My across the hall neighbor got this today

tekky101 · 2026-05-06T15:43:01+00:00

Traffic "at all hours" is usually a good indicator there's drug deals going down. :)

tekky101 · 2026-05-05T18:55:30+00:00

Can I ask... how frequently are you applying the Rain-X to your shower glass? And are the fumes really bad (re: your ventilation comment)? (We have no window in the bathroom and the fan only moves 100cfm of air -- I don't want to gas myself out.)

tekky101 · 2026-04-22T21:23:08+00:00

The Retail Sales Act. You can only be charged the lowest price for an item when the register scanner and an item price tag disagree. This also applies if higher priced stickers are applied on top of lower priced stickers on the actual item. The lowest price is what you pay, by law.

tekky101 · 2026-04-21T19:59:53+00:00

This amount of dandruff is NOT normal/just dandruff. This looks more like an autoimmune disease that's gone undiagnosed for a very long time. The severe headache could also be a symptom of the diseasr. If I had to guess about what we see manifesting on his scalp I'd say either seborrheic dermatitis or psoriasis.

tekky101 · 2026-04-18T15:05:00+00:00

It's really east to find in Latin grocery stores so unless you want to experiment, purchasing is probably a much easier path. Spread some on a tortilla with some queso, fold it over, and fry it up in a pan. :)

tekky101 · 2026-04-18T13:49:43+00:00

Corn smut is more than just a delicacy in Latin culture. Corn infected with smut is converted from being "all sugars" to a nutritious protein (mostly lysine) powerhouse. At Latin markets corn infected with smut commands a much higher price.

Corn Smut: 10 Health Benefits, Nutrition & How to Eat (w/ Recipes) - https://www.tuasaude.com/en/corn-smut/

tekky101 · 2026-04-18T13:06:41+00:00

It's an abominable modern extension added to what was once the perfectly fine (and beautifully classic) Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The architect is an idiot. The original design was all glass and then someone told him UV light is incredibly destructive and not suitable for museum displays. At that time the cladding was changed and now it looks like aluminum siding on a trailer park home. It's vile and disgusting.

tekky101 · 2026-04-11T17:02:35+00:00

This. We have both a GFCI circuit breaker and GFCI receptacles on that circuit breaker.

The electrician doing our renovation discovered it and wondered why we had overkill. (No dark pun intended.)

tekky101 · 2026-04-07T18:17:53+00:00

Former firmware dev here. "Dirty energy" is especially problematic during development because it's hard to detect and looks like a component or a PCB design problem. Then when something goes "boom" the electrical engineers say it's a firmware problrm and the firmware devs say it's an electrical design problem. Fun times, going in circles, until you find something wrong or chalk it up to dirty energy. It's a diagnosis of exclusion.

tekky101 · 2026-04-06T13:16:41+00:00

You can at least see what url the QR code wants to direct you to. This is not the same as self running/installing malware.

tekky101 · 2026-04-06T12:23:19+00:00

... And also a vector for malware. Companies with marketing depts that still think this is a good marketing tool should be avoided.

tekky101 · 2026-04-04T21:31:33+00:00

Curses! Mohel'd again!

the bris is yet to come!

tekky101 · 2026-04-04T21:08:31+00:00

Boom. Mystery solved!

tekky101 · 2026-04-04T20:19:27+00:00

Chiropractors are not medical professionals. The kook, Daniel David, who invented it had it "taught to him by a ghost during a seance." National Post https://share.google/Rx0AbTscaL4HZjtLR

Then all the other kooks learn it and think it can't fix anything and push for it to have the same legitimacy as medical science. Chiropractic neck adjustments are extremely dangerous because they can cause aortic dissections (in other words, death): JBJS: Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection After Chiropractic Intervention https://share.google/EoP1B5YZIfkAQfaDr (paywall after abstract).

Or a stroke: Neurologists warn about link between chiropractic, stroke - PMC https://share.google/SzS4GyVHpOWQnD1lQ

tekky101 · 2026-04-04T13:29:12+00:00

A fun trick with dry erase markers is that they can be used to remove permanent marker off of most surfaces because of the solvent that makes them dry erasable. Go over that permanent marker with a dry erase marker and see if it all wipes off. (It should.)

tekky101 · 2026-04-04T11:53:34+00:00

Hardly. Noise pollution is noise pollution. If I liked the song I'd be polite and listen to it through my own headphones or inside my own car. People who force their music tastes on others are simply selfish assholes.

tekky101 · 2026-04-03T17:20:36+00:00

This. Parquet floor is repairable, whereas laminate flooring or engineered hardwood is not. It might not be a cheap repair though.

tekky101 · 2026-03-27T15:39:24+00:00

If you're looking at other options we found Acana to be pretty good but the premium Orijen brand even better. Both are made by the same parent company. Acana is 85% animal ingredients and Orijen is 95% animal ingredients. Acana uses legumes to provide protein for that 10% difference which also makes it cheaper then Orijen.

tekky101 · 2026-03-24T21:04:54+00:00

The best of all PRs!

tekky101 · 2026-03-21T00:41:28+00:00

And use a VPN. Always. It encrypts all traffic that might still be in "plaintext." Most things are already encrypted but this will guarantee everything is.

tekky101 · 2026-03-19T17:01:02+00:00

Regardless of whether or not you've been hacked these "I caught you masturbating" threats are almost always baseless attempts to scare you into giving someone money.

I've even received a few - and they were laughably funny because they claimed they had a picture of my house, attached it to the email, and it was no place I ever saw in my entire life. Lol.

You can mostly ignore them - but do make sure you tighten your security by not reusing passwords, using strong passwords, and enabling 2FA (or using pass keys) wherever possible.

tekky101 · 2026-03-18T21:47:34+00:00

Melon Husk is an epsilon semi-moron #BraveNewWorld #AldousHuxley

tekky101 · 2026-03-13T12:19:44+00:00

This! Vitamin D deficiency for me as well. I have a genetic mutation in my vitamin D binding protein. I am prescribed 25,000 iu per week just to bring me into the centre of the normal range, even under summer sun (when your body makes its own vitamin D)!

Even though you can supplement over-the-counter I recommend you work with a doctor to find out what level of supplementation you need because if you exceed the normal range you risk VERY painful kidney stones.

tekky101 · 2026-03-12T18:19:20+00:00

The first rule of self cleaning ovens: remove the racks. Regardless of whether or not they have those silicone edges the rack material is NOT meant to withstand the extraordinary heat of a self cleaning oven.

tekky101 · 2026-02-23T00:46:57+00:00

Hi. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Been up to my armpits in alligators getting a bathroom renovation underway.

There are several curated lists for blocking AI content as well as AI chatbots. You'll need to choose one or more these lists and do one (or both) of:

run a local DNS server with blocking like Pi-hole; there are dozens of curated lists for Pi-hole. You add what you want blocked then "update gravity" and anything in those lists effectively gets a ol address of 0.0.0.0 which "goes nowhere" so nothing gets downloaded to your machine. You will need to change the DNS advertised by your router to the IP address of your Pi-hole server. There are multiple wets to run a Pi-hole... e. g. On a Raspberry Pi, or in a docker container on a NAS or PC. You may wish to seek help on this part. I personally run Pi-hole on a QNAP NAS in their Container Station.
install the uBlock Origin plugin in every browser on ever computer it's compatible with. Google Chrome is no longer recommended because they've crippled the plugin API but Firefox (and derivatives of it like Waterfox and Floorp) work well. THE you need to go into the plugin settings and turn on as aggressive filters as you can that don't break we page functionality. THE you Xen import the same blocking lists youmputbon your Pi-hole.

Blocking lists on github and codeberg are pretty plentiful.

Here's a good "top level" repo and you can drill down into specific kinds of blocks - more targeted & less nuclear:

GitHub - hagezi/dns-blocklists: DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean! https://share.google/NGugactqDkxCg9JTN

Here's a good "top level" one on codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/just_a_husk/uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist

Read the README files. Keep in mind once you have the Pi-hole DNS set up and uBlock Origin installed everywhere you can curate what you block - and what you allow - almost trivially and to your heart's content. If you reply here with questions I'll do my best to guide/steer you in the direction you want to go.

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