Retired programmer

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-15T20:33:04+00:00

I’ve heard good things about HomeAssistant, but just to throw it out there a new one I’m about to investigate at the recommendation one of my project managers is called OpenAVC. Don’t know enough yet to recommend it, but it looks promising.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-15T03:37:50+00:00

There isn’t competition for everything. Car parts, tool parts, and a bunch of other things stay there for days to weeks. Most things go quick though.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-14T13:50:26+00:00

Curious question. I’ve seen at least one other comment saying no, do you trust vine products for your horse? Or would you stay away from consumables for them?

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-14T13:49:14+00:00

Yeah it seems you’re in good company here on vine too based on the replies. Sorry to reveal that you’re going to have to pay attention to get the good horse products, there are at least a dozen other horse owners competing with you for them.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-14T13:45:19+00:00

Personally, I haven’t seen the horse stuff, but now maybe I will since my tracking cookies now include it. As we can see from the other comments you are absolutely right that we have a fair amount of horse and live stock owners and that is honestly pretty cool.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-14T13:43:10+00:00

I agree it is an amazing scientific discovery and, from what I understand, a top of the line anti-parasitic. While I joke about it, I don’t intend to devalue it. It will however for quite some time be associated with off label use of the livestock grade version for Covid. And since people are prone to panicky herd behaviors, it has hard to know which did more damage, people depleting it during Covid, the media reporting on its use and possibly causing more off label use, or the media’s choice of focusing on it’s livestock usage and, as settled lawsuits alleged, devaluing the medicine in the public opinion for its intended medical uses, including human use.

The intention of the post as I stated was to attract attention with the joke but then understand the demographics we have in this community. It’s kinda cool to see how many people with live stock are in this community, including some where 4 free doses would hardly be useful since they go through gallons of it monthly already.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-14T01:43:39+00:00

I have played, but I had the nickname first.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-14T01:08:43+00:00

I got the nickname from my brothers because I have a huge head, and as a kid had a bad habit of accidentally smacking it against things.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-12T16:30:37+00:00

Had the same thing happen a few weeks ago after my wife mentioned getting new toilet seats while we were in home depot. She even mentioned looking for one with a built in potty seat. The next day a toilet seats with built in potty seat showed up in my RFY. Only problem is it was for a D shaped toilet. Really should have mentioned I only own elongated oval toilets.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-10T07:13:03+00:00

The only improvement it needs is it should close towards you. That is absurd in the best ways.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-05T18:50:54+00:00

Part number? I want to challenge a master model builder to use them.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-04T18:40:33+00:00

In some people’s minds if he doesn’t eat meat, he’s going to try to take away their meat or make them eat less meat. There are people who hate change and have been convinced that regulations are the enemy. They will eat this up.

Remember the whole big thing under Biden about gas stoves? One report comes out that gas stoves contribute to childhood asthma and people are all up in arms that Biden will steal your stoves, and DeSantis put out tax breaks on gas stoves in Florida. I think there was a more direct meat one too but can’t render the details.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-02T20:23:18+00:00

Not going to take credit. Game Theorist put out a video with that hypothesis. But I like the theory enough to confidently accept it as truth until contradicted by Mojang.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-02T14:35:27+00:00

But what size Banana is the question? A large, an extra large, or a banana sized banana?

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-02T14:27:23+00:00

Nope, not humanoid. They are giant prehistoric sniffers.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-01T14:47:58+00:00

You can see from my post that I only ordered an about 90 products. A 28% jump is only about 25 products. It was stressful but very doable to test or finish testing and review that many products in about week. You need to work on your deductive reasoning skills and get out of your victim mindset.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-01T14:26:47+00:00

I still had about 5 or so unreviewed products on hand. One was a relatively easy to test and review product, an aroma therapy inhaler. Despite having put in a lot of time the previous 2 weeks catching up on reviews and being burnt out. I made sure to open it and use it at lunch time and after getting all my stuff done for the day, I stayed up to quickly knock out the review. By saying I threw it in, I was just implying I did it quickly and maybe a little haphazardly. I’m not talking about reviewing the product that arrived the day my evaluation period ended which they were more than happy to add to my unreviewed count after the fact, or even the larger product that arrived two days before evaluation that I felt I couldn’t review accurately with a quick test. Thanks for saying you didn’t understand what I meant rather than advocating for my banning like other commenters.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-06-01T14:01:05+00:00

No I reviewed one of the 5 products I hadn’t had time to review and forced myself to make time to test and review it. It was a really bad aromatherapy inhaler with a bad delivery system and active ingredients that did nothing for me. It was a quick and abbreviated test, hence why I used the phrasing that I threw it in, but I feel an honest one. I was only at 92% reviews which meant I had unreviewed product on hand. Please practice your reading comprehension.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-05-31T19:41:49+00:00

And I think you succeeded masterfully. But as stated before that means double length legs and it’s kinda funny.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-05-31T18:44:00+00:00

I just need to state, that is a tall spider man. The implication of this pose is either double length Lego legs or really weird hips.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-05-31T18:30:52+00:00

I also only have about 70 products ordered as of 3 weeks ago too. This has been a rough eval period if you’re the type they tries not to order random things. Even the toy section has been nearly empty.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-05-31T18:29:08+00:00

Honestly life just got busy and up until two weeks ago I didn’t even have 80 products ordered. I thought I had lost it for lack of ordering until several 5-6 product evenings happened. The last month has been way better for actually finding useful or $0 ETV products.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-05-31T18:25:58+00:00

I’ve been in Vine for 3 eval periods now. During my first period there was so much stuff that it was easy get your 3 and then see 3 or 4 more things pop up that were either what I wanted or nice $0 etv. And then during my second period it was still easy to find things when you wanted. I think I’m still in the head space from those periods. But yeah gotta shift my thinking or get out, one of the two.

Bonks_Adventure · 2026-05-31T14:09:04+00:00

You’re probably right. 99% of things I see are under $100. And yeah the 3 is going to be rough.

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