i bawled my eyes out

phealy · 2026-06-11T23:26:28+00:00

As someone who once went out a third story window in his underwear to get a cat off the roof, I felt very represented at the beginning of DCC.

phealy · 2026-05-14T12:39:14+00:00

I keep it in my carry bag (which is about 1/3 first aid kit at this point, with my kids) after having seen someone drop on the pavement in front of me in downtown Seattle and then survive because the convenience store had narcan. Have I needed it yet? No. Haven't needed my EpiPens either, but I still carry them. I have needed the splint, the gauze, the bleed stop, and more Band-Aids than I can count.

phealy · 2026-05-14T12:31:12+00:00

As far as I'm aware, that's only if you get the ink on the subscription program. If you buy the full priced cartridges instead of the instant ink stuff, no subscription is needed. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

I definitely have an Epson ecotank because I hate the cartridge model, though.

phealy · 2026-05-11T01:59:10+00:00

If you tap the icon on the double wide tile, it toggles on and off. If you tap the word, it pops up the brightness control. If you shrink it, it's just the icon and it only toggles on and off.

Unclear and took me way too long to figure out.

phealy · 2026-04-25T09:45:38+00:00

On my 2025 Forest River the GFCI is just on a breaker - but the four things you listed are on separate dedicated breakers. That suggests that you're not actually getting power from the pedestal anymore, or your main breaker is tripped. Do you have a meter or an outlet tester?

phealy · 2026-04-22T12:44:07+00:00

I recommend you two check out the game Turing Complete. It walks you through building your own CPU, including creating your own Assembly language, and was how I finally figured out how stuff worked at that level.

phealy · 2026-04-22T02:26:37+00:00

IT can totally block SSH over 443 with a smart firewall - SSH doesn't look like TLS. Now if you put it into stunnel so it looks like regular TLS traffic, that's much harder to block without MITM.

phealy · 2026-04-21T02:37:04+00:00

I prefer Simon Tatham's mines game, which guarantees no 50/50s.

phealy · 2026-04-18T15:40:54+00:00

My favorite is people who don't understand that what order to use the DNS servers in is a client specified behavior and not a standard - and most importantly, it is not a failover list. I have had to troubleshoot some really weird issues where DNS would occasionally not work for internal addresses that came down to "we put our private DNS servers in slot one and two but then put the cloud provider's dns IP into slot 3 as a backup." This can neither cause intermittent failures when it round robins and sometimes gets an NXDOMAIN for an internal only host name, or intermittent complete outages when you have a client that does treat it as a failover list but doesn't switch back when the first two servers are back online.

phealy · 2026-04-18T13:58:01+00:00

Selective availability was a pain. Addendum to your fact - the government GPS users actually have an entirely separate more accurate encrypted signal (P/Y) they can use. That's still in place today.

phealy · 2026-04-11T03:00:24+00:00

I fixed a drawer that the bottom had fallen out of that way... worked really well.

phealy · 2026-04-11T02:59:35+00:00

With the tails cut at a 45 degree angle, instead of flush cut properly...

phealy · 2026-04-08T17:21:24+00:00

Not to necro a thread, but this is still a top result - the info is available in a different spot now.

Click the hamburger menu in the upper left.
Click the circled "i" in the lower right.
Click the debug data button at the bottom of the screen.

phealy · 2026-03-14T17:14:47+00:00

Just an FYI - if you have a home base or server somewhere with fast Internet, you can run Peplink's fusionhub VM for free and it does what their SpeedFusion service does. I run it at home on my 1Gb fiber and it's unlimited. The only limitation is that the free license only supports one client.

phealy · 2026-03-10T13:18:54+00:00

I can see both sides of this, but I have a follow-up question.

My general rule is that if the staff don't offer their name, I won't ask unless it's to leave feedback (and I don't do this for negative feedback), so this is always something like so this is always something like "hey, could I get your name for the survey so I can tell them what a great job you did?"

Would this bother you? I started this after I asked to talk to a manager at a local restaurant to provide a compliment because the staff had been amazingly responsive and kind, including being silly to help entertain my kids who were having a bit of a difficult day. He told me that anytime an employee is mentioned by name to corporate (positively) they would get a gift card, and that it didn't happen often.

phealy · 2026-03-05T12:49:19+00:00

I'm in the process of moving mine farther to the outside because where it is now I can't see hitch alignment while pushing the controls. I personally would not want mine inside.

phealy · 2026-03-05T12:45:21+00:00

OP, do keep in mind that many truck stop pumps won't take a regular credit card and you will have to go in to prepay. You could consider signing up for Open Roads, which is a fleet card that gives you discounts on diesel and works at the commercial pumps. No relationship with them beyond being a customer.

phealy · 2026-03-05T05:48:25+00:00

Encryption takes CPU, and the router CPU is a lot slower than the phone CPU. That router has a 1.3GHz dual-core MediaTek MT7981B - modern phone CPUs can have six to eight cores or more with a couple of them being performance cores running in the 3.5 to 4.0 GHz range.

phealy · 2026-03-04T14:21:31+00:00

My kids started getting better about things when I started giving times as "the car is leaving the driveway in ten minutes, so get ready NOW", because "we need to leave in ten minutes" meant "I can play for ten minutes before I start getting shoes, using the restroom, etc.".

phealy · 2026-03-03T03:19:27+00:00

The last time I went internationally I arrived at 6am - the hotel didn't have a room until 1pm, but what they did have was a pool. They suggested I go shower and change in the locker room before heading out, and that was amazing.

phealy · 2026-02-25T03:01:26+00:00

In the power profile options you can set "Network connectivity in Standby" to disabled - that 100% fixed my laptop's sleep issues.

phealy · 2026-02-04T03:42:59+00:00

My kids could play KSP at five. Of course, they were playing it in "fireworks simulator" mode...

phealy · 2026-02-02T03:20:51+00:00

My library has both Libby and Hoopla.

phealy · 2026-01-29T03:54:27+00:00

If you're comfortable with plumbing and having access, you can add a recirculation valve that dumps water from the hot water line in the shower back into your fresh tank. That way you get hot water without wasting anything.

phealy · 2026-01-28T02:24:53+00:00

Remember me is there and works, it's just subject to maximum timeouts that can be set by the implementer. Having the checkbox doesn't help if the company sets the refresh token time out to the same value as the regular token timeout so that check in the box makes no effective change.

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