• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    If you are in the middle of a frame-off gut of a home, as I currently am, much of this is trivial to implement.

    A notoriously low-effort endeavor in itself.

    “It’s doable with a minimum of effort as long as you have your house gutted down to the foundations” isn’t exactly the shining defense of “a minimum of effort” that I expected to read

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      5 months ago

      Go in your attic for 20 minutes. Throw some Ethernet around. You don’t even have to plug all of it in lol

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        5 months ago

        I had to buy almost $500 of mdf to get around my attic well enough to pull cable for backhaul. It’s not as easy as you make it sound in a lot of cases.

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        Not all attics are that accessible. Mine is basically an above-house crawlspace full of insulation such that you need a mask.

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            5 months ago

            No, I’ve used them all up in the last 3 years

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              5 months ago

              And would you describe it as challenging to wear, there one or two times you would need to be in the attic for this task?

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                5 months ago
                1. You have completely missed the point of attics not always being very accessible in order to argue for no good reason.

                2. Yes, I would. The respirator type mask which you require in that environment is very stuffy and tough on someone like me who has a lung condition.

                3. It being tiny makes it more inaccessible than the need for a mask does. The opening into the attic is narrow. I can fit through it, but most Americans would not be able to. Once up there, you have to crawl. I have a medical condition affecting my muscles which makes it exceedingly difficult to crawl.

                Point is, once again, that not all attics are accessible. This isn’t a discussion about masks.

                • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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                  5 months ago

                  Obviously if you have medical conditions there’s limitations.

                  • Drusas@kbin.social
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                    5 months ago

                    Going with “your experience doesn’t count because you’re a little different” is not the winning argument you might want it to be.