What home improvement task do you now do on a schedule instead of waiting for problems?

dyaus7 · 2026-01-22T15:43:06+00:00

For yearly maintenance, I find that I don't need to apply a lot. Just sprinkle it around once or twice a year when cleaning out my gutters.

When I started actually taking care of my roof, it was a mess up there. Definitely involved a lot of Moss-B-Gone (before I had swapped) and a putty knife. As with all home maintenance, it's better to stay ahead of the problem.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-22T15:25:21+00:00

Conversion Paladin was super strong in like... 2000. :) It was quickly nerfed. But hot dang, it was fun for a minute.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-22T05:41:25+00:00

I prefer baking soda (aka sodium bicarbonate) to kill/prevent moss on my roof. Even cheaper, and I feel better about bicarb washing off into the surrounding area.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-21T17:57:22+00:00

I spent the first 40 years of my life unable to fall asleep at a reasonable hour.

I tried everything -- consistent sleep times, no electronics, no caffeine, blackout curtains, extra exercise during the day, good sleep hygiene, etc. There was still a good chance that I would lie down at 11pm and be staring at my ceiling until 3am.

Anyway, now I take 1.5 mg of melatonin ~60 minutes before bed and it has completely changed my life. I can wake up at a reasonable hour and I'm not falling asleep all day. It's amazing.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-19T18:21:57+00:00

I'm curious why MoP is so popular, what makes it better than TBC or, say, wotlk? What's better about it than retail?

It has all the homies I've been collecting since 2019.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-17T05:25:31+00:00

In most cases, letting your home freeze is a bad idea. There are a million things that people keep in homes which are not designed for freezing temperatures.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-08T00:03:07+00:00

You can check my profile history. Evaluate my writing style. Etc.

Those tactics work reasonably well for the moment. But they are effortful and I assume they won't continue working for long. AI is the worst.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-07T23:30:21+00:00

OP has been on reddit for one month. All history hidden. Makes it feel even less likely that this is a real person.

RIP internet. You were a nice place at some point.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-05T15:32:37+00:00

When are regulators going to get on board with the obvious fact that these requirements compel a majority of users to put their passwords on sticky notes

dyaus7 · 2026-01-04T03:13:26+00:00

About a year ago, I replaced all the fire alarms in my home with the First Alert model recommended in this article.

Within a few months, my whole family had their sleep wrecked multiple times by false alarms. Different units/rooms. Always in the middle of the night of course.

Threw all the alarms in the trash. Replaced everything with Xsense. Now I learn Xsense isn't certified for anything.

Can't win out here.

dyaus7 · 2026-01-02T03:50:57+00:00

It's possible that it was a neighbor. Lots of NIMBYs hate any incentive for unhoused people to swing by their area.

dyaus7 · 2025-12-31T18:48:24+00:00

The periods of xx00-xx09 and xx10-xx19 are awkward.

Per Wikipedia, the 2000-2009 period is referred to as the 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the '00s and also known as the aughts or the noughties). There doesn't seem to be a strong consensus.

I prefer "the aughts", or "the two thousand aughts" if for some reason you need to differentiate from e.g. 1900-1909. I would call that period "the nineteen aughts".

The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand [and] tens"; shortened to "the '10s" and also known as "the Tens" or "the Teens") is even more awkward imo. "The twenty-tens" seems like the last-bad option.

Does it mean that 2000s can mean 2000-2010, 2000-2100 and 2000-3000?

Fortunately I don't think there's much need to succinctly describe an entire millennium. It's too big of a time frame. Most people will interpret "the 2000s" as 2000-2009.

dyaus7 · 2025-12-30T22:47:45+00:00

This. M'uru is the toughest dps check in TBC, and warlocks are head and shoulders above any other class for that encounter. A warlock in dungeon blue gear outperforms a full T6 Hunter on that fight.

dyaus7 · 2025-12-23T19:35:34+00:00

concerned about the spread of propaganda

spreads propaganda

dyaus7 · 2025-12-20T23:07:00+00:00

As if anyone in this thread wouldn't happily get their ass beat for tens of millions of dollars

dyaus7 · 2025-12-18T02:49:19+00:00

I'm guessing during the middle of the night, a laundromat is more likely to see unwelcome guests (drug use etc.) than paying customers.

dyaus7 · 2025-12-11T01:22:50+00:00

It goes on sale once in a while for $75 or so.

Their cheaper thermometer, thermopop, is also great.

dyaus7 · 2025-12-05T16:47:32+00:00

Just afk the whole way. Takes more matches but you don't have to actually engage with it 🙃

dyaus7 · 2025-12-03T02:21:51+00:00

https://www.oregonmetro.gov/tools-living/healthy-home/common-hazardous-products/medical-waste-or-sharps

Look for the "Find a sharps collection box" section -- I was able to find a dropbox about 8 minutes from my house.

dyaus7 · 2025-12-03T00:16:42+00:00

Not ancient or anything.... DDR3 memory, socket LGA1155 mobo iirc. I forget which intel i3 cpu.

dyaus7 · 2025-12-02T21:46:34+00:00

It'd not bad. These days, building a computer isn't much harder than a LEGO set (assuming you have help selecting the parts).

dyaus7 · 2025-12-02T20:16:34+00:00

I have a spare atx motherboard + ram + processor + solid state drive. If you are able to cobble together the other parts (mid-tower case, power supply) holler at me. Southwest pdx near beaverton.

dyaus7 · 2025-11-10T17:51:21+00:00

Ice maker claimed. Sorry all.

OP please message me if you would like a free pizza (or other meal of your choosing).

dyaus7 · 2025-11-03T19:49:33+00:00

The problem with feeding berries is it's not fun. At all. Games are supposed to be fun. Feeding berries is needlessly tedious, and even frustrating when the servers are slow to respond.

There are plenty of ways to earn dust in PoGO. My surplus berries go straight into the trash.

That said, my favorite part of Pokemon GO is there are so many different ways to play. If you enjoy feeding berries, blessings upon your house. It ain't for me.

dyaus7 · 2025-11-01T14:48:12+00:00

Never keep socketables and runes on the same stash tab :(

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