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  • Mouse would escape the tape and stick its head through the ring. Then you have an invisible mouse to rule them all to deal with. The whole of Middle Earth would be absolutely overrun with mice

  • Danny Green has agreed to a 1 year deal with the 76ers
  • Yeah I don't think they're expecting that he be moving the needle as far as minutes played and making an impact on games. I'm sure he'll see some minutes here and there, but I wouldn't expect him to be an integral part of the rotation.

    I do think the main thought behind this may be more on the bench and locker room front. Danny won a championship under Nick Nurse, and he's also close with many of the Sixers players.

  • Sarcastic Reddit title aside, what a bunch of fucking dickheads. This is why I left Reddit and it's worse now.
  • So reddit is bad because you can't break a subreddit's rules without getting called out? Also, sarcasm with 0 context, especially in text form, should always be assumed that it will not be interpreted as sarcasm. That title alone in the subreddit could absolutely be considered clickbait.

  • Google Pixel 8 will get more OS updates with longer lifespan than Samsung
  • Pixel 6 ushered in three years? I did some searching and it looks like every Pixel all the way back to Pixel 1 received three full years of updates. Is it just the additional two years of security updates that's new?

  • [AskMovies] What great movie did you watch this week?
  • Three Minutes: A Lengthening - documentary about three minutes of recovered video footage from a small town in Poland in the late 1930's. The scope of it started small and it expanded continuously throughout the movie. It was really impactful. The only footage shown is the video footage itself, the narrator is Helena Bonham Carter. I highly recommend it if you like documentaries.

    Let The Right One In - 2008 low budget Swedish horror film. I'd always heard it was well regarded and it did not disappoint one bit. Delightfully tense, cathartic, and unsettling.

  • I'm a little bored of Lemmy. I'm going to go browse Lemmy.

    Back in the ole Reddit days of ereyestermonth I had a habit of closing my reddit app of choice on my phone, and then as a reflex immediately open that same app back up.

    The issue has evolved for me on Lemmy. I have two Lemmy apps on my home screen. I was using Voyager before Sync was released and then I started using Sync. But I also kept Voyager on my home screen since Sync didn't support posts when the beta was originally released. But now I'm too lazy to remove it. I still like Voyager anyway.

    You see where this is going. I'm now stuck in a loop where I'm closing one app and opening the other, just to read through the exact same posts.

    Send help. Or not. This is fine. I'm going to take a break from Lemmy for the rest of the day.

    Posted from Sync for Lemmy

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    Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom
  • That may be true for some people individually, but I believe if no one at a company is able to build any connection (even on a professional level of base rapport ), that's much more an indicator of the company's failures to build a proper company culture that supports that.

    People have been making close friends over the Internet with zero in-person interactions for decades now. And that's even without video chat being the primary way of doing it. I work 100% remote at a company with ~2500 employees. I'm pretty introverted, but I've managed to make a few friends mostly over slack that I would ask if they wanted to grab a drink or something if I were traveling through their area. There's no pressure or expectation of that from the company, there's no "we're family" nonsense, they've just created a company culture where that can happen.

  • [Pompey] It’s official. The NBA has fined James Harden $100,000 for public comments.
  • He's basically on Kyrie's level now. Still a good player as he showed last season, but his trust level is through the floor. Can't be trusted to perform under pressure, can't be trusted to play on a contract he just opted into, makes trade demands not requests. And for they kind of money he's expecting? Who wants that?

    ETA: this is a dumb emotional take, but as a Sixers fan I'd rather have Kyrie at this point lol. I'm sure I would regret that though.

  • Does anyone know of an alternative to Readwise?
  • This is a great solution! I was searching around a bit more and couldn't find any other apps doing this. I think I'm going to just create a Keep note for each book I read, then I can use Google lens to scan the text and copy what I want into the note and add the page number for reference.

  • [Pompey] It’s official. The NBA has fined James Harden $100,000 for public comments.

    The NBA announced today that Philadelphia 76ers guard James Harden has been fined $100,000 by the NBA for public comments on August 14 and 17 indicating that he would not perform the services called for under his player contract unless traded to another team. The league's investigation, which included an interview of Harden, confirmed that these comments referenced Harden's belief that the 76ers would not accommodate his request to be traded.

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    Does anyone know of an alternative to Readwise?

    I'm looking for a solution to easily keep bookmarks digitally of physical books I read. Previously I would type up the just I was wanting to save into a Google Keep note, but that is fairly disruptive to my reading time and really slows things down.

    I just found Readwise which allows you to take a picture of the page and it OCR scans the page instantly and allows you to quickly drag and select the text you want to save.

    Their other feature of aggregating your bookmarks from other sources (Kindle, Instapaper, et al) are nice, but I don't use those apps very much. Really the primary feature I'm looking for is the quick bookmarker for physical books.

    Readwise is essentially $5/month (slightly cheaper annually) which is more than I want to spend on something like this. I only read one or two books a month, so the price is hard for me to justify. I would much rather something with a cheaper subscription, or perhaps a one time purchase where the data is synced to an existing notes app like Keep.

    Even outside of using an app like this, I'm curious how those of you who read physical books keep track of notes and bookmarks, if you do at all.

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  • Plex is truly great! I forgot to mention it streams music in addition to movies and tv. The Plex web app is not particularly fantastic for streaming music, but they have a separate app called Plexamp that is really great. So all in all you can use this setup to eliminate all your streaming subscriptions.

  • Kitchen knife refurbish
  • It's actually surprisingly easy! I've done it a few times for my other knives because my wife is morally opposed to having a knife block on the counter. So our knives go in the drawer each with a custom sheath to protect the blade.

    All you need is two pieces of wood, each with at least one good flat face. You trace the knife on both sides of one of the pieces of wood. One tracing will be the inside of the sheath (the flat face if you're not using s4s), the other tracing will be on the outside which you'll use as a reference to shape the sheath. You then chisel or route where the knife will go, place the knife in it to make sure it fits properly. Glue the flattest face of the other board to the side you just routed. Once the glue is cured, use a belt sander to give the sheath the general shape you want, then orbital or hand sand to get it nice and smooth. Apply finish of choice, then you're good to go.

  • Kitchen knife refurbish
  • Yeah it's just a little guy! The original knife I started with had a 10" blade and was terribly unbalanced. It also didn't have a full tang so it would easily flex where the handle met the blade. So I essentially shortened the knife so that I could cut a proper tang out of a portion of the original blade.

    I always hated how small paring knives are, so I really like this size for doing a lot of things I would normally use a paring knife for while still feeling nice to hold and being a bit more versatile.

  • Kitchen knife refurbish

    Wanted to have a kitchen knife I didn't care about beating up to take camping and such. My wife grabbed a junk kitchen knife from a thrift store and I went to town on it.

    I cut the whole thing down in order to have a proper tang. I made scales and a sheath out of poplar which I then finished with Tried and True (polymerized linseed oil with beeswax).

    Did the majority of the work with an angle grinder, hand saws, and a bench top belt sander. Was going to hand chisel the inside of the sheath, but I got lazy and did it with a router.

    Overall I'm happy with how it turned out. This is my first time doing any sort of "knife making" and I like how it looks. I definitely do not expect it to hold an edge well at all.

    In the end the project was a failure because now I DO care about this knife because of the time I put into it.

    Here's the full gallery: https://pixelfed.social/p/jaybird/597265855612303197

    P.S. please let me know if there's a proper way to link a pixelfed post on Lemmy

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    Unable to upload photo for photo post

    Ever since I've switched to lemm.ee, I've been unable to upload a photo when submitting a photo post. I've tried in Voyager, Sync, and also just in my browser and received some sort of general error each time.

    Is there a known reason for this? I don't submit a ton of photo posts, but the timing of it made it seem like it might be linked to switching to a different instance. Are native photo posts disabled on lemm.ee, or is it just me having issues?

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