Temporary (mid-term) closure for forest-fire not allowed? - Lemmy.world

Hey guys. There’s a highway that connect the coast to inland, and without it drivers have a 4-hour detour. It has been closed for the past month while a forest fire has been fought by lots of fire crews. It’s been burning since August 15th, so over a month now actually. They’ve finally mitigated the fire enough that they are temporarily re-opening the highway, however it’s remaining closed 8am - 4pm Mon-Fri so that the firemen are not blocked by congestion. When it’s not closed between those hours, only 1 lane is open and traffic is led by patrol cars. There is no ETA for a full re-opening. I went to go apply a condition, when I realized that no one had actually closed the road in the first place. So I added something like “conditional=no @ (Mon-Fri 8:00-16:00)” (I forget the exact syntax). A day later, someone came in and reverted the change saying “the consensus is that only changes lasting 3 or more months should be made. There are people who download these maps for offline use.” But, the DOT of both states this fire is affecting are begging drivers to stop using GPS to the coast on this route - people are driving into active fire zones. Does concession for offline users actually supersede safety?

Upvoting a factually incorrect comment because it sounds nice, and downvoting a factually correct comment because it sounds bad. - Lemmy.world

It's there a master list somewhere of compatible parts for the Inventor Hub (I think the same as Technic Large Hub 88016) - Lemmy.world

I bought my son a Mindstorms Inventor set back in like February 2021 thinking we’d be able to buy cool expansions for like at least a decade. But, he was a little too young both to build and program, so it’s collected dust since then. He recently expressed interest in it again, and so we built one of the 5 robots. But, he doesn’t want to disassemble it to make anything else. So I was just going to buy an expansion set. Well… I just saw that the whole IP was discontinued like a year ago… So I’m trying to find parts that are compatible with the hub, so I can see about getting them individually. When I look on lego.com [http://lego.com] and open listings for individual parts, I see “Connect to the 88016”, but I’m wondering if other parts will work (such as Color and Distance Sensor 88007, which says it’s compatible with the 88009 Hub, but not explicitly the 88016 large hub). So I guess two questions: 1. Are every motor/sensor with male plugs that physically fit into 88016 compatible with it (and with the Scratch software) 2. Is there a master list of compatible motors/sensors for 88016

Piano pedal question, if that's OK; Anyone have a good modern alternative to a TC Helicon Harmony-M? The MIDI version of Harmony-G? - Lemmy.world

I already have a Harmony M. I bought it over a decade ago; it’s my first and only pedal. I was interested to see if they revised it and gave it some modern features, but it looks like they’ve fully discontinued it. I’m not well educated on what to look for. I wad curious if you guys have any knowledge/recommendations of modern MIDI controlled pedals (or perhaps any non-foot-interacted musical equipment) that offers vocal harmonies, and maybe other niceties like looping and whatnot.

My take on a lane balancer, and a 2-belt overflow balancer. These could probably be optimized, but they have proven useful (if not a bit unconventional) - Lemmy.world

So first off, here’s my lane balancer. As far as I know this allows 100% throughput (just a bit big). [https://i.imgur.com/Q4JL5Bm.png] And here’s what I’m calling a 2-Belt Overflow Balancer. It will keep the inputs on their output belt (top stays on top, bottom stays on bottom), and will only actually balance between the two if either are backed up. [https://i.imgur.com/3aHR4Nq.png] And lastly, here’s two lane balancers, followed by the overflow balancer: [https://i.imgur.com/cak91Dx.png]

My (newish) 30-min dial timer for my bathroom lights keeps sticking. I've been told that some silicone based lubricant should be safe to spray into the mechanism. Am I going to burn down my house? - Lemmy.world

To clarify; I have not yet sprayed anything into the dial mechanism. This used to be a light switch, but my son kept leaving it on. So I swapped it out for one of these dials about 2 years ago. Now it seems to be getting stuck around the 10-min mark and being left on all day. I’d prefer not to replace this dial again; the house is old and the wiring in that receptacle was already pretty hard to work with. But I mean I’m not going to burn my house down in an effort to save myself 10 minutes and $10. Is it safe to use a silicone based spray on it? [https://i.imgur.com/hKm54VC.png] [https://i.imgur.com/EzBEs5u.png]

Mods, can this post be a meta conversation about your survey post? - Lemmy.world

I couldn’t figure out how to message the mods (or even individual users) on my app.a space to discuss the survey and your post would be nice.

As a lemmy.world user, am I not allowed to reply to users from kbin.social, even if they've commented on lemmy.world? - Lemmy.world

There’s a specific comment I’m trying to reply to in the lemmy.world/c/games community, agreeing with how much I love a game they mentioned. But after drafting the message, on mobile it just acts like I haven’t pressed the button. On desktop, there’s and endless loading circle. I tried posting the comment before bed, and again this morning, same issue. I was able to make a top-level comment in another post. I did post something controversial so maybe they blocked me (although it doesn’t look like they commented on my controversial post). But I don’t even know if that limits replies. The only other thing I can think of is they’re a kbin.social user. Does any of this explain why I can’t reply?