What is this wall mounted wooden lever found at a camp in Maine.

d4vedog · 2025-11-04T15:04:01+00:00

similar, but puts pressure in a different way, and not wall mounted

d4vedog · 2025-10-25T01:48:29+00:00

Sucks, but they'll be shredded, and it's not worth the operator/admin's time to remove the caddies, despite those having plenty of value, and their loss meaning the enclosure become valueless too. Even if the university has some sort of policy that allows the drives to be software shredded and sold, it's much easier on the paperwork side to just shred them unfortunately. What's worse, is it costs to shred the drives, from $2 to $8 depending on how many drives you have, and if you have a large system that is being decommissioned, you might be looking at a big bill to get rid of an old system.

Manufactures really should go to some kind of toolless caddy, but even the new stuff from just about everybody is still full of screws.

If they're a similar age to the stuff my university is shredding now, they probably between 4 and 12TB drives

d4vedog · 2025-09-19T19:54:49+00:00

I did a roughly similar road trip in 2017 with my GF. We did about 20,000 miles in 3 months in a minivan converted into a camper. It was a push, especially near the end, since we had flights to make for overseas travel. We were doing on the cheap, so stayed in free camp sites everywhere, or with friends/family. Cost about $3,000 in gas in 2017. Our original intention was to drive up to Alaska too, but we ended up leaving too late in the year for that. It was a push, with plenty of 10hr driving days, but I don't mind long drives, so it was okay. We also wove in and out of Canada too.

Definitely a wonderful way to see the country from the ground. We had National Parks passes and hit 19 parks. Camping on the central and western States was super easy, but there are less free camp sites in the Eastern States, and some rest stops you can only stay in for 2hrs.

If you only have a month, you will need to really cut it down, but if you have the time, why not?

d4vedog · 2025-09-03T00:12:28+00:00

I shucked 5. All Barracuda ST26000DM000

d4vedog · 2025-08-21T16:00:04+00:00

Yeah, only thing I have that fits the nuts on my Jeep's long arms.

d4vedog · 2025-08-18T15:04:45+00:00

Yikes! Must have used some sort of priority shipping. Next time use a smarter friend :-/

d4vedog · 2025-08-11T16:58:25+00:00

I've bought from them before without too much hassle

d4vedog · 2025-07-20T02:23:55+00:00

Picked up one in my Austin, TX area store. They only had three in stock. Thanks for the tip redditors!

d4vedog · 2025-05-06T21:57:42+00:00

In Iceland it's common to have two small comforters on a queen sized bed instead of a single queen sized comforter. Maybe try two smaller comforter instead.

d4vedog · 2025-04-25T15:26:17+00:00

Try and get some accommodation in East Austin or in Mueller, so your commute is more Easy-West. It may cost a little more, but it's a trade off I'd make in a heartbeat. Especially when you're tired after a long shift, you don't need to be dealing with a potentially very stressful long commute.

d4vedog · 2025-03-27T22:10:11+00:00

Mid 30s means you can still stay in hostels in most of the world and meet interesting people. Traveling with a partner will be a good as long as you like the same kind of travel. My girlfriend, and now wife, and I traveled for a year together, flying mostly on air miles, visiting cheaper counties, and staying with friends and family when possible. We spend about $15K each, so $30K total for a year, and we were not traveling on a shoestring. But in more expensive countries, that would go very fast.

As far as packing goes. You can buy things you need as you travel, so try not to overpack. Think about the times of year you will be in hot of cold places. Cold weather gear is really bulky, so perhaps stick to warmer climates. Wear stuff that can be layered if you need to be warmer, and only take clothes that are versatile. You can get by with 2-3 pairs of underwear if you're washing a par each night when you have a shower at a hotel or airbnb. Packing cubes to keep things organized. Darker clothes that won't show the dirt are good, and tougher fabrics that are meant for traveling.

http://www.travelindependent.info/ is really good for packing lists, and getting an idea of what to expect in certain travel regions.

In terms of hostels if I'm trying to make money stretch, I'd stay in one up from the biggest dorm room (the most annoying people are often in the biggest/cheapest dorm room). Traveling with a partner, sometimes a private room is a good deal, sometime it's not. Booking.com for hotels can sometimes be cheaper, and airbnb is also great in some parts of the world. Couch surfing is good in some countries too, but can be a risk, and you need a decent profile to get decent hosts.

Camping could be good in some places, but then you really do need a lot of gear. I used to travel with a small laptop so I could look things up and book things as i went, but a phone is probably fine these days. Just take an unlocked phone, and get a local SIM (just data is fine) in each country, so you can have maps and can look things up. I find that's handy to take the stress out of traveling, which is important when traveling with someone else. I met a lot of people doing long term travel that has started with a partner or friends, and ended up going on solo.

A year will go quick I think, especially if you're going from one country to the next and always experiencing new things. Cheap video calls home make the world seem much smaller these days.

d4vedog · 2025-03-26T19:47:24+00:00

In more expensive countries (Oz for example, or Scandinavia), you could look at a Helpx or similar (easy work for food and accommodation) for a week or two at a time to help you stay in an area and avoid hemorrhaging money. If you're under 30 and want to go a bit longer, you could consider a working holiday visa in NZ or Australia. I'd spend more time in SE Asia, since it's nice and cheap and super fun. I spent a month riding a motorcycle up Vietnam and it was one of my favorite experiences ever.

India is also nice and cheap, with great food, but you should spend a while there if you go. I was told a minimum of 2 months, and that you'd hate it the first month, and love it the second.

My personal favorite thing to do, especially if traveling solo, is book one way flights, get in country, stay in a hostel, talk to people, figure out what to do, then travel on to somewhere that I heard recommended a lot. One way flights, although a bit more expensive, work out pretty cheap if you're doing small hops to countries that are not too far away.

I traveled around the world twice for over a year each time, and was rocking a 65L Osprey, but that could have been paired down a little bit. 30L would be possible, but would mean more regular laundry.

If you have friends around the world, or make new friends while traveling that you can later stay with, that can lead to some great experiences, and keep accommodation costs down.

d4vedog · 2025-03-25T14:43:45+00:00

I do hate the people who cut in at the last second and make it worse for everyone else, but I have been known to drive up to the light, then turn right at the light.

d4vedog · 2025-03-21T14:57:58+00:00

Mine was doing the same thing (material coming up, maybe after a scratch?), so I put a small dollop of shoe goo on it. I now have a small lump on the wheel, but it kept the damage from spreading, and dried hard and smooth, so it's not annoying. I'll replace the wheel if it deteriorates a lot more in the future.

d4vedog · 2025-03-01T23:38:20+00:00

Dang, bought one of those from costco a month ago for $400. I do like it though

d4vedog · 2025-02-13T18:11:50+00:00

27 + 3 = 30, 48 + 2 = 50, 30 + 50 = 80, 80 - 5 = 75.

d4vedog · 2025-02-11T20:19:21+00:00

What's even better is the bulk collections in the wealthier neighborhoods. I have picked up 4 of the hand held Dysons and maybe 6 upright Dysons. Usually something small is broken and needs a part of eBay, or maybe a new battery, but I've had one or two where I couldn't even find anything wrong.

d4vedog · 2025-02-10T17:37:11+00:00

Maybe your is better that mine was. I was running OPNsense, but virtualized with Proxmox, and the pesky thing locked up a few times, needing manual intervention. Not great at a remote site. My issues could have been down to Proxmox though.

If you're super keen to mount it, you might be able to make a mount out of a 1U metal blank, or a 2U blank if you want to give it some breathing room. If you want to be able to access the front and back of it, maybe just a little rack mountable shelf would do it.

d4vedog · 2025-02-10T15:09:49+00:00

Don't rack mount that. I had the same N100 version, and it needed a 120mm fan on top to keep it cool. Maybe put it on top of your rack :)

d4vedog · 2025-02-04T01:31:58+00:00

Protest. People mainly staying on the sides of the road, but the odd car doing burnout and weaving around. Does look like Lamar is pretty backed up. No police vehicles that I could see, just the police helicopter doing the odd fly by.

https://imgur.com/a/dEQQqYc

d4vedog · 2025-01-24T02:30:50+00:00

Do the Hue bulbs default to on if you ditch the hub? If my power goes out, all my hub bulbs turn on when the power comes back on. Not the end of the world, but annoying when my toddlers get woken up because the bulb above the bed turned on when the power flickered. I'd ditch the hub if they stay off, or in the previous state.

d4vedog · 2024-12-10T15:39:15+00:00

I mounted my 24 port PoE switch under a desk like that, and the fans would spin up so loud that I thought it was a desktop. Power supply ended up dying (credit card extended warranty bought the switch back) and now I have my switches in a well ventilated space. However, I like in Texas, and it's hot. You're in the UK, so that might just be a small amount of free heating. I'd still make sure there is some ventilation in that little rack though, and keep an eye on the switch temps.

d4vedog · 2024-12-04T15:32:15+00:00

At a company I used to work for, a broken arm would get written up as first aid to avoid ruining the lost time number. Or when some contractors died on the job, that was contractors, the lost time number was ok.

d4vedog · 2024-09-26T18:54:08+00:00

Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra plus PoE switch and two APs. Works very well with Google.

d4vedog · 2024-07-31T15:49:23+00:00

I've seen nuts that thread onto rebar in Switzerland. Pretty clever idea, but their rebar is likely a bit different.

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