Wulfy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ai6yr</span></a></span> </p><p>So I found this hardware store in my town. And when I said "found", I had to ask a tradie nearly on a deathbed, about the forbidden knowledge. It's got a weird name. Like Abraxas emporium. It's the size of a coffee kiosk, the sales area anyway.<br>There are about 10 staff there. Most on the computers, stabilising some sort of dimensional rift that keeps the place operating...</p><p>... anyway, I was schooled by a 55+yo Amazon Dragonlady that eats tradies for breakfast whole, about the difference between Screws and Bolts.<br>I went there to get some imperial fasteners. Because contrary to what Sepos think, outside of their three ringed circus nation, imperial fasteners are hard to come by.</p><p>I asked about these BOLTS...she disappears into the alternate dimension where the Warehouse must be, then emerges a while later with TWO boxes.<br>And then she informs me...<br>I got a box of what you asked for, and a box of what you actually need. 😑</p><p>And that's how I learned that a bolt has a section near the head that does not have the thread on the shaft.</p><p>We lost that kind of sass expertise with the mass chain hardware stores.<br>QQ</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/truestory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truestory</span></a></p>