Appreciate all the advice! To address the subfloor comment on the other post lol, I did end up pulling up all the self leveler and the original slab. IDK what the flippers did to that floor, but after I got the self leveler off I was able to pull up the slab with my bare hands in chunks, and it was basically gravel in places. I figured that wasn’t a great base for tile, so me and a friend pulled it all up in a couple hours (which was way less time than I thought it would take).

The joists underneath were in great shape though (hell yeah old growth Douglas fir), except for the one near the tub drain that 1. the flippers cut a 12-inch section out of for some reason and 2. had some water damage from their shoddy tub drain install. I sistered all the joists with 2x10s just to be safe though, and also to help level things out. I put blocking in where the clawfoot tub is gonna go, and am currently in the process of putting down 3/4" plywood for the subfloor. Next will be ditra on the floor, and kerdi board on the walls.

As for the plumbing, I think I’ll take your suggestion (and the suggestions of some of the others that have commented) and replace the stuff that’s looking real crusty while the wall is open. I have pretty good access to all that plumbing from the basement, so I don’t think I’ll have to deal with any awkward angles that risk burning the house down lol. And I’m gonna go ahead and reconfigure the tub supplies to come up through the floor. It does look much nicer, and the shower/faucet kit we got for the tub includes the floor mounted supplies, so it’d be a waste not to use them.

I didn’t think the person in the post cares about good waves, I think he cares about hanging out on a beach with a morning cocktail near some surfboards

Eh I already got enough plastic in my balls

Ah ok cool, that was the sort of middle ground option I was missing

Honest question, not necessarily for you but for maybe one of those people that actually understands the registry - how do those people figure that stuff out? Like, do software authors actually publish their registry config, or do people have to decompile/reverse engineer things to figure out what registry settings a given program might use?

I commented to ask why you posted a comment that added nothing to the conversation. The first comment you replied to made a valid comparison to where the laws in question have already been implemented. Instead of engaging with that productively, you rudely dismissed it out of hand.

Maybe that’s an issue with social media and the other apps on children’s phones, and not the phones themselves. So maybe it requires a combination of regulation on social media, plus better awareness from parents, instead of a blanket ban on a technology tangentially related to the problem.

Then why did you comment lmao

Internet searches that have turned up a multitude of other thirty year plumbing veterans scorning CPVC. I’m genuinely interested if you have reasons you like CPVC over the other options.

I see where both of you guys are coming from for sure, but I just wanna make sure I’m covering my bases. If there’s anything there that looks like it’s on its last legs, I wanna get that taken care of while the wall is still open. Some of that blue/green corrosion around the joints looks scary to me, but I don’t have much (any 😅) experience with copper plumbing, so I can’t say for sure.

Lol I think you’re in a very select crowd of people that advocates for CPVC. I hadn’t considered it because it was pretty regularly recommended against in all the research I’ve done so far

Ah right, thanks for the correction!

It’s usually because of all the other bloat running on Windows. Just various background processes on Windows will eat up like 10G of RAM just idling, where most desktop Linux distros I’ve used will use 2-5G idling. Having a few extra gigs of RAM available can make a noticeable difference.

I feel like system calls in the Linux kernel are just more efficient/faster than system calls in Windows. Windows system calls have decades worth of compatibility layers all cobbled together for business reasons, whereas I don’t think the Linux kernel suffers from that same problem.

And that’s not even mentioning the multiple layers of absolute voodoo black magic wizardry that is Vulkan (Linux graphics API) and DXVK (a translation later that translates DirectX calls to Vulkan calls). Those are some absolutely incredible pieces of software, and deserve a ton of the credit as well.

I don’t really think Linux is faster because it just injects noops sometimes though lol. You’d definitely be able to notice if part of the graphics pipeline was just… skipping enough steps to make a noticeable performance difference lol

Edit: correction

To be fair, those bullet points are pretty standard security best practices that any software company should be following.

But like, at the same time, even if AI companies were doing those best practices, I still wouldn’t let their products loose on production systems.

Can you tell us what you think the intention of those outfits are

You think those services aren’t just funneling prompts into the ChatGPT image generator? Lol

Then why did you bring up utilities

Mkay but food isn’t a utility, and neither are cigarettes/cigars/vapes/etc, so I don’t really understand what you’re getting at here

Where’s your line between “keeping the government out of your personal choices” vs. “regulations that keep us safe”? Like, I’m sure you’re ok with regulations that keep poisons like lead, arsenic, etc. out of consumable goods, right?

I kinda agree with the other commenter that said all drugs should be legalized, but also, I’ve had close personal experiences with how addictive and harmful nicotine is, so I can also understand why it would be the target of bans.

middle aged people

associated with the elderly

Oof, right in my middle-aged bones