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Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
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Looks like I'm on 1password 8 in Linux. For whatever reason, I just prefer the app instead of having the browser pop open 1password.com to edit records. I don't know why, it just bugs me. I know part of it is that I want to use the native app to show support for it.
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One of our tuxedoes only has white under his chin and on his stomach, so he can do a pretty good imitation void... Especially in a dark hallway, he's excellent at picking the least visible spot to lounge.
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I have three monitors. Two 27" in neutral good configuration, then a third smaller 4:3 monitor (not sure what size off the top of my head) in a chaotic good type setup, albeit on the left side, not the right.
My desktop machine can use all three, but the two main monitors are usually tuned to my work laptop.
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Ah good. I didn't realize it was two winters. So hopefully next year we'll see more lightning bugs.
When I was growing up I remember seeing lightning bugs everywhere during the summer. As an adult, living less than 100 miles south of that, I see far fewer of them. It's really disturbing. And, hey, it's good for me because I have to do less yard work.
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I can see those kinds of things working in or near cities, but out where I am - fairly rural - there's just too many miles of road to install a bunch of speed humps or similar things. It would take a monumental amount of money. They don't even have shoulders on most of the roads. I admit even I speed when I'm driving them, although I'll slow down for bends in the road so as not to clobber a deer, cyclist, pedestrian, etc. that might be lurking out of sight.
(I got into a fun argument here on Lemmy a few months back with someone who insisted horse and buggies should have lights, and I was like, "What happens when you come around the bend too fast and there's a tree laying in the road?" He just couldn't accept the problem is the driver, not the horse and buggy. Basically, that's what's wrong with drivers in the US: We, as a group, have a bizarre expectation that things will always go to plan.)
I'm also nervous about these solutions for another reason - I've seen towns install those kinds of calming measures in a way that hurts cyclists. In one example, they extended the curbs out to the lane, which does slow down traffic - but it forces cyclists who could previously ride on the shoulder into the lane, thereby further enraging drivers. I had one asshole pass me in that very narrow section some years ago, so now I make sure to ride in the middle of it, so they'd actually have to hit me. They won't do that because they don't want to damage their precious car, so I'm safe.
And I say this as someone that lives in an area that's actually pretty good for cycling, that is, most drivers are actually pretty good about passing safely and all that.
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Interesting. Mostly what I see is people slam on their brakes near the camera, then take off again after it.
My theory: There's so little enforcement of the traffic laws here, they might as well not exist. You're almost certain NOT to get caught, so people will do whatever they want and will practically always get away with it. I don't really want to argue for more cops, but when I've driven in areas with more traffic enforcement and visible police presence, people tend to drive much more sedately.
I drive and ride bicycle, and I would LOVE if the cops came riding with me some time. I see some of them doing the 100 mile ride for charity in our county, so I know they have people on the force who ride fairly seriously. Join one of our regular group rides wearing cycling clothes (not police gear), get another cop stationed ahead in a car or motorcycle...and start pulling over some people who buzz us or roll coal. Word would get out very quickly.
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I left the leaves on our lawn last winter, and this year I saw even fewer lightning bugs. It might be kind of pointless for me to do that, because our yard backs up to a huge ravine that is completely unkept - leaves, trees, branches, etc., all fall there and are left there. So it might be like adding a few square feet to an already large area.
But ...the birds. Huge flocks of black birds sometimes come by; there will sometimes be thousands of them. If I'm outside when they show up, it's a cacophony of chirping, then when they take off you can hear the whoosh from all of them. It's such a great sight. But... they're digging under the leaves, so I wonder if they were getting the insects I was trying to help. :(
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I'm pretty sure Dowd signed with the team after the run.
But, yeah, there aren't many left - Ovi, Carlson, Wilson, Backstrom (technically), and Oshie (technically)...
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Wilson and Dubois, great second period.
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That didn't last long...
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Dowd!
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Man I want to put LED bulbs in my 1999 model year car, but I don't want to start blinding people. The last thing I want is for someone to hit me because they were blinded. It seems many LEDs do intend to have similar beam patterns to halogen bulbs, but I'm not sure how well they actually do.
Our 2020 Mazda has LED headlights, and I gotta admit, they are much better for seeing. We live off the beaten path, not a ton of traffic, but plenty of deer and other animals.
On the other hand, my headlights in the 1999 had gotten really hazy, and I recently did one of those headlight restoration kits to it, and it worked stunningly well. Since then, I haven't driven at night very much to get a feel for how much it helped. So maybe I won't need LEDs. (The halogens in there are relatively new.)
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When you "drain the swamp" what is left is all of the muck and mud at the bottom of it.
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I was talking to some friends last weekend, and one of them said that they had previously owned a house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I said, "I love the Outer Banks, love visiting it, but I would never buy real estate there." He said, "Yeah, it took a couple years for us to figure that out."
Of course, the islands are basically giant sandbars, and there's the sea level rise issue. But I hadn't considered that the environment is just that much harder on houses - roofs need to be replaced more often, wood rots more quickly, and so on - and that's not even including a hurricane coming through. When the kind kicks up, which happens pretty regularly there, the house is getting sandblasted. The maintenance costs are much higher compared to an inland house, and I assume insurance is much higher, and so on.
They rented it out to vacationers to help offset that cost, but they found that they weren't breaking even - they have to charge competitive rates to get customers, but those rates weren't covering all of the major upcoming expenses.
But, there's still a market for houses there. I imagine the recent images in the news of houses collapsing into the water have to be having an effect, but the bottom doesn't seem to be falling out like you'd think.
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The plugin works fine, but it can't call the separate program if you have that installed.
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Because I wanted it to integrate with 1password full client.
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Every time this is asked, I post the same comment. I used Kubuntu for years and liked it, but more recently they started doing things that annoyed me. The biggest was related to snaps and Firefox. Now, sandboxing a browser is probably a great idea, but I wanted to use the regular deb install, so I followed the directions to disable the snap install and used the deb. However, Ubuntu overrode that decision several times - I'd start browsing, then realize I was using a snap AGAIN. Happened a few times over a couple years. If it happened once, eh, maybe an error, but it happened 3 or 4 times. I came to the conclusion I wasn't in control of my system, Ubuntu was.
I switched to Debian and am happy with my choice.
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Gotta admit, Vrana is fun to watch if nothing else. I've always liked him.
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Hmmm the bot has the goal listed, but none of the other stats, not even the score. :(
[What is he?](https://lastplacecomics.com/what-is-he/) I came across this a few weeks ago but didn't save it and couldn't remember what strip it was. I searched many times for it, but it wasn't until this morning that I finally got the right search term for it to turn up again.
Hi, all. Finally migrated from Kubuntu to Debian 12 over the weekend. It's working great, as I figured it would, with one exception: The system isn't turning the monitors off after 10 minutes. It's blanking them, but they're clearly still on. One monitor is on an AMD graphics card, the other is on the motherboard Intel adapter. Debian 12 with KDE Plasma running on Wayland with sddm login. It previously worked fine on Kubuntu (which I believe was running X11). It's a fresh Debian install on a different drive; I didn't overwrite the Kubuntu installation. In the Energy Saving settings, I have "Screen energy saving" checked with a delay of 10 minutes. (I have "suspend session" turned off - one, because I don't want the computer to sleep or suspend, and two, because when I woke it up again, the graphics were garbled and I had to reboot.) As I said, it does blank the screens, but they're still clearly on. I want them to go into power save mode. I've tried running dpkg-reconfigure and selecting sddm, no change. In KDE's background services, I tried turning off KScreen 2, but that didn't help (though I'm not sure if I rebooted after turning it off, now that I think about it). I found advice somewhere that suggested deleting .config/powermanagementprofilesrc and rebooting; I did that, no change. I did notice yesterday that the monitors had shut off...after a very long time of being idle. I'm not sure how long, but more than overnight, for certain. Any advice or suggestions? Unfortunately, searching is difficult, because I get a lot of results where the screen blanks when it shouldn't. I haven't found much for this problem. I used the same installer on my laptop to do the same migration (also with KDE Plasma and sddm) and it works fine there.
No major question here, just thought you might find this interesting. It's an example of the kind of (off-the-wall) things you can do with HA that aren't immediately obvious. When I was starting out with HA, I enjoyed reading these examples, because it gave me ideas for my own setup. And, I wrote many automations that should really be scripts, so hopefully this will help someone avoid that and recognize the power of scripts early. At home, my laptop from work sits (closed) on a stand under the monitors. I have a docking station for it, but the docking station doesn't have a power button to start the laptop (the official Dell docking stations have a power button, but other brand of docking stations don't). So, since I got that stand a few weeks ago, I've been pulling the laptop out and opening juuuuuuust enough that I could reach the power button, then closing it and sliding it back into the stand. There had to be a better way that didn't involve buying an expensive Dell docking station. The docking station power is on a Sonoff S31 outlet (flashed with Tasmota, not that that's important here) that is remotely controllable. Long ago, I set up HA automations that turned on the S31 when the laptop was detected on the network, and shut off the S31 after the laptop dropped off the network at the end of the day (leaving in a time delay so it didn't shut off if there was a momentary network glitch). So, I'd boot the laptop, and a moment later the docking station would kick on and connect the mouse and monitors to it. And the end of the day, I shut down the laptop, and a few minutes later the docking station shuts off automatically. I recently discovered the Wake on LAN integration. So, after setting that up, I wrote a script that turns on the S31, waits a while*, then triggers the Wake-on-LAN for the laptop...and it boots up! With HA, I can start the boot process while I'm still relaxing in the living room before starting work; in theory I'll go into the office and it'll be ready for me to log in. Heck, if HA knew for certain it was a workday, it could boot the laptop for me.....hmmm. Maybe something to think about for the future. *How long? Well, 30 seconds seems to be too short; the laptop doesn't respond to the WoL command after just 30 seconds with power applied. It did work this morning when I waited several minutes to try it again. I just changed the delay to 1 minute and will see how that works tomorrow. I also added a repeat loop (starting after that 1 minute timer) with three components: * A condition that looks for the laptop being "Away" on the network. (If it is "Home" on the network, the condition will end the script.) * If it is, then it tries the WoL command again. * Then waits 30 seconds and repeat. The repeat loop counter is set to 3, for a total of 4 attempts to start the laptop. I'll check the traces and see when it starts working, and set the initial delay accordingly, so that in general it shouldn't need the repeat loop. If people want, I can post (sanitized) YAML. But I do like explaining the process rather than just posting code.
Four overtime games, including game 7. Bears went up 3 games to none, the Cleveland came back to tie it. Gotta give it to both goaltenders - Greaves for the Monsters and Sheppard for the Bears.
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This is a move I don't understand. But I wonder what it will mean for the site as a useful resource.
The Bears beat the Phantoms, 3 games to 1, to advance to the next round. Next up, the Hartford Wolfpack. Monumental or Monumental 2 has been carrying the games, hopefully they continue!
This is not the first time I've ranted about the previous owner's wiring jobs, though I think they were on the other site (and I had a different username there). His greatest hits include: * Above a drop ceiling in the basement, a wire that went into a metal box without a strain relief, so it eventually wore through (for whatever reason) and started shorting out. Since it was above the drop ceiling I had no idea why that breaker would occasionally trip, then reset without complaint. Also, there are other things on that circuit, but the offending wire was only live when the light switch in the room was on, so it was harder to diagnose. It wasn't until we demolished the room that we found the problem...black marks on the box and wires and all. * A duct fan to route heat from the pellet stove into the master bedroom...with the wiring completely enclosed in the ceiling, with no access to the box. Said duct fan has started making noise, so I'm going to have to cut that ceiling open and replace it, and I'll probably install one of those spring-loaded covers so there is access in the future. * A fascinating wiring job in the shed that is unnecessarily complicated and certainly a violation of the code on how many conductors can be in a box. I'm going to fix that some time this spring. This is actually a REALLY great one, so maybe I'll post it as a comment. On to today's hilarity. A few weeks ago I noticed the UPS for my computer in the basement had a red light on the back warning of a wiring fault. I never noticed it before, or I did and forgot, and it's not very bright, so you almost have to be looking for it to see it. Well, I got out one of those testers that you plug in, with three lights that diagnose the issue, and it showed no ground. Odd. I checked the other two outlets on the same wall, the one closer to the panel tested fine, but the one on the other side of the outlet in question also showed an open ground. Today I dug in to find out what was up. It turns out the ground was cut on both wires in the outlet the computer was using (supply from the previous outlet and the wire to the next outlet). It was not connected to the metal box or the outlet. WHY WHY WHY? Why did he do this? I can't fathom why you'd do this. I replaced all three outlets on that wall with new ones and made sure the grounds were connected. Nothing really wrong with the original outlets and covers, but they were old and beige, and I like white. Years ago I found an outlet in our closet that only had two prongs, no ground. The house was built in 1987, well after three prongs were standard. With some trepidation - what am I going to find here? - I opened it up and found that...there was a good ground there (to my relief) but he apparently just decided to use a two prong outlet. WHY? He had to have gone to special effort to find a two prong outlet to install. (Actually it is theoretically possible that was done by the builders, but everything else in the house is three prongs, and I can't believe it would have passed inspection.)
This season, the Caps have been doing "Chalk Talks" with various people. These are question-and-answer sessions held before the game (at 5 p.m.), and last night Tarik El-Bashir hosted. They're for season ticket holders - we split season tickets with a group of people, and we had the tickets to last night's game, so we were able to go to the talk as well. I think the Chalk Talks are new this season; we've been in the ticket group for quite a few years now, and this is the first we've heard of them. I'm sure we would have at least heard of them before now if they had been happening before. (In case you're not sure who Tarik is, he's a former Caps beat reporter for the WaPo, and is now on TNT covering hockey. He played hockey through his teenage years, but he knew he was not going to be going pro in hockey when he was 17 or 18.) Extremely interesting chat. He told us a couple of his favorite stories. I'm going from memory, so I may have goofed on some details. I added a few personal notes in brackets. * His first major scoop was the Ovechkin contract signing in ~2008. Apparently he got a tip from a reporter in Toronto, who may have been tipped off by an agent. Note Ovi had fired his agent a few months before, and his mother negotiated the contract instead, so it's possible the spurned agent is the one that alerted the reporter. Tarik witnessed the signing by looking in the windows at Kettler. Ted Leonsis was annoyed, because they were planning to announce it at the season ticketholder event later that evening, but Tarik scooped them. Ted laughs about it now, though, and apparently also tells the story from his point of view. * He was first to interview Bruce Boudreau after his firing. Bruce wanted to wait ("It's Dale Hunter's day, let him have it"), so he told Tarik to come to his house the next morning at 7 with coffee and donuts [which seems very on-brand for Bruce]. When Tarik arrived, Bruce answered the door in dressy clothes, which got Tarik's attention, but Bruce said he was going to visit his mother. And that's how Tarik missed out on the scoop that BB was interviewing with the Ducks. Later, Bruce said, "What was I going to tell you? They hadn't fired Carlyle yet!" [I think it was Carlyle, but I'm too lazy to look it up, and it doesn't matter for the story.] * He also got an interview with Olie the Goalie after his last game with the Caps. Tarik noticed Olie taking his name plate off his locker after the game, but he was busy getting the story of the Caps loss at the time. Later he got to interview Olie directly about leaving DC and was first to get the full story. His editor said, "Great story, but you need to call GMGM and get his side of the story." There were a few questions. * Someone asked about Wilson's punishment. He agreed Wilson deserved punishment for his action, but Tarik noted that another player [whose name escapes me] committed a two-handed slash earlier this season that resulted in just a $5k fine. He actually called it "The Wheel of Justice" and wished that Player Safety was more consistent. * Some talk about up-and-coming players, LaPierre and Miroshnichenko. Great things to say about both, but Miro in particular he was impressed with - even late in the game in that loss to Toronto, Miro was working hard and engaged and upset at losing that way. * Carbery - he noted that part of what makes Carbery so good is that he has excellent communication skills with the players. He will tell them exactly what they need to do to improve or get more ice time or whatever, and the players really appreciate that, and when Carbery talks, they listen. Carbery is also extremely smart, Tarik noted. If the team gets into the playoffs, he thought Carbery should win the Jack Adams award [he noted he doesn't have a vote on that award]. There was a question about the turnaround that led to the following two answers: * He talked about Ovi's turnaround - and no, he has no idea what happened either. He joked that maybe riding a camel centered Ovi's mind [I assume Ovi was on vacation somewhere riding camels over the all-star break]. And the power play is suddenly firing on all cylinders, likely in part due to Ovi. The power play is suddenly the best in the league over the last 5 games at 44% [note this was before last night's festivities]. * Lindgren has stolen something like 8 games for the Caps. This is an actual statistic - I forget the math but it's something like high danger chances minus the final score. Kuemper has been struggling, but Lindgren has been a star. He mentioned another interesting statistic. Unfortunately, I forget what the statistic was. It may have been goal differential. But no team has ever been below -10 and still made the playoffs, and the Caps have a good chance of being the first. It was just another piece of evidence of how incredible the turnaround is. They gave away some signed pucks - Strome and Carlson IIRC, and they gave away a signed Ovi stick. Random drawing for everyone who was there. Tarik knows the game so well. I've been watching for ~15 years, and I learned a few things from him. He's an excellent speaker, too, which isn't surprising given his position, but he handled the audience Q and A very smoothly too. The talk finished up around 5:45, so you have time to walk around and hit the food stands, not all of which were quite ready for customers at that point. It was a great experience. If you ever get the chance to go to one, take it.
Hi, all. My wife and I recently got new phones, and it got me thinking again about how notifications work. Currently I have several automations (maybe 10) that send notifications to my phone, her phone, both, and possibly other devices. But when we get a new phone, or replace a tablet, etc., I have to update every single one of those automations. And I inevitably forget some or introduce errors. Is there a better way to do this? For example, it'd be nice if I could abstract the concept of "my phone" out in those automations, then I'd only have to change the device "my phone" in one place, rather than a bunch of places. Any thoughts on this? Maybe I'm missing a way to do it. Thanks.
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Of course he does.
No link because I'm lazy. My wife sent me Instagram shots of Kuzy in Hershey, and honestly he looks happy. Maybe he needed a change of scenery to wake up or something. And Instagram also had pictures of Oshie practicing on the ice today! Not sure if it was with the team or not, but...I'll take it either way!
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You just never know what team is going to show up from day to day. We love them, but there's a reason we call them the Cardiac Caps...
This is a long one, but I'm done with Shelly. Too bad, I like that they support HA, but the treatment on this last order is outrageous. The good news is I'm only out $24. On November 25, I placed an order for a H&T and a Plus 1 Mini as part of their sale, and I received a confirmation for the order. On December 8, I received an email stating they were overwhelmed with orders and it would be some time before filling them. Okay, that's annoying, but I didn't need them right away - but the H&T I did want fairly quickly because I was hoping to replace an unreliable Zigbee sensor. Then I heard nothing for several weeks, and the order never arrived. Finally, on January 4, I created a ticket in their support system about it. They completely ignored that, too. I started seeing ads on Facebook for the Plus 1 Minis, one of the things I ordered, which irritated me. After about two weeks, I made a comment on one of the ads that my order and the ticket were both being ignored. A few days later, on January 24, I got an email from them saying: > Excuse us for the delayed reply. We are extremely overloaded. > For unknown reason, the order is not visible in the US admin system. That's why it is not dispatched yet. Maybe there is a bug in the system about this order. > However, we informed the US team that the order must be dispatched asap. They will dispatch it soon and you will receive an email with your tracking code. > Please be patient. > We want to apologize for the delay and for the inconvenience caused. I've heard nothing more, almost a week later. I just logged into the ticketing system to discover that they CLOSED THE TICKET. So they can't see the order, and they closed the ticket that refers to it. The problem is NOT resolved - there's no tracking number, no estimated ship date, and no products at my door. I'll be surprised if I ever get the stuff at this point. (I checked my spam folder, and it's not in there.) Terrible service. I will never order from them again. I can still file a Paypal dispute, apparently until May. I'll give it a few more days, and if I haven't heard anything, I'll do that. So, let this be a warning to you about ordering from Shelly...it went okay the first time a few years back, but this time has been a disaster.
https://lemmy.world/post/10554910 Running on a Lenovo Yoga Tab 13, Android 13, version 1.0.4 of Boost.
Discussion time! Thoughts and opinions! We live in Maryland, and I'm glad our tax dollars aren't involved in either deal. What bothers me more is just the waste of it. What's wrong with Capital One? Other than those railings in some sections that prompt the occupants of those seats to lean forward and block the view of the people behind them. But that could be fixed with glass partitions. I haven't been to many other NHL arenas to compare, but we did visit the Canes last year, and I don't recall any "Oh, I wish Capital One had that!" moments about the structure. Except maybe the nearby campground, but that's not happening in DC or Alexandria (nor would we really need it for the local team). Driving: For us, driving to Potomac Yards is roughly the same as driving the Capital One on paper, but I suspect the reality will be somewhat different. If there's an issue on the bridge, theoretically we can drive through DC, but I already know that the freeway is usually backed up there during rush hour - we're usually getting off on 395 north right where the backup begins. Getting to Capital One has more options if there's a crash somewhere on the route. Parking: I'm sure Leonsis feels he's missing out on a lot of parking fees that currently go to other garage operators, so now the cost of parking will go to him, and it'll be your only option, aside from Metro. I wonder how the merchants at Potomac Yard will deal with people parking there to go to events - maybe validated parking. Getting there by Metro: Yellow line only! Unless they also run those special blue trains that they used to run to Franconia-Springfield after events (I don't know if they still do that). Gallery Place-Chinatown is on three lines with a LOT more access. Nats park is only on green, but it's also closer to L'Enfant for transfers. I'm curious how that will play out. Maybe they'll run more trains from Potomac Yards to L'Enfant and Gallery Place after events. Eating options: I know Chinatown's food options have really suffered in recent years, even before the pandemic. But there are still a ton of options in the area. But at the new place...what options will there be if I don't want to have to park twice? Last I knew, there weren't many restaurants in that Potomac Yards shopping center. I think overall we're not looking forward to this change, if it does happen. I know it's a long way off - the 2028 season is what it sounded like - but neither of us are excited about it. We'll see what happens.
Hello! I don't have pictures yet, but I finally finished my mixed road/gravel bike and took it for a short ride (in wet conditions) over the weekend, and I wanted to celebrate a bit. Sorry for the long post! I bought the frame on sale a few months back from Velo Orange, it's their Pass Hunter model. I had been kind of eyeing them up for years, as they're based near me, for this kind of bike. My eventual goal is to tour the GAP and C&O canal trails with it - my road bike, a CAAD12, would not be up to such a tour. I'll also take it with us when we go camping - we were out west for a few weeks last year, and there were a lot more gravel roads than this east coaster is used to. The groupset is a GRX Di2 2x11 with hydraulic discs. I know some will disagree with the electronic shifting for a touring rig, but I've read all of the arguments on both sides, and it's what I wanted. In hindsight, I wish I'd realized that the VO Pass Hunter frame isn't really Di2 compatible, because there are limited options for fishing the wires through the frame - a restriction that never even occurred to me until after I had everything. But I can live with it. This is my first build, my first experience (ever) with electronic shifting, and my first experience with disc brakes (aside from a very short test ride years ago), and my first experience with hydraulic brakes. Lots of learning! The wheels are from Bikesdirect.com - did you know they have decent deals on wheels, too? DT Swiss rims, Shimano hubs, Shimano rotors, 38c tires mounted, rim and tires tubeless ready, but set up with tubes. I got 700s, but I probably should have gone with 650b for the clearance on the rear wheel. Longer term, I'll pick up a set of 650bs with mixed road/gravel tires, and put pure road tires on my 700c wheels. I had a bike fit on my road bike (a CAAD12) done a few years ago, so I used the results from that as a guideline for this build. In particular, the top tube on the VO is longer than the Cannondale, so I got a shorter stem to compensate. I did end up getting wider handlebars (46 instead of 44), but the gravel handlebars feel a LOT wider than the road handlebars. Which, for an all day ride, probably isn't a bad thing - more positions. I want to test it more, but I'm thinking I'll set the handlebars a little higher than my CAAD12's are, relative to the seat height - because, one, they're wider, so my arms are out farther when I'm on the hoods, meaning I'd be leaning down a bit farther, and two, comfy, all-day touring bicycle. The bike is all black. I'm not very imaginative. It's like, how much more black could it be? None. None more back. I don't usually name my bicycles, but suddenly I want to call this one "Smell the Glove". (The VO paint is actually black with flakes and a chrome logo, it looks pretty cool.) It's definitely a slow bike with the weight and tires on it now, but that's okay - the point was to build a comfortable, ride-all-day tourer, not a speed demon. It weighs 24 lbs without water bottle cages, bike bags, etc. After my test ride, I'm even happier with my decision to go Di2. And that's with repeatedly hitting the wrong buttons to shift on the ride (I have no idea why I was doing that, it's essentially the same as the 105 5800 on my CAAD12, but I kept doing it). Bar tape: I am terrible at wrapping bars. I have no fear of the mechanical or electronic portions of building a bike, but bar tape...I dunno. It's very stressful for me, I think because it's so visible, and I feel like everyone is looking at it and going, LOOK WHAT THAT AMATEUR DID! But, I think I actually did a credible job on this one, for once. Tip for anyone else that suffers the same phobia: Look for extra long tape, it's one less stressor! Suppliers: Frame came from VO, obviously. I got the Di2 setup off eBay - oddly enough, that seems to be the easiest way to buy a groupset, if you need the whole thing. Bikesdirect.com for the wheels. I went to Biketiresdirect.com for a lot of the parts, and when I couldn't find what I wanted or needed there, I went to Amazon. I ordered a few random parts from other places, too - I think the handlebars came from another bike parts supplier. Costs: I expected this to cost more than a pre-built bike would, but if I wanted that VO frame, building one was my only option. But now that I think about it, I might have actually saved a little money this way. [This bike, the first result on google for "Di2 gravel bike", is $3495 with 2x, and I'm pretty sure I have less than that into my build.](https://obedbikes.com/products/boundary-grx-810-di2) And I included pedals and a good saddle that fits me in the cost, neither of which comes with most pre-built bikes. Plus, I probably put a few better components on than would be stock, like softer bar tape, and Easton stem and seat posts, and so on. And, I got the parts I needed - such as the correct stem length for me - so I'm not replacing parts that came with a pre-built bike, either. So, while it doesn't feel like it, I probably did actually save some money over a pre-built bike. Of course, I spent hours working on it, and I bought several new tools at the same time - strangely, I never had a bike stand before, so I bought one as part of this build. (I don't count the tools as part of the build costs, as I'll very likely use them again.) To do yet: * Ride it and adjust the handlebar height as desired, then eventually cut the steerer tube, again. I did an initial cut to get it in the right ballpark, but there's likely another inch or so that could come off. * Check the rear brake - it engages a lot lower than the front brake, so it might need to be bled. I adjusted the engagement point, but it's still quite different compared to the front. It doesn't feel spongy, and I can lock up the wheel, it just travels a lot farther back. I'd rather it be more consistent with the front brake. * Adjust the clipless pedal tension. I'm used to SPD-SL cleats, and I've used SPD before, but I was having a miserable time with these at first, so I loosened the tension. I'll want to crank that back up. * RIDE IT! Mistakes I made: * My biggest was the Di2 wiring thing. The frame was really intended to have cables, so I have bosses for shifters or cable mounts that I'm not using (they're covered with caps that are the same color as the frame, at least). I wonder how hard it is to remove that thing - I had to repair similar downtube bosses on my old aluminum bike, and that just had a metric threaded rod running between the two sides. Maybe cut a rubber plug for the holes...hmmmmmmmmm. * I bought a second band clamp because I thought the first one was interfering with one of the water bottle cage bolts...but while I was waiting for the new clamp to arrive, I figured it out with the original clamp. Not sure what I was going wrong at first. * There are a few spots I could switch to shorter Di2 cables, but the necessary length is extremely hard to predict, I've learned, and those cables are not cheap. One that's too long is the one for the rear derailleur, and that one would be very easy to change and could be done whenever I feel like it. The other is the cable from the junction near the bottom bracket to the shifter - I have a 1200 mm cable, but a few cm shorter wouldn't have hurt. But neither one is so long that it's a major problem, either.
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Wow. He's taking an indefinite leave of absence, though it looks like he was already on the IR due to ankle issues.
I use Samba backup and it runs nightly, fortunately. I tried to update to the latest HA core the other day, and it failed. Reboot and weird things stop working all over the place. The log showed the recorder and a bunch of other things failed to start. When I looked at the command line, I found that files had apparently been corrupted. My configuration.yaml, all 791 lines of it, was gone, in favor of the stock configuration.yaml file. I restored from the most recent backup before the trouble began, which was taken Saturday morning (I assume the corruption is why it didn't run after that). No dice. Friday's backup got me up and running again, fortunately. I had to re-do a few things I'd changed Friday, but what a relief. I made the changes again and made a new full backup. I also increased the number of backups to keep from 7 to 10. Do regular backups, people. Save yourself a lot of headache. I use the Samba option, but there are options to upload to things like cloud storage as well.
My wife picked up this puck at the Hockey Hall of Fame last week. I think there's something odd about Gritty...she disagrees. Not saying what it is so as not to bias you. I'd like to get a ruling from the internet on this, please!