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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.

So for mothers day, I went over my moms house and mowed her lawn for her 😛

So I started up the machine and there was a massive cloud of white smoke. Eventually it mostly faded, but it was still smoking a little bit, for a long time. When I mentioned it to her, she goes "yeah it always does that". Uhhhh, thats not good.

So heres the thing, it started easy, rand ran fine (other than the smoke). If the piston rings were not sealing, and causing oil to leak by, wouldn't that also lower compression and make it run poor, and hard to start?

The mower is probably 20 years old so its paid its dues. But her yard is very small so its not like it would be running for hours every week. And I think I changed the oil pretty regularly, and I do use high quality oil when I do.

The one thing I did after this was put a block of wood in her shed so when she parks it, the front of the machine is up on the wood, so the oil will flow away from the piston rings, not towards them. This won't stop smoking while running but hopefully at least prevents the big cloud of smoke when you start it up.

With her small yard, she's a prime candidate for an electric mower. But she wants to get more time out of this old one.

Any thoughts on this? I really don't want to start tearing this old engine apart and investigating. But we'll see how it goes. But I wonder if anyone else has any ideas about whats going on with this thing.

The cloud of smoke looked just like what you get when you start the mower for the first time in a season, after having fogged the cylinder the previous fall. Except this was not the first time its been run.

I'm trying to help my neighbor fix his lawnmower, its a troybilt ( 12AV566N011 )

I looked it up online and found the part number for the control cable ( 946-1130 or 746-1130).

So I get the cable on ebay, install it. Everything fits well, except the cable is so long, that it has so much slack, that it doesn't actually pull the throttle when you hold the lever down. Its all slack, no pull. And I don't see any way to adjust the cable like some mowers have.

So whats going on? There are other cables listed if I look up cable part numbers on troybilt.com, but they're all even longer. The one I have is the shortest.

So I have the wrong cable? Or do I have a defective cable? Or is there some way to adjust it?

I'm starting to think I might have to cut the end off and bolt it in place similar to how bicycle derailers clamp on to cable ends with no fittings. But I'm open to better ideas. I would of course prefer the proper cable.

This is for a single, collocated server living in a data center. The server is directly connected to the Internet.

The firewall allows web and email services through, but nothing else. So everything else, including filesharing, including SSH, must go over the VPN. The VPN is running on the server, so I guess the firewall allows 3 services through.

I often use macos or windows native filesharing to move files around when needed. But it occurred to me that, for one thing, the data is probably being double-encrypted due to the VPN. But also, if I just ran an old school, fully unencrypted FTP server on this machine, and kept it's port(s) blocked so you could only access them by connecting to the VPN first, is that safe? And probably set up access rules on the FTP too so only IPs on the VPN subnet can connect.

Is there any risk this FTP server would expose me to? I would think that even other machines on the same subnet at the data center wouldn't be able to see any data, so at first glance it seems like it would be super safe. And should give me faster, simpler file transfers.

I'm newly signed up, and every time I try to sign in, it redirects me to pinkbike and has me sign in there. I do, then when I try to go back to trailforks, I'm logged out still. Over and over in an infinite loop.

I needed some "b-roll" footage for a repair video I'm making. So I grabbed my gopro chestmount that I think I've only used once (not while biking) and I give it a shot.

So I sat on my bike, I adjusted the camera so it appeared to be facing as level to the horizon as I could, and i hit record.

In the end, I have 5 clips that were almost all pointing straight down at the ground.

I'm not trying to make a biking video channel, so I don't want to buy any more equipment beyond what I already have. I'd love if I could make this work just for these short few-minute clips I need once in a while.

It felt like being chest mounted was almost.... tricking the auto-leveling and "pointing" the camera down lower than it should have been.

The thing is, I guess I could just point the camera way up and then the angle would tend to be straight ahead. But when I sit down, the camera isn't pointing toward the ground anymore. So with a much higher angle, it seems like it would be pointing at the sky whenever I need to take a seat.

I'm super new to gopros while biking, and the trails I'm trying to record are very rocky and technical so a handbar mount would just shake the camera to shit.

I have a youtube channel - its not a biking channel, its a fixing stuff channel. And so occasionally I'll fix my bike. So I need a clip of me riding to end the video. Should be easy. So 2 weeks ago i put a go pro on my handlebar and it didn't work. The auto leveling and stabilization couldn't handle that level of movement. Plus the camera kept falling over in the mount.

So find, I have two chestmounts that I never use, I'll just use one of those. So I put it on, installed the camera, lined it up so it was having forward, and rode. What I got was about 20 minutes of video of my front tire. Seems like as soon as I stand up, the go pro goes from basically level to basically pointing straight down at the ground. I was hoping the auto-leveling would work forward to back too and handle this, but it really did not.

What can i do? The easy answer for short clips might be to just point the camera at the sky so once i start riding, it points straight ahead. But I have to regularly switch between sitting and standing on these super techy trails. But I also really don't want to get a helmet mount, I would much prefer a chest mount. Is there a trick to this or is it just going to suck no matter what I do?

This is the sub i probably should be posting this in, since nobody actually cares at ebay so this isn't a problem that will actually be fixed.

I've been buying and selling on ebay since 1998!
Not professionally, just casually. Selling my old stuff, buying cheap items. EVERY time I've ever sold something, I get an email notification. Including the previous item I sold, a mountain bike brake I sold in February.

Well on April 19th, someone bought three items I had posted. Zero notification. I only JUST found out about it today (April 28th) because I went to pay my bills and had an unexpected deposit in my checking account, and went on ebay to see what that was about. I had a sale they never told me about.

Here's the kicker, I went into seller notification settings and lo and behold, "Item Sold" was unchecked. Which is 100% complete bullshit. I absolutely did not go in to my notification settings and uncheck that.... I don't think I've ever been in those settings, but certainly was not in there in the last two months! Everything else was still checked except "Item Sold" and two other items.

So I switched it back so I'm getting all of the seller notifications and I'm shipping out these items 9 days late. And I can't complain to anyone because nobody gives a shit. UGHHH so frustrating. We'll see if these settings magically turn themselves off again before my next items sells :/

This is crazy. Just so you know, I've been buying and selling on eBay since the 90s!

So I'm paying my bills and I see a payment in my checking account from eBay. Its a weird amount, I have no idea what it is. I check my email, nada. I check my ebay account . . . Apparently someone bought THREE items from me on the 19th! And they're overdue on shipping by 8 days! (meaning I'm overdue sending the packages out) Not a single notification! Nothing in my email account I use exclusively for ebay and craigslist. Nothing in my spam folder. Nothing at all, just a secret ebay sale.

It looks like its an international buyer and its going through one of those re-ship centers, which complicates things even more.

I want to complain to somebody, I wish there was somebody who actually cared. So frustrating!

Its been so cold this spring, I don't want any pipes to freeze. But I also need to start watering trees and cleaning stuff on the few warm days we do get.

I'm in the suburbs, inside 128, not in the city.