You don’t need an epoxy of any sort for this … just a grinder, some more mortar, and a joiner.
This is just something that happens with masonry after decades.
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You don’t need an epoxy of any sort for this … just a grinder, some more mortar, and a joiner.
This is just something that happens with masonry after decades.
One thing I’ve learned since becoming a home owner ~5 years ago… There’s a lot of stuff on the Internet that tries to get you to a point of hysteria.
https://www.premiumwaterproofing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/stairstep-cracks.jpg
https://www.du-west.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/bulog1-1920w.jpg
This is the kind of stair step crack you need to worry about. It’s a big gap, many blocks, etc. It’s a sign part of your foundation is sinking.
What you have is a block missing some mortar and a crack below (which can happen if water gets into the block … which happens when you’re missing mortar). You can have someone look at it, but I think an honest contractor would tell you “get it repointed or do it yourself, keep an eye on it.”
That just looks like weathering. I have some similar cracks (… that I really do need to get to sooner or later…), it just needs repointed to prevent further water intrusion (take out the old mortar and put new mortar in).
I would not bother your insurance company with this.
This headline seems way weaker than necessary BBC.
Sudan civil war: Women raped by paramilitary fighters
Actually, I guess that’s not the headline, it’s just the post title.
FYI as someone that’s colorblind these captcha’s don’t seem to have anything specially relevant to being colorblind in them.
Now if they start showing me a dozen traffic cones and asking me to pick the green one, we might have a problem.
The latest few reports have linked even mild drinking to increased cancer risks.
WebKit based browsers like GNOME Web do still exist and do a reasonable job. That’s funded by Apple though so…
For me it’s a mix of what you said and how they treat their employees/where they’re making the product.
I spend extra time trying to find higher priced, higher quality, more fairly manufactured products.
ClamAV is mostly for filtering things on mail servers or uploads to a shared resource like a wiki.
You can also use it as a system virus scanner, but most viruses it detects are Windows viruses.
What companies use Kaspersky?
Isn’t this mostly a consumer level issue?
Yeah, IDK about that. Nobody in Ohio cares about NYC’s layout anyways.
I’d settle for first party repair and a repair window of up to 20 years.
Modification is great and should always be legal… But I’d take the win to get away from so much throwaway technology.
Well those are all historically guys names AFAIK.
Not as complicated, but the parts are bigger. Few would want an even bigger smart watch just to get repairability.
Can’t comment on the DOCSIS, I don’t know enough about it to not be making stuff up.
Regarding WiFi though… The simple answer is if you’re not having trouble accessing the WiFi in the places you use the WiFi and you’re getting the full speed that you’re paying for, there’s not a ton of a reason to upgrade the router.
The exception to this is that most routers only get a few years of security updates like most phones… That can potentially leave your network more vulnerable as the router might not properly block unsolicited traffic from making it to your devices. There’s a solid argument that you should just have your devices secured via their own firewalls though.
The Google routers are nice for the average Joe because they just kind of work and keep themselves updated (and Google tends to keep the hardware they sell under the Nest name receiving security updates a VERY long time compared to the competition). Netgear has been my go to for years but their update mechanism is … fairly manual in my experience.
I’ve since moved to having a pfSense box for the firewall and routing side of things and using my old negate router in access point mode (I’m much less concerned about this setup).
I’ll add that I don’t recommend WiFi for gaming… And that most people have more download speed than they really “need.” Files really haven’t gone up in size much (sure games have) but evening else… meh (?). Video streaming is more popular but unless you’ve got a lot of people in your home or you stream at 4k, it’s really not going to be that noticable between 30Mbps and 1Gbps. So like, by all means if you don’t want to spend money, don’t… you’re probably fine.
They definitely could’ve been Proton, but they’ve just constantly played follow the leader into obscure things like making a new operating system instead of useful products.
Even when they do make something useful, it’s normally tied to Firefox in a “you MUST use Firefox” kind of way, which is just so unnecessary.
Honestly it just feels like so much stuff is car hostile at this point… Like I went to leave a store the other day and I couldn’t clearly see oncoming traffic because the shrubs were too high and right next to the road.
I wish I could say that was a really uncommon experience.
TIL acron is anacron an asynchronous cron like tool and not a typo.
Edit: FWIW systemd timers can do both behaviors. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers section 4.2