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yngmar

@yngmar@social.tchncs.de

Spent nearly 8 years living the #CruisingLife on a sailboat, #sailing Med & Atlantic. Now looking to sprout new roots in the frozen north, doing some #Landlubbering.

Meanwhile living the #VillageLife, doing some #woodworking, #carMaintenance, keeping #chickens and #diy all the things.

Cynical computer monkey turned boat repair baboon. European.

Mano Lietuviškai kalba yra blogai.

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milan, to random German
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im schwimmbad haben mir 11,50€ einen größeren berg langer dünner fritten, ein total verbranntes blumenkohl schnitzel, zwei esslöffel kraut/radischen salat, eine scheibe zitrone und ein kümmerliches tütchen majo gekauft… lektion bei dieser einrichtung gelernt

yngmar,
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@milan Die Lektion: Da soll man schwimmen, nich fressen! :)

yngmar, to gardening
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Removed some water sprouts from the pear tree that I had to severely prune last year because it was threatening the house.

Left a select few where I would like new branches to be.

Also had to shorten a branch on an apple tree that was about to snap off under its own weight. Better to lose a few apples than the entire branch.

#Pear #Tree #Gardening #Pruning

yngmar, to random
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Today in surprises:

  1. Wtf, I didn't order a crappy flashlight.

  2. Reads sticker. Huh. Opens flashlight.

  3. Ohh, but I did order two CR2 batteries.

So the crappy flashlight is just packaging to hide the batteries, even though they're Lithium-metal (non-rechargable and relatively safe).

Perhaps to bypass air transport restrictions (is Lithium-metal even restricted?), or perhaps to avoid customs confusing them with more dangerous Lithium-Ion batteries.

Close-up of the flashlights sticker, which reads "Battery in the flashlight please open! Thank you!". Two blue CR2 3V 800mAh Lithium batteries that were inside the flashlights battery compartment are now next to it. They had a piece of oily cardboard for an insulator (not depicted).

yngmar, to saw
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Sure was dirty!

Out of the stuff I tried, petrol worked best to dissolve the baked on resin, followed by some brushing.

yngmar,
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@ubo @vaviurka She doesn't need to know where it's been.

milan, to random German
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kurz mal vor augen führen wie alles wichtige usb c hat mittlerweile ... geil. (und die airpods sind nicht schlimm weil die am ladewürfel wie die uhr magnetisch drahtlos laden)

yngmar,
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@milan Stimmt, die Kaffeemühle hat USB-C. Der Rest nicht, aber wie Du sagst, alles wichtige 👍

milan, to random German
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ich mach grad nen kleinen geschwungenen pfeil vector für ein plakat und denk mir so ... ey ne kann doch jetzt nich wahrsein das mir die afd die pfeile versaut, das ich jetzt überlegen muss ob da ähnlichkeiten erkannt werden könnten

yngmar,
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@milan Das Hakenkreuz war ja auch geklaut. Tradition bei denen.

milan, to random
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hm looks like bing based search sites are dead... neither qwant nor ddg work for me right now

yngmar,
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@milan Perhaps because bing.com itself is down

So much for all of these "oh we also have our own index but enhance it with bing data" claims :P

yngmar,
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@milan Copilot is down too, so nobody can write the code to fix bing. 😁

wedge, to random
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I’ve been looking for a local metal supplier, or as local as I can find, and I’ve not yet found anything half convenient. But I did find Alsace Tôlerie, and one of their affiliated services is a cool thing called John Steel, https://www.john-steel.com/fr/, where you can configure any metal or wood pieces you need online and they cut and send it to you. 👍

I need a few small pieces for my saw vice rebuild, the biggest piece being 80x40x5 mm, brute steel. That piece alone would cost me 43,5 € ! 😳

Nope.

yngmar,
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@wedge Scrap is gold. I'm keeping all the old car parts I've replaced. Those worn brake discs might make an excellent base for a standing lamp :)

yngmar, to car
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Ready to revisit TÜVLITA.

Got a new fire extinguisher too, because the old one was 10 years old.

Need to figure out who services extinguishers around here for next time.

#Car #Automotive #VAG #Repair #DIY

yngmar, to snails
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After the rain.

yngmar, to Dog
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with flower crown, earlier today.

Now he's cowering inside the house because the sky is falling down with rolling thunder.

yngmar, to random
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Is useless?

Opened a shop there, listed one of @vaviurka's handmade teddy bears, filled out all their creepy, intrusive bullshit (bank account, payment verification, identity verification), item online, all good.

Two days later, account suspended. No reason given, no email sent, nothing. Apparently I can appeal, but not sure for what.

What's an alternative that works, or do I have to make my own webshop because commercial internet is useless scum?

Just wanted to sell a cute bear :-/

yngmar, to Sauna
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Before giving up for today, I took apart the sauna and shifted a bunch of rocks to expose the crack in the hot water pipe. It's going to be a pain in the ass to weld there, the crack is in a tight corner and of course on the bottom.

Access is limited, there's a wall on two sides and I'll have to bend myself in there. Maybe I can remove the wire mesh for better access, but probably I'll have to take out all the rocks then. Argh.

#Welding #Sauna #DIY #Plumbing

Close-up of the thinner pipe from before. There's a big crack where the pipe is making a 90 degree turn, on the inside of the elbow. Bright rust and water are visible.

yngmar, to random
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Every 2nd photo my phone camera takes

yngmar,
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@ubo Maybe it can be used to train AI? Oh wait, those fuckers don't pay anyways.

yngmar, to diy
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After hours of calibrating the Mitre saw and almost losing my mind over it, it is done.

No wonder I struggled with this saw. The calibration was maxed out and I had to file the elongated holes in the fence longer to actually get it true. Plus, aligning the blade to the slot first was a real hassle. Eventually made a spacer with good result.

Then it checked out at 90° but not at 45° until I realized this red square had a problem too. You can probably spot it!

#DIY #Tools #Saw #Woodworking

yngmar,
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@ubo A what?

yngmar,
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@ubo Ah, I haven't advanced that far yet, but I do have two types of square to choose from, a square one and a slightly off one that sometimes fits better! 😁

yngmar,
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@ubo My problem today (well, one of them) was this little red aluminium thing. It's actually quite acurate. The 45° side too. But if you put the diagonal against a flat surface, the inner tips of the square lifted it off the surface!

This was maddening until I spotted it and filed the tips off so it would lay flat. Suddenly my calibration worked at 45° too. Argh :blobcattableflip:

yngmar, to Wyze
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Macro light done.

Made a mount for it that hangs back and aside, so it can double as handle, the camera can stand up straight on it and the access door for the USB connector of the camera isn't blocked.

It took ages to figure out a position which enabled all of the above, but then that's why you make your own kit.

Works pretty well and happy with the result. Satisfying amount of salvaged parts, too.

Mirror selfie of the macro light installed on the red camera. My right hand grasps the camera as normal, the left hand the black case, which is now mounted vertically and off to the side of the camera, acting as second handle. The ring LED is installed on the lens and lit up brightly, partially reflecting in the mirror and back onto the lens.
A random tiny dead insect that happened to be readily laying on the window sill today. It's less than 2mm long, laying on its back and clasping its legs in death. It looks like a tiny fly.

simon_brooke, to random
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This week's major project is splitting the tractor, to replace the failed oil seal which is leaking oil from the gearbox into the clutch housing. We've got to the point where the only thing still holding the front half of the tractor to the rear is the steering linkage, and I can't remember how we split that last time!

yngmar,
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@withaveeay @simon_brooke Sorry, no magic solutions. It clearly is supposed to come off that way.

So just the usual: leggo spray, banging on it, heavymetal music, swearing and threatening it with a blowtorch or welder.

If the puller already slipped a few times, it's perhaps time to sharpen its fangs. They do get knackered from that. Or the dodgy method: A Jubilee clip around the paws.

That's all I've got :)

milan, to random German
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soviel zum thema captcha... und die ips sind auch viel zu unterschiedlich um die mit ner einfachen fail2ban regel zu kegeln :/

yngmar,
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@milan Ich betreib auch so ein Onlineforum und muss sagen, das Captcha nervt höchstens die echten User, die Fake accounts bremst das nicht. Egal wie unlesbar man das einstellt.

yngmar, to random
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More fun #Chicken facts:

These chickens are giving me the side-eye. The closest ones look at me with their right eye, the ones further away with their left eye.

This is because the right eye is nearsighted and the left eye is far-sighted - so when they get closer, the head switches sides.

Chickens can also see UV light, so they perceive more of the spectrum than humans, but they have extremely poor nightvision and thus go to bed (roost) early.

#Chickens #FunFact #AnimalHusbandry

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