Wow, this is highly informative, thanks for taking the time to put that much effort into your reply!

I expect the drums are probably fine as the squeaking only started very recently and only occurs at the very end of coming to a complete stop (it does not happen during otherwise normal brake usage).

The cost effectiveness that you have noted for a few different maintenance items really affirms my interest in this. My auto-dealer gives me free oil changes, but only under the condition that I stay with their service schedule. I know how easy and cheap it is to change out oil so while that might sound appealing to other people, it really is not for me because as you have shown, I could be saving much more money if I learned how to do the other kinds of maintenance myself.

I guess I can use whatever the dealer has on their service schedule as something to orient myself on what items I should go learn how to do, but I think something that would be handy in that regard would be to first learn how to diagnose what should be getting replaced or fixed.

As you noted, I can use calipers to check the brake drums to make a determination on replacement there, and the fact that I can hear the brakes beginning to squeak implies that the pads should be changed.

I wonder if there is a resource somewhere which has information on this specifically - just how to make these checks to make that determination on what should be done. Surely I know a few others. I know how to check if the oil is low, or the washer fluid etc, but would be really interested in other items like this, because for me I think it would be a really great jumping-off point.

Thanks!

Thank you, this is really informative!

Thanks for the recommendation!

Oh this is great! My vehicle is in there as well, thanks a lot!

True enough, thanks.

Thanks!

I can replace a flat fine, I understand how to use a jack and a torque wrench and have tangential knowledge regarding a little bit of mechanical engineering from a previous job.

The feeling I get is that auto work goes much much deeper though, and I am interested in resources that offer that knowledge.

Oh haha, Gee whiz neighbor, I wish I could say different but I’m quite certain I would eat the lips clean off your head if I had to.

That’s not to say I would never consider doing that with some friends though.

Perhaps consider a SOCKS5 reverse proxy. If done over SSH, the client systems networking would act as though they are on the server itself, traffic would be secure, and it would walk around most firewall rules that probably exist.

Using key based authentication would also make it such that it is more secure and easier for the researchers to log in - they wouldn’t even have to remember a password, they would just need some SSH client/configs.

Specifically, read up on “bastion hosts”.

You are absolutely right, this is the video. I think I did not recognize it when I had gone looking because he had updated the title at that time which misdirected me.

Thanks for finding it!

No. Some time ago on Lemmy I had to explain the same thing to someone who was trying to make the claim that “glowie” was a racist term because it was used next to the N word in it’s first use by Terry A. Davis even though the context showed that “glowie” was being used as a derogatory term for members of the CIA and not people of color.

I had to explain that if someone used the F slur next to the word “rainbow” that does not make “rainbow” derogatory, and if it did, we would have a big problem with many, many more words.

The mistake people make here seems to be related to a composition/division logical fallacy in which they think that just because one thing is associated with another thing in specific context, the context of the second thing must be applied to the entirety of the first thing without exception, when this is not the case at all.

The exact same idea applies to Pepe. Pepe was not made as a hate symbol, but under some contexts has been used as one. This does not mean that Pepe is always a symbol of hate without exception.

Got my HPE DL380 G9 networked and configured with hardware RAID 0 and Debian running under ProxMox for a test run (need more disks for RAID 5). Thing had an advanced iLo license intact from the previous owner.

Deployed a docker container of linkwarden to it to try out and it seems pretty nice.

As far as I understand it, lemmy is a hub for anything and everything anyone wants it to be.

You can block instances, communities, and accounts to resolve the problem as you see it if you wish, but in my opinion the real move is to learn to be able to read anything and everything in order to obtain the widest view possible without allowing it to affect you personally.

I feel that if people learned to respond honestly and rationally without logic fallacies and worrying about things as paltry as votes, then we would be better off ultimately.

That’s not to say that it is easy - but I firmly believe it would be beneficial, specifically because I think it would cut down on echo-chamber effects.

All this over a song?

Clearly not if you read any of what I have said.

If it really wasn’t worth anyone’s time, we wouldn’t be five paragraphs deep into personality diagnostics and fallacy name-drops.

More Tu Quoque. You should think out an argument that holds at least a drop of weight before you speak, otherwise it just reinforces that you don’t have an argument in the first place.

clearly, I struck a chord

Oh I don’t think so. Given you used AI to generate the music instead of playing it yourself, I’d be quite surprised if you knew how to play a chord in the first place.

Please enjoy the exact same reaction with whatever you should put on the internet next time, because if you don’t make changes based on criticism, you will only achieve the same result.

Bye.

Again, you should follow the link from my initial message that will explain Tu Quoque to you, because you are doing it again.

To avoid criticism, you are just criticizing the fact that I have made criticism instead of responding to the actual arguments that comprise it.

Unfortunately that doesn’t really work in this case since I have never critiqued your music, I have only critiqued your arguments against others who have critiqued your music.

This is made very clear by the fact that I have not once stated I did not personally like it, and yet you are trying to throw that out as a counter argument.

This as well as you referring to 13 sentences as a college thesis, as well you clearly not having followed my link on Tu Quoque very much tells me that you haven’t even read my comments (or if you have, haven’t tried to understand what I have said) in order to establish any reasonable counter argument to my criticism.

As a result, I’ll just take your last comment here as evidence you cannot support your position in favor of your music, which I really can’t blame you for because your position is paper-thin and not really possible to defend if anyone takes more interest than a passing glance.

Additionally, the idea that you posted this on the internet, on a forum with comments, and then tell commenters “you could’ve just scrolled on like the rest of the internet’s unpaid critics” makes it pretty evident you have unreasonable expectations.

Would you prefer everyone scrolled on instead of commenting at all? Would you prefer no one took more interest in what you made than a passing glance? If that’s the case, the best case scenario for you here that you are describing is if there were no comments and no votes on your posts, and if you prefer that over criticism, I can only expect you do not care enough about your own work to improve upon it based on criticism.

If that is what you want, then you should have made your post in Microsoft Word, where no one could see it. That way no one would be able to criticize it or you. Since you did not do this, it is clear it is not what you actually want.

It implies that you just want to be worshipped for anything you make regardless of how little or how much effort you put into it, or what anyone thinks about it, which shows you as being quite narcissistic, or in the least, fairly immature.

It sure is - that’s how society works pal. People are allowed to like or dislike whatever they do or do not.

Do you have any political opinions whatsoever? Then by god, you better be running for office.

Otherwise that’s like critiquing politicians without ever having passed a bill into law yourself.

See what I mean?

You can have opinions on politics without being a politician, you can have opinions on what food you like without being a chef, you can have opinions on what clothes you like without being a tailor, and you can have opinions on what music you think is good without being a musician.

It also doesn’t matter if you understand the process, it only matters what people think of the result. A painter doesn’t expect clients or anyone who views their art to understand why they chose oils over acrylics, they only care that the art can be enjoyed (even if its just themselves who enjoys it), but again, they don’t expect to sell the art unless other people enjoy it.

I highly suspect you would not make this claim about people understanding the process if people said they thought what you made was good.

If every comment had positive feedback for you, would your response to them be “Yea but what you are saying doesn’t count, because you don’t understand the process I used”?

I doubt that. It is only because it is negative feedback you have decided to utilize Tu Quoque (criticizing criticism) under the guise of a No True Scotsman (no real producer would say this because they understand the process of what I have done, so this criticism does not count) fallacy.

In reality, it doesn’t matter. Artists who go platinum dont have millions of listeners because all of those listeners know how sidechain compression works or something, they have them because those people think the music is good for whatever reason they decide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

For what reason would someone have to have produced music to have an opinion on it?

Surely most spotify listeners have not produced music, so if you were to hit top ten on it hypothetically, then it should be a meaningless achievement for you as a result, since non-producers opinions don’t matter to you apparently.

I hope you have never had an opinion on anything unless you have personally done it yourself, otherwise you’d be an enormous hypocrite for saying something so foolish.

If you want what you make to produce good opinions, then perhaps instead of arguing with every single comment, you should take the fact that you are getting ratioed in both of your posts as a sign that you can do better when it comes to what you produce.

If instead you take the stance that “everyone is wrong except me”, then no worries, you can enjoy doing what you do for you alone - but never expect that anyone else will care if that is your objective. If you want other people to care, then learn to take criticism and act on it in a better way.

Solution

It would be low. Black only has 3 possible moves and one is checkmate, so I don’t think it would be rated above 900 or so.

Your account says you joined 2 months ago so unless it’s an alt account, you haven’t really been here a very long time which probably plays into it. Furthermore are you actually looking for anything creative or unique? It looks like you have primarily just hopped around on technology communities. I would recommend browsing for communities that have more creativity and subjectivity to offer.