Ahh, yeah, maybe. Looked like exposed copper to me but it might be covered.

All good then!

Top right… Wire that comes from the top of the left breaker probably used to go to the right breaker is hanging in mid air. That’s the one most likely to change someone’s life.

Wired it. I fortunately have attic access over that part of the house. Getting frustrated when a wireless inevitably stops working for some reason was not something I was signing my future self up for.

Stupid one but it fits: added a third switch to my kitchen lights (aka four-way switch).

There are three rooms adjacent to my kitchen: family room, foyer to the front door, and hallway to the bedrooms. Only two of those exits had switches. Anytime you entered or left the kitchen by the foyer you’d have to go to one of the other corners of the kitchen to turn off/on the lights.

Minor inconvenience, granted. But if you’ve got a baby in one arm and a diaper bag on the other and you go to walk out the front door, you’d have to turn around, walk through the kitchen to one of the other lights, turn it off, and walk back across and out. The flow was all messed up. Three exits, three switches.

Think about the flow of your house. Where can it be made to reduce effort and friction? Even where you keep things. Dust pan in the closet at the end of the hall? Maybe instead keep it next to the garbage where you’re more likely to need it.

Pretty sure that’s their whole game. More projection, I guess. sigh

Beautiful. Fuck dog and parent… never had a graph make me well up with tears.

I choose to believe.

How long until the meeting content is condensed into a score that is used on performance reviews?

“Well, Bob, you’re a diligent worker and your output is on par with your peers, but your Teams Meeting Quality Quotient is sub par. Among other things the Facilitator™ has noted a tendency to not use the entire allotted meeting time, and that the actions it automatically identified aren’t being marked complete on the Teams AI Task Board. That looks really bad. It also says your meetings have 12% higher off topic content than your peers citing an increase to 15% correlating with March Madness. Though it is notable that the 60/40 split of male/female voices speaking is above the company mandate of 70/30, so that’s good.”

Your characterization of a rational, well adjusted individual not broadcasting premeditated violence is logical. However, a rational person would not make threats toward an internet stranger by telephone. That disqualifies this individual from rational which is why I would consider them extremely dangerous. After seeing Jan 6 participants get pardoned and a 24/7 feed of “us vs. them” propaganda, rationality as a constraint is off the table. That alone should scare OP. Indeed, should scare us all.

Dangerous logic to assume escalation isn’t likely. If this person gets frustrated enough or gets radicalized enough OP will be first on their list.

ITT: “Probably just a harmless troll”

In any other time in my life I would have agreed. However, the amount of delusion that has infected a great number of our populace means you need to take this seriously. A few more weeks of paranoia and propaganda and this person might just decide it is their holy duty to act.

Others have said arming yourself and increasing home security. That gets you to 50/50 odds in an actual confrontation, imo. Better than nothing.

Also agree with others that the police will be useless until it is time to draw a chalk outline around someone. If you can afford it, it might be time to get a lawyer involved. Rule of law isn’t completely dead at the working level and properly applied pressure from the judiciary might prompt action by authorities. At least it might force some sort of discovery that could enable additional actions.

Good luck.

Don’t you dare suggest FreeCAD.

I have a Hope/Hate relationship with FreeCAD. Sometimes I can get it to do something useful and I get hopeful. Then I try to do something simple and ruin the entire design and have to start from scratch and I curse the developers lineage for all of time. I want it to be great, and it is closer than it has ever been. But it isn’t a replacement for professional design suites.

You’ve convinced me that we need more users given the high number of current posters who like to criticize others with insults reminiscent of a bratty 5th grader. We need to dilute that voice.

That’s a very capitalist take. Remember how good things used to be? That’s how good the Fediverse is now. We don’t want it to grow or die. If it grows, great. If it doesn’t, great. Quality over quantity, imo.

OpenAI marketing > MIT analysis, apparently

Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.

Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.

The temu tacti-gear is a nice touch. Can’t even SS properly.

Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.

A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.

If they had a secret/method/process they’d use it to get rich instead of fleecing people.

the impression I get from the media

I think this is the issue the OP is trying to point out. There are many more silent, responsible gun owners than nuts.