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Cake day: July 4th, 2024

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  • The models with the oval bottom just have that cap pressed into the end with two small clips on the long side of the oval. Deforming the oval into a circle and using a small flat blade screwdriver to pry it out is usually all it takes.

    I’ve successfully desoldered the battery for recharging before. We had one go so completely flat the wireless charging wouldn’t work. Putting the battery in an external charger brought it back to life. It was in service for another couple years till a drop in the brush end ruined it.









  • It’s worth trying to see if you can get eyeballs on the room immediately above that location. If you have multiple floors windows are usually placed in parallel, one floor above the other. So it may be not a plumbing issue, but a window above could have a leak from the exterior that’s traveling downwards. Or the roof. I’ve seen leaks presenting evidence 20+ feet from the source before. They can take really unexpected routes through a building.



  • The Federal Reserve, which manages interbank money transfers in the US, last year approved a service that creates near instant transfers for pennies.

    We have three official ways: wires (same day; acceptable for lawful purposes ie real estate; costly at $20+ each), ACH (takes days; fractions of a penny; used for bulk transfers that are planned in advance or are not time sensitive ie checks and payroll; what venmo etc actually do in the background, behind the facade of their app), and now FedNow.

    FedNow is more like bank transfers used in other countries where silly stuff like venmo isn’t needed. Problem is every bank needs to spend the time and expense to implement it. That is going to take ages, and with venmo-like services being well established there isn’t a lot of demand driving adoption. And probably why anyone reading this never heard about it.