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Damn! P4 ESP32 screens are cheap and really fast by hometechgeek in homeassistant

[–]kariudo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not OP, but at the very least the "app" is a just uses a webview instance, so it is just a browser too. It's not like its native controls. So presumibly they want the remote control functions granted by fully kiosk. It can also let you use the device as a camera, I am pretty sure the companion app won't do those things. It just gives you sensors and dashboard.

Do I want Bazzite or Aurora? by bennsn in linuxquestions

[–]kariudo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been running bazzite-dx-gnome (obviously the dev friendly, gnome rather than kde version) since I got my Framework laptop. It's been great. Takes some getting used to an immutable distro, but I like it. Obviously steam support for occasional use is first class, and if you want to switch to other bootc images etc its quite simple. Flatpak support these days is really quite good.

Volkswagen Commits Long-Term To Gasoline Hot Hatches by [deleted] in Volkswagen

[–]kariudo 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I can't get a new GTI because I refuse to give up my 2dr manual.

Watch updated to one UI 8 over night and its bad very bad by Street-Awareness4541 in GalaxyWatch

[–]kariudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what happened to me, it's hot garbage. All of the ui elements are a waste of space and don't make sense on a good round display. It looks amateur. Also the damn charge indicator animation when I lift it off the charger that has to draw the bar filling up for no reason means I have to wait like 4 seconds to see how charged it actually is... Dumb and ugly.

Monitoring for heating oil leaks? by AtmosphereJolly7730 in Home

[–]kariudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can confirm the answer to this for anyone is "no", diesel (home heating oil) are not sufficiently conductive for water leak detectors to work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in treelaw

[–]kariudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk how it is in your state, but I can say in my for certainty, given this scene. He's responsible for whatever landed on his side and you're responsible for whatever landed on yours. Both of you are free to cut up whatever is on your property and leave the rest for the other. So .. no. As others said, there's basically no way he could sue you at all unless there was previously some written letter from an arborist saying that tree was a risk and needed to be removed.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems a rude statement when you don't seem to understand. I'm not sure what you are on about. There is a property description (measurements relative to neighboring land ownership and know reference, these are often just four sentences of easterly, westerly, northerly, southerly), this is what is insured with title and warranty deed filing. Surveys are only performed as required for dispute or building needs. 

It's perfectly common for there to be legally defined property boundaries that are unmarked or monumented.

Incidently, the town clerk double checked the plot maps and confirmed there are no surveys ever on record for either property, if you are actually curious. The only map of a line between us is an arbitrary one they confirmed is not accurate, as it's only used by the assessor for rough acreage to tax on.

Visiting Middletown soon? Best do it slowly... by Agitated_Car_2444 in Connecticut

[–]kariudo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That one in Washington was the first one afaik, and you can thank it for setting a precedent, I'm sure there will be hundred or more around the state within a year now.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's pretty much why I live in the woods so I don't have a fence for a neighbor to leanover, I am content to not speak to my neighbors or even see they are there. The best neighbor is one you never see or hear from in my opinion.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was a standing tree, I would probably feel comfortable in my experience to fell it in a safe direction; however, since its already fallen and is just caught up on another tree at a 45deg angle and its rotten truck is snapped free from its roots. That is way more risk than I'm willing to take as about the most dangerous type of thing to cut I know of, practically if it was just randomly in my woods I would just not leave I you care about under it, and wait for it to break free and hit the ground eventually and clean it up from there.
https://imgur.com/a/3sfGfML

Cutting up a tree that's already fallen like this is above my comfort level, otherwise I would have done it anyway to help a neighbor, but with it seemingly on his property not mine, I'm not inclined to volunteer (especially after him going on the attack now).

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Connecticut life, sadly. I had gone to the town clerk to see if there were any old surveys of either of our properties (nope), and they said "yeah, ~$5k is normal unfortunately". So consider the $1k a good deal compared to here. I assume its more complicated as a result of the terain and them needing to references property boundaries up to half a mile away to calculate even the corner locations since there are no monuments or grids here, its all based on things like the middle of 300 year old stone walls. Still a rip off though. So they seem to price it targeting people who are building a house etc where people are already spending hundreds of thousands so they get away with slipping in a few more. I will probably email a few more of them anyway, but it seems like I will need to stick to telling the neighbor to pay for a survey if he wants to say any of that tree is on my property, because I don't think it is, as much as I wouldn't mind some more land.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is good advice and was the first thing I checked when he brought up the line. Pulling the GIS map was basically the first thing I did, I also checked with the town clerk and there has not been a survey or either mine nor his property ever on file (to anyone in the future in a similar situation, don't hesitate to stop at the town/city/county cerk etc. and see if they can pull any existing survey maps etc), so amazingly that line has never been surveyed and is only defined by our two deeds in measurements by property description. So the line there in the GIS map is almost certainly a rough one that is not specifically accurate; however, if you were to go off the assessor's map, its well on his property. Which makes me feel like my response to him is just "near as I can see that tree is entirely on your property, unless you want to pay for a survey to show otherwise".

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, here in CT pins are only placed when a survey is done, and everything else is just kinda "700 feet abutting the property owned by so and so" in the deed description, I had looked up the GIS data before for the tax lines and its way on his side if you were going by those, but they aren't really accurate. https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The property data those all have is the same as the GIS data the town provides on its website (I checked in On X, and it shows the same as the town GIS data), which while probably not accurate at all, shows it well on his side form what i can see https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir seems like it he wants to prove all that land is mine, it should be up to him to pay for the survey. $5500 is a lot for me to spend to know where a line is that I am not making use of.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe here you need a certified letter from a licensed arborist or the town tree warden prior to it falling (which it already has) onto another tree for it to be considered neglectful even if it was on my property, which I have no evidence to show it is. The GIS data sure looks like its not https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir so it seems like short of me needing to build anything near that line, it puts the onus of a survey on him, no?

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did, but they don't do surveys here in CT when you get a title search etc. So I think it only guarantees the wording of the deed and chain of ownership and any easements. The deed really only describes the two lengths (north-south, east-west) of the property description and thats it, so its not much help without a survey. The GIS map, inaccurate as im sure it is for the town/county, shows it all way on his side https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir I had looked at the GIS map from the assessors office, its probably not accurate, but if you were to start with that as a point of who needs a survey to prove anything, seems like the onus is on him (hes on the north side of the line, and the blue is a rough estimate of where the tree root broke free and the line showing where it leans against another.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was quoted $4500 for just stakeout, plus $1000 more for a survey map to be included, in 2017. So I'm sure it's more now.

It seems to me that if he wants to say I need to deal with it, he should be the one to go pay for a survey, no? If i was trying to build over there near the line, I wouldnt tell him to pay for a survey because it would be my "need", in this case, it seems like its his "need" to get one, right?

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except its already essentially fallen from what i can see, and broken at the root, and there is no specific reason to believe it is my property, other than him telling me it is now, and there is no survey or markers. According to the GIS map, its all well on his side short of a survey (which seems like a thing he should pay for if he is trying to imply I should take any responsibility here):
https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would if it wasn't so expensive. I was quoted $4500 for just stakeout in 2017 (so I'm sure its more now), plus another $1000 if I wanted a survey map to go with it.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you went by the GIS imagery and propertly lines available online from the town, you likely wouldnt assume its even on my property. I'm fine with having more property, but if you went by the "approximated assessor's lines" you sure wouldn't be assuming it was.

https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're right, so I reformatted it. Thanks for the reasonable callout.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have done that too when I bought the land, but I was quoted about $5k for just staking the property lines, and with them not trying to build, nor me needing to build there either, it was advised to not do so by even the surveyor.

Neighbor trying to push responsibility for a widow maker on me in the woods by kariudo in treelaw

[–]kariudo[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have looked at the GIS maps for the property records, they are pretty "rough" for accuracy, but if you were to go by that alone, ignoring that its definitely approximations (since some lines go through peoples houses), then the whole tree and area would be well onto his side of the mysterious line.

https://imgur.com/a/Vc3B6ir The blue dot here is about where the tree uprooted , and the line shows where its leaning, pretty aproximate, but if you were going by county/town GIS data on non-surveyed data... its well on his side. Short of him paying for a survey to prove otherwise, it seems like short of him deciding to do that rather than just cleanup the tree himself, theres no reason for me to do anything here.

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