I’ve learned that if it is just the top speed that is slow, it’s a replacement capacitor behind the light switch.

If all speeds are slow, it’s the whole fan to be replaced.

(We live in a warm place, and fans run 24/7 in some of our rooms, so we go through this process at least yearly for at least one of our fans)

It was Flashforge Adventurer 3, and was $600 AUD, this was all pre COVID.

I had a 20+ Yr old car with a key fob that had broken, so it would stay on a key ring and wouldn’t stay closed.

Wreckers wanted $700 for a new key fob case as I’d have to buy the whole second hand keyless entry system.

A small 3d printer cost $650.

I bought the printer, then designed and printed my own key fob case, including replacing the worn out rubber buttons with some harvested out of an old kitchen timer.

No one was ever impressed or interested with the whole thing, so I figured this meets the criteria for inclusion here…

My step kids have never known me without a beard. They saw a photo of me clean shaven from about a year before I met their mother, and my stepdaughter looked at me, then the photo and said “Ew… Gross… Never shave your beard…”

Gotta love the honesty!!!

(I just choose to remember how much my stepdaughter LOVES my beard!! 🤪)

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Among other things, yes…

There are hybrid inverters that support dark start (no grid) but yes, as you mentioned, they only do this when they have internally dropped the grid feed, to prevent such a back feed event.

If cyclone winds lift the panels and damage them, when the sun comes out it can increase the chances of a fire, or some such.

We had a category 2 cyclone approaching.

I only described it as inclement weather, so as not to become “exciting men’s club”…

I’ve used airtable for these sorts of “personal use” use cases (eg: home built rocketry flight log) and I was even able to use their iPhone / Android app to enter data.

I haven’t paid a cent for it yet as I’m well under their data caps.

I like the little shuttle golf carts in Japanese airports: each cart plays a different tune as they drive along.

The old guy that runs the mower shop I went to (had to drive 25kms) suggested it.

He said that all the Australian mowers with a “flat” deck already have this tilt built into it by default, so I had to manually do that on this one that let’s you set each wheel height independently.

Apparently, if I remember correctly, it helps with the length as the grass is cut earlier and is then above the blades sooner, rather than clogging it from underneath, and the rear of the cut path isn’t fighting grass as much and can create the vacuum to get the clippings into the bag.

As the model I chose has a “Blade Brake” that lets me stop the blades but keep the mower running, the only thing he suggested to me was not to start the blades mid path, and if I had to, to lift the front up as I engaged the blades, as they lift just a little as they come up to speed.

I forgot a few times, and I can see the few little areas where it cuts a little bit shorter than desired, so it was good advice.

I chose that shop as they had the models I wanted to compare in stock, and the guy who owned the place and his wife both seemed to know the models inside out on their short YouTube videos…

The other places I rang just told me they didn’t carry any stock, and that everything I needed was on the Honda webpage, so you can probably binder stand why I drove the extra distance.

I Iove this so much…

My lawn is not that large, its just on a 30° incline, and pushing the mower up that hill in 40°C days, while brutal, was manageable.

We’ve had torrential rain periods for the last few months, so instead of the lawn growing 2-3cm a week, it’s been growing 7-10cm a week. This meant that I’ve had to progressively mow it 4x to get the job done.

New lawnmower has twin blades, so it makes it through the length much more easily, and I can set the front wheels 1/2 a setting lower to help the mower get through the crazy growth.

The cross cutting and cloth bag means it doesn’t clog the catcher instantly and I don’t need 4x passes to return the lawn to useable.

The self propelled bit is rather magical though. It takes itself up the hill.

It does use a little more fuel that the last one, but I’m ok with that.

I turned it on about 10 years ago and without realising accidentally routed my internal home network. My IDS went nuts, I realised mistake, I rolled the change back, and haven’t gotten around to it since.

I think for me, the reliance on DNS makes my anxious… As is, my home net is overly complex (32+ discreet screened VLANS with vlsm, multiple discreet segregated WiFi networks, etc, etc… (don’t ask why, “it’s complicated”)) and being able to navigate it when DNS breaks is easy… Remembering ipv6 internal addresses is something I’ll likely never be able to do…

I used to be a comms / security engineer so I could justify spending time during the day fixing stuff in my “lab” when it broke. These days, not so much…

So for me it is more “fear of the unknown” and “having time to work through the kinks…”

But with DMC here now pushing me on, perhaps it is time to migrate a pilot network segment and get over myself…

I had an old school friend chastise me for the lack of ipv6 in my home.hosted stuff just this week…

I want to, but its effort, I’m not currently feeling any pain only being on ipv4, and since I’m on a static IP presently, I’m not feeling like I would be gaining much out of a switch.

This post however makes me feel super slack though: if dull men are migrating to v6, then maybe that makes me a Luddite / carmudgeon… 😱

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I am at a theme park with the kids…

I am sitting down, having an iced coffee, not riding rides or running around, resting in the shade in an effort to prepare for the long drive home while everyone else in the car probably falls asleep…

https://www.dictionary.com/e/bimonthly/

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“Both!  Bimonthly can refer to something happening “every two months” or “twice a month.” Yep, bimonthly has, fittingly enough, two meanings.”