Technology
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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I haven't powered it up in several years, but I keep an old Windows XP machine with my DAW software on it. I just always ran it offline and moved files with a thumb drive. That said, I never did try a native Linux solution.
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I might am absolutely going to steal some of those. I've got similar rules but they're much less direct.
Technology
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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Eh, my last Asus ran Linux fine. Though until Ubuntu 18.04 came out, I had to patch the i2c driver and recompile the kernel in order to make the touchpad work lol.
politics
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6 months ago
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I can respect and agree with that. I'm also not asking anyone to start buying Biden merch or waving flags or anything like that; just asking people to see the bigger picture here.
Personally, I don't think he's been a bad president, all things considered. I voted for him last time expecting him to be a seat filler that wouldn't make things worse, but he's genuinely surprised me with what he's been able to get done, especially with the current Congress.
Would I like to see someone more progressive at the helm? Absolutely. But that's sadly not the world we live in right now or a choice we have at the moment.
Technology
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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windows subsystem for Linux to work in my windows VM on my Linux machine.
Ignoring the blasphemy of that, the fact it doesn't work may prove that we are, indeed, living in a simulated universe. lol
Technology
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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but I have a tendency to jump into a new game for like 3 weeks and then off to the next like the horrid ADHD having fuck that I am
That's basically why I stopped gaming. Have saved so much money from not filling up my Steam library with games I'll never finish. lol
Technology
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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Yeah I'm not as much of a fan of PopOS as I thought I'd be. I have it on my daily driver laptop, and every system update seems to introduce some wacky bug/glitch or another. Nothing major, just random small annoyances that usually get fixed in the next update.
It dual boots Pop and Debian, and Debian performs flawlessly. It's a Thinkpad, so Linux support has always been fantastic. I'm thinking of just dropping the PopOS partition and going back to my original love, Debian.
Technology
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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6 months ago
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I almost went back to Mint on my last rebuild, but ended up going with Debian + Cinnamon. So far so good.
Technology
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025
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6 months ago
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Unless you run some really niche software or are a heavy gamer, you'll likely have no problems and enjoy it. Most software that you need for daily use has a FOSS equivalent that's equal or better. Usually those are also available straight from the package manager (if not there, then most likely Flatpak).
Just stick with a well supported distro like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, or PopOS, and it'll be super easy.
I'm actually looking forward to the perfectly good Linux boxes that are bound to be popping up at yard sales or on ebay once that happens.
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6 months ago
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Republicans, who have already shown us their plans if they win, are unified behind Trump. That's who they're backing, they vote in droves, and put no further thought into it than cheering for their favorite sports team.
The other side, us, are splitting hairs, nitpicking, and generally letting perfect be the enemy of good at every turn.
All these accounts dredging up every article that fits their "Biden Bad" agenda (yes, agenda, based on post history) are not helping anything. They're not suggesting any alternate candidate that can win. They're not suggesting contacting elected representatives to support/oppose specific polices. They're not doing anything other than spreading FUD.
Every time someone in the comments asks one of them to recommend a candidate that has a chance, they either go radio silent or move the goalposts.
The constant bombardment of "Biden Bad" posts (but adding "though I guess we should vote for him" in the fine print that no one reads) seem tone deaf at best and actively encouraging voter apathy at the worst. Whether the posters are actual trolls or misguided progressives is completely irrelevant.
And no, I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't criticize members of our side (that's one of our defining characteristics versus the cult of the other side), but when it's a constant drone of "vote uncommitted / third party" it's hard to not see those as bad faith and working against the greater good.
Like it, understand it, or believe it or not, the reality of the situation is we have a two-party first past the post system, it's pretty much already guaranteed to be Biden v Trump, and one of them has already laid out plans to be a dictator (cough not biden cough) . Those are our choices.
Pick a side or get out of the way. The opposition is unified, and we should be too.
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6 months ago
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Yep. I naively thought OP (and the similar accounts posting similar patterns) would shut up and get on board as we approach the general, but looks like they're going to be banging the "tHiRd PaRTy" drum all the way to a Republican victory. And then all the things they've at least pretended to care so much about are going to get much, much worse.
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6 months ago
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Not FDIC insured and savings interest rates of -4.62%.
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Side note: James Hong looks *amazing* at 95. I did not realize he was that up there.
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6 months ago
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Well, they're certainly in a legal pickle, now, aren't they?
Politics
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7 months ago
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"My husband, Wesley, and I just watched President Biden's State of the Union address from our living room..."
Considering she likely wrote that before he even gave the address, I doubt it would have mattered what he said or how he said it.
Videos
I have no idea why Ann Coulter agreed to be on the dais for the Rob Lowe roast, but as someone who hates her, I'm glad she was there.
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That was definitely my favorite one because I did not see it coming.
Videos
I have no idea why Ann Coulter agreed to be on the dais for the Rob Lowe roast, but as someone who hates her, I'm glad she was there.
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Yeah, she was and did (tried, anyway). I watched the whole roast a couple of weeks ago, and her set was just complete cringe and was met with boos.
Cybersecurity
Microsoft says Russian hackers breached its systems, accessed source code
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7 months ago
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Oh, no. Imagine all the havoc that could be wrought if the source code for an operating system was released onto the internet /s
That's why you should never rely on security through obscurity.
-- Sent from my Linux desktop
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Jimmy Carr and, surprisingly, Peyton Manning got some of the best digs in.
Unpopular Opinion
Esthetically speaking, CUVs are an abomination
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7 months ago
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Music
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7 months ago
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Jack Black, Kyle Gass, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman....they all look so old.
(Looks in mirror)
😱 Oh....right.
Edit: Holy crap, James Hong looks amazing for at 95. Didn't realize he was that up there.
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7 months ago
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As the NRA host body began to wither and die, the demon slug that had been animating it slithered out and moved into a new willing host. The cycle continues.
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7 months ago
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When someone's preaching hate, they're already out of line.
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7 months ago
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I rarely side with the person freaking out publicly, but this is one of those times. I'd be right there with him, too.
Just 1 No, 2 Wait, 4 Oh, now there's 8, 16, 32, 64, 128... Ahh, they're everywhere!
Alt text: "Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?" -- Lewis Black - Me of Little Faith Also, if you ever have the opportunity to see Lewis Black perform, you should absolutely take it.
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2 points for the episode/main plot. 0 points for the joke/scene because I wanted to post it as a GIF and already gave that away. Also points are made up and don't matter.
WebDAV has been around a lot longer and does many of the same things as object storage. It also has support for random access read/writes where object storage requires you to download, edit, and re-upload the whole file. Seems like a no-brainer if you wanted to offer cloud storage to customers. I thought maybe supporting large uploads was the draw, but WebDAV can support chunking, so you don't need to allocate extra server resources to accommodate large files. I use both daily, and WebDAV just seems like it does everything better: object storage feels like throwing files in a junk drawer and WebDAV more like an organized filing cabinet. Aside from Nextcloud and a few FOSS applications, the only big thing I recall that adopted WebDAV was Frontpage back in the day. So, what am I missing? What makes object storage so compelling that it became ubiquitous while WebDAV is practically a legacy spec?
Image description: Lisa Simpson in a very poorly made costume in the shape of Florida. The state name is misspelled as 'Floreda' and she's sobbing "I'm not a state, I'm a monster"
This pup is famously difficult to photograph (even her shelter photo was blurry). Somehow manged to grab this shot, so I have to share it. And yes, that little chunk of missing drywall in the background was all her lol.
3 points for the episode/main plot. 2 points for the joke/scene. Also points are made up and don't matter
The screenshot doesn't make it apparent, but the user self-deleted that account. As a user, it's annoying when there's good conversations in the comments that just disappear forever. As an instance admin, it's annoying to have that inaccessible stuff just taking up space until it maybe, eventually gets garbage collected months later (except any thumbnails/media....that lives forever wasting space 😠)
Got suckered into helping a non-profit with their web presence, and of course, it was a Wordpress site (at least it wasn't a Facebook page). Everything about WP is mildly infuriating at best, just regular infuriating at worst. Everything. If you know, you know. It's like they tried so hard to make it "easy" to use that it went full circle into a fuster-cluck of unintuitive and clunky everything. With every facet of the experience being an upsell, is there a tier where it's just not horrible to use? Specific examples: - WYSIWYG editor doesn't match the preview - Chasing the scroll point in the outline when moving elements - Can't edit block properties after they're added - Everything is a damn upsell - Want to remove the Wordpress footer? Upgrade to a paid plan (does not specify tier) - Okay, I've updated to a paid plan that meets our needs. Please remove the footer please. - "Oh, you have to have a plan two tiers up to do that" - General clunkyness - Only supports Apple map embeds which cannot find any of the addresses I need to enter - Cannot embed a Google map properly (doesn't support percentage widths for the iframe element so I can't make it responsive) - Changing the column widths on a layout grid block never releases the slider, so you have to mash keys until *something* else selects that locks it roughly where you want it.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/6893317 Two Peruvian women accused of drug trafficking got more than they bargained for on Wednesday when a romantic gesture turned out to be a police raid leading to their arrests. Police footage of the raid showed a giant teddy bear holding up gifts outside the women's home, while another officer held a heart-covered sign reading "You are my reason to smile". One of the women rushed down the stairs to receive her offering. But love can be deceiving, and the cuddly bear quickly sprang into action, tackling her to the ground. The second woman was arrested inside.
Boo bees. (This may be a borderline uncle joke, though). Edit: Credit for the joke goes to Alan Davies
I always believed that there were none, but on a rewatch of QI, I learned there are actually two: - **Hurple / hirple**: To limp (verb) or a limping gait (noun) - **Curple**: A strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward. **YouTube**: [QI | What Rhymes With Purple?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMBKhB8kTBM)
Of all the random Wikipedia articles I stumble upon, this one definitely had me saying, "wait, what?" more than once. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_3D_Noah%27s_Ark > The game that would eventually become Super 3D Noah's Ark was originally conceived as a licensed game based on the film Hellraiser, a movie that [Wisdom Tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_Tree) founder Dan Lawton was a great fan of. Wisdom Tree acquired the game rights to Hellraiser for $50,000, along with a license to use the Wolfenstein 3D game engine from id Software, believing that the fast, violent action of Wolfenstein would be a good match for the mood of the film. > Eventually the Hellraiser game concept was abandoned due to several issues: the hardware of the NES was found unsuitable because of its low color palette and the addition of a co-processor would have made the cartridge far too expensive for consumers. ... In addition, the management at Wisdom Tree decided that developing and publishing a horror-themed game would clash with their religious, family-friendly image.
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That's why representation definitely matters.
I grew up in Redneckville, US with a population-of-color totaling zero. Primetime shows with minority or diverse casts (Family Matters, Martin, Ghostwriter, Sister Sister, Hangin' WIth Mr. Cooper, etc) showed me very early on that people are just people.
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8 months ago
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That's a very robust take on the article.
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8 months ago
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Classic.
I say that to my boss probably 2-3 times a month. His name is not "Rose". lol
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8 months ago
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shorty get down, good lord. baby got 'em all open all over town
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Apparently I'm on a 90s country kick this evening. Bonus: [Down at the Twist and Shout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuapCENFM2U)
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8 months ago
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lol, right?
There's definitely something special about 90s country. It existed briefly in this weird transition period between classic "Johnny Cash" country and contemporary "big trucks, cold beer, and panderin" country.
ptz
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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He reminds me so much of my 4th grade English teacher...mostly because of that power mullet. lol. RIP to them both.
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Yeah, it's country, but I like songs that tell a story.
The Simpsons
It smells like the art teachers' office
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8 months ago
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You and me both 😂
World News
How did a raccoon knock out power for large swaths of downtown Toronto last night?
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8 months ago
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I have never been to Toronto, but your description of it makes me think of Pawnee.
News
YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree
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8 months ago
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Apparently, yeah. The Wired article I linked doesn't mention that part, just how they pieced his illegal activities together. So, I'm unclear if he used those services or was providing them.
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8 months ago
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😂
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> For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California. There was a [story posted a day or so ago](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/31/us/teen-serial-swatter-charged-florida/index.html) about a teen getting arrested for multiple Swatting attacks. This story from Wired explains how the authorities tracked him down and pieced everything together.
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8 months ago
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I went into the article hoping most of the arguments against the facility would be because we shouldn't throw heaps of dead monkeys at science, but it seems that the bulk of them are just garden-variety NIMBY / "oh, no, my property values" complaints.
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8 months ago
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And when the level boss starts puffing up and keeps getting redder and redder, it means you're winning.
Ask Lemmy
If you woke up tomorrow, and everyone from tiktok started using Lemmy, what would your first thought be?
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8 months ago
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There's no hard limit on the number of people you can block in Lemmy (unlike the alien site which assumes only 1,000 assholes exist in the world). If the TikTok-ers mostly come from one instance, defederation would be swift. Barring that, I would just engineer a solution since my instance runs a lot of custom frontned/backend components already.
TL;DR: I'd notice it long enough to get annoyed, but it would be an easily solvable problem.
Linux
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8 months ago
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Way back, I used to have the original, 50 MB DSL as a default PXE boot option in my lab. Was awesome for quick troubleshooting or to test hardware without having to mess with USB keys.
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8 months ago
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Me/Dragonborn: (Mines an entire quarry's worth of stone). Hey, Lydia, I want to trade some items with you.
I'm *pretty sure* this is OC but I can't guarantee I didn't see this meme elsewhere, forget that I saw it, and recreate it accidentally.
World News
Russia’s New Threats to Exiles: Seized Assets and Forced Returns
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8 months ago
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There's always a loophole.
If any Russians living abroad have anything they want to get off their chest, lemme know, and I'll besmirch the daylights out of Russia for you. I'll have to do it in English or Spanish though since all I know in Russian is that "D" looks like New Hampshire with legs.
Frasier
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8 months ago
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Hope to have some contributions soon. I'm due for a re-watch, and I'm sure I'll find some gems to share.
Have been watching nothing but narco novelas all winter, lol, so I need a change of pace.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11452960 Police in Canada are investigating the bizarre theft of a taxidermy polar bear weighing some 500lb (225kg) from a resort near Edmonton. The bear, standing some 12ft (3.6m) tall, is believed to have been snatched during the cold snap in early January with temperatures near -30C (-22F).
Sorry if this is a dumb question. I currently drive a hybrid and am looking to upgrade in the next 1- 2 years to either PHEV or full EV. In either scenario, I envision most of my charging will be done at home. However, if I go full EV, I will eventually need to charge in public. [I've read it varies from charging network to charging network](https://blog.evbox.com/electric-car-charging-payment), so I figure I'd ask EV owners what their experiences are like. I *really* don't like the idea of relying on an app or monthly subscription or anything like that. So, is a debit card more or less guaranteed to be accepted, and if so, are the rates significantly higher than some kind of membership option? Edit: In the US if it matters.
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The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) in London. CEO Eben Upton tells Ars that should the IPO happen, it will let Raspberry Pi's not-for-profit side expand by "at least a factor of 2X." And while it's "an understandable thing" that Raspberry Pi enthusiasts could be concerned, "while I'm involved in running the thing, I don't expect people to see any change in how we do things."
Years ago, after Xbox Live for the original Xbox shut down, there was a program you could run on your PC that would connect over the internet to others running that software. It would emulate an Xbox and do matchmaking and your local/physical Xbox would see the others through the program as "local" using the system link option for multiplayer games (Halo, etc) For the life of me I cannot remember what that was called, and my Google-fu is failing and only returning results for console emulators. Some friends from college and I dug out our old Xboxes, and we want to setup remote play for Halo 2 and have a nostalgic "Shotguns on Midship" night. Update: Solved. Thanks, mouse@midwest.social. XLink Kai was the software I was thinking of.
I've been noticing an occasional sewer smell in my bathroom, and finally realized it's only present when it's below freezing outside. As soon as the weather warms up, the smell goes away. For reference, my house was built in '55 and the toilet is plumbed into the original steel sewer line. There are no leaks (everything below the upstairs bathroom is easily accessible from the basement), and no issues flushing. House has sewer service, so no septic tank to worry about. Could it just be the steel pipe contracting in the cold? If so, would replacing the wax seal address the issue? Additionally, if that's plausible, would putting a space heater near the steel pipe help by warming it back up (temporary solution to address the smell). Basement is finished and conditioned, but I don't heat it for comfort unless we're spending time down there. I'll just deal with it being 60 degrees when I'm doing laundry. If not, any other ideas? That's my only hypothesis, so hoping to get some feedback. I've got no problem calling in a plumber and plan to do so, but I'd just like to have an idea of what I'm up against so I can set expectations for pricing and such. Edit: Have ruled out dry drain traps. Current plan is to just let the plumber figure it out and hope for the best. Thanks for the suggestions.
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🎶 I'm the cream of the crop, I rise to the top, I never eat a pig 'cause a pig is a cop Or better yet a Terminator, like Arnold Schwarzenegger Tryin' to play me out like as if my name was Sega 🎶
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It's still a fun song, but I like the *memories* this song unlocks a *lot* more than the song itself.
