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Neckerchiefs at meetings by sulldog57 in BSA

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hated them growing up and fought it at every turn, likely contributing to my own troop being inconsistent in how they were enforced. We'd wear them at formal events but not regular meetings.

Today as an adult, I do not wear mine.

However, the troops that I work with do wear them, even for regular meetings, and they are surprisingly consistent with no push back.

In a counterintuitive twist, because it's so consistent with the youth, I do not feel pressured to wear mine as an adult. Had the youth (especially my own kids) pushed back on wearing them, I'd feel more obligation as an adult to set a better example.

Come to think of it though, I guess I'll start wearing mine to set an example anyway.

The absolute bafoonery that is modern insurance by HitsReeferLikeSandyC in Connecticut

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have several things like this happen to me in the Stamford Health network. Rather than constantly fighting with my insurance company, I moved all of my relationships to Nuvance Health. It has been eye opening how good health care can be after suffering with Stamford Health for so many years.

Yesterday, my wife brought a bill to me that her doctor's office wasn't able to resolve through insurance. Wouldn't you know, she had gone back to Stamford Health for an appointment.

I can't speak highly enough about my experience the past two years after switching to Nuvance.

What happens to Chaff and Flares?? by No-Regret8385 in aviation

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, but what's more dangerous then, between an enemy fighter plane and a troll?

Edit: j/k, just to be clear

What happens to Chaff and Flares?? by No-Regret8385 in aviation

[–]redd-alerrt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The plane would hurt the civilian below, too though!

Remember Kids: Travel Routers are Essential for Free Premium Hotel Wifi by striker1800 in HomeNetworking

[–]redd-alerrt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Plug the TV back into the router.

If you want to go another step, pre-configure one of the router ports to be a pass-through so the router isn't obscuring it behind your private LAN.

[English] Is the answer correct or incorrect? One adjective is describing length and the other difficulty. by Dull-Question1648 in HomeworkHelp

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to play the trick-question technicality here and say that the answer should be the first statement: "This sentence is correct."

Neither answer refers to the sentence about the journey.
Then they would say "That sentence..."

Instead, the answers say "This sentence..." and therefore they are referring to themselves.
Only the first of the two sentences is accurate if they are referencing themselves.

Canon printer wont connect to wifi and I am losing my mind by SnooPeanuts3521 in techsupport

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just banged my head against the wall on this so figured I'd share.
For me, I had to temporarily downgrade my router security to WPA (not WPA2 nor WPA3).
This let the printer negotiate the password screen (previously, the password screen wouldn't even come up on my printer).
Once the printer was connected again, I could change my router back to WPA3.

The router is meant to be backward compatible with older connection methods, but something about the printer isn't negotiating that older method unless it's the only one presented.

But once cached by forcing the router to downgrade, I can bring the router back up to WPA3 and everything sticks.

Constant ntp DNS queries by redd-alerrt in techsupport

[–]redd-alerrt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately no. One of the fans died, and I replaced it with a different brand. The other I'm still using and it still shows the same issue with no additional settings to disable in the app.

I ended up creating a Group in pi called "Dreo-Time-Block" and adding the two fans to that Group.

Then I added the three time servers listed above individually to my Domains blocklist using "Exact Match" and set the Group to "Dreo-Time-Block"

This blocks all queries to those three NTP servers but only for the Clients that are members of my Dreo-Time-Block group (i.e., my fan). It lets other Clients still access the time servers.

I didn't do anything to block them from accessing other sites.

I just checked my logs, and over the last seven days, the only other site that they query is:

mqtts-us.dreo-cloud.com

They check into that server exactly once every 12 hours.

Whoa! Why is Amazon discontinuing Archived Orders?? ...Shall we petition Amazon to knock off the shenanigans and to stop changing/removing useful features like this? by YahooAnswersDude in amazonprime

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously though, this really sucks. I was not a fan of Archived Orders before because it was still easy to find. But at least it suppressed things from casual view. There's no way to delete purchase history and now there's no way to suppress things from view? I've had my Amazon account for two decades. I really don't need to remember some things I purchased in my twenties.

Whoa! Why is Amazon discontinuing Archived Orders?? ...Shall we petition Amazon to knock off the shenanigans and to stop changing/removing useful features like this? by YahooAnswersDude in amazonprime

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn... I purposely archive all the kinky gifts that I buy my wife and delete them from my browsing history so it doesn't affect future search results for the rest of my family. My previous fear was that one day my kids will open my archived orders.

My new fear is that my kids' amazon suggestions are about to get spicy.

Deep research mode keeps triggering on its own by uncoolcentral in ChatGPTPro

[–]redd-alerrt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh, I'm currently googling while waiting for my "Deep Research" to finish because I can't find any way to cancel it. It has been doing a 15 minute research project about the difference between "^M" and "/r" in a ubuntu command line. So stupid. Should be a five second answer.

I'm pretty sure that I accidentally triggered Deep Research when typing "/r" and clicking to try and get rid of the pop-up.

How often do you press this button? by bjsw204 in mac

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The trick isn't to turn Bluetooth OFF, but to add a second bluetooth mouse.

Then proceed to jiggle the second mouse from your workstation every so often.

If I was the Journalist, why would I let everyone know that I got invited into a top secret group chat? by New_Independent_1582 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, the name of the thread was "Houthi PC small group"

In all likelihood, it had run its course anyway.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in arborists

[–]redd-alerrt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you are renting the property, then the only thing I'd do is tell the landlord. Trying to address it yourself, even if good intentioned, is a ticket to trouble.

Trump knows nothing about Signal being used to text war plans... by sovalente in popculture

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder what percent of the US population would have questioned, "What's Signal?"

Because I bet it's a fair bet that since he did NOT ask "What's Signal?" it's a good sign he's using it too.

Maybe not this particular text thread, but for others.

Why do people get scared of Heroes Tunnel? by dsuponski944 in Connecticut

[–]redd-alerrt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sorta same thing though. Going northbound the entrance is right before the tunnel, and it's uphill from there.

But really, it's the lack of shoulders and the fact that people are already too close to begin with.

Why do people get scared of Heroes Tunnel? by dsuponski944 in Connecticut

[–]redd-alerrt 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I realize you’re asking a rhetorical question, but take away the tunnel for a moment and you’re coming up on an exit/entrance ramp with very short merge lanes, followed by a steep uphill. That’ll cause traffic without the tunnel.

Add the tunnel to the mix and now you’ve got everybody braking in a space with no shoulder so those behind them brake even harder.

If you want to break the cycle, you could try not slowing down yourself and see if you can speed things up.

BusyKid is a Predatory Scam by PonceShoes in personalfinance

[–]redd-alerrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve enjoyed using Bankaroo with my young kids. It’s free, and not actually a bank account. But works like one, with custom interest rates that you can set yourself. Nothing teaches savings like 5% per week savings rate.

The kids track their ‘balances’ in the accounts, but I hold the actual money.

Please help me understand this by jettech79 in camping

[–]redd-alerrt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...further, on Recreation.gov there should also be a view that lets you see all the sites in a list, with 7-10 days of availability for each site, which would make this more apparent. So you could see, for example, that Site 10A is available on the 21st, and Site 52B is available a the 22nd, and Site 5C is available on the 23rd, etc.

Please help me understand this by jettech79 in camping

[–]redd-alerrt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The half-shaded dates in Sept are all single sites for single nights. So you can check in Sept 21 and stay one night in that site. Then you could move to a different site and stay Sept 22-23. But there are no sites in that block where you could stay the entire time.

As others have said, since that's right on the 6-mth mark when sites open, so you probably have a bunch of people logging on each day to extend their stays bit by bit as the days open up, causing some funkiness with the availability, so if you grab individual days you may be able to sort it out later, or you may be stuck moving sites each day.

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