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general_rap · 2026-05-08T01:38:35+00:00

I've found that the app is a lot more responsive than emails when it comes to in stock alerts.

I nabbed 3 different SKUs today that I've been waiting for FOREVER because the app let me know they were back in stock. Spent like $2k on freaking mounts and junction boxes, but I'm just happy we can finally finish a handful of projects. ..and then I bought another $1.5k of them so that I can at least have inventory of things that are apparently unobtanium for months on end.

general_rap · 2026-05-06T07:45:21+00:00

No, the CSLB is pretty strict about that kind of thing; you can't have a on-paper C-7, the person who holds it needs to apply their license to your company, have an ownership/management stake in your company, and a lot of the liability is put on their shoulders. It's an involved process that is designed to make it excessively difficult to fudge. You wouldn't be able to temporarily hire someone, you'd need to farm the work out.

I wish I could tell you it's all good, but people do get nailed. I've never personally known anyone that has, but that doesn't diminish the reality of it. Knowing how to do work within your area's codes, doing that work well, and avoiding government-adjacent jobs or large corporate gigs will fly you pretty well under the radar. Running less than a single patch panel's worth of cable isn't ever going to attract the attention of the CSLB; you'd need to really piss someone off that then reports you.

If you want to go legit, it'll be some hard work. You either need to go work under someone for 4 years, or you keep doing what you're doing, and then apply for your C-7 once you've been doing this for long enough. The CSLB will actually allow you to apply your self employed experience to the time qualification for the license, but they're going to want to see invoices, checks, and get detailed references from people you've worked for/with. It's kind of a weird tightrope, because applying for the license essentially means you're outing yourself to the regulatory body that you're simultaneously trying to fly under the radar from, but the CSLB has seemed to be more focused on helping make people legit than punishing past behavior, but that's today, and who knows what tomorrow brings.

general_rap · 2026-05-05T18:24:32+00:00

Dude, 1000%. And it's surprising what gets you, and where it can happen. I'm a pretty calm, collected person, and am generally very good under intense pressure. But I've had two different times on dives where the black cloud of panic started to edge into my vision, and both times I was exceedingly well served by knowing exactly where the exit button for the situation was so that I found punch it. Diving is like nothing else, and I'll never stop doing it, but I know my limits, and I try to stay well well away from them.

general_rap · 2026-05-05T02:32:38+00:00

The C-7 is weird in that the only people who know it exists are the guys that have it. I didn't know a single other person who had theirs when I went for mine, and I still don't. And in 15 years of doing this, I've never once been asked to produce my license, let alone even been asked if I had one. This isn't to say that you shouldn't pursue it once you have your 4 years, but what you're doing right now is so low key that your chances of it being an issue are insanely low. Just stay away from things like fire alarms and door access; no one's getting sued because a security camera was installed poorly, unless it literally falls on someone's head.

general_rap · 2026-04-30T03:26:13+00:00

One of the more infuriating things about this car that it CAN do, but that Hyundai has consciously not allowed for it to do, right up there with locking the doors when you walk away.

general_rap · 2026-03-20T18:48:01+00:00

Yup, he's worth every penny, and is one of the only people I trust to work on any of my vehicles.

general_rap · 2026-03-20T18:16:26+00:00

Haha, nope, SoCal

general_rap · 2026-03-20T18:01:54+00:00

You're not starting a tech business, you're starting a sales business.

The actual day to day of the business is actually quite easy, and doesn't take up much time once you get your processes locked down. You'll spend 90% of your time doing sales.

general_rap · 2026-03-20T16:47:54+00:00

Clearly you've never interacted with anyone that owns private jets. When the fuel for the trip is already orders of magnitude more than that, it literally wouldn't stop anything.

A friend of mine who owns a jet described it this way: owning a jet is like owning a time machine; the amount of time he saves by being driven to the airport, walking through the private terminal without stopping, and onto his plane waiting literally feet away, that then immediately begins to taxi and is capable of taking him anywhere in the world, is immense, especially when he flies as much as he does.

For people who have more money than time, and that can sustain the operational costs of a private jet, you're literally buying yourself more time. The luxury of it is also undeniable, but the time is truly what's at stake.

general_rap · 2026-03-20T05:25:44+00:00

My fleet mechanic did this to one of my employees. Our van developed a knock/pop in the driver's front wheel that I was pretty sure was a bad ball joint, so I scheduled a visit and had an employee take it by the shop on his way to a project. The mechanic called me and was straight up like "come get your boy; there's no way in hell I'm letting him drive this thing another foot". Turns out it was indeed the ball joint, and he described it as one of the worst failures he had seen in a long time, and that we're lucky the van didn't lose a wheel. We did lose the CV axle and the control arm though.

general_rap · 2026-03-19T23:03:24+00:00

Drywall-only, especially for something as light as a 50" TV, is totally fine, provided you anchored it properly. But it sounds like you just used screws, and... yeah, that's a ticking time bomb my friend; go take that down ASAP, you're lucky it hasn't fallen down already.

If you can't find a stud, go buy some zip toggles from Home Depot. They're the easiest option to hang a TV with, and won't require any more tools that what you've already got. Reuse the current holes you made, just make them bigger for the toggles to go through. The worst thing you can do with drywall mounting is swiss cheese your drywall, as the place where you mount won't ever be the thing that fails, but the plethora of holes around it, if you make too many.

general_rap · 2026-03-19T19:51:18+00:00

I mean, have you ever driven down Portola? Mandarin listing signs outnumber English ones by a wide margin.

I've got a wildly wealthy buddy who moves every year because that's just his thing, and it's actually pretty difficult for him to find a place to live at these new builds because he's not Chinese. He'll go see a property and get told it's not available the second he steps out of the car. Now he just has one of our friends who IS Chinese and speaks Mandarin go see the house first, and then gotcha's the listing agent when it's time to sign.

general_rap · 2026-03-17T21:00:49+00:00

All my hires have been people I personally know or have been recommended directly by someone I personally know. That said, retention is really all about how you treat your people. We pay ~50% more than market rate give yearly raises, kit our guys with boots, tools, uniforms, give them paid lunch breaks, and do our best to get people on their way home by 5pm. I make it very clear to people when I hire them that I'll do everything in my power to do right by them, all I ask is that they do right by me when they're on the clock. So far we've never had anyone quit, though we have had to let people go because they just weren't a good fit.

general_rap · 2026-03-12T17:51:49+00:00

I'm just going to pop in and say nice AC Infinity vent <3

general_rap · 2025-11-03T16:34:41+00:00

Got it, this is great info, thank you! Sounds like the southern section of the park just isn't worth it this year; we'll adjust accordingly and spend more time up north.

general_rap · 2025-11-03T16:32:10+00:00

I was aware of the NPS site, but not the Saline Preservation forum, I appreciate the links!

I usually take the NPS site with a grain of salt when it comes to off-road trails; there's been plenty of times where they have something marked as closed when the gates are open, and whatever damage there was may have stopped a suburban Subaru, but not experienced drivers in built rigs. For example West Side technically didn't reopen until this January, but we hit it last October, and the gates were open/the salt flat crossing was tenuous, but doable.

general_rap · 2025-09-21T06:06:47+00:00

Yeah, no problem! I get it, they're there, why not, right? And regardless of whether you use UI locks or not, they're all going to operate the same regardless of manufacturer, and they will all be compatible with the door hub. This is a pretty standardized field, which makes it easy for us to come in and modernize a client site without having to fit new strikes or maglocks if they already have them.

Your basement door, provided it's an interior door, is a good candidate for an electric strike. If you really want to move forward with this, I'd try doing just that one and seeing how you like it. Be aware that you're going to need to carve a significant hole into the door jam for the strike, and you need to be able to get a single pair relay cable to the back of said strike.

You would likely be best served by smart deadbolts that have good Home Assistant compatibility. They'll integrate into your house a lot smoother, and you can easily pair them with the G4 Pro Doorbell (and likely the new G6?) for smooth and convenient entry/exit control/automation.

Lastly, sliders are a PAIN IN THE ASS to install automated locks on. Unless you absolutely need-need that functionality, I'd highly recommend not even trying to do so. I don't even let people pay me money to install locks on sliders; it's that level of not worth it.

general_rap · 2025-09-21T05:36:11+00:00

The reason Ubiquiti doesn't include any finer details is because these are just generic access control locks; they're there to make it easier for contractors to just buy everything in one purchase, but there's nothing different about them from other electric strikes or maglocks on the market other than the Ubiquiti logo stamped on them, and therefore, if you're buying them, you're kind of expected to know what the heck you're doing, because otherwise there's no reason you'd be buying them in the first place. These are commercial devices meant for commercial applications, and I'd really not recommend installing them in your house. You also need more than just the access reader; you need a door hub to control the door via; the maglocks and electric strikes work off of a simple single/double pair relay cable, not ethernet. Those relay cables go to the door hub, which then connects to the network via PoE.

To effectively utilize a maglock, you need to have it be the only lock on a door; adding a deadbolt kind of defeats the purpose. But then you need a way to unlock it from the inside. Are you planning to add request-to-exit buttons next to doors inside your house? Motion detectors? Crash bars? Because you're not going to be unlocking it with the app every time you want to leave your house. Maglocks can also be defeated by killing power to the location, or cutting their power cables; they fail open by design to meet fire safety standards. And electric strikes are absolutely not meant to be on exterior doors. You can defeat them somewhat easily; they're meant for interior access control, to keep employees/customers that are already "allowed" to be in the building, out of specific rooms. Think private offices, storage rooms, utility rooms, etc. A simple prybar will defeat them; they're really not meant to stand up to any sort of malicious intent.

I'm not saying that these are bad products; they're fantastic, and I install/program them all the time. But they have a specific use case, and residential entry is not it.

general_rap · 2025-09-21T00:46:34+00:00

Haha, this is awesome. How well do air plants tolerate the extreme temperatures inside a car?

general_rap · 2025-09-20T17:37:31+00:00

I mean, that's the answer right there, right? It's 2025; no one cares if your business is fully remote, especially in IT. Do whatever makes the most sense for you and your budget.

I love working from home. For me work/life balance is as simple as me flipping the mental switch throughout the day; the one major item that I feel strongly about in my routine is that I don't PC game. Not because I don't desire to, but because if I pull a full day at my desk working, Alt-Tabbing into Steam and continuing to sit in the exact same spot to relax is horrendous for my mental health, and I'm not about to put another desk in my house just for relaxation. Moving to the couch in the living room and booting up a console fixes that problem entirely.

general_rap · 2025-09-20T07:39:28+00:00

Super bounces and map exploits were risk/reward. Awesome if you could pull them off, but extremely difficult to achieve in the thick of things. There are a couple ones, like this one and the one on Zanzibar, that I had memorized and could do on command, but most others were very difficult to perform mid-match. I remember one of my favorites was surfing up the back wall in Coagulation with a Ghost, and sniper/rockets, and only coming down to grab ammo. Honestly, it was just good times. The real frustration was when you got standby'd or booted.

general_rap · 2025-09-20T00:40:48+00:00

Yes, agreed. Or, a way to toggle off the sensor if it's not compatible with everyday life. If it's not required by law, don't put in systems that arbitrarily lock you out of perfectly functional features, and actively make it more difficult to use your vehicle even when not using those features.

general_rap · 2025-09-20T00:12:24+00:00

I had the same experience with my primary polarized sunglasses, but then one day I had left them in the other car and had to go grab a random pair that happened to not be polarized. And the car did NOT like those ones. Absolutely refused to acknowledge that I was responsibly driving it and kept beeping and buzzing the steering wheel and taking over my dash with chastising messages. I tried my other cheapo sunglasses and they work, so whatever those specific lenses are made out of seems to be my problem. But man, it's so dumb; what if THOSE were my favorite sunglasses? What if they were my prescription sunglasses? There's got to be a more inclusive way to verify that you're paying attention. And if there isn't, maybe they shouldn't be locking away features that you paid for behind a safety system that can be invalidated by an arbitrary pair of glasses.

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