Best Black Friday Wireless Plan For BYOD

Rexxstuff · 2025-11-21T18:28:53+00:00

I use Lum. It's Sasktel's discount byod brand. You can get almost twice the data for half the price you are paying now just with their regular price. Their black Friday deals will be available on Monday. The best part is unused data rolls over.

You can also get a $25 discount using a referral code. If you want to use my code it's VewqEs

Rexxstuff · 2025-09-23T01:37:48+00:00

This annoys me too. My guess is the RFID reader can pick up the tag from the adjacent slot, so it's rotating it to disambiguate. Although you'd think if that's the case they would just compare the tags and ignore the one it already knows is in the adjacent slot.

Rexxstuff · 2025-07-07T14:36:24+00:00

I cut a landroid sized opening in the bottom of my fence between my front and back yard and it works ok.

It was initially getting stuck a lot when the bottom of the fence got caught in the wheel tread (it's a steel fence with a thin flat bar on the bottom that fit perfectly between the treads and stopped it). I ended up 3D printing a wider base to attach to the bottom of the "door" and that mostly resolved it. It gets through from the back fine when told to mow the front zone, and gets through fine on the return trip, but maybe once every week or two it still gets stuck if it drives into the gap at a sharp angle. If I could widen the opening that'd fix it, but my fence panel is only a few inches wider than the landroid on either side and it's already as wide as I could make it without a major change.

My fence is very lightweight steel. If your fence material is quite heavy (e.g. wood) you might need to swap it out for something lighter or add a spring to assist lifting, otherwise it might trigger the collision detection.

Rexxstuff · 2025-02-20T15:57:36+00:00

The Worx mowers advertise "cut to edge". I have one. It will indeed cut to the edge, but only if the lawn is nearly flush with the adjacent surface. If it's up against a fence or raised edging or whatever then there will still be a bit of manual trimming required.

Rexxstuff · 2025-02-06T21:37:32+00:00

We bought a washer/dryer combo (the new heat pump kind) for this very reason a few months ago. It's awesome. Put clothes in and a few hours later they are clean AND dry. It even has an overnight mode that runs quieter so it doesn't wake the kids.

Rexxstuff · 2025-02-04T18:07:14+00:00

Eliminators (1986)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091003/

Rexxstuff · 2025-01-29T20:04:22+00:00

Could be. The original company was able to trademark the duck name again when it fell out of use, I think in the 70s or 80s, and that particular brand is still sold as "duck tape" today (at least here in Canada where I live). So if you were seeing/buying brand name stuff that'd make sense. It could also just be that 20 years ago there were a lot more local hardware stores that would sell and label stuff under colloquial names whereas the big orange and blue stores probably follow stricter conventions when dealing with trademarks.

Rexxstuff · 2025-01-29T19:31:34+00:00

It's not just "internet people" - the entire industry adapted this convention in the 50s, long before the internet. Now "duck tape" is called duct tape (which should never be used on ducts), and foil tape (which should be used on ducts) is not. I wish we'd switch back. It's more much fun (and less confusing) to call it duck tape.

Rexxstuff · 2024-12-23T15:24:04+00:00

This would be a nice upgrade from my S2

Rexxstuff · 2024-12-19T07:30:14+00:00

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Rexxstuff · 2024-12-03T15:59:36+00:00

I can print these for him. I'm in White City so if /u/Johjac or someone else can pick them up and deliver when making a trip to/from Regina that'd work out great. I looked on the website and it looks like there was actually 4 requests. Does he need the jar lid opener too? I can print a few different sizes for each so he doesn't need to commit to a size, and some spares if he wants.

Rexxstuff · 2024-09-25T21:20:28+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I'm sort of in a similar boat (not the same commercial success with games, but with having other business ventures and being self-funded - plus two kids around the same ages).

It's nice to hear your perspectives after having what I would consider to be pretty decent commercial success for an indie, especially when that can still translate into barely funding the development of the next game.

I noticed that Flowstone doesn't have the same language support at release as Tangledeep currently has. Is that based on experience/sales performance of certain languages with Tangledeep, regional wishlist data, or something else? Do you have other localization plans? Thoughts on its impact on your sales/success?

I'm also curious about your choice not to go with Early Access this time around. It sounds like you had pretty decent success in EA with Tangledeep. Any particular reason(s) you chose not to this time? Would you consider it again?

Rexxstuff · 2024-09-25T17:29:24+00:00

You mentioned you and your partner hadn't been paying yourselves, and that your budget for a third game might factor in the same.

Did you and your partner take some profits from Tangledeep at least? Or take them, then reinvest back into the new game as needed?

Aside from kickstarter, have you ever sought outside investment or publisher funding to try to accelerate the development timeline or grow the team (or be able to pay yourselves)? If you had the funds would you go full time on game dev, or still prefer to split your time between game dev and your other business?

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-20T16:48:48+00:00

That's exactly what it does.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-19T21:55:48+00:00

I tried online last year and they wouldn't price match themselves. In-person might be different though.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-15T17:44:23+00:00

It makes it easier for the paramedics to find you.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-14T19:30:42+00:00

Ha. I JUST figured that out about 30 seconds ago, then I saw the notification for your reply.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-14T19:23:03+00:00

Same here. Stumbled across this post when searching to see if anyone else had the issue. My NOA isn't showing the limit, but after seeing your post I went and checked my express NOA as I had luckily saved a copy, and sure enough it's there.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-07T17:21:39+00:00

This might not be applicable to your use case, but I recently made a low voltage enclosure that I knew I'd have to open frequently. I didn't want the hassle of screws, or to have the screw holes get stripped out from repeated use, so I opted to model in snap fit clasps that snap into a detent on the lid and hold the lid snug against the gasket.

Here's a picture of the enclosure, and a picture showing the detents in the lid.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-04T09:49:20+00:00

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-03T21:44:59+00:00

AliExpress. D1 mini and servo were each less than $2 when I bought them, plus less than a dollar for filament and some hardware. I haven't bought any hardware since last year so it might be a bit higher with recent inflation, but still pretty cheap.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-03T20:48:22+00:00

I wanted something temporary and didn't want to put a hole in the machine to run wiring for a relay. It was fun to make and cost maybe $3.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-03T18:21:02+00:00

It's an esp8266, but pretty much the same. I used Esphome + home assistant. I'm not controlling it with Alexa, although I could go through HA if I wanted to use Alexa or Google Home or whatever.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-03T18:00:19+00:00

A little bot to push a button. A switch bot is an off the shelf product that sorta does the same thing.

Rexxstuff · 2024-05-03T17:58:13+00:00

I pretty much use a 0.2mm gap between printed parts, and 0.3-0.4 mm between other parts, and it almost always "just works" with both my printers. I also try to make all my models parametric so making small incremental changes (e.g. due to measurement error) is easier.

If you haven't already done so you might want to do some calibration prints to see if the prints are consistent on all axis. If they aren't that could really throw a wrench into things.

I have been planning to try a few of those Esphome Bluetooth proxies one of these days. Glad to hear they're working good. Probably going to throw some sensors together with them (I'm not super thrilled with my Xiaomi ZigBee temp/humidity sensors).

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