She walks home from school and I'd like to be reachable without handing her a phone for another couple of years. Requirements: calls and messages to a short list of numbers only, location, no browser, no app store, no…
One litre glass press, 70 g coarse, water just off the boil, stir at one minute, plunge at four. At four it tastes weak and a bit sour, so I tried eight and got something drying and harsh at the back of the throat. I…
Five months since I came back from burnout leave. I'm in bed by ten, asleep quickly, up at eight, and by eleven in the morning I'm ready to lie down again. The GP ran bloods and everything came back normal, which I'm…
I've been on 40kg for five weeks. 3x5 at 40 is hard but doable, and 45 is a wall, I get one rep and the second stapled me last Tuesday. That's a 12% jump and it's obviously too much, but the smallest plates in this gym…
Different people, same shape. Six good months, then I start finding them irritating over small things, then I go quiet and busy until they end it, and I feel relieved for a fortnight and awful after. I am 33 and I would…
About 1,100 sq ft of unfinished basement, concrete floor, humid climate, no standing water but the joists have started to smell. The 22 pint unit I bought last year runs almost continuously and holds it at roughly 62%,…
Magnesium, zinc, iron, a multivitamin and a calcium tablet, all at once with coffee, because that is the only routine that has ever stuck for me. Bloodwork showed low ferritin so the iron is the one that genuinely…
Signed a design partner in March. Ops lead at a 40 person logistics company. Weekly calls, extremely engaged, gave us a detailed spec for a bulk import plus approval flow we didn't have. We built it. Six weeks,…
Shoulder season backpacking in the mountains, nights around 0C/32F. Budget is roughly $250 350 and I'd like to stay under about 900g. Last trip I borrowed a bag marked "0C" and shivered from 2am onwards, so clearly I…
Three sessions a week, rings and a bar, everything logged. Strength has genuinely moved: dips with 10kg added, first clean chin up hold: but the tape measure says 33cm on my upper arm the same as it did in November. I…
My current car has an inspection due in about two months and I already know it will not pass without more money than it is worth. I get roughly one free weekend a fortnight to go and look at things, buying used, private…
Heavy clay, about six hours of direct sun in summer, and the only tool I own is a spade. I want to eat something this year rather than spend the season building infrastructure. Budget is roughly 150 for everything…
I own all four and currently pile them all into the evening because I read somewhere that actives are night things. Skin is oily combination, no irritation, but also nothing is improving after about four months, and I…
I shoot most weekends, I know the exposure triangle cold, and my images are technically fine and completely forgettable. I can look at work I admire and see that it is different without being able to say what the…
Third pair I've darned and every time the patch ends up as a stiff coin about the size of a 10p that rubs a blister after a couple of hours of walking. I'm using a darning egg, standard darning yarn, weaving over and…
8B model, Q4 K M, so everything should be on the GPU. says 6.9GB on the card, which matches what I expect. But the process RSS is 5.4GB. On a 16GB box running two other things, that is the difference between fine and…
I checked about forty phrases around the problem I want to solve. Almost all of them come back in the 10 100 band, a handful say zero, and the only high volume terms are generic ones that big software companies already…
About to move four sites off a shared plan onto a small Hetzner cloud instance, mostly because the renewal went silly and I want to stop being repriced every year. I'm comfortable in a terminal but I have never run a…
Regulated utility. Payout ratio against earnings is 62 percent, which looks comfortable. But operating cash flow minus capex is negative most years and the dividend is being paid alongside new debt issuance and share…
Clutch is slipping badly on hills. Quote is 1400 including a dual mass flywheel. The car is otherwise sound: no rust, tyres are six months old, timing belt done at 150k, brakes fine, passed its last inspection with no…
Falling asleep is easy, usually within ten minutes. Then almost every night I am fully awake somewhere between 3 and 3:30, not anxious exactly, just completely alert. I lie there, eventually start thinking about work,…
It runs a camera timelapse script and I only reach it over SSH. It stays reachable for three to six hours, then vanishes: ping fails, the mDNS name is gone, nothing. The script keeps writing image files the entire time,…
Front loader, roughly 600 cycles by my count, throws a drain error and then trips out mid cycle. Drain pump and filter are clear, I checked both. Tech says main control board, 240 for the part and about 90 for the…
The ring first appeared at about 15cm across and is now maybe 22cm over roughly two months. It is directly below the bath, dry to the touch, and there is no smell. Nobody has taken a bath in that tub since we moved in…
Agreed £600 flat for what was described as a five page site. Three weeks in it's eleven pages, two rounds of copy rewrites I didn't quote for, and now they want a booking form. I've done roughly half the work. I don't…