Have you actually watched what happens to those tiny cracks after a few freeze-thaw cycles if water gets in them? I had a buddy who ignored his driveway crazing for years, then a couple of bad winters turned a few hairline cracks into actual chips and spalls. He ended up spending a lot more than $180 on patch kits that never really matched. How old is your driveway now, and what kind of winters do you get?

Why would you want that pendulum action with five tons swinging over water? I've been on barges where a hard pendulum caught the crane just right and damn near tipped us over. Gusts can double the swing radius real fast. On a stable dock I might agree, but on a barge you're fighting the load AND the deck moving under you. I always drop it slow and let the water absorb the energy. That high boom trick might work in a parking lot, but out on Galveston Bay it's a gamble I wouldn't take.

Wait, is this really that big of a deal? I keep my Weller around for when my fancy USB iron craps out and I need something that just works.

Wait, didn't I read somewhere that they actually cut some routes during the pandemic and then brought them back? I swear I saw a news article about them testing out those battery powered buses around that time too.

wait so the advice is just "stick your router to a window"? like the hotel guy is basically telling her to turn her router into a weird wall decal? I guess it sorta makes sense if the wifi signal is bad inside the room but still feels like something you'd see in a low budget spy movie. pretty wild that a random hotel employee is dropping lifehacks like that, maybe he's secretly a network engineer moonlighting as a maid or something.