Author: Jackie Rose

Why the Future of AI is Scary AND Exciting

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Welcome back to ca1dmat.org, electronic lovers. It’s Jackie Rose here with another new exciting post from a fellow electronic lover. Today, I’ve had a lot on my mind so I wanted to write out my musings in a way that will allow me to examine them afterwards so apologies if this blog post seems more chaotic compared to previous ones.

I love electronics so much but at the same time I’ve been worried about where technology is heading. From the AI stock bubble to asteroid defense systems, the human race is facing a lot of techy stuff and while it’s easy for someone like me to appreciate it I can also sympathize with the anti-future crowd who sees doom on the horizon. I’m not saying I see doom coming but I do sympathize because it can seem that way when we see robots attacking humans on TikTok and hear of self-driving cars driving into people on the news.

Imagine how scared people would get if 2026 was the year we gave AI autonomy to powerful technology like 35-ton tow trucks! If you don’t think a robot controlling a massive trucks is scary then you need to reconsider this. Are you kidding me? Have you seen a 35-ton tow truck before? They’re massive, and can tow anything from busses to 18-wheelers. I know because I had to order service in Hamilton, Ontario recently and the thing literally dragged my friend’s RV out of a ditch like it was a toy. Once AI can control things like this then they better have serious safety protocols in place. I’ll show you a photo of the 35-ton tow truck I’m talking about so you can see what I mean. Imagine AI controlling this!

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Photo from Hamilton Tow Truck Service – I highly recommend them for heavy towing by the way!

At the same time, bear with me here because if we can’t trust AI to drive and operate a simple tow truck on our behalf then how can we trust them to mine minerals on asteroids or operate deep undersea submarines for scientific sampling? Can you sea my dilemma here (pun intended)? On one side I’m scared to see AI driving huge trucks past my car on the highway but the other part of me is excited about the benefits that AI will have in space and undersea exploration.

It’s crazy that just in 2021 I was excited about something as small as paying for appliance repair with cryptocurrency. Now that isn’t even likely to happen because no one trusts crypto thanks to all the scams and rug pulls. Will the same thing happen with AI? I don’t think so because AI is a whole different type of beast, and when powered by quantum computing it will likely be able to hack through any crypto’s blockchain security, making AI relevant while crypto becomes increasingly insecure. That’s why I think the crypto market didn’t recently mimic the giant silver and gold price explosion we’ve seen in the past few months.

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Photo of Optimus robot from Wikipedia. Doesn’t it look like it was made for space exploration?

With AI, we’ll be able to send highly intelligent ships to distant planets and have humanoid workers to safely do tasks for us. According to the Wikipedia article on Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, Elon Musk already announced that he plans to put his robots on a mission to Mars. This isn’t science fiction, this is reality and it’s awesome.

So while it’s awesome, it’s scary, and while it’s scary, it’s awesome. So I can only pray that it the awesomeness will outweigh the scary stuff as this AI tech advances into the future alongside us curious humans. I hope you enjoyed my musings. Check out the rest of my blog for more interesting musings on appliances.

Pressure Washing Tips Explained By Professional

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Winter is rolling through Canada but the warm weather and sunshine will soon be back. Us here at ca1dmat.org hope you’re already done your 2022 winter preparation. In the meantime, lets get prepared for the end of winter too. Because there isn’t a better time to clean up your residence and pressure wash the deck and driveway than when winter comes to a close and the fine weather rolls back in.

We have a special treat for you today, none other than a list of pressure washing tips so you can clean the exterior of your house like a professional.

Tips for Quality Pressure Washing

  1. Wear rubber boots and rain gear, including latex or rubber gloves. Being in rain gear while pressure washing will make you less hesitant to get wet, and will allow you to not have to worry about back spray, resulting in more confident work. This also results in finishing jobs faster if you don’t fear getting wet, as the rain gear will keep you dry.
  2. Spend money on a good pressure washer. If you get the cheapest pressure washer in the store, hoping to save money, you might end up losing in the long run because you’ll be spending much more time pressure washing than you have to. This is because cheap pressure washing machines typically have lower or limited Psi than quality machines. They also tend to break easily after use. It doesn’t hurt to get a warranty when you spend more on a quality pressure washer, so you can make full use of it without worrying about what happens if it breaks.
  3. Don’t pressure wash your roof shingles. Moss doesn’t grow everywhere in Canada, but on Vancouver Island it grows all over the place, even on roofs. This leaves homeowners inclined to pressure wash their roofs, thinking it’ll be fine. But what actually happens, because roof shingles aren’t designed to be pressure washed, that you can easily cause damage to your roof, by cleaning off the surface layer of your shingles and lifting them up, making leaks in your attic. If you’re going to clean your roof yourself rather than hire roof cleaners, you should scrub the moss off by hand, using bristles and gloves.
  4. Take your time to get all the hidden spots. When pressure washing your own home, you may be inclined to take short cuts and only power clean the spots visible to the eye from the road. This means you’ll miss behind the garbage bins, you’ll miss spots under the deck, on the sides of the patio, the backside of fences, under planters, etc. If you’re going to do this, you might as well do it right. That’s how pressure washing pros get repeat customers, by leaving no spots overlooked. It might only take you 20 extra minutes to pressure wash those hidden spots, and when you walk passed them in the summer you’ll be glad you worked the extra mile to do it right, like a professional.

We hope you enjoyed and learned from this list of pressure washing advice. To get these tips, we’ve interviewed someone that’s been providing pressure washing Victoria BC services for many years, and he gave us these insider secrets. Now, you should feel confident knowing you can pressure wash like a real pro.

Installing an Outdoor Fireplace – Should You Do It?

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Welcome to the blog all about cool stuff related to appliances. Although most people might not consider an outdoor fireplace to be an appliance, we do because at a friend’s summer home in West Vancouver BC they use their outdoor fireplace like an oven whenever they visit on vacation. The major difference from an outdoor fireplace and an indoor kitchen oven, however, is that when your oven breaks down you hire an appliance repair technician but when your outdoor fireplace needs repairs you usually need to hire a stone mason or bricklayer to fix it.

If you’ve never experienced cooking with an outdoor fireplace before, let this post serve as inspiration for you to install one on your own property.

3 Reasons Why Every Home Owner Should Have an Outdoor Fireplace

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  1. Outdoor fireplaces are a great collecting ground for the family to gather. The living room in homes traditionally functions as a gathering space for family members, but only because they don’t have an outdoor fireplace. When you have a gazebo around it with comfortable chairs, it’s possible to stay warm even in winter and cook marshmallows in your own backyard.
  2. If you’re one who loves company, having an outdoor fireplace will make all your friends want to come over. Combine good music with beautiful landscaping and your outdoor fireplace will be a desirable destination for events among your friends. At my friend’s backyard in their West Vancouver summer home, for example, they had a wedding there. Lot’s of preparation was needed to host a whole wedding there, though. They hired a masonry Vancouver BC contractor to widen the outdoor fireplace and replace much of their grass with paving to fit more chairs and make the area more comfortable. So keep in mind you may have to do something similar if you wish to turn your backyard into a place where friends can host events.
  3. Having an outdoor fireplace is a way to escape from all the electronics of modern society. We’ve discussed before about the problem of there being too many electronics in our world today, so let this be a solution. And let me tell you there’s nothing like being able to escape from the modern world in your own backyard. When you go out in the yard at night to look at the stars and kick your feet up by the fire, you may feel transported back into a historical time before electricity was invented.

These were my 3 reasons why you should get an outdoor fireplace, but we could continue to add more and more reasons. Reasons like they add value to your property if you sell your home in the future. But let this be enough, for these reasons were enough to convince my own household to call up a masonry contractor and get a cost estimate. Seriously consider this because they make home-time with the family all that much better, raising the quality of life for everyone in your home.

Paying for Appliance Repair with Cryptocurrencies

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Today we want to talk about something very exciting. It may be because appliance repair technicians are a little more prone to loving technology than most other people, but I’ve been hearing a lot of talk among appliance repair companies, at least in Canada, about accepting certain cryptocurrencies for payment. Ad it’s not just appliance repair companies talking about this, it’s every kind of business.

Here at Ca1dmat.org, we’re highly delighted about this because we believe every business who adopts cryptocurrency too late will not be able to benefit from the explosion in popularity that small businesses are getting by announcing that they now accept crypto as payment.

If you’re a business owner wondering if you should follow suit, let us mention that there are crypto coins that are stable at the price of the US dollar. Such coins are USDT and BUSD. By accepting these coins, there is no risk that you will lose money because they always hover at the same price.

More on this topic soon!

Too Many Electronics?

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Are there too many electronics in modern society? That’s the question we’ll be exploring today. Thanks for tuning in.

First of all, before I say everything cliché and progressive that you might expect, let me play devil’s advocate and defend electronics in modern society for a moment.

To capture the theme, answer this question for yourself: How different would coping with the COVID pandemic of 2020/21 would have been if we didn’t have electronics to work from home or keep us busy indoors?

Certainly, nearly a hundred years ago we could have used pen and paper combined with the mail and transport systems to work many intellectual jobs from home but without electronics many of us would be forced to leave the house and risk our health during a pandemic in order to work our jobs.

Now we also can’t deny the unfortunate aspects of tech-dependent generations taking over all of society’s responsibilities as Baby Boomers retire more and more each year. Indeed, I really mean “tech-dependent”. I know many young people who haven’t sent a physical letter in the mail their whole lives. In a case of having no electricity, these types of people would enter a chaotic state and might starve to death fairly quickly, as thanks to technology they have no hunting skills, no gardening skills and truly rely on electronics to survive. A hundred years ago, if you needed electronics to survive at a young age, you would be considered a fool and a coward of the highest degree.

Therefore, an easy solution to this problem would be to simply have summer camps for kids that focus on teaching them of the pioneer way of life. No electronics all summer! Kids who learn how to cook with a fire and live without electricity will have an upper-hand when they’re adults, so consider this if you’re a parent.

Last but most importantly for your own sake, answer this: “Do you rely on electronics to survive?”

Canadian Small Businesses Working Together

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It’s now the year of 2021 and the world is so different. From competing like cutthroat thieves in the early Wild West of business in the 1800s–where railroads meant gold and backstabbers had no mercy–to, well, this. It’s 2021 and history has never been nicer. Now is the time to grow, now is the time to share, and if you think otherwise then you haven’t studied Canadian small business history. Despite COVID-19, the times have never been better for business growth in Canada. Bring innovation, bring hard work, bring technology, bring science and the opportunities are limitless.

So than you to every small Canadian business that has decided to be kind to their competition. Businesses that grow together grow faster and larger.

I see appliance repair companies helping landscaping companies, and stone masonry companies helping tow truck and auto detailing companies. I see tree service companies helping kitchen remodeling companies and so on and so on. It’s really quite amazing to see.

And I hope to see a lot more of it as we move deeper into this glorious year of 2021!

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No Rock Concerts Due to COVID-19? How Concert Lovers can Cope….

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Today’s post is sharing a strategy for concert lovers on how to cope during quarantine times. We’ve missed many great rock concerts in the past week because of this pandemic, but here is something we’ve been doing to cope and you can do it to!

The answer is simple. We’ve been having our own rock concerts at home. With our powerful speakers, we’ve invited our closest friends for an old school house party. We play everything from Dio and Metallica to The Beatles and Michael Jackson. We play the music really loud with lighting effects to give the illusion when our eyes are closed that we’re in a real concert, and we dance like we’re in a concert to.

Who thought some old appliance repair technicians in Canada could be so good at ricking?

California Therapist Requires Therapy After Becoming Appliance Repairman

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This is a news article brought to you by our new content author. Welcome to our new and updated website. We’ve shifted focus from therapy in California to electronics and appliance repair services in all of North America. This news segment about one of our staff will help to explain why.

Being a therapist is often hard as you hear lots of problems in the world. Sometimes this leads to therapists needing therapy, and that’s exactly what happened to one of the best on our team and that’s why he is where he is today. Welcome to Jack’s story of how he went to being a therapist in California to an appliance repair technicians in Toronto.

One day while giving therapy to a client, Jack realized he didn’t know how to help his client. That night, amazed and disappointed with himself, he realized he needed help himself. After trying to give therapy to himself, alongside a little prep talk to remind himself that he is a good therapist, he came to the conclusion that he needed more hands-on work in his life.

That is when he decided to go and fix the freezer in the basement with his hands. The freezer had been broken for nearly a year and after repairing it he felt a lot better. Now he knew this kind of work is what made him happy, so he set off to become a proper appliance technician after taking some electrical courses in college. He moved to Toronto to live with his brother in order to get on his feet after this new career switch and now he is doing great there, working for a good appliance repair company.

But recently, after feeling regret for switching his career, thinking it was cowardly, he got therapy again and continues to go there. I hope you see the irony in this because it proves that running away from your problems is no way to fix them. Now he faces is inner demons head on and is doing much better.

Thanks for reading and come back soon. For more information on why we shifted gears toward this topic, click here. We wish you all the best!

Update #1

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Welcome to the first update of many as I do the construction necessary to get this new blog on its feet. Today, while I have time, I just want to share that I updated my About the Author page. So if you’re curious about who this new person is that took over ca1dmat.org, you can find out!

I hope we can become friends. I look forward to making this the best blog I can for my readers. Have a good night!