Yeah, Neelix was a deeper character than most people give him credit for.

Don’t blame you. It’s one of the small handful of covers I prefer to the originals

Technically speaking, I invented vaping.

In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you’d normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).

My group’s product was a weight-loss product called “FlavorAir” (“Anorexia Fast” didn’t test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.

This was in the early 00’s and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.

I’m not a fan of crossposting since is clutters up my post history, but feel free to.

While I totally understand those communities, my preference is to not relegate anything that isn’t rage to a special community since it distills regular news down to just the rage. Just my personal preference.

I’m beyond tired of the Tr*mp Rage Show Spectacular, so here’s some uplifting news for y’all.

RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.

Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I’ve happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.

I honestly think that’s my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.

Relatable. And I don’t so much tan as my freckles just converge.

I haven’t had time to build out or promote the community, so there’s only one post right now, but this would be perfect for !totallylookslike@dubvee.org if you had a side-by-side image.

Chaotica still appears mostly monochrome

In all fairness, so do I. Summer can’t get here fast enough.,

That was a super fun truck to drive when it wasn’t breaking down on me, lol.

The worst part is I really want one of those now and am sad those probably aren’t things that exist.

A Dax symbiote Matryoshka doll

Best of luck, and hope you have fun. I definitely did.

I get that. But considering how many times I’ve needed a reasonably sized truck lately, I’d at least think twice lol.

At least working on them is fun. Despite the money pit it turned out to be, I did enjoy the time I spent tinkering with it and getting it going.

Hood stayed attached, thankfully, but was a total loss. Thankfully there were plenty of donors at the local scrapyard.

Here’s the bastard the day before the brake line broke and the last time everything was working and I gave up on it:

I had the '96 Chevy S-10 version of that but basically same truck and same shade of green. That truck hated me. Fix one thing, another thing broke. After replacing the cylinder head, fuel pump, fuel line, slave cylinder, hood and windshield*, alternator, and a random electrical gremlin or ten, it ran like a dream for like two weeks. Then the brake line burst and I finally just sold the thing. The guy who bought it from me fixed the brake line and drove it for like 6 or 7 years with no problems.

Called it the POS-10.

*Hood latch broke driving down the highway and slammed the hood back into the windshield at 55 mph. Fun!

I would recommend bringing this up with the lemmy.zip admins.

Only thing I can suggest, if you’re willing to use a different client, is to try their Tesseract UI instance (https://t.lemmy.zip/). You can at least filter the Zippybot account so its posts are minimized. Find a post from it, click its username, and then “Filter User…”

The upcoming release has much more powerful filtering options (e.g. you can completely hide zippybot, among other capabilities) but it’s not generally available yet. Hoping to have it released “soon”.

Speaking from recent experience, the smaller thing can, and often does, turn into a larger thing all on its own and always at the worst time.

For the last 3 years, I knew my water heater was on its last legs. I kept putting it off until two Saturdays ago I had a wet basement and no hot water. The kick in the ass was that it wasn’t that hard to replace the unit: 2 hours of labor to install and 2 hours to drain, remove, and clean around the old one. Cost me just under $650 including same day delivery which was awesome because I would have had to rent a truck and drafted someone to help me load/unload it otherwise.

So my advice is when you allocate time to address the small problem, give yourself double that in case it turns into a bigger project. It’s always easier to deal with big stuff when it’s not a surprise.