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The current community here on world will stay open. I have no plans of shutting it down unless the community decides it should.

Thank you all again for creating such a wondetful place,I look forward to seeing the community continue to grow.

I've created a new Lemmy instance at dullsters.net

When I created this community several months ago I had no aspirations of it becoming much of anything. In a short amount of time it has grown to over 1500 subscribers and is one of the top recommended non-political communities. I am always looking forward to the posts that are shared here, and the unique culture being developed.

I see the importance of the decentralized aspect of the Fediverse. We frequently see drama surrounding moderation and federation policies. None of that applies to the content in this community.

I have no qualms with admins running their site the way they want to and they are often placed in difficult positions. However, this is one of the true places of neutrality on the Fediverse and it should remain that way.

In the few months this community has existed there have been maybe a half dozen moderation actions taken. You have remained, for the most part, very dull, and I thank you for that.

The name of the community should be changed, I hadn't realized that dull men's club was the result of someone else's ideas and work. The new name should represent this community that you all have created and the place it exists, The Fediverse.

The new instance won't have any users except for the purpose of moderation, you will still use your account from a federated instance. I'm still ironing out a few wrinkles with the site, it should be done whenever I get around to it.

In the meantime suggestions for the new name should be made in a top level comment so that they can be voted on.

Thank you all once again for making this community what it is.

This is a tad embarrassing. You see, I thought that I was merely copying a popular Facebook group. I was unaware that Dull Men's Club was an official club. Please give the site a peruse as it is quite a delight!

While I'm fairly certain the lake I live next to will prevent freezing, to it's best ability for a while yet, you never can tell. But it's only a matter of another week or so before the firt killing frost around here.

Fortunately, my "farm" is pretty much done for the year anyway. Just some late bell peppers I need to cover and maybe the carrots. The tomatoes and chillies have been done for a week or so now. The deer ate the beets and the string beans have been pillaged now too.

It's now time to to go grouse hunting and put a few birds in the freezer for the long winter. I might even head south to add a couple of pheasants to the list. I know my dog would be extra happy to make a trip or two to see if them roosters can run. So we will see how my recently repaired knee holds up.

****Gratuitous photo of one of the Monarchs resting in my yard this past week

Already knew the basics of C++ but trying to learn more. Kinda sick of being dependent on LLMs for writing graphical applications for me. Claude is just as good as an youtube totorial, i'll tell you that.

What you see before your yes is my earliest attempt on creating animations - the player already moves on the scene - The sprite is cutoff bacause i haven't tuned the frames just yet

When opening it I realized I had actually bought a 12-pack of bratwursts. Score.

My sister (who lives several continents away) sent me a huge LEGO pirate ship . The set number 31367 31387 for those interested. I spent the evening building with the help of my 13 year old. I also took two or three drams.

I have no regrets.

Edit2: thanks for the birthday wishes. :-)

I went shopping for shoes with my daughter and we found this pair of pink tennis shoes. Nothing expensive, just something she can break in with no real concern as she is still growing fast.

(I'm getting old...)

So we brought this pair home and after giving it a closer look, I thought if I could fit something to reinforce the shoe laces holes it might make the shoes easier to tie and maybe prevent the material to tear so easily.

I had to dig around a bit to find those "eyes" or whatever they are called. I dislike gold color with all my heart but it was all I had; we talked a bit and my daughter liked the idea and the color.

The pliers to apply those were already in my scrap bucket, covered in rust spots. Fished it out along with the hole puncher and went to work.

Fifteen minutes later the work was done and the shoes just looked... better. And my daughter was happy.

After hemming and hawing for that last couple of months after my trusty old glass rain gage shattered in a very heavy thunderstorm, I finally got a new one ordered and installed to replace it. As befitting an old fart Grandpa that wears bifocals, it's got Ezy read numbers. (and for those in LA, yes it measures inches).

In a bit of deja vu, we are again expecting another round of severe weather with heavy rain and possible 70mph/110kmh winds or tornados late this afternoon and night time.

Its an old LG, but given the recent light on the lengths they'll go to spy on us, I figured this guy was better off without any ability to even connect wirelessly. Don't know if the Ethernet still works but I plan on keeping my TVs as dumb as possible, HDMI only.

If you're wondering how to open lg TVs you just have to remove all the screws then start pulling open at the bottom and open the clips going up. With the TV face down on a soft surface just keep pulling on the back case from the bottom, it'll take some effort to pop open. The top edge folds open more like a hidge than clips.

Before pic: I didn't do much planning or design. I kind of just went for it and measured as I made it.

I haven't had frozen banana since the chocolate covered ones when I was a kid. I remember them being very hard. Maybe these weren't in the freezer long enough to get that hard. Tasted like banana ice cream, but it was just banana.

Bonus sunset pic from this evening's walk:

I saw it on my way into town, somebody put out a casio WK-3000 piano out on the curb for free, with the stand power cord and even manual. The craziest part is its fully functional. Not a darn thing wrong with it 'cept some dust. Now I have to learn piano.

I put put dots on all my mice this morning. They all slide they are running on air bearings!

Shaking the mouse in KDE has never been easier!

Its a Smart Forfour (454). The front seats fold down and so you can fit 2 people in there. But i want to drive mostly alone, well see.

Am home sick this week, and it’s beginning to get, well, kinda dull. So when we had to get groceries today I thought I’d use the cargo bike and get some fresh air and sunlight.

I like cargo bikes, especially this one. Can easily transport a shopping cart full and then folds together so I can stand it next to the other bikes.

I was doing a job for a customer and they mentioned moving abroad. I half-jokingly asked if they were taking the trailer too or if I could buy it and they were more than happy to sell it. I deducted the price from the invoice. They lost a trailer and they have to pay me 400 euros. Good deal.

It's even the exact model I had been eyeing. Just needs a new plywood top as this one is pretty far gone.

Ignore the trash heap on the background. Now I have one less excuse not to get rid of it.

I got to hand cut the stringers. I measured everything out with a framing square. It was all very confusing and then it just clicked, so that’s nice.

I shouldn't go on Amazon in the middle of the night. But at least I have all my childhood favorites