Although when I sold mine, we had people literally break our counter during a viewing

I’m assuming your state based on the dubvee lol

lol, yeah.

I went through inspection and appraisal 5 years ago when I refinanced, so that’s all fine. But I would lose my insanely good mortgage (15 year at 2.2% APR) and have to start again with whatever current rates are though I could likely put down a very large down payment.

I wasn’t seriously considering the offer so much as wondering how legit it was in preparation to sit down and think about thinking about considering the offer lol. But the replies here have cleared up how predatory these offers are, so, yeah, it’s going in the trash with the rest of the similar offers.

Nothing wrong with a realtor, but I’d have to have somewhere to move to while it’s on the market which could be any length of time. I only skimmed the offer, but it mentioned something about transition period for moving, etc.

I was mostly hoping this would let me short-circuit the usual process of selling and moving, letting me get the money for it, and find somewhere temporary while I look for something permanent.

Other than just wanting out of this awful state, I really don’t want to move/sell. I’d worry about finding another job later as I work remotely now but am expected to go in on occasionally so couldn’t work from another state for too long.

But as the replies have made clear, this entire industry is more of a scam than I assumed it already was, so I’m just gonna keep buying lotto tickets and hoping for the best.

That makes sense, and is most likely what the offer is. House isn’t a slum, and I’m not facing foreclosure, so I guess they think they can make a profit on it.

I wasn’t seriously considering it, but I was at least looking into it because, yeah, I want out of here.

The default UI makes it clunky, but I think you can go to you profile settings (https://lemmy.world/settings) and on the “Blocks” tab search for the community and add it to your blocks.

Bombadil was referred to as “The Hermit” before they revealed his identity when GrandElf (aka Gandalf née The Stranger) crosses paths with him.

Someone said if you forget it’s LOTR and just treat it as its own thing it’s not half bad.

Basically. I don’t forget it’s LOTR but I do keep in mind it’s not the Peter Jackson trilogy nor a 1:1 from the books.

I was really really hoping it was going to be about the fall of Numenor.

It is, but it’s slow burn and a something of an overall B-plot to the titular Rings of Power in the second season and the creation of Mordor in the first.

The main online gripe that I can agree with how the characters “fast travel” as plot demands. I just accept that as necessary to condense things down to a suitable runtime for a TV series.

He’s in Rings of Power which I guess counts as a derivative. I don’t want to start a flame war since a lot of people hate that adaptation, but I enjoy it for what it is.

It’s probably an April Fool’s Day gag.

The image URL is: https://f004.backblazeb2.com/file/xylight-public/photon-april-fools/download.webp

Xylight is the photon dev

It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.

The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.

• Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
• Default UI is not Lemmy UI
• PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)

Quite reliably, yeah. The only limitation is I can’t root my current device, so the mapped keys can only work when the screen is on. But the volume keys will wake the screen up, so I just hit it once normally then hold to mute or change tracks or whatever.

You can do that with KeyMapper, and I have a lot of custom actions set up with it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.sds100.keymapper/

I have double-press volume down set to toggle mute, though, since I’m already using long press of vol up and down to do next/prev track for my music player.

Regardless, I cannot recommend KeyMapper enough. It’s pretty fantastic.

509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.

Nope. I’ve had ^Reddit as one of my regex community filters for some time now.

That’s awesome. Hope it works out well for you because, yeah, having a truck on hand is incredibly useful. Even maintaining it (taxes, insurance, etc) is less hassle than renting a truck when you need one or having to shell out for delivery.

Heh, thanks. My main view is that there are lots and lots and lots of views that exist between the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum, and apparently that’s a controversial opinion here. 🙄

And you can take your thumbs and do this with them:

I closed it up and made it a private development instance last year, but you basically just described Dubvee.

Far left crazies and far right crazies are removed with equal prejudice, though the far right is much rarer (and often just trolls). Regardless, it’s moderated here to a, well, moderate temperature. We also don’t federate with the Triad (Hexbear, Grad, and .ml) as well as a few other instances (one of them a big instance that throws an error on a calculator) that are centered around and encourage identity politics (another source of what you’re describing in your post).

Even though we’re “closed” I still keep the instance running in order to develop the Tesseract UI, and if you want to try out the kind of space that’s curated here, I would be willing to approve your application. I’ve toyed with the idea of re-launching and seeking out another admin or 3, but haven’t had the time to put much thought into it.

TL;DR is I’ve always tried to run Dubvee as “normie friendly” and cut out some of the more, uh, rabid parts of the fediverse, and if you want to try it out, I’d be willing to allow it.

https://dubvee.org/signup

There’s really not much to it. The ebike battery just sits in an empty space in the housing and is the same voltage (36v-40v) as the original packs (just bigger). I padded it with some upcycled packing styrofoam to keep it in place and cushioned.

I’d have to take it apart to get pictures, but in a nutshell:

I cut the positive lead off of the original battery socket and spliced it to a XT-90 connector. I left the original ground connected to the socket and also spliced it to the XT-90. That left the ground and the yellow “data” wire going to the original socket. I drilled a hole in the mower housing to bring out the barrel socket for the charging input.

I only disconnected the positive from the original battery socket for 3 reasons:

1. The mower will only stay running if it detects an OEM pack, and the data wire and ground are needed to trick the motor controller. I have to leave my old/dead OEM pack in the battery bay. I was going to pull the board out of the dead pack, but this works well enough so haven’t bothered.
2. I don’t want to parallel the OEM pack and the ebike battery for safety reasons. In theory, I could have extra capacity that way but the batteries aren’t the same chemistry, capacity, or charge level.
3. If I ever want to return it to a stock config, I just have to solder one wire back.

And this is the mower itself (stock photo). The batteries are interchangeable with other tools, and are far too small for the mower. They draw about 2C (twice the capacity) so that’s 10 amps from a 5 amp-hour pack and that’s pretty rough on them. With the 10 amp-hour ebike battery, that’s only 1C so I get both better runtime and less wear and tear.