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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Lathes are serious machines. They require serious caution!

    At my previous job, there was a very lucky apprentice; he was working on “the small lathe”; the sleeve on his overalls caught on the work piece. His arm was pulled into the machine the overall sleeve tore as it was being pulled in. He got very nasty friction burns all up the under side of his arm; if the sleeve didn’t tear, at minimum he would have lost the arm…the lathe didn’t stop spinning during the event. He panicked (understandably) and didn’t think to hit the e-stop.

    Table saws and lathes…don’t fuck around with them. Powerful tools require serious caution; but they are also very useful when used correctly.






  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nztoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux and your family
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    16 days ago

    I needed to update my parents old NUC from Win7, it was either new hardware to run Win10 or give Linux a try, I told them I had been running Linux since 09 full time and it isn’t any harder than running Windows.

    I said how about you give it a go for a month or so and see how you go.

    I installed Mint, it has been a few years now and no real issues beyond taking a while to get the printer working. I installed rust desk for remote assistance which I have only used 3 times since install.


  • When I was a teen walking home from a party at around 2am, I saw a car reverse out of a driveway and slam into a car. The dude drive off in a hurry.

    Checked on the driver of the second car, he was fine, but the car was messed up.

    We called the cops and waited, after an hour, called again only to discover that they “were already at the scene”.

    Turns out that the dude had another crash a few hundred metres down the road.







  • I loved that story; in my imagination paleontologist 1 (P1) sees the cartoon and wonders what the official name is. Gets to work and asks old and wise paleontologist 2 (P2) what the official name is.

    P2: I don’t know. I’ll have to ask my venerable colleague (P3) about it next time we are together.
    P1: ok cool, I’ll just use “Thagomizer” until we find out the official name.
    P2: seems reasonable.
    a few months pass…
    P2: hey P3 what is the official name of the Thagomizer?
    P3: um, I have no idea. I should know, I’m a steggy expert, how about we just keep it as Thagomizer!