much since and do not know if this is still true (I assume it is).

If your use case involves only ever writing a small amount of data, point 1 doesn’t matter very much. If you’re using software which doesn’t care about CMR/SMR, point 2 doesn’t matter very much.

If either point 1 or 2 matter to you, then you should go with CMR drives. If neither matter, you may go with SMR drives if you so chose.

PS: Both WD Blues and Seagate Barracudas are (often) CMR. Seagate consult this page: https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/. WD lists SMR/CMR on their website when you look up the part number.

In my home NAS, I use ZFS and have ran all sorts of drives through it. It’s ran old consumer drives I’ve pulled out of scrap hardware, it’s ran NAS-grade drives, and it’s ran enterprise-grade drives… And since they’re all CMR, I can’t say there was much if any difference at all.

The only difference between the tiers that I find interesting/useful is the number of metrics you can pull off the drive. The fancier ones spit more metrics which could help you detect signs of failure earlier, but that requires knowing what to look for.

So at the end of the day, as long as the drive’s recording technology works with your software, you’re fine.

RE: External drives (seen in a comment)

External drives can be a great way to get disks for cheap, however they are loot boxes. What drive you get inside of them depends on the capacity, the manufacturer, and pure luck. You can generally look up the model number and see what people have said is inside, then hope you get whatever they got. (Generally, manufacturers don’t often change what they put in there, but they do change over time.)

Update: I have given the PC gamer demo another look after finding it on a very old hard drive. While it does not match my memory precisely, or even super closely, some key details do match, including one specific ore placement and the existence of two caves close to spawn. I suspect this must be the correct seed and I have been misremembering the details.

I am a Kazakh reporter in America.

I used to use them, but found that since I’m only hosting for myself, I just don’t benefit much (if at all) from their services. The only thing that was actually doing any amount of work was Tunnel (similar to you, I can’t forward ports).

Their service decrypts/snoops on your traffic by nature, and while my traffic is mostly just updating todo lists, taking notes, and backing up photos, I also sync my keepass database and in general just don’t want my data snooped on.

I’ve since rolled my own Tunnel equivalent with frp on a VPS and have completely dropped CF.

You’re good in that there are no immediate problems with that setup. I run a largely similar setup, have run it for years, and have never had issues.

You can always add more security layers if desired, but from my personal experience and with my risk tolerance, I haven’t personally found it necessary.

I mean, I guess you’re right that they’re not threatening.

I recently moved from X11 (BSPWM) to Wayland (Hyprland) and while I did get rid of a very annoying bug with bspwm, it did come with a few of its own quirks/annoyances:

• Hyprland does not yet have the ability to load ICC profiles
• Marking a monitor as variable refresh rate capable forces my GPU to idle at maximum clocks and draw 100W (this one really makes me wtf, but it is nvidia so idk who to blame here)
• Dragging and dropping can be very unreliable for some windows (IIRC, only with Chromium based applications so far)
• Some apps deadlock when attempting to read the clipboard (Again, only Chromium based applications so far)
  • EDIT: Maybe a recent update fixed it, however I also just switched wl-clip-persist from regular or primary mode (I can’t remember) to both. Either way, the issue appears to be gone now.

Maybe if I wasn’t a masochist and installed something normal, such as KDE, I wouldn’t have any of these issues. However, I apparently and unfortunately get great pleasure out of plopping my testicles onto an anvil and smashing them like a blacksmith forges raw iron.

Rust, however, is cool. I like Rust. I can’t say that I approve of replacing everything under the sun with a Rust rewrite for no good reason, but the language itself is fine.

It was PC. I’ve tried the PC gamer demo and the “North Carolina” seed for all probable game versions (1.3 to 1.6), and the base world generation just doesn’t match. There is a hill nearby which could be close, but the biomes are all wrong.

There is a chance, albeit not very high, that it was a cracked version of the game using a seed I simply forgot with time, but it would be quite difficult to brute force that since I would then need to figure out both the version and seed. Given I am fairly certain I generated the same world a few times, it’s possible I might be able to guess it.

I grew up playing a very specific Minecraft trial world. You spawn on a beach with a single tree. Immediately inland was a large plains biome, but about 100 blocks to the side was an oak forest. In there (still visible from spawn), was a single large hill with a small cave in it which poked though it and made for a good base.

I am rather confident it was a Minecraft trial edition world. I believe I reset that map several times over before discovering how to make the trial last forever. However the trial seed on the wiki does not match for any game version. (It does match a different world I remember playing at least.)

I’ve probably spent about 10 hours over the last couple years periodically going on the hunt for it, and at this point I’ll give out a small bounty for information.

So I don’t think that’s what the article was going for (see [email protected] 's reply), but also yes.

I consider myself straight and for the most part normal for a 20-something guy.

So far, I’ve only ever dated women, however I certainly consider some femboys to be very cute and I wouldn’t inherently be opposed to dating one. While I’m not attracted to penises, and I’m certainly not attracted to masculine men, some femboys are absolutely “feminine enough” that I do find them attractive.

Since that CPU has no iGPU, it’s most likely that it’ll result in no video out at all.

If push comes to shove, you can try using the bazzite image for older Nvidia GPUs as that uses a different driver (but still compatible with 30xx). If you’re lucky, it might do the init in a different way which doesn’t trigger any hardware quirks. Just know that come with a caveat that any future upgrade would (most likely) involve switching drivers.

Reading into the logs you provided (see the pastes), I see an ungodly number of kernel: NVRM: gpuHandleSanityCheckRegReadError_GM107: Possible bad register read: addr: 0x110100, regvalue: 0xbadf5620, error code: Unknown SYS_PRI_ERROR_CODE lines followed by some messages about the GPU failing to initialize.

If you have another Nvidia card available (16xx or above), swap it into the system and see if it suddenly works. Your card may be a dud.

Odds are that pstate is entirely unrelated.

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