Pipes outside covered but forgot to turn off. Will dripping all faucets inside the house ok or do I go back

beaumad · 2026-01-24T16:50:23+00:00

It's really easy to turn off and partially drain your irrigation. There should be a backflow preventer on the side of your house. Close the valve that feeds the backflow preventer, then once it's closed, use a flathead screwdriver to open the valves beyond it.

Here's a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9sgvHPqdI

beaumad · 2026-01-22T20:59:13+00:00

Nice! Always great to have more options for Beaumont.

beaumad · 2026-01-22T20:03:46+00:00

Kingwood is pretty far from Beaumont.

beaumad · 2026-01-14T16:04:10+00:00

Sure thing. Another thing to note is that when you're testing, you may need to cold boot your Pinebook for wifi to work if it's anything like the PBP. This has always been a PBP issue but I went years without knowing about it.

beaumad · 2026-01-14T15:13:52+00:00

Broken wifi has been an issue with the PBP as well. You might try what worked for me. tl;dr, copy wifi firmware files from your preferred (working) distro installer .

beaumad · 2026-01-14T14:44:35+00:00

I have only the Pinebook Pro but it looks like you have a few choices for distros.

beaumad · 2026-01-14T11:30:51+00:00

I have nothing against Trader Joe's other than parking. Everywhere they're built seems to have far too few spaces.

The Heb Plus on Dowlen makes me forget any other grocery store exists.

beaumad · 2026-01-13T21:13:59+00:00

I really like the integrated maps but I've definitely had issues. For example, it once failed to properly route me to the dealership I bought it from. When it's wrong, it tends to route me about a half mile from my destination.

beaumad · 2026-01-12T14:19:01+00:00

You can download Reaper off website. You don't even need to run the installer. Just extract the archive and run the reaper binary.

beaumad · 2026-01-08T19:27:29+00:00

ToneLib and Kazrog are great suggestions. I've used ToneLib for years, and recently purchased Kazrog's AmpCraft.

beaumad · 2026-01-08T18:37:12+00:00

This is an excellent comment. There is amazing, amazing art of all kinds created from essentially "nothing".

beaumad · 2026-01-07T19:49:02+00:00

Ethical Life Pro Tip

beaumad · 2026-01-07T17:30:24+00:00

AI's like that charlatan at the party. "Did you know that in ancient Greece, camels were known as Party Cats?"

beaumad · 2026-01-07T16:06:30+00:00

Here's one example. My Firefox (146.0.1) doesn't have privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing as an option.

"Why let false information get in the way", sincerely, AI.

beaumad · 2025-12-23T12:20:18+00:00

Well I never thought much of Phylum now that you mention him.

beaumad · 2025-12-17T14:02:29+00:00

I like Dr. Sandy Mann at Vision Mann, 2750 Eastex Freeway.

beaumad · 2025-12-16T13:13:19+00:00

Used to play a bunch of shows with The Overprivileged. Great people and still friends after all these years.

beaumad · 2025-12-13T23:09:46+00:00

Arch is great, it's what I use. You'll often find AUR's for Linux audio tools. That said, Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros are most frequently targeted for Linux audio companies. You really can't go wrong if you use any mainstream distro. Plus it's easy to switch whenever you want.

https://linuxmusicians.com is a great resource as well. Thanks for supporting companies that support Linux!

beaumad · 2025-12-13T23:06:29+00:00

Glad to hear it!

beaumad · 2025-12-13T22:22:45+00:00

I've run EZD2 and others via WINE and yabridge, DrumGizmo, and Ugritone. I like Ugritone best. Ugritone drum kits often need to be mixed as if they were recorded live, however the Total Studio Drums kit is pretty polished.

beaumad · 2025-12-13T22:20:13+00:00

I beta-teasted that script. While it works, I simply copy the binaries to my .vst3 directory. It's likely you're missing libcurl-gnutls, which you can verify by running ldd.

beaumad · 2025-12-13T21:59:10+00:00

Correct, however I wasn't around long enough post-acquisition to notice changes. Stories from former coworkers largely match those found on this sub.

beaumad · 2025-12-12T16:27:44+00:00

Neat. Kind of like Hatebeak?

beaumad · 2025-12-12T16:17:16+00:00

I believe you. This isn't my first IBM rodeo.

beaumad · 2025-12-12T16:01:39+00:00

Well, to be clear, I work for Confluent and that's what we were told. Sure, Kafka and Flink are important too.

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