So far, meh. Not good or bad for me and mine, but I’m watching my country devolve in double time with damned little I can do about it except prepare for the worst and hope for the best. It’s a bit nerve racking to be honest.

A full tank of fuel. I can always charge the phone off the engine, but fuel is expensive.

About the only thing I’ve watched this week was “The Martian”. Great movie. Immediately went out to find the book. The book’s even better.

Welcome to Lemmy!

I can’t say that I run into much hostility here. Disagreements, sure, but not much hostility.
Going off what remains of your account’s post history though, you kinda come off as a troll. Or a bot. Either would draw the ire of community and instance mods.

No shit Sherlock! Now you got any solutions to the problem? Preferably one that doesn’t involve invoking rules 9 or 556?

Pretty much all of them, for much the same reason. If I’m paying you directly, you shouldn’t be showing me ads. If the amount you’re charging is not enough to support your service without showing me ads in addition to my subscription fee than you should raise the damned price.

To be clear, Ad supported is fine. Subscription supported, fine. I’m not paying a subscription to watch ads.

Like others have said, your best bet is to just buy new a new scope mount and rings from any firearms shop. Easier and less headache. You will need to know your scope’s tube diameter.

However, if you are dead set on repair rather than replace (and are in the US), for oddball engineering projects like this I tend to use McMaster Carr. If they if they don’t have what you need I would be very surprised. They are an engineering supplier, and have prices to match. But they sell anything thats not electronics. Excellent customer service too.

For electronics builds or repairs, I recommend DigiKey.

Between the two you could build or repair just about anything.

I’d say no.

I don’t think they federate. Least ways, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post from a bluesky account, on lemmy or mastodon, and SDF hadn’t blocked them server side last I checked.

I think they’re a bit like truth social, not federating and off doing their own thing.

I’m subscribed to the community !newcommunities@lemmy.world .Additionally I’ll occasionally browse All, but most of the time it’s from people mentioning a new community in a discussion.

Might take a look at NextCloud though it may be overkill as it’s intended to be a full Google Cloud or Office365 replacement. On the other hand, it is modular so you only have to set up what you actually need.

It’s the content that makes a platform relevant. So follow the usual youtube call to action.

Subscribe, comment, share and post.

Don’t bother preaching, it’s a waste of breath and is just annoying to the average person.

If I remember the Halo books correctly (it’s been a while) the Spartan armor started out a golden color but dulled to green hue due to hits from Covenant energy weapons over time. Not particularly relevant to this discussion but I thought it was an interesting bit of lore.

I need to go back and reread them. Great series and well written for the most part.

Originally doom guy was just a face at the bottom of the HUD that grunted and got bloody as you took hits. The only images of him I remember was just a marine in green combat armor, not too dissimilar to modern real world combat armor, standing on a pile of dead demons and zombies(1993) and the 3rd person cinematics from Doom 3 (early 2000s ish?) where again he looked just like a normal human marine.

Halo come around in the mid 2000’s and Master Chief was never shown outside his armor or with his helmet off. Outside the TV show I’m not sure if that is still the case.

Not sure when the modern images of doom guy came about but I think it was around 2015. Probably not earlier.

I use poweoff generally. On my laptop, the cellular card prevents sleep, and my desktop often refuses to wake from sleep.

Honestly not much fussed about it as both systems boot so quickly that it’s not much of an issue.

As for SSD longevity, again not much fussed about it. In the last 20 years I’ve only had 1 SSD fail so far. A 40GB drive that bought in 2007ish finally failed last year.

There’s a couple of options.

I’ve used Grocy. It’s not intended for that particular use case but it would work. More for Grocery management.

Might want to check out https://awesome-selfhosted.net/

Vanilla? XFCE was looked a bit like Win 95/98 the last time I used it, say 5 to 10 years ago. I’ve been using KDE which reminds me more of XP or Vista in default configuration. Probably why I like KDE so much.

What your probably looking for though is a theme.

And no, open enrollment wouldn’t be relevant in this case, at least in the US. Changing employment status is generally considered a qualifying life event.

In this case it wouldn’t change anything. You would still need to ask the company. They might make you wait 30, 60 or 90 days or they might not.

Although, I didn’t ask where you are, and in this case it is relevant, as my answer is based on employment practices in the USA.

In my experience it has depended more on the employer than anything else. Some will make you wait, others will say “you’re good”.

It’s something you’ll need to ask the temp agency you’re currently employed by and the company you are assigned to by the temp agency.

Given that my experience with the US healthcare system has largely been terrible over the last 20 years, cant say I’m shocked. Seems like every doc I visit is either a legal drug dealer or a damned rolidex. “You need to see a specialist”. Please. Every damned specialist I need has a waiting list 6 months long.