Comment on A landlord special.

bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s probably because homedepot doesn’t respect gdpr, so they block European ip’s to not get sued. I’ve experienced that a lot when visiting some American websites

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Stupid sexy Europeans and their stupid sexy privacy laws

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    • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They apparently block Turkish ones too (even though from my knowledge turkey isn’t any better than USA in privacy)

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  • Plum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Stop using MS Edge.

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    • gex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      edgesuite.net is an akamai CDN, it has nothing to do with MS edge

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      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah that’s my mistake, ive only seen it with work PCs that force edge, not any other client.

        Including Firefox mobile, which is what I used (and they did) without issue.

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    • tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am using Firefox on mobile. This is probably named after edge computing

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      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Looks like an akamai CDN, my bad. Ive only seen that issue with work PCs where edge is forced.

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• hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, these actually might not show if the GFI is working, and might give a false negative.

  If there is no equipment ground, the outlet must be labeled as such, but it is allowed by code so long as protected by GFI. However, since all these testers do is shunt hot to ground, if there’s no ground connected, it won’t work and appear if the GFI is not working. However, assuming it’s working, it will still do its job, since it they protect against ALL current leakage, and not just ones through the outlet’s ground path (otherwise they’d be pretty useless).

  I had a “landlord special” where they extended an old 2 wire box with no ground, and my PC case shocked the fuck out of me after I had the carpet cleaned and was walking on the damp floor. A ground would likely have dissapated that bit of current leakage, but also a GFI would have probably tripped when I touched it. They weren’t willing to run a new wire with a ground because, unsurprisingly they were cheap fucks, but I convinced them to install a GFI for safety at the very minimum.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, if there is no ground present (ie a 2 wire cable in a plastic or ungrounded metal box), they just won’t trip as the ground prong is effectively isolated.

    While not the best idea, you can usually derive a quick ground from a plumbing pipe, assuming copper or galvy pipes (pex obviously won’t work), or a metal gas pipe. I’ve done it in a pinch when a proper system ground wasn’t feasible, but only as a temporary measure.

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• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Way less expensive to get a 10kΩ resistor and put that between earth and live to make sure the GFCI trips. Source

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And run the risk of tickle time if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing lol. Those plug testers are an easy means for a layman to check it. They make ones as cheap as $5, that’s just the one I always have in my pocket as a professional electrician.

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    • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I carry a fork that way I can use it for lunch as well

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      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Good idea. It takes forever to clean the scorch marks off of my belly/Prince Albert chain.

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    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Right, I was making a joke and using that as an excuse to link to ElectroBOOM. I didn’t think anyone would take it seriously, but added a /s to my comment.

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