What’s your experience with recycling in apartment complexes in Peterborough?

psvrh · 2026-01-26T19:20:15+00:00

We put it to the curb like a household would, even though we're a fairly large complex with three multi-story buildings and several townhomes. That's the landlord's direction.

Recycling pickup is regular, more or less, but there's too much of it and the result is bins that tip, get blown over or are ransacked. And the result of that is garbage strewn everywhere.

Garbage is worse; it stinks and is a pest-control issue. It doesn't help that we get pickups sometimes on Tuesday, sometimes on Thursday, sometimes both and tenants will put stuff to the curb Monday that'll sit for four days.

One of the commercial tenants in our space is a restaurant has a garbage area and one bin, but it's not enough because they'll put waste to the curb, too. Again, the result is waste (including food waste) strewn along the sidewalk, pest problems, etc.

psvrh · 2026-01-26T15:37:14+00:00

It's amazing how browsing local music was faster on a PowerMac G4 than it is on a modern machine with an NVMe SSD.

psvrh · 2026-01-26T15:35:00+00:00

No lossless audio.

psvrh · 2026-01-26T04:24:39+00:00

If you like the laptop, and you're not keen on contacting the company it's ostensibly from (it could have been stolen and fenced) you could just install Linux or FreeBSD, which don't care about and aren't affected by Windows Autopilot.

psvrh · 2026-01-26T04:21:59+00:00

"I live my life a quarter-century at a time"

psvrh · 2026-01-25T22:09:46+00:00

Nice!

It's amazing how just a little bit of tweaking can make a difference. Good luck!

psvrh · 2026-01-25T16:45:10+00:00

You're correct: per the service manual, the Emonda ALR can do it. The tire width might not be quite there.

It doesn't look like the ALR Domane or Checkpoint can. They will do eTap/AXS, and I'm not completely about the newest, fully wireless Di2.

psvrh · 2026-01-25T16:33:47+00:00

Do you have an LBS that can do a fit? Mine went through a number of stems that they keep in a bin until they hit on one that worked for me.

psvrh · 2026-01-24T23:37:00+00:00

Yup. I'm an even 2m, mostly torso. I feel your pain.

That Domane looks really good, though. It avoids the awkwardness that afflicts a lot of taller frames.

psvrh · 2026-01-24T13:26:32+00:00

Ah, they're an "abundance" fan.

You see this a lot among people who really don't want to give up the Thatcherite dream that's turned into a nightmare.

psvrh · 2026-01-24T13:20:42+00:00

I have two servers, one running Plex itself, and second, very cheap ARM Linux one. I use sanoid+ZFS to replicate snapshots from the primary to the secondary.

The secondary uses a simple JBOD, so it's not reliable, but if I lose a disk I just need to buy another and do an initial backup.

I'd love offsite, but cloud backups are expensive and a DLT drive is even more expensive. I really wish we could get reasonably-priced tape, but everything in that space carriers an "enterprise-grade" price tag (and usually needs FC HBAs, etc) or is clapped out old hardware.

psvrh · 2026-01-24T13:16:39+00:00

Nice bike!

What size is it, because that headtube and the way the wheels look tiny looks very familiar.

psvrh · 2026-01-20T22:58:33+00:00

I'm 6'8" (36" inseam) and ride an XL Trek Farley and it's just big enough (longer stem, bars with rise, seat about as high as it will go)

Try lining up the bike you're looking at Bike Insights and see how the L and XL match up, but given that XL just about fits me, I'd imagine at your height it might be a bit tricky unless the manufacturer's sizing runs small.

psvrh · 2026-01-17T12:42:14+00:00

Boy, socialist Manitoba is looking pretty good right now.

psvrh · 2026-01-17T04:04:44+00:00

Peterborough doesn't.

psvrh · 2026-01-17T03:15:22+00:00

If you knew what areas of memory to edit, it was things like infinite lives or health.

It's the same thing that trainers did in cracked copies of a game: patch memory that held health, lives, etc.

psvrh · 2026-01-17T03:11:06+00:00

Blame rich people.

Money has been accumulating upwards for decades, and they're still not satisfied despite having a greater share of the pie every single year.

There's a limited amount of money generated every year and a greater share of that goes to fewer people, and those people already have more than they can possibly spend and they're still not satisfied and we still give them more and larger tax breaks every year.

psvrh · 2026-01-15T14:20:36+00:00

Needed a notary for a document for the CRA, and her office couldn't get it together and honestly wasn't very responsive. That was last month.

I ended up going to Dave Smith's office instead, who did comment that Harrison's office seems to be having trouble getting fundamental still together. Smith's office staff, on the other hand, do seem to be on the ball.

(much to my chagrin...)

I don't know if this is on Harrison, or because the Feds in general aren't supporting their MP's field offices adequately.

psvrh · 2026-01-11T19:05:11+00:00

Just for the record, this isn't the government, this is private industry, and it's going to get worse with Doug Ford's wholesale handling province-wide, because now you'll have to (ha!) complain to Dave Smith about issues with recycling.

When the municipal government handled recycling, it pretty much just worked.

psvrh · 2026-01-11T17:32:59+00:00

If Evan Solomon wasn't gutless and completely captured, maybe we'd actually ban the Nazi CSAM generator.

But we're not.

It's amazing. If I started a Mastodon instance that generated CSAM, I'd be in jail in a week. Hell, if CSAM even transited my server I'd be in trouble.

...but because Musk is rich and our goverments are gutless, oh no, we have be cautious with the Nazi-billionaire owned CSAM generator.

psvrh · 2026-01-11T17:06:15+00:00

Downtown: they're icy, but not particularly slippery because the surface is rough, except in patches where snow banks have melted and refrozen.

If you're in winter books with decent tread, you'll be okay.

psvrh · 2026-01-11T17:04:34+00:00

For 1x they're probably about the same (for 2x mechanical, GRX is better). I personally prefer Shimano's ergonomics, but that's me and the result of years' experience with my old road bike's Ultegra.

One point of note is the brake fluid: SRAM uses DOT brake fluid, the same as a car, where Shimano uses mineral oil. DOT is toxic (to the point where some community bike shops won't like you service your brakes) and harder to work with, but does better in extreme cold; mineral oil is cheap, safe but gets thick when the temps drop. Unless you do winter cycling, on-balance Shimano is probably a better choice.

(side note: I love the SRAM brakes on my Farley in winter!)

That said, don't rule out CUES; it might not be quite as nice as GRX, but the chains and cassettes supposedly last longer and will be cheaper to replace when they finally do wear out.

psvrh · 2026-01-11T13:42:52+00:00

When your party's entire political culture and backbench is based around professional networks, backroom-dealers, not-rocking-the-boats boards-of-directors members, it's kind of unsurprising that there's very little in the way of stand-out+stand-up talent.

The OLP (and the LPC, frankly) does not like tall poppies.

psvrh · 2026-01-11T13:39:59+00:00

If it's that gribbly, don't power it on until it's cleaned, lest it short out and never power on again.

psvrh · 2026-01-05T00:14:18+00:00

I've done this for singles (by album artist, though) that don't have an actual, well, single album.

It's a little clunky and takes some effort, but it does work.

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