Recent content by nphx

if Galveston gets old, Kemah nearby has a restaurant cluster and Nasa in Clear Lake is visitiable.

If you have hotel picked out, restaurants that do take reservations i am finding are booked out weeks in advance so try get some slot for a sure thing on some evening or lunch. Midori Sushi in Tokyo (3 locations) is one of my favs. Heading over end of March :)

When leaving israel the inspectors zoomed i on my laptop screws - Yesi had been in there to replace hard drive with an SSD.. but a laptop that seemed to have been opened was their trigger for an extensive process.

... (or other media) to do a faster initialize? I think that's even faster than "write zeros." I have used bad disk recovery tools that look for file handles and data on the drive , if the sector was not overwritten intentionally the repair utility can locate it and recover it. So an install...

on ebay search "sata usb adapter" when you need to use the old drive like as if it was a USB stick. Also that will let you either use it or run a sanitizer: https://www.killdisk.com/eraser.html (like Hilary used) to wipe the drive. From ebay if u can wait for china shipping the usb...

https://www.acwholesalers.com/ i bought from a few times for both DIY and local expert assistance install. They now have a referral program for installers so you can see the pricing of units and the installer does a real service fee on top of that instead of inflating both.

Search "hostel" on booking.com for the area. Many (not all) of these hostels are modern gen x clean efficient and affordable places. Usually the location has a few options with a private bath for a few dollars more.

speaking for a friend who may be an old guy.... plus one one Pickle ball, upscale alcohol treat, gift certificate for nice restaurant in town, and if you can nail an automotive/household/woodworking tool that would do it too. Possibly a Marriott or AA gift card to get them out of the house.

I would facilitate the house buy and have a 1st lien releasable by me or my will or some number of years.... This seems to qualify the intent while protecting it from marital splits or equity pilfering. (if this sounds cold - my good will to ever do it again was evaporated with my nephews drama).

I would see if https://www.car-part.com/ had doors/fender in correct color nearby and contact a local body shop or independant to do the legwork and swaps... and remainder of work. Well .. actually i would DIY most of it.

This place exceeded our expectations: https://theromehello.com/ Great value!

off topic a bit but i found the youtube premium eliminating ads and enabling offline viewing well worth the 11.99 / mo for my use cases.

With at least a year of procrastinating.. engine and tranny is out. A very productive weekend.

I am a DIY person but my prefered supplier is https://www.acwholesalers.com/cooling/air-conditioning-systems.html and they now cooridinate system selection and an installer.

We had interacted with Tesla up til they determined placing the panels on my accessory building was not mainstream cookie cutter. So now we are going a DIY rout , but i am handy and a electrical engineer. DIY materials vs tesla is about 1/3 for power but i opted for 'non grid tie' in DIY since...