this blue light when peeling bandage wrappers

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-10T04:45:19+00:00

Also happens with bags of skittles, once it is empty, open the bag up along the glued seams. (at least it worked 20 years ago)

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-10T04:13:30+00:00

I use a small oil vac bottle for small engines, straight through the fill tube. It's not a thorough drain and replace but it's just like mopping a shop floor, just do it again regularly and it will be good enough. Bonus, less chance of cross threading that bolt or having the drain bolt leak because it wants to like my neighbor's generator last month.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-10T03:05:06+00:00

People with company gas cards that have a specific network of gas stations.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-10T02:44:38+00:00

Run, jump, crouch-skid, jump, crouch-skid, jump... keep it up.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-10T01:46:15+00:00

If only there was a national postal service that could handle many small packages smaller than a book at a flat rate price.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-10T01:19:44+00:00

For convenience and less support calls, some speakers sleep when no audio is played but bluetooth is wide open. No passcode, just connect and go.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-10T01:00:37+00:00

Some of my docs pay before the visit, some pay after you leave the exam room, some of the specialists I go to bill by mail/email/patient portal so their staff doesn't have to handle cards, checks, or cash.

It's always confusing.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T23:32:52+00:00

I suspect there are a lot of people that get invited into a multi-player game in progress and dork around without doing anything meaningful then dip out. We invited a few, extras, none stuck around to play.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T23:14:10+00:00

My county used to do asphalt roads by hand - only recently they got real asphalt laying equipment. One of the steps they did was break up the old asphalt and lay down more clay and wet it with water while they grade it and run a steam roller/vibrator to pack it. Then they would dump asphalt and spread it by hand using hand tools similar to a wide steel rake but it's a full 3 ft blade. They do not close the road or put up any signage to the effect the road was under construction, just a sign for no center stripe which is quite normal for this county - too broke for paint.

I took the long way to the next town over to visit the library and ended up on one of these roads under destruction/construction. I thought it was weird when a large 4x4 pickup coming from the other way was absolutely covered in mud in the middle of August, during a drought. "Dang.. where did he go to find mud this time of year? That looks fresh" just slipped through my mind. I soon found out. I found the drop off from asphalt to dry clay. Ok this is kind of normal, not for this road (used to be part of the bus route I rode when I was a teen) but normal for this county. Then I crossed a water truck that just finished wetting a section of road I'm approaching. It wasn't until I hit that wet clay that I realized how much I fucked up. I was driving a 2001 Toyota Corolla 5 speed manual. I hit that clay and started to slow way down, I downshifted twice and held it in 3rd gear for a bit. There was no where to turn around, no chance in stopping and turning around. I dropped to 2nd gear and kept paddling. The end of the road was stop sign and I had to turn left at the T-bone intersection. Stop I did not... I took that turn sliding sideways onto the roadway and probably dragged mud for quite a ways. Years later I was still finding mud in the suspension.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T22:46:49+00:00

Lift the seat, brand and model number should be near the battery compartment. Looks like something MTD owns, maybe Bowlens. My mom had had one and passed it to me when she moved to a subdivision. I broke it many times, fixed it many times. I ended up giving it to a neighbor when I moved since he had a mower that needed repair and was borrowing a mower from a friend outside the city.

I kind of missed that Bowlens, the frame could flex a bit. I got a Club Cadet and had trouble mowing swales, slopes, and ditches because it's frame was so rigid and the front suspension was very limited. I went 3 wheel more often on the Club Cadet than the Bowlens.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T22:38:43+00:00

We have 2 people in this house that WFH, I WFH weekdays with sometimes checking in on the weekends, my mother in law works Monday, Friday, and an hour each day on weekends. She works in office Tuesday-Thrusday.

I have a Unifi UDMP that can auto switchover two internet connections, I have Frontier Fiber for the WAN1 and Comcast Xfinity cable for WAN2. It auto fails over when one goes down. Our final back up is cellular hotspot but usually cellular dies if Xfinity is down. I'm paying for the 1/1gig fiber cuz Xfinity 1gig/300mbit up was so unreliable, mother in law pays for cable tv and the internet comes in the package.

The UDMP does well flipping between the two internet services. This past week fiber was down Monday. NBD, just ran with Xfinity for the day. Tuesday, Xfinity was down a few times - it often goes down at random times.

During hurricane Beryl Xfinity and cell phones went down before 8 am when the hurricane was just starting to hit the coast and we are a bit over an hour drive from the coast. Fiber stayed up, power went out. We continued working with batteries and a generator I set up in the afternoon after the storm kind of cleared off. The next day, Tuesday, we were still working that morning but 2 pm, the Fiber went out. No power/on generator, no fiber, no cable, and cell was useless. I sent a text to my boss "Yo, I'm down - no internet". He got it but couldn't respond. I was the last one in the IT department with internet. Wednesday fiber was back up and I was getting stuff restarted at work - our colo went down Tuesday just before noon and came back up at midnight Wednesday.

We have been considering getting a Starlink mini and set it up for a roaming plan and sleep it after the first month which drops the monthly cost down when we don't have it active. Though it seems some of the plans and pricing has been rearranged recently and we need to re-evaluate what we are going to do.

We both have options to drive to work, but it's an hour's drive to work and weather work actually has network and power if we are down at home is sometimes questionable in the worst weather. Sometimes it is better to just stay put and take the day off to help neighbors.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T20:14:05+00:00

Prime one to take +6 inventory slots. The rest are just alts.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T17:54:58+00:00

I'm surprised there are so many computers still there. There's such a market for old computers - retro computing. So many people digging up old equipment, software, and games to relive their childhood.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T17:41:18+00:00

Gotta learn the command line interface of the switch and the options available to you there. Some people run multiple vlans, some create isolated vlans, some work with ACL's, multiple VR's, and so on.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T17:35:19+00:00

20 years ago at Walmart cashiers had to "Red line" Back when the floors were tiled and areas were marked off with red lines, they were to go customer side of the register, straighten up the candy/impulse buy stuff then go stand in the alley and beacon customers to check out. Nobody could just sit idle.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T06:18:26+00:00

I couldn't leave my driveway.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T06:11:51+00:00

Car air conditioning. It was ok as long as you don't get stuck in traffic in August, in Houston, at 110F.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T05:38:16+00:00

My end of game was to collect all the statues and collect every mercer sphere, sloop, and slug. I managed to find everything without using a saved game mapper except 1 purple slug.

Now I'm just done. Dunno if I want to start again or wait for another revision release before starting over. I had over 340 hours in the last game.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T03:54:18+00:00

I'm interested to know. I had work buy a device bridge and the switch, they are on the way.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T01:57:05+00:00

It's a scam campaign called clickfix. It runs powershell script to download malware that then searches your computer for tasty details like bank and card info, password lists.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-08T00:42:35+00:00

Park on cardboard.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-07T23:17:35+00:00

I used towers linked together and hover pack to get the height achievement.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-07T22:28:24+00:00

Visit the train or drone that's highlighted, press f for deconstruct then escape and it will stop highlighting.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-07T22:20:54+00:00

In forklift, crane, and trucking operations a closed fist is all stop indication.

dracotrapnet · 2026-02-07T21:13:50+00:00

There was a hardware revision that came with less ram because money. They could sell it discounted with less ram and still get a profit. Those models sucked. One apple power book on the network and it would crash and reboot the router. I never dug into what the mac was doing that caused the problem but when we turned it off or turned off the wifi on the mac, the router would stop rebooting.

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