Many newer pills have protective coatings that won’t dissolve in water, to prevent basement chemists from converting them into shit like meth…

Those sort of pills are designed to dissolve in stomach acids, so the warm water test isn’t a universal check.

Honestly I think another commenter hit the nail pretty close on the head though, I think their mom was secretly super depressed and tried to end her own life, but since she survived, she doesn’t want to talk about it.

When I’m almost certain it’s a scammer calling, I’ll answer as professionally as I can as if I’m running a business…

“Thank you for calling Ding Dong Double Dildos and Dirty Devices! How would you like to fuck yourself today?”

They usually just hang up and remove the number from the call list LMFAO! 😂🤣

I actually did this for my mom one day, scammers had been calling her left and right. She found it quite hilarious too, and by the next day, more than half the scammers quit calling 👍

Edit: Merry Christmas! This is how you fuck the scammers…

You’re not wrong there, the capacitor can indeed be dangerous!

I happen to be quite well experienced in repairing and rebuilding microwave ovens though, and it’s not like I leave the thing disassembled for random people to come along and stick their fingers in the wiring.

The modification I mentioned is fairly simple though, just take out the light bulb so that doesn’t stay on when the door is open, and bypass whatever timer circutry they have, whether it be analog, digital, or even subscription based digital bullshit these days.

Underneath the hood of every microwave oven is a sequence of 3 safety switches all activated by the mechanics of the door latch, required by law, to make damn sure it can’t emit radiation when the door is open. Take proper advantage of that knowledge and knowing the internals of a microwave oven, and it’s pretty easy to bypass the timer.

The only true danger with such modification is if you fuck up and forget your popcorn or frozen pizza or whatever, as the microwave will end up running indefinitely until you open the door. Used responsibly though, it’s just fine, but you gotta keep an eye on your own food and an eye on your own watch/clock.

Kids in the house though? Nah, I wouldn’t trust that sort of mod near kids for even 5 seconds.

We gotta go test these things in the back yard…

Honestly not as dangerous as you might think. Just keep the kids and pets away, and watch your own timer for your frozen pizza…

Remove the light, obviously. Bypass the control circuit…

Geez, didn’t Electroboom teach you anything?

Don’t do these things at home, obviously…

I don’t even need a timer for the microwave oven. I just rig that shit up where when you close the door, it cooks, and when you open it, well it stops cooking.

Don’t ask why, had to temporarily fix things for my mom. At least we didn’t have kids around the place…

Edit: AI can suck my nugz…

Meanwhile, my pinhole glasses should come in tomorrow…

Nah, they mailed all their customers, informing everyone that once they finished upgrading their infrastructure, that they would triple every customers’ internet speed for no extra charge.

Then, as everyone waited in hope, within like 6 months they renamed to /Sparklight, and that 100Mbps > 300Mbps upgrade they promised disappeared like a fart in the wind, plus /Sparklight ended up eventually increasing customer bills anyways, without any performance increase.

Honestly I think that’s exactly why they renamed, just because they wanted to back out of that promise, but didn’t actually have the fine print to legally back out.

Cable One renamed themselves to /Sparklight, basically to get out of the Cable One promise that they were supposed to triple everyone’s internet speed for no extra charge once they upgraded all their lines and equipment.

When companies rename themselves, they’re basically legally relieved of any prior promises, obligations, or class action lawsuits made/filed under the old company name.

Companies that change their names usually do so to avoid class action lawsuits and/or to get out of obligations they previously made with their customers.

Edit: I probably should have posted that as a top level comment, but oh well, I’m leaving it here.

I dunno, exploding golf ball maybe?

Disclaimer: Nope, I’m not gonna do that, nor am I making any serious suggestions.

If the compressed files are of the same/similar format, more compression is possible as the algorithm can detect more related patterns to compress.

But if you toss in a variety of file formats, compression will tend to suffer more.

Sometimes, the easiest way is just to try and see, different formats lend themselves to better or worse compression.

The files that tend to be worst at compression are the ones that are already compressed themselves.

Honestly it is a bit busy, like feature creep.

The lower stock and left bow are unfortunately now broken, but I want to do my best to restore it eventually.

I’ve already collected feathers and a new rifle scope, I just need an antique Volkswagen leaf spring…

Yeah you think this is a witch stew, but it isn’t. These are the parts I need to properly fix my dad’s invention.

LOL, I’ve actually tried Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Puppy Linux, DSL, Tiny Core, and even the true outlier (not quite Linux or Unix though) Microsoft Xenix before. I’ve probably even tried a couple other distros before but only very briefly.

It takes effort to break them in any way that I can’t manage to figure out how to fix.

I settled on Linux Mint as my daily runner, but one of these days I might have to give TempleOS a spin in a virtual machine…

You act like the everyday user knows how to boot from alternate sources.

BIOS/UEFI/Secure Boot anyone?

Edit: I’ve been running Linux since 2011, but I’m not an average everyday user.

BREAKING: Man breaks Linux, installs another distro, and lives happily ever after.

Oh good, apparently my late father’s Folding Crossbow isn’t a restricted patent…

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4926834A/en

I still posess the prototype, albeit a bit damaged now.

As a one time only event, as a first and a last, I wish I could go back and change the last words I ever spoke with my late father.

In the hospital bed, he was fussing at me because I told him that I was cleaning trash and old food from his house. I didn’t expect him to fuss, I was only doing the right thing ya know.

He passed away the next morning in hospital. I’m still sad to this day that our final conversation wasn’t more positive ☹️😭

Yes

Interesting, today I learned a thing 👍