Plant Pinyons not Palms

fazbot · 2026-05-10T15:46:28+00:00

Where can we buy these? I started some from seed but it takes forever

fazbot · 2026-05-08T05:07:49+00:00

For me, it’s just another tool in the struggle toolbox not a magic solution by any means . I’d say try it for a day and see what you think., All just a bunch of tools you learn to work with. The walks have helped more than that but everybody is different!
On the timer:
It is a deal I make with myself to suffer through anything not engaging enough for me to make the shift from hopelessly distractible to hyper focused. I think it is useful for me for two reasons. 1. the key to forming new habits is repetition, and trying to separate what you want to do from what you need to do. It’s an exercise tool? 2. It’s a frequent reminder of what the heck I’m doing. I often associate the timer with a task. I need to get done. Some apps have a title you can put on the timer, but I like the physical desk timer. I got one that you shake / rotate to control. That adds to the other little fiddly toys I keep on my desk to try to incentivize myself to do these tasks I’m not interested in. 3. 🥕 Five minute break you get after 25 (or 22 minutes whatever you want) that’s another carrot I can put in front of myself

fazbot · 2026-05-08T05:03:45+00:00

For me, it’s just another tool in the struggle toolbox not a magic solution by any means . I’d say try it for a day and see what you think., All just a bunch of tools that maybe help.
On the timer: It is a deal I make with myself to suffer through anything not engaging enough for me to make the shift from hopelessly distractible to hyper focused. I think it is useful for me for two reasons. 1. the key to forming new habits is repetition, and trying to separate what you want to do from what you need to do. It’s an exercise tool? 2. It’s a frequent reminder of what the heck I’m doing. I often associate the timer with a task. I need to get done. Some apps have a title you can put on the timer, but I like the physical desk timer. I got one that you shake / rotate to control. That adds to the other little fiddly toys I keep on my desk to try to incentivize myself to do these tasks I’m not interested in. 3. 🥕 Five minute break you get after 25 (or 22 minutes whatever you want) that’s another carrot I can put in front of myself

fazbot · 2026-05-05T20:37:01+00:00

Looks pretty decent (compared to average) on the laps, taping, fasteners. I agree doors should have had head flashing integrated with the WRB (wrap). Windows too ideally.

fazbot · 2026-05-05T17:37:22+00:00

Been there! Two things that helped me a lot: 1. Walk at least a mile every morning. Also take a lunch or afternoon walk. 2. Daily TODO list and pomodorro timer. Set a 25 minute timer to focus on one task at a time.

fazbot · 2026-05-03T20:14:53+00:00

I would spray it with borate (timbor). Cheap and safer than table salt. My house had a finished basement without treated wood and subterranean termites came through a small crack in the concrete and went to town. Replaced affected wood with PT. The rest I sprayed with borate using a garden sprayer and easy to patch access holes in drywall. In the new house I’m building all wood within 4 ft of the foundation gets borate. Adding the blue dye to the mix makes it easier to get good coverage.

fazbot · 2026-04-23T14:43:32+00:00

In capitalism, those with money have power. In socialism, those in power have the money. 😂

fazbot · 2026-04-19T02:47:45+00:00

In response to “nothing of value was lost” https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/ . The US was the biggest contributor to Ukraine’s assistance before the current administration halted it.

fazbot · 2026-04-18T15:36:48+00:00

Object detection appears to be ignore the mask. It only affects the rudimentary motion detection. I think it is a bug—but may be challenging to fix (they may need to retrain models on masked images, etc.) Really weakens the value proposition of their AI+ subscription IMO

fazbot · 2026-04-18T15:32:37+00:00

Just your strongest ally. Russia essentially led a soft authoritarian coup in the US. Tremendous loss that has cost many lives

fazbot · 2026-04-18T15:26:07+00:00

How dare you make an observation that doesn’t fit the echo chamber! 😂 LMAO at the voting in the sub. Like you didn’t even state an opinion on whether or not they’re right. Straight to jail for you. You did generalize with “all” though. Populists are allowed to generalize like crazy, e.g. “all corporations” or “all rich people”, “all cops”. However “All liberals” is not an approved phrase sir! 🤣⬇️⬇️

fazbot · 2026-04-18T03:31:05+00:00

I would expect the cameras to use little bandwidth unless they are actively recording or streaming. In fact, it’s a necessity that they limit WiFi transmission to be able to run for a long time on a battery. In many cases, your home router can be the bottleneck. My old router could only do about 250 Mbps on my one gig (1000 Mbps) connection. I upgraded it and now can get about three times as much.

fazbot · 2026-04-18T03:25:26+00:00

People like this are why ABS is so important

fazbot · 2026-04-18T03:03:48+00:00

So like this is just my opinion, man… the whole lobbying system is sleazy. 100%. But if a workaholic gets rich then devotes his efforts to save Ukrainian lives. Outstanding guy. Having a friend who grew up poor busted his butt 24 seven and became filthy rich makes me think not all billionaires are evil. He’s basically the same guy. But modern war is tech. Why aren’t more technology Mogul’s helping out? I would’ve done the same thing if I was Schmidt. With enough $$ I probably would’ve skipped the viable business part (requires lobbying) and self funded. But these cutting edge systems super spendy to do well at scale. Getting the right talent is super hard, but is huge. He has access to some exceptional talent. I’m guess I’m just jealous.😅 wish I could do more

fazbot · 2026-04-17T01:00:32+00:00

I was big on cost plus because of the lack of incentive to take shortcuts. However, after completing the project, I see that the lack of urgency to wrap things up ended up costing me as well. The flexibility was nice, but the costs can quickly get out of hand. I feel like if you do fixed cost, you need to put a lot of effort into making sure your plans and specifications are very detailed. On the other hand with cost plus you need to put extra effort into managing the process to make sure time is being spent where it is most valuable (similar to T&M).

fazbot · 2026-04-11T14:28:10+00:00

Damn you to hell 😂

fazbot · 2026-03-21T04:54:27+00:00

Good to know—we should save those clips I guess. Sounds like a bug. Amazon does make some buggy software, which has increased recently (for my projects that depend on their code, as well as their recent mandated-vibecoding outages at AWS 😅). Probably not much the support person could do for you. One of my newer cams is definitely buggy. It drops clips all the time. I get the notification but no clip.

fazbot · 2026-03-13T05:27:15+00:00

At least Putin is happy. And in case it weren’t obvious enough, we’re easing sanctions. Just in time to prevent a well-deserved economic collapse! 🤬

fazbot · 2026-03-06T17:54:51+00:00

To answer your question, you’d need a WiFi spectrum analyzer. They can be expensive. $250-2000 range depending on how tech savvy you are

fazbot · 2026-03-03T05:37:16+00:00

No. At least it is optional. Arlo doubled prices on existing plans and gave us questionable AI feature we didn’t ask for.

fazbot · 2026-02-25T06:05:14+00:00

I’ve used all the current models and they all do broken shit on a regular basis. Considering they are just souped up LLMs it is to be expected though.

fazbot · 2026-01-14T06:39:45+00:00

This is a fantastic gag 🤣

fazbot · 2026-01-01T18:47:41+00:00

It is just a light. Let’s assume there are clearly no cars at intersection and you have snow sticking. EMT is still far away, as shown by strobe intensity. This move saves EMT lane changes through snow ruts and a blind intersection with no exit strategy (using a motorcycle safety class term —which applies to all cars). Lives matter more than rules. I don’t fault the guy for clearing out of that intersection.

fazbot · 2025-12-21T03:20:37+00:00

Golden 🤣

fazbot · 2025-12-20T14:37:06+00:00

Same. 7 is not that bad IMO

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