Super General Advice (the thread for advice without making a thread)

This is fairly common in America from my experience.... Many apartments/other rentals will forbid pets because they do have the potential to do things that would be detrimental to the building (stain carpets, damage walls, etc.). If it's their property and you're renting, I kind of think it's their right to choose to make reasonable stipulations, which a no-pets rule could be.

 

That's my experience in the US as well.

 

I dropped a glass bottle of liquid smoke and did my best to clean it up, but two days later my apartment still smells intensely of barbecue. Please help.

It's a quartz countertop, if that makes any difference.

 

If lemon juice doesn't do it, I've had a lot of success using vodka for breaking down smells too. Cheap vodka works fine - we used to keep a giant bottle of bottom-shelf stuff in one rental house when we had to deal with regular drastic messes from a very ill pet, and it made a pretty drastic difference, esp on porous surfaces. As with any cleaner, test it on an inconspicuous spot of any surface you've never used it on before to make sure it won't damage anything--I would imagine quartz wouldn't react but I've never tried it.

 

Has anyone here ever done bookbinding? Is cardboard ok for the cover (gonna be covered w fabric) or should I use something else? What if I want to make it look decently "medieval" (making an in character notebook for my DND character)

 

Cardboard will definitely work for making a cover!

This pdf from Yale includes an excellent diagram of the parts of a medieval book and the names of all the parts, which makes looking up tutorials much easier, I found.

 

Thank you! It is....way cheaper then the chipboard this tutorial I was looking at advises using.

 

The main advantage I can see to chipboard is that it'll be a lot harder to accidentally bend and cause a crease. So long as you keep that in mind you should be just fine using cardboard.

 

Thank u v much! Another q, if u don't mind: it seems cotton is too thin to use for the cover. Is there any way to mitigate this?

 

multiple layers of cotton perhaps?

 

My computer's had a Redtext attack, and I've tried multiple malware scanners but they're not picking anything up and I'm still getting the popup ads. How do I get rid of it?

 

@LumiLapin Maybe felt?

 

If the cardboard shows through one layer, I think multiple layers of cotton might be the way to go. Just test it out with some scrap first to make sure it stays flexible enough.

 

perhaps painting the cardboard the color of the fabric you'll be using as well, to make it less noticeable if it does show through.

 

I haven’t looked into this exhaustively, but so far I’m not very happy with what I’m seeing when I search for information on this. There are a lot of sites I’ve never heard of, some of which seem to have an amazing lack of reputation of any sort. I’m not seeing the kinds of names I’d expect to have at least something to say about it. That’s kinda weird. Maybe it’s just late and my brain isn’t working at full capacity but I’m not liking this.

 

IIRC, Redtext is based on browser notifications. There should be something in the settings to control which sites are allowed to send those.

 

Where did you get the redtext name? What told you that’s what it was called?

 

The popups themselves did, and I tried deleting it from the "allowed to send notifications" list in Chrome and that didn't work.