FloatyFish

Some context: I’d like to have recessed lighting installed throughout my 72 year old house this winter/next spring as I’d like to modernize the lighting throughout it. I was thinking of having an interior designer come up with a lighting layout as some of the rooms on my house (mainly the living room and dining room) are slightly odd shaped.

However, I know that retrofitting recessed lighting can be expensive when done right, and I’m worried that the additional cost of an interior designer could make it even more expensive. My house is valued towards the lower end of the scale where I live, and I’m honestly not sure if the additional cost of the designer is necessary. At the same time, I fe

Have to get PT for my shoulder due to bursitis. Was wondering if anybody has any recommendations as to where I could go. Thanks!

Curious if anybody’s run a “back of the drawer” cycle, aka piecing together a cycle based off of any leftover AAS that you have. If so, what’d you run, what was in it, and how’d you like it?

Bought a linen shirt online and it’s a bit too long. Looking for someone who’d be able to raise the hem by an inch or two.

I’m a product designer who’s playing around with various LLMs to see how they could potentially fit into my workflow. Currently, I’ve been playing around with having GPT Images generate images detailing UI component design specs, and then asking Codex to read the specs and implement them. However, this runs through my limits pretty quickly, so I’m looking to see if any of the open source LLMs could potentially work here.

I originally looked at using Deepseek, but it can’t read images. Design Arena has Kimi and GLM trading blows, so I was wondering if anybody has experience with using them for implementing UI components either from an image, or just in general. Also looked at Qwen but it do

Just ordered my first pair of Vuarnets, the apparently now discontinued VL2008 Districts. Chose them because I really like the light tortoiseshell look, but when I went to Vuarnets website, they implied that the lenses were best for mountainous terrain. The Gulf Coast has a distinct lack of mountains, so now I’m wondering if I should’ve gotten a different frame with lens better suited for activities like going to the beach and being on the water. Any advice would be welcome.

Thinking about buying a kayak, and was wondering if anybody had an idea as to where the best spots to launch a kayak are. Doesn't matter if it's gulfside or bayside.

A house up the street caught fire from me, but from what I can tell most of the damage was to the interior and then some cosmetic damage on the outside. It’s clearly not inhabitable as the people that lived there haven’t been back since it caught on fire, but it got me thinking about what happens to houses like that. Is it worth it to completely gut the inside and put in a new interior, or would it be better to sell as-is to a developer that’ll just knock it down and put up a new house?

Mid 30s guy here. Melanoma runs on both sides of the family, and as a result I’ve been interested in trying either MT1 or MT2 out since they help with preventing sunburns. However, after doing some research it seems like at least MT2 can potentially promote melanoma, but only if you have it already. I don’t have any weird moles or anything so I believe I’m safe, but I wanted to get advice from the community before I jumped into the tan deep end.

Planted some creeping sage last year and it took off like a rocket. However, after this last cold spell it looks like it’s completely died off. All bare, brown stems. I was wondering if it’s actually died off, or whether the root system is still good. If the root system is still good, should I just cut off the dead stems, give them some water, and wait for it to regrow? Thanks!