[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

110/120 is the voltage. That's irrelevant to the amperage, which is somewhat standardized as 15a on normal outlets and 20a on kitchen or garage outlets.

Extension cords do not have fuses/circuit breakers. That's found in some power strips but it's neither required nor necessary with proper use.

And I can literally only reach my car with a welder if I use an extension cord...

The risk of daisy-chaining power strips is it become very easy to overload it, so yes, a circuit breaker would be nice as fire protection. 17 phone chargers would be fine but heating appliances will overload it fast. With no internal breaker, it's easy to cause a fire with really cheap strips but, if life was ideal, they'd all be made to handle 20a loads like the receptacle in the wall.

The risk of daisy-chaining extension cords is the extra resistance incurred at each connection. There's a varying amount form the imperfect contacts and a varying amount from pulling the cords apart over the time of device use. If you keep burning plugs with your yard care equipment, it's probably not normal. It's usually from partially unplugged cords trying to carry 10-20a across half the planned plug contact. You can readily buy 10-16 awg cords in 110v markets. It's up to you to determine the appropriate gauge. In an ideal world, they'd all be 10awg. But we don't have that, we have a world where you can actively choose to save money and increase risk.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'd be more concerned with sadistic tourist trophy hunters. Stuff like the multi-millionaires doing illegal African game hunts, but the local multi-hundred-thousandaires instead. But yeah, let's hope there's enough sensible hunters to help maintain any deregulation issues. And all this is IF it's even at risk.

But who fuckin knows. You'd think clean air would be a safe bet to maintain as a positive, but big oil is getting their way both with the government and the propaganda to convince society it's a masculine right to stroke the gas pump cock.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

Right? Wevre not going to overthrow the catholic institution anytime soon so take a fucking positive moment when we can get them. Absolutionism doesn't make progress.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I can see your angle on not hurting the licensing agency, but I could also see it as a tactic to make it all so inoperable that licenses effectively become unnecessary. A temporary order to not enforce licenses starts making it normal. It's a stretch.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well, they have a flag. Not gonna be easy

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You'd think he'd have enough head, but I guess fivehead wasn't enough. Seventeen was about right for him

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'm in a CRV group and see people excited to "still" have the table (it's like an extra cargo area floor mat, for those wondering where the poker table lives). Things like that amaze me when I learn these things go missing. Owners manuals? I guess I cna understand maximizing the limited glove box space and pretending you'll take it in to read it in detail. But a whole 3x3 table??

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The Thargoid war seemed pretty exciting. I did some ground-based ship battles and was decent at it, but I couldn't commit the time for a space battle, for a titan battle, or for a foot battle. I can't say I want to walk around my ship, but I'd take it if it meant a more realistic transition between ship and foot, though. I still pop in for quick pirate hunting at nav beacons. I'm always getting fomo about the latest credit farms but have given up on owning a carrier. I appreciate the bio exploration as an expansion on long distance exploration since the payout is comparable to casual combat, at least.

But yeah, ultimately, it's a fairly empty game. Lots of space, little variation. Obviously I enjoyed it enough to put 1000 hours into. No regrets there. But I was very into the lore and community stuff so it was as much roleplay as it was gameplay

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

From someone who made the screen trippier and trippier as a kid until he Icarus'd it, strong magnets taped to a drill bit and spun at high speed around the screen can degauss it. But this type of information basically has no application anymore

Speaking of Icarus, the Parker Solar probe has made its closest approach to the sun this morning. It cut contact (as planned) on Monday and it's probably reconnecting on Friday. That little guy is great. 3.8 million miles from the surface at 430,000mph.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

I'm guilty of this. So many times, I'll see something at full price and say I'll wait to buy it on sale. Then it goes on sale and I don't feel like spending the money at all. Granted, I'm not trying to sway the market and screaming my bid, this is just my internal monologue. I have a backlog of games and a busy adult life, so it's not like I'm game-poor. Just regular poor.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

About 1000 hours in Elite:Dangerous, my most-played Steam game. Kinda bums me out that it was all 2020-2022 gameplay for the first 900 hours but I haven't had time to get back into.

Valheim continues it's slow burn at about 400 hours since 2020.

No times on Xbox games, at least not from the OS. Fortnite has probably become my top game there. Whatever. It's not just for my entertainment. Assassin's Creed Odyssey I think had somewhere over 200 hours in the save file time. I'd love to know how many hours I put into Forza Motorsports 4 when custom paint schemes was a technological feat. Ace Combat 4/5/7 also have a ton of replays for me since the bonus medals are so tangible. Far Cry 2 doesn't have a ton of hours, but I was definitely infatuated with it circa 2010. That night time desert still calls to me

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

2nd Gen CRVs (02-06?) have some kind of camp mode feature. Remove the front seat headrest and it folds flat to the rear seats. I forget if the rear seat back goes back or forward for this move

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