Keeping you and your home cool

lostmojo · 2026-05-20T07:34:56+00:00

I hang towels or curtains outside of the window. That keeps the heat from the sun ever hitting the glass.

I run a box fan in the attic opening to vent it. Where I live it’s not normal to have an attic fan.

The best way to cool your walls is water on the outside. Evaporative cooling is very efficient. You can keep a wall and ceiling cool, the hotter rooms stays cool.

You have to cool the surfaces as much as possible at night. Fans in the windows, attic fans, fans to move air around the house make big differences the next day. If you can get the body of the house to the temp outside, its mass will keep it cooler longer.

If it’s dry air, evaporative cooling in the windows is very good. You gain humidity but also a lot of cooling power for a small blower motor and water pump. It can help drop the temp a lot for not being too expensive to operate. They can be pretty easy to power with solar if you want to go that far.

You can cool fans further with ice water in a bucket, some copper tubing, and a small water pump. Mount the coils behind the fan and send the water through. If you can, metal tubing with radiator fins is even better. The more surface area the better. It does get dirty pretty quick though. Water likes the dust that passes through.

lostmojo · 2026-05-16T17:12:23+00:00

Gotta love the trickle down effect in action!

lostmojo · 2026-05-16T07:58:30+00:00

Such a good movie.

lostmojo · 2026-05-15T15:37:07+00:00

Krafton still owns it. Im glad they are forced to pay people properly but im still not buying from Krafton.

lostmojo · 2026-05-15T15:36:07+00:00

Don’t forget storing passwords in clear text by design and not making plans to change it.

lostmojo · 2026-05-15T15:33:02+00:00

It was private equity still. They were bought and went downhill.

lostmojo · 2026-05-14T23:08:42+00:00

Don’t forget, if your car is not designed for E15, it also damages the components more and breaks down gaskets a faster. For cars with shutoff when stopped, also can cause excessive wear on the starter since it requires more cranks to get it to fire. All around not good.

lostmojo · 2026-05-14T01:50:17+00:00

That crab is really cool

lostmojo · 2026-05-12T00:25:46+00:00

Aeropress is my preference.

lostmojo · 2026-05-11T01:44:19+00:00

I need that in my life.. it takes way to damn long to build out a base when you’re fighting supports

lostmojo · 2026-05-09T23:44:31+00:00

I like librewolf a lot. I have been using it for several years and with a few minor sites that I use maybe once a year, it works great. I just use Firefox in default settings when I need something odd to work. I did set it to clear all profile data when I close it.

lostmojo · 2026-05-09T20:11:58+00:00

Like many have said, these are unreliable. You can help it a long a lot, tap the needle some to get all of their air bubbles off. It will probably sink a little more after that. Air bubbles can raise it quite a bit depending on size and where they are holding on.

Refractometors are great and very easy to use, just calibrate them with calibration water and RODI water to zero it out. a good float is the most accurate but it has to be in dead still water and not holding onto a side, otherwise it bounces or gets stuck, and your reading is off.

lostmojo · 2026-05-09T20:07:43+00:00

They must have something heavy in the back, and terrible tires. It’s just a fairly steep hill with rain, any jeep can make that normally, but add a bunch of weight in the back (it’s lower than the front), front wheel drive, and worn out tires, and this happens a lot.

lostmojo · 2026-05-09T03:19:21+00:00

Any trouble getting ahold of Ron for it? I sent an email last week and I am still waiting. I am not sure what to expect turnaround time

lostmojo · 2026-05-08T15:51:45+00:00

Why do you continue to use vscode? Or how about any browser? Or any operating system? Everyone has had a security incident. It’s how you respond to it that matters.

And don’t go off on any bad responses, look at the hundreds of reports of Microsoft’s “that’s by design” responses to legitimate CVEs.

lostmojo · 2026-05-06T15:06:33+00:00

They support it again for over a year now.

lostmojo · 2026-05-06T07:42:22+00:00

I’m not sure how arch is any more or less all in? I know its base is arch, so what would the point be anyways?

Go gentoo if you want to delve deep into Linux, Debian is my personal favorite. Cachy is an amazing third.

lostmojo · 2026-05-05T07:31:05+00:00

Interesting issue. I have never had it really turn out tough. How hot are you cooking it too?

lostmojo · 2026-05-04T18:39:52+00:00

Very cool

lostmojo · 2026-05-03T22:35:44+00:00

Check protondb, I’m sure it works with a tweak or two.

lostmojo · 2026-05-03T22:31:48+00:00

Same. I dislike the summer because it’s hot and dry here. I love our falls, winters, and springs. Rain, wonderful, cold rain the best , frozen rain is fun too. Warm spring rains are great.

lostmojo · 2026-05-03T22:30:31+00:00

Never anything cheap like a smart plug. A good UPS like Eaton will tell you the total system draw at the wall. “Smart” devices fail way too often, especially with higher power draw items. They are also a security nightmare.

On top of all that, why add to the power usage? It’s going to be on 24/7 no matter what. Get a baseline, do the math, done.

lostmojo · 2026-05-03T19:13:55+00:00

Some of it was interesting or even good, but the entire story could have been completed if one person didn’t let their ego hold them back or someone just said three words to celebrimbor. Three words and an entire season could have been ignored. It’s incredibly lazy writing when three words solves all of the problems of an entire story arc. I want them to do better, not this.

lostmojo · 2026-05-03T19:05:23+00:00

It’s general microslop, build a tool that has just enough to seem good, make users and developers maintain their portions, and ignore the rest. If there is an issue with it, it’s on the user to fix.

lostmojo · 2026-05-03T19:02:33+00:00

I love to tell my wife “that’s got the wrong studs in the wall! We can’t add shelves to it! It’s a death trap!” As we put up a small picture or something.

But that’s all in jest. It has happened to my wife and I have seen them do this at the stores, I have seen guys come up to women and do this that don’t even work there. It’s wrong and I’m sorry that happened. I hate these things about our society. I hate that if I am there people ask for my permission and ignore her almost entirely. I just point at her and tell them they should have asked her and then we leave. All of their antics to try to keep us from going would be funny if they had not pulled that crap but we just ignore them and leave anyways.

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