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IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.
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Honing rods are not sharpening rods, which is what I was referring to (sharpening rods). This one looked like a sharpening rod on my phone, so if it’s a honing rod, then I was wrong and apologize.
And like the other person, I’ve never invested in using honing rods either.
I literally grew up having multiple generations dating back into the 1800s (great grandfather was a harpoon sharpener, all of us capable of field dressing an elk) explaining to me that honing rods (cermaic or steel) have been effectively mislabelled and misused all too often as ‘sharpening rods’ (google it or look on Amazon). Probably adds to why, if it is a honing rod, I couldn’t differeciate it from a sharpening rod.
Those sharpeners are worthless.
Whetstones are the only true way to sharpen a good knife.
comador @lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the backgroundEnglish221·5 days agoAlternatives
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comador @lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the backgroundEnglish1142·5 days agoBye bye Discord, you were never that good to begin with anyway.
comador @lemmy.worldto Superbowl@lemmy.world•Anyone watching the superb owl tonight?English11·6 days agoPuppy Bowl…
comador @lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Winter Olympics: Show respect rather than jeer the Americans, says IOC bossEnglish14·9 days agoPlease mock and humiliate us. Sincerely, an American.
comador @lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN BusinessEnglish4·12 days ago2 xBarbies 1 cup.
These go for $800+ each btw. I have a broken one of these and it’s still worth a couple hundred lol.
Edit: Specifically the Aerolux 1960s orange bulbs are $800+. They’re collectors items.
comador @lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Mexico struggles to contain escalating violence in SinaloaEnglish5·15 days agoAs much as I’d like it to be that, no. El País is from Spain, but widely read here in Mexico… Think of the Guardian or BBC news on US events, kinda like that.
Mexico sincerely does have a Cartel issue, don’t let anyone fool you otherwise, but most people here in Sonora for example just deal with it as a part of life here. As much as it sucks, it’s Mexico’s issue to deal with.
comador @lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Why is ‘Deuce Bigalow’ rooting for Viktor Orban in Hungary?English24·15 days agoBecause he’s always been a ‘male gigolo’ duh! Sluts are gonna slut.
comador @lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Is Ubiquiti helping the Russian Military?English162·17 days ago‘This is reported in a HunterBook investigation.’
Stopped right there. It’s unsubstantiated bullshit.
‘Hunterbrook is an investigative news outlet and investment firm. It was founded by Sam Koppelman and Nathaniel Horwitz in 2023.[1] Hunterbrook monetizes its reporting through financial trading and litigation.[2]’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunterbrook
Hunterbook lies for its own gains.
comador @lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Is Ubiquiti helping the Russian Military?English113·17 days agoEntire thing sounds like it was written with AI, produced with AI and spewed with the help of AI.
I call bullshit, there’s no real proof.
comador @lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed PrettiEnglish6·17 days agoSorry for the late reply, went to bed after posting.
My father was diagnosed in 2011 with a stage 2 c25 pancreatic neuro tumor at ucsf medical center in San Francisco, CA. My father then had a whipple done at Stanford Medical in 2012. It’s there we learned he had what doctors called the ‘Apple Cancer’ as it was given noteriaty by Jobs.
My Dad had kidney failure in 2015, Chemo in 2017 and passed in 2018. It’s a damned slow and painful death.
It’s my understanding from the doctors a decade ago that survivability simply depends on the individual and while diet can help, it’s neither a silver bullet nor a guarenteed life extender.
I’m not a doctor either, I sincerely don’t know what’s changed in 10+ years, but what I will agree with is this: If he, Jobs or even my Dad were diagnosed sooner there MAY have been more time for them both, but even after everything they learned with Jobs, medicine isn’t any closer (or wasn’t when I was going through it) at understanding how these neurocrine cell cancers advance.
Btw, the chemo my Dad got was absolutely worthless. It may have given us more time with him, but it shortened his quality of life so much we regret letting him get it.
Regarding Jobs himself. He was somewhat of an anarchist and I’ll give you two examples:
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I knew one of his secretaries… Blonde gal, energetic, super cute with freckles whose name escapes me 27 years later. Anyway, she handled several of Jobs personal affairs with one being his cars. Jobs would buy a new Lexus coupe every 5-6 months so he could drive without a license plate. Why? So he could neither be tracked individually nor be cited easily by traffic cameras. Once, he supposedly got a speeding ticket and I recall this secretary going to court saying it wasn’t him to get it thrown out. Jobs sincerely didn’t like authority.
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At the great mall in Milpitas circa y2k era, all the companies off McCarthy would converge there for lunch. Long tables filled with people and CEOs like Jobs would head these tables to give lectures or argue the direction of the industry with others. Jobs on one of those two occasions I met him there was told by the Mall security to be more quiet and he abruptly screamed at the guy to arrest him for it and if he couldn’t arrest him to just fuck off.
Jobs was a piece of work and at least from my experiences shows he probably wouldn’t bend the knee so readily. Not saying he wouldn’t, but the dude had a problem being told what to do, zero doubts. No one will know though, Jobs is dead.
edit: Typos from writing this on a phone while in a meeting lol.
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comador @lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed PrettiEnglish342·18 days agoFirst of all, Steve was a prick who would have sold his daughter to a whorehouse if it guarenteed him fortune and fame. He had that level of issues, often screaming his points at people. I met him twice at the great mall in san jose pre-ipod days while working for CEO Scott Mcnealy at Sun Microsystems.
I will say this though: Steve definitely would NOT have paid off politicians though. He hated politicians enough.
Second, my Dad died of the exact same mother fucking pancreatic cancer and the BEST Steve would have gotten with perfect care would have been an extra year at most. That pancreatic cancer outright destroys you in a very horrible way.
Siri Voice:
'Okay John, I’ve made a doctor’s appointment for you explaining that your IBS and Gerd are now making you poop too much. I’ve also sent a picture of your poops. I’ve also ordered you a Bidet and sent a note to your SO that you’re not going out tonight ’
comador @lemmy.worldto California@lemmy.world•Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California” Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar #shorts #guitar #rockEnglish1·20 days agoReplied to the wrong thread and removed the original, sorry.
Only Apple users think Apple isn’t spying on them.
And Apple users are about to realize with the new Apple AI aka Google Gemini that they ARE spying on them.
comador @lemmy.worldto California@lemmy.world•Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California” Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar #shorts #guitar #rockEnglish1·20 days agodeleted by creator
Looks good, but the thumbnail on my phone makes this dish look like a decapitated bird on a plate lol.