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Cake day: June 1st, 2023
  • @octobob@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Home owners of Lemmy do you have any advice on dealing with the stress of owning a home?
    1•7 days ago

    My home is from the 1890s and has a sandstone foundation with no footer. It leaks ground water, but only after a torrential downpour or when a lot of snow melts. Sandstone was not designed to ever be completely watertight. Leaks are incredibly common due to it just being a stack of rocks in the ground.

    Luckily it all leaks right into an old grey water line in the floor. It tends to slowly fill up, then makes its way back into the earth either through that or my brick floor.

    It can be a little gross and stressful at times but I’m waiting til spring to install a sump pump

  • @octobob@lemmy.mlOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you do for "idle time" on your phone?
    4•10 days ago

    I actually made a great setup for retro gaming at home. I have my Linux PC connected to a KVM over LAN to the living room TV. Hyprland lets me set keybinds to run scripts to turn off my computer monitors, turn on the TV, switch audio (still working out a few kinda with audio actually), and then launch emulationstation-DE which is a front end for launching the games on each emulator.

    It’s great running everything on a PC with decent specs, I have a 5800x and 6700 XT. It can do all the old games obviously, and up to PS3 and switch games, upscaled to 4K and with a bangin audio system.

    Surprisingly, there’s very little latency issues or lag over the kvm. Or if there are I can’t notice them.

    It might be worth a go to play the handheld ones on my phone however. Playing GBA and DS games on my big living room TV seems a bit silly haha

  • @octobob@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.English
    1•10 days ago

    Gonna be honest, it’s been a while since I’ve been out to the country. I just saw most carriers shut down 3G in 2022. Time flies and all that.

    Also now that I think about it, we may have been installing 4G LTE modems on our pumps lately. That customer only buys a few systems a year.

    I wonder too, say 3G gets totally shut down in the US. Will new phones still be able to connect to it if I’m traveling outside the US? I was bopping around some small islands in the Pacific last year and was heavily relying on 3G for things like maps.