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”.

Can’t link to the posts directly to demonstrate since the spoiler overlay is only shown in the feed. It’s assumed if you click into the post you want to see the spoiler. I suppose I could change that, but the behavior aligns with how the NSFW tag works.

To give an example of how it works in the feed, here’s a search link that should work (it’s what I used to make the post screenshot): https://tesseract.dubvee.org/search?type=All&q=posts%3A[spoiler]

Im guessing like abcd [spoiler] efg would trigger it too?

Correct. While that wouldn’t turn into a flair (only [flair text] at the beginning or end of the title will be used as flairs), it will trigger the spoiler overlay if [spoiler] appears anywhere in the title. I did this consciously to account for inconsistencies in some of the spoiler usage I’ve seen. It could easily be changed to only trigger on actual flairs (at the beginning or end of the title).

Second this. Everything I have runs on Debian or OpenWRT.

I applaud you for not asking people to stop enshittifying the definition of “enshittification”. I wouldn’t have had the restraint.

This is why I would die: Under no circumstances would I abandon my dogs. They are literally little furry family members.

And I’m not exaggerating. I’ve hunkered down during tornadoes, blizzards with no power/heat, and other weather events where I should have sought shelter elsewhere (most don’t accept pets, and I couldn’t make it to the nearest friends house to crash there).

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Definitely could, but I won’t hold my breath waiting for a feature to make it to the API. There’s enough 3rd party app support and enough people using flairs in the [flair] format, even though it’s not “officially” supported in Lemmy-UI, that I think we’d be safe implementing this.

And should an API-level flag ever happen, then all apps would need to do is look for that boolean attribute in the Post object rather than checking the title for the spoiler flair - the rest of the handling logic can remain the same. So it’s not like we’d have to make major changes if we ever get an official spoiler flag. It would also be easy to support both so there could be backwards compatibility or for other platforms that may lack an official spoiler flag.

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You can also POST AS A GUEST TO THE FEDIVERSE without signing up.

Oh, dear lord. As if we don’t have enough spam and drive-by trolls as it is.

I’ve got a lot of easy comfort dishes, but I’ll stick with the popcorn chicken theme. I like to make homemade “KFC Famous Bowl”. There’s multiple simultaneous steps but they’re basically just bringing to a boil and/or stirring.

Prepare

1. Air fry some Beyond popcorn chicken
2. Mix up a batch of instant mashed potatoes
3. Heat up a can of corn
4. Mix up a packet of brown gravy

Serve

1. Put a scoop of mashed potatoes in a serving bowl
2. Add a layer of the gravy
3. Add a layer of shredded cheese
4. Add one or two spoonfuls of corn
5. Top with the pop corn chicken

It’s not strictly vegetarian, but neither am I.

Mine died last weekend and I had to replace it. $650 to do myself, and that included same day delivery.

It failed the prior night, noticed it mid-morning, ordered at 2pm, received it at 5, and had it installed by 7. Was kind of a pain but not nearly as awful as I feared.

Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.

Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.

I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.

The number of upvotes on this post (and it’s xpost in c/politics) is extremely disheartening and shows why getting news from social media is doomed to spread crackpot shit. People will like and share anything they agree with no matter what tinfoil rag it links to.

Humanity makes me sad.

I mean, if you’re not shitting your guts out after drinking a glass of tap water, then it’s clean enough.

Pure water tastes like…nothing. The minerals and such give it the good, crisp taste.

That said, my water is so hard it has comparable calcium to a glass of milk.