Installed an All American RO from US Water Syatems. Been pretty happy with it, no issues in 2 years and their how-to videos and customer support is excellent if you want to install it yourself. Even bought one for my parents house. The 6 stage version includes a remineralization step, they call it Livation.

“Lead is awesome” - Romans

A lot of times I’ll get gaps when cutting a side too short. Now I’ll try sneak up on the line with a few cuts and dry fit it in between.

A stop block on a miter saw or miter gauge can help get repeated cut lengths better than a pencil line.

The hand tool alternative is a plane and shooting board. Might need a dedicated 45 deg jig or donkey’s ear depending on the size of your pieces.

Somewhat unrelated, but you can get a cable protector to conceal the power cord a bit.

“Correo de las brujas” translates to “the witches’ mail” and means gossip or rumors. Kind of like “heard it through the grapevine” or a “a little birdie told me”

Nice shot. Loved the Olympus micro 4/3 line, really fun cameras and super light.

Is the 401k plan from your previous employer? I’d first check if your plan admin will let non-active employees take loans out. Otherwise, if it helps your decision, the interest accrued from a 401k loan goes back into your own account, so it’s like you’re paying yourself interest. The main pitfall would be making sure you can pay it back on the agreed upon schedule, otherwise you get penalized. Also, while your money is removed from the market, you’re technically losing out on potential growth, but sounds like you’d benefit more from having access to the money now.

Honestly, if it were me and it would set me up for a career and I probably would do it and just make sure to contribute as much as I can to my retirement once I’m able to. Some alternatives would be a credit card or retailer with a fixed fee pay-over-time feature or a 0% interest intro offer. Failing that, you may just to get creative (sell things, pick up some side gigs, etc.)

Oh really? That’d be welcome news. I’ll have to try it again. I tested it yesterday and got an Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender from my sender email account’s mailer daemon.

For email, I landed on Tuta as being the closest in feature parity and signed up for the €3/mo plan. Been pretty happy so far and was pleasantly surprised to see both the email and calendar apps were available on F-Droid. Personal bonus for me was they also run on renewable energy.

So far the only con I’ve found was lack of support for +aliases (e.g. name+alias@tuta.com) but the 15 additional email addresses help to offset that.

Yep, I’m starting to shift more of my online time to fediverse apps. I agree that it’s refreshing to see the internet back in the hands of regular people who just want to create, share their interests, and be entertained.

Compare that to corporations who just want to extract as much value from you, keep you addicted to scrolling by tuning their algorithms to feed you polarizing news, and track and sell your personal data. The last straw was seeing these billionaires change their company cultures overnight to kowtow to the current administration.

I remember the internet in the late 90’s and early 00’s. The fediverse gives me a little bit of that nostalgia vibe. I hope it stays active and gives people an alternative to the walled garden dystopia companies have turned the current internet into.

yeah, I’m actively avoiding products that tout AI. It’s a worse experience and my data gets used to train some model for some company’s enrichment.

Apple Intelligence too. Thankfully you can still disable it

Yep, did the same. Started using Tuta for email, solid privacy and UI, app available on F-Droid, and the bonus for me was them being powered by renewables.

The language in the tweet was telling, i.e party of the “little guys” and tagging the president for visibility. You can’t turn a blind eye to all the other destabilizing things this admin is doing just because they made 1 semi-competent cabinet pick (which should be the baseline expectation).

After digging around, I’m going to try Tuta for email/calendar and Mullvad for VPN. Tuta’s €3 plan lets you have 15 additional addresses and 3 custom domains.

Anyone using a good proton drive alternative?

You can still cancel your subscription so that it won’t auto-renew in 2 years and it let’s you leave a comment when doing so if you want to voice any concerns.

America’s magic bean market is in turmoil after a Chinese company unveiled a competing bean that’s less than one tenth the price but still just as useless.

😂 First line got me. Bookmarking the Beaverton

Thanks for sharing, will check it out

Very disappointing. Been a paid Proton user for over 5 years and now looking to migrate. The supposed party of the “little guys” also nominated an FCC chairman who gutted net neutrality and whose court appointed judges and FCC chairs blocked the Biden admin’s attempts to reinstate it, but yeah both sides are the same. Say nothing of the other egregious policies that clearly benefit the wealthy at the expense of the average citizen.

Proton is supposedly neutral, yet blatantly praises the party in power while denigrating the other. Privacy is a political issue and the party you’re aligning with has a track record of eroding freedoms so even the non-apology doesn’t square.

Exactly and it is so blatantly obvious I can’t imagine anyone would believe that statement. The three richest people are literally standing behind him on day 1.

Same. Just cancelled and cited these statements praising the GOP as the reason. Vote with your voice and your dollars.

Filing for bankruptcy in Delaware where they were incorporated

https://investors.canoo.com/news-presentations/press-releases/detail/159/canoo-inc-announces-chapter-7-bankruptcy-filing