Probably better to just keep it. Probably.

Interest rates haven’t changed much since 2021 (they may even be higher?). Unless your credit score has massively improved to potentially secure a lower rate on a new finance, it’s probably not going to be any better than the 7.59 you have now.

Do you think you could sell your HRV for $16,000 in a private sale? Even at that, you’d be breaking even with the payoff, and the replacement would be 100% out of pocket (or a new finance at whatever current rates are).

Do you have your eye on something already as a replacement? If so, how much would it cost? Do you think you could tack that amount (or part of it) on to the $16K sale price of your HRV to help pay for it?

Ultimately, those are only things you can answer. I’m more of a play it safe /devil you know person, so I would probably just stick with it but pay extra on principal to help pay it down quicker and reduce interest on the loan.

Trump:

I’m only commenting this just to see if I’m right, but maybe an air quality monitor?

Probably civil service or non-profit.

I swore I would never work for a large corp ever again after I went non-profit. The culture is totally different and not soul crushing.

And I’m avoiding visiting Canada because I know I won’t want to come back.

Any Canadians feel like adopting a middle-aged American manchild?

Good to know. Yeah, definitely a great start.

The 360 doesn’t suspend, so unless you leave it on you’ll be doing the exploit a lot.

With its capacative power button and where I have it placed, my dogs are really really bad about hitting it with their noses and powering it on/off 😆

I can’t watch the video right now, but my interest is piqued.

Is “hacked” being used in the “uh oh” way or used in the “useful jailbreak to run homebrew software” kind of way?

Hopefully it’s the latter since my OG Xbox’s usefulness increased 1,000% after running the MechAssault save file hack to softmod it.

That’s a lot of lead. Damn.

Were those samples from water drawn straight out of the well manually or did the test sample go through your pump/pipes? My main concern would be that the groundwater is contaminated with lead rather than the lead leeching from somewhere in the topside system.

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water

Basically:

• It’s safe to shower in
• You may be able to filter it out
• If I was buying a house, and the water tested that heavily for lead, I’d remove it from consideration.

Kind of a two-fer right there. Without “AI” sucking up so much power, we’d already be better off climate-wise.

Would be nice so I can set my automod to just look for the labels instead of having to nuke it all by hand.

It will automatically if the target site doesn’t block the request (Cloudflare, rate limits, etc). Per community rules and best practice, the original article URL must always be the post url; uploading a thumbnail will override that (currently).

Once LW updates past 0.19.6 or so, there should be a field for custom thumbnail where you can do so (in addition to the post URL). I don’t know how the rules apply to that (not yet relevant for LW), but I would hope people wouldn’t abuse that to post unrelated images. Prob something to bring up to the mod team once LW updates to a version that supports custom thumbnail images during post creation.

IMO, just drop the original link. If the thumbnail works, it works. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.

Right? It’s refreshing to see a post here that’s about technology that works for us rather than yet another article about AI being shoved into more places that no one asked for or development progress updates on the Torment Nexus.

More posts like this, please.

Oh, nice! The Xiao seed, unlike the Heltec’s I have, comes with 8 MB of PSRAM which makes it suitable for acting as a store-and-forward node.

May have to pick up at least one of these since that’s one thing I’d like to add to the mesh I’m putting together.

…willl cost the typical US household more than $1,200 a year…so far.

I mind my own damn business. That’s my view.

Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day is probably the most accurate portrayal of me ever written.

I flat-out refuse to do business with any that requires I use an app. I won’t even scan a QR code for a restaurant menu; that’s my cue to go eat elsewhere.

If one server is misbehaving, then they get defederated.

If the instance the spam is originating from is nothing but spam, yeah. Most instances only defederate from another as a last resort and/or if the offending instance is a total lost cause or dedicated to spam/trolling/etc.

Is there anything about Lemmy’s architecture that will prevent this problem?

Yes. Applications for new registrations assuming admins can be arsed to turn them on. It won’t 100% prevent it, but it will reduce it by probably 90%.

Most spam on Lemmy comes from instances with open registration (ones that do not require an application). Lemdro.id is probably the biggest offender and pain in my side. Email verification and CAPTCHAs are not effective barriers. They may slow down spam signups, but do absolutely nothing to stop them.

Instances that have 24/7 admin coverage do okay with allowing open signups (again, without application approval) and keeping spam to a minimum; some still slip through, but they’re usually quickly dealt with due to having an admin available 24/7. Instances with round-the-clock admin availability are rare, though.

Instances without 24/7 admin coverage (roughly 99% of them) should, IMO, NOT have open signups and require applications. Some spam may get through, but the admins can at least have eyes on new registrations.

Intellectual curiosity: Encouraging critical thinking is essential. Without it, individuals risk being swayed by narratives that don’t hold up under scrutiny.

I’m convinced this is why “AI” is getting shoved down our collective throats so hard.