RunningInRVA

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How to pull rocks out of pipe in the ground?

My mom has a hole in the ground that she puts her clothes drying hanger in. Like this. The hole in the ground is a 2" or so pipe, set in concrete. The pipe has filled with gravel. Anyone have a tip on getting the rocks out? I can only get so many out using my fingers and then trying to use a set of chopsticks.

Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true?

I found this its the cheapest 10TB Exos drive on Newegg and looking to buy 4 of them. I will be putting them in my NAS that I use for my media library and pc backups. The price I’m posting this is $130, I’m also looking similar Exos drives that are $250 is there a difference? Should I shell up for the more expensive drives?

RunningInRVA,

Make that RAID Z2 my friend. One disk of redundancy is simply not enough. If a disk fails while resilvering, which can and does happen, then your entire array is lost.

RunningInRVA,

That was uncalled for.

Dongle recomendations

I want to get started with home automation, probably based on a raspberry pi (or as of now with my banana pi which is my home server) and either openHAB or home assistant. My goal is, first, to put some temperature/humidity sensors in varous rooms and leak detector in my basement where I had some issues with the main drain. I...

RunningInRVA,

For advice specific to Home Assistant, I would ask their community. It’s fairly active.

RunningInRVA,

Anybody who dresses their car up like a fucking reindeer. Fuck you reindeer car people.

RunningInRVA,

That’s a tough Christmas, brother. Sounds like you are trying your best for a troubled youth.

RunningInRVA,

What’s that girl? Timmy fell down a mineshaft? I’ll go get the Ranger!

RunningInRVA,

Yes, you can, but it needs to be one that doesn’t need a neutral wire (your house doesn’t have them). Not many dimmers do this. Lutron Caseta is what I use, and they are excellent.

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