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25 years ago, HP printers were great and Just Worked (TM). Nowadays I wouldn't touch them with someone else's bargepole. A design imperative to make them work in all situations, poorly implemented, means they don't work in any situation. You have my sympathy.

Per the fine article: "Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence" According to this data Iceland is the worst hellhole on the face of the planet with 200/1000. Albania has half the crime rate of Saudi...

And that's why there are no thieves in Saudi Arabia. Oh, wait...

All excellent points; I agree. However the state still owns the monopoly. I'd argue the state has effectively outsourced enforcement to you as an individual in these very limited circumstances, which is why we have to have explicit legislation defining the circumstances in which you as an...

Turns out it is. From the wikipedia page: " Another application is a sprinkler system that sprays a burglar with the liquid to generate evidence that connects a suspect to a specific location."

Some surprisingly antediluvian attitudes to criminal justice in this thread so far. It's very natural to feel angry about the injustice of it all, but perhaps worth bearing in mind that: - The state owns the monopoly on violence - Your liberty is likely to be impaired if you forget that -...

For the first situation could you.mount the table high enough (and with sufficient stability) to use an outfeed roller? For the second, I hate to say it, but perhaps a track saw would be a better option? £600 for a Festool and track is a small price to pay for a finger or two.

This was part of our house when we moved in (I didn't make it!) but think it captures what you're describing. The chamfer curves at the apex but is only applied to the top third and levels out toward the bottom.

Mitre saws can be highly dangerous and although the focus is rightly on table saws I'd like to share a photo of what I keep on my shed wall. It's perhaps not very obvious, but that's the blade guard on a Makita mitre saw. An insufficiently secured workpiece caught on the blade and impacted the...

Yikes! Do you think a featherboard pushing the workpiece against the fence might've helped in your situation? I do hope you recover quickly and haven't lost your appetite for woodwork.

Yes, the dyes used in cheap writeable CDs and DVDs are not great. Even well made ones are only good for a decade or two. It's precisely why the Japanese defined JIS X6257.

A couple more thoughts: If you do decide to buy disks and DIY it then hedge your bets. Make sure you don't buy 3 of the same brand and model. There are numerous examples of manufacturing defects where batches of disks go bad all at the same time. One of my first jobs was dealing with the fall...

Not sure I would trust either disk type for long term archiving. This might be a better shout: Pioneer's New Blu-ray Discs Are Guaranteed to Last a Century It's likely archiving companies will offer this in the UK soon.

Mathias Wandel and the Natural Workshop have covered this on Youtube, the latter specifically with the Triton: But for the faff involved, I think your idea of hand planing the final couple of thou is valid.

Given their pricing I guess they felt 'Mafell User Group' would've been pushing it...

AKA - "Person tells Alexa to record everything she says and send it to someone, and Alexa does it." Amazon are perfectly welcome to listen in to my workshop. The only thing they'll discover is some horrifyingly creative swearing which might come in handy for the next season of Invincible.

Yes, there's a BBC Sounds 'skill' for Alexa, so should work. You could probably bag one for tuppence-happeny on eBay, or wait for black Friday when Amazon discount heavily to try and shift their unsold stock. That said, wifi might get iffy depending on how much electrical interference your...

So this is good, and better than most manage. A couple of additional thoughts: - Looking after storage is a PITA. Bit rot will often set in and the first you know of it is when the filesystem becomes corrupted. This is especially true for the large format SATA disks of a few years ago. Worth...

Backed up where? Half of the value proposition of cloud backups is that the data exists somewhere other than the source location. If some thieving scrote nicks all your kit, or a fire renders it into a toxic mess of metal and plastic then a copy in the cloud will suddenly look like very good value.

But of course they did - this one admittedly for a hand-held, but substantially less than half the price: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mMmx0wo And there are cheaper versions too.