u/thinsoldier

I saw a product that blows air through a tube under your blanket/sheet to keep you cool while you sleep.

Why not have airflow tubes in the bedframe that blow a stream of air down the frame's legs to blow off any bed bugs trying to climb up from the carpet. Also a stream of air coming out of the sides of the mattress so any bed bugs climbing up the side from the box spring will get blown off.

I had to look up why it's called a box spring. I have never seen a spring in one. There's so much space inside of a box spring that it can house the machinery for my idea easily.

I don't understand why they waste time and resources entirely encasing the box spring in fabric.

If it was not so encased I would have discovered my bed bug problem weeks ago. Also I would have been able to discover that I have 3 broken pieces of wood in there and I'd have been able to easily mend them.

In my youth I remember the bottom of box springs would always be left open.

I had a lot of cats as a child. They liked to hang out under the open box spring. Not a problem. Later with a closed box spring the cats would tear a hole to get inside and they would pee and poop and have kittens in there and the kittens pooped in there. It made sense to just tear the bottom of the box spring off. No more problems.

So my invention is a very bright UV light and a small fan motor in the box spring with tubes to carry airflow to channels in the wall of the box spring and the mattress. Nothing intense, just enough to blow away any small bed bugs trying to climb up the sides.

Wikipedia says they like to nest on vertical surfaces in the dark, so inside on the sides of the box spring is where you'll find them most often early in an infestation. They then climb up the sides of the mattress or crawl from a wall over to the mattress to get to the sleeper.

The UV light deters them from starting a nest in the box spring and it makes them and their droppings easily visible so you'll know sooner if you have them.

I also think It's time to stop making box springs out of wood. One of the largest and most important pieces of wood in my box spring looks like a rotten piece of shit. There are probably bugs and eggs somewhere inside of that thing that have not been affected by the ton of bug spray I used. The wood is so fucking cheap and sloppily assembled and easily cracked/broken that it might as well be made of cheap plastic. That will reduce the possibility of bed bugs finding a nice knotty piece of wood to set up an immortal nest in.

The fan motor can double as a white noise machine and you can attach 1 more hose to put under your bed sheet to help keep you cool just like that expensive device I saw (BedJet BedFan bFan). You could maybe even attach a heating element to the hose that goes under the sheet if you want to be warmer in the winter.

I have a mattress protector and a box spring protector. The screws in certain spots on the metal bed frame wore through the protector over time. We've had these for slightly longer than 10 years. We got the beds used from an Aaron's. They had been sanitized and placed in high quality protectors. There is still absolutely zero sign of bed bugs on the mattress probably because the protector is still perfectly intact. Perhaps the bed bugs were already in the box spring when we got it but the protective cover kept them trapped in there. We had the beds in storage for 2 months while we were moving. When i noticed the box spring cover had several tears my instinct told me to just rip the whole thing open (remember my experience with cats) and saturate it with bug spray (we were coming from a place that had camel spiders and i did not want any of those things following us to a new home)

any advice?

any youtube videos on RWD and manual that properly insult my intelligence and explain things at an appropriate level for my dumb ass?

I'm not racing or even hot lapping. I'm just driving around in RWD cars, slowly, trying to figure out why I can't drive them with any real control.

I've got a Fanatec direct drive wheel, logitech H shifter, handbrake, clutch, gas, and brake pedals.

I'm bouncing between BeamNG, Grid 1, Grid Autosport, Dirt Rally 2, and Live For Speed Demo for variety so I don't get too bored.

In BeamNG I bounce between small (mario kart figure 8), medium (Hirochi Raceway, Nürburgring), and long tracks (Nordschleife, the long journey)

I'll think I'm driving very slow and I'll still have the rear end come all the way around and even if I manage to countersteer and stay on track I tend to get a giant wobble that ruins the save.

I apparently don't comprehend downshifting properly. I've downshifted while stopping in a straight line and still had the rear end spin around for what reason I don't understand.

I think part of my problem is it took me so many years to get into the habit of left foot braking that now I struggle to use the clutch with my left foot while also using my right foot for both brake and throttle 😞

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I have tried the web interface from the QR code, and the on screen overlay, and the delayed input feature of the on screen overlay, and nothing works.

I have unplugged all actual controllers, and the only controller listed in windows is vJoy

I've got an old Logitech shifter and a device that lets me use it stand-alone via USB that doesn't seem to be in production anymore. The 1 device on the manufacturer's website is not this device and even that new device is not able to be purchased anymore from their broken website.

My problem is that moving the shifter acts both as an analog stick as you move it around and as buttons as you lock into the gear positions.

When trying to use the shifter in some games (Automobilista, Forza Horizon 6) it detects the analog data before the gear button and it's impossible to actually map gears to the shifter.

Is there any kind of app that can override this behaviour and remove the analog data so I can use the buttons/gear positions?

I'm kind of colorblind. I never know if the LED on the button is red or green or yellow or whatever.

Typically it would only do this if I didn't have an internet connection. Now it does it all the time.

2 of the 3 are always instantly available the second they power on. If an app happens to store the IP of the tv you can even cast to them when they are off and they will automatically power on and start receiving the google cast video. But one of them it has to be on for a solid hour before it starts showing up as an option. What's strange is it is identical to one that works and they were bought at the same time.

I'm trying to use my 4k tv as a monitor with my laptop and every other time I switch tabs in a browser or launch Affinity Photo or Blender (and many other activities) the tv switches to game mode with its overly saturated colors and ugly sharpening effect. How do I stop this?