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  • If you need any hand saws, I highly recommend visiting any local building materials recycling stores, or anywhere that takes a variety of household donations including tools. I have found a number of high quality general-purpose, rip, and back saws at the local Habitat for Humanity re-store that only needed a bit of clean up before they were ready for regular use. A lot of these saws get donated and people don’t value them much.

    Same may be true for screwdrivers but finding a particular manufacturer or match set may be challenging. I’ve assembled a good set of torx drivers over time without much effort, for example.

    Lots of other deals to be had in these places as well, including sandpaper, hardware, and PPE of all sorts.












  • I have found OnlyOffice to be a pretty capable replacement for most things in Excel. I’m sad that there is nothing so far to replace power query in Excel, but I mostly use that on my work (win) system.

    ++ for Notepadqq, recently started using it and found it great for opening very large text files, which was my main motivation for using npp in Windows.

    It is nice to be free from the constant BS that comes with Windows these days, that’s for sure.