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I had a cutting board made from some nice wood, but which was starting to lose its bright appearance.

A bit of research later, and I get some food-safe mineral oil and wax to restore the surface. Long story short, I was so impressed by how my cutting board came back to life, now I'm looking for any excuse to touch up all the wood in our house. I don't even mind if I clean the cutting board and wash off some of the wax, because then I have an excuse to apply another layer. There's something fun about buffing and polishing a surface.

I'm thinking of getting into woodworking just so I can do this more. I don't even really want to make anything, just apply a bunch of tung oil to a random plank and then wax it to a shine.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55324266

I've been exploring antenna designs that can fit on a protest sign. Something which would not be obvious as an antenna if carried about, but which could facilitate communications in the field.

A 70cm antenna could easily fit on a protest sign, but since most of the repeaters near me are 2m, I wanted something in that band. After some research, I learned of the moxon antenna, which is perfect for my use-case.

The linked image isn't my design, but it's what I'm building. The longest dimension is just the right size for the cardboard signs sold at my local crafts store. Usually people build this with PVC tubes, wire, or aluminum poles. However, I built a prototype using copper foil tape. Bought from the gardening section at my hardware store, apparently it's used to keep slugs from climbing a plant pot. I'm hoping that by integrating the copper foil with the design of my sign, it will be relatively stealthy. You could probably hide the coax in a PVC pipe and mount the sign to that.

My shoddy PoC had an SWR of ~2.5 at 145MHz, and I hope to improve it for the final version. Not too shabby, considering how bad some rubber ducky antennae can be.

I'm curious if people know of other compact (maximum dimension) antenna designs that I could test out.

I've been exploring antenna designs that can fit on a protest sign. Something which would not be obvious as an antenna if carried about, but which could facilitate communications in the field.

A 70cm antenna could easily fit on a protest sign, but since most of the repeaters near me are 2m, I wanted something in that band. After some research, I learned of the moxon antenna, which is perfect for my use-case.

The linked image isn't my design, but it's what I'm building. The longest dimension is just the right size for the cardboard signs sold at my local crafts store. Usually people build this with PVC tubes, wire, or aluminum poles. However, I built a prototype using copper foil tape. Bought from the gardening section at my hardware store, apparently it's used to keep slugs from climbing a plant pot. I'm hoping that by integrating the copper foil with the design of my sign, it will be relatively stealthy. You could probably hide the coax in a PVC pipe and mount the sign to that.

My shoddy PoC had an SWR of ~2.5 at 145MHz, and I hope to improve it for the final version. Not too shabby, considering how bad some rubber ducky antennae can be.

I'm curious if people know of other compact (maximum dimension) antenna designs that I could test out.

I keep getting an event saying that if I pay a bunch of silver, someone will tell me where to find a shaman who can heal permanent injuries. I really want this since my best fighter got brain damage and can't spend 1 second outside without collapsing. I've paid several times, nothing seems to happen and I never get any notification telling me where to go to find this magic healer.

Is this some kind of "Glitterworld Prince" scam, and I'm being a rube? I'm playing a gravship run, so do I have to stay in one place until someone arrives?

Does anyone remember an old blog post where someone used various Python language hacks to override boolean primitives, such that the statement false == true evaluated as true? I'm 90% sure it was python, but maybe it was some other language.

I've been looking for that post recently, but haven't had any luck.

Thanks to antagonistic for finding it! I guess it was less of an "exploit", and more of a "please don't touch the loaded foot-gun"

If espresso is Italian for fast, why does it take me so long to pull a perfect shot? Checkmate coffee

-Turning point Hoffman

I'm talking end-to-end from "Hmm, maybe it's time for an espresso" to when your beverage is ready to drink. All setup/pull/milk steaming time included.

I have a basic machine with no boiler, so heat up time is negligible. I'd say it's about 5 minutes for me to unpack my equipment, prep a puck, and pull a shot. Add maybe 2 minutes for each additional shot that's pulled consecutively. I don't tend to make milk drinks, so there's no extra time spent.

This assumes that I've already dialed in the grind.

A few months ago, I posted to complain about the build system at my job. It wasn't my only complaint about that job, but it was the easiest to put into words. There were other factors (unfulfilling work, unpleasant work culture, a manager with whom every interaction felt "fake") that led to me quitting in early January.

My original goal was to take several months off and focus on longtime hobbies as well as training/certifying to get a DevOps job. However, day 1 of America's current Republican administration made clear that my family is no longer welcome here, and we'd need a strong financial footing to move. I put my plans on hold and got back into the job market.

I had changed jobs during COVID and the post-pandemic market cooldown, so I thought I knew what to expect (folks who looked for jobs in 2000 & 2008 are allowed to laugh). I was not ready for how quickly job postings reacted to economic troubles this time.

In the end, after dealing with "AI" interviewers, mid-interview ghosting, rejections, and more, I got the kind of job I wanted by knowing someone. Specifically, a former coworker vouched for me to a friend of theirs who was hiring.

I see a lot of stuff online that equates networking with nepotism. It seems like the distinction is lost on some people: It's way easier to get a job when the hiring manager trusts that you know your shit. There's a lot of AI slop out there now, and it seems like human recruiters are less involved and more skittish than ever. Your advantage is your human connection to another person.

Don't burn your bridges with other jobs/people unnecessarily. The former coworker who recommended me isn't even a friend of mine, just somebody who I worked well with. I only learned that their friend was hiring after we met for lunch to discuss their experience working in DevOps. It's not beneath you to reap the benefits of positive social interaction.

Also: Those who remember my last post may find it funny that my new team is responsible for the build system.

What's this device (circled in blue) that's attached to my furnace? It recently got replaced and I forgot what the HVAC technician called it, or what its function is.

I do rember that they said to put some vinegar in the U-bend (circled in red) once or twice a year. I forgot to ask why this is necessary, but I'd guess that it tends to collect moisture, and the vinegar will prevent mold?

I want a private place where I can talk to specific people.

I'd imagine I want something like:

• By default, nobody can register a new account on my server
• By default, nobody can view or join the rooms on my server
• If a friend has an account on a different matrix server, I can invite them to mine

I probably want some kind of federation with other instances (eg, where my friends might register their accounts), but not some free-for-all. Can someone recommend the right settings? The server is running synapse.

I hate every interaction with our tooling. I loathe our older-than-dirt source control system. I hate our 4+ hour build times from scratch. I can't stand our "never plan shit" development process. I despise waiting 3+ months to see my changes in prod. I'm baffled by our RTFM onboarding process when the "manual" is some document written at project launch that's never been updated in the 10 years since.

My current task is simple, took a short time to write my code. But I've had so much trouble with tooling that the process of submitting a code review has stretched over a week. At this point, I know what I can do next to fix it, and it would take maybe 20 mins to do. However, I can't bring myself to even do that.

As cruel as it feels to say, my manager is like some NPC. I am on two teams, one of which I meet with every day who doesn't understand the work I'm doing for team #2. Team #2 meanwhile consists mostly of people I've never met, not even on video calls.

The company is huge and I don't feel like I can make any impact. My plan at this point is to try and hold out for my 1 year shares to vest and then bounce. Take 6 months to brush up on dev-ops skills and then look for a new line of work.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31696866

I am a cisgender man with dual citizenship between the USA and the UK. My husband is a transgender man who does not have UK citizenship.

As part of our threat modeling, we are developing a shortlist of nations where we would migrate if things get rough. The UK, while being on a worrisome trend line with regards ro trans rights, made the list because it would be relatively simple for us to move and work there with my citizenship already sorted.

Could any UK trans people help us to understand the GRC? My husband has fully transitioned with respect to his US documentation. When we married, he was also a man. Since all his documents match, could he get by without a GRC, or would he be forced through the humiliation of immigrating as his birth-sex and then acquiring a GRC once we moved? Would a GRC be necessary to receive basic healthcare and/or hormones?