limelight79

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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What censorship? I see someone posted the comic in the comments, and I can't spot any differences. Maybe OP updated the original post.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. Some of them are dumb. But all of them have been fed decades of bullshit "news" and are indoctrinated.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

He knows better. It's an act to make money. It's all about the real god, Money.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah they started putting ads on the dasher boards a few years ago. There are also ads digitally inserted on the ice.

The tech is pretty cool. When they first started doing it, it would sometimes cut off players, but they seemed to get it settled down within a few months.

I know the /r/hockey sub was really upset about it when it was first implemented, and I was annoyed at first because of the glitches. But now, it's like...well, now I see these ads instead of those ads...what's the difference?

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

and he’ll be equally crazy.

Equally? That seems optimistic. He'll go even farther off the deep end. Even if he wins, he'll contest it, because he clearly should have won by a larger margin.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh, that was me. I installed it on my desktop Linux computer the other day.

You're welcome.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My dentist has a setup where you can watch the dental work he's doing on your mouth, assuming you don't need glasses and can see the monitor in the corner.

I'm not sure why anyone would want that. But he has it.

 

Wow.

He's taking an indefinite leave of absence, though it looks like he was already on the IR due to ankle issues.

 

I use Samba backup and it runs nightly, fortunately.

I tried to update to the latest HA core the other day, and it failed. Reboot and weird things stop working all over the place. The log showed the recorder and a bunch of other things failed to start. When I looked at the command line, I found that files had apparently been corrupted. My configuration.yaml, all 791 lines of it, was gone, in favor of the stock configuration.yaml file.

I restored from the most recent backup before the trouble began, which was taken Saturday morning (I assume the corruption is why it didn't run after that). No dice. Friday's backup got me up and running again, fortunately. I had to re-do a few things I'd changed Friday, but what a relief.

I made the changes again and made a new full backup. I also increased the number of backups to keep from 7 to 10.

Do regular backups, people. Save yourself a lot of headache. I use the Samba option, but there are options to upload to things like cloud storage as well.

 

My wife picked up this puck at the Hockey Hall of Fame last week. I think there's something odd about Gritty...she disagrees. Not saying what it is so as not to bias you. I'd like to get a ruling from the internet on this, please!

 

I know no one has subbed to this Airstream community, but I'm posting this anyway. We're currently in Fort Collins, Colorado, and heading to Rock Springs tomorrow!

 

In light of the issues going on the other site, I thought it would be a good idea to create an Airstream group here.

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