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Many Shimano cassettes, such as the CS-M8100 (XT, 12 speed) have a thin adhesive ring (part number Y0GX01500) on the back side, where it sits against the Microspline freehub body.
Unfortunately, these can easily be lost as they tend to stay on the freehub body when removing the cassette. Which is exactly what happened when I sent the NOBL wheels from my Mach 4 SL‘s in for a warranty rim replacement. Some folks advocate for removing...

For the last two years I’ve been using Home Assistant to run a sunrise-simulation alarm clock in the bedroom to wake us up. This works very, very well and — for us at least — a home automation killer app.
In continuing to optimize things I wanted a bulb that has an even-dimmer and warmer initial brightness than the IKEA TRADFRI LED2101G4 (in an E26 to E12 adapter) I’ve been using. I’ve now settled on Philips Hue White and Ambience 60W A19, as it’s both...

It’s cold again here in southeast Michigan, with the overnight low well below zero. A year ago it was the same, which was when I discovered that the ZOOZ ZSE44 has firmware limitations that keep it from displaying below 0° (C or F). For this winter I...

We have a Hoover CleanSlate portable vacuum thing and it’s incredibly useful for cleaning up small spills / stains / cat vomit / etc. This morning when I wanted to use it the sprayer was no longer working.
It had worked last time, and I’m judicious about letting it dry out between uses (because I don’t like mold), and it turned out this dried out the pump which in turn meant it needed some time to self-prime before it’d spray....