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The temps in Houston are now firmly in the dangerous range during peak summer. When you reach a certain humidity and temperature, your body can’t regulate its internal temperature by sweating anymore, you essentially have to have some kind of external input to cool off, that can be cold(er) water, air conditioning, fans (where you can have lower humidity or temperature air blowing over you, or something similar. If you can make changes to your structure, doing a radiant barrier or some kind of false roof (even a solar shade or something that doesn’t block all the sun) over your existing roof to limit the solar heat transfer to your structure can help. If you can get some insulation for the windows, especially if you can get the foil lined version and direct the foil outside, that will also help. Local air conditioning (mini splits or single room units) are often less efficient but if you are just focused on making it tolerable, you can do a single room as a cool down room for less money (upfront and in energy cost) vs a whole house or multi room unit. There are 12v units that can be run on a decent size solar setup like used in RV’s or campers.

The big thing you and a lot of posters are missing is what happens when those parts aren't made anymore. With a standard motor that uses a start capacitor, you can get that cap or motor as a generic part or from another manufacturer, if your modern appliance eats its vfd board now, you can replace it for $$$. If it dies in 8 years, its probably already been discontinued and you are sol even if you wanted to pay for it.

Thanks to better manufacturing techniques, engineering analysis, and the fine humans in management, we have gotten really good at barely building a machine that lasts just long enough to be out of warranty.

I slammed together a cold turkey sandwich for myself and heated up leftovers for kids. Its been a long day.

I once accidentally left the lid off the crock pot that I had started a pork butt for pulled pork just before leaving for work. I came home to 90 degree f pork that was also carbonized to the bottom of the pot. Not a good way to end the day.

The absolute betrayal there was amazing.

Its worth a listen, season 4 just started but you should start at the beginning.

They did for a while, I was going to buy one for self defence but didn’t want to have to explain it to everyone on the news.

If they are non turbo, it should be fine. If they are turbo cars, run premium for the new fuel and use a minimum 3 to 1 ratio of new to old fuel just to be safe. Really, 3 weeks is fine but I don't want to lead you astray and cause problems here lol. I'd run it though.

If you are concerned about it, you can mix 5 gallons at a time in your car with the remainder being fresh gas. I.e. if you have a 15 gallon tank, use 10 gallons of new gas with 5 of old. 3 weeks isn't all that long though, its probably fine as long as you didn't leave the cap off. What kind of car is it potentially going in?

You must not have pets, or children.

How long until the forks get deprecated? Is that even a possibility? I don’t really know what goes into making this but I would imagine if it depends on some chunk of the mozilla source code, eventually it will be out of sync with the major releases or current browser standards. What does that mean for the TOR browser since its based on firefox right? I ask that as someone moving from firefox to libre/waterfox.

Strictly speaking here, something that could be fully repaired by the actual tools I have without just swapping for new purchased replacement parts would probably be one of my guitars. I could essentially make every piece of them from scratch if needed except maybe the pots, caps, and truss rod. I could probably repair the truss rod but making one from scratch would be tricky. If I had an acoustic guitar, that would be an easy answer. It might not turn out well, but I could make it playable again. I could repair anything on my bike, and kayak. I might be able to rebuild my snes on a component level. If you allow replacement parts, almost anything can be repaired of you are willing to spend enough on it.

Hank hill has your back.

Currently playing Hot Wheels TURBO Racing (1999) on the N64 (Analogue 3d). It’s a good little arcade racer and has been fun to hop back into it.

Where did you order it?

If you work with tools or equipment in any fashion, use proper personal protective equipment and don’t skip it. If you work around loud noises, use real hearing protection. Hearing loss is irreversible and cumulative. If you work with anything that makes dust or fumes, get a resparator. You can get nasty allergies from sawdust, griding dust gives you lung cancer and a bunch of other horrible shit. If you work with chemicals, use gloves or whatever is required per the sds. Always wear eye protection, you can’t get new eyes. Take care of your skin, if you weld, wear real covers. Skin cancer on welders is a real thing. Use gloves where safe, and don’t where you are using rotating equipment, degloving is a thing. Equipment can’t tell the difference between flesh and workpieces and it doesn’t care.