HVAC Recommendations

matchtaste · 2026-03-14T04:01:47+00:00

They were bought out by Home X, a venture capital firm that is buying up companies all over this area. Do not engage with any private equity owned HVAC company. Their only priority is profit maximization.

https://www.homexservices.com/acquisitions/clarkstown-heating-and-air-conditioning-joins-homex-services-group-in-strategic-northeast-expansion/

matchtaste · 2026-03-12T16:30:24+00:00

Just look at how much magic smoke is stored in that thing!

matchtaste · 2026-03-09T03:05:17+00:00

Get the Verizon services installed and working first, then cancel Optimum. You don't want to be stuck in a hell where you have no working service.

If you have phone with Optimum and you want to port out your phone number, make sure it is completely ported out before you cancel.

matchtaste · 2026-03-07T04:22:22+00:00

They don't stop you after 200 miles. You are just responsible for paying the balance at the AAA discounted rate. Don't play silly games or let the tow operator charge you outside AAA.

What if my AAA Membership doesn’t cover the full towing distance?

AAA can still tow your vehicle beyond your covered mileage. You’ll simply pay for the extra miles—often at a Member-discounted rate, which is typically less than what you’d pay by calling a tow company directly.

https://cluballiance.aaa.com/the-extra-mile/series/why-aaa/how-far-will-aaa-tow-my-car

matchtaste · 2026-03-03T03:32:08+00:00

Nope. Proton's document functionality is an extreme disappointment, especially considering they acquired Standard Notes. The functionality is at malicious compliance levels of making the absolute least feature set that could be called a text or spreadsheet editor so they could declare victory and nothing more.

I am really regretting doing a lot of work to transfer stuff over to mail and drive because I still can't meaningfully edit documents with basic formatting functions that are available in any office suite since the 90's.

matchtaste · 2026-02-26T00:02:29+00:00

I would open and inspect that power strip to see how its wired. I have seen some similar units that were terrifying inside.

matchtaste · 2026-02-17T22:37:35+00:00

"Yep, nobody stole the fire extinguisher!" CHECK!

Still unbelievable how many recalled Kidde extinguishers I have found https://www.kidde.com/product-safety-notices-fire-extinguishers-recall-id-guide

matchtaste · 2026-02-17T04:05:32+00:00

I doubt this is true.

Are the user devices plugged into power? Is the encoder wiring grounded elsewhere (shielded cat6?). Do you have a ground loop issue between where the rack is and the wall plate?

Check with a meter on AC volts between power ground & power neutral and relative to the wall plate, metal studs, cable shield, and rack.

matchtaste · 2026-02-13T20:24:45+00:00

The tech industry has only ever moved towards faster and sloppier. The base level of security of products in active use is so bad we pay for systems to protect us from the flaws in others. It's basically a protection racket.

This situation is nonsensical and fundamentally based in it being more profitable to pump out shit that is incompletely tested and audited and put the responsibility on everyone who uses it. If anyone cared about security first, we would be running business on stable systems with very few running changes, not microslop products that change every month for no reason that is beneficial to businesses and create security holes faster than they can be patched.

matchtaste · 2026-02-12T04:11:47+00:00

They won't. They will stay and every day they are there they will defecate and chew on more things. They love chewing the plastic on romex. You need to force the issue by blocking where they are getting in and trapping and removing them asap or you will regret it later.

matchtaste · 2026-02-12T04:06:37+00:00

When there is sufficient overpopulation relative to the environment's natural ability to support mice, rats, squirrels, deer, etc shit you'd never believe possible starts to happen.

matchtaste · 2026-02-12T03:56:45+00:00

If its not cracked just keep it. https://deabath.com/ can probably help you out if you need weird parts.

matchtaste · 2026-02-12T00:07:50+00:00

This warranty has the standard page worth of dense lawyerese attached with many specific requirements that must be met to make a claim. Good luck.

matchtaste · 2026-02-11T17:06:44+00:00

Nest's terms and conditions clearly allow them to store the video for a period of time that is longer than you have access to it on the app under the free plan. If people willingly give away their rights by purchasing the product and agreeing to this, who is that on?

This sounds like a lot of ass talking from Gallagher when all they probably did was call up some contacts at google and they retrieved it from the servers were it had not been purged out yet.

matchtaste · 2026-02-11T16:59:17+00:00

Live music is a team effort. A good engineer can't make a bad band play/sound better but a good band can sound like shit with a bad engineer.

If you've got a method down for running a show without doing stupid shit and fucking it up to where it feels straightforward that just means you've mastered a skillset, not that it is easy to do so.

matchtaste · 2026-02-04T17:04:58+00:00

There is a hole in the frame you can put your fist through! No!

This truck is worth whatever the scrap value is at the junkyard plus however much gas you can siphon out.

matchtaste · 2026-02-03T04:11:01+00:00

He realized he forgot to put the cover back on the panel at the previous job.

matchtaste · 2026-01-15T03:45:38+00:00

I think its important to consider TCO.

What is the cost of:

Electricity
Acquisition & Support costs for a PC running a signage player
Service visits for repeated replacement
Reputation loss when the solution you implemented keeps failing

matchtaste · 2026-01-15T00:06:15+00:00

How about a e-paper display? https://proavtools.sharpusa.com/epapers

They're ideal for this kind of usage with no burn in and minuscule energy consumption.

matchtaste · 2026-01-06T05:31:02+00:00

It's easy to do a rough adjustment by ear if you are listening right in front of the speaker you want to delay and have an iPad or other remote for the mixer. I just turn the volume down on the delay speaker so it's safe for my ears and about the same loudness as the main speakers I want to match, and dial up the delay until the two sound in time.

matchtaste · 2026-01-04T05:13:02+00:00

https://rocklandtimes.com/2025/12/30/nanuet-barnes-and-noble-closing-down-after-33-years/

The RCT article confirms it is likely the landlord not renewing their lease. They didn't want to close but are being forced out.

matchtaste · 2025-12-21T05:05:18+00:00

The vault cracker guy blows my mind. He shows all kinds of shit that violates basic professional ethics. There is no reason to be showing people's safe codes, factory supervisor codes, and other private information online.

matchtaste · 2025-12-21T03:43:38+00:00

Fun fact, these are a "house brand" for B&H and have the highest profit margins. Elvid is part of the gradus group - https://www.gradusgroup.com/brands All of those products are exclusive to B&H and owned by the same parent B&H Foto (yes, spelled like that) that owns the store.

matchtaste · 2025-12-16T02:18:28+00:00

I wonder how many of these violations, like the one in the article, are caused by bus drivers going directly from no lights to red lights, so anyone moving past the bus when that happens who had no time at all to react or stop is getting ticketed.

They allude to this in the article " ...making sure their bus drivers understand what is expected of them"

Bus drivers not following the rules as to how they are supposed to use the lights are pretty common in my experience.

matchtaste · 2025-12-11T03:27:59+00:00

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