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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Time to double down on the metric system
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    9 days ago

    Yep, pretty much.

    When I’m working on vehicles or bicycles, it’s almost always metric wrenches and sockets, until that one random bolt or nut that’s for whatever dumb reason in imperial, like the random 1/2", or the fairly universal 5/8" spark plug socket.

    Why? Hell if I know, but some of those things probably track all the way back to Henry Ford, and possibly even before him.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Time to double down on the metric system
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    10 days ago

    I find the whole imperial/metric thing funny.

    Like hell, even here in the USA, it’s always the 10 millimeter socket (or in my case the 15 millimeter socket) that somehow disappears.

    A pendulum of one meter length swings at a rate of once per second.

    Where things get weird in the USA is one mile = 5280 feet. Like, who the fuck pulled that number out of their ass?

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•A big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.
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    13 days ago

    My test of Timeshift was pretty simple and straightforward.

    1. Fresh install Linux Mint

    2. Install most of the main software I wanted.

    3. Do a Timeshift backup.

    4. Install some extra software I didn’t necessarily need, but might want to use someday.

    5. Restore the backup from step 3.

    Results: Everything from step 4 was still registered as installed, but almost nothing from step 4 actually worked.

    So I brute force reinstalled everything in place, and haven’t used Timeshift since. I’m perfectly comfortable using the terminal, and at worst a live boot media, to fix any issues that might come up.