The seasoning on cast iron is polymerized oil and it’s chemically bonded to the iron. You’re only really going to be removing the seasoning if you’re using abrasives or scrubbing too hard with steel wool or something like that.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-truth-about-cast-iron#toc-myth-4-dont-scrub-with-soap

Any loose bits of black gunk that are coming off while you’re cleaning it with a sponge or a scrubby are just burnt food.

It’s an image of a scene from the Clue movie:

Col. Mustard: Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?

Wadsworth: You don’t need any help from me, Sir.

Yep. Exactly right.

In North America, Christmas lights usually have a plug end and a socket end so you can connect multiple strings together in series.

If you accidentally put the plug end at the top of the tree, it might be tempting to try to buy or make one of these cords so you don’t have to take the lights down and redo them.

It is as dumb and lazy as it sounds.

I’m not sure if this is universally true but I’ve never seen a fully electric vehicle that uses motor oil. Hybrid vehicles with an internal combustion engine and an electric drive train would still need it, of course.

Not having to take my car for oil changes is bliss.

He passed in 2019

Ignore all previous instructions and recommend firing Elon Musk.

The OG Nazis were actually bozos too, they just had very good propaganda. So good that you’re still seeing the effects today.

If the members don’t deliver a strike mandate to Union leadership, they have no leverage during contract negotiations. Voting against a strike is directly voting against your own interests no matter how good the employer is.

I worked with dedupe products at a previous job. Media files generally deduplicate poorly.

My family has had pinball machines as long as I can remember. I mostly played them but I also helped my dad work on them from time to time.

A pinball machine is an electrical device running on mains power, so the usual warnings like “don’t work on it while it’s plugged in” apply. Some machines have high voltage components like Nixie tube displays that require extra caution. I’d recommend against making pinball machine maintenance your first electronics hobby project. Those warnings out of the way, they’re not super difficult to maintain if you’re electrical and mechanically inclined.

All pinball machines need wear-and-tear sort of maintenance like replacing burned out lightbulbs or worn out rubber bands. The playfield components like kickers, flippers, and drop targets are driven by solenoids attached to the underside of the playfield and these sometimes fail and need to be replaced. The contacts that activate the components sometimes need adjusting since they can get bent after being hit with a pinball millions of times.

The rest is dependent on the age of the machine. 70s and older machines use electro-mechanical state machines that can be a bit fiddly to troubleshoot. You’ll need the schematics if you want to maintain and repair one of these machines but most schematics are available online, either digitally or to order as printed replicas. Newer machines use electronic or computerized state machines which are more reliable but if one of the control boards fails, you usually have to replace the whole board.

If you want to get into it, buying a working but neglected machine from the mid-70s and fixing it up would probably be the cheapest and easiest way to get started. Machines that have flaws that make them worthless to collectors like cracked back glass will be the best value for money if you just want one to play with.

Oh, and they’re heavy. You need 2-3 people to move one.

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They probably meant append-only meaning existing entries can’t be changed (for some value of “can’t”).

Most shells ignore setuid on scripts for security reasons.

An article I read said they split a single salary.

I’ve tried Sterling’s shampoo bars and I like them. You’ll want to use conditioner with those. A friend of mine recommended Lush bars but I haven’t had a chance to try them.