I used to write all my questions down in a notebook before posting them online.

I had a specific blue notebook from 2018 where I'd draft every single thing I wanted to ask. About six months ago, I just started typing directly into the forum box. The change happened because I lost that notebook on a bus in Chicago. Has anyone else dropped a whole system and found it actually worked out better?

My friend's kid said they learned to code by just building stuff, no tutorials. It made me question the whole 'start with the basics' advice.

A customer brought in a Pentax K1000 with a shutter that sounded like gravel

It had been sitting in a damp basement for about fifteen years, according to him. I took it apart and found the old lube had turned into a sticky, dark gunk all over the slow speed escapement. After a full clean and re-lube with a tiny drop of Moebius 8000 on the pivots, the difference was night and day. The shutter now fires with a crisp, clean snap instead of that awful grinding noise. Has anyone else found a specific lubricant that really works for those old, gummed-up mechanical shutters?

Just found a whole blog about old radio repair from a guy at a yard sale

I was at a yard sale in Boise last Saturday looking for a lamp. This older guy had a table full of old radios and I asked about one. He spent twenty minutes telling me how to fix a specific hum in tube radios from the 50s, something about replacing filter caps. He wrote down a web address on a scrap of paper, said 'check this, I put it all up there.' It's his personal blog, no ads, just step by step guides with his own photos. He's been posting since 2009 and it's never shown up in any search I've done for radio stuff before. It's a total goldmine of info you'd only find by talking to someone. Has anyone else stumbled on a niche site like this just from a random chat?

Question about public Wi-Fi at the airport in Denver... noticed something weird with the login page.

I was stuck on a long layover at DIA last week and tried to connect to the free airport Wi-Fi. The login page that popped up asked for my email and phone number, which I thought was normal... but then it also had a box asking for my frequent flyer number. That felt off, like they were trying to get more info than they needed. I didn't put anything in and just used my phone's hotspot instead. Has anyone else run into a login page asking for extra details that don't seem right? How do you tell if it's the real network or a fake one set up to steal info?