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I wound my own common mode choke to reduce noise in the power line for my mobile radio

Finished this lil guy 🖖 Probably the last job of the year

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I bought a Pentium II 450Mhz Dell tower for $40 at a flea market recently. It was in great condition except for missing a hard drive. Installed a 32gb ssd with a SATA to IDE converter kit and installed Windows 98. It works! This was my first time doing something like this.

Looking for a good graphics card now. I want a VooDoo 2 but those are like $300 on ebay.

When I get depressed or stressed, I tend to withdraw hard. I've ghosted friends for months at a time before. The guilt that comes with a relative ghosting makes it really hard for me to reach out again and usually I instead just let go of the relationship.

But I had a frank conversation with someone I recently withdrew from and it feels like there's still a friendship there for us both. So it's tentative and covered in bandaids, but we're on good terms again.

Couple weeks back, but this is still one of the things I'm most proud to have ever done in my life

My friend works security at a bar. He texts me a pic of a guy sitting at the bar wearing a shirt with some SS lightning bolts, and said the girl he was with was wearing them too.

They're not otherwise causing a problem, so the manager won't let my friend kick these guys out, but he really wanted to.

I'm at work, probably 5 miles away, and I can't leave to go start a ruckus. But I like this bar and I'll be damned if I let Nazis get a foothold there.

So I think through my options. I remember that the bar has a jukebox with an app you can queue songs up on. I open up that app and see that I, for some reason, have a ton of credits on there.

And even better, you don't actually even need to be at the bar to play songs there.

So I begin queuing up every anti-nazi, anti-fascist, anti-racist song I could find.

According to my friend, after a couple songs he got visibly frustrated and steps outside to have a cigarette as All You Fascists Bound to Lose comes on (sadly the jukebox did not have much Woody Guthrie, so I had to settle for the Billy Bragg and Wilco version)

He comes back inside and is created with Youth Against Fascism by Sonic Youth.

I keep it up. I find a version of Bella Ciao to play, Racist Friend by The Specials, This Is America, etc.

This bar has their jukebox set to a family friendly mode, since they also operate as a restaurant during the day. This limited my options somewhat, but I managed to put together a pretty solid dozen or so songs.

He starts looking around the bar, trying to figure out who is playing all this music obviously targeted at him. Of course I'm not even in the same town, so he finds nothing. My friend is keeping busy checking IDs and such at the door and occasionally texting me an update.

At some point in the middle of this someone queued up a single kid rock song, and I strongly suspect it was them.

It only took about an hour and they decided to close out their tab. He walks out to Michael Jackson's They Don't Care about Us.

But that's not the end of this. I'm on a warpath now. I fire up a throwaway Google account and leave a 1 star review of the bar complaining about the Nazi. This causes a bit of stir with the management, and my friend is successfully able to argue for more authority to throw Nazis out.

Nazi punks can fuck off.

My mother died from cancer three weeks ago. I held her face and stroked her hair as she passed away. I whispered to her the entire time, I told her that she'd done a great job, that she was loved and safe and that I hoped she had an easy journey. It's a transformative thing to watch someone you love take their last breath. Hardest thing I've ever done and I'm proud and honored that I was able to bear witness to her transition out of this life. Heartbroken and shattered, but also proud. Fuck cancer.

I replaced my 3-beers-a-day habit with a new bicycle-30-miles-a-day habit.
Still kind of an addiction, but one I can live and raise a son with.

I just wrapped my kids’ Christmas presents and put them under the tree. I really took my time this year too.

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We're in the middle of remodeling a house that was builtt in 1981. I'm pretty proud of the changes we've made so far. I just draw it out and the contractor does the work, but i think we've really improved the design, function, storage, and feel of the house. My biggest disappointment is that I should have hired a real plumber instead of a guy with a truck to replace the cast iron sewer lines.

Solved most 2025 Advent of Code problems using an alien programming language called Uiua.

This is what my day 2 solution looks like:

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I finished my first ever album! 6+ years in the making and I learned a ton. So excited to take what I learned to the next one. https://omnigon.network/music

mitigating small apartment problems one adhesive hook at a time

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congrats on the car fix!

I'm about halfway through the biggest furniture commission I've had so far. It's only a small bookshelf, but it's solid 1" thick red oak with wenge accents. I've only messed up a couple of minor things along the way 😅

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I finally am allowing myself to take some down time for my own sanity. It’s weird how slowly a work ethic can take over your mindset and the next thing you know, you’re putting in 24- 25 days in a row of work and are burnt out.. Rather than be frizzle-fried by Christmas, I decided to stop now and actually enjoy the holiday. This is a first, and it’s been a long time - too long - that I’ve allowed myself to relax.

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I 3d printed and painted this guy.

I managed to... um... not die... cuz a part of me really just wanna kms for some reason...

Might qualify more for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world but I recently replaced the oxygen sensor on my Subaru all on my own, after 3 years of putting up with a check engine light.

Took my dog for a walk in this freezing ass weather two days in a row. Hes' loving it. I'm freezing my balls off. I do feel so much better though.

Was getting really unhealthy. Lost 22 kgs so far, been going to the gym the last three months.

Starting to see some muscle definition from lifting, stuff is easier to pick up and move around. Wish i did it earlier, but better late than never.

Talked to a girl

I finished recording, mixing, and mastering a song I wrote.

It’s a big deal to me because my job takes most of my energy, so when I get home all I want to do is sit and decompress. Also I’ve been struggling with getting a good vocal chain and drum sound, and every time I sat down and didn’t get anywhere, I’d get discouraged and not touch it for weeks at a time.

At this stage I just have some minor mixing edits to make and I intend to release it. I’m hoping this gives me the motivation to record the dozens of other songs I have sitting inert in my head.

Ripping out 50sqm of paving to install grass for my kids. Had to readjust levels, rip out a badly placed brick planter box and the oversized footing for it, adjust retic feeds and install new lines and sprinklers. So far I've shifted around 6m3 of dirt, bricks and concrete, not including the pavers. Final step of clearing last few cubic metres of dirt, putting down loam and then laying grass is this weekend. Then I just need to get it to establish in Australian summer ..

About a month ago I got a new job with a bunch of very smart people. This week I was making some tests about how good some architecture designs where and some tools we could use to ease our work.

Today I sent a text detailing everything about the tools, which was best and how we could structure everything to use it to its fullest potential and how we could make some grear documentation with it.

2 (out of the 3) people I admire a lot where impressed by it and left comments and heart emojis. And my boss told his boss I'm really good and "A damn lucky find" :D

I'm successfully jacking up someone's sagging floor as one of my first solo jobs. I don't want to make being my own boss a lifestyle, but it's cool to have the confidence that I can ditch my future bosses at any time and just fly solo for a bit til I get a new one.

I have a 20 week streak going for exercise, both cycling and lifting weights, with 77 days total that I've exercised on. For the last 8 weeks, I've been active for at least 25 minutes every day of the week, even if it's just walking the dogs. My blood pressure is down an average of nine points and my pants are getting loose again.

Today was rough. It was a bit too cold and windy for good cycling, and the route I picked (because I thought it would be better protected from the wind) had a lot of hills. I only managed to ride 12 miles in the same amount of time it normally takes me to ride 15.

But goddamn it, I did it anyway.

I improved one of my boardgames with 48 unique 3d printed spaceship designs

Thanks to some fantastic help from @irmadlad@lemmy.world and the other awesome commenters on my help request, I got some of my self hosted services running externally, and was able to backup my phone photos while I was away :)

Got my own single user PieFed instance running on YunoHost before it was ready for production. Lots of testing, multiple failures, but I got it running in the end and it works great.

I joined Zwift today! I already did utility cycling, but it's mostly using an e-bike so doesn't provide all that much exercise. I think the gamification will help me stay motivated enough to actually do rides for fitness.

Just like to say thanks for making this post. Provided me with at least 15-20 mins of entertainment, plus these kinds of posts seem to bring everyone together in a wholesome way.

In terms of what I'm happy about recently, not much, but I have a little time off from work atm, and I treated myself to a new guitar pedal. Sounds great and I've been loving playing around with it the past couple days. Managed to start learning some songs I've been wanting to play for ages. It's satisfying nailing guitar tones or interesting riffs.

Somehow I managed to get inspired and created/published a few medium content books (aka puzzle and other oddities in niche areas) online. Actually sold a couple somehow, but if they don't do well that's okay. Trying to work on a real novel now. Not really a writer at heart, but have fallen in love with an idea and the deeper I get the more I want it to succeed. Ironically I took a break from the writing part and played around with cover ideas and character envisioning. Was better at that since I'm a graphics person, and finishing that side trip inspired me to jump back into the writing.

Replaced a headlight on my 2019 Kona.