That sounds awfully… financial… in nature.

So technological.

I would love to see the success rate of getting the parents of the child’s friend to set up a matrix client for their child’s one friend that doesn’t use anything they do.

Help your child embrace not needing to be constantly in communication with her friends, to (gasp) use the phone … or accept and monitor the evil empires’ offerings but no matter what you do, don’t for one second think you’ll get a single family to set up a matrix client for “that one kid”.

Another example expanding on my previous comment.

This IP from Hong Kong hit my site over 5,000 times in a couple minutes. The first 12 page loads were legitimate URLs and got served. On their first exploit attempt, they were blocked and the remaining 4,98x page loads were no-effort 403s. This type of thing has made it possible for me to have a cheap public-facing site as I wouldn’t be able to afford an endless array of malicious IPs doing this day in and day out. Before I went this route, I would have to shut the site down during high impact periods of these visitors as they’d corrupt and crash the database.

See the comment under mine for the correct answer(microwave cover).

If you find the model number on the tag, you should be able to order a replacement cover from somewhere like Amazon or similar.

As soon as an IP is determined to be malicious, subsequent pageloads result in a single query to match the IP and they get dumped to a 403 static error.

With the bots that hammer a site looking for the top 1,000 or so exploitable URLs or partake in speed scraping, this has worked wonders for my server load. I catch them in their 1st-5th page load and the rest just result in basically no effort on the part of the script.

What are these “ads” you speak of?

If I didn’t enjoy the cat & mouse of it, I’d definitely walk away from running a site. Just out of curiosity, I created an hourly graph today showing malicious bot, legitimate bot and human ratio graphs for one of my sites. The malicious hits make up around 80% hourly and human hits are usually well under 10%.

I have older in backups but that’s the oldest one in an IMAP folder on my server.

Milner Police Chief Lamar Bunn says he’s done nothing wrong.

I wonder if that excuse would work on him when pulling someone over after retrieving their Flock data.

80 billion? How on earth will he ever get by on the remaining $920,000,000,000 dollars?

The fix should be a fast one. Basically, they’ll likely just shorten the current line, add an elbow and stub it out of the wall at the 90 degrees it should have been from the beginning. They wouldn’t reuse the valve so you’d get a new one in the process.

A proper install would have mounted the elbow to a backing plate in the wall cavity so that the valve can’t move around but at this point!, that would require removing some drywall so a plumber might not do that. Its not something that has to be done but just hold the valve body to support it with one hand as you turn it on or off with the other.

There’s a lot to switching out that valve that could create a whole world of pain for you if you either miss the step or perform it incorrectly.

First, you need to find your main shutoff or the second you try to remove that valve, you will begin filling your domicile with water at a vigorous rate and you won’t be able to stop it until you’ve found and shut off the main.

Second, that’s a PEX line poking out from the wall and it was run like a typical builder-grade no-shits-given without an elbow or transition fitting so any valve you replace that one with will hang the same unless you have the PEX-specific tools necessary to work on PEX line.

I would very strongly suggest that you don’t attempt to tackle this on your own and at the very least consult a plumber or handyperson to give you the specifics for your particular need.

I’d be quite surprised if you didn’t understand the most basic psychology behind some people feeling the urge to downvote something for a reason other than it being something worthy of a downvote.

Not a showerthought.

A fun little doc about your selected shipper(USPS), their corruption and pursuit of profit.

A postal worker is harassed and fired for standing up to a toxic culture. His son’s powerful documentary exposes how the USPS was systematically dismantled for profit — at the direct expense of the people who keep it running. A gripping true story of courage, corruption, and a system that turned on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsP1Gngd4w

It’s free, open-source, and just a little chaotic.

Chaos is exactly what I’m looking for in something I have to use a multitude of times daily.

I would like to be the first to thank them for this move. It’s going to do wonderful things for the Fediverse.

I’ve used desktop Linux as my primary operating system since the early 90s. I currently use Mint.

No, you don’t need to make a switch if it does what you need.

You’re doing great, this is just the process :). If you used a standard wood glue, you’d be best off sanding it as it’s more durable than the drywall that it’s bonded to. You can try some vinegar and a plastic scraper but just be sure not to dig into the wall.

If you want to sand it, you can buy what looks like foam rectangle blocks at the hardware store that has the abrasive built onto it’s edges. They’re pretty handy to keep around the house for projects. Once you get as much off as you’re able, you can fill any divits or dimples with the putty I mentioned prior then either sand or wipe with a wet cloth.