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It'a an Accentra-2 -- previous owners must have spent a lot on it. Very nice cast iron unit. It looks like it shouldn't be too hard... if I can get it lifted away from the wall.

It is on its own raised corner island, with not much more room in front so I can't really move it forward much unless I remodel; so it'll have to go back where it is afterwards.

Thanks for the tips!

I'll check the blower. I admit I hadn't been vacuuming out the ignitor pot as often as I should, which was probably hard on it, but the wires themselves seemed to have a lot of wear on the insulation right where they go into the ignitor cylinder. At least 10 years old actually, incredible for an ignitor from what I have read.

What's your source on them struggling?

Well, to be fair I was just being snarky there (I mean, if they can refuse business, they must not be that "struggling", right?). All the ones I called either said

• 'we have not sold many the last few years, due to increasing pellet prices, so we decided to stop dealing in them' (and repairing them, apparently!)

and/or

• 'they are high-maintenance so we don't deal with them any more'

I find the second one curious, if they're charging by the hour, one would think they would prefer things that need maintenance calls, more money that way right?

This Harman's a real beast though, heavy cast iron; and it was placed only a few inches from the wall, so I'll have to get some help to lift it out and get those back plates off; or just splice the wires to the new ignitor from the front and wrap with some high-temp insulation.

BTW since you didn't link explicitly to your repo, I presume it is here?

Neat! I will try porting this to GNU APL. I would say 'post this on /r/apl' but prefer we build a good APL community on lemmy instead! (Screw u/spez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ49vc-aCXo

How expensive is IBKR->CS for you? DRS from IBKR (Canada) for me is only $5. And fortunately (AFAIK) transfer from my other broker (BMO) to IBKR is free, when I initiate from IBKR.

All it could take is for one broker to implement a serial numbering scheme in their entire buy/sell system, even if it's only their own serial number and not (yet) honoured by any other broker. At least they could sell to their customers the idea that "when we buy a share for you, it's non-fungible within our system.". It would start the conversation and make other brokers have to answer the uncomfortable questions... "why does this BrokerA over here say my stocks with them are guaranteed to be owned by me, and are uniquely trackable, whereas YOU, BrokerB, make no such claim?"

..though I guess the current system allows BrokerB to effectively naked-short BrokerA shares without even asking BrokerA or its customers for permission, hence why DRS is the only current option for real ownership...

If the patent's expired, they should just offer to send innoculated swabs to anyone who asks. Then we can innoculate our loved ones with a kiss, and so on ...

Snowden asserted and still does that he deleted his own copies once Greenwald et al. got their copies, well before he had to flee Hong Kong and ended up trapped in Russia.

Remember, it was the US who trapped him in Russia by revoking his passport -- an international crime in and of itself, rendering him stateless which no country should do to its citizens, no matter what crimes they have allegedly commited -- and he had no intention of ending up there; he was trying to get to Chile I believe, and the EU did the unprecedented step of force-grounding their equivalent of Air Force One, with their president on board, thinking Snowden was a passenger.

Imagine if the POTUS had his plane accompanied by fighter jets to force-land in any other nation. The response would have been explosive, literally. Such hypocrisy that they just wave off other nations' sovereignty and diplomatic norms on the treatment of foreign leaders so easily.