I’ve had tinnitus since I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. A high end sound system is cool to look at, but wasted on me. Those $30 computer speakers are just fine.

But morons with money to spend! The best kind of moron.

I’ve put barbed wire up, I’ve taken it down. It ain’t that hard. Just cut it into lengths you can easily coil by hand if you don’t have a winding machine.

Personally I think woven wire fencing is a bigger pain in the ass. All that grass and weeds growing through it and then rolling it back up.

I type like a blind chimp missing 3 fingers. And for some perverse reason, I seldom copy/pasta commands. I enjoy typing like monkey at a keyboard until I accidentally get it all right.

Evidently, I have unresolved monkey issues…

I don’t really care. GUI or Cli, it don’t matter. But sometimes GUIs are far better even in Linux.

A real gripe I have with the Cli is when you install nVida drivers in Fedora from the terminal. Whether you are newb or a grizzled veteran of the Unix wars, you are going to enter, (or copy and paste for newbies), all the proper commands and things will go well until you get to the very end. When you are all done entering all the commands it says to reboot and you are looking at that blank blinking cursor, you would think you were done and ready to go.

But if you are in a hurry and missed the ‘fine print’, you probably missed the part where it says to wait for a while like 5 minutes or more BEFORE you can reboot. And no one knows how long for sure because the computer is recompiling your new kernel.

So there you sit, staring at your screen and a blank, blinking cursor without the slightest hint when the compile is done and wondering if it’s safe to reboot. Me, I go make a cuppa and go look out over the lake for a while. But it catches the beginners at least once.

Bring on the GUI and a bloody progress bar!

Simple hand tools like screwdrivers, pliers, a few small wrenches and sockets are dirt cheap. You don’t need to buy them off the SnapOn or MAC truck. In US, a store like Harbor Freight will have all the cheap tools you need for this. The most expensive tool you would find handy at times is a multimeter. Again, you don’t need a $1000 Fluke either. But, you don’t need one often. Nor do you need to buy all those tools at once either. Particularly if you start building your toolbag BEFORE you need it. It’s very likely you would burn your house down, (unless you are totally incompetent and really try hard), because you replaced a drive belt or pump seal. The control boards are low voltage and you should be smart enough to unplug any electrical device before working on it. And unless you tell the insurance company exactly what you did, they don’t know.

If you had bothered to read, I did straight up say that a refrigerator is impossible to repair due to how they are built. But you are still going to wait a day or two before your get a new one delivered.

Yes it sucks to not have a washer or dryer for a week or two, but while inconvenient perhaps, laundromats do exist. And a couple of trips to one while maybe waiting for parts is still a whole lot less cash money than the cost of a new washer or dryer up front.

I’ve only had one stove that didn’t last 20 years, (they are amazingly reliable and long lasting). I replaced it after 5 years because of a poorly designed circuit board, I replaced 3 of them at $175 each. But if you do, you probably already own some kind counter top cooking device or two. Like an electric frying pan, air fryer, slow cooker, toaster oven. or microwave.

I’m not particularly sorry you got your feelings hurt because you or anyone else got called out, if the shoe fits, wear it. So stop your whinging and trying to find ways to justify your laziness. It IS all on you to make the decision to repair or buy. But, don’t ever say that a lot of what you own can’t be repaired. That’s just not true.

Most home appliances can be repaired even yet today. They all still work on the same principles that they did 60 years ago. Sure, the mechanical timers, switches and simple single phase motors have been replaced with solid state control boards, touch switches, and 3 phase motors, but those are also simpler to replace, if a bit harder to diagnose. The parts are a mere goggle away and for sale to even to the likes of me. About the only ‘impossible’ to repair at home appliance is your refrigerator. And that’s because of the sealed nature of the cooling system.

The biggest issue isn’t that they can’t be repaired, but rather you can’t be bothered to. You would rather spend $1000+ to get a new washing machine delivered to your house than spend $500 to fix the old one. You might consider fixing the old one if it would only cost $50 total and if the pump wasn’t $300+ labor and a $100 just to get a repairman to knock on your door. Plus the probable wait for a week or two to get the part. And you sure as hell ain’t going to get your fingers dirty or your knuckles skinned to do it yourself.

I’m still shaving with the same Gillette Slim Adjustable razor I learned to shave with as a youngster. It cost me about $10 in the early 1970s. The blades still only cost me about 15 cents per blade. I’ve had that razor for longer than I’ve been married to my wife of 40 years. I doubt few of you here would be able to make that kind of commitment to a simple razor, let alone a dishwasher.

you can’t outrun your fork

Amen to that!

I ain’t no coder, but right now I’m wearing ankle socks and very soft and comfortable sweat pants while running Fedora Atomic Budgie and drinking tea.

So, let me get this straight. It’s less about your dietary regime and more about getting up off your ass and getting out and burning off the calories you consume?

We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons

I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I’ve had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.

When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn’t matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.

Everyone just wants to get fucked up.

They probably eat more than they need to. But high meat prices should put some brakes on that.

I’m just less fussy about what I eat than most. And I long ago learned there are many tasty things of all kinds to eat. Worrying about carnivore vs vegan is a waste of my time. One can eat a different meal everyday for a lifetime and never eat the same thing twice. Whether there is meat on the menu is not as much of a deal as eating tasty food.

They might think that, but they are still eating meals without meat and not even thinking about it. Maybe it’s not enough vegan enough to make you happy, but it IS something more than nothing.

Not all of them do.

Unless someone is a on a serious carnivore diet, then we probably eat “vegan” more than we realize.

I had an English muffin with some homemade wild raspberry jam and a banana with my tea this morning. I have already planned an Indian lentil curry and rice for supper tonight. I don’t know what I’m having for dinner today, but I could have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich I suppose.

A whole day without meat. Not that I actually considered doing that because “vegan.” But because that’s what sounds good to eat today. Tomorrow, maybe some smoked oyster stuffed venison loin chops for supper perhaps or some eggs and bacon for breakfast.

With asbestos, one has to wonder if there was just no good substitute for some of it’s properties. While it’s very rare to see used these days, there are still some careful applications for it. Lead is the same way. Lead solder and even lead pipes was commonly used up until a relatively short time ago for water supplies.

Lehman’s is still in business and has an online store. They sell a brand new hand operated washing machine.

Then they didn’t much care I guess. Which was worse than not knowing.