“Wow, how kinky must these guys be to put wearing sexy lingerie in a dull guys’ community”

Aha, suspenders is American for braces!

So “suspenders and pants” is “braces and trousers”.

Suspenders and pants in British:

iPops are still new young people things.

For retro gaming on a portable music player, you need to play “If you hold down play and fast-forward it makes your music go squeaky” on a cassette Walkman.

The front cover of the book “Learning to put things up your bum: Amateur to Professional”

Yeah, I was being silly :)

Jeffrey Combs the actor.

Jandles are a cross between jeans and candles - essentially they’re candles with blue denim wax, with gold stitching and little pockets down the side.

I’m sure someone will come along and post a photograph sooner or later.

It’s on my to-do list when I have a bit of time :)

Lovely idea, and I’m glad to see a “real forum”.

I would like to separate Tuvix by rescuing Tuvok and the alien orchid. The alien orchid is an important sample for study.

On the contrary, I’d say the other way round.

A photo/video tripod has a pan and tilt head, which is completely useless for a laser level, and in fact gets in the way - if you want a level line, you want the platform perfectly level by default. They also tend to be able to run heights at between 50cm and 1.5m (approx 2ft - 5ft), though you can get ones smaller or larger than that if you shop around.

In the other hand, using an actual laser level tripod gives you a flat platform, often on a long pole with tiny legs, which can be adjusted to any height between about 60cm and about 4m (about 2ft - 13ft). Some types use screw-in poles to adjust the overall height.

I’ve found these cheapo Laser Level Tripods off Amazon are actually amongst the best available (though may be a little wobbly when the level is at the top, or if the floor is springy - but that just means you need to wait a minute for it to settle after adjusting it). They’ve got a handle for the main adjustment, then a screw on the platform for fine tuning.

Your other option is using a platform with a clamp/magnet/hook on it, and clamping that onto a spare stepladder, or hanging it from a screw in the wall, or magnetising it to a girder (if you’re somewhere with girders).

If you’re just using one occasionally, or know you’re rarely going above 2 metres, you can certainly get away with using a camera tripod (and occasionally popping it on a table for the extra height) - but if you’re using it basically every day for work, it’s worth getting a dedicated one.

The secret is to also get a good laser-level tripod.

I fully agree with you. I’ve got a very old wooden one which has adjustment screws, and I’m pretty sure older “Stabila” brand ones used to be re-calibratable - though it doesn’t look like any of their newer ones are. I don’t remember seeing adjustment screws on any other levels though. I suppose at least they’re “guaranteed level” for 10 years, and they can take quite a beating and still work properly.

It’s still on my wish list, if it drops to 90% off on a sale or something - I still think I’d enjoy it.

I also worry that if nobody ever buys it, then some awful CEO will use it as proof that “Nobody likes star Trek strategy games”, and for the next decade, we’ll only get Star Trek themed first-person-arena-extraction-lootbox-shooters or whatever.

Oh my god yes.

Star Trek New Horizons
Steam Workshop Link

Star Trek New Civilisations
Steam Workshop Link

Say goodbye to your free time for a while.

Star Trek Infinite (Steam Link) was a sort of Stellaris spin-off (same engine, same basic play method) that was apparently not bad, but not as good as the existing Star Trek mods for actual Stellaris. There were apparent plans for developing it further, DLCs etc but it got abandoned almost immediately and bugs remain unfixed.

“These are the three alignment buttons: Extreme Left, Left and Centre.”

Understood. Buying all the Star Wars games.

Where can I learn this skill?

NTFS was around in the 1990s, exFAT is from the 2010s - and I think was also caught up in some sort of copyright/proprietary shit for another 10 years. There are brand new 2025 TVs which still won’t read exFAT.