Told a guy they aren't owed arguments. Whether they start them or someone responds to something. We have discretion to just not, especially online. Now he's sea lioning me to try and provoke a response.
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I'd never heard the term "sealioning" before and I found this explainer which is wonderful:
My favorite coffee mug. It was a wide mug good for cappuccinos. I got it from a previous job almost 10 years ago.
It might have been fixable, but I now have an excuse to actually buy a mug next time I see a fun one.
My electric kettle because I thought I put water in it, then turned it on, but I had not put water in it.
Me and maybe
My drain was cleaning slowly, so I pulled out my sink stopper to fix it. Youtube said this would take 90 seconds. Which it should, if you are able to hook a pivot rod into the hole in the stopper without looking at it the first time. I wasn't able to do it at all. I asked boyfriend, and he got it close but I don't think it is quite right. When we put the nut back on, the sink was leaking. I told landlord. Landlord said he sent someone out. I trusted him. I finally noticed the leaking is still a problem when my tampon box was soaking wet. I pulled everything out, and there is mold under on the cabinet. I used some mold spray. The mold does not come off, but the vinyl coating on the plywood does. I don't want to take the sink apart again and potentially make it worse.
So. Ruined cabinet, leaking sink, because I wanted my bathroom faucet to drain. Yay.
It can be easy to misalign the trap so it drips. Maybe this was long term, but if the upstream side were the misaligned piece it could have been a problem all along but not drip until the slow drain backed up far enough
It's not possible to break the sink and make it leak by pulling out the stopper. The only thing you could break is the stopper itself. How long ago did it start? Mold takes time to develop. Most likely the sink was improperly installed and slowly leaking this whole time, developing mold underneath. Your stopper shenanigans probably just opened up some sediment keeping it all vaguely together. Make your landlord fix the whole thing, sink, cabinet, and especially mold. It's a serious health hazard.
Edit: rereading this, do you mean the P trap? Still, they aren't complicated, if three people couldn't put it back together it is fucked and probably already was fucked. Landlord problem.
The stopper. It is leaking out of the part where the nut attaches the pivot rod to the pipe. I assume this is because the pivot rod is not properly inserted into the stopper, and as such the nut is not able to screw on properly.
That's some seriously bad design. Taking out the stopper for cleaning is normal maintenance and shouldn't require specific skill to put back. Still, you reported it to your landlord, everything that resulted from it further is on the landlord. If you really broke it (doubtful) the landlord should have fixed it and maybe send you a bill (debatable). Leaving it broken is what caused this mess.
You gotta replace the tampons regularly, they are only meant for occasional leakage. leaving them too long results in a variety of unpleasant issues.
That sounds exactly like every single one of my adventures in plumbing.
I dropped and shattered one of my 'free' Mason jars that came with Classico pasta sauce. It's not fixable because, despite my complaints, Classico switched to lug-style jars and doesn't sell their sauce in the nice reusable ones anymore. I'd have to actually pay for real (empty) Mason jars if I wanted to replace it. : (
Luckily, I still have plenty of extras, but still...
pedantic caveats
Yes, I know the jars aren't really 'free' if I'm paying for the sauce.
Yes, I know I ought to just make my own sauce instead of using store-bought.
Yes, I know Classico jars are technically not as thick/strong as real canning jars from Ball etc. and shouldn't actually be used for canning.
Yes, I know lug-style jars could be reused too; it's just that they aren't compatible with the universe of Mason-style canning jar attachments.
A 'free' mason jar, or a 'free mason' jar? This is very important.
The former, LOL!
The Classico mason jars are branded "Atlas," but it is surprisingly difficult to figure out who actually makes them. (It isn't the same Atlas company that made real canning jars; that's been out of business for decades.)
Classico itself is owned by Kraft Heinz, which AFAIK isn't associated with Freemasonry, but it is a multinational food conglomerate and that's worse.
My spine! It shouldn't have happened, especially because I'm not 40 yet and I was just moving some furniture
Waiting on an MRI so the doctor can decide the best path forward, but I'm sure it's fixable
I broke a display. More specifically, a shoddy Chinese NVR box broke the display's main scaler chip by sending a voltage spike down the HDMI cable as it was being plugged in. It wasn't an expensive display nor even mine (it was at the local hackerspace), but I was bummed out because it was one of the few good displays we had over there so I figured I'd see if I can fix it.
My knowledge of electronics isn't great, though I've seen enough Louis Rossmann videos to know the basic principles, so I spent some time troubleshooting it with, and I expect this'll get some flak given that this is Lemmy, the help of AI. I described the problem and what caused it to the AI, took some measurements off the board with its guidance and even figured out how to measure it with an oscilloscope to confirm the diagnosis. This way I could narrow the problem down to the main scaler chip -- by all accounts a pretty common problem with this brand of monitor, though this one hadn't failed so spectacularly.
I ordered a brand new chip from Aliexpress for a total of 15€. I did also find a full logic board on eBay, but it came to over 30€ with shipping and the photo showed it having red marker on top of the very chip I was looking to replace which made me suspect it could have failed QC or was torn out of a broken monitor, so I didn't want to risk it.
After a couple of weeks the chip arrived and it was time to try my hand at BGA soldering for the first time ever. I couldn't find a hot plate so I had to do the whole thing with just the hot air station making it harder than it should have been. I managed to tear off three pads taking the old chip off somehow and had to very carefully fix those with some fine copper wire carefully manipulated with tweezers and a crafts knife under the microscope. Against all odds after I got the new chip soldered in, the display worked perfectly on the first try. The success felt pretty ecstatic.
Wow that’s awesome. Great satisfaction in repairing something, especially when you don’t have the “correct” equipment. Good job!
my ankle, in like three difference places
and damn i hope so lmao
My cat. She grew up with me every day of her life and just last week a work trip pulled me away from her for the first time. She hasn't left my side since I got back. I'm not sure if she will ever be as carefree as she was and I'm mortified I broke her spirit.
That was a better ending than expected tbh
Oxo good grips dish scrubbing wand. Ive had it for years and countless head replacements, it had electrical tape around the handle where the soap button broke 2 years ago. It had a good run.
A fridge magnet when punched the fridge out of anger
Luckily, it was a quick fix with hot glue
My collapsible canoe paddle snapped while in use. Doubt that it's fixable, since most of it floated away in the wind while I hand-paddled to shore.
My band saw. I didn't do anything wrong (I swear!). I hadn't used in it many years, and when I turned it on it made a horrible broken/about-to-explode noise. I checked inside, after turning it off, of course, and the rubber "tires" that go around the pulleys were dry, hard, brittle and cracked. The blade had come off the pulleys, that was the scary noise. You don't want power tools making noises like that, trust me.
I didn't do anything wrong (I swear!)
Uhhh turning a bandsaw on without checking it after years of it sitting idle is, in fact, doing something wrong
My car transmission. 😔
I broke a drumstick in twain, a large chunk of the middle up to the tip separated from the rest. There's no fixing it, that's why we have spares.
At least you didn't impale the head.
At first I thought chicken, then I thought the ice cream, then finally what the literal name is...
My bicycle front tire tube popped yesterday, replaced it today
Keurig coffee maker. Tried to descale it per the instructions and it just quit. It was fixable though - turned out there was a blockage in one of the intake lines, so no water was getting to the heating element and the thermal breaker was tripping, cutting power to the whole thing. YouTube and other posts were helpful, and it sounds like this is not uncommon, esp if your area has hard water.
My first one killed itself during descaling, and I got a warranty replacement that then started having its own problems. Eventually I gave up and switched to grinding beans and making Japanese pour over iced coffee. It tastes way better and I don’t have to feel guilty about polluting the environment and dealing with that shit.
The cheap plastic hinge of my kids lunchbox lid. I fashioned a makeshift hinge with a drilled hole/bent nail. Lasted long enough to get a new Bluey bento box as a replacement.
Great, now I want a Bluey bento box.
Broke the stove top igniter switch... Not the control switch or the igniter.. the igniter switch. If you're confused now I needed a diagram to understand the part I needed so I could order the right part number. It showed up yesterday and I swapped it out and my burner lit up just fine. I was happy with that.
Looking at the part replaced, I broke it pressing too hard down and crushed something.
The heart of a young boy when I had to tell him that aunt bel was out of spicy water (what he calls flavored, carbonated water).
My laptop's screen died, and in taking it apart to see if it was reparable/replaceable, I tore off the antenna socket from the WiFi card. The WiFi card can be easily replaced, but there is still a bit of it stuck in the end of the antenna cable that hasn't come out yet... I'm not sure what the solution is yet (I might try soldering the cable to the card directly, if I decide the cable is a lost cause anyway).
Also my phone had it's last breath last week, so now I'm using a 20 yr old laptop, and a 10 yr old phone.
My WiFi AP broke when my friend she plugged the wrong power cable in and cooked it.
My edge router seems to have a corrupted filesystem. I think its fixable if I flash the os. If its not then I might need to replace the storage again which would be annoying.