How old are they? We bought an LG TV 1 or 2 years ago and it has a lot of online features and keeps prompting me to make an account and accept various terms and conditions for their advertising or to let them listen to the microphone and such. I think it’s mostly optional but they don’t make it easy to opt out

FTL. At least until you’ve beaten the game several times

Me too, and I remember in the mid 2000’s before flat screens took off the biggest CRT you could get was 36", or there may have been a 40" but it was ultra expensive. One thing though is that the wider aspect ratio of modern tvs inflates the size number if you were to watch 3:4 aspect shows on a modern tv you are losing a bunch of viewing area on the sides.

Regardless, modern tvs are indeed insanely huge, and I’m loving it.

I think they are actually molasses flavoured toffee if it’s the ones I’m thinking of. Always left to the very last, only to be consumed in the more dire of candy draughts

If the reaction of the kids who come to my door is any indication the best is ring pops. You can sometimes hear kids shouting to other ones down the street “hey, this place has ring pops!”

Worst: those molasses toffees with the orange/white/black wrapper

It’s measuring the distance to your nearest copy of Sid Myers alpha centari

Check with your credit card if you bought it that way. A lot of them offer warranty extensions that can double warranty length (up to an extra year). I’ve used it before once for a camera and it’s a bit convoluted but it works. I think the process for me was to call the credit card company to confirm it would be covered, then getting a repair estimate from an authorized repair place. Then they either approve it and pay for the repair or pay you the original value if the repair would cost too much.

Here in Canada at least they have both at the moment. You can use the drive thru as usual or order through the app and give them a code at the drive thru or just park in a numbered spot and have them bring it out to you without ever talking to someone

Stone cold classic

Looks good, and I never would have thought to have my cutlery 69 but now I see the brilliance of it if the spacing works

Mathias Wandel on YouTube made some good videos a few years ago about maximizing airflow through a house with fans. One big finding was that rather than having a fan directly in a window or door pointing out it is actually best to have it a few meters away and directed at the opening. That allows the fan’s airstream pull in and start moving much more air in the room out the opening. He used strips of paper hanging in doorways around the house and also I think took anemometer readings to get good measures of the airflow.

I think the general theory is to run the fans starting in the evening once the air temp outside is lower than inside, then close up the house in the morning to trap the cool overnight air?

https://youtu.be/1L2ef1CP-yw?si=aLTlAMKv_3p3ri2q I think he may have made multiple videos on the topic

Thanks, now I’m thinking about two different classic Canadian movies, Canadian Bacon and Men With Brooms

Newsgroups go over an encrypted connection so no need to mess with VPNs and torrent boxes etc. subscribe to one or two nzb sites, a news group host and wire it up with somarr locally.

Just wait until you find out about news groups 🤯

Vanishing Point

Yeah I was thinking leather

The removal of borders on buttons. I don’t know how many times I’ve been using a piece of software and haven’t realized for a long while that some icon is actually a clickable thing and not just some UI decoration or something.

The removal of text in favor of icons. I hate having to memorize what all your icons mean in your app. Please just make text unless it’s something insanely obvious. It’s even worse when they neglect to put tool tips to tell you what the icon is supposed to mean

Windex is one of those Paul sellers tips/suggestions :)

I bought diamond stones for sharpening and just used windex or whatever cheap offbrand stuff I could find and it worked well. I’m not sure what one would use with traditional sharpening stones.

For glue just standard yellow wood glue is fine for most purposes (Lepage brand I think?). Titebond is good too though more expensive, and they have different varieties if you need water proof glue or whatever.

I never did get a hand brace. I think Lee Valley Tools might sell one but yeah it was expensive and for most purposes I’m fine with just my electric drill. For those traditional braces I think they also require a matching bit since they don’t have a standard chuck so watch out for that I guess. Brace and bit always seemed cool to me but I could never justify the expense of getting into one, nor did I ever come across a good deal on a used one that had a bit as well.

1. Since you can’t sharpen hardened saws they are basically disposable. If you are just trying out the hobby or aren’t going to be making somewhat heavy use of a saw then it’s probably fine. If you are in it for the long haul then getting a saw you can sharpen will save money over time.
2. I don’t think I’ve heard of unsharpenable chisels before. The saws that can’t be sharpened usually call themselves impulse sharpened or something. Are these chisels referred to with the same terminology?
3. I think dovetail saws are just especially fine and thin. I don’t think you need one specifically unless you are doing a lot of small, fine dovetails.
4. Lots of people advocate for the number 5 plane but l, like Paul Sellers find a number 4 more comfortable for most things. I have a 70s Stanley number 4 and a Veritas 5 1/2. I also had a Stanley number 5. The 5 is quite heavy which can be nice if you want to utilize its mass to really throw it through some thick shavings or rough cutting. But for lighter work and just general smoothing, edging, and chamfering the number 4 is just very pleasant. Not too heavy or ungainly, and easy to maneuver. The 5 has its place but I wouldn’t want to use it for most jobs unless I needed the length for flattening something or the mass to help me muscle through something.