I am on a well that delivers very hard water causing lime scale buildup in kettles and hard to remove soap scum. I installed a water softener after the lower element in my water heater failed because it was buried in scale.
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I have been using a Husqvarna 240 chainsaw for almost 10 years after my Homelite XL chainsaw finally died. The Husqvarna is lightweight, handles well, has good anti-vibration mounts, and basic safety features. The fuel and oil fillers are on the side, making refilling easy,. It also starts well, until it doesn't.
AWS Serverless provides extensive CloudFront logging. However, the logs are significantly different from standard Apache logs - they are not easy to work with, either for diagnosing issues or analysing traffic.
In the early days of cruising, Internet delivered via satellite used to be slow, expense, and charged by the minute. My strategy was to connect, download mail, disconnect, process mail, and reconnect. Often the minutes would tick away due to poor connectivity.
Once COVID-19 restrictions were over, my wife and I started travelling again. Reports of how Apple Air Tags helped travellers find lost baggage encouraged me to invest in Android alternatives, starting with two Tile trackers (https://www.tile.com/).
I switched my mobile phone from Telus to Koodo because Koodo is cheaper and their self-service website is easier to use - I regularly had to call Telus to enable call forwarding. While travelling recently, I got the usual popups reminding me of how expensive international texts and voice are outside of Canada and offering Easy Roam.
I was intrigued by the Soulpepper/Crow's Theatre production of The Master Plan and purchased Josh O'Kane's Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy on which the play was based.
I often paste information into Excel and use Data -> Text to Columns so that I can manipulate the data. Sometimes I am working on sets of data that required different delimiters, such as spaces versus commas.
I freely admit that I am sceptical of many artificial intelligence (AI) announcements. My first attempt to draft an article on "sponge cities" with references generated reasonable but bland text.