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.

My biggest issue with Tim Sweeny is he’s convinced that Microsoft Windows is not somebody else’s property but rather a camp that’s controlled by its users. Meanwhile he can obviously acknowledge Fortnite and similar are his property.

He seems to use a bad experience with some Linux users as his justification for this massive cognitive dissonance and lack of interest in funding and developing for a truly independent platform (Linux) like Valve has.

Honestly, I’m fine with having another game store compete, but the anti-Linux at nearly every turn is 👎 from me (I mean at least they let EasyAnticheat develop the proton layer… But still).

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.

Oh that would be sick!!

Yes. I donate to various open source projects (e.g., KDE, Sunshine, Dark Reader), the conservation fund, the ACLU, and the EFF.

As for how, I try to do it via their preferred platform on an annual basis instead of monthly (if possible) to minimize fees.

Why? I believe charity is a path towards shaping the world for the better (and I can afford to). Rule #1: take care of yourself before taking care of others.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rjTVmv8p7vo

This song. My freshman year roommate is probably responsible for a million of those plays and he ALWAYS played it at max volume on his laptop.

Either his mom filled out his roommate survey or the university didn’t read them. That was a rough semester.

Indeed

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.

Well those are all historically guys names AFAIK.

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.

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.

Honestly a huge portion of the problem is asshole drivers that just don’t turn off their brights and their fog lights or that tailgate the vehicle right in front of them while their headlights are mirror level.

I’ve seen brand new trucks with LEDs that were so easy on my eyes then I’ve seen the exact same model of truck via rearview mirror only after I passed it because the lights were beyond blinding.

They need to enforce maximum luminosity laws with an iron first; it’s ridiculous that people get away with this stuff.

The memes that I remember being all over Reddit about “where did you get that code … I stole it [from stack overflow]” honestly terrified, and continue to, terrify me.

This comment made me realize the article itself was written by a woman, which kind of surprised me given the era.