This and “Billy’s Balloon” are my favorites. I laugh every every time I see it, and they’ve been around for decades.

MEK can be a great solvent, but also rather toxic. Not something you want to be working with without gloves and ventilation. Guy on a paint crew I worked with called it “methyl ethyl killya”.

Suppose you could do the same with them, but I usually just replaced them every once in a while. The cogs were only plastic, and they would get pretty torn up from the abuse of mountain biking.

I used to pull my chain and cassette, and toss them in a sonic bath with degreaser. Let them buzz for a half hour, comes out amazingly clean.

That’s what I switched to about 2 months after getting my Ender 3 S1 Pro. Klipper running from a RPi, lets me push sliced files out over WiFi to the printer right from Orca. So much better than dealing with SD cards.

If you live somewhere with hard water, replace the copper with pex. The minerals eat away the pipes. We had a home in a hard water area once, sooo many pinhole leaks over time, and water heaters had really short life spans. If your water doesn’t require a softener, then keep the copper. If there’s a chance the pipes were exposed to freezing conditions at all in the past, look for bulges in the copper which will indicate weakened lines that should be replaced.

I’ve seen this briefly pop up while looking up linux stuff online recently. Wondered what it was, thank you Lemmy community for some enlightenment!

While it came out 22 years ago, State of the Union still feels like it could have been written for now.

Perfect answer, no need for me to scroll further.

Team Internet Paintball from 1994. My member number was TIP#860. Still have the patch on an old set of cammos, if I didn’t accidentally get rid of them during one of the many times I’ve moved over the years.

https://www.warpig.com/paintball/net_resources/tip_faq.html

The self-tapping screws have a hardened tip, so probably last a bit longer than standard screws. Good choice.

Flogging Molly! Took my girlfriend (now wife) to see them for the first time 23 years ago. She loved it, so I figured she was worth keeping. We’ve seen them eight times now over the years, always a great show. Thankfully Dave King made it through his head injury and coma, so the band may be back playing again this year.

And sociopathy.

https://www.propublica.org/article/south-carolina-measles-hospital-admissions

Those companies, like Pfizer, do very little of their R&D. They spend money buying up companies to control the IP after most of the work is done. And that work is often funded by government grants. So American citizens have their tax money go towards research (which is great, I’m all for that) but for-profit companies come in at the end to carry the ball over the line, and make billions doing it (which we pay for too). Broken system.

Or we have to go to Mexico. Moderna just signed an agreement with the government there to do vaccine production.

And funding cuts ended a lot of ongoing research projects. The US will be at least a decade behind in breakthroughs because we have morons in charge who value conspiracy theory over scientific method.

Good to know Mint might be an option. I’ve used it before, could check it out again. I ran it on a Frankenstein’s monster of really old computer parts I cobbled together as a PC for my work room. Mainly just to stream music and reference videos online while doing projects.