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‘Looks like a nice pile of upper body workout!

Enough to make a trebuchet.

in my ongoing quest to figure out how to add garlic to every meal

my garlic bagel has figured out how to properly complement my coffee (yes on its own). they are both bitter. they both are delicious. they both go well with hatred.

i knew breakfast was going to be my largest hurdle before dessert (no a tub of toum does not count as dessert we are civilized. we need two tubs).

you’re preaching to the choir here. i like to make my own vinaigrettes too

I was about to say, I think your secret recipe is a vinaigrette. I don’t use garlic powder in mine, but I might try it.

I sometimes substitute melted butter for the olive oil, and stir a teaspoon of sugar into it.

There’s a new little spider on the wall in front of me in my office. Love seeing it wandering around.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/125d5ef1-308d-4bad-ba76-fbe555afaf2c.jpeg

I give them a name, let them live there. Usually steve, don’t ask me why.

#spiderbros

If only I had friends I would’ve bought two!

It works with the a Scottish accent too!

Talk about scorched earth.

I love the cool shit I find at work

The sleeper hit of colas

I’d like to ask the good people of this community that, if you do know the solution or figure it out, that you not share the answer here. Feel free to announce your success, but there’s something to be said for discovering the answer completely unaided, even if it takes years.

It’s embarrassingly obvious once you see it though.

Figured it out. Not sure what everyone means by a second obvious solution that doesn’t work on the last one. My first solution that works on more than one works on all of them.

Ah, dang sorry for ruining it for you.

Really annoyed me that the kiddos voted to not switch, and they got the car. Getting children to understand that ¹⁄₃ is smaller than ¹⁄₂ is hard enough. I’m going to program my own evil version that only wins on switch the first time next time I do this.

LOL I did this too when I first heard the solution.

I was like “no, that cant be right”. Then ran the test and was surprised by the result.

The issue is that this isn’t a fraction problem, it’s a statistics problem. You need sample size. You need to teach it with M&Ms or something small, and let the kids choose to switch or not switch and play 20 rounds each with that choice, then compare piles.

Bought a secondhand laptop to take some of the wear and tear off of my daily driver, and spent the better part of the afternoon and most of the evening trying to get the sound working. Sound card was detected, the headphones worked, and it acted like sound was playing but the speakers weren’t making a peep.

Messed around with every Pipewire setting I could find, tried re-mapping the internal “pins” with some obscure JACK utility, tried several kernel flags, and went down several more rabbit holes that looked promising all to no avail.

Finally took the thing apart, and the speakers were just disconnected from the motherboard 🤦‍♂️ Apparently the refurbishing company forgot to re-attach them.

All in all, not bad for a $150 “beater” laptop.

I usually do that, too, but didn’t bother this time since it’s a slightly different model but uses the same motherboard as my old work-issue laptop, and I already knew everything worked in Linux except the fingerprint sensor. Only fired up the W11 install it came with to make sure it wasn’t DOA and wiped it immediately after – I just forgot to check the speakers lol.

I was joking it was a beating off computer, a beater computer.

I don’t know how many years I had them but at least 10.

Wells Lamont Cowhide Leather gloves - bought at Ace for about $18. But had a coupon for $5 off 🙂

“can you hand me my yellow gloves?”

“What yellow gloves”

“Those over… Oh”

I took the toaster apart and cleaned the contacts for the lever that signal the hold down while toasting. Now we don’t have to stand there and hold it (that was 3 morning routines slightly out of order).

I had to buy a set of special bits because someone decided they needed to use security torx bolts in the corners hidden under the feet. This was of course in addition to the 14 regular old #2 Phillips screws. But it’s always nice to have a reason to get new tools.

In other news, the clean signal started flashing on on the espresso machine today, so I have another little project for tomorrow too.

You should be proud of yourself.

Good work!