I'm replacing a few hard-wired smoke alarms due to age. the online comments are specific and awful. apparently all smoke alarms still suck?

the First Alert 3120B sounds a tiny bit less awful than the Kidde/Firex i4618AC… but the Kidde has a 1.6 out of 5 on their own site, so that's not saying much?

I don't need a 10 year sealed battery, but I do want an alarm that can go many years on an Energizer Ultimate Lithium battery. the battery is only used for the ~2 hours/year when 120V power is out.

drinking 1 of the 5 bottles of Anchor Steam that I had when Anchor Brewing Company went bankrupt.

farewell Anchor Steam, hello summer.

if anyone knows of an obtainable substitute, I'd like to hear it. is there another lager brewed with ale yeast? Altbier? California Common? I came up empty on Reddit. I'm not into #beer, I just miss Anchor Steam in the summer.

A few people have shared how they use epoxy wire metal shelving as outdoor grow shelves:

https://www.aeorchids.com/orchid-growing-areas/affordable-flexible-benches-mounts-indoors-outdoors/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Greenhouses/comments/1ca9k8d/considering_a_greenhouse/#l0qxagd

I'm about to order one from https://www.webstaurantstore.com/48403/regency-shelving.html?filter=finish:black-epoxy:green-epoxy&multi=true

#urbanag #growyourown #greenhouse

In Seattle, today is tomato planting day #1. The future is bright, or at least warm at night.

#seattle #growyourown

achievement unlocked: drove 400 miles in a minivan without bumping any rigid objects

Here's what an organized Substack / Hacker News plagiarism campaign looks like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164077

#substack

Upgrading to macOS 14.4.1 seems to replace the system's FileVault key, at least when the key is not stored in iCloud.

I just encountered this and there's plenty of other reports: https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1b95aua/filevault_recovery_key_was_updated_after_144/ , https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255547095?sortBy=best

It's not mentioned in the 14.4 docs. Maybe an undisclosed vulnerability?

#macos

@rochelle No. I dine out a lot and I've never encountered this.

Only place I've seen explicit limits is coffee shops, since customers would otherwise "camp" with a laptop all day. Maybe they get parties watching sports on TV or something, though.

I planted seeds of 3 world-class varieties of purple/black heirloom tomatoes - just to give the plants away in about a month.

About 30 germinated. So far, friends have reserved 18. Hopefully these are the best tomatoes they've ever tasted 🙂

I planted these, chosen for taste intensity, yield, and chances of success in Seattle:

Adelaide Festival: https://victoryseeds.com/products/adelaide-festival-tomato

Dwarf Metallica: https://victoryseeds.com/products/dwarf-metallica-tomato

Fred's Tie Dye: https://victoryseeds.com/products/freds-tie-dye-tomato

#growyourown #tomatoes