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  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can I prevent someone breaking into my car?
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    2 天前

    Either they bypassed the alarm (there’s various hacks for various vehicles, but usually this is rare for petty thieves), or your alarm didn’t go off properly.

    Either way, it doesn’t matter. Thieves are in and out in seconds and nobody except the owner gives a shit about a car alarm going off. You’re better off treating it like your car doesn’t even have an alarm.

    The best way to avoid your car getting broken into is to make it less attractive than the cars around it. That’s not always easy, though, so it’s kind of useless advice.

    I knew people once who always left their car empty. Privacy screen over the trunk/hatch was always open. Glove box was wide open. Ashtray and any places you could store spare change - wide open and obviously empty. They even left the fucking doors unlocked.

    They never got broken into, but it must have been a pain to live like that.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.catoDull Men's Club@lemmy.world•Replaced the bathroom faucet
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    4 天前

    I have the same faucet. If you leave it on very very very slow, it will drip backwards onto the counter.

    I learned this after hearing a funny sound from the bathroom and discovered it had been dripping for hours and had been dripping down the vanity into the drawer which had filled with about half an inch of water.

    Now there’s a glob of silicone under the bottom of the stem so it will drip into the sink instead of onto the counter.

    Stupid fucking faucet.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is your city building a ton of banks and gas stations?
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    11 天前

    High col area means buildings are disappearing and being redeveloped as condos around me.

    Gas stations are slowly dying as the land gets too expensive to justify a low traffic gas station, and increasing EV popularity is further shrinking their appeal.

    Banks seem to be infiltrating stupid places now, like fucking indoor shopping malls.

    There’s nothing like seeing a fucking BANK to make you not interested in visiting an area. If I don’t bank there I will never walk in. If I do bank there I will walk in once or twice a year. Such a shitty use of high visibility retail space.

    One wing of my dying mall is entirely banks, dentists, and cell phone stores. Why would anyone want to stroll through that?

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I peel a hard boiled egg?
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    15 天前

    There’s so much bullshit out there about this “problem”. They’re mostly crap.

    The one thing I found works well is to stop the eggs into an ice water bath and let them cool for at least 10 minutes before peeling. They really seem to hold together quite well almost all the time.

    But nothings guaranteed. I remember some chef on Reddit years ago said you can be as good at peeling eggs as anybody - they aren’t all going to peel cleanly. That’s why when they are peeling tons of eggs in a restaurant (for deviled eggs or any dish where appearance matters), the rejects go into the bowl for making egg salad later.

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