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  • Plank decking is way better than plywood. You replace solid wood with solid wood, unless a ton of it has been compromised. This should be specified in the contract for the roof. You even get insurance discounts for solid wood. If a roofer replaced my boards with plywood or OSB i'd be super angry.

  • That's not right at all, but I can see that it's a tricky spot, and your roof deck is boards instead of plywood... I dunno. If that was the only spot, i'd make them go in the attic and stick some wood in that gap. They can bridge from the other two boards and it won't be great, but it won't be horrible.

    If there are more spots like this, i'd have another legit roofer who specializes in repairs (but ideally not full roofs) come out to inspect. Especially if the spots aren't also obviously small, and difficult to actually add any real sopport. He'll give you an unbiased opinion and tell you exactly what needs to be done to make sure you end up with a good roof, and likely give you an estimate in case you want him to do the work.

    I know a good bit about roofing, and unless the roof was obviously done impeccably except for that, i'd be rather concerned. Sometimes it's best to just leave something alone and not get into another several thousand dollars worth of repair, and I don't know what that area of your roof looked like when he got down to the decking. A good roofer will. It's time to get some outside advice. The municipality where you live also likely has roofing inspectors who have to close out any permits the roofer pulled. You can contact them and they'll be glad to take a.look for free, but you might not get someone with as much knowledge as if you hire someone.

  • And it doesn't work. You have to know an address, and even then sometimes it'll route you to the wrong location. Anyway, that was my experience using it for a few months. About a 20% success rate where I live.

  • Drain cleaners should be used very sparingly, especially if you have any metal pipes. What happens is they stay in the drain aRM and damage it, causing an eventual leak in the wall, or they drip down the vent stack at the intersection of it and the drain arm. That's worse, because when the water does start flowing, it doesn't wash it away, so it stays in the vent stack to corrode it. This is a particularly common mode of failure in houses built in the 50s, and it's costly to fix because you have to rip out relatively large sections of wall.

    Just something to think about.

    Meanwhile, a plumber could have inserted a high quality camera to see exactly what was in there, then dealt with it using the bare minimum of force to not wear your pipes excessively. The cost of fixing the clog isn't necessarily the cost of the fix. It includes the wear you put on your pipes that eventually causes a failure. Maybe your pipes are all great condition pvc and you have nothing to worry about.

  • Absolutely proprietary, which is why you're hearing about bitwarden instead from the linux crowd.

    It's one of the first services I started to selfhost externally. I've not had a single problem with it, and it's easily the best, most useful piece of software I host.

    I'm not sure how 1password works with families, though I see it's 5 dollars a month for 5 members. I can tell you that with bitwarden (and selfhosted vaultwarden) it's super easy to manage passwords for your family through organizations. I have it set up so I have access to all my parents' passwords, and I share access to relevant passwords with my partner, but I don't have to clutter their password manager with hundreds of passwords for random crap they don't need.

  • How does it stay on your device? I'm notified if a contact of mine uses signal. That means if someone has my.number in their phone signal will let them know I use signal. I don't really want someone to be able to confirm that I use a service.

  • If you can.actually get people to switch, you should look into simplex chat. It has a lot of really good features, you can run a CLI application on any servers you might have to send you notifications really easily, and it's being rather actively developed. A quick look at their website will show you how dedicated to privacy they are.

  • Pulling your contacts lets it get a pretty good fingerprint of who you are, from who you talk to. It can already get that from who you actually message, but it's getting a lot more information about you from pulling the whole list and not just who you talk to through telegram.

  • Coat hangars or aluminum wire. Loop for a screw, bend to the shape you want, loop for another screw. Or eye screws and zip ties.

    If you have a well equipped shop, I assume you have old wood laying around. In that case, whatever you end up doing, i'd suggest mounting it to a thin piece of plywood first, and then mounting the plywood to the inside of your closet. You could use a French cleat if you want to be fancy, or just use some pan head screws at the top (and bottom if you're paranoid) and then take them out and drill out the holes in your plywood to just barely more than the size of your screw head. Put the screws back in the wall and use it like a keyhole. Now you don't have to screw around inside your closet when you need to rearrange again. Just pull out the whole panel.