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I used Nomorobo for 6 months and it was NOT useful, i have a phone number from a area code + prefix that i dont live at, yet I get about 5-10calls/day from similar looking numbers. Nomorobo would mark them as ‘unblockable’ because of the areacode+prefix match, so i would have to manually block each one.

I switched to ATT Call Protect which works much better. Now i get 1-2 calls/week. I would go back to nomorobo if it worked better.

I have been having wifi issues for the last 3 months and I have 2 Chromecast's Ive had them for much longer but after reading this I'm going to segregate them to a different wifi network and see if the wifi gets better but my understanding of the issue makes me think it won't get better without a Chromecast update

I once applied for a medical license and they wanted my high school records.... Really? it's not enough they have my college, medical school, residency, board certifications, etc. They STILL required your HS records ( and they had some GPA requirements on that too, I don't recall the specifics)

i had a lenny bot running on my home phone line for a bit, i had an asterisk server with a whitelist ( i only get land calls from 2-3 numbers ) and recorded some hilarious calls, i even have a few from the church of scientology ( the prior owner of the number apparently was a member) and from bill collectors ( and she also owed a bunch of medical bills )

My house has 6 fire alarms, when they beep there is NO way to tell which one it is making the noise 2/2 the combination of short beep and irregular beeping interval.

My solution is to just change all the batteries at once so i dont have to guess (and if you guess wrong you then you wont sleep tomorrow because of the beeping)

I wish there was some visual indicator to tell which one was faulty.

Well I didn't look at the data and i'm sure theres some error in the results. But even if they are off by 20-30% thats still A LOT of people who dont know about PR status, etc.

Anecdotally (i know thats not a good example) most people I speak to always ask if needed a visa to more to one of the 50 states, they ask if you need a passport to visit and they ask if you can drive to PR.

one citation, but i'm sure there are more: "Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know Puerto Ricans Are Fellow Citizens" - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/upshot/nearly-half-of-ame...

yes. a lot of people are unaware of puerto rico’s status and its peoples citizenship.

This! or develop a bluetooth SD card similar to the wifi ones that already exist, and have it communicate with your phone/tablet.... instant upgrade for all cameras

I've gotten several leases over the past 10 years, usually at rates 0.9% to 1.9%, maybe I'm lucky?

Seems like an easy enough edit to the scripts. What would you recommend instead?

Not the original poster, but I also built a hackintosh in the last 2 months and its working great, here's the PCpartpicker list ($1350 without monitor): https://pcpartpicker.com/user/bshep/saved/xgn7P6

The only issue was getting the video card to work correctly and that was pretty easy after finding a tutorial on tonymac.

You are correct they didnt have to agree to change anything. But there were other houses that were closer ( one of the comparables that he pcked was in a different neighborhood and was waaay cheaper ) and houses that were more similar so we pointed that out. He agreed and redid the estimate with houses that were closer both on distance and in size/amenities. All of this was throught the realtors ours and theirs.

As an example of above, A couple of years ago my wife and I were selling our home and the appraisal came back lower than agreed sale price, we asked appraiser to pick different comparables and the appraised price went up 10-20k

From reading the docs it seems possible

Go to the website click on documentation then indepth then restore.

You can also export to other formats ex. mbox

I find it extremely satisfying to hang up on telemarketers mid-sentence. I also add them to my block list so I dont get a repeat call from the same number.

I have a github page with the lenny code I use ( its for FreePBX ) but can be easily adapted.

https://github.com/bshep/freepbx-Its_Lenny

Edited to add:

- The nerdvittles links did not work for me last time I tried, I got the sounds from the repo I forked

- The original repo was missing one sound which I found somewhere else ( dont have the source anymore )

- The module is unsigned due to ridiculous terms for module signing for FreePBX so if you use it you will get a scary warning, if you decide to sign it please let me know ;-)

For my home phone I use asterisk + blacklist module + Its Lenny! which wastes the telemarketers time and really frustrates them.

Wheneve a telemarketer comes through i punch ##66# abd that adds them to the blacklist ( in case they call back ) and sends them to the lenny script.

I think this is where things are headed. I think we will soon see a new version of iOS by Apple with more stringent security (no updates without authentication or information is wiped when you force an update).

If this doesn't happen, I would highly suspect there is an NSL (or something similar) involved forbidding it.

Makes me think of the book 'Avogadro Corp'

I used the old version of this guide, the new one may work better but I already have a working instance:

http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own...

I'm using one of OTOY/ORBX (ami-8ff2b9e6) instances ( I tried setting up my own, but never got the graphics to work right )

I actually have an AWS machine that runs Steam + VPN and I can stream games to my home laptop, it works really well.

I also have non-steam games that I've added like Star Wars: The Old republic, Starcraft II and Diablo III and they all work well using the same system.

The only glitch I've noticed is that if steam starts before the VPN, I have to RDC in and restart steam so it picks up the VPN network. (If anyone has any idea how to fix this I would be very grateful)

You would still need to send input to the app somehow, which possibly could be done with a phone/tablet which is setup with just the controls and no video.

The results are pretty unwieldly if you have a lot of passwords so I used the following snippet to sift through the crud

  cat results.txt | grep -A 20 'applications' |grep \[0-9\]: | grep -v entry | grep -v description | cut -d\  -f14- |  sort | uniq

I made a couple of assumptions so YMMV:

  - up to 10 apps in the ACL ( the max I saw in mine was 7 )

  - the word 'entry' or 'decription' was no present in the app name

No 48hr shifts are allowed in residency (out of residency you're SOL), the limit is either 28 or 30hrs ( IIRC its 28hrs + 2hrs for non-patient work or something similar to that, so most people end up doing 30hrs )

Other limits:

- You are not allowed more than 80hrs per week, that is a hard limit and programs will get in trouble if they ask more of you.

- You are required to take 4 days off every 4 week rolling average ( so 1 day off per week, or 2 days off every 2 weeks, etc )

I'm a resident: 30hrs every 3-4 days, is standard for residents in years 2 and above, but only in the more demanding services, otherwise usually 12-16hr days.

Personally I use crashplan, its more expensive than your max price requirement if you use their cloud services, but I also back up way more data (300+GB), mostly family photos+videos. Also, since its unlimited storage I don't really care if I suddenly have a couple of extra gigs to store after xmas or whatever. Oh and finally I can use the same app to backup to my home server so basically everything is backed up locally and remotely with one app and is encrypted/deduplicated.

I used to use Arq and it worked great but then the backups became too big.

EDIT: forgot you wanted opensource... oh well... anyway this works for me.

Although Facetime Voicecalls are not the same thing, its similar and works with any iOS 7

I think I've read that excerpt about 5 times and I always love it!

Thanks for sharing