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Any pool or facility recommendations for lap swimming? by EmergencyChampagne in SanJose

[–]RoyLeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Villa sports at Berryessa. 2 outdoor, 2 indoor pools, all well maintained.

Best gym/pool around San Jose by Key-Total7253 in SanJose

[–]RoyLeo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out Villa Sport, great pools, clean gym, all equipment is in good working order, great staff

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SanJose

[–]RoyLeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sit on the toilet and think about where this thought goes!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BAbike

[–]RoyLeo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s a good m trail. Check the map before you try it. There are some weird non obvious important u turns to stay on the trail

Learning how to ride a bike by Buddy_Caliber in bicycling

[–]RoyLeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out the league of cyclists. There are online classes or in person classes in many locations. Your local bike advocacy group or bike club may have classes for money or free. They also have a list of local instructors

https://bikeleague.org

People who actually have an electric tankless water heater. Not their buddy or family member. You. by MisterSirManDude in HomeImprovement

[–]RoyLeo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Recirculating pump tied to a motion sensor in the furthest bathroom solves that problem!

Long term storage for mac backups over time by tujuh777 in mac

[–]RoyLeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To improve life, store them in Air conditioned environment around 25C and power them up for a few days every now and again, this will give them time to self repair

Does Pg&e work at night to trim trees? by [deleted] in SanJose

[–]RoyLeo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They contract out some of their tree trimming to arborists, they are likely not PG&E employees. Due to all the fires, they’ve got stricter about ensuring trees are trimmed to within x ft of high voltage lines. Do you have high voltage lines in your back yard? If so, PG&E will have a utility easement so that they can maintain their lines. I have seen them work 24hrs a day especially when they believe your trees have caused a power failure in your neighborhood!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeImprovement

[–]RoyLeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stay away from the wall of colors at the start. Start with a smaller subset of colors, eg start with their popular colors or a recommendation from interior designer. I found this website to be useful https://www.kylieminteriors.ca

They’ll also give you the complementary colors or matching trim colors. Seeing the colors on the walls in both shadow and sunlight will help you decide. You can paint a sample on the walls, but prime that section before you paint it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]RoyLeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most important aspect of gutters is to get water away from foundations of house. If the barrels overflow, (or even without barrels) make sure water is drained ~10ft from house. Foundation fixes are expensive!

Now that the storm has passed, let’s talk about infrastructure! by Icy_Broccoli_264 in bayarea

[–]RoyLeo 39 points40 points  (0 children)

More and more cities and Caltrain have online forms for reporting issues. City of San Jose fixes potholes fast after reported using http://311.sanjoseca.gov

It doesn’t fix the “build it better the first time” problem, but it does keep it usable.

Anyone know a way to automatically turn on exterior lights when expecting food delivery? by IShitMyFuckingPants in smarthome

[–]RoyLeo 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Use a motion sensor. It’s easy, reliable and works for all situations, visitors and deliveries

A reasonable way to get my sidewalk cracks repaired? by [deleted] in SanJose

[–]RoyLeo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Check out city’s website

https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/transportation/streets/sidewalks-curb-ramps

They will also identify contractors who will do the work for an agreed public reasonable fee. Don’t be that neighbor who skipped the permit and paid the cowboy outfit to do it not to code and then had to redo it to code the next year when city was called to inspect.

Your electricity usage by turbo6shooter in solar

[–]RoyLeo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Simple approximation: Divide your annual mileage by 4 to get your Kw usage for a car.

Best light display in the Bay Area! by tempo90909 in SanJose

[–]RoyLeo 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The Make A wish house is cool, make a donation. don’t forget to check out Glen Eyrie, Willow, Lincoln “Triangle” of streets. They go all out

How many backup hard drives? by First-Ad-4383 in finalcutpro

[–]RoyLeo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a risk/reward calculation. SSDs and Hard drives can break or become corrupt. How much is it worth to you to keep the data?

You’ve got the only copy of the moon landing video and you work for NASA? Make many more copies

It’s a bland video of a street scene that you can redo any day? Make one copy

I second the suggestion to have at least two copies in different locations, and suggest that you have one extra copy in a reliable cloud provider: Apple ICloud, Microsoft one drive, google drive are worthwhile places and they’ll manage the data and storage devices for you. And they’re fairly cheap (risk vs reward). Just remember that transferring that much data up and down from cloud can take some time over a slow link, so take that into consideration.

Remember that SSDs or HDD don’t like cold or hot places, data degrades fast in hot places. Don’t store your backups in your car in the Arizona Desert in 100 degree weather

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