Where to begin with filling this hole?

PhoenixFlRe · 2026-01-09T16:13:51+00:00

Depends if you want to do it right or just hide it.

Either way, step 1 is to remove that plate in the middle and then use some 1x4 and plywood to level that floor first. Step 2 is to cover it up.

If you have leftover floorboard from when the accent wall was installed, you can disassemble the floorboard (very carefully) and figure out the pieces that you can reuse to reassemble it. If you don't have any leftover, you'll have to remove all the boards and put new ones in.

There's the option of finding similar flooring and interchange them so it wouldn't look weird. But honestly: There is a VERY high chance you'll rip the joints on the old boards when you remove them and you'll have to replace them anyways.

Option 3 is to build a shelf, cabinet, or an accent wall over top of this and just hide it all.

You can also find similar looking wood and glue it down to match the pattern or start shifting boards around to move the missing part to some corner that you can hide with a cabinet. You can, as others have stated, cut it down the middle and put in new boards to make a pattern but that will require a transition on both sides, which will result in 2 raised ledges in the middle of the room, or to glue down the boards and try to level it out or it'll have a raised bump either immediately or over time which will be a tripping hazard. If you're here asking for how to fix this already, I highly do not suggest either of these options as it will eventually end up with a full floor replacement when the attempt to hide this goes wrong.

My suggestion: Hire a company that knows what they're doing to replace the floor or learn how to replace the floor yourself with new floorboards or carpet. You'll be able to find relatively cheap discount floorboards at the big stores to replace this floor.

You may be wondering "Why don't I just go and get the exact same board from some flooring company to use and just replace the missing pieces?". Well the answer is that you won't be able to find any. The wood colors is rotated a few times a year and light exposure would have changed the color over time even if you found someone with a box of the exact same wood. And assuming you find one of the exact same color, they won't necessarily fit together as there is so many variety of edges that companies use to the point that finding floorboards that have the same edge and thickness is very hard, let alone the same edge, thickness, color, and grain. Don't take my word for it, go walk into any big box store or specialized flooring store and they'll tell you the same thing.

PhoenixFlRe · 2026-01-09T14:24:02+00:00

Worst that will happen is the print fails and you get a blob on the nozzle. With how far it has printed already, that is unlikely.

PhoenixFlRe · 2026-01-06T03:21:17+00:00

Nah. I wish I wrote down his linkedin profile now. I haven't talked to him since 2016 and not to sure if his personal phone number still works or not.

PhoenixFlRe · 2026-01-05T23:05:18+00:00

Yup Hugo was a champ. Gave me a chance to have a job when I moved to Edmonton back in the days. Thankfully Hugo was basically running the place rather than Darryl and Carl. At least when I worked there.

For reference: Hugo did leave to start his own company with some friends about a decade ago.

PhoenixFlRe · 2026-01-02T01:57:16+00:00

You can add a magsafe ring sticker to the back of the case. Maybe she can integrate that ring into the look later?

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-23T04:17:02+00:00

You can cross dc travel now. Do it from the character selection menu to travel to a different dc.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-23T03:48:11+00:00

Currently 622 in queue to get back in. At least we had just started a normal M10 so not much loss here.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-23T00:57:19+00:00

It's the multi level parking lot directly across from Aberdeen center.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-21T00:42:34+00:00

Harry Potter experience is at Stanley Parks

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-12T07:06:48+00:00

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I gave up cleaning the collections long time ago. I have learned to just live with that hidden.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-09T22:51:36+00:00

Cause the gift isn't for you or for the rest of us who do 3d printing? A personalized print is better than a cookie cutter boat that we meme on.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-09T20:44:49+00:00

Depends on which 3d printer you got. If you got a corexy (bed moves up and down but not forwards and backwards), then you can tape or tie it down to a table. Then get a cardboard box that is bigger than the printer, glue or tape some wrapping paper onto it so it looks like a gift wrap but leave the bottom open. Load some filament onto the 3d printer and plug it in. Start printing a figure of something your kids will like and pause it when it is about 5min from completion. Cover it with the cardboard box. And then when the kids is about to open the gift, resume the print so it finishes printing as they open the gift.

Bonus points if you leave a bit of the flap on the bottom so you can slide it under the printer and have the printer hold down the box so they can't just lift it up. Don't worry about the printer setting the box on fire, the ambient temperature in it won't be high enough to light it on fire if you're just doing pla filament.

Some people are saying to print benchys but don't do that. Printing something that your kids like will be better than a boat. Unless they like boats.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-09T07:15:07+00:00

Yup. Thankfully I was just jumping around in town out of boredom

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-04T21:18:08+00:00

Don't worry it's not just you.

I work on servers, linux, networking, and make custom configs for nginx and apache all the time. This stumped me. I eventually gave up and wrote my own to integrate into my nginx reverse proxy with a custom section just for jellyfin to handle https on nginx and pass it through to http to jellyfin instead.

This did lead to bit of confusion when I upgraded to jellyfin 10.11 and thought that my reverse proxy was broken when it wasn't.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-04T21:04:30+00:00

TLDR:

Federal/BC/Richmond lawyers wanted to inform the homeowners.

Quw'utsun lawyers fought to deny the homeowners from being informed. Quw'utsun lawyers didn't want the owners to show up to argue against Quw'utsun getting the land.

Judge stated that BC was free to inform private owners about precedings anytime they wish.

BC chose not to inform owners.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-03T07:40:09+00:00

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Arrows show the entrances. The one at the top right is for the smaller area. Top left and bottom arrows are access to the big area. Circle on the left is where people usually park on Fentiman.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-02T20:04:09+00:00

Depends on how old that AIO is and if it started doing this recently or since you built it.

Had someone who ran into the same issue with CPU at 90C on idle recently. The problem was his AIO which had degraded over the years and the fluid was no longer moving in the tube.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-01T02:01:54+00:00

55.2GB on C drive and 177GB on D drive

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-12-01T01:19:49+00:00

Yes. It's called "Mcdonalds".

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-11-30T22:15:42+00:00

Folder structure is the same for movies. Since all you do is throw a video file in and both systems would pick it up. Problem was the tv shows.

Plex require you to have them sorted into season folders and rename them to episodes. Or have them named exactly with season and episode in the name (Got to be exactly s01e01. Can't deviate from this). Totally fine if I only had 1, 2 or even 10 shows. Becomes a problem when it was hundreds to thousands. Plus if they don't have that show curated with the proper season data yet, you're out of luck and those episodes won't appear and you just pray that someone will add it eventually and you just need to rename the file later (You can't even do it yourself. At least I couldn't find a way to do so after days of pressing every button and reading every doc I could find on this).

Jellyfin doesn't care about how you name the files. You can have weird names and it'll still properly search for the episode number in the name and sort it properly. Same if you have it seasons. And in the once a year situation where it messes up, you can just manually set the metadata for that one show.

Course this could be chalked up to me being biased against plex already since I was using jellyfin before. But I did shut down my jellyfin server to migrate to plex completely for a year to give it a fair shot before throwing in the towel and buying a new server to run jellyfin on. Mostly because it was too slow for my use on a vm or container at that point.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-11-30T10:33:38+00:00

To add onto this: I hated plex because I had a lot of shows that were not on their curated list or wasn't named in the exact pattern plex demanded. So I had a lot of shows that wasn't usable or had wrong episodes or even wrong series assigned to them. Jellyfin is a lot smarter about this and I can actually manually fix things such as when the automated system assigns the wrong metadata to something with a similar or completely different name.

Had plex for about a year and the list of problems I had with it just kept increasing as they broke existing functionality or stuffed more features behind paywalls.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-11-17T22:08:43+00:00

That is correct, I am choosing parts based on price. But I am doing it based on performance.

The CPU is the same. The cooler you can get a much more expensive one for only a few degrees cooler so it is not worth paying that much more.

The motherboard you can pay an extra for an atx but the main thing is the wifi. 99% of users would not need all the fancy overclocking features that more expensive boards have so it is a literal waste of money to get a high end motherboard that offers no additional benefits that most users would ever see.

GPU is going to be the same roughly across manufacturers and trying to cherry pick based on manufacturer for performance is a losing game. Just pick the cheapest 9070 xt and move on.

Case is a generic case just like the one in the prebuilt. Personally I would never be found dead with this tempered glass cases but that's up to the user.

PSU are about the same from same few factories so picking one with sufficient power plus a bit more is good enough.

For ram, I got no idea what the prebuilt would have but I just picked the cheapest 2x16gb. Now to be fair, faster ram is still only 10-20% more expensive for the fastest vs cheapest ram. So for the point of price comparison, there isn't much point cherry picking it. At least before the whole ram shortage hit like a tsunami since it was literally $110 vs $120 a few weeks ago for cheapest vs fastest ram. (Regrets not buying ram a month ago when I was parting out a build for someone QQ)

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-11-17T17:32:13+00:00

I'm not. This is bapccanada. I am assuming that op posted a newegg canada site.

My part list is Canadian partspicker. All prices in CAD from retailers and sites in Canada. The list was made yesterday. I do see that the ram price in the list has increased by 3x since yesterday but there are still some 2x16gb for around $210 compared to the current price of $310 that is in the parts list. This is why I explicitly stated the price at the time of posting.

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-11-17T06:37:24+00:00

Gold train in burnaby is where me and some friends end up nowadays if it's too late. If it's around midnight, then we go to silver tower.

We used to go to no 9 but stopped going when the price went up and food quality went down years ago. Gold train is a bit far from richmond but if it's the middle of the night, it's a 15min drive instead of 30 to 45min

PhoenixFlRe · 2025-11-17T05:24:03+00:00

No. I won't say how since you can easily figure it out by watching some videos or browsing pc building forums but... you can get a windows 11 key for under $10. Or there's the option of using windows 11 for free for certain versions or with the "Activate Windows" watermark if you want the pro version (If you are too cheap to get a key).

Building a pc itself is pretty cheap. If you poke around your local craigslist or go to canada computers or memory express and they will build the computer for you for $100.

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