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DontTreadOnBigfoot , to Home Improvement in How do I fix this?
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Liberal application of wood glue to all mating surfaces. Then clamp in place and let cure.

The cured wood glue will be stronger than the particle board the drawer is made from.

Ghostalmedia ,
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I’d probably also add some Brad nails or staples so that it’s not just glue.

NataliePortland ,
@NataliePortland@lemmy.ca avatar

Second the wood glue. It’s stronger than wood

Tylerdurdon ,

It’ll be ugly as all getout from the inside, but this is probably the only thing you can do aside from replacing the drawer or replacing the backer board.

That said, you should probably fix the primary reason this broke. That much force means:

  • the drawer guides may also need work or it will happen again.
  • the items in the drawer which may have jammed it shut should get reorganized to keep it from happening again.
  • the temper may need some work if this was purely a result of unloading frustration on furniture. This fix may not cost a significant amount, but a bad temper can generate drastically more financial (and sometimes criminal) damage than moderate self control. I know this one well.
Jtskywalker ,

Or kids who have trouble remembering that kitchen cabinets and drawers are actually not indoor climbing walls

Tylerdurdon ,

True. Hard to fix that one though.

LazaroFilm , to xkcd in xkcd #221: Random Number (9 Nov 2007)
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

I prefer using a whole wall of lava lamps for a random number.

MNByChoice ,

Seems like the place to share. Ages ago a group epoxied a webcam and used the random flashes (from cosmic rays?) as their source of randomness.

rmuk ,

I think what they’re referring to is a company - I think it’s CloudFlare - who use a bunch of physical randomness generators to seed their commercial random number generator. One of those seeds is a webcam pointed at a load of lava lamps.

youtu.be/1cUUfMeOijg

agressivelyPassive , to TrueNAS in At what point should I start worrying about my hard drive temps?/s

The good news is: you can easily achieve fusion at this point.

unreachable ,
@unreachable@lemmy.world avatar

nuclear reactions be damn

LlilL ,

I don’t think that’s what Apple meant by Fusion Drive.

MyNameIsRichard , to KDE in Do you also configure the feedback to send everything?
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Yes. I trust KDE to not misuse my data

tissek , to Work Reform in Every damn day
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The Swedish vacation law (Semesterlag 1977:480) amateurishly translated by me. And I am in no way experienced enough in our labour law to comment on how it looks for those not working full time. The short lesson is to Remember Ådalen, or those that fought, bled and died four our labour rights.

4 § En arbetstagare har rätt till tjugofem semesterdagar varje semesterår [...]
An employee have right to twentyfive vacation days per year

12 § Om inte annat har avtalats, ska semesterledigheten förläggas så, att arbetstagaren får en ledighetsperiod av minst fyra veckor under juni-augusti[...]
If nothing else have been agreed upon, the vacation is to be scheduled such that the employee get a vacation period of at least four weeks during june -august

Unions work. Labour movements work.

GluWu ,

How move Sweden. Am enjunear. Want make industry.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Well, you already speak the language, so that's a start.

dojan ,
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Depending on where you're from you'll face different challenges. If you're an EU/Schengen citizen you can pretty much just mosy on over here. If you have a full-time job and/or enough money, as well as some form of health insurance you'll be able to get a personnummer quite easily. If you're outside of the EU things get trickier, but having a job lined up here will make things easier.

There's also the spousal path, though given our current nazi-xenophobic government I'm expecting a lot of those avenues to get tougher.

HootinNHollerin , (edited ) to Work Reform in Every damn day

Probs because companies have that bullshit ‘unlimited PTO’ that’s often not real

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Yeah I hate "unlimited PTO". If it's actually unlimited then let me know when the office Christmas party is and I will be off until then, when I will see you for drinks.

Passerby6497 ,

It's weird, I've got unlimited PTO and have taken more time in a year than I did overall at any of the jobs I've been at, and they've been super accommodating with a medical issue I have.

Last year I took over 30 PTO days, I've been lucky to get 8-12 days yearly at previous gigs. Unlimited PTO can be amazing if you have decent leadership.

travysh ,

That isn't "normal" though. Part of the reason that companies like unlimited PTO is that typically workers take less PTO when unlimited is offered.

I had 8 weeks paid per year in my last job, so rolling in to this one with unlimited I pretty much do the same. But for sure I'm a bit of an anomaly. I rarely see others taking time.

timbuck2themoon ,

That and they don't have to pay out unused PTO since there technically isn't any.

victorz , to Home Improvement in How do I fix this?

I don’t know if growing out your big toe is possible at this age. Have you tried watering it, and planting it firmly in some soil?

intensely_human ,

A friend of mine got his to grow with an elaborate system of rubber bands.

some_guy ,

I couldn’t grow proper facial hair (I’m a guy) and read that using Rogaine (the stuff for balding guys) on the face could stimulate hair follicles. It worked; I now have a beard after using the product for only a handful of months (I don’t think balding guys get to stop using it). May Toegaine would have a similar result?

victorz ,

Toe gaaiinnz

andyburke , to Work Reform in Every damn day
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Do y'all have any idea how jealous the old angry people are?

01189998819991197253 ,
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They they have any idea how much none of us care? We're all living in the shite world they created.

gamermanh ,
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My wife and mys manager when we worked at the same place once told each of us separately in out reviews:

You do great, I love that you finish your work early, but the other people in the office dont like that you go home AT 5 (9 hour shift w/ 30m lunch) because they stay an extra 2-4 hours regularly.

Said it to me first, I just told her it sounds like her salary (I was hourly) employees suck at their jobs. She just kinda stares at me (this is the exact bluntness she promoted me to working with her for so...)

When she said it to my wife SHE went off on one about how she used to do those other people's jobs and that it's ridiculous that they can't do it in the same amount of time and would dare demand that she stay extra time just to appease their incompetence

She straight up admitted to us all the 40-60 year olds just didnt like that we could do our jobs and go home because we could type faster than 12 WPM

filefly ,

My wife and mys manager

Why do people do this?

MentalEdge , to xkcd in xkcd #173: Movie Seating (20 Oct 2006)
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Good thing I don’t know enough people for me to ever go to the movies in that big a group.

knorke3 ,

the problem here is technically not you knowing people but that the people you know can also know people that you don’t know, expanding the graph beyond the first layer that you personally observe.

tl;dr: don’t allow recursive invites

Bilbo , to xkcd in xkcd #1597: Git

Git is something that is very comfortable to use after a year or two, but when you initially start using it, it is just so easy to mess things up in ways that are unrecoverable. I remember the silly days when I’d back up all my changes first before using git since I would so regularly lose everything through a combination of git commands.

It’s easy for me now, but the initial stages punish mistakes severely. It’s the dark souls of source control, except it’s not really fun. It’s just a very beginner unfriendly tool.

De_Narm , to xkcd in xkcd #156: Commented

The joke is fine, but most of all it makes me appreciate how far xkcd has come since then. It’s been awesome for so long, sometimes you forget he ever was a beginner.

Arrakis , to Home Improvement in Called Bugout for a bug inpection, and the guy said i have mice in my attic. Told me this is a mouse pee stain. Is that right?

If there is pee, there will also be poo. Have a gander and see if you see any droppings. They’re like little black pellets the shape of zeppelins (if you’ve ever had a hamster or gerbil, they’re similar), if you can’t find any I’d be very dubious about mice. In my experience from having them, you hear them scuttling at night. If you’re worried, you can get humane traps for pretty cheap - definitely cheaper than an exterminator.

nieceandtows OP Mod ,

I don’t remember seeing any poop. Maybe I’ll go up and check again. He also showed me some gaps in the insulation and said that’s made by mice to get around. https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/e62db50e-9ca8-418a-aa9a-196671204f70.jpeg. He also said the insulation is 12 inches which is low and to gave me a quote for $8000 to remove existing insulation and blow new insulation (because there would be rat poop inside). Or $6000 to blow on top of old insulation.

Arrakis ,

I don’t know about how prices are in your area but that seems incredibly expensive.

nieceandtows OP Mod ,

Yeah I have zero idea. I’m a first time homeowner. He didn’t find any actual issues, but ended up giving me a quote for $13000 total.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

If you don’t live in a sprawling mansion, that’s insane.

Arrakis ,

So where I am we don’t use blown insulation like this, so please take this with a pinch of salt, but…

I redid 50m^2 of roof insulation in my house to exceed the insulation standards in my area and the cost of all the (very high spec) insulation sheets and materials was just over £3000. I don’t know about loose insulation that gets blown like in your picture, but I just wanted to contextualise why I thought the price seemed high.

If it was me, I’d set up a couple of cameras and mouse traps to see if you get anything. If not, add that company to your big book of Bullshit and chalk this down to a good lesson learned. Owning a home can be stressful and expensive enough without scamming dingbats making things more difficult.

If you do end up with mice in the traps, it would be worth getting a quote from another company, juuuust in case.

Good luck OP!

ikidd ,
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That is utter bullshit, he’s a scammer.

bjoern_tantau , to KDE in Do you also configure the feedback to send everything?
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No. Nothing against KDE I just want to minimise all information leaving my computer. If something is bothering me I try to change it myself or make a bug report or feature request.

AtHeartEngineer ,
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Same, I report crashes, but regular telemetry is rather not

Rustmilian ,
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At least it's a slider, so it's not just "everything or nothing".

AtHeartEngineer ,
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Oh ya, don't get me wrong, im glad they have what they have and it's opt in

HouseWolf ,

Yeah same here I got zero tolerance with spyware/telemetry and it's one of the main reasons I switched to Linux in the first place.

Do I believe KDE would misuse my data? Nope not really but it's not something I want to promote no matter how anonymized the data is or how nicely they ask.

Same rule goes for any project even ones I've donated money to.

Mereo ,
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If you look at the data that KDE exports, there's nothing that directly identifies you. That's why I'm willing to help KDE. Like I said in my other post. It's all about transparency.

lamabop , to xkcd in xkcd #221: Random Number (9 Nov 2007)

Incredible, cracked the pseudorandomness problem with this simple code that guarantees a random whole number greater than 3 and less than 5.

celeste , to xkcd in xkcd #173: Movie Seating (20 Oct 2006)
@celeste@kbin.social avatar

You also need to account for where the really tall people are in the row in front of you. Social optimization be damned, I want to see!

sanguinepar ,
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Yeah, well we want to have enough space to sit lower, but it’s not always an option unfortunately! :-)

Spzi ,

And group people based on how loud their snacks are.

Also, am I the only one hating that person who keeps talking how the seating is suboptimal while everyone else tries to watch the movie?

Jorgelino ,

Those ones you group outside the movie theater.

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