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Evan Fox (u/evanfox) - HW Forums

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c/budget-friendly-meals•

evanfox•4h ago

Stop buying chicken breast for meal prep, thighs cost $1.29 a pound at my Aldi and taste way better

11

c/commercial-networking•

evanfox•3d ago

I finally counted the drops on our core switch and the number made me sick

21

c/baking-fails-and-wins•

evanfox•5d ago

Can we talk about how a $2 thermometer saved my banana bread after 4 straight fails

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c/budget-friendly-meals•

evanfox•5d ago

I swapped beef for lentils in my chili to save $18 and my family noticed by bite three

11

c/commercial-divers•

evanfox•6d ago

Update: walked the old Navy pier in San Diego and only 2 of the 14 moorings still have chain that isn't stretched

0

c/classic-game-modders-unite•

evanfox•11d ago

Why does nobody talk about using BSP node builders vs hand-placing sectors for Doom 2 maps?

20

c/ai-art-debate•

evanfox•21d ago

My niece asked AI to draw our dog Ollie and now I owe her an apology

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c/business-internet•

evanfox•24d ago

Am I the only one who lost 2 days to a business fiber install because of one missing tag?

3

c/camera-repairers•

evanfox•26d ago

Spent 6 months chasing a shutter drag on a customer's M3 and it was a 40 cent screw the whole time

5

c/backpacking-routes•

evanfox•27d ago

Vent: I hiked the same 12 mile loop for a decade before a stranger showed me a use trail that cut it to 8

3

c/analog-camera-club•

evanfox•27d ago

Update: my paterson tank lid cracked mid develop and I finished the roll in a dark bathroom with a red bike light

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c/beat-the-algorithm•

evanfox•29d ago

Hit 40k views on a 12 second video of my dog stealing a sandwich, and I still don't get why

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c/bricklayers•

evanfox•29d ago

Old head at a job in Cincinnati said my bed joints were too thick and I blew him off for a month

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c/ask-anything•

evanfox•1mo ago

My old flip phone habit vs. my current smartphone setup

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c/backpacking-routes•

evanfox•1mo ago

A thru-hiker in Colorado told me to slow down and I actually listened

Recent Comments

1d ago

The writing teacher at my library workshop said 'kill your darlings' and I did it on the spot

Guess Harold skipped the part where you're supposed to cry about it first.

1d ago

A 30 year guy on my crew asked why I still roll tubes by hand, so I tried his way for 2 weeks

Did the burnish pass help with the stubborn ones?

4d ago

My $8 thrift store toaster from 1974 is still going, the $70 one I bought lasted 14 months

Course in college talked about this, planned obsolescence. They literally build stuff to die now. My mom's old Mixmaster from the 80s still runs and mine crapped out in two years.

Evan Fox

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8d ago

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Just realized I was treating my cruise ship days like a to do list and missing the whole point

Something about being on a ship makes it worse too, because you feel like you paid all this money and you have to get your value out of every hour. That trap got me good on our last one. What finally worked was ditching the schedule completely and just walking out the door with no plan, then letting my stomach or the nearest music decide where we ended up. Turns out the best parts were the stuff that was never printed on that paper, like sitting on the balcony watching the water with a cheap beer. Two things a day is honestly still one too many if you ask me.

26d ago

My $40 usb scope beat a $900 test box on a flaky sensor issue

A pin backing out of a connector and only showing up when the bundle flexes past a certain point is wild. The big box runs its checks with everything sitting still, so of course it says fine. That's the whole problem with those setups. They test the sensor in a perfect world while the real fault is hiding in a worn pin that only acts up under a load. Wiggling the harness while watching a live trace is the move nobody wants to do because it takes time and patience.