My car's owners manual only lists the 4 pinch welds next to the tires as lift points. No front or back lift points are mentioned.

How can I get the car on 4 jack stands?

If I place my floor jack on the front-left pinch weld to lift the car, there is not enough room for me to place a jack stand at that location anymore. The floor jack gets in the way.

However, I recently found a very interesting video by Home Depot that demonstrates just this.

https://youtu.be/df3nmx_LyGY?t=35

Is this the way everyone has been doing it? My floor jack is pretty wide at the bottom and doesn't allow me to place a jack stand that close to it. Do I just need different equipment?

How wide are those pinch welds?

Wuuttup. I'm here complaining again about Framework's Linux unfriendly display. The new one this time.

https://frame.work/products/display-kit?v=FRANJF0001

Old display, 2256 x 1504 (3:2)

GNOME

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

100% scale + large text accessibility

• Nothing looks blurry
• Most apps scale appropriately
• Some apps don’t respect GNOME’s large text setting (Alacritty)

125% scale

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

Plasma

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

125% scale + Apply scaling themselves

• Nothing looks blurry
• Most apps scale appropriate
• Some apps can’t scale themselves and look tiny (Picard)

125% scale + Scaled by system

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

New display, 2880 x 1920 (3:2)

GNOME

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

100% scale + large text accessibility

• Nothing looks blurry
• Most apps scale appropriately
• Some apps don’t respect GNOME’s large text setting (Alacritty)
• Everything is tiny

150% scale

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

Plasma

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

150% scale + Apply scaling themselves

• Nothing looks blurry
• Some apps can’t scale themselves, but look a little better here? (Picard)

150% scale + Scaled by system

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

tl;dr

In the old display, GNOME at 100% + large text was the best compromise. In the new display, Plasma at 150% + Apply scaling themselves is the best compromise.

Interestingly, Picard scaling itself looks super tiny in the old display, but in the new display it looks... better. It's still not correctly scaled like native Wayland apps, but it's better.

Warning

If you can't stomach moving from GNOME to Plasma, then 🚨 DO NOT BUY THE NEW DISPLAY 🚨. The new display is worse for GNOME.

Once again

I am once again begging Framework to just give us a damn regular DPI display that works! Without workarounds. Without forcing users on specific DEs. Without forcing users to stop using their favorite apps. This new display has basically all of the flaws as the previous one.

Let's say I become a citizen of a country that doesn't allow dual citizenship. During naturalization, new country B tells me I have to renounce citizenship from old country A.

Does that have any effects back in country A? How would country A know? Would country A even care if they found out?

I'm currently working on my sprinkler valve box. It sucks ass. It's dug in the ground. I'm on my knees trying to replace a Hunter valve. This is the second time I'm back here this week because replacing the diaphragm didn't fix the leak. I think I'm gonna have to replace the whole valve, but the stupid valves are in the stupid valve box. So now I have dig out the box anyway (which is something the valve box is supposed to save you from).

I don't get why people think valve boxes are a good idea... It's making maintenance a bitch. It also hid the leak from me for a while. I only found this problem because I had a HUGE helldivers2-style bug breach here. Which makes sense: the box provides shelter and water.

I'm thinking of redoing this part of the Irrigation system and having the valves stick up out of the ground. Obviously now I have to protect against the weather, but that seems like a decent trade off for easy maintenance, easy malfunction discovery, and less potential for a bug infestation. (Don't give a crap about looks.)

Does anyone have any recommendations for above ground enclosures? The main weather I have to protect against is sun. I don't get snow or crazy wind. I just need something like a wooden crate or something to cover the valves.

My lower res, lower DPI display from my old Dell laptop looks much more sharp and crisp than the fancy pants Framework 13 high res display.