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Awair let's you hit the device on the LAN and get JSON, so the software is all mine. You don't have to let it connect out or report to anyone else. That is one of the reasons I picked it, I like my smart home to stay home.

I use an Awair, also in a cold climate. Seeing the data for my air quality motivated me to install an air exchanger. Having the monitor allowed me to see how much we needed to exchange in order to keep the CO2 at a decent level.

For anyone with a modern home that is sealed up average or better, an air monitor indoors is almost a must.

On the topic of the number of people and CO2, I'm tempted to have it alert me when I'm out of town and the CO2 rises. I have an alarm, but who would think to defeat the innocent looking air monitor on the shelf?

As long as it keeps working and doing gpg, call it whatever ya want.

You are so right. There are very few things I look forward to when thinking about eating out - french fries is one. I don't deep fry and air fry or baked at home does not compare to the real thing.

Steak is one where I've had better at a restaurant, but it was a $100/person type of place that work paid for. Mine at home is not quite there, but far above the average steak.

When I eat out now I'm hoping to find some combination of spices I don't use or some new idea to take home.

In the US, this is so true and sad. After building my first home with insulation way beyond code I learned the sad lesson that it won't get you a dime more when it is time to sell.

We keep in touch with the new owners who have since thanked us for building so well. Their bills are much lower than any in the neighborhood and they had no idea.

The same goes for heat pumps. I'm living in my third build and we had room to do a ground source heat pump. It is amazing and my bills are half of what my neighbor pays for a similar size house. Mine is also better insulated. When it comes time to sell it, nobody will care.

The US needs to up the codes on insulation. Hot climate, cold climate - who cares, it helps.

I'm so tired of bots. A certain bot from Singapore started pulling all of the product images across multiple domains. Ok, whatever... Then we realized it never stopped. It made enough requests to download them 4-5x over and was still going. The AWS bill was not nice.

We added them to our robots.txt, but traffic didn't stop. I complained to their provider, who happened to also be AWS. Oh, the shock - they didn't care and recommended using robots.txt! AWS was making good money on both ends with this bot that apparently had more money to burn than we do.

There is a ghost road I reported on Google and was ignored. It wasn't just any road, an impossible road.

It is a straight line from the base of a mountain right to the top, all while gaining thousands of feet in elevation. I haven't checked it out in person, but I'm familiar with the area, and I'd place a large wager that it doesn't.

Anyone who copies this road will have a map that screams "I copied Google!"

Injections can be done at home, after you do some at the office and you get your doctor to agree. My wife gets it shipped to our door each month.

In her case, this doesn't cure anything, but manages symptoms of MCAS. Not ideal, but way better than life without it.

My wife also gets 2 a month, on the same day, but I get to stab her in the gut. Good times!

My wife has been on Xolair for about a year, monthly injections (more would be nice, but that is all we can get from insurance). In her case, MCAS (Mast cell activation disorder) her body reacts to everything as if it were a food allergy - even though she isn't allergic to these foods.

They don't know the root cause for MCAS, so they sure don't have a cure or barely a clue it seems.

She lives a very restricted lifestyle, can't go in public places were people have perfume/strong smelling products on, can eat about 25 different ingredients (including a few spices), so eating out is not an option. A ripe banana in the room is enough to set her off and the impact is usually 2-3 days.

Xolair had allowed her to feel like a normal(ish) person - as long as all of the restrictions are followed.

Yup, it sucks to have to inject her monthly to have something that resembles normal and is in no way a cure - but I'll take it. Treating symptoms is far better than treating nothing. But a cure? If shell out quite a bit for that!

Copy paste for those wondering what MCAS does to a person. "MCAS is a condition in which the patient experiences repeated episodes of the symptoms of anaphylaxis – allergic symptoms such as hives, swelling, low blood pressure, difficulty breathing and severe diarrhea."

Is that why it is going down hill? I'm less inclined to visit now that they insist on showing me content that they think I want. I miss the days of only seeing stuff from my topics I've joined.

"All your bips are belong to us!"

As a low paid, part-time intern I finished a project with another low paid, part-time intern. We were supposed to have some FT people on with us, but that never happened so we just kept working. We only had one weekly meeting and it was a challenging project. When it was done we had a lunch/meeting to celebrate and discuss how it went with the project people.

They commented that this was the first one that was both under budget and late and wondered how that could be. I volunteered that it was because "we are interns and don't get paid much and it was late because we spent a month waiting for the DBA to correct a mistake he made - we could have been done early."

There were shocked faces. Lunch was good and there were not many more questions.

Long ago I got a Psion Series 5. One feature was that it could dial a phone number (output the DTMF) for you. Messing around I've day I realized a contact could have a very long phone number. This was also back in the day when answering machines existed and many had a 2 digit code you could punch in to get into the menu from the outside line.

My contact called Answering Machine had a very long phone number that got me into more than one answering machine. Once in, it was fun to change their outgoing message. One friend was convinced that I must have climbed the back of his apartment building to get in the open 3rd story window to change the message. That would have been cool, but a string of DTMF was much easier!

I went to the local clinic because I wasn't sure if my appendix was the problem. I had some signs, but others not at all. The doc pushed in on my right side, slowly. It didn't hurt, maybe a bit uncomfortable. He let of quickly and it was a short, sharp pain - that is what he was looking for. He called the ER and we drove there

The ER couldn't believe that I didn't need and pain meds. I felt nearly fine and was even hungry - apparently I shouldn't have been.

After the scan they said my appendix was huge. Easy surgery.

In hindsight, I'm sure it was acting up when I was backpacking, but I won that battle. Good thing, because I was in the middle of nowhere.

If you ran a gas stove and couldn't measure anything, I really question your meters or method - it maybe your house is build like a cheese grater.

My meter was off the charts when turning on the gas range or oven. I didn't get a meter until after a trip to the in-laws when my wife noticed that cooking at their house didn't make her sick, but as soon as we were back home it was an issue.

We swapped the gas for induction and love it - especially the part where she isn't getting sick from using it. Our house is built very tight. The air quality meter also got me to put in an air exchanger. It was great to have numbers before and after these changes.

We had gas because I've always liked cooking on it and it works when the power is out. It was hard to give that up. Now we use a camp stove when the power is out.

I think a ban is too strong. It seems like building codes requiring a range hood that actually works could be enough.

Did the smell of a banana, or just having one in the house set you off - or did you have to eat it to have a response?

"The immune system is complicated as hell."

You got that right! My wife used to eat a banana every day. Then something in her flipped and she reacts as if she is allergic to bananas and the rest of the world - not exaggerating. She can eat a very small number of foods and has to avoid most people because of smells. It isn't allergies it is - you guessed it - her immune system.

If we could just flip it back to "normal"...

I can answer for my kids. Everything they do is in the cloud and accessible on any device. I'm not sure they'd understand why anyone would want a thumb drive.

As for attachments on emails, they don't (even for a 100% online highschool). To turn in a paper they can just hit "share" and select their teacher.

Files and filesystems are almost dead to them. There is a little hope... My son googled to learn why a game was going slow and answers indicated he should delete the temp files. That was his first experience needing the file explorer.

As someone who grew up with DOS and turned in CS homework on a floppy disk, it is almost hard to watch.

Searching is slow (kinda expected that right now), but after clicking a product and then hitting back, I have to wait for the search again.

Not at computer so I didn't check the headers, but maybe allow the client to cache the response for a short time so it doesn't need to load search results again.

So software is my son's Bad Piggies flying monstrosity! You only left out the crates of TNT.

In with ya. When reading that pirated music costs 70,000 jobs I just laugh. I don't think there would be more jobs (maybe a few), but that the people at the top would have a bigger salary or bonus.

People are weird about electricity.

It isn't uncommon for people to be scared when they learn I wired my home which has a 400 amp service. I wired the previous two also. Sure electricity could kill me, burn me, burn down my house, etc., but I don't have to be the one to discover how it works. People have done that and there are building codes to follow that are build upon a whole bunch of previous failures.

We all learn different things and are at different places. I can wire my whole house and pass inspection, but I'd never take on this project, that is beyond me - but more power to him for trying. I agree, nothing wrong with some DIY that at most will go up in smoke.

Subaru has theirs adjusted too high from the factory. They are nice, bright lights, but now that I adjusted them down nobody flashes their brights at me.

We have a newer Subaru and were getting flashed like it was Mardi Gras. I started looking into adjusting the lights and found several places talking about how the Subarus are to high right from the dealer and their service department. That was enough to convince me to just do it.

I don't have a level spot with the recommended distance so we went with some tape on the garage door as a reference. We got them a tad low the first time and raised them up a bit. I can still see and apparently everyone else can too because nobody is flashing their lights at us.

Our other vehicle is a 2014 3/4 ton Ram pickup. Nobody ever flashes me in it.

I worked in an office, then at home where I worked constantly, then back to the office where I appreciated closing my laptop and being done.

Now I've been remote for many years and am happy to say I've trained myself to watch my hours and leave work even though I'm home. I change my slack status, minimize all work apps and walk away. When I come back to my computer for something personal in the evening I don't look at work. It took some practice, but closing things down walking worked for me. Now if I could only stop solving work problems as I try to fall asleep...

Was available...

For the right price, it is rectifiable.

How far away (as the crow flies) is the cabin? Check out APRS. I use it to message me wife when I'm backpacking. I regularly see messages from 200 miles away on my hand held, without Internet. I'm in Montana, so mountain top repeaters help. I don't know how is without them.

There is someone near me that uses APRS to beacon out the state of their solar/batteries at a remote cabin.

What interests you? Talking around the world? Communicating more in your immediate area? Socially, or for emergencies? Voice, Morse code or some digital modes?

There is a huge spectrum of things you can do and the amount of money you can spend. You can get into it for $50, but the sky is the limit.

I'd look online for a local club and contact them. Around me, they will bend over backwards to get someone into it.

I did Tcl, but in the Storyserver world and hated it. Ok, we got things done, but it was slow. I believe Tcl wasn't to blame, but that was my only experience with it so I couldn't compare it with and without Storyserver.

I forget about those days until something like this comes up.