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RockyC

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Me: Humanist, tinkerer, geek, student of life. Starting a new career journey as an Electrician after 25+ years in I.T.

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RockyC, to random
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The SECRET to a more purpose-driven, less stressful and overall happier life:

  1. Cancel your cable TV subscription.
  2. See Step 1.
That_One_Guy, to TeslaMotors
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Does anyone have any own or have any experience with EGO brand outdoor electric power tools? Specifically, the push mower they sell. We went to a local home & garden show and I looked at one for half an hour. For me, I only see upsides, no gas, oil, filter, or any carburetor to rebuild. I cut 1/2 an acre or less and need to replace my old gas mower.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/EGO-56-Volt-Brushless-Lithium-Ion-Self-Propelled-21-in-Cordless-Electric-Lawn-Mower-Battery-Included/5000200363

I'd like some input from an actual owner though if I can find one.

RockyC,
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@That_One_Guy We have owned an Ego 21” mower for a few years, now, and I have had basically ZERO issues with it.

My lot is a bit over a quarter acre, and if I don’t let the grass get too high, the mower will easily cut all of it, even when using the self-propel. The blade does a decent job, but if the grass is very tall or thick, it will lay down and require a second pass.

I’m on the original battery, and while the run time has decreased, it still does the job.

RockyC,
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@That_One_Guy I am also very impressed with its power - where my gas mower would bog down and stall on heavy grass, the Ego goes into turbo mode and can usually power through.

Mulching performance on tall thick grass is only so-so, with clumps of grass left behind, but that was true of my gas mower as well.

I’m really glad I got mine when I did - the price had gone up significantly last time I checked.

RockyC,
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@That_One_Guy I don’t remember the exact price, but I’m pretty sure ours was under $500 when we bought it before the pandemic.

pete, to random
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This is joyous. Well worth the whole 13 minute watch.

ht. @bodil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFloLGmPKl0

RockyC,
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@pete I remember when the Cybertruck first rolled onstage and I thought that Musk was trolling people and that he was going to roll out the ACTUAL truck in a moment…only that moment never came.

The Cybertruck is a white male pre-teen fantasy made manifest, possible only here in America where we worship money over everything else.

RockyC, to random
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Parents! Don’t spank your children! Just use this instead!

laurahelmuth, to random
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For anybody who has ever wondered what it would take to blow Earth to smithereens, here's the formula for that https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-energy-would-it-take-to-blow-the-earth-to-smithereens/

RockyC,
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@laurahelmuth So about the same size as Alderaan. The first Death Star’s superlaser should handle it just fine, but the Vogons will likely get here first to make way for that bypass…

RockyC, to til
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Today I learned that ketchup (catsup) is a shear-thickening non-Newtonian fluid, similar to oobleck.

That means beating the bottom of a glass ketchup bottle won’t make the ketchup come out any faster because the beating action actually INCREASES the ketchup’s viscosity.

RockyC, to random
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“…Apple’s Vision Pro effectively sticks a MacBook Air on the user’s face.”
IEEE Spectrum: VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits - https://spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-reality-head-set-8k

RockyC, to KDE
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Looks like Nobara Linux is number 2 to make the jump to KDE 6, right behind Arch.

I ran a software update today and there it was.

A warning to you folks who like to customize their desktops: 99.9% of the available KDE global themes currently do NOT work with KDE 6. As I write this, there are only 20 themes available, and I had issues downloading some of them.

RockyC,
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@garshol Most of the changes at first glance seem to be refinements instead of drastic changes. The Settings menu is reorganized, click to select has been made the default, panels float by default, panel settings have been dramatically simplified, unnecessary visual elements like lines and borders in Dolphin have been either toned down or eliminated altogether, and of course, updates to the first-party apps.

To me, it feels less formal and a bit friendlier.

cpay, to Birds
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Muscovy Duck

RockyC,
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@cpay We had lots of these in the canal behind our house in South Florida when I was growing up. I never knew what breed they were until just now.

ChrisPirillo, (edited ) to random
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we'll see how this develops...

RockyC,
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@ChrisPirillo Just gonna grab my Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog and order me a complete house kit…

RockyC, to KDE
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Approve of this Linux distro, I do!

The final machine to make the hop to Ultramarine Linux KDE. Meet “Appo,” the newest member of the team.

Ultramarine 39 Plasma was as easy as ever to install and configure - just a real treat to use.

@ultramarine

RockyC, to KDE
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Hardcase just made the distro hop from Manjaro GNOME to Ultramarine KDE, and it just keeps getting better. Wake from sleep is MUCH faster now, and everything feels more smooth and polished.

For people who don’t want to bother with manually adding repos and changing default settings to make Fedora more user-friendly, Ultramarine Linux is a great drop-in replacement. Definitely give it a try.

@ultramarine

RockyC,
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@ultramarine I like so much that it’s going on four of my computers!

RockyC, to homeassistant
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When your home automation system offers to update the firmware on your third-party NVR, you thank yourself for choosing Home Assistant!

RockyC, to unixporn
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Hevy has taken a distro hop from Manjaro GNOME to Nobara 39 KDE, while paying tribute to our favorite bounty hunter.

Congratulations to the team developing Nobara. This was probably the easiest time I’ve EVER had installing and configuring a distro. It found my T420’s hybrid graphics and configured it automatically. Everything worked right OOTB on a 12-year-old ThinkPad.

rvaughnmd, to ubuntu
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Is there any good use for old and ancient iPads?

I inherited a couple devices. The laptop was so thoroughly hacked I gave up - HP locked down the bios making it pretty hard to install and UNETbootin wasn't working because the hacked device was blocked from downloading an ISO given my limited skills. Plus I didn't want to spend hours working trying to rescue a 10 year old hacked laptop.

RockyC,
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@rvaughnmd Unfortunately, Apple locks down their hardware pretty thoroughly - especially their bread and butter iOS devices. I know of NO other OS that successfully runs on an iOS device, and Apple limits the software lifespan to about 5 years or so.

Anything older than a 5th-gen is best recycled, IMO. The software is just too old and the hardware is too slow, but newer devices are fine for casual use - you just don’t get any more updates, so some stuff won’t work.

RockyC,
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@rvaughnmd I refuse to buy any new Apple desktops or laptops until they stop making it impossible to upgrade them and extend their lifespans.

My next laptop will be from .
My next smartphone will likely be a .
My next tablet will probably still be an iPad Pro because they really are that good. Nothing comes even remotely close. I do want to pick up a to play around with, though.

RockyC, to manjaro
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Fives is back, only he's traded GNOME for Ultramarine Linux KDE!

Installing was the simplest and easiest time I've EVER had installing Fedora. All of the proprietary stuff, extra repos, and drivers are already installed, making setup a breeze.

When I first dove into using full-time, was my desktop of choice. Now I've come back to a MUCH improved KDE after trying out , , and , and I'm excited for 6!

RockyC,
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@wxsabi That’s just Neofetch with a fancy theme from Neofetch Themes: https://github.com/Chick2D/neofetch-themes

RockyC, to random
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I just read an article on that I will NOT link to espousing the virtues of “the pull-out method” when it comes to . The headline asks, “Withdrawal is a perfectly effective form of contraception. So why are some doctors and sex educators so against it?”

I don’t put a lot of stock in conspiracy theories, but when shit starts staring you in the face…

RockyC, to firefox
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And y’all be looking at me sideways when I say I use .

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

@mozilla

jducoeur, to Evernote
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Just installed , which I'm looking to use as my replacement. (Since I don't like the current look of Evernote as a company.) https://joplinapp.org

So far, it looks sweet - full-featured but pretty easy to use, nicely open, good docs, with an official cloud sync that doesn't cost too much and end-to-end encryption.

Just starting out with it, but this may also replace a lot of Google Docs for me…

RockyC,
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@jducoeur Joplin is absolutely invaluable to me. I use it for project ideas, school work, work notes, a personal journal, tech notes, paint colors…

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