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  • Fun fact for those who don’t know. You can forge metal with a wood fire if you have forced air.

    There are also ways to build a clay oven so that it has a natural updraft, giving it that forced air. It’s actually how people used to fire pottery.

    Other than that, you can also use charcoal, which burns hotter with forced air.

    Also, a hairdryer puts out enough air to forge with *unless you’re running a ribbon burner set-up. But if you are, you likely know that already.

    -A fellow hobbyist blacksmith

    *Edit to add a word.



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    9 months ago

    There was a podcast I listened to some time back where one of the people was describing exotic pets, particularly lions and tigers, and how their uncle had kept some, and they were told to never let the cats play bite, because they would keep doing it into adulthood, and then you’d have a dead owner.

    This is why Joe Exotic’s “Tiger petting zoo” had such a high body count. Turns out that meth and tigers shouldn’t mix.




  • Part of it is the fact that Ubuntu is an entry level sort of OS, it’s been simplified down and made easy. So the sort of people who have it are often less tech-savvy, and when something does go wrong, they ask a lot of pretty basic seeming questions.

    This isn’t helped by some of Canonical’s design choices. Nothing overt, but Ubuntu has a flavor that’s distinctly Ubuntu, and knowledge of other distros is sometimes a detriment in solving problems.

    Canonical is also a company that just rubs some people the wrong way. There was some data collection shit where they asked users to opt-out of collection, after installing the data collection app.

    Then there’s Snaps… it’s their own unique take on program management. Which is a Canonical thing, reinventing the wheel so that they can have their own unique little thing. Like Mir and Unity, which were then both abandoned to the community.

    It’s good that the community can take over when Canonical drops something, but still…