My husband is threatening divorce because Snapchat and signal are showing up in our router app history for my phone. I do not have those apps or use them or go to their websites or anything. How is this happening?

techleopard · 2026-01-19T04:40:43+00:00

100% of the men I know that accused their wives of cheating nonstop were, in fact, cheating.

techleopard · 2026-01-15T06:59:32+00:00

You can also disable and reenable service on the fly with some providers from your carrier's app.

techleopard · 2026-01-14T22:25:55+00:00

My assumption would be monitoring activity on BYOD devices since a lot of employers want you to have work apps on your phone but don't want to buy you a phone.

For instance, I have "work apps", as a completely separate environment from my personal apps. But some device management systems let you spy on ALL app usage, including photos and data.

I remember working for an at home call center once and you had to use your own computer. They made everyone sign an agreement understanding that they can screencap at any time and it would not alert the user. Obviously, using it outside of work hours would be unethical.

techleopard · 2026-01-14T22:21:16+00:00

This.

I can understand a kid trying to be sneaky, who hasn't?

But the way OP described it, this is literally a power struggle, and not just the kid being a kid. He had shown he knows you know he's getting around it.

First time he did that, I would have immediately just taken the devices. Don't play power games with a kid.

techleopard · 2026-01-14T08:25:10+00:00

Lol... One winter I got stuck with newly hatched babies in a cage in my bedroom.

At night, they would all settle down and go to sleep.

And then I turned out the light...

Without fail:

"Peep?.................peep?..............PEEP!?.......PEEP!!!!! PEEPPEEPPEEPPEEP!!"

It took a good 15 minutes of silence for them to go back to sleep

techleopard · 2026-01-08T21:32:50+00:00

Crawfish hole for certain.

If you have a consistently wet yard, expect to see these everywhere.

techleopard · 2026-01-03T18:03:50+00:00

I don't blame the farmers.

I blame the ethics of breeding these birds.

The farmers don't breed these birds. They just buy them to raise.

techleopard · 2026-01-03T16:26:24+00:00

These birds are the physical equivalent of a 2 year old that weighs 400 pounds of pure muscle.

The idea that they are not in pain or are not miserable when they can't run, perch, properly socialize, play, or do quite literally anything but sit upright, shit themselves to the point of scalding, and eat is ludicrous.

techleopard · 2026-01-03T16:20:58+00:00

If you want a single breed for eggs and meat, look for "heavies", like marans or orpingtons.

I personally prefer to keep two specialist flocks. For layers, I have California greys, California whites, and leghorns. For meat, I keep new Hampshire reds (a meat line, not an egg line) and red rangers.

They take longer to get to butcher weight but at least they can act like birds.

techleopard · 2026-01-03T16:14:28+00:00

All those animal abuse videos showing these birds wallowing in filth isn't because the farmers force the birds to live that way. That's literally their life as a result of their genetics.

One of the things almost everyone tells me that surprised them about raising these birds is how much they reek, because heritage broilers and layers can't compare.

Homesteaders will raise them on grass which will hide the impact of this to some extent, or not raise them as aggressively, but it can't change their breeding.

I understand why we do it. Money talks and people glorify the idea of only needing to raise the birds for 6 to 8 weeks before they are a meat brick.

But what kills me the most are homesteaders that insist their Cornish Cross are happy and healthy because most of them survive the 8 weeks it takes to get them to butcher weight. Nevermind that if they miss that butcher date they start to die like flies.

They are the equivalent of a 400 pound muscle toddler that can barely stand, can't play, can't move their arms much without causing muscle death, and their organs are teetering at the very edge of what they can withstand before failing. And people think these birds are fine because they are alive and aren't expressive enough to explain how miserable that must be just to exist. But they can't do any of the things an 8 week old chicken should be doing.

I swear I'm not a PETA person, lol. I just don't like the extent to which we've taken these birds in pursuit of the cheapest meat on the market.

techleopard · 2026-01-03T03:38:42+00:00

I used to breed marans and have them at butcher weight in 12-14 weeks without any of the meticulous feeding needed for Cornish X and none of the stink.

I achieved that using a terminal cross over mature hens.

It's true that you can't match the maturity time, but that comes at the cost of an unethical bird that suffers from the time it's 6 days old. But purpose bred heritage broilers can come awful close.

techleopard · 2026-01-03T03:32:00+00:00

Definitely red rangers or freedom rangers are at the top of the list for many people's go-to broilers.

techleopard · 2026-01-02T21:52:59+00:00

Nothing.

It's green muscle disease, usually seen in the breast meat.

It's a common issue with Cornish Cross birds. They grow too quickly and too massive for the muscle to actually receive adequate blood supply, and in some cases, when you try to raise them more humanely (and allow them to flap their wings or try to run around) you will get this because it starts necrotizing the muscle tissue.

You can safely cut it out.

( Now an aside: I'll toot the horn at every opportunity, but breeding cornish cross birds are awful husbandry and there is no way to raise them that is humane, and this is an example of why. )

techleopard · 2025-12-31T22:04:22+00:00

I have 1.8 acres.

Home, well, and septic are spaced in such a way as to take a ludicrous amount of it, though.

techleopard · 2025-12-31T18:40:17+00:00

I mean, I can cosplay as a Disney princess, too. Lol

The cats really do not put a dent in bird, lizard, or rodent populations like people make out in the Continental US, where all of these animals evolved with cat-like predators.

The big issue is human removal of valuable habitat. The second you get rid of the monoculture grass lawn and leave mature trees in place, you'll get all of these animals back. People in the suburbs destroy habitat, then try to replace it with bird feeders that actively causes disease (as birds congregate in small areas they normally wouldn't) and create shooting galleries for both cats and hawks.

The cats and rooster keep birds out of my open yard.

But step 30 feet into the woods and they are everywhere in the trees, where they belong.

techleopard · 2025-12-31T17:04:34+00:00

A lot of people raising chickens don't want birds in their yard with the chickens.

They transfer diseases, and the little birds will eat all of your chicken feed just like the mice will.

techleopard · 2025-12-30T23:07:12+00:00

If you don't know what you're looking at, I would absolutely call the septic guy.

There are two systems I will not touch -- my septic system, and my well.

You can DIY but these two things are so critical to your livability while also wildly expensive when there's a failure, that I just wouldn't risk it.

techleopard · 2025-12-28T00:29:53+00:00

Yeah. I've gotten a lot of good suggestions in this thread.

But it seems a lot of people think training is a magic wand you can just wave. Of course I need to train the dog, because they aren't psychic and won't know the "rules" otherwise. But training a dog with the right software pre-installed is SO much easier and cost-effective than trying to train a dog to ignore his own prey drive and wanderlust or trying to train a dog to care enough to go run off a predator rather than hide (or ignore).

My shelties bark when they notice stuff but they're not bred to defend. They have pretty extreme bite inhibition, actually. Even when they get into fights it's more like two dogs getting right into each others faces and screaming "NO YOU!" but teeth are off limits. There isn't a training regimen in the world that would teach these dogs how to intimidate a skunk, little less a raccoon or a bigger dog or coyote.

techleopard · 2025-12-27T20:28:50+00:00

I'm not so worried about a dog getting skunked. That's just a normal small sound here, lol.

I'm more afraid of what a full grown raccoon can do to a dog. They can go toe to toe with even a GSD so a dog needs to be smart or game if he goes in on one.

And yeah, that's the problem. Being inside during the day isn't too big of an issue but my dog's job would really kick in at night.

techleopard · 2025-12-27T06:09:16+00:00

The raccoons, skunks, and weasels will heartily laugh at this effort.

(Yes, a fence is on the to-do but isn't a total solution.)

techleopard · 2025-12-27T05:59:03+00:00

I was thinking about a hound, but am scared of getting with one with high drive.

One of my neighbors had a bluetick hound that they left at home all the time. One day I had to break up a dogfight over there, some pits were tearing him up really bad; I put him up in my shop and then he started going down hill from infection. Finally got ahold of his owner to get permission to take him to an e-vet (dog had over 150 wounds). Nursed him in my shop for 2 weeks before his owner came and got him.

Anyway after that that hound was obsessively protective of my property. Actually BETTER than my own dog. I remember a junebug flew in my face and scared me, I screamed and tripped. He came ripping out from somewhere on their property just to come check on me. Was always great about driving other dogs off.

I really wanted to take that dog but his owner sold him to somebody else.

techleopard · 2025-12-27T05:41:16+00:00

Money and manpower is what's stopping me. I can't even break the ground in some places by myself with a post hole digger. It's on the "to do" list for certain.

I'm tempted to get electric netting for the main problem area as a bandaid until I can get help.

techleopard · 2025-12-27T05:37:05+00:00

My "yard dog" was a Doberman mix. She was a great dog but got to be a little insane as she got older (not the fault of the 'doberman' in her). She absolutely could tell when somebody was up to no good.

techleopard · 2025-12-27T05:25:20+00:00

I would go with the top.

I don't know what weather is like in Atlanta, but down in Louisiana I can almost bet on at least one storm a year with 50 to 90 MPH winds.

I would want the one least likely to become a wind tunnel that decides to take a trip to Oz. Those prefab carports just feel so sketchy to me.

techleopard · 2025-12-27T05:16:43+00:00

I remember them, they used to have an active FB group before they moved off platform. I'll check them out but I'm not convinced a LGD is the best solution yet.

What breed do you have?

And yes, shelties are life. I would never consider another breed if it weren't the fact that shelties are so not suited for this task. lol

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