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  • I’m not a plumber, but to find real plumbers to give advice, I highly suggest the Terry Love plumbing forums- even if you only search through posts, it has real plumbers that explain what’s up to code and which region’s code.

    I recently put in a water softener and needed to add a stand pipe in my basement for it’s drain- the forums got me up and running and gave me an idea of some of the plumbing basics that might be in play here. I’m assuming this is a laundry machine below the actual drain pipe, with a sump pump that’s running up to that p trap.

    To me this looks off, because I can’t tell if it has backflow prevention and how it would handle a sewage backup if one happened, without allowing contact to the water supply though the hose and machine. If that’s all dealt with in the sump pump, perhaps a non -issue. Also laundry drains are now meant to go into 2" pipe to handle the amount of flow from HE units- I can’t tell from the pic how big that pipe is.

    You might want to look into how the building inspection process works where you live, and if they offer protection in the case of a contractor doing work that does not pass code- some places force them to rip it out and fix it right on their own dime, until the inspector is satisfied.















  • softcat@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlThe power of Linux
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    1 month ago

    Previous versions of Windows only permitted drive encryption in their premium tiers, and it seems like the current one possibly requires a TPM chip for it, so a lot of hardware won’t even support it. So basically greed or greed.

    For what it’s worth it’s not always a default with Linux installations either. There’s a usually minor performance hit, though I can’t say it ever bothered me. Personally I have less fear of bad actors obtaining physical access than I do myself breaking something catastrophically and losing my access, so I don’t use it now.





  • softcat@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDoes this make me a bad person?
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    2 months ago

    It sounds like you were a bad kid, but maybe you won’t necessarily be a bad adult given this introspection. Something to bear in mind is that kids’ brains and minds aren’t entirely developed, often causing that kind of bad behavior- maturity is a real thing, and it sounds like you’ve begun developing it.

    I think most people have things they regret from childhood and teenage years. I suppose the key is to be self aware and try to live in line with who you want to be as an adult.