Bi-Bi relationships.

I don't know if this is a good idea necessarily, but what I do to get grime out from under my nails is to (very carefully) scrape under the nail and across the quick with the tip of my pocketknife. it's got a very sharp, narrow blade with a fine point. Between that and a heavy-duty degreaser soap, something you might find at a mechanic shop, I can usually get my nails clean enough to eat with in fairly short order.

I have cut myself under a nail using this method and that is very unpleasant so it's probably not ideal, but it works well enough with a steady hand that I keep doing it. Been many years now since I've drawn blood.

If time isn't a factor, I'll just wash normally and let whatever doesn't come off just sit under the nails for a while. eventually it'll grow out and wash out on its own and I don't have to go poking around. I only use the knife if I don't feel comfortable letting whatever's under my nails stay there. Garden dirt? Let it ride. Automotive fluid medley? Probably not great to absorb through the skin, gonna try to get that off quickly.

lmfao = el-em-ef-ay-oh (like that one ancient party band)

I'd forgotten they ever existed, wow. A true flash in the pan.

My answer is "El'-em ay'-yo", all the letters distinct but the AO get a little blended together. Southern US vowel sounds.

They're called data centers because they... do actually have lots of meaningful data. Tons of it. A lot of it is stolen, most of it has no business being in these corporations' hands, and none of it is available to you unless you can cut a big enough check, but it is real data. Why do you think palantir has been worming its way into every government agency? Its because they want valuable data, and they process that data in data centers.

My town does have a website but it doesn't do much other than list phone numbers and office hours for a few departments. what services are available on it are contracted out to corporate partners. I would not be surprised if the website itself is managed by a corporation as well. It is mostly useless and there is very little motivation to improve it.

But I'm not really talking about a municipal datacenter, more like a community center or library branch having a digital commons for the neighborhood, with some useful tools, access to reliable data, and maybe some recreational software. Something like what Nextdoor should have been but not enshittified to death by VC.

I guess it depends on how much equipment is needed before something becomes a "datacenter". I don't really see a community hub being a massive supercomputer, maybe a small office or a room in a local library. I'd argue that a single server could be called a datacenter if it centralizes data, but I don't think that is the common understanding of the word. Maybe the word needs to be reclaimed.

I would love a (solar-powered) community datacenter that hosts services for the local population. Community bulletin board or forum to share event notices, lost pets, road closures etc, simple messaging and filesharing utilities for those not technical enough to host their own, maybe some simple games like chess or cards.

The problem with the current explosion of datacenters is that they don't benefit the community at all, they're just digital oil rigs that drain the community of resources while also actively poisoning the area they're in. Small wonder communities are against them.

can't wait to flee a pack of these on my ATV after robbing a megafarm for my scrappy resistance group.

Yeah but sharkbites aren't necessary for PEX, I was just using them for convenience's sake. Is there a benefit to doing home plumbing with CPVC over, say, PEX-B with crimped connections?

what's the advantage of CPVC over PEX? I've run a few PEX lines off my old copper pipes and didn't need any expensive tooling, just a ratchet cutter and sharkbite fittings, which were a little expensive but suited my small needs pretty well.