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One of my cats habitually pulls electrical cables out. Straight-up bites on the plug and yanks. When I come home it’s a game of going around and finding out what’s unplugged.

I’ve tried repellent, distraction with chewable toys (we play regardless), cable protectors (chews on those, and unplugs it!).

Any ideas? Is there a child safety gadget that goes over plugs or something? I’m down to try anything that makes it stop. I have at least 4 outlets that need “protecting”.

Title says it all. One of my little demons has gained a liking for biting down on electrical plugs and pulling them out of the wall socket. I come up and it’s a game of finding out which 0-3 items around the home needs to get plugged back in.

I have tried getting him constructive things to chew on (he has so many now)… he loves chewing on those as well but it didn’t stop the original habit. Tried cat repellent. If anything it works for the first 12 hours but I have to spray it so much that the whole room smells like cat repellent, and true to its name I also find that smell repelling :-)

Any ideas? I’m open to anything at this point. This is part of a larger cable-chewing habit this

I’ve got two identical routers running OpenWRT (gl-mt3000’s), which have dual 2.4/5GHz radios, and they’re set up with a 802.11s mesh between them.

Took some trial and error to get the mesh set up, and I did it with the 2.4GHz network because I was under the impression that the mesh would take up the radio for itself and wanted to leave my 5GHz radio free for devices. Also luci appears to auto-disable one network when I add two to a single radio.

But now googling around I see bits of info that suggest maybe it is possible to have the mesh and access point on the faster 5GHz radio so that devices connecting to the second mesh node can get better bandwidth.

Can someone confirm if that’s po

The balance chart/graph on the Fidelity mobile app is missing an amount equal to one particular Brokeragelink account. It’s not marked hidden or anything, and it’s included in the total. I have five Brokeragelink accounts and the other four show up. The balance total on the app is the correct total, and the account is in the listing of accounts below the graph in the app.

On the actual site everything shows up correctly.

It’s driving me bonkers at this point... can anyone tell me why this could be happening?

41yrs old, pension would be worth ~$125k if I quit hypothetically and liquidated it tomorrow. I've only started contributing to my retirement accounts a couple months ago and they're about $40k total right now.

I have pretty high trust in the pension fund surviving until my retirement. Given that, and given it'll probably be a few years until my retirement accounts approach the value of the pension, do you think it's excessively risky to hold no bonds for now?

I'm now contributing over twice as much to my retirement accounts as what comes out for my pension contribution. My plan was to wait until my investments roughly match my pension's cash-out value before introducing bonds into th

I’ve got a Roth IRA cookin’, and a 403b/457b which are getting (traditional currently, but Roth is an option there) about equal contributions. Also have a taxable account that isn’t very large.

Supposing I want to keep to a… let’s say 70-20-10 US/Int’l/Bond split overall, how would you/how should I break it up in the accounts themselves?

I understand the bonds should go into a tax-advantaged bucket. Does it matter which one? Should I bother to break each one up in that 70-20-10 split, or is it fine to e.g. put the bonds all in one of the retirement accounts, all the international in another, and US in the other accounts and filling the gaps?

I’m 41, late to the game of investing anything for retirement… except for a pension that I’m vested and 12 years into. My coworker finally “forced” me to doing something with about $20K I had sitting here saved up in a basically-0% account. I’ve filled my Roth IRA for this year, and am making $2K in monthly contributions to my 403b/457b, plus more for the rest of the year to get it going and work down some of the cash I’ve got sitting here, leaving myself a few months of rent’s worth of cash (that I hope to eventually build up into a proper emergency stash).

Now… so far I put everything into FKSAX (this is all though Fidelity). It’s only been a couple months. I know I should put some pe

I just wanted to share a prometheus exporter I've been working on that uses the new API in the version 6 beta of pi-hole:

https://github.com/bazmonk/pihole6_exporter

I've also got a dashboard that uses most of the metrics. I just updated the screenshots but the dashboard listing is slow to update. If you click on it in the next few hours and only see one screenshot, that's the old one.

Why another pihole exporter? People have written a bunch already...

Two reasons: first, I couldn't find one that uses the new API in the upcoming version 6. It's undergone a lot of changes. This one uses HTTPS and an app token (if n

I've been racking my brain here trying to figure this one out.

I'm using a ver. 6 beta of Pi-Hole, and also writing a prometheus exporter to use the new API to collect various counts of queries by type, status, client, etc. At the same time, I'm already ingesting my pihole logs into Loki, and deriving counts that way.

With both approaches (API, logs), I'm making per-minute count metrics. Most of the time the two counts match, but I've noticed that they don't always track. Sometimes by a just a couple queries, which I have been able to chase down to the API not including queries of pi.hole itself. But other times the difference is huge.

For example, between 20:08 and 20:09 tonight, m

My cat is one of those cats that feels the need to bury his food bowl. Doesn’t seem to matter if he’s got leftover food or not.

I realize it’s an instinctual thing, but he’s just flipping over his dishes now. Tried switching to classic dog-bowl-shaped dishes: he can get a claw under there or something.

And what’s worse is he knows I don’t like it, so as soon as I get up to correct him or something, he hears it and leaves. And if I don’t get up he’ll just go and go and go. So I’m having trouble figuring out how to even try doing something about it. He hears the floor creaking and knows right when to stop. It makes it all extra annoying because you know he knows you don’t like it.

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