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At long last, another #TipOfDay this for heavy duty floor cleaner. I mix it up in a gallon container and pour into a spray bottle as needed. Non toxic, not smelly. Great for small areas and using rags.
Ceramic Tile Floor Cleaner

• 1 gallon of warm water
• 1/2 cup white vinegar
• 1/2 cup Borax
• Spray bottle

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Wearing protective gloves, I wet each bundle and manually rubbed the abrasive powder into the strands. Once done, I set the bundle into a cup with water to sit overnight.

I did the same basic process on all the bundles so that they would be in the same condition at the end, but for the heavily-yellowed ones, used a large glass jar with extra water and #abrasive #cleaner that I would vigorously whisk with the bundle prior to leaving everything for another 24 hours to soak.

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I work as a #sysadmin and whilst this may not sound exciting, it's kinda necessary, as one's the #janitor, #cleaner, garbage collector, #maid and #librarian together.

So yeah, #documentation, #backup & #restore ain't exciting but they need to fucking work, so in the worst case one can just follow the checklist of instructions.

  • It's like firefighting: You learn, train and stay prepared so that there ain't casualties at all...

After a brutal 2023, the vibes around #self-#driving #cars are improving.

#Cruise, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a #horrific San Francisco #crash last fall, has #rebooted under new management,

while rival #Waymo is #expanding to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles
and #Tesla is promising a new #robotaxi service.

Although Americans say they remain #wary of autonomous driving,
boosters insist there is nothing to fear.
In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both #safer and #cleaner than the status quo,
a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich nations.

Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a #logical #flaw.
As a classic 19th-century theory known as a #Jevons #paradox explains,
even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly
— an enormous “if”
— they are🆘 likely to increase total #emissions and crash #deaths,
simply because ⭐️people will use them so much. 

theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386

The Verge · What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving futureBy David Zipper

"EU is set to launch an antitrust case against #Amazon over its proposed $1.7bn acquisition of #Roomba maker #iRobot, in latest signal that #bigtech groups will receive greater scrutiny over dealmaking,” #antitrust #regulators are likely to launch a formal #probe over how the Roomba operates, in particular, the #autonomous #vacuum #cleaner’s ability to take #pictures as it moves around a home.” #privacy #datamining #personaldata #ecommerce ft.com/content/b05a1260-ee5a-4

Financial TimesEU set to investigate Amazon’s $1.7bn purchase of Roomba-makerBy Javier Espinoza