The Official Cool Stuff Thread
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@Polygeekery I cannot relate to people who prefer the company of birds to the company of squirrels.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I'm sure the squirrels will adapt and overcome. They're smart. Tree rats, but smart tree rats.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I'm sure the squirrels will adapt and overcome. They're smart. Tree rats, but smart tree rats.
So long as I get to occasionally watch one of them get spun and launched I am fine with that.
This reminds me of the time I went over to my dad's house and he was wiring an extension cord to his bird feeder so that when the squirrels went to rob it he could zap their asses. Man, those squirrels would launch off of there.
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@Polygeekery I see what you did here
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Do they have any cool stuff? Seems to be mainly AliExpress goods sold with a hefty markup.
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I sent the link to a friend and I could tell that he probably hadn't looked at it.
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@LaoC said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Do they have any cool stuff?
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@TimeBandit I found it through a Twitter ad. Apparently if you want to get my attention you just need to promise pictures of chicks in yoga pants or some way to torture squirrels.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@TimeBandit I found it through a Twitter ad. Apparently if you want to get my attention you just need to promise pictures of chicks in yoga pants or some way to torture squirrels.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
some way to torture squirrels.
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@Arantor is there a guillotine? I'm not watching that unless there's a guillotine.
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@Polygeekery no, no guillotine, but the squirrels have to take on a 9-part assault course for their nuts.
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@Arantor said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
the squirrels have to take on a 9-part assault course for their nuts.
I suspect would prefer an assault on their nuts, although that would only apply to the male squirrels.
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@Arantor said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Polygeekery no, no guillotine, but the squirrels have to take on a 9-part assault course for their nuts.
A burst of compressed air would help move this along. I wonder how many Gs a squirrel can survive.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
the squirrels have to take on a 9-part assault course for their nuts.
I suspect would prefer an assault on their nuts, although that would only apply to the male squirrels.
This is ${CURRENT_YEAR}, you shouldnât make gender related assumptions based on plumbing.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
the squirrels have to take on a 9-part assault course for their nuts.
I suspect would prefer an assault on their nuts, although that would only apply to the male squirrels.
It's 2023 bro, don't be a bigot.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Polygeekery no, no guillotine, but the squirrels have to take on a 9-part assault course for their nuts.
A burst of compressed air would help move this along. I wonder how many Gs a squirrel can survive.
There's only one way to find out.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
This reminds me of the time I went over to my dad's house and he was wiring an extension cord to his bird feeder so that when the squirrels went to rob it he could zap their asses.
Man. My dad was one of the coolest people I've ever known.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Arantor is there a guillotine? I'm not watching that unless there's a guillotine.
To each their own, but I really like this guy.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Do not order this piece of shit.
I thought that it may not be quite as advertised. I somewhat expected that I might get something that I might have to fix or improve in order to bring up to my standards. I had prepared myself for the possibility that it might be a Chinese scam. It is that last one. An absolute piece of shit that is nowhere near what was advertised. The only thing that they gave me was an idea.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
The only thing that they gave me was an idea.
Why waste money on a motor, rotable bars, closing feed windows, etc. So much complexity. Just run 240V through a weight activated switch, fry the furry cunts.
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@MrL said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Just run 240V through a weight activated switch, fry the furry cunts.
Even better: don't feed the birds
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Just run 240V through a weight activated switch, fry the furry cunts.
Even better:
don'tfeed thebirdssky creaturesFTFACGWLIBC
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
nowhere near what was advertised
Disappointing but not unexpected.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35N5vKKGDy8
Fucking dedication there...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlRxWJ_kGEA
TL;DW: Knowing where you are at sea is kind of important, especially if you like not running into big rocks. Determining your latitude is fairly straightforward, but for centuries, determining your longitude with any degree of accuracy was beyond the technology of the day. This is the story of John Harrison, a Yorkshire carpenter and self-taught clockmaker who single-handedly changed that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBVCv1NN0Ek
The demo scene is always fun.
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The biggest, heaviest steam locomotive still operating in the US, Union Pacific "Big Boy" #4014, built in 1941, was returning from an event in Nebraska to its home base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, when a freight train stalled in front of it. (It seems this is rather common for Union Pacific, as they run trains with the absolute minimum power required to move it, so if any locomotive develops a problem, it doesn't have enough power to move.) The freight train was 10000 feet (1.9 miles, 3 km) long and weighed 11000 tons (just under 10000 metric tonnes). The Big Boy coupled onto the rear of the train and gave it a helpful push. This 82 year old locomotive is still a champ at doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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@HardwareGeek In Germany, there are some private organizations of old railways. Sometimes, they are allowed to drive their museal steam vehicles on the rails, often in far away countryside, but sometimes even to major cities.
Well, so the old steam train arrives at the main station of major town perfectly in time. You get out of the train, and hear some announcement that the Intercity Express Train is arriving on the opposite platform with a delay of x hours y minutes...
Modern times.Different story: my father's father and grandfather worked for the railway. At home, they used to fire the coal oven with so much coal as if they were trying to get a new record on the Breslau-Berlin line. For all other family members, it was far too hot.
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@HardwareGeek You wanted us to watch the credits at the end?
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@TimeBandit I didn't notice that the URL included a start time. Fixed.
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The maker of the Commodordion made a new C64 instrument:
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@dcon really should have ordered the black decals, unless that's actually glow-in-the-dark?
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@Tsaukpaetra I didn't think about those being decals - I thought it was part of the molded plastic.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@dcon really should have ordered the black decals, unless that's actually glow-in-the-dark?
It's not.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cricut/comments/vya38v/made_light_switch_labels_in_white_vinyl/
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@loopback0 Do they make one with a ? There's one switch in my entryway that I still haven't figured out what it controls.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cricut/comments/vya38v/made_light_switch_labels_in_white_vinyl/
Cool, but I'd call them beige, not white.
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@dcon said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
How handy; if you donât want to go up a floor you can just turn the stairs off.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@loopback0 Do they make one with a ? There's one switch in my entryway that I still haven't figured out what it controls.
That one is for the NSA equipment installed in your home.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@loopback0 Do they make one with a ? There's one switch in my entryway that I still haven't figured out what it controls.
That one is for the NSA equipment installed in your home.
yelling I KNOW YOUâRE LISTENING
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BW-mbC7Xag
I wonder if I could get a modern Windows environment to function like this?
Since Microsoft wants people to use "Cloud PC" that reality might not be so difficult to pull off....
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@Tsaukpaetra You can; I think the "automatic seamless RDP" part was added in Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, special versions of Windows specifically for thin clients (and netboot support) have been around since the XP days, smart card login support since the 2000 days... It'll just take a lot of setup. And a server with a Terminal Services license, or the aforementioned "Cloud PC".