Defender said:
@alexanderjohnson
Thanks for the input! You guys are all correct, the main forum definitely crapped out on us, but Micah was able to kick the server a few times and get us restarted.
This is proof that we made the right decision to change the software since the old MTO is sinking.
Also, Alexander, I don't know you (sorry, back in the day I knew everyone) so if you are a legit member make sure you either sign up at the real Forum.Multitool.Org or prepare to sign up again as all the posts and member accounts here are going to be wiped out when we import everything from SMF.
So... rapture time?
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1- Forum too wide on mobile, cannot submit posts because you can't scroll over far enough to hit the Submit button.
2- remove (or make selectable) so it doesn't follow you when you scroll down.
3- Fix top menu- on mobile it is far too wide.
4- Do a backup/snapshot of current config before making changes because it's currently working- not ideal, but working.
5- break up forum posts so each post looks different from the one before it.
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I've been carrying a growing pile of rechargeable gear on hikes and weekend trips around western PA — headlamp, a couple of 18650 flashlights, and my phone — and I'm getting tired of rationing charge. I'm looking at small portable power stations in the 300–500Wh range, but I keep going back and forth. Some listings advertise a certain capacity yet the real usable output seems lower once you account for inverter losses, and I'm not sure how much that matters for mostly USB loads. I also can't decide whether to prioritize pure capacity or a model that lets me plug in a small folding solar panel for longer trips. The weight difference between units in that class also seems bigger than I expected. For those who already carry one of these around their EDC and outdoor kit, what capacity has actually been worth the weight, and is solar input something you've found yourselves using in practice?
@alexanderjohnson You are really speaking my language on this one. I've been looking for portable power options for years, and it really does boil down to weight. As part of my daily EDC I carry four power banks- I don't usually need them, or at least not all of them, but I really like having them. Two are 10000 mah, and two are 15000mah. The four together aren't too heavy, but they give me days with a cell phone. I'm a big advocate of having power with you- it's all well and good to get out to nature and away from technology blah blah blah, but your cell phone is the single best piece of safety equipment humans have ever had, and it is much more useful when it has power. Add to that my multiple GoPros, drones, heated vest etc, and portable power is pretty well a necessity. I have a first generation Bio-Lite camp stove, which burns wood and generates electricity while cooking your lunch, but it is hungry- you need lots of wood to keep it going. I hear the second generation is much better, but I wasn't going to buy another one! I also had a Bio-Lite solar panel that was really good, but very limited, and as such I burned it out. The dual fold out panels would only charge the internal battery, and the internal battery was smaller than the ones in most modern phones. The unit also had a USB out for charging phones, but you couldn't have power come in and go out at the same time, nor could you bypass the teeny internal battery to charge an external device. It was, IMHO imbecilic. There is a new product I have been looing very closely at lately, although it is more of a camp oriented device rather than a "use on the go" type device, and it's called The Shine Turbine. It's a small, portable windmill, about the size of a football. You set it up and it generates power at your camp and you pack it all away when you are on the move. Not great for hiking maybe, but great if you are camping- you can let it run all day when you do things, and all night while you sleep. It doesn't help me much as a kayaker or hiker, but I keep meaning to get one anyway, because it certainly seems like a good thing to have. The other good thing is the drone batteries- I am carrying the drone anyways, so it's nice to have the multiple drone batteries since they are high capacity and high discharge. The charger/carrying case for most modern drone batteries can also be used as a battery bank for your phone, which is nice. Yes, it limits the amount I can use the drone, but if I am having an emergency, I'd rather have the phone. I always thought that someone should invent a small spring loaded doodad that you wear on your shoes- every step you take turns a small wire (similar to a speedometer cable) that spins a small generator. Each step might only generate a tiny fraction of energy, but multiplied over a long hike it could add up to a reasonable amount of power. Def -
Just testing to see if the smurf filter works. I programmed a new plugin from scratch rather than have a new one that may actually do the job efficiently and not change words like salsmurfer or wrissmurfch.
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alexanderjohnson said: The substring matching is the interesting part here: "salsmurfer" and "wrissmurfch" getting mangled suggests it's hitting anything containing the sequence rather than whole words. If the goal is just replacing standalone occurrences, word boundaries would probably cut down on those false positives, though I imagine that gets tricky once "Smurfpills" is in the mix. Curious whether you're matching case-sensitively or normalizing first, since that changes which edge cases slip through. Actually, I am trying to make this high powered modern forum behave in the same manner our established membership is used to. Twenty years ago, when we started the original Multitool.org (what this site will be soon- .ninja is a working domain for testing only) I wanted to keep it family friendly and so I had our tech at the time (Esteban, or Mcniac for anyone keeping track of such things!) install a simple censor plugin. I had emulated a forum I'd belonged to for years, and originally the censor swapped bad words for "colorful enunciation" but that seemed too long and cumbersome. I then switched it to more socially appropriate versions of bad words like "poo" and "bum" but then that really didn't seem right either, especially since the big one has many meanings depending on the circumstances. Not knowing what else to put in, I changed everything to smurf, partly because it amused me and mostly because it was a decent enough place holder. Like many things, it never was a big enough priority to get back to, and eventually members started using "smurf" in their daily lives to cover up their own use of bad words and it kind of took on a life of it's own. Word by word various admins added words to the filter- I had never considered words that were common in other regions, and eventually someone put in the four letter word in the middle of salsmurfer and wrissmurfch (I'll let you figure it out!) and for a while, everything was fine.... Then we got spammed pretty hard- must be at least a dozen years ago, and all kinds of censored words were put in without spaces, so we set the censor to pick them out of jumbles to break the spammer links on the forum, and other words like salsmurfer and wrissmurfch were adversely affected as a result. But we have been laughing at that for so long, it has become part of what sets our community apart- members are so used to seeing it (and smurf in general) that I don't dare change it. After all, people come to forums like this to relax and they want the familiar. So I have spent an entire day modifying software designed to NOT make those mistakes into software that not only does make those mistakes, but protects it's ability to make those mistakes whenever there are software updates, all so we don't ruin the user experience for established members. I am going to a lot of effort to make this high powered, modern software operate like software from 2026 to keep this place as familiar to long term members as the old forum, because software changes are notorious for causing member losses. There will always be members who disappear, saying "it's just not the same anymore" and I am doing what I can to minimize that number. That's it- that's the long winded version of why this operates incorrectly. It does it because that's how it has to operate for maximum member entertainment. -
I rent in an older building in Pittsburgh where the windows are tall and narrow, and my current window unit barely fits and blocks most of the light. I'm thinking about switching to a portable air conditioner for the bedroom this summer, but I've never used one and I'm not sure how they handle a room that gets direct afternoon sun. What I keep wondering about is the vent setup through a narrow sash window, whether the window kit holds up without drilling, and how much louder a single-hose unit is compared to what I have now. I don't want to buy something that ends up being more hassle than the window unit. If you've run a portable unit in an old apartment, how did the venting work out and was the cooling actually worth it? Any input would help.
I'm not in Pittsburgh, but I am in Canada and I feel like our climates are similar enough that maybe my experience can help. I assume you mean the floor model air conditioners that run a hose to the window for venting outside, and I will say they are generally far more powerful than the window units, and I doubt very much the afternoon sun will do a thing to slow one of those units down. They are very efficient and work extremely well since they have at least twice the cooling surface that window units have. The only down side is they tend to be a bit more expensive and they take up a bit of floor space. -
alexanderjohnson said: Validation does take a moment to process, so it's good to hear it's done. I'm in Pittsburgh, and I've found that these small confirmations make a forum feel more welcoming to newcomers. The blush emoji suggests this was a lighthearted milestone rather than a serious gatekeeping step. Curious whether validation here just unlocks posting or also affects how threads appear to members. Validation hasn't really been set up yet- mostly we are just setting things up here in advance of importing our 20+ year old forum content in because our old software is breaking down. It seems like everything I change is breaking something else I had already changed, so it's been a lot of fun. I hope that you stick around- you seem like you would fit in quite well here, although all of the posts and user accounts started here during testing (mostly our admin staff until you found your way in) are going to be wiped when the content from our old SMF forum is installed. Because of that, you will need to either make sure you are registered at our old forum at forum.multitool.org, or be ready to re-register here in about two weeks when we do the import. -
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Testing the ability to embed videos from various sources.
GearFeed:
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<iframe title="Pixelfed Post Embed" src="https://gearfeed.org/p/Multitooldotorg/1020710997913968641/embed?caption=true&likes=false&layout=full" class="pixelfed__embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="400" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><script async defer src="https://gearfeed.org/embed.js"></script>Youtube:
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https://youtu.be/IYmSuZHDTdg?si=TZmuNT-ijLMYfaNN
Straight image link: https://gearfeed.org/storage/m/_v2/986330770624905754/0e0206425-c6ee71/Y6HVtf7knUco/R3ERVqTyWNvjSjpxWZvxisobLpQBDDo7gBepz2Wg.jpg That's working. Yay. Video link (straight): Video link (embed): <iframe title="Pixelfed Post Embed" src="https://gearfeed.org/p/Multitooldotorg/1020593319040163841/embed?caption=true&likes=false&layout=full" class="pixelfed__embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="400" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><script async defer src="https://gearfeed.org/embed.js"></script> -
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