Update: this is working awesome!

You know what?? I figured that I miss all the shots I don’t take, and thought I’d give it a try. I built a makeshift tent from two tarps held by a steel tamper and a handtruck held down with buckets of water. I have an automated home, so I put one of the temperature/humidity sensors out there and hung in the lower area of the tent with a coat hanger. I set a ceramic space heater on a couple bricks, and fired it up.

The results? It’s currently sitting at 65F with 43% humidity, which is less than inside our home. I think the thermostat is even oscillating, so I’m going to go out there and turn it up. I’ll have a graph of the temperature and humidity all throughout the night, but this is hotter and drier than a summer night! And it’s in the 30s outside!

Here’s a screenshot of the data from me bringing the sensor outside, handling it, and letting it be in the tent:

So yeah, this is going to work great. I’m letting the pavers warm up and dry out overnight, then sometime midday, I’m definitely doing the poly sand. I’ll make sure I get it cleaned up and ready to leave alone, then I’ll cover it just like I did. Seriously, this is going to work better than waiting for the spring.

Yeah, it does sound like a bad idea, and I’m thinking more and more that I should just sweep utility sand between the pavers instead and call it a day.

Why not just wait until late spring?

The only reason I’m trying to get ahead of this now (instead of waiting for warmer weather) is because I’m building a structure around the patio that will make it difficult to sweep or blow off the sand as it cures. It’ll probably get everywhere and get nasty.

Although, it’ll be a covered area too, so perhaps the advantages of the poly sand are marginal. There won’t be any weed or moss issues, and it won’t be exposed to weather basically ever. So perhaps I just shouldn’t bother and sweep regular sand in. The benefits of poly sand probably isn’t worth the very real risk of making my patio really nasty.

Yeah… this is my inner voice, too. I’m kinda thinking that I should just sweep utility sand into the pavers and not worry too much about the polymeric stuff. Honestly, the only reason why I’m thinking of poly sand is because I’m kinda thinking that the pavers would stand up better to legs of outdoor furniture. Although, perhaps if I work enough utility sand into the pavers with lots of tamping and brushing, it shouldn’t be a big deal? I mean, it’s not like all patios done right without poly sand are failing.

Ignore all votes on your comments and do what you want. Don’t let a bunch of anonymous folks on the Internet change the way you communicate.

Yep, you’re asking everyone except the right person, here. Ask your partner. If you’re afraid to ask your partner, then assume it’s cheating until you do.

Reddit is doing great, actually

One of these will immediately tell you with a free app

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225421804153

A good, bright head lamp. See everything!

They know the services, and they’re easy to use. Being the product means that there are SRE teams keeping the services up, and it funds development.

You can’t host your own services and expect everyone else to do the same. You’d be asking the “I hate technology” crowd to learn what to do from the very ground up. As in, a lifetime of experience that they didn’t invest in.

No, it’s just a screenshot program

Even better, try Flameshot. Open source, cross platform, and lets you do very useful simple edits, like add arrows, shapes, text, and censoring.

https://flameshot.org/

Why do you suppose most people don’t substitute phones as laptops?

A phone replaces a laptop?

Paying isn’t a bad idea if you want to do that.

Google creeping on your privacy and your right to view HTML the way you choose to is gross and violating.

These two ideologies don’t have much overlap, and definitely can coexist separately.

The older Kindles are basically this. Most of their software it runs on are shell scripts under the hood.

This is any computer and remote desktop. Could build a Linux machine to start a remote desktop tool instead of a desktop environment, if you want.

Muhammad

Oliver

If you didn’t download it, then what’s the point?