Honestly agree so hard with @the_kai on this one. I painted my entire kitchen last year and tried that "just the tip" method everyone keeps talking about and ended up with these awful lap marks that made me have to start over. Ngl, the real secret is just learning how to knock off the excess paint properly and not loading up the brush like a crazy person. Tbh people overcomplicate painting by acting like there's some magic technique when really it's all about brush control and not being lazy with the tapping motion. I've been doing it your way for years and never looked back.

It's funny how we keep trading one kind of convenience for another and convincing ourselves we made the right call, isn't it? That's just life now, picking which trade-off hurts less.

Three onions turned to paste? Hard pass, @adam_butler38. That thing sounds like a total ripoff.

Bring up the grounding issue nobody talks about... those old houses with knob and tube wiring can mess with wireless signal propagation in weird ways because of how the metal lath and plaster interacts with the radio waves. Had a job where a panel in the basement couldn't reach the attic unit until we moved it six inches away from a cast iron vent stack. The old materials create invisible dead zones that modern Ethernet runs never had to deal with.

Read somewhere that chickens actually prefer tearing things up because its in their nature to forage and destroy. They get bored with easy setups and like a little chaos in their lives. So yeah, the straw life is probably more fun for them even if its messier for us.