If the cheeks and the sole of your plane aren’t square, use the lateral adjust lever to tilt the blade so that it is square to the cheek.

I recommend Paul Fellows, who has a large catalog of brief astronomy lectures under his “Once Around” series.

It is my understanding that iOS does not support Syncthing.

Get or make a spill plane. It produces these tightly curled yet long shavings that form kind of a little stick. They’re intended to transfer fire from one place to another, like lighting candles, stoves etc. from an existing fire source, kind of like one of those long matches, but without the match head.

Make ice cream like Justin The Trees.

Turns out I built my workshop under a black walnut tree. I didn’t recognize the thing by sight, even as it rained nuts on me.

Well folks, it’s Christmas Eve, and we do have a winner in @inquanto@lemmy.world with a batch of etched hardwood cutting boards! Congratulations Inquanto, The sidebar image is yours.

I’m thinking we’ll do these quarterly, maybe one for every season, so what would you like the topic to be for the spring Project Contest?

that’s men’s room egg salad.

KFC was good. it’s now slop.

The British came up with that one.

There is a tool I miss, a CO2 laser.

Quite nice! Cutting boards are classic gifts. How’d you do that garlic print? Laser?

It’s still just…a DE razor blade on a stick. It looks like something you’d make in prison.

That lower one is a commercially made tool? That looks sketchy as hell.

many don’t deliver enough power for a Pi 4.

It might be my pickup truck.

It might be my toilet. Every moving part in the thing can be bought at every hardware store in town.

My washing machine is pretty good, it’s a Kenmore 80 series, it’ll probably outlast me.

Stick to Western saws. Got it.

I have the opposite experience with pull saws.

It might just be that I was trained on western style saws in shop class, I’ve used them my whole life, and I bought my first Ryoba from Lowe’s on impulse this summer. But I just can’t get the damn thing to behave.

I also can’t find any good videos on how to use them, particularly for ripping. More than once I’ve ruined a workpiece because the blade was tracking straight on one side and went sidewards on the far side.

Like, do you have any tips? Because if not I think I’m just gonna cut the handle and teeth off and reuse the plate as a card scraper.

Also: Jury’s out on backsaws, I haven’t tried a dozuki, but I’m not convinced ryobas aren’t a scam.

Windows 11’s TPM requirements.

I recently built a brand new computer for my uncle. He was running a 3rd gen Core i7 machine running Windows 7. I get a call that it won’t boot. I do manage to get it booted, the SMART data shows the hard drive is on its last eyebrows, and anyway he’s running an OS that’s three generations out of date.

I’m a big Linux user, I’ve got my aunt running Linux Mint. My uncle is such a dunce at computers I don’t think I can do that, because he lacks the vocabulary to tell me what he wants his computer to do. “I might use it for business.” In his line of work that could mean anything from going to quickbooks.com to needing some piece of Windows-only shitware. So “Get a .exe from somewhere” had to remain intact.

For everything he actually does with that computer, that old 3rd gen i7 was fine. Replace the hard disk with a SATA SSD, maybe replace the weird 2-4-2-4 some but not all of it is dual channel 12GB of RAM with two 8 GB sticks of DDR3 and let it roll…except no currently supported version of WIndows runs on this computer.

For a large number of people, computers became objectively fast enough in 2015. That’s about when SSDs became standard equipment, fixing any hardware reason for “damn this thing is slow” even out of midrange consumer hardware. Gamers, home labbers and AI startups need more power, the rest of the world doesn’t. And that was a problem for Microsoft.

Mario analogy. In Super Mario games, a green mushroom gives you an extra life, a chance to start over from a point in the past. A red mushroom makes Mario bigger, allowing him to survive some damage that would have killed him. Also in many games it makes him able to do things he can’t when small. RAID arrays often run faster than individual disks would.