A Chicago Screw (the rivets in knife handles) or Binding post.

But I find a piece of wire is less effort.

I curse whoever decided unflexible untreated steel wire was great for moving windows up and down.

Chrysler, fucking Chrysler, that’s who. And this is the kind of difference you see between companies like Chrysler (in my opinion the worst) and companies like Toyota and Honda, who would use completely sheathed cable, and then a plastic chain for the exposed part (I’ve worked on both and seen this first hand, so I know exactly what you’re dealing with).

Well done! I assumed you lubed the daylights out of the steel with something that will stick around, like lithium or even never seize (which usually has graphite in it, which doesn’t easily wash off).

The multi-color IBM logo predates “pride colors” by like 50 years

What is it? Not a great pic, all I see is darkness.

Congrats. (Yes, a period, not exclamation mark because this is Dullsters). 😆

May I recommend some alternatives to transferring data with USB: Syncthing, Resilio Sync, FolderSync.

First two have similar functionality, while FolderSync simply enables building sync jobs using standard network protocols: SMS, (S)FTP(S), NFS, web drives, etc.

Since these all use the network, and can be fully automatic (or used somewhat manually), they provide a more consistent and robust file transfer mechanism than MTP which is not the best.

What’s a letter?

I use 2.5" drives all the time in Small Form Factor Desktops (sounds like what you’re using).

I even added a 4-sata PCI expansion card in one to run a RAID (Proxmox).

It’s fine, but as another comment noted just avoid SMR drives when doing this.

You DON’T need enterprise class drives. Just remember that EVERY drive WILL fail at some point, so setup stuff with that expectation.

Like my current server is an SFF with a spinning disk drive for data, an SSD for running VMs. I then have an ancient NAS and 2 external drives for data duplication. Not ideal, but I’m fairly well protected against hardware failure this way (data is duplicated to the other drives on a schedule). Most I may lose is a couple days of data, which is trivial.

I have bookmarks from 2006. I stopped using bookmarks 10 years ago

I’m pretty sure both of those devices are intended to be the sole device on a circuit. It’s the only way you can get enough power for them.

The instructions should note this, but who reads those? Haha

I run into this in my kitchen (which was built before code required microwave on its own circuit).

I can run either the espresso machine (1100w) or the toaster oven (300w) and microwave (1000w) simultaneously. If I forget and run all 3 it will blow the breaker.

Fortunately my morning routine is coffee first, then use the toaster oven, then microwave. I only found out they were all on the same circuit by changing my routine.

Neat the kill-a-watt caught this for you.

These cereals were invented to not excite people, iirc.

Oh, cool, thanks for the insight.

Interesting that it’s thicker, does it have a bigger battery?

Is there a Chines phone that is as small as a Pixel 5 (or smaller?), with decent hardware/ram?

I don’t even need a great processor, just good enough. I don’t play games (other than things like Solitaire or Backgammon), but I multi-task like mad, so ram is more important than anything.

I’ve been looking at one of the Unihertz Jelly phones. I’m a bit concerned about the mediatek, but they’re well priced so it’ s not a bad gamble.

It is your burden and duty to seed

Sometimes context really matters… 😜

I haven’t had one in 20+ years. Ewww

Do you then say “I am Iron Man!”

Just curious, what were you expecting?