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I'm stuck using an older version of Adobe suite due to $$$, and my phone takes HEIC images, but my photoshop version doesn't know what they are. I know I can change the setting in my phone to take JPGs, but HEICs are better quality for the size. So instead, I'd love a quick and easy way to convert an HEIC to a TIFF.

There is an alt-click > Quick Actions > Convert Image option, but that brings up a menu that only lets me pick a few options like jpg and png. Tiff is what I really want.

I can probably make an applescript that uses Preview to do this conversion. But applescript is such an awful languages, I hate using it.

I haven't ridden out here since last summer, I'm wondering what the state of the path is. Last year, the section from route 20 to the power plant near the wayland/sudbury line was fully overgrown with rails in place. Is it like that right now or have enough people been riding the path, that you can actually get through it now? I'm not on a skinny tire bike so bumps aren't a problem. But a solid impenetrable wall of brush is.

I always try to run out of gas before I need to take a carb off, but it seems like I always fail. Right now is no exception, my tank is completely full and I need to open up the carb and see whats going on in there.

So my question is simple, whats a good way to spill as little fuel as possible? Something I can jam in the end of the hose that will seal it up well enough. I've used needlenose plyers before. They kinda work, but only kinda.

I'm fixing up this old lawnmower. I started it up first thing and it ran ok, but the fuel line and carb were leaking. Basically everything that was rubber was crumbling.

So I replaced the fuel line and tried to replace the needle valve seat. But I was having problems so I just replaced the whole carb since new ones are cheap.

So now I have new fuel line, new carb, new fuel, new oil. Spark plugs and air filter look brand new.

Yet when I start it up now, its doing major surging. Like 2 seconds of normal running, then almost stalling. Normal running, stalling. It doesn't actually stall but it is running terrible.

Not sure what to try next, any ideas? Defective new carb? Something else entirely?

When you restart an iphone, it is in a state where you MUST use the passcode to get in. FaceID and TouchID won't work, UNTIL you enter your passcode.

Is there something I can say to siri that will put my phone into this passcode-only state?

For example if law enforcement wanted to look at my phone, can I say something like "Hey Siri Lock Phone"? And before anyone realizes whats up, the phone is now locked to passcode only?

I'm a week away from my 4th year going hard with my primary channel. It really is a struggle. Making and editing videos is so time consuming. And its not like I'm bad at it. I'm quite good, I work fast, its just a shit ton of work turning 7 hours of raw footage into a 1 hour video.

My focus has shifted over the years. From a lot less of the thing that I thought was my primary content, to a lot more of what I thought was my secondary content, because thats the only stuff people watch.

I do get views, and I am making about $200/mo, which is nice and all.... but this has been a shit load of time and effort for such low numbers.

The thing about my channel, is that it NEVER grows in big bursts. Its always been, from day one, an incredible slow, glacial growth. And the kicker is that, my content is good! If you compare my old stuff to my new stuff, my new stuff is SO much more polished, and watchable, and still very informational.

I have a bunch of videos I need to make through the rest of this year, machines I need to fix up and sell, things I need to build. So once I make it through all of that, I'll probably take a break and let my library of videos 'simmer' for a while, while i work on other non-youtube things. It is kind of disappointing.

Oh i forgot to mention the 1-2 year pickup. So many of my videos, almost all of the repair type videos, get the initial couple hundred views, then sit idle for a full 1 to 2 years, then like clockwork, suddenly they start getting tons of views. Which means all of those good videos I made last summer, won't start getting views until probably next spring. Its not just a few of my videos that experience this delayed success, its nearly all of them. Its weird. Its not something I generally hear about in here.

Welp, I'm not posting this to fish for sympathy or to tell a sob story. Just telling how the first 4 years have gone for me. Definite progress, but at a snails pace. Its a shame I'm not more successful because I like making these videos, it would be a fun way to make a living. My current video is hung up because a lawnmower part got lost in the mail and I'm going nuts waiting! 😃

I currently drive an 18 year old 5.3L Chevy Trailblazer.

I wouldn't want to go bigger. I wouldn't mind going a little bit smaller, BUT I need the capabilities of the mid-size. Towing capacity, load capacity, rear wheel drive solid rear axle (plus part time 4WD). I have two trailers I two periodically and I often carry lots of cargo in the back.

At one point, I was considering a Jeep (not Grand) Cherokee Trailhawk. Its small but I think I could get by with the size. It looks rugged.... but thats just looks. Its still a front wheel drive based awd suv. its a car pretending to be a truck. Plus jeep has a bad reputation for reliability.

So the Cherokee eventually was out. And the reliability issues has pretty strongly pushed me off of a used grand cherokee too.

The only other options I can think of are:

Jeep Wrangler - Its probably better if I just walk to where I'm going

Ford Bronco - They're so unpleasant looking. And they have leaf springs. And pretty low towing capacity for their size. BUT I could get one in a manual and that is a huge plus.

Toyota 4Runner - No manual, but otherwise this is the direction I'm leaning. Its very similar in dimensional specs to my trailblazer. Looks decently nice. The main problem with the 4Runner is that the price is SO high. The base model with 4WD is like $48k. The trim I would actually want is the TRD Off Road which is another $5000 or so on top of that. But that would give me bigger tires, heated seats, locking rear diff, things I'd want to add to the base model anyway after sale, so in the end the TRD O.R. probably makes the most sense.

Except I don't have $53,000 LOL
And used 4runner pricing is complete madness. A normal car loses half its MSRP value after 3 to 4 years. Apparently 4runners take 20 years for that. Used ones and especially newish-used ones are so expensive, theres really no reason to go used. In fact I think I saw one the other day that had 60k miles, 2ish years old, and was going for over MSRP when new.

Front wheel drive based vehicles are OUT. Given that, is there anything I'm missing?

I did also look at the Tacoma. For a similarly equipped one, its a LOT cheaper than a 4Runner, and you CAN get it in a manual! But its a pickup and the LAST thing I need is a pickup. I need enclosed, interior cargo space, not a bed. A bed that I have to drag with me everywhere I go, making parallel parking 18" harder everywhere I go. I really don't want to deal with the hassle of a pickup, I really want another SUV.

Here's what I really want, a 2-door S10 Blazer ZR2, modernized and with the 2.7 Turbo motor.

I have a bench grinder and I've gotten pretty good at getting the blades good and sharp just by hand, without any fancy alignment tool.

However the problem always is, when its time to check the blade for balance when you're done sharpening. Sure if its WAYYYYY out of whack, it will be obvious. But when it comes to minor inbalance, I try to hold it on a screwdriver but I can very easily make it lean either way, or be perfectly balanced. Is there a trick to this? Or some better way?

I played RDR2 back when it came out. Like I'm sure everyone here, countless countless hours. After beating the game 3 times over the course of, i dunno a few years, I then really wanted to play RDR1 to see the rest of the story. But I never had a PS3. But eventually they released RDR1 for PS4. I got it.... 2 years ago maybe? But I'm just getting in to it now :)

The quality is so high! Is this remastered or something? I was expecting much lower quality for a PS3 game, but this looks excellent. ALMOST as good as RDR2. I've only done the first few missions but it feels just like playing the old (newer) game. The quality, the background music, all of it. If only I could have found a way to save Arthur.

I'm trying to control the music app on my Mac, from my phone. I've done it for years, but it recently stopped working and I can't get it working again.

I've read the apple instructions, and other websites that just regurgitate the apple instructions, but it just doesn't work.

You're supposed to click on a play button in the music app to then enter a code. But I've never seen this play button, I can't find any way to make it appear. And even on owc's how-to on this, when you get to this step, they curiously include a screen shot where the thing they tell you to click, also isn't there??

OR you can use homesharing. But I haven't seen any reverence to homesharing in the music app in years. Does it even still exist? If so, how do you turn it on?

ACTUALLY, before even hitting post, I found it. NOWHERE to be found in the music app, its now buried in the terrible System Settings app! But now I'm still struggling because its saying I have home sharing enabled on too many devices, but I can't find a way to see which devices and remove them. I can see devices in other contexts but its not clear if thats the same context as a device thats set up for home sharing, or something else.

I miss the days when apple stuff was intuitive and just worked.

Months ago I made a post about how people know trash or yardwaste pickup is being unexpectedly delayed. I was directed to the city's website where you can sign up for text or email alerts.

So I signed up for email alerts.

This was 4 months ago, and I have not received a single notification.

Are they not actually doing it? Has anyone else gotten any notifications, text or email, about anything from the city in the last 4 months?

If this sub is not official, and not affiliate with Hinge, then why is it that posts that complain about problems with the app are deleted? Do any of the mods of this sub actually work for Hinge/Match?

I mean when I go in to r/mac, i'm not forbidden from complaining about anything I don't like. But here I can't even complain about something that is clearly bad about the way the app works.

I dunno, it makes me think the mods do work for Hinge and deleting any threads that are negative towards the app is their unethical way of presenting the app in a better light than it deserves.

I have a 12 year old MTD tracked snowblower that I love. The tracks work really well for me. Its a 26" wide unit, but it only has a 208cc engine. It gets the job done, but it works hard on the heavy stuff.

I recently fixed up a 9hp and 10hp machine, i think one was in the low 300cc and one was in the mid or high 300cc area. Those things were BEASTS. It made me think, I really ought to do a motor swap. Especially if I can find a used machine with a motor in good shape but some kind of major problem like a failed auger gearbox.

So, to the point of this post, what do you need to consider when doing an engine swap?

I know some engines have one output shaft, and others have two. And the ones that have two, have the drive one backwards don't they? So I'd need to match my current machine's single shaft output to make this a fairly straight forward swap?

What else? Do all snowblower motors with single shaft rotate in the same direction? Are there potential issues with the actual physical mounting to the body of the blower?

I'm in no big rush to do this, I'm going to wait until the perfect motor falls into my lap for free or very short money. But I want to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. I don't think I really need something like a 420cc. But something in the 300cc to 350cc range I think would serve me very well. And I suppose the 301cc predator is always an option, but it has no electric start and it has no power output for lighting. AND I'm sure I can beat that price buying something used but in good shape.

So my customer has a website that someone set up for him on a virtual linux server, that runs on digitalocean. Customer is not tech savvy, and has no connection info. The guy that set it up no longer returns his calls. The website is running somer very old movabletype install that looks like either got hacked, or broke due to age, or maybe both?

Either way, we're looking for more traditional web hosting. We don't want to manage anything on the server side. We want to manage the blog/posts with the blog backend, but we don't want to deal with a virtual server, updating php block packages, updating linux etc anything like that.

I do web dev of my own, but for myself, on my own server. So I don't know much about web hosting these days, its been over 20 years since I've ran my sites on a web host. And no I don't want the customer's site running on my server. Its not worth the $5/mo I'd be able to bill him 😄

Also, to elaborate a little. This isn't a blog like "heres pictures of my food". This guy is an author and writes long articles about a wide variety of topics.

Any tips or suggestions, let me know.

• What is your monthly budget? Within reason, probably $30/mo or less
• Where are you/your users located? We are in the US, users are probably most US but also international
• What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case? As discussed above, we're setting up a place for him to post articles but aren't set on any software at this point. We just want something the host manages so we don't have to.
• Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok. The old site is currently down so lets just say, traffic would be very low but he still wants his articles online. Theres always potential that something goes "viral"
• If you’re looking at VPSes: Do you have experience administrating linux servers and infrastructure? Noooo VPSs. Whoever set up the first virtual server did him no favors by setting him up with a virtual server he couldn't possibly manage on his own.
• Did you read the sidebar/check out the hosts listed there? I've personally vetted these companies and their services are a good fit for 99% of people. Did read it, didn't check any out yet. I'll start with those but am open to any suggestions from people that have experience with this sort of thing. As I said, the last time I used a web host for my sites was in 2003 so I don't know how this goes these days.