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Lol, $30.

Or,hwar me out, a multi-end cable for $9?

Oof that's a great read.

Having been sued by former landlords, and successfully counter-suing same landlords in the US, most of them are utterly ignorant of the laws and relevant code.

At best they know the parts that support their interests, without understanding the balancing parts that protect the tenant.

They also don't understand that judges tend to be sympathetic to the tenants position, as they too have family that have to deal with scummy landlords, and judges see scummy landlords every day.

This landlord will enjoy their $30k comeuppance payments to their former tenant they tried to screw over. Love it.

Lol, funny the things that make people jump.

Glad to see it, but clearly privacy wasn't the reason, which is weird to me.

I don't find it "better" in any way other than privacy.

From a user standpoint, the UI is just SMS, that is it's not good.

Plus I no longer trust them after the lie that they dropped SMS because if "engineering costs". There are free SMS apps, because the app has fuck all to do with SMS - your app merely registers as the SMS app, and uses the native API calls for the SMS database.

None.

When they dropped SMS support, I no longer had a mechanism to get people to switch.

Ewww, Vista.

That's like stepping in something nasty

I'd at least flip the drive on the right so it's underside is closer to the fan, as that side gets hotter in my experience, so it would have more effective cooling.

RAID 5 is fine, as part of a storage and data management plan. I run it on an older NAS, though It can do RAID 6.

No RAID is reliable in the sense of "it'll never fail" - fault tolerance has been added to it over the years but it'S still a storage pool from multiple drives.

ZFS adds to it's fault resistance, but you still better have proper backups/redundancy.

Heat pumps no more "create" energy as air conditioners do, as they're the exact same thing.

They simply move heat. No more, no less.

That you see moving heat to inside a container as "creating" hear doesn't make it so - it's just moving energy (as heat) from one container to another, same as AC, because it is an AC unit with a reversing valve (as you mentioned).

Saying they "create more heating energy than they consume" is accurate only if you compare it to using electric to heat using resistive heating on a per-watt basis. This is always the part people leave out when they say it's "500% more efficient".

Labels on electric space heaters saying 100% efficient have the same issue. While technically true in that all the electricity is turned to heat, it's a meaningless statement.

Resistive heating has never been a good idea, ask anyone who's had a home with resistive where heat is actually required on a regular basis. It's pretty easy to beat resistive.

I have nothing against heat pumps, it's a solid tech that's been with us as AC for 120 years, and specifically as heat pump for about 60 years. My only dislike is they depend on forced air which I personally find less comfortable than radiant.

"bad dreams" are called nightmares

From what I understand, smoke alarms now require a 10 year battery, no longer needing replacement.

CO detectors still seem to use replaceable though.

Oof, car fires are tough to put out.

Even if you do, odds are there's still extensive damage.

Still better than it turning into an inferno, if nothing else for the safety of everyone.