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The difference that proper air/fuel mixture makes.
  • No. The old tubes were well used and worn. It was high time for new ones. Just the first set I ordered weren't adjustable, hence the messy yellow flame on the left. I ordered a proper set with adjustable air intakes and now I get a proper blue flame as seen on the right.

    Only problem was mounting the sparkers. Had to get creative.

  • The difference that proper air/fuel mixture makes.

    I changed out the burner tubes in the propane grill. The first set of burners I got did not have adjustable air inlets. Ordered some different ones and the difference is surprising.

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    Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?
  • This is what I did when I had to refurb a laptop. Swap the drives, reinstall the OS, snd hand it all to the user. All your files are on this usb drive.

    Thats when you find out who understands folder structure and who doesn't.

  • TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways.
  • Its like being on the phone with yourself. Everything you read is spoken to you. When you see an accident about to hsppen, you hear 'That guy is about to eat it.' When you see an attractive person you hear 'Niiiiccceee!'.

  • Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies
  • “Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for the future.”

    Bout 30 years too late for that, old man. I grew up with that hopelessness. Between the climate and the economy, the damage is done. Gonna need more than a tax break to change course.

    But hey, it's nice to see that he's not completely oblivious.

  • Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies
  • Have the offering plates been a little light lately? Tithes not keeping up with the profit margins?

    It's rich that one of the wealthiest organizations in the world is telling tax-payer funded governments to loosen the purse strings.

  • AHS confirms case of measles in Edmonton | CityNews Edmonton
    edmonton.citynews.ca AHS confirms case of measles in Edmonton | CityNews Edmonton

    Alberta Health Services (AHS) has confirmed a case of measles in Edmonton, and is advising the public that the individual was out in public while infectious.

    AHS confirms case of measles in Edmonton | CityNews Edmonton
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    They say not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad, but are they using the wrong kind of fruit?

    Are there other types of fruits that could go well with tomatoes in a salad?

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    I am 50 years old and I'm about to try Taco Bell for the first time. What should I try first?

    A Taco Bell finally opened up where I live, and we are going to go try it tonight. What should I try and what should I avoid?

    Of course I know I should try another restaurant and avoid Taco Bell, that's too obvious, but what is life without a little Adventure.

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    Lets start a new Lemmy holiday tradition. What's a song you've been digging lately?

    Not necessarily your favorite, but something you recently discovered or rediscovered.

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    Service account cannot load PHP Class

    Hi all

    I have an Alpine container on Proxmox that we use as a Zabbix Proxy. On it there is a PHP script (no web server). When I ssh in with my normal user account and run the PHP from cli, it works great. When I su to user root (for testing) it works fine. But when I su to user zabbix, I get: Class "PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet" not found

    This a problem because it will be Zabbix that triggers the script once a day. I get the same error whether zabbix triggers the script, or I trigger it from cli.

    I have other ash, php, and python scripts on the proxy that run just fine when Zabbix triggers them.

    The require statements at the top of the script don't throw an error: require $folder . "/phpSpreadsheet/vendor/autoload.php"; use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet; use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Xlsx;

    The error happens farther down when it creates a new spreadsheet in memory: $spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();

    I had to use Composer to install the phpSpreadsheet library. I was getting a bunch of file & folder permissions errors but I'm certain I've covered that as this is not a file permissions error. I even reran composer as the zabbix user to check for permissions.

    From googling I've found that the zabbix user is a "service account" as opposed to a user account. I used "su zabbix -s /bin/ash" get a cli going so I could test running the script directly. Running env shows that the Zabbix user's HOME directory is "/dev/null" Beyond that I'm not sure what differences there are between the accounts, or what would prevent a php class from loading.

    Any help is welcome. Thanks.

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    How do I get from Pearson to a hotel in Niagara?

    We're planning a trip for June. We haven't booked a hotel yet as we'd like one that has a direct shuttle to & from the airport. But our searching online just keeps showing tour buses.

    Any advice?

    Thanks all.

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    Alberta Pension Plan Townhall Megathread

    Call just started. Who's listening?

    edit: This call was for northern Alberta. Other regions will get their own calls.

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    Fixing a breadmaker

    I got a breadmaker as a present many years ago. Hasn't seen a lot of use but this week, it quit. We determined that the mixer paddle is no longer turning. I'm a reasonably handy guy with tools. I figure I'll take a stab at fixing it.

    First problem, has the the belt slipped or broken. Should be easy, pop a bunch of screws out and see. Oh, two of those screws are tamper proof and I don't have the right combination of screw head and thin wall driver to get in there. No prob, off to the hardware store. $20 for the tool? No biggie.

    Next up, replace the belt. Check Amazon, a new belt is $30 in Canadiano$. Ok.

    Third, the spindle in the bread pan is seized. Pry the c-clip off the bottom, remove the thinger and a doohickey, clean some gunk off. Still stiff. How do I get the whole spindle out to clean it. Do I bash it with a hammer? If I wreck it... Check Amazon, hmm a replacement pan is $40.

    Hmmm 20 + 30 + 40 = 90

    90$ ? I can get a new machine for that. As much as I hate wasting things, and like fixing things, I'm not sure spending another $70 on a 12 year old machine is worth it, especially since we don't use it a lot.

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    Public Libraries were the original Freemium model.

    Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card.

    Fortunately the card was usually cheap.

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    "Among other things, Suncor employees have also been told in recent days not to use social media on company devices or let people tailgate behind them into an elevator."

    Suncor is replacing employee computers after a cybersecurity incident last week shut down debit and credit processing at Petro-Canada gas stations across the country, among a series of other security measures at the Calgary-based company.

    "Normally you wouldn't expect hardware to be compromised so fully that you need to replace everything,"

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