shawnwayne
Shawn Wayne
shawnwayne

I find that user forums for certain brands or companies are a great place to look. A lot of manufacturers host their own blogs and forums. Enthusiast forms are great for things like trying to work on a car. I frequent the popular Subaru forums a lot. When that fails, I go to a local Facebook enthusiast group and ask a

Nothing too crazy. Sort of played along with their whole speech, leading them on for a bit, answered a few questions with bogus answers, when the question of what is your social security number came up, that was the end of it I said oh you really think you are getting that from me? I'm not that stupid, but you are,

No love for the Platypus?

No love for the Platypus?

I have like 4 of these in various colors and sizes. Never leaks, can take a beating, and light weight.

I have like 4 of these in various colors and sizes. Never leaks, can take a beating, and light weight.

I don't have any delinquent debt, so when someone called my cell phone asking for my social security number, instant red flag, and I proceeded to mess with them a bit before hanging up and reporting the number to the do not call complaint website.

This is pretty much the first thing I do when I install Swiftkey on a new phone. I like having super fast long-holds to type alternate characters. I have mine set to something like 180ms. I believe you can also change this with the Google keyboard as well.

I know from experience from like 5 or 6 years ago these were the GO TO CPU coolers on the market. Not sure about any more, but with the older first generation Intel Quad Cores they were exceptional.

Yeah that is sort of what I was thinking. I'd rather get behind a distro that has great community support. It sounds like I can easily setup an N+1 array and have it rebuilt easily enough. I know with some Linux distros, you have to manually initiate an array rebuilt through the terminal when you replace a drive. Not

I'd like to have about 6TB of storage, but does Ubuntu support the newer advanced file systems that allow you to expand the volume on the fly without rebuilding it, and does it do checksumming to repair things like bitrot automatically, like what you find in BtrFS, and ZFS, and XFS? I've looked into all of these

I've looked into this along with many other NAS distros that are pretty obscure, but I've heard that the support isn't that great for this anymore, and the community is lacking, and they have moved onto other projects now or whatever and it hasn't been updated in a while. What are your experiences with it most

I feel like I was just asking these same questions a few weeks ago on here! I looked into OpenMediaVault and it seems like a great option with a lot of support.

I live in Wisconsin and I've never seen a single car here with a block heater. I've always been tempted to get one though.

This is all basically what I do to my car to prepare for Wisconsin winters. Not everyone has dedicated winter tires on their cars, but it certainly helps. It is definitely worth the investment. Please don't use summer tires! Even all seasons are better than summer tires, which are useless once the temp drops below 40

Why are 3 out of 5 of these Dyson's? How about mixing things up a bit? They make great vacuums, but damn.

Why are 3 out of 5 of these Dyson's? How about mixing things up a bit? They make great vacuums, but damn.

Unfortunately, it seems like Wisconsin isn't the only state to have signs like this. Depressing and distracting.

He clearly has no idea how to drive. All he had to do was back up into the cleared section of road and go for it. I've gotten my old FWD cars unstuck from places like that before and made it look easy. This guy has no idea.

Here's a top tip from someone living in Wisconsin for 15 years. Get the biggest and baddest snowblower you can afford. At least for around here. Anywhere south you should be fine with a single stage electric model. When we get over 12 inches of snow, having at least a 7-8HP engine and 2 stage can clear pretty much

Quite accurate. 911 for me!

Seriously, just wear what you have, and put more layers on. It's that simple really. Unless it is going to be stupidly cold out, like 0F or something like we get around here, then just use what you already have and cover every inch of your skin. Covering your face, neck, hands, and ears helps dramatically when it's

As someone who has been in Wisconsin for over 15 years, I have to say that layering is everything. Even when I dress for going to the office in the morning, I will usually wear a thin base layer under my work pants to stay warm, because I hate getting cold even going from the car to the office. I hate the cold. If you