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I have the rotary power cutter, two of the LED flashlights with the laser pointer, two of the little fans, the screwdriver, one of the handheld desk vacuums, and the little keychain area light.

I am very pleased with all of them. Special points go to the rotary cutter for being great for chopping up cardboard boxes from Amazon and slicing open those cursed clamshell boxes. All of them do their designed jobs admirably and are very reliable. I use them so often, I even bought the three-socket charger for the USB batteries.

Just out of curiosity, are the APs Unifi? Are you running Cisco or Cisco-Meraki?

Yes.

>Backward-Compatible Shape: USB 3.0 Type-A plugs maintain the exact shape as USB 2.0 Type-A, so they mate with older ports (the SuperSpeed pins simply remain unconnected in a USB 2.0 port). Type-B and Micro-B 3.0 sockets are designed to accept older plugs as well, though a USB 3.0 plug won’t fit into a legacy-only receptacle due to its larger pin section.

Source: Amphenol's website

Bottle of water or Gatorlyte, two to four ibuprofen, sleep, gatorlyte and coffee whenever I wake up.

I was wondering this too when I first started needing to work with caulk. Honestly though, I use the DAP squeeze tubes of caulk for one-offs. As long as you uncap it, use it, then re-cap it, it'll keep for several months. I always have at least one each of white and clear tubes for 'just in case' things that pop up and they've always been ready and pliable for use.

The larger tubes that require a caulk gun aren't as easy to preserve, I think the base of the tube where the pusher goes admits air and the curing process slowly burns through the rest of the tube. I've never had any success with trying to cap and store the large caulk tubes.

During the COVID lockdowns, we had to use curbside to pick up groceries. Because of COVID, we had to use my car as the only other vehicle we had was my wife's truck which had suicide doors for the back seat and was not good for pickup.

This only happened once, thank goodness, but on one particularly troublesome run, a small bag got left in the car. We didn't notice it missing either when we put groceries away. Now mind you, we buy groceries on a replenishment basis so we have inventory on-hand and just replenish what we have so it can be several weeks before we do a grocery run. Added to that the fact that both of us were converted to fulltime work from home at our respective jobs set the recipe for disaster.

The most absolutely vile, stomach churning smell that we've ever encountered, was a 1LB ground beef tube that has been sitting in the trunk of a black car during summer for about three weeks.

The smell didn't start off bad, but when the decay continued and the festering heat got going, it went from a slight "Something smell weird to you?" to "oh god I think a rodent died in the dashboard!" finally culminating in a "that's it, I'll take this car completely apart until I find out what that damned smell is!" It got to the point that my wife (who is a pescatarian) gagged opening the door to run an errand so the search was on.

Fortunately I didn't have to go very far. Th cabin was easily cleared (didn't even have to pull the seats out), and the now engorged tube of 'meat' had been located. It had bloated to twice its size but despite the frightening sight, the plastic wrapping held and had not yet hemorrhaged and flew its odorous chunky offal into the trunk. With the source of the smell vanquished, unfortunately the smell was not so easily exorcised. The smell persisted through several airings of the car, both stationary and down the highway at speed. The smell persisted after several cleaners and industrial air deodorizer products failed to do their job. I finally gave in and started searching online and found an ozone generator.

Ozone generators, they save lives, marriages, and cars too...

The reflections in the vehicles is wrong as well.

In THIS economy?! I can't even afford to look at a bar, much less go in and have a drink...

Broke early 2000's me remembers Fazoli's. When you were too broke for Olive Garden but didn't want burgers again...

Nah, they know. They just don't care.

IT Support like frontline support? That's only supposed to be a few years to get your footing, then you advance upward from there. You can go into Sysadmin, then Engineering, or you can go into DevOps or go into a specialty and become a SME on a particular facet of IT within the organization. I wouldn't stay at support for more than a few years before I'd lose my mind.

Now, as far as the profession goes, I'm not sure. I don't think I can retire from IT and I'm not just making a bad joke about the hopelessness of retirement planning. Maybe I'll go into teaching or some kind of mentorship program just to keep me busy assuming I do ever get to retire.

I usually just use my finger or a q-tip if I'm feeling fancy.

Wind? Maybe a mosquito?

That's a parallel port based Iomega Ditto tape drive, used for backup and restore. Back in the day, you could save your entire computer to one tape, then use a special boot disk and CD to restore it from the tape you created. The Ditto 800 was a quarter-inch-cartridge (QIC) compatible tape drive and could store 800MB compressed or 400MB uncompressed data. Yes, MB, megabytes, not gigabytes.

This was a particularly interesting model because it connected to the parallel port (printer port) and it used bidirectional communication to be able to operate backups and restores. The neat thing was that the driver used for this drive was designed in such a way that you didn't have to unplug the tape drive to print, you just hit print and the printer data would go through the tape drive like it wasn't there. When the tape drive software would send data out the parallel port, the tape drive would intercept it and it would operate normally. You didn't need to move cables, you didn't need to switch devices, you didn't even have to install a second printer port card.

my wife's sister's place, it was installed in a kitchen cabinet which was about the furthest point away from either front or back doors and where the bell box was installed.

Once you've had the luxury of ball-bearing rack rails, you'll never go back. Tool-less installations, FTW!

"... What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken?"

I don't think the math is mathing. You'd have to have a dedicated 20A power drop to not exceed the 80% rule and to not exceed the PDU's maximum wattage. I did the math but got all kinds of rabbitholed and rather than quote the NEC 125% rule (NEC 210.20(A) ), suffice it to say you're really up against the envelope with respect to amp draw and amp capacity. I wouldn't recommend doing this on any drop but a dedicated drop for the heater. (I can show the math if necessary, I realize how 'trust me bro' this sounds.)

With respect to the PDU, you'd be better off using a single smart switch rated for appliance loads that you can load tasmota or esphome onto for the exclusive no-cloud local control you're after. I have a 30A PDU and a couple of 20A drops and I wouldn't use a PDU for switching a heater. Not that a PDU couldn't handle it, but it's like taking a maserati to the corner store, absolute overkill.

If you want to test it anyway, make sure you have a Kill-A-Watt or similar current measuring device. Many times, the ratings are for the 'theoretical maximum power draw' of an appliance, not the actual power draw of an appliance. There's a good chance that your heater won't actually need 1500W but you won't know until you measure the live load that the heater pulls when it's running. Similar example, our refrigerator says it's rated for 5A at 120V, but the compressor is an inverter drive which are famous for their lower amp draws. Actual real-world testing shows it's usage is more like 1.5-2A (so 240W) versus its nameplate rating of 600W . I can run the fridge off of a 300W inverter if I needed to.

Whatever you ultimately decide, be safe. This is the part of the year where housefires are common due to circuit overloading. You do not want to find out the hard way.

I can't cook for shit. I'm like Homer trying to get a bowl of cereal and instead it just burst into flames.

Remember, as the owner of a longhaired cat, there is a non-zero percentage of your body mass that is cat hair. The fuzz is unstoppable, the fuzz posesses all!

We used to have a longhaired orange, unfortunately he passed about 8 years ago. We still find random clumps of orange fuzz in weird places to this day! Our cats now are one void, one tux, and two meezers and came after the orange one's passing. We have moved 6 times since then! I bought an almost new truck from a coworker that had no animals at all, two weeks later, boom, orange cat fuzz in the passenger seat.

Each manufacturer does it their own way, but generally an initial detection is done, a timer is started to allow the litter to clump, then the cycle begins. Throughout the timimg and cycle, if the sensors detect a cat, the timing is reset. If a cycle is underway then it is paused until either the cat leaves or the cycle pause is cleared by a human.

All safe catboxes also include a pinch sensor that halts the cycle and reverses the direction for a second to allow a pinched cat to escape. There was a brief period of time when a flood of chinesium auto boxes hit markets but they lacked safeties and pets were killed. (Google "killer cat box", there are several pages and videos out there)

You want to take a look at the auto box and see how it works. Is the chamber where the cat litter goes open or somewhat enclosed? If it ia enclosed, does the chamber turn in such a way where a cat may become trapped or pinched? If so, I'd avoid. Does the machine have safeties like cycle interruption, pinch sensors, or other emergency stop functions?

For usability, does the auto box require proprietary litter, chemicals, or other consumables? How long do they last and how costly are they? Does the auto box require additional connections and does it come with hardware?

As an example, the Cat Genie requires plastic litter and chemical sanitizer in addition to power, water, and wastewater pipes but in exchange you have a catbox that will literally wash and dry itself after every 'visit'. Yes, it has an electric blowdryer.

Anothet example is the Litter Robot, it only needs power, standard kitchen trashbags and genric clumping litter which means it's a lot more flexible and less costly to run, but it does require a weekly maintenance to dispose of the full trashbag, replace it, and add litter to it to reload.

Hm, interesting. Well, I'll be on Jubilee come next year. I'll have to look at it again. I could have sworn it was Ruckus although it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out I mis-remembered the brand. Maybe I've got a wifi scanner screenshot saved somewhere. I haven't had a chance to play with Aruba, but I've heard a lot of good things with their more recent offerings.

Completely agree. Unifi was a six month stopgap between us decommissioning Meraki and shutting down the office entirely. I wouldn't even think of doing a huge deployment like a cruise ship with Unifi. I guess I'm just biased against Meraki, the contract renewal was a bit insane when we quoted for it. Oh well, can't do anything about it now, lol. Our office doesn't exist physically anymore.

Oh good, I'm not the only one that does this. I was surprised to see that the CCL Mardi Gras and the CCL Jubilee are using Meraki. On their previous generation ships (Horizon, Vista,) used Ruckus, while the latest ship in the Vista class used a mix of Ruckus and Meraki.

I wonder why they went with Meraki, when we used it at our office, we got the initial one year service, but after that, we decided to go with a Unifi setup as Meraki was just too expensive for what it offered.

For your next search, maybe the NASA visitors center since you seem to be located in Florida? Port Canaveral is right there too.

The fact that pedophiles, rapists, murderers, abusers, and fraud still exists.