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I'd like to add a band saw to my tool collection.

I'm using a single garage as my workshop space, so space is a bit of a luxury. As such, I'm thinking a "desktop" band saw might be decent enough.

Before I buy something I figured I'd enlist the help here to:

- Talk me out of it if I'm being stupid

- Help me avoid picking a dud (or at least one that's going to be more annoying because it doesn't have standard sized features - like how my Scheppach table saw doesn't have standard 3/4" mitre slots)

- Point me in a good direction for a balance of cost and performance

My typical projects are generally small, or DIY / redecorating in nature at the moment. I'm working through organising

I have a Steam Deck docked to my TV in the living room that me and my wife play on.

I'm thinking of adding a living room gaming PC build (like a Steam Machine, but probably something I DIY) to the mix.

I'm thinking we could play games separately without issue (one of us, probably me, on the Deck, the other one the TV).

My question is: Could we play coop games together, on the separate devices, without having to buy two copies of the game we want to play? We're set up as a family in Steam and have it so we can share the library of games (if that makes any difference).

The reason behind my question: We really like playing games together, but the range of couch coop games seems to be ever

I have been playing around with LLMs on a dual 5060ti (Windows) rig, and now want to change things up.

I built a separate dual 5070ti (Debian) rig and now have that running Qwen 3.6 27b UD Q6 MTP @ 100k context, without any multimodal capacity. That's solid for the text processing and generation stuff I want to do right now (which is mainly IT support tickets triage and PowerShell scripting via OpenCode as the "harness").

This now leaves my dual 5060ti rig ready for repurposing. I'd been having trouble with "terminal loops" in Qwen and Gemma. My plan is to flatten the OS and start again with Debian as that's been solid.

I'm thinking the 5060ti rig could augment the text processing of t

I have been playing around with LLMs on a dual 5060ti (Windows) rig, and now want to change things up.

I built a separate dual 5070ti (Debian) rig and now have that running Qwen 3.6 27b UD Q6 MTP @ 100k context, without any multimodal capacity. That's solid for the text processing and generation stuff I want to do right now (which is mainly IT support tickets triage and PowerShell scripting via OpenCode as the "harness").

This now leaves my dual 5060ti rig ready for repurposing. I'd been having trouble with "terminal loops" in Qwen and Gemma. My plan is to flatten the OS and start again with Debian as that's been solid.

I'm thinking the 5060ti rig could augment the text processing of t

It's been pointed out to me that whenever I bust out the BBQ I always have the meat sorted, but not the sides or accompanying pieces, or more specifically not any sides that don't get grilled (potatoes and corn on the cob).

My brain goes:

- Charcoal

- Meat

- Fire

- Done

So, how do you plan those extras out?

Take tomorrow, I'm planning a spatchcock chicken (instead of roasting it). I'll pop the potatoes on the grill to make jackets instead of roast potatoes. I feel like we need something else to round that out.

I've got to the point where I need some help.

I'm trying to run Qwen 3.6, and it will eventually fall into a loop where it's just outputting "/" symbols when it's "thinking". It just loops through spitting out / until the max tokens is hit so you see things like "Thinking: Some word ////////////////////////////". In my troubleshooting with Claude AI the term "zombie loop" is getting thrown around.

It doesn't seem time bound, as it doesn't happen on any sort of routine (not once over the weekend, 4 times today). Claude seems to think it's some mishandling of special characters, but I think that's junk, as it's not consistent and I've not found a way to trigger a Zombie loop deliberately.

I

Now the Treasure Hunt is over, and I don't need to touch the coin ever again, how should I clean and preserve it for keeping?

I've not collected coins before, so I don't want to accidentally trash this coin. As in: I don't want it to tarnish while being stored, and if it does have value (beyond face value) in the future, I want to maintain that.

I've heard cleaning old coins can ruin the value, but my understanding is that's more about the "story" of the coin, so might not be relevant here.

First, I appreciate the desire to pay as little tax as legally allowed. I also appreciate there are some legitimate "tax traps" where the resultant "take home" amount is disproportionate.

As far as I can tell though, the 40% bracket is not one of those traps.

Given that UK tax is applied in a progressive manner (i.e. you'll only pay 40% tax on the amount you earn above the threshold, and not 40% flat on everything) why are so many people obsessed with getting under the bracket?

Now sure, if you don't need the money in your account today, lock it away in your pension by all means.

Is there something I'm missing? Is my fomo on obsessing about reducing my tax bracket well founded?

I see a lot of "you're using too much detergent" messages around the place, but it all seems geared up to American top loaders and liquid detergent and only needing like a table spoon.

As someone in the UK, with powder detergent, and a 7kg max load, how much powder is enough?

I also have the same question for fabric conditioner (liquid) if I may please?