The community voted on [email protected] suggestion of

![email protected]

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!

I got this entertainment center from my roommate when we went our separate ways and I dont remember why this shelf didnt have the brackets it came with or if this shelf even was made for this but regardless, it made using this shelf a hazard.

Any time I tried to put something on it, good chance it would fall off due to it only resting on the pegs without any way to secure it.

So first thing I did was use digital calipers to set the size of the peg and make a prototype shelf bracket. First iteration was ok, but not great. it spun in place making it hard to align it with the shelf, and the lip I added didn't stop it from sliding backwards. Unfortunately lost that peice so that one is not pictured.

Attempt 2 was to make the lip higher and it did work better, but the spinning problem was still there.

Attempt 3 was just finding the distance between the peg holes and printing a part that had 2 pegs connected together to prevent the bracket from moving. This took me 3 prints but I got there eventually. After i made sure that worked, I printed what I thought would be the final version and it was pretty damn close.

The only issue was I didn't account for the length of the glass, so the glass didnt fit on my brackets. I also realized that I made the material way thicker than needed to connect the two pegs together so I fixed that as well.

I then 3d printed a final set of two brackets for the front that extended the lip out so that it would rest nicely and I nailed that part first try which felt incredible.

Now this shelf doesnt move AT ALL. Its so much sturdier and nice to use. I bought a AV reciever which is what sparked this whole endeavor. I really tried to just set it up and let it be but trying to get this heavy receiver on this shelf without it falling made it a pain and I felt if I let it be, this glass would end up breaking which I didn't want.

For anyone curious, its a Denon 1910. I wanted this so that I could eventually get surround if I wanted but mostly for a center channel and maybe a sub for my TV setup. Me and my girlfriend are watching more movies and TV recently and the movies especially make me want better sound.

I may do another post about making a shelf for the other side. Right now, only one side has a shelf. Cable management rakes or something may also be a fun project just to make the wiring not such a nightmare.

I was talking to my daughter about her sick uncle and probabilities and the goddamn worst thing happened. I saw a dice on the table so I picked it up to demonstrate an improbable outcome.

I called "im going to roll a six" then rolled a 6. Well, thats unlikely but its a one in six chance. Highly unlikely i could do it again...

I rolled at least 6 6's in a row. By the 5th I was convinced it was a loaded dice. I confirmed it is not a loaded dice on roll 7 or 8.

Fucking what the hell universe

A fine bunch of nice fat carrots! Growing decent carrots has been a bane in my "farming" career. Always spindly with tiny roots. Not this time!

My name is Bluewing and I have done this! (finally)

"Dust is the ultimate equalizer"

Original artice is in German. Here is a google translation: https://taz-de.translate.goog/Internationales-Staubarchiv/!6200086/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Here is the original url: https://taz.de/Internationales-Staubarchiv/!6200086/

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

Edit to add: The local morning temperature as recorded by my tiny little "not really a weather station" was 33F/1C. So not quite a true frost. The temp currently stands at 50F/13C with an 80% chance of rain this afternoon and evening.

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 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!

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.

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.