Most autistic thing you've purchased lately - c'mon feel the cringe

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I've just bought myself -

1) Drummond Shaper. I managed to get an amazing deal (like less than scrap value) one a MK1 in ugly but mechanically great condition and iut's Table and Stand are complete and it makes some sounds so I am guessing there is tooling in the Stand but it's painted closed and I've not managed to open it yet. It looks like someone just greased it up and left it in the corner of the workshop and then someone coated it in Paint as a decoration, I already have two Shapers but this is going to be the one that I keep.

2) About 50 Blank Canvasses of various sizes, I'm trying to take up painting and I found these as a job lot from a art shop closing down for £50 including PnP some of them are huge like 3ft x 3ft so I've got a lot to play with.

I finally found the sourest candy it's even feasible to eat.
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The initial attack is insane, more like an electrical shock than a flavor. While I was initially disappointed that the rest of it is first sweet, followed by a fizzy core that is actually sour again, I got over that when I realized after just two of these things, I already had the burned tongue super sours give you, which lasted for over 24 hours. Seriously do not eat a lot of these. They make Warheads look pathetic.

I don't think it's possible to make something more sour than this without causing immediate physical damage.

My Fiancee's Cousin works at the factory that makes those things and gives us Bags upon Bags of them and other sweets, like the 10KG bags we get experimental or short run flavors as well they did one based off Naga Chilli Extract... that one was special.

If you want any mate let me know and I'll sort something out with you, the Postage has got to be cheaper than paying for them outright.

An RTL-SDR software-defined radio receiver kit.

I lied, we're not gonna watch Netflix. Take off your shoes, we're gonna listen to shortwave number stations.

There is a guy on youtube called Ringway Manchester you might want to lookup he does some reall deep dives into current and defunct Number stations and other radio oddities.

I guess I’ve been lucky seeing as the last time I had a drive failure was an 40GB IDE Maxtor back in the XP days.

You are, I've got a 80GB Sata Maxtor that just wont quit, I've dropped it, it's gotten wet and all kinds and it just refuses to die modern Drives suck ass when it comes to reliability, even if you shop around for good drives they always seem to throw out a silly number of failures that even if they are failures that wont stop it from working are enough to give me twitchy bum time about using them.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

You are, I've got a 80GB Sata Maxtor that just wont quit, I've dropped it, it's gotten wet and all kinds and it just refuses to die modern Drives suck ass when it comes to reliability, even if you shop around for good drives they always seem to throw out a silly number of failures that even if they are failures that wont stop it from working are enough to give me twitchy bum time about using them.

After a lot of reading I was prepared to live with a small number of reallocations but the read errors combined with having had the drive installed for less than a week means it has to go back.

I've a 15+ year old 1TB SATA WD Green drive which has had as hard a life as that 80GB of yours that's still going strong too (currently its passed through to a VM as torrent storage) and that thing has had many a cup of tea spilled on it along with being in dripping wet muddy rucksacks and worse in its original form as an early WD MyBook or whatever they were called. They just don't make them like they used to.

Ironwolf is installed, just hope I can get the data off the Toshiba and not too much of it is corrupt. Looking through logs at the range of sectors that have thrown errors and with some quick sums on the back of a fag packet I think there's a 5GB range that will be corrupt, assuming those sectors were written sequentially.

 

[AnOminous]

Drives suck ass when it comes to reliability, even if you shop around for good drives they always seem to throw out a silly number of failures that even if they are failures that wont stop it from working are enough to give me twitchy bum time about using them.

That said I do not miss full height HDDs, like the ones that sounded like a jet engine taking off and came with a handwritten list of bad sectors taped to them that you had to type in to the FAT manually.

 

[Aunt Carol]

At the restaurant supply store for something else, I bought 5 pounds of pre-shredded cabbage on a whim as a personal challenge, but I was only able to eat 4.6 pounds of cabbage before it went bad ten days later.

Lazy research indicates the U.S. per capita consumption of fresh cabbage amounted to approximately 6.2 pounds in 2022.

I'm doing my part, but I will probably not buy 5 pounds of pre-shredded cabbage again.

 

[neverendingmidi]

At the restaurant supply store for something else, I bought 5 pounds of pre-shredded cabbage on a whim as a personal challenge, but I was only able to eat 4.6 pounds of cabbage before it went bad ten days later.

Lazy research indicates the U.S. per capita consumption of fresh cabbage amounted to approximately 6.2 pounds in 2022.

I'm doing my part, but I will probably not buy 5 pounds of pre-shredded cabbage again.

Should've made kimchee or sauerkraut or something...

 

[lurkin]

I randomly tripped over The Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo in an op shop the other day, about the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. I'm hoping it will be interesting.

Fossilized dinosaur poop to use as hardscape in my aquariums.

Thats on my list too!

Do you plant out your tanks? What fish do you keep?

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

Thats on my list too!

Do you plant out your tanks? What fish do you keep?

It would probably be easier listing what fish I don't have. In particular I favour shell-dwelling species, multies especially and various types of microfish like badis, rasboras, and endler's. I have over 4000 nearing 5k gallons of water between several aquariums. Hundreds of different species of plants and moss, I cultivate my own in a couple different specialized growing ponds. I build all of my own filters which double as hydroponic growing systems for terrestrial and semi-aquatic plants. It's become more than a hobby.

 

[lurkin]

It would probably be easier listing what fish I don't have. In particular I favour shell-dwelling species, multies especially and various types of microfish like badis, rasboras, and endler's. I have over 4000 nearing 5k gallons of water between several aquariums. Hundreds of different species of plants and moss, I cultivate my own in a couple different specialized growing ponds. I build all of my own filters which double as hydroponic growing systems for terrestrial and semi-aquatic plants. It's become more than a hobby.

Ive been thinking about getting back in fishkeeping. Seems as though with the break Ive had soo many more species and plants are available in the hobby. Sounds epic man, I know how it can blow out form one tank to breeding tanks, quarantine tanks, racks, homemade sumps ect ect.

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

Ive been thinking about getting back in fishkeeping. Seems as though with the break Ive had soo many more species and plants are available in the hobby. Sounds epic man, I know how it can blow out form one tank to breeding tanks, quarantine tanks, racks, homemade sumps ect ect.

I love it, I enjoy trying to recreate each aquarium to be as close as possible to the species native habitat from plants, water quality, to even the substrate. It scratches more than one itch as I enjoy building things. So sketching out plans, sourcing the materials, and building the aquarium/frame and filter system is very satisfying. Definitely get back into it, as long as you have the space. I had to build an entire addition to our house, it's a large 24x30 shed/garage where I keep most of them and my office.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Ironwolf is installed, just hope I can get the data off the Toshiba and not too much of it is corrupt

Good luck, I had to spend 2 days retrying Time Machine backups when my Macbook Pro's hard drive started failing.

I succeeded in getting my data the end, and was able to clone the drive before I smashed the original with a hammer and threw it away.

 

[Executive Petrel]

 

[lurkin]

I love it, I enjoy trying to recreate each aquarium to be as close as possible to the species native habitat from plants, water quality, to even the substrate. It scratches more than one itch as I enjoy building things. So sketching out plans, sourcing the materials, and building the aquarium/frame and filter system is very satisfying. Definitely get back into it, as long as you have the space. I had to build an entire addition to our house, it's a large 24x30 shed/garage where I keep most of them and my office.

Im thinking a nice little 3' aquascape/paludarium with rams or some sort of small CA/SA cichlid would do me, it covers all my interests and could be a nice little community tank which I never tried before. My last fish was also my first, a big golden oscar that lived 12+ years and was 13'' when he/she passed away. I could never do a big cichlid again, broke my fuggin heart.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

I finally found the sourest candy it's even feasible to eat.
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The initial attack is insane, more like an electrical shock than a flavor. While I was initially disappointed that the rest of it is first sweet, followed by a fizzy core that is actually sour again, I got over that when I realized after just two of these things, I already had the burned tongue super sours give you, which lasted for over 24 hours. Seriously do not eat a lot of these. They make Warheads look pathetic.

I don't think it's possible to make something more sour than this without causing immediate physical damage.

I bought a sack full of those (but in the variety pack) and brought them to work to share with my team. The number of people that just straight up spit them out was amazing.

 

[AnOminous]

I bought a sack full of those (but in the variety pack) and brought them to work to share with my team. The number of people that just straight up spit them out was amazing.

Most people aren't completely insane and autistic to the point that a candy that literally instantly starts causing caustic damage to your mouth doesn't frighten them. Seriously these things cause, in a mere ingestion of a couple of them, burn damage that you would have to eat an entire bag of Warheads within a few minutes to get.

On the plus side of my review, other than the part where if you like sour, you will DEFINITELY get it with this, almost all the sour coating for the intense 20 second or so attack actually stays on the candy. When you're done, in the week or so it will take you to eat this stuff, there will be only a tiny pocket of the intense acidic sour powder left at the bottom of the bag. If you know that stage of sour candy eating the leftover sour powder part, you know what I mean.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Most people aren't completely insane and autistic to the point that a candy that literally instantly starts causing caustic damage to your mouth doesn't frighten them. Seriously these things cause, in a mere ingestion of a couple of them, burn damage that you would have to eat an entire bag of Warheads within a few minutes to get.

On the plus side of my review, other than the part where if you like sour, you will DEFINITELY get it with this, almost all the sour coating for the intense 20 second or so attack actually stays on the candy. When you're done, in the week or so it will take you to eat this stuff, there will be only a tiny pocket of the intense acidic sour powder left at the bottom of the bag. If you know that stage of sour candy eating the leftover sour powder part, you know what I mean.

I actually just have (what's left of) a one pound bag of malic acid powder in the pantry. It's great for making your own sour candy at home (and sour jello shots), and yes - I will occasionally spoon out a little and recreate that experience just for grins.

 

[AnOminous]

I actually just have (what's left of) a one pound bag of malic acid powder in the pantry. It's great for making your own sour candy at home (and sour jello shots), and yes - I will occasionally spoon out a little and recreate that experience just for grins.

You are awesome and know that experience of pure malic acid.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

You are awesome and know that experience of pure malic acid.

Ha. My favorite use for it is still just dusting homemade gelatine gummy candy with a mix of that and sparkling sugar (usually used to make scones pretty) so they're crunchy and sour on the outside.

 

[Dieter Laser]

Aaaand it’s already dying - 8 Reallocated Sectors so far. Tried different (new) SATA cables and plugging it into my PCI-E SATA card and it’s still throwing errors in unraid. Bought an 8TB Ironwolf which arrives tomorrow. Hopefully I can rescue the 2TB of data I’ve written to it before nuking the fucker and sending it back for refund/replacement.

I’m pretty gutted since it’s not even 2 weeks old and yet theres other drives in the server with 10y power on time that have never skipped a beat.
I guess I’ve been lucky seeing as the last time I had a drive failure was an 40GB IDE Maxtor back in the XP days.

Man I’m sorry to hear that.

But I feel the concern, I’ve got drives 30 years old that spin up just fine so new drives dying so soon would concern me.

I’m about to buy a few more 20tb as the sale is back on

 

[glass_houses]

Bought a "vintage" 1990s Chuppa Chups gym bag that I've been eyeing off at a local op shop for the past month or so. I've needed an overnight bag for quite some time, but I wanted something that wasn't from a cheap shop or Aliexpress, but at the same time couldn't find one I liked enough to lay money on. It's in pretty good nick. Cost me $30 and should do the job.

at the 1990s being classed as 'vintage' though. I feel so ancient.

 

[Shidoen]

That keycap I bought only works for mechanical keyboards and I have a Razer keyboard. Now I need to wait until I break my current keyboard in GAMER RAGE so I can buy the correct one. #FirstWorldProblems.