Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?
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The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.
I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?English
46·19 days agoScott Adams, creator of Dilbert. I have several of his print books and still enjoy reading them; ditto his old cartoons. They really spoke to me years ago, as a cubicle-coder.
Bonus points for hitting all categories in a single sentence.
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Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•Anon's neighbors have chickensEnglish
8·30 days agoCan confirm! Chickens, dogs, and children - all noisy as hell in their own way, and all make our garden sound great :)
Neighbours had a rooster for a while, until someone complained to the Council and the “rooster police” made them get rid of it.
But I loved it! Waking up early in the AM for meetings with folks in the US, and hearing a rooster, just started long days the right way.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?English
21·1 month agoI mean … if he’s using Cisco gear, he’d better be praying.
Cisco’s mitigation consisted of making the router firmware blacklist the user agent name for the ‘curl’ command-line tool …

You’d want a stronger girder than they used.