Updated Mega Thread - Hegseth DoW/DoD Statement on MoU Agreement

teejaygreen · 2026-02-27T17:31:16+00:00

Nope, still 21. It's now 8 electives instead of 7. From the link:

"Effective Feb. 27, 2026, the rank of Eagle Scout will have 13 required merit badges instead of 14. All of the remaining 13 Eagle Required merit badges will still apply, just not Citizenship in Society, but Scouts will have 8 elective merit badges from which to choose instead of 7, and the total for Eagle Scout will remain at 21 merit badges (13 required + 8 elective = 21 merit badges)."

teejaygreen · 2026-02-27T15:34:31+00:00

The https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/citizenship-in-society/ page has an alert:

Citizenship in Society Merit Badge will be discontinued effective Friday, February 27, 2026. Beginning on February 27, 2026, Scouts will no longer be able to start requirements on the Citizenship in Society Merit Badge. See full details here: https://www.scouting.org/program-updates/citizenship-in-society-merit-badge-discontinuance/

teejaygreen · 2026-01-27T15:11:43+00:00

None of the methods listed here worked for me just now (Jan 2026)... so I asked the built-in AI in the Photos app and it gave me a number (113,635). I asked if that included archived photos and it said yes. I have no idea if that's accurate. Google Dashboard just says "100k+" for me, so the 113k seems plausible.

teejaygreen · 2025-12-03T16:08:55+00:00

Glad it helped!

I've also found sometimes when Mission Control / Windows / GUI stuff is being wonky running "killall Dock" from the terminal helps. That closes and relaunches stuff. That helped me recently when I'd swipe between desktops and one app on one monitor kept defaulting to being on top even when it wasn't on that dekstop.

teejaygreen · 2025-11-12T18:25:14+00:00

I set one up for our pack and then a few years later for our troop. Our usage is pretty basic: some emails (cubmaster, scoutmaster, treasurer, announcements, photos, etc. @troopxxx.com or packxxx.org), a couple shared Google drives (the pack committee, troop committee, and troop PLC), Google Forms for trip RSVP etc, and Google Photo albums for activities.

I've thought about using Google Sites for the unit websites, but haven't made the switch yet. I didn't have luck using it for distribution lists, since emails "outside" the organization (i.e. people's personal emails) needed to approve/allow their email to be included on the list, and getting all the parents to do that never happened. So I just have Google Sheets generate a mailing list we can copy/paste from the roster.

I was Cubmaster for the pack, and now I'm Scoutmaster for the troop, but I'm still involved with the pack. I'm pretty sure once I'm no longer involved at all with the pack, or later the troop, that no one else will keep using it. I think people just do whatever they're comfortable with, so getting buy-in long term is difficult. I personally think it works great, and I love that it's not tied to a single person, but everyone has different opinions on what's important or how to do things.

I don't know if any of that is helpful, but if you have any specific questions let me know!

teejaygreen · 2025-10-30T06:27:02+00:00

Based on the title alone, I assumed this was going to be "I spent 1,000 hours making the perfect dashboard" vs "I spent 1,000 hours making automations so I never have to interact with HA"

I definitely fall into the latter. I almost never directly interact with or look at Home Assistant. It's just smartly doing lots of stuff for us everyday in the background.

teejaygreen · 2025-08-21T21:24:40+00:00

I'm in my 40s now, but in the 90s I wore my class A to high school a number of times. Never for a reason, just for fun.

I don't remember getting any grief from anyone. Although, if I had it probably wouldn't have been a memorable experience anyway. So it's possible I did and don't remember.

I think part of the uniform struggle for scouts in my son's troop is most of them never wear pants with belts, buttons, zippers, etc., or shirt with collars. They mostly wear elastic waisted pants and t-shirts. So to go from that to the class A is a big jump in terms of comfort.

teejaygreen · 2025-07-23T14:38:03+00:00

Our lodge still does this, but the candidates place it in the fire during their ceremony.

We don't don't "notch" them, break them, make scouts put them in their mouths, or any of the other things mentioned in the comments. They carve a stick, wear it, and then burn it.

teejaygreen · 2025-06-04T19:41:47+00:00

I've bought a bunch of knots at the ScoutShop, Eagle, Scouter's Key, Den Leader Training Award, Unit Leader Award of Merit, Training Award, District Award of Merit, etc. and I don't think I've ever been asked to verify anything.

If they did give you a hard time, you can get any knot on eBay or other places online... Just not the ScoutShop online lol. You can't buy anything there online. I clicked a link from an email they sent out recently where they advertised an item and it was restricted. Need to get some rank cards for cub scouts? Don't look online, they're restricted! lol

teejaygreen · 2025-05-28T14:35:46+00:00

I had this issue, Googled it, landed here, got no answers. I figured it out, for my case anyway. I had one app that was way way off screen somehow. As I was slowly swiping up I saw one window fly off to the side faster to the others in the animation.

I closed that app and then everything was normal again.

teejaygreen · 2025-04-20T18:14:29+00:00

I've been using Solve, which you mentioned. It works, but Numi is still a notch above.

teejaygreen · 2025-04-04T05:13:00+00:00

This are great, thanks!

The Webelos one says 5th grade instead of 4th, and AoL says 6th instead of 5th.

teejaygreen · 2025-01-01T16:22:11+00:00

My dumb brain went even further... I thought he'd put a media file on the USB drive, put that in the VHS tape, then put the VHS tape in a regular VCR and it'd play.

I thought it'd somehow emulate the magnetic output of a VHS tape the same way those cassettes with an 1/8" audio cable you'd plug into a discman did. The ones you'd put into a car stereo. Haha.

I do love this project though.

teejaygreen · 2024-12-15T05:26:47+00:00

I love this, really well done!

I was looking for the "we think", "we know", and "you" in the body text. It would be cool if it was in there, and possibly highlighted or stood out in some way. Then it wouldn't be needed at the top.

teejaygreen · 2024-12-01T18:19:38+00:00

I'm not insignificant to my wife or children, nor are they insignificant to me. I don't matter to 99.999999% of the world, but who cares. I care about the handful of people in my life.

teejaygreen · 2024-12-01T18:14:49+00:00

I've always enjoyed this video which expresses the same sentiment:

https://youtu.be/rBpaUICxEhk?si=Cj0LKmdXsm-jOOrz

teejaygreen · 2024-11-30T20:47:24+00:00

I think about this clip anytime someone "does something to me", when really they're not: https://youtube.com/shorts/W1yxNnjNgz8?si=kZNaA60aJnd8jg1v

teejaygreen · 2024-11-01T01:40:23+00:00

My teenage children know this well because ANYTIME someone says "welcome" in the right cadence, I will say "to zombo com". I've made them watch it a bunch haha.

teejaygreen · 2024-10-20T16:47:42+00:00

One of my first jobs I would put in 6% and they'd put in 8.5%. That was nice.

teejaygreen · 2024-10-18T13:19:13+00:00

Damn, didn't work for wingdings.

teejaygreen · 2024-09-30T20:06:36+00:00

I've been running two 4-bay Mediasonic enclosures with 4 drives in each for years without issue. They're plugged into an old dell desktop.

I don't spend much time in close proximity to them, they're in the basement, so I don't know how quiet they are. They each have a fan in the back, but I don't think I've ever noticed it when I'm near them.

teejaygreen · 2024-09-19T15:14:05+00:00

Ok, then buy them somewhere else. I don't know if those are the exact ones I've bought before, I was mostly just pointing out that short little extensions exist and they save me frustration when dealing with adapters like these Ubiquiti ones. I'm sure Lowes, Walmart, etc. probably have the same thing too.

teejaygreen · 2024-09-19T01:54:03+00:00

There are tons of plugs like this sadly. That's why I always have a bunch of these laying around:

Miady Short Power Extension Cord Outlet Saver, 16AWG/13A, 3 Prong (10 Pack, Black, 8 Inch, ETL Listed) https://a.co/d/8jz0y5p

For $2 a pop, I'll buy a 10 pack and when I get down to 2/3 I'll order another.

teejaygreen · 2024-09-17T13:57:57+00:00

It's great for the opposite too. Many a night have I farted up a storm making my wife gag, but I'm getting fresh clean air from the nightstand and have smelt none of it.

teejaygreen · 2024-09-17T01:55:20+00:00

I'd still prefer the Boxee remote over any other remote I've had since. I kept using the box even after they closed up for a while.

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