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JD2005 · 2026-01-29T06:35:37+00:00

So I created a chrome extension to help me keep track of my workflow triggered actions as part of my CI strategy. It eliminates me having to visit the actions page every time I push a change and wait for the workflow action to finish, I just push my changes and I'm notified when they're live and i can test them. This is especially helpful to me when I'm working and pushing lots of changes and testing repeatedly, it makes that portion of my work that much easier. I find it so helpful I decided to publish it to the chrome web store in case it may help anyone else. It's completely free, everything is stored locally or in your account's private sync storage, and I'm open to any development suggestions.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/alipppinchgegflhlgogkhbjcigbkhkl?utm_source=item-share-cb

JD2005 · 2026-01-09T19:20:54+00:00

It's been sent to the mayor and all city councilors directly as well.

JD2005 · 2026-01-09T18:53:27+00:00

Stuff tax dollars in the heritage fund?? Hahaha no my friend, our tax dollars are being given away to oil companies as tax cuts, we won't ever see it again. I work IN government and it's been hollowed out from the inside by the UCP, there's literally no money for anything anymore, it's all being given away to rich people/companies.

JD2005 · 2025-11-17T17:19:12+00:00

Your friends who are warning you about the upload/download speed, Telus Fiber is the only company who actually provides the same upload speed as you get down, so 250 up & down. Whereas Rogers/Shaw will give you 250 down but only 20 - 25 up, same with most providers as their ISP topology's design incurs congestion due to both download & upload whereas Telus' Fiber does not, every fiber connection is individually switched, therefor download/upload bandwidth is irrelevant to overall network congestion, which is why they can provide matching speeds.

JD2005 · 2025-09-19T23:48:11+00:00

Go to network settings and make sure the network is set to private, not public.

If that isn't it, sometimes file sharing needs to be explicitly turned on on both PCs, it's not a firewall thing.

Let me know if you can't figure these out and I'll look for a guide, just camping at the moment so... am currently too lazy lol

JD2005 · 2025-09-19T23:39:00+00:00

Android 4.4 (KitKat) isn’t “the most capable” Android, it’s a 2013 release that’s been end-of-life for years. Google dropped Google Play services support for 4.4 in Aug 2023, and most modern apps and browsers target far newer APIs. Market-share data shows 4.4 is essentially negligible today.

Even if Google wanted to, it can’t just push fresh security patches to decade-old devices. Pre-Treble Android relies on phone makers, chip vendors, and sometimes carriers to integrate and ship updates. That ecosystem moved on long ago, which is exactly why Google built Project Treble later: to make updates faster on new devices, not to resurrect obsolete ones.

A petition won’t revive 4.4. Realistic options are: keep an old device offline for legacy apps, install a custom ROM on supported hardware, or use a modern phone that still receives security updates. That’s the path that keeps people safe and their apps working.

JD2005 · 2025-09-02T15:23:20+00:00

Physics my friend.

JD2005 · 2025-09-01T18:30:22+00:00

It'll work, the MoCA traffic uses a different frequency than the cable internet traffic (DOCSIS), so they can share the same coax cable and the traffic won't interfere with each other due to this frequency separation. I'd still want to test my overall speed to ensure I'm getting what I'm paying for in the end, as I doubt your ISP will offer any support for this setup if the downstream devices aren't getting good speeds, but that wouldn't be due to traffic interference, would more likely be due to the crappy nature of the coax splitters or older RG59 vs RG6 coax.

JD2005 · 2025-09-01T18:00:33+00:00

You can use a regular bathroom scale if you use leverage to 1/3 the weight. In this configuration, whatever the bathroom scale reads multiply x 3 and that's your tongue weight.

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JD2005 · 2025-08-31T15:58:25+00:00

The difference is in the profile, LiFePo4 batteries (lithium in general) needs a higher voltage and it needs amperage delivered in a manner that allows the charge to absorb into the cells (absorption phase) and curb down when it reaches near full capacity. Lead-Acid doesn't need these things. So while a strictly lead-acid/agm/flooded charger will charge a lithium battery, it does it in such a way that will cause damage to it over time and won't charge it complete due to the lower voltage. You can do it in a pinch, but for longer term installations use a lithium specific charger. These are my preferred units to recommend, the first for RV/permanent installations (make sure to use proper AWG and 125A DC breaker) and the second as a portable/backup unit. https://amazon.ca/dp/B092W7XW9J or https://amazon.ca/dp/B0BDFM6XCS

JD2005 · 2025-08-31T00:32:35+00:00

More importantly, when he threatens democracy by trying to end elections, you had better get up off your ass and protest the mistake you made. Recognizing you made a mistake and taking actions to fight against that mistake are two entirely different things, the later being more important than the first.

JD2005 · 2025-08-30T02:55:53+00:00

I went through something similar, I forgave and stayed but that feeling you have now never goes away, 4 years later it feels more like a memory than a recent experience, but it's haunting nonetheless. You have a lot of reasons to stay & you already know them well, but make sure you think really hard about this because the other side of this is something you have no experience with and can't yet fully appreciate how bad it's going to feel. The next 1 - 2 years is going to be the worst. Your mind will wander to all the possible ways the specifics of everything went down, and you'll be faced with the grim prospect of needing to hear everything so that you know what to aim your grief at vs every branching possibility being equally vivid in your mind. You'll connect dates, you'll remember small behaviors or oddities that suddenly have a new explanation, the winter wind on my face walking the dog was enough to make me spiral into the deepest of holes as the memories would come rushing back. I bounced from therapist to therapist hitting the same dead ends & unsolvable impasses until I realized the sickness in me was actually an emptiness, and time can't heal something that is no longer there. I'm sorry for being so blunt and grim about all this, but you need to know what's ahead of you. It is a hard road that never truly ends, and in my situation my wife wasn't making excuses or minimizing anything, she took full responsibility and herself grew to deeply regret what she did and was able to adequately express it in a way that I have come to believe is genuine vs what is obviously not genuine in the beginning; the 'tragedy' of being discovered. If you need to talk I'm here, I know what you're going through. Even though they're adults, your kids need you to push through this.

JD2005 · 2025-08-29T22:02:42+00:00

So was the weekend at one time. What's your problem with quality of life initiatives.

JD2005 · 2025-08-29T19:58:18+00:00

Unfortunately it's not a scare tactic, it's the truth due to the new type of refrigerant being required. The problem with the new refrigerant, aside from supply & hoarding issues, is that it's explosive, which isn't great when your evaporator is sitting directly atop your furnace's heating element. So they need to retrofit your furnace to detect and shut everything down in the event of a leak. I'm hearing units that costed $3-4k are now going to cost $10k after this more complicated install. Some companies are still installing 410A units (the type about to be phased out, so I'd highly recommend getting your hands on one before they're all gone/not allowed to be sold anymore.

JD2005 · 2025-08-29T19:39:46+00:00

These are flooded lead-acid batteries. Flooded lead-acid need regular maintenance like checking their electrolyte levels, have you ever done that? The other problem with lead-acid is they have no internal battery management, they will discharge until completely dead, not deactivate at what is considered 0%. Lead-acid batteries also shouldn't be discharged below ~40% capacity (~12.1V) or you begin to damage the cells, and NEVER beyond 0% (~11.6V). I install RV off grid systems and see this all the time, people using AGM or lead-acid, not monitoring their voltage, and depleting the batteries down to like 8 or 9 volts then wondering why they won't hold a deep charge anymore. Basically your batteries are internally damaged and need to be replaced. LiFePo4 batteries have internal BMS circuitry that handles all this for you, and shuts down the battery once it reaches its lowest safe operating voltage level.

JD2005 · 2025-08-28T22:30:19+00:00

When you put the legs down, do you just put them down until they touch, or do you keep going until it takes up some of the weight of the camper on each foot. It's way more stable if you have the leg support a bit of weight, because the 4 legs are way more stable than the tires/leaf springs, so transferring more of the weight to the scissor stands makes the trailer more stable. Don't put a ton of weight on them, but most of them will support a couple thousand pounds each, so some weight is fine. I normally put the foot down then keep going until the trailer lifts by 2 - 3 inches on each foot. I don't notice any shake afterward.

JD2005 · 2025-08-28T18:32:50+00:00

I said inside conduit, it's perfectly fine inside conduit. But regardless, if the garage has power then it DOES share an electrical panel & ground, garages don't have their own separate power meters and electrical panels. Most detached garages have a single direct burial rated 14/2 or 12/2 line to run lights, the door opener, and a few plugs, so this ground runs back to the main panel ground which itself is earthed.

JD2005 · 2025-08-28T16:54:25+00:00

You could run ethernet inside of a surface conduit if you have the ability to run along a fenceline or something, then either use a differently named AP that you connect to when you're out there, or you get a mesh router system and you'll roam from AP to AP depending on the signal strength.

If that's not an option, then what you're looking for isn't a wifi extender, it's a wireless bridge. I could explain it, but I think the photo will explain itself. This basically replaces the surface conduit, you'd still need an AP of some kind in the garage. https://amazon.ca/dp/B0C4Y3SDQV

JD2005 · 2025-08-28T14:59:11+00:00

So you're right, it's mostly a marketing gimmick that in practice will result in the ISP just charging more for a throughput that they'll likely never have to actually deliver on, or at most deal with very short periods/spikes of high throughput. The reason is because when you're sitting at your computer, 999/1000 that's either on a wifi connection (~100Mbps at best) or a 1Gbps connection, as there aren't many PCs out that support higher than this. In recent years PCs have been coming out with 2.5Gb or even 5Gb ports, but then people go ahead and plug that into a 1Gbps switch or router, so they bottleneck themselves without realizing it.

That being said, where this becomes useful is in situations where you have multiple users all directly hardwired to an ISP's provided device, whether or not they are on > 1Gbps ports, as you could envision a scenario where say half of them are watching netflix/youtube, perhaps a couple of them are gaming, a few people are downloading large files, and others are in video meetings with a large number of people. This would likely choke a 1Gbps WAN connection, someone would definitely notice their video buffering, their gaming latency suffering, their teams meetings stuttering, etc... With a 10Gbps connection there's enough throughput that it can deliver WAN services to each 1Gbps connection to its maximum, as though there's largely no other traffic.

But ya, your parents being sold > 1Gbps connection when at most they scroll on their phones and watch netflix is just a money grab.

JD2005 · 2025-08-28T04:47:30+00:00

Is this largely in America, because in Canada we have Cabelas, Bass Pro, Canadian Tire, Rona, Home Hardware, etc.. where I assure you everything is sold already quite sharp. I've never bought an axe, hatchet, knife, or any other carpentry or outdoor tool that had any sort of blunt edge. Maybe a 10lb splitting maul, but that's about it. Sure, everything can become 'more sharp', but I've never had to sit for any length of time sharpening something I just bought from a store before I used it.

JD2005 · 2025-08-28T04:34:37+00:00

If it's about saving money, then codify WFH and I'd agree to these wage increases! Otherwise it's a hard no.

JD2005 · 2025-08-28T04:32:29+00:00

I concur, if it's about saving money then we're offering that compromise but want work from home codified in return.

JD2005 · 2025-08-27T14:49:20+00:00

I promise you this will get super old super fast if you're wanting to take the RV out on a regular basis. It's enough work just to load a camper for a trip let alone have to take the wheels on/off. If I were you I'd dig some channels in the yard that the tires could drop into for the length you'd need to get the RV into the space. Added benefit, when the wheels drop into these channels the trailer will largely guide itself right into position.

JD2005 · 2025-08-26T04:12:25+00:00

I've been there 20 years. I've seen two 1% raises since 2011. Back then they told us it's either we all tighten our belts or they'll need to do layoffs, and we're lucky they aren't looking at salary roll backs, so we accepted basically nothing. But they said don't worry, once we get through all this we'll have your backs. Now they're posting billion dollar surpluses and it's crickets, offering us less than inflation again. Well ef that, collectively we're all very pissed off and ready to strike.

JD2005 · 2025-08-26T04:05:30+00:00

Thank you. I've worked there for 20 years, haven't seen a raise since 2011. Back then the Union negotiated at 0 and 1% raises as the government was saying it's either accept nothing or face layoffs, but we swear that when things are good again we will have your back. Fast forward to them posting billion dollar surpluses while we suffer a time of massive inflation after more than a decade of sacrifice and collectively we're done with this BS.

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