I think my wife was mildly amused by it at first (I was playing with X10 automation long before she came into the picture), but quickly started to like it because it meant that we always came home to the lights on, stuff like that.
And there’s one button to shut off the outside lights and “evening” lights in the house when we’re going to bed.
RTLSDR feeding into Home Assistant. That’s the money shot.
Well, suing the insurance company or driver would require knowing who they are. But hopefully he isn’t on the hook for the damages to his bike.
Our club has insurance as well, but I don’t know exactly what it covers.
Huh. Confirmed. Seems to assume a gif will be animated.
Ha! I’m going to retort one example of an extremely rare edge case, and that invalidates your entire argument!
Who did you think I meant?
I mean, people get injured or killed in car crashes, too, or even just doing things around the house. Life is never completely safe.
On average, you’re extending your life by cycling. Unfortunately, incidents do occur sometimes.
Except his wife, I’m sure. She’s one of the “good ones”.
We bought a travel trailer back in 2011. A neighbor asked for a tour, so I showed it to him. He was telling me that it had been him and his wife’s dream to buy an RV when they retired and tour the country. Unfortunately, medical issues meant that never happened.
He told us we were smart to do it young. You just never know. And we’ve had many great experiences in it.
Laws mean nothing any more. Both houses of Congress are Republican and the Supreme Court has several Trump supporters on it. No one with any power will stop him.
We have an RV and usually bring them with us, which generates its own set of issues, but at least we’re not missing them!
Of course that doesn’t work for trips abroad, so we hired a company to come in daily and take care of them while we were gone. They sent us pictures and updates!
No, “galoot” is a term of affection, like, “How are ya, ya big galoot?” It doesn’t really mean anything. The joke is that there would be a convention of people who are called galoots, and that they’re all overweight guys. Just more absurdity.
Nah I’ve only been to Aldi’s about 3 times in my life (nothing against it, they just don’t have many locations near me). These are several different chains of stores in different parts of the US.
I swear this is a regional thing. Where I live now, it is extremely rare to see a cart outside the return. But I’ve lived in other places where it seemed like no one returned their cart, ever.
I think it’s a peer pressure thing - once it’s the norm, everyone just does it. But if people started breaking that, I’d suddenly start seeing carts all over the lot.
I always encourage people to do an audit of what is on every breaker when they get a new home (and make notes). It takes a little while, but when something like this happens, you know exactly where to look. It’s harder to diagnose if you don’t know what breaker the fixture is on.
Agree on the GFCI advice. I had that happen - the GFCI outside tripped and took out half of the lights in my kitchen. Whoever wired them put them electrically downstream of the GFCI. Took me days to figure out what was going on, because it didn’t occur to me that the outside GFCI would be protecting my kitchen lights. And I wasn’t trying to use the outside outlet for anything, so I didn’t notice it was out.
What censorship? I see someone posted the comic in the comments, and I can’t spot any differences. Maybe OP updated the original post.
We’re not in Fuck Cars, right?.. Okay.
I bought my first new car in 1999. A friend of mine commented that she had no idea what I was going to do for a midlife crisis car. I figured I’d keep it 10 years, then move on.
But here I am, approaching half a century old, and I’m still happy with my car and have zero plans to get rid of it, ever (it’s not a daily driver, so it doesn’t accumulate that many miles - we usually drive my wife’s car for most errands and driving to work).
I am drooling over a new bicycle though…
Yep. And even though I’m also a cyclist, I’ve almost made the same mistake while driving.
It’s really an issue of the traffic design. For example, we tend to slap bike lanes just to the right of traffic lanes and hope it all works out fine. And it is fine…until intersections where cars might be turning…
It’s called a right-hook. Cars pass bicycles, then turn right immediately in front of them, causing the cyclist to hit the car. Quite a few cyclists have been killed this way.
Car brain drivers then blame the cyclist.
Eh every vendor goes through security failures, unfortunately.
I mostly have Ubiquiti devices (switch and access points), but I was using the ISP router that had some limitations I didn’t like. I have a slightly unusual setup for a home, in that I have a source of backup internet if our primary goes down (primary is FiOS, backup is Starlink - which we usually use only while traveling). So, I wanted a router with two WAN ports, and the only option from Ubiquiti there for a while was the $400 one.
So, I tried a TP-Link router (EAP-605, I think) and it worked okay. The user interface for controlling it wasn’t as nice as Ubiquiti’s, but it was functional. The router was definitely a lot less expensive than the Ubiquiti one. In the end, Ubiquiti released the UCG Ultra that did what I wanted, and cost far less than $400, so I switched to that and have been happy with it.