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Need some advice on creating a waterproof container that allows for a sliding stainless steel rod
  • Would depend on how deep underwater and the pressure and so forth, but maybe look at how steam engine piston rods are sealed - an o-ring or a wiper seal would probably do the job

  • Buckfast gets reviewed
  • Whenever my family went on holiday to Dartmoor when I was little, parents would always take us to church at Buckfast Abbey if we were there on a Sunday.

    Always thought it was just for the nice architecture and the gardens, but maybe they had another motive....

  • Just a few specs of rust
  • Something janky about the wheels, smells like AI...

  • We may never know
  • Road distances are in miles, speed in mph, heights in feet & inches, anything else is a hot mess generally trending towards metric the younger you are (or if you're in STEM)

    ETA: there was a dumb plan a couple years ago to "reintroduce" imperial measurements after Brexit, mainly aimed at food shops, ignoring the fact that the EU never prevented anyone using them, and then the govt quietly dropped it in December lawl

  • ohhh
  • Bhhaaa the French

  • When did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it?
  • First computer in about '99, which I'd "built" (I was 8, so I mostly just watched while my dad's friend built it and occasionally let me plug some wires in)

    First phone, Nokia 3310 in 2003, with a Simpsons case, I think I've got it in a box somewhere...

  • Sheffield supertram 🌈

    (just found this place and thought it needed some Supertram)

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    What are some things that you like to watch in the side or in the background when you do stuff ?
  • Was about to say the same thing - just annoying it's not all available online in the UK

  • Unconventional kitchen utensil you can't live without?
  • I've got two - a potato ricer, basically a big garlic press you put a boiled potato in, instant perfect mash.

    And one of those spiral apple peeler/corer/slicers, makes cooking anything with apple in so much faster (it's a fiddle to clean though unfortunately)

  • What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?
  • Is that 25/80% of men will have thinner hair, or 25/80% of a man's hair will thin?

  • What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?
  • A person and a human? So if a legal person like a company pisses it still takes the same time, neat

  • What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?
  • The word "asteroid" literally means "star-like", because when they were first observed, no telescope could see enough detail to know what they were, so they were basically just called "those things that look a bit like stars".

    Even when eventually we figured out what they were, they were generally considered to all be spherical like tiny planets (see: The Little Prince) until the 1970s when one of the Mars probes flew close enough to have a look at one.

  • Alcoholism ends here
  • Anybody else seeing Eric Idle?

  • What’s the worst car you’ve ever driven?
  • This is crazy - we also rented an MG Excite in NZ (but on the north island) with exactly the same issues, maybe it was the same car πŸ˜† was yours blue?

  • There are quite a few of these
  • The TV show "Scorpion" for several reasons

  • Midwesterners looking for something interesting to do on the weekend
  • You can probably do that in a lot of countries tbf

  • Alternatives to Blynk

    So since Blynk have started paywalling more and more controls, and have finally reduced it to just a button and a slider...

    Does anyone know any alternative apps which do a similar thing?

    (Use case, I just want some kind of RGB colour space slider to update some lights on an Arduino, without having to pay a subscription for the privilege)

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    cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml CelloMike @startrek.website
    Staying in an Airbnb with *very* judgemental neighbours
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