u/novicepooldude

I posted in an auto repair channel about my friend banging the door of his car against my garage frame as we were looking for DIY options to make it look better. A couple of comments, however, mentioned getting a new door through insurance. Neither of had even contemplated that as an option. For context: my power had gone out and so it was very dark and he was distracted from a family emergency he needed to attend to, so he started driving out of my garage with his front door fully open, which banged against my garage door's metal frame. He made this bent/dent to his car and my garage frame is dented. I am okay with it since it's fully operational. Is this something for him to file a claim over, though? Would that inevitably increase his premium? Is this something I should file a claim for from my home insurance at all? I know you can't predict by how much but any guidance on how to choose when to/not to file and from which type policy? Ideally he'd need a new door and I'd need my frame repaired. In case it helps, he has StateFarm car and I have StateFarm home insurance.

Hi all! I did not find a thread on this, apologies if I missed. TTMIK started doing these 6-week beginner bootcamps which goes through Levels 1 + 2. I've been stuck mid-way through Level 1 so many times and I am wondering if this may be an option to help me push past it. Any insight from people who may have participated in one of these bootcamps?

I got an L60 Ultra PE and I'm fairly impressed after first use. I have mostly hardwood floors and wondering what custom level of "mop wetness" I should use for hardwood. Is moist fairly safe? Should I stay below it? I ran in between slightly dry and moist and it seems to dry very quickly in a way that I don't think it'll damage the wood but also if there's wiggle room for more wetness, I'd take it (some spots in the kitchen needed a second pass manually)

Pulled the trigger on a DREAME L60 Ultra PE and it's being delivered tomorrow. I presume the app will guide me through it, but here to see if there is anything I should do as I deploy this. Should I try to remove as much as I can from the floors when I let the robot map the floor plan or leave stuff as it would be during everyday. For example, stools at the kitchen counter, they would prevent the robovac from getting all the way to the kitchen island edge, but that's how we would leave it on days when it's doing cleaning anyway.

Anything I should NOT do to avoid F-ups down the road?

Any insight welcome. I was looking for a post like this but couldn't find any, apologies if I missed it.

Apologies if this has been discussed, could not find a thread on this. Got a (not so great) score on the resubmission of an R21 but there is no percentile associated with it. It's been a week now, so I don't think one is coming. Other than waiting for the SS to see if there is one there, does this mean anything? I will ask PO on Monday but anxiety is kicking in! 😞

Absolutely appalled by the number of adults who spend their ENTIRE Seine cruise doing the "6-7" arm motion (you know, like that juggling balls trend that emerged out of nowhere, and I thought had died down). This one duo of women did it non-stop for an hour. Every single minute, without exception. They did not even stop when the Eiffel Tower was magically sparkling for 5 minutes at 11pm. Many people in boats passing by "replied" and others on the edge of the Seine. Not kids, not teenagers, not young adults. People well into their mid 30s. I never felt more like a Debby Downer but good lord they looked like such absolute idiots. Am I just boring and a party pooper? It was so distracting! /rantover

Mods, please delete if not allowed. Just wondering if there are pool-related items that may be worth looking at on Amazon Prime Day if truly discounted (fully recognizing a lot of the deals are fake and not really subjected to a price decrease relative to other times of the year). I'm thinking from equipment, to must-have maintenance, to leisure stuff (e.g. pool floaters).

I was in London last week and noticed every restaurant we went to had a Service Fee with variable % from 10, 12.5, to 13 IIRC. Is this their version of a forced tip? Were they doing that because we're obviously tourists? They were then asking for more tip on the pay machine, which I refused to add.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the electric company has shut down the power to our property (if you're curious, they messed something up in their system and somehow we "don't have an active account with them" but have had electricity running for 5 weeks since taking over this property). It'll be at least 48 hours of no power at all before I can even get a hold of a human to have them fix it but they said it could take another 48 hours after that. I am terrified at the thought of our pool being stationary for 4 days (let alone our house getting continuing to get hot as hell). Salt cell pool, ~19K gallon, all chemistries well within range prior to power disconnection. No pool cover. What is our pool's fate here? Anything I should keep in mind/do when power is restored? I was not expecting to get thrown this curveball our way this soon after getting a house with a pool. Trying to keep my cool as I've seen disgusting pools get salvaged here but good lord I am freaking out

Managed to get around everywhere walking for the past few days but today, between the blisters in my feet and the impossible heat, and the long distance to travel (Marche aux Puces!) I finally got on the metro. As I exited my station, I saw a bunch of people tapping their card against a small machine which was not a fare gate. I think it said "je reviens, je [something]". Impulsively, I tapped mine too. I had purchased 2 tickets and I had only used one, but when I went to tap on my way back, I was out of tickets!! So whatever that machine is, it consumed an additional ticket :/ - can someone explain? I couldn't find this online, and I can't remember the exact phrase shown on the screen, other than the je X, je Y structure.

Am I understanding correctly I will be able to load my Navigo simple card with a RER train to CDG if it's clear of any single ride tickets? Or is the rule that if I *ever* used the card for Metro that I can't use it to load airport rides? Maybe the machine is for that?

Moved into a new place that has some complex wiring and I am at a total loss trying to understand this eero set up. First, I now understand that it seems to hijack the Wifi router, which becomes invisible, and I can only see the eero network. My connection isn't the most stable, and it's driving me a bit insane, because I can't troubleshoot: do I blame AT&T for unsteady Wifi (which I can't even test) or do I blame these eero devices.

From the app it seems like the base main unit is an eero Pro B010001, living in the utility room in the basement and connected to the modem, then there is another eero Pro B010001 LAN-wired in the Pantry on the main floor, and an eero J010011 which connects via Wifi. This latter one sits right on my desk, and yet the connection on my laptop sitting right next to it is obviously unstable, e.g. laggy on Zoom, completely dropping Teams meetings. It's kind of embarrassing. It's one floor up between the pantry and the office but the distance isn't that big.

I came from a 3-floor townhouse with an office at the very top and an identical AT&T router in a utility closet three floors down without any repeaters of any sort that worked perfectly fine, no drops. I can't even realize how to troubleshoot this system here and also nervous about bringing it all offline since so many things connect to this network (pool, Russound system, security cameras, etc). Devices are running eeroOS v7.14.1-137 and I haven't had the guts to push this v7.15.0-9714 in case it makes things even worse. Any help/insight/recs more than welcome!