#the-water-cooler

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last cedar
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Why not! /s

real frigate
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Yeah, that's really the only thing I automate with mine. Otherwise it already knows when to go into heat/cool/fan etc.

real frigate
last cedar
forest edge
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quiet down you. people still trying to sleep

solar zealot
last cedar
clear ferry
primal laurel
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dumb thermostats just bleed you money. Heating is a big percentage of your total energy bill

last cedar
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I can see an arguement that it may be nice to automatically reduce internal temp when you are away for a long time, but I also have heard it can take less energy to maintain a steady temperature over heating and then pausing and then re-heating

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Not sure who has done the maths on it, though

primal laurel
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I am, my master thesis is about the maths

solar zealot
last cedar
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(I am so sorry)

solar zealot
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Stuff like turning it off at night just makes sense for classic radiator heatings as they use significantly higher temperature deltas

forest edge
clever mortar
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Depends more on the materials the home is made from - modern lightweight construction is a lot quicker to heat and cool than stuff with thermal mass

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My current home is a lot larger than the last one, but the last one was brick and stone everywhere. Heating or cooling it took time. This house, no time at all.

forest edge
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we we don't got many mud huts around here

primal laurel
solar zealot
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It makes pretty much no difference at all, the pre heating temp of the water is marginally higher than your targeted room temperature

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It automatically regulates based on the water return temp, there is nothing to do at all

primal laurel
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you're wrong, sorry

clever mortar
solar zealot
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I don't think the data gathered over the last decade for my heating would say so. If you believe spending thousands on thermostats is something you recoup with your setup that's fine aswell but it most definitely doesn't for what I am experiencing here

clear ferry
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I'd say heating cooling is 15% of my energy bill, 20% is servers and 25% is water heater, the rest is regular day to day

forest edge
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too many showers or just keeping the pipes from freezing?

clear ferry
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with 2 kids and 2 adults a lot of hot water is spent per day

primal laurel
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here about 80% of the total energy consumption of a household is natural gas. Most of that is heating, a small part cooking

clear ferry
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yuck gas

solar zealot
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Cooking on gas seems to be pretty free

forest edge
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gas is still very efficient

clear ferry
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I prefer my house not being a potential death trap

forest edge
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then you should disconnect the power

solar zealot
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Why would that be any more dangerous than any other of the things around you

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It's like extraordinary safe

clear ferry
solar zealot
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It's not like it's soft tube rubber pipes like on grills

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Or at least, it shouldn't be

primal laurel
solar zealot
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Gladly

primal laurel
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moving that 80% gas consumption to electricity is... challenging

forest edge
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ac, dryer, water tank and optionally oven

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those 4 are better off gas always imo

solar zealot
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What madness of a dryer would run off gas

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Sounds American to me

clear ferry
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I still have only seen 4 houses in my life with any gas

real frigate
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gas > electric for appliances (in the US at least)

solar zealot
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The 47kw dryer

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It comes with alternative modes to defrost the sidewalks of the whole neighborhood

forest edge
solar zealot
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I heard of them

forest edge
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how do you skip gas and go straight to electric? did you go from clothes line outside to electric? lol

solar zealot
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That's what I would assume but I am not old enough to know

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It's been electric since I can remember and it turned to heat pumps nowadays

forest edge
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I forgot that side of the world likes to use your indoor radiators etc

solar zealot
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It's probably like the "dryer vent" thing that we don't have around here

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Maybe that's also the reason for why they don't show up here often enough to know

clear ferry
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When I grew up we had probably 25 indoor electric radiators

forest edge
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crazy

clear ferry
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9 months winter baby

forest edge
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east coast here homes/apartment still use steam radiators for heating. spent the weekend at a friends and I couldn't believe they would leave their windows open just to balance the heat output during the winter lol

clear ferry
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ours used to be centrally controlled with room sensors, so you just had to set and forget usually

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but I haven't seen electric radiators in over 2 decades now

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it is all heat pumps

primal laurel
# clear ferry I still have only seen 4 houses in my life with any gas

you're not sitting on Europe's largest gas field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field

Groningen gas field

The Groningen gas field is a natural gas field in Groningen province in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. With an estimated 2,740 billion cubic metres of recoverable natural gas it is the largest natural gas field in Europe and one of the largest in the world.
The gas field was discovered in 1959 near Slochteren. The subsequent extractio...

clear ferry
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thank dog

solar zealot
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dont deflate the netherlands

primal laurel
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we already closed it

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too many earthquakes

solar zealot
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thats what keeps it afloat

primal laurel
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you're using a lot of it

solar zealot
clear ferry
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I just spun up a 2U server that pulls 730w idle

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behold boys

primal laurel
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what, did intel release a new i9 CPU?

clear ferry
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No, this is dual socket

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not single socket nonsense

solar zealot
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so an i18

clear ferry
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this guy cpus

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oh the system actually peaked at 969w while booting

solar zealot
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sorry there are probably called Intel Core Ultra processor Gold 218R

clear ferry
young sigil
# last cedar Not sure who has done the maths on it, though

I saved hundreds of $ last winter by leaving my ducted heating on and just automating a small temperature reduction when I was away, in bed or during peak electricity times. Compared to the previous year when I was switching it on and off.

forest edge
clear ferry
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brrrrrrrr

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now imagine a room with 634 of these

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where 128 of them also have 2x H100 each,

forest edge
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about time. https://youtu.be/LqizLQDi9BM?si=yN19RJzN-LQM9X35
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solar zealot
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would it make more sense to interpolate sensor data at the sensor or at the visualization

primal laurel
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I have studied the paper this was based on by TNO (dutch research organization), it's quite interesting. Because of the E/W orientation you reduce the peak power at noon but you match the typical residential consumption pattern much better. Aka you increase your self consumption without changing your behaviour

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Which is exactly what we need here, if it wasn't for our 100% net metering bullshit

young sigil
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Still watching it but far from the equator it is common to stand up solar panels more than the optimum angle. It reduces the energy collected in summer (when there is generally more than enough anyway) but makes collection in winter more efficient.

clear ferry
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Wonder if there has been done any good studies on midnight sun and solar panels

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because very few people have solar panels in the arctic

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but we also have no sunlight in winter so

primal laurel
young sigil
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We've been fitting them to the North side of buildings in Antarctica (vertical).

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last cedar
last cedar
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In the winter, the best angle for my panels is straight standing up anyway 🤣

last cedar
orchid rose
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Not sure why but the guy rubs me the wrong way. I've only seen a few of his videos but I guess it's the "undecided" part that triggers me. It's the Internet, tell me if it's good or the worst thing ever!

forest edge
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i'm all for it. a lot easier to deal with panels installed like billboards than on your roof lol

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only downside is, in my location they might get blown over more frequently

primal laurel
orchid rose
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You can run these in an angle as well and they get better results in some (most?) environments

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they catch the bouncing light from the ground and the atmosphere with the backside. Works best during spring etc

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But it really sounded like a gimmick for the most part but I'm sure there can be some usecases for them

primal laurel
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Well it reduces one of the biggest issues with solar. Which is that it's peak output power occurs at a time when nobody needs electricity

orchid rose
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Yeah that's fair, but you can get less overall so it depends on the battery capacity then

primal laurel
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We don't use batteries, too expensive

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But also getting more affordable

orchid rose
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In that case yeah it can definitely have an advantage

solar zealot
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I've seen a couple of fence and wall no tilt installations around here

glacial knot
solar zealot
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It's a bit weird of a usecase for home installations as a fence is usually something that exists as protective boundary

glacial knot
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fences are social contracts

primal laurel
glacial knot
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if it's hot, ACs good to run 😂

primal laurel
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Yeah but there is some flexibility in how you run it, same for heat pumps

prisma briar
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If I were on a variable rate connection I'd run my AC really low during the day to get my house cold enough to not need it at night

primal laurel
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Yeah that's more or less the idea. But you can model the building thermal physics directly and run an optimization over that model to get an optimal curve

solar zealot
glacial knot
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❓❓❓

clever mortar
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Wilson in Home Improvement

solar zealot
iron granite
primal laurel
static schooner
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Them's the rules

forest edge
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glad my house has more of a easment between my neighbors lol

orchid rose
dusky plank
clear ferry
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Struggles when your daughter is a giant

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Kids are recommended to sit rear facing until 7 years

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Aka 125cm / 23kg

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My daughter is 5 and a half and is 127 and 23kg

orchid rose
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They are squishy enough I'm sure

prisma briar
# static schooner

If it dropped a lot of sap I wouldn't want that tree over my driveway either

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But I think a carport would look more tactful

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That stuff can be really hard to clean off a car

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Honestly it looks like they could just park a bit further back too. I wonder if they had a large vehicle or something they needed it cut for.

clear ferry
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Apparently according to google my daughter is an average 9 year old American girl

prisma briar
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Sign her up for wrestling

primal laurel
clear ferry
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No, I'm what in Norway is called "kvæn" aka "mountain finn"

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My father's side is 190-215

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My grandmother was 190

primal laurel
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lol, im going to remember that one

forest edge
clear ferry
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Yes, the second minority population in Norway

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Exiled / travelling finns employed in wood cutting and fishing

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kveenit/lantalaiset/lappilaiset to you @orchid rose

glacial knot
clear ferry
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Hah, no cm

red rock
last cedar
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The genes here are different

clear ferry
crisp oriole
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20 kg more. what for racoon is that?

solar zealot
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thats what all you can thrash does

crisp oriole
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I dont waste food.

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o dear. I really need a power socket at my electric panel. my P1 meter needed a usb powerbank wifi connect boost.

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Now on the radio. Nightmares that you cant login to social media

clear ferry
crisp oriole
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only IT dreams i have if i need to test something. <-- software tester.

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that is always very odd

primal laurel
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Radio has more ads than TV nowadays

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Fuck that

real frigate
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What's "radio"?

static schooner
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many of the radio ads in my area are English translations from Mexico about their upcoming presidential election

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I cna't wait for it to be over

primal laurel
primal laurel
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Fun country

tidal bronze
forest edge
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no it's delivered by donkey to a transmitter on the US side

static schooner
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We have a number of radio and TV stations colloquially called "border blasters" where the transmitter is in Tijuana and points to the US. When they started back in the early 80s, they use to record shows and drive them across the border to play and had DJs cross the border every day for live stuff

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somehow it gets through the impenetrable wall that keeps all migrants out

forest edge
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didn't think cali refered to them as migrants

forest edge
clear ferry
forest edge
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I like the radio. streaming doesn't give you news and weather bits between songs

clear ferry
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No, weather I already know 5 days ahead, and news I can just ask google to give me, then it resumes streaming

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Fully integrated wireless Android Auto is nice

forest edge
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psh you gotta request information.. what is this? 1990's

clear ferry
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It does feel like it sometimes yes

forest edge
glacial knot
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your personal AI doesn't know where you want to go when you want to go and spoonfeeds you the necessary information?

clear ferry
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Sorry, I only have 4x H200s

red rock
clear ferry
primal laurel
primal laurel
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@clear ferry do you do this?

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get some monks to bless your servers

gleaming crater
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@last cedar

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iron granite
last cedar
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I found a pic of @clear ferry comissioning new servers

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last cedar
static schooner
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My cat has started sleeping in my chair in my home office and the mmWave sensor keeps the light on now. Technology failure

real frigate
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lol I have that problem with my dogs on the couch.

primal laurel
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Mmwave can be used to do object detection too, like frigate

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But it requires quite some processing power

young sky
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Happy to see that my Flood Sensor is working! Sad to see that my flood sensor triggered 😦

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tidal bronze
young sky
# tidal bronze Not an alert I would ever wanna see.

Furtunatelly is not something too critical, some (I am hoping) minor failure in the washing machine let some water out. But glad that I had this because I was able to see this quickly and try to stop a worse case of flodding

tidal bronze
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I have a closed loop with leak detection, so turns off main valve at detection. Still will not help a clothes or dish washer seal failure.

tidal bronze
static schooner
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Black cat on a black chair sleeping. Needs to ignore furry things

real frigate
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All my mmWave sensors detect my dogs. Even when they're sleeping.

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Wrecks havoc when they decide to get on the couch and my living room automations start kicking off.

static schooner
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I probably just need to remember to turn the chair away from the sensor

tidal bronze
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I had issues with my roborocks, lights kicking in randomly at night. Lol. Had to fine tune to ignore

real frigate
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Would that work though (turning the chair)?

static schooner
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The back of the chair should block the sensor?

tidal bronze
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I doubt that

real frigate
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lmao I mounted my mmWave sensors high enough that my dogs and vacuum doesn't trigger them.

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Yeah, I don't think it would work as mmWave can pass through objects.

static schooner
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SHe cycles through a set of 10 or so spots over time, so it will resolve itself at some point

forest edge
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i'm old school. i just use my eyeballs

glacial knot
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how do you turn on your lights with your eyeballs?

forest edge
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one blink for on, two for off

static schooner
forest edge
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ugh I really hope all this inflation crap goes down even more over the next 5 years

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trying to have a house built with even today's prices is dumb

tidal bronze
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SLZB-06M is making me dig into zibgee again

forest edge
tidal bronze
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Very good.

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LQI from same location doubled

clear ferry
forest edge
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microsoft does make good strong stuff

scenic radish
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damn, the twin princes in DS3 are a real bitch aren't they

primal laurel
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I struggled more with other bosses

soft oar
winged obsidian
scenic radish
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Still haven't been able to. I had to summon one of the NPCs to do it

forest edge
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ok that was weird. walked out back and saw what looked like 4 crows having a meeting then when they saw me they flew off like nothing was out of the ordinary

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if they were pecking at the ground or something it would have looked normal but they were facing one another as if they were talking

winged obsidian
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I had some crows absolutely bombard my car in the driveway a few weeks ago. I have no idea why. There are no trees nearby, so they must have done it from the air.

static schooner
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It's usually because you just washed your car

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they hate clean cars for some reason

scenic radish
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be nice to them and they'll bring you shiny things

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or so I've heard

winged obsidian
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I promise my car was already dirty. Hadn't washed it since the last ski trip.

clear ferry
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😢

real frigate
forest edge
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they were in the neighbors yard not mine. but they really did look like they were hanging out having a convo

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they weren't making any noises

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just looking at one another

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in a circle

real frigate
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So, telepathic crows shit talking your neighbor then?

tidal bronze
forest edge
static schooner
forest edge
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now twits want barn door style doors inside thier homes so that drove up the price

real frigate
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Them's fighting words!!! Although, my dogs are most of the time dumber than a box of rocks... 😉

tidal bronze
forest edge
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nice expansion earing there rob lol

static schooner
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They plan and execute better than some PMs I know 🙂

static schooner
real frigate
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Yeah, I've seen a few documentaries about them... Amazing birds and the cognitive abilities... insane.

forest edge
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we are suppose to get scattered rains this weekend and I just got a message from a handyman I was going to pay to paint the facia and soffits on my mother house saying he wanted to start painting in the morning. not sure if I should tell him no thanks i'll find someone else or not lol

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finite atlas
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I have days, where i feel exactly like that

forest edge
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soft oar
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the internet is full of bots now

red rock
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LMAOOOOO

tidal bronze
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@forest edge outdoor cooking and Crab Sandwich, just for you. 😀

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glacial knot
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paper plates? What did you do to quad?

tidal bronze
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Not in a state to handle anything but paper 😆

glacial knot
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I don't see enough typos for enough alcohol

tidal bronze
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2 of my buddies came over so had a bet to have wine instead of coffee for 2 mornings. 630 is too early.

tidal bronze
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Back to the grill.

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last cedar
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Why is it doing that, ffs discord

tidal bronze
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solar zealot
tidal bronze
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@forest edge

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Go explore!

forest edge
tidal bronze
forest edge
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I read you have a 68% chance of catching crabs just breathing the air there lol

tidal bronze
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True, seafood galore

forest edge
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is that the new street slang for chlamydia? lol

orchid rose
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(Americans wouldn't understand)

tidal bronze
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If we don't understand, does it even matter?

orchid rose
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Somehow yes

forest edge
tidal bronze
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@forest edge LA fruit medley for ya!

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forest edge
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yea you being an actual seagull in real life would make so much sense

ocean oar
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Gave up 2 cherries short of actually cutting up the entire fruit salad

tidal bronze
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I got tired, lychee, nectarines, golden berries, pine berries, cantaloupe, dragon fruit, cherries and apples. Done cutting 🤣

orchid rose
ocean oar
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Dragonfruit

orchid rose
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Gotcha. And it doesn't make sense I know, but my brain can't avoid it

ocean oar
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Fun fact, it's the fruit from a kind of cactus

tidal bronze
orchid rose
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Sir, it's 1:20AM and and I don't appreciate being this hungry

tidal bronze
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So sorry.

forest edge
orchid rose
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someone cooked them well-done

tidal bronze
forest edge
winged obsidian
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Not a salad, but as fresh as it gets

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tidal bronze
winged obsidian
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My vine is awful close to the back wall of my garage. Think I’ll stick to artisanal hand-picked, individually selected for ripeness, and not insane. Maybe wait for the HA integration.

forest edge
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yahoo is still around?

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lol

last cedar
last cedar
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(Not me!)

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Well, not yet anyway

thorn linden
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Hi Mod, I have just installed the mariadb addon and it said the installation was completed but I dont see the 3306 open when checking the listnening port

last cedar
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This isn't a support channel@thorn linden

thorn linden
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Ok, thanks @last cedar

last cedar
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Good luck, hope you get a solution

upbeat ridge
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Hi Guys i want to integrate iptv in HA. I created a new Dashboard with Link to waipu.tv. i get this Error: err_blocked_by_response.

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hybrid obsidian
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didnt mention HA @iron granite

iron granite
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No problem. Let it cook here and maybe it might get a nice raccoon gif shksShrug

hybrid obsidian
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mm raccoons

forest edge
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@hybrid obsidianwhy does it need to be poe? just use one of those poe adapters where it break power off into it's own seperate connection for what you need

hybrid obsidian
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And I need like 4 of them eventually 🙂

forest edge
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hybrid obsidian
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well, im not against spending $500 on a POE tablet assuming its performant enough

forest edge
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pretty sure the kits ones i've seen are more over 1k

hybrid obsidian
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kit?

forest edge
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yeas they are tablets that come with the wall plate, cable etc

hybrid obsidian
forest edge
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there a bunch of variations of those.. they even have battery backup

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that would be a better long term solution than a tablet

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@last cedarwanna come test the newest anti racoon deterrent? https://youtu.be/ETnHgtjBq6w?si=euoTugTCRqSgl6LN

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static schooner
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Ah, the smell of charred fur in the evening...

glacial knot
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why?

iron granite
tidal bronze
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@forest edge any thoughts on going from 1" PEX to 1/8NPT? Sharkbite if possible

forest edge
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1" to 1/8"? lol

real frigate
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That's one way to save on water... lol

tidal bronze
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Yes

forest edge
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sharkbite to threaded to brass

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you can find brass connections of just about anything

tidal bronze
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Changing out Whole house water filters and thinking of bringing in water pressure data to HA

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Every sensor I can find is 1/8

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Sharkbite 1" T >>>> 1/8NPT I guess

forest edge
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are saddle connectors out of the question?

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link your sensor

tidal bronze
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70 psi with saddle?

forest edge
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Oh i dunno what thier threshhold is

tidal bronze
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All lines are 1" from Filter system to Softener

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Looking to do 4 taps

forest edge
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you can alway T and just do what I said about. 1" pex to brass to sensor

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quick google search states saddle connectors can handle up to 125psi

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that would be the fastest, cheapiest option if you know your shit dosen't exceed that

tidal bronze
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Should not since it's after the pressure regulator

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forest edge
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maiden mulch
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Does anyone know where I could get some assistance with SSL?

static schooner
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Depends on what it's for

forest edge
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@tidal bronzedid you cut the wrong pipe and flood your house yet?

ocean oar
forest edge
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this more stuff only accessible in new zealand?

ocean oar
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TBH no idea. But they make them in all of the various 900MHz frequencies, so there's definitely a version that's legal to use in the US, even if no-one is selling it 😛

tidal bronze
forest edge
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takes you two week to plan a sensor? lol

tidal bronze
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5 sensors. Going to add flow sensors as well

iron granite
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If you add enough sensors, you don't need any pipes

tidal bronze
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Best line on discord yet.

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For now I am going to concentrate on this steak at hand 😆

forest edge
real frigate
tidal bronze
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This one is for my welldone buddy.

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ocean oar
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Mmm, boot leather

real frigate
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That’s just wrong… Damn neanderthals…

forest edge
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got a1 steak sauce?

prisma briar
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At that point just make a hamburger for them or something, no need to waste a steak, lol.

tidal bronze
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Medium rare aside, I am a beef tatare kinda guy.

real frigate
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Wait. Well done hamburgers?! Is there no justice left in this world???

tidal bronze
real frigate
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Friends don’t let friends eat shoe leather.

tidal bronze
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Oh wow.

prisma briar
tidal bronze
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It's like that huh?

real frigate
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lol I’m a meat snob. I freely admit it. Too many years spent on the line.

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I had a head chef that would refuse any order above medium. Granted, the restaurant didn’t last too long, but he stood his ground. Had to give him props for that.

tidal bronze
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Props for closing doors?

real frigate
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Props for upholding proper meat temperatures. 🤣 Business acumen not withstanding. ,

tidal bronze
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I only enforce cooking rules for myself. I don't believe in setting rules for anyone's taste buds or likings.

real frigate
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Eh, that’s fair. My son won’t eat meat that is less than burnt. Soooo, I made him cook his own steaks.

forest edge
prisma briar
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My parents burnt everything when I was a kid. Every type of meat was well done.

forest edge
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safer that way

iron granite
iron granite
prisma briar
real frigate
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Damn that’s harsh. lol

prisma briar
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My mom is a pretty good cook most of the time but some of the stuff she put out when we were kids I wouldn't serve to my worst enemy. My dad could never cook anything worth shit.

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And both of them burned any meat

real frigate
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Hahaha sounds like my Irish grandparents. The rumors of dry, flavorless cardboard is true.

iron granite
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Cardboard..... shksDrool

tidal bronze
forest edge
ocean oar
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I was saying this to someone recently, my mother's family are Scottish (strike 1 for cooking ability), and also teetotalers.
Their cooking was where flavour and texture went to die.

real frigate
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My grandmother used to make “spaghetti” when I was kid. Her idea of it was just undercooked spaghetti on a plate with heated up tomato “sauce” (which came from a can) and somehow she always managed to burn the sauce. 🤣

prisma briar
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One of my grandmas made really bland food because my grandpa had a stomach issue, I don't think I've ever seen my other grandma make anything more advanced than a sandwich.

ocean oar
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But worse than that, as well as boiled-to-death vegetables, largely unseasoned meat dishes, and all the other atrocities there is just nothing making it a cohesive meal.
You got a protein item, a carbohydrate item, and whatever else, but they never would be cooked in ways that would complement one another.

real frigate
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Omg I soooooo do not miss those “meals”

prisma briar
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Boiled carrots, every meal my grandma made included carrots sliced, dropped in water, boiled, then put in a bowl.

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Absolutely zero seasoning

real frigate
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Were they boiled to the point you couldn’t stick a fork in them?

prisma briar
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Yea, they'd turn to mush and fall apart if you stabbed them with a fork

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Had to use a spoon

ocean oar
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They certainly were. Also broccoli. Steamed until it just barely could be removed from the pot in one piece

real frigate
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lmao. And this is why I learned to cook for myself.

iron granite
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My grandfather was a brilliant cook, but he only cooked on Sundays. He made everything himself. No convenience products.

real frigate
ocean oar
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I try to as much as possible, but working a 9-5 and cooking from-scratch meals certainly aren't complimentary tasks

forest edge
iron granite
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I'm not cooking much myself. It is mostly a self rewarding thing.

tidal bronze
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70% of things should not take more than 30 min

ocean oar
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Unfortunately one of my favourite things - especially in these colder months - is risotto. Reasonably you can get that down to about an hour, but there's a limit to how fast you can cook it without ruining the texture

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I mean 90% of cooking is time management, the better you are at parallelising your processes the better everything goes

forest edge
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lol learning to cook. who has time for that

tidal bronze
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I agree. It's something to master. One ot my favorites as well.

tidal bronze
forest edge
tidal bronze
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Middle earth issues. Not having time.

real frigate
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lol I’d rather starve than have shitty food.

forest edge
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this is why it takes you two weeks to put in a flow sensor lol

tidal bronze
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Cooking or travellings for food. There's nothing more important than that

iron granite
real frigate
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I need that app in my life. Is there a way to change it from wine to whiskey though? Asking for a friend.

tidal bronze
ocean oar
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You can't turn wine into whisk(e)y, but you could turn it into brandy by distilling it. Will that do?

real frigate
ocean oar
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I don't much care for it. You also have to age it, of course

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I do - because I'm a weirdo - like Grappa though.

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It's basically-but not-quite brandy, but a drink for Italian peasants rather than French aristocrats 🤣

unkempt seal
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interesting, i do keep liqour at home on a shelf, though i rarely find the desire to drink it, got a large bottle of monkeys shoulder, tequila and a few others

ocean oar
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Heh, I have a pretty well stocked bar. Probably close to 100 bottles in various states.

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I like to be able to make the majority of whatever weird shit people ask for if they visit

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But personally I drink gin and whisky (Scotch) the most

unkempt seal
ocean oar
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Here's around half of it

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A large part of the problem here too is people hear you like whisky, and then they buy you whisky as thankyou gifts

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Then there are the things that are only for cooking

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etc, etc

tidal bronze
ocean oar
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Also that Havana club rum is homemade vanilla essence 🙂

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Which people are welcome to drink, but I definitely wouldn't recommend

last cedar
primal laurel
bitter ocean
winged obsidian
winged obsidian
torpid grove
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I need a new system for tracking projects and tasks at home. who has something good?

glacial knot
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just uses todo lists in keep

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I have tried some of the self hosting project management stuff, but wasn't happy with any

torpid grove
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you clearly don't have enough to do

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😉

glacial knot
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for larger (Software) projects, I just write something similar to whitepapers as "bugtracker" 🤷

glacial knot
torpid grove
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i have an older house, a woodworking habit, and a severe hobby collection

glacial knot
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don't get too much WIP in the first two

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and just be rich and buy things when you want them for the collection 🧠

torpid grove
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way too late for that, man.

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i don't collect objects, I collect hobbies

glacial knot
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then work off the WIP before you start new things 😮

torpid grove
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wtf do you think I'm looking for a new system?

glacial knot
glacial knot
torpid grove
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every task could be considered one big WIP

glacial knot
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but yea, the question is probably whether you want more of a process, or more of a program 🤔

torpid grove
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"make myself and my partner happy with our living space

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right now I'd be happy with a good way to capture all of the details

glacial knot
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that's the mission statement 🙂

forest edge
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this conversation is confusing

glacial knot
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You could try something like openproject and actually do some project management
But I find that incredibly tiring

torpid grove
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the last couple of days all I can think about is getting a huge stack of those exam bluebooks and putting one mid-level goal in each one and then writing everything I can think about that heading in each book

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whatever it is, it has to be able to be shared with someone who isn't going to look at more than a few pages on a screen

forest edge
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less thinking, more doing equals less stuff to think about

torpid grove
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in my experience, that's the kind of thing people say when they have total control over their priorities

forest edge
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one foot in front of the other

torpid grove
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i'm not some child fresh from school. I'm a grown man, drowning under responsibilities with a partner who has the fucking summer off and won't stop piling on

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i don't want dumb platitudes, so if they're all you have then thank you but no

forest edge
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google search "Handyman"

primal laurel
glacial knot
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Yea, they didn't mention a hobby related to raccoons

torpid grove
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I'm very much not going to ask

winged obsidian
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I’ve had good experience with ToDoist. Downside is it’s a paid subscription

forest edge
primal laurel
last cedar
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Currently in one of my disguises...

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primal laurel
prisma briar
tidal bronze
forest edge
tidal bronze
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I think weak is starting up a single pager to open a gate without a password. Let's see how long this lasts.

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Showing some love to uber and uber eats.

forest edge
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you are trying to get your gate to open automatically for random ubers and uber eat drivers?

tidal bronze
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Already done. Lol. Putting my trust in cloudflare page rules.

forest edge
tidal bronze
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No Rip down here

forest edge
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you are gonna get to the point where when you automate something and it goes wrong, it's going to like wreck everything lol

tidal bronze
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Well they said, automate everything

forest edge
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think they were refering to getting a butler

tidal bronze
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Single topic MQTT connector to cloud and CF front-end. Not that much worried. Wanted to do this for a long time. Public facing service entrace opener. Lol.

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Had to use s RF booster to trigger. 🤣

forest edge
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so when they hit the main community gate they "page" you to tell you that your uber is there and that page is what opens your gate?

tidal bronze
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Main gate no chance. This is service/resident gate.

forest edge
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I guess I don't fully understand what you are referring to page. talking about a keypad at your resident gate?

tidal bronze
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Nopes. Single web page. With a button.

forest edge
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and these services would use that?

tidal bronze
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Yep.

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I have to message them all the time anyway.

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So trying to avoid that with keyboard shortcut

ocean oar
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Should hook up a phone that can receive SMS.
Put "SMS GATE to +1234567890 to open"

tidal bronze
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That's a thought. Will add the with Twillio

forest edge
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does the gate have a keypad?

tidal bronze
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Nopes.

forest edge
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ah the rf remote comment

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seems like a better solution would be to add some kind of button on the outside of the gate that would only work during a window time frame when you know an uber would be arriving

tidal bronze
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I cam turn on and off the automation

forest edge
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actually don't you have a camera facing that? could just trigger off vehicle detection during an automated time frame lol

ocean oar
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Better still, Uber gives you the license plate of the driver

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Dunno if you can retrieve it programatically but it's definitely there

tidal bronze
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Great ideas. This started with proximity based gate opening for myself and wife. So many more things to implement

forest edge
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time to ditch frigate and go with something with vehicle and plate recognition lol

tidal bronze
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I am tracking the vehicle GPS accurate to 500ft. Works like a charm all the time.

forest edge
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yea but does squat for guests/uber

tidal bronze
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I know. Keyboard shortcut is pretty quick for me. 4 characters and send

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I am using caller ID from main gate to trigger front yard lights. Need to work on Uber triggers now. Lol

forest edge
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does your life alert also trigger it? lol

tidal bronze
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Been thinking of mmwave fall detection sensors.

ocean oar
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"Help, I've fallen and I can't get up"
"Acknowledged, turning on the front door exterior lights"

forest edge
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you could just remove the gate and not have any of these issues

tidal bronze
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I can't get used to carrying keys or locking cars or doors. Sorry.

forest edge
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I mean they make plenty of options for auto door unlock

static schooner
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And we've established that walls and gates keep unwanted guests out

tidal bronze
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I have no idea where the keys are to any of the doors. Don't remember last time I've locked ot checked if it's locked.

forest edge
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so your whole security is a main security gate and a resident gate?

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whats the address again?

tidal bronze
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Lmao.

static schooner
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Sign up for Uber/Eats and hope you get lucky

tidal bronze
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I will text a neighbor or they will text me "hey your garage door is open for last 2 days" no need for HA to remind me

forest edge
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you would not survive outside your gated community lol

tidal bronze
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I do alright. Now in TN

forest edge
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you don't live there.. thats the key lol

real frigate
tidal bronze
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You don't wanna know. 😆

real frigate
tidal bronze
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Chattanooga

real frigate
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Eh, there are worse places you could end up in TN, to be honest.

tidal bronze
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I know.

weak musk
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Municipal gig internet in Chattanooga, right?

real frigate
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One of my favorite places to drive is Tellico Plains, TN. They have some amazing roads there.

tidal bronze
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I love the looks, food not so much.

real frigate
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lol coming from CA, can’t say I’m surprised. But, drive about 3 hours east and you’ll get some amazing mountain BBQ.

ocean oar
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"mountain bbq" sounds like it's in the same family as "mountain oysters"

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Definitely not bbq

tidal bronze
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Gone fishing

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real frigate
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lmao. You can find mountain oysters here too.

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Damn I’m itching for a drive to the mountains now.

prisma briar
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If you move to the mountains every drive is a drive in the mountains

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Also groceries cost more

tidal bronze
real frigate
real frigate
forest edge
prisma briar
real frigate
prisma briar
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Colorado

tidal bronze
real frigate
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Ahhhhh gotcha. Yeah, I’ve been on the I-25 through NM. SOOOOOO BORING

forest edge
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or is there mostly sign language at play there

tidal bronze
prisma briar
real frigate
prisma briar
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(I'm in Colorado Springs but close enough, heh)

forest edge
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dude eats cardboard cut outs in bread slice shape

real frigate
tidal bronze
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Houses along TN river, me like.

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forest edge
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f that. you need a groundskeeper

prisma briar
tidal bronze
prisma briar
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Unless you follow the rockies but there's not a ton of reason to do that when driving

real frigate
tidal bronze
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Oh I am sorry.

prisma briar
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They wake up to a bucket of cholesterol

real frigate
real frigate
forest edge
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he's allergic

real frigate
prisma briar
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Did you know there's an Ontario, CA?

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Got confused when a package was in Ontario, CA once and had to look it up.

real frigate
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Yup. I’ve been through Ontario a few times. Actually a nice city.

tidal bronze
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If not for humidity I could get used to this.

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real frigate
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@tidal bronze so, head east to the Tail of the Dragon (NC-129) and stop at Deals Gap and get yourself a Dragon Bowl for breakfast. You’ll thank me later.

tidal bronze
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In 2 weeks. Gotta leave tomorrow AM.

real frigate
tidal bronze
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But.....I was sweating 😓 not good

forest edge
prisma briar
tidal bronze
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I know, inside before that episode.

prisma briar
real frigate
tidal bronze
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Oh then you should know.

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I can deal with anything not sweat

real frigate
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100%. But it’s not bad out here… yet. Come late June/early July, oh it gets miserable.

real frigate
forest edge
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60%+ humidy for life

tidal bronze
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That's why I never go outside whenever in FL. I have no idea how people deal with it.

prisma briar
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I spent two weeks in Nashville and it was absurdly rainy every day I was there. Never seen rain like that in Colorado.

real frigate
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Florida is the worst. I was there for hurricane Andrew in 1992 and I have never stepped foot in that state since.

tidal bronze
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100% flyover

real frigate
prisma briar
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We had a tornado warning once around 2003 here

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They ended up touching down in a field though

real frigate
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Yeah, this was a full fledged EF1. It was insane.

tidal bronze
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@real frigate which part of phx?

real frigate
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Finally got sick of 120 degree temps in 2016 and moved out here to NC.

tidal bronze
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Oh NC. Nice.

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I will still take dry heat over humidity lol

real frigate
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Yup. Love it out here. There’s seasons. Hahaha

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Yeah, every summer I threaten to move back to Phx. lol

tidal bronze
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@prisma briar you must add salt when you travel?

real frigate
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And high-altitude cooking directions. 🤣

tidal bronze
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Lol

prisma briar
real frigate
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I had a friend of mine visit from Denver once and I teased him endlessly about that.

prisma briar
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You're just jealous our water boils faster

tidal bronze
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Most airline food is tested there.

real frigate
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lol no sir. Thats a violation of basic physics and your sorcery will not be tolerated.

tidal bronze
prisma briar
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No? I've never really noticed wanting more salt when I travel.

tidal bronze
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Just messing with ya.

last cedar
prisma briar
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yeeeee

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real frigate
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Not enough media players.

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Amateur hour 🤣 (kidding)

prisma briar
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I made a media router that lets me go from sources to routes to sinks, this exposes all the controls those various entries have available in HA.

I can enable/disable (play/stop) any of them, I can send next/previous/pause to sources if they have a small script running on them, I figured out how to get my TV to export a PCM stream over the network and now it's a source, it supports a Windows driver that exports PCM over the network for audio from Windows, I added RTP PCM support for audio from PulseAudio. It sends audio to PCM renderers or has an MP3 stream available over an HTTP api.

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I can play MP3s to sinks so I can play sounds from them in automations

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So now I can have like an automation for 'go to bed' that disables music in my office, enables it in my bedroom, sets the volume really low, then turns it off after an hour or so

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Or 'take a shower' that turns on the exhaust fan in my bathroom and routes music there

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Or since I can get output from my TV now I can go to the bathroom and route my TV audio to all the speakers on the way and keep listening

real frigate
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That’s actually pretty impressive! But, who listens to TV in the shower? Music I get, but TV?

prisma briar
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I was thinking more like I'm watching a move with other people so I don't want to pause it but I need to run to the bathroom during it

real frigate
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Ahhhhh, ok. That makes more sense. I’m not that nice. Movie gets paused if I have to run to the bathroom. My TV, my rules. 🤣

prisma briar
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I could do something like pipe my PC to to it to listen to a podcast/youtube video while in the shower

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Maybe I put a waterproof screen in there and feed it an image from vnc, lol

last cedar
prisma briar
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I was just thinking those are pretty easy to DIY

last cedar
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Absolutely, could probably use a "magic mirror" type of thing with an lcd screen behind the right sort of mirror

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Would be absolutely awesome tbh

prisma briar
forest edge
static schooner
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Does your smart siding integrate with HA?

forest edge
weak musk
forest edge
static schooner
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A 'go away' quote

forest edge
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oh

weak musk
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and if you decide not to go away-- they win big.

forest edge
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that doesn't make much sense in the scenarios where the person is given a general idea of what the job is prior to showing up to do the detail quote

weak musk
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Usually jobs like what you're describing get fit around bigger more lucrative jobs.

forest edge
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I can kind of see that but holy hell that would be messed up if a company could survive off just picking those jobs and still survive

weak musk
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This is pretty much standard for the trades

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(and yes, it sucks)

forest edge
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I wish the breaking point would just break already cause I refuse to believe that contractors can charge these amounts in a hurting economy and thrive

weak musk
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If I'm a contractor, and I can get 1 Job at normal rates where this 1 job is building 200 row houses, I'm going to do that. If I can do job 1 + your job at inflated prices (and only work your job when I can fit it in), I'm going to do that.

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It's not an either/or

forest edge
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there is still a breaking point to be had there tho. x amount of competing contractors vs x amount of available jobs

winged obsidian
forest edge
winged obsidian
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I didn't ask you, because there are perfectly good sources that aren't biased by your feels. https://www.bls.gov

Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

forest edge
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guess all the now hiring signs in buisnesses windows is for decoration then

winged obsidian
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Businesses trying to hire people is your evidence that there is low employment? I don't even...

forest edge
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the term "employed" these days is what I was talking about

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you cannot argue there has been a major shift from obtaining income from one means to another over the past x amount of years and even more so since covid

winged obsidian
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OK, well right now the statistics and the behavior of contractors are aligned. If you have a business model that involves contradicting those statistics and behaviors by picking up all those small jobs, I say go for it. Put your money where your mouth is, and profit by being smarter than all of them!

forest edge
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I can't tell if you are in favor of the direction this is heading or against it lol

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I would imagine that at some point even you would see a diffrence and either like or dislike it

winged obsidian
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By "this," do you mean the economy of the United States, or the ability of @forest edge to get cheap labor on demand to "slap on smart siding and rebuild steps on your deck?"

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I'm in favor of the economy.

forest edge
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we went from actually getting back almost half of what we invest into our homes back to less than 30% with an upward trend

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at some point if the direction remains the course

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your new home will be worth less than what you invest in it

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I guess if you buy a home and never add or anything to it, you might be alright

winged obsidian
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Gotcha. I'm not a house flipper. The money I spend on my home isn't for the purpose of being able to sell it to someone else. It's for the purpose of living in it.

forest edge
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the cost of labor vs material vs the value of the outcome just don't match up

glacial knot
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only for as long as the value of outcome lags behind

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if it's 9k to build this for a couple years, the result is gonna be valued at 9k

forest edge
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you can call it wanting "cheap labor" all day long but the reality is, wanting fair pricing for the product you recieve

winged obsidian
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I don't go to home buyers to adjudicate the value of upgrades to my home. Decisions by home buyers are demonstrably poor.

forest edge
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even if you rent

winged obsidian
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I've owned my home for a little over 25 years, and have remodeled. I did not remodel because it would increase the value of my house to someone else.

forest edge
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we want something back in our investments

winged obsidian
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Contractors are motivated to reduce your ROI as much as possible by increasing their prices as much as they can.

forest edge
winged obsidian
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Perhaps ironically, the term for that is "economic rent"

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Where did I come up with the idea that contractors are motivated to charge you as much as they can? Is that somehow not obvious?

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The more they charge you, the lower your ROI will be. That's just math.

forest edge
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the idea they are motivated to reduce your roi

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they are charging what they can get away with.. (back to the breaking point comment)

forest edge
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having a why dosen't make it better tho lol

winged obsidian
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Maybe we should start with some basic economics here. The estimate you were unhappy about was to apply some siding and rebuild some steps. What should be the ROI? The proper ROI for rebuilding steps is $0, because it's not an investment in the first place. It's maintenance. Those steps have been depreciating in value since they were first built. The value of your house should go down as it accumulates various bits of depreciation. Roof, painting, furnace are all big examples. Houses sell for more with fresh paint, new roofs, and new furnaces. The difference is much bigger if you replace a 25 year old roof than if you replace a 2 year old roof. Whether your siding would be expected to have a positive ROI depend on what's there now, but if it's maintenance to replace existing siding then it shoudl be another $0 non-investment. The first article you linked is idiotic because it didn't figure that at all.

forest edge
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roi is the thing in whole

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if the maintence cost as much as the original or even half then there is a problem

winged obsidian
forest edge
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and the age of your roof does impact the roi

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I skimmed. my bad

winged obsidian
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Correct. That is because the age of your roof is the major factor (barring tornadoes etc..) in the value of the current roof.

forest edge
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was bouncing between trying to skim your wall of text and reading something else

winged obsidian
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That's not an ROI. That's maintenance. If your roof need replacing, you're performing maintenance to bring your house back up to the value it had before you lived in it.

forest edge
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correct

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the problem is the percentage of roi vs cost of job

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if you paid 16K for a deck in 2018 and a contractor wanted 10k to replace a small portion of that 5 years later

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while the overall value of the deck hasn't increased by much

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it's an issue

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at some point the cost of labor increasing while the value of target lags behind as ongy stated becomes a real problem

weak musk
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I am so glad I left to grab lunch

forest edge
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yea I don't blame you

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my biggest issue is that wages haven't gone up that much, materials while they did out of control are now settling down so these inflated numbers are just pure profit and not even justified

winged obsidian
# forest edge it's an issue

Hear me out: what if the "issue" is the economy was hurting when the deck was first built, and now it's not. So now contractors are getting paid better.

forest edge
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I just addressed that

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the inflated numbers are just profit.. not even going to increase wages or anything

winged obsidian
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So the skyrocketed, but didn't go up that much?

forest edge
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8ish or so over 4 years is a skyrocket

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but that dosen't warrant the job cost

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I have had 4 general contractors give me a quotes.. the overall prices are all over the place and I even asked for an itemized quote which non will give you for obvious reasons

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is the cost of the job was based on just wages and material cost

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the numbers wouldn't be so vastly diffrent

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they are flat out taking advanateg of the situation like that article pointed out

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which I personally have an issue with

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as I stated before. i just don't get how they can get away with it

winged obsidian
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Ah, I see. I had no idea that you're a socialist. I suggest moving from Misery to Europe.

forest edge
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and as I stated already. at some point you yourself will have to deal with the result

winged obsidian
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(Apologies to all the Europeans reading - but I doubt he'll go anyway)

forest edge
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guess you'll just swallow it with a smile on your face

winged obsidian
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Nah, we got migrants out here working for cheap 😄

forest edge
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but I like how you are fine and even defending the process only because you don't have to "feel" the impact

winged obsidian
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Interesting but incorrect understanding of what impacts I have felt. FWIW, I had a new deck put in last month and in the past two years had my furnace replaced and replaced both the fence around my yard and around my father's. All of those jobs were expensive.I didn't use the lowest bidder on any of them. Both fence jobs were after I delayed for 2-3 years because the material prices had spiked. Gambling that they'd go down again worked out well for me. At least two of the high bids I rejected were definitely at the "I don't really want to do this job" rate.

TL:DR: Contractors will charge what the market will bear. If you find yourself getting a lot of "I don't really want to do this job" bids, it's either a market failure or a buyer failure. If it's the former, it's a transient problem. If it's the latter, it'll be ongoing.

forest edge
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as you already stated. your highest bid was probably around the same as my lowest lol

clear ferry
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Happy pride y'all, I need some new strings

dire spear
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O_o

tidal bronze
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Wow, a bicycle

real frigate
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I kept waiting for something else to come after explaining the picture and I got crickets... 🦗

tidal bronze
winged obsidian
# clear ferry

Strange sequence of colors. Would expect red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple

winged obsidian
dire spear
tidal bronze
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I tried but the weeds are disturbing

winged obsidian
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Spoke nipples.

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I don't say "spoke nipples" very often

real frigate
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@tidal bronze You got out just in time... lol

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tidal bronze
tidal bronze
dire spear
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its gross and humid here too, but not that hot yet so its tolerable.

prisma briar
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88F here with 18% humidity

tidal bronze
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A heatwave is going to hit the west coast this week. Let's see how goes.

winged obsidian
dire spear
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Nothing is cheap anymore labour wise. Its almost like people want to earn enough money to buy food..... I am literally cnc machining a $2500 set of mechanical keyboard keycaps today... cause, why not?

real frigate
tidal bronze
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It takes about 4 to 6 weeks for the skin/pores to get used to from my experience

real frigate
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Yeah, something like that... I dunno, but next week looks brutal here too... Yay summer angryasf

dire spear
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I don't think people adapt to the change physically. more mentally.

winged obsidian
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91F/35%. I am fully adapted to the A/C inside.

tidal bronze
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I guess both. I would sweat like I came out of the shower and locals would look at go WTF.

dire spear
dire spear
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there is no adapting

winged obsidian
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Last week I visited a friend who decided to retire a couple years ago. He loves woodworking. His new toy is a laser cutter. Already had the CNC.

tidal bronze
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I limit my traveling to a minimum during summer. Aggravation is not worth it.

winged obsidian
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My business trips tend towards Phoenix and Charlotte. Neither is a great choice in summer.

dire spear
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i meant to go biking tonight, but its still too hot and gross (almost 30c today, which is hot for here)

real frigate
tidal bronze
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The answer would be beach shorts 😆

dire spear
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portable AC unit?

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like in a space suit

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hehe

winged obsidian
real frigate
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C) All of the above

real frigate
tidal bronze
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Darn it, it's beautiful back home 🙄

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real frigate
tidal bronze
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75 and rain. Hmmmm

winged obsidian
real frigate
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Yup... typical for this time of year.

real frigate
winged obsidian
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Chima's I've walked by a few times and been intrigued. Will give it a try. We've got an STK in downtown SF, but I can point you to better steaks out here.

winged obsidian
tidal bronze
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So Duckworth's serves impossible burger eh? Interesting

real frigate
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Oh, there's some great steak places here... but most of them are either outside of Charlotte (Epic steakhouse in Fort Mill) and a couple of places in like NoDA or South End.

winged obsidian
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Funny - apparently unrelated: https://www.epicsteak.com

EPIC Steak
EPIC Steak

EPIC Steak San Francisco, San Francisco Restaurants With A View, Dining San Francisco, San Francisco Restaurants, Pat Kuleto Restaurants

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^^ I'd say no better than 3rd best steak, but absolutely best views.

real frigate
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I’ve been to Alexander’s. FANTASTIC steaks.

real frigate
tidal bronze
winged obsidian
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Harris' if you want to go old school

tidal bronze
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I now go to Japanese eateries for steak. Done with the regular steak houses.

winged obsidian
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If you want to go full kitsch, House of Prime Rib is still here 🙂

tidal bronze
winged obsidian
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I'm more of a second-order vegetarian: I'll eat vegetarian animals.

tidal bronze
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Same here. But the new age chefs and what they do is mind blowing.

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I am planning to try out this Vegan sushi place if I can get a reservation.

weak musk
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Big day today!
Inovelli (zigbee) canopy fan controllers installed and working flawlessly in 4 ceiling fans-- I can get true states in HA now, yay!
All automations have been updated-- moved from "device" actions to actual service calls.
Replaced a set of z-wave blinds in the dining room (that the motor failed in), new set has a quieter motor and is more responsive than the old ones.
Did one of two glue ups on the guest room side tables I'm trying to get finished before July.
Managed to get a quick bike ride in.

Not too shabby.

tidal bronze
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I am interested to know how you managed to automate the bike ride

prisma briar
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Hired a pettycab

weak musk
forest edge
winged obsidian
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Much better to have the local yokels crawling over each other for nickels, but never let them rednecks ever earn a dime,

forest edge
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and you and texas are the only two spouting that nonsense

winged obsidian
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Your lack of self-awareness is truly awe-inspiring

tidal bronze
forest edge
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lol self awareness?

forest edge
tidal bronze
forest edge
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so the news is fake?

tidal bronze
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People don't live news. When you have nothing to do, that's the only real you get.

forest edge
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tell you what. when you live outside of a bubble in the same state then you can contradict the news that disagrees with your fantasy lol

tidal bronze
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You think I live a fantasy. I am very close to reality than you will ever will be. Hence we don't have any illegals here in California. I would prefer you not use that. I take offense to that. We would not be nothing without the labor force.

weak musk
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Anyone else do something cool today?

forest edge
tidal bronze
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I don't care about ICE. I know how we are the largest economy in the country. Numbers matter. Everything else is just, everything else.

forest edge
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lol

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you've established you don't live on the same plain of existence as the rest of us but for the rest of us.. facts matter lol

tidal bronze
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That's what you think. I can't change that.

forest edge
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its what the world thinks

tidal bronze
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Tell you what, rather than complaining about an already established economic giant do something in KC to make things better.

forest edge
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i'm trying but for some reason certain Californians wanna try and compare their "cheap labor" to everyone else's costly labor and think there is no room for complaint

tidal bronze
tidal bronze
forest edge
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you know.. you were right. you would be nothing without that cheap labor force to exploit lol

tidal bronze
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Whatever that makes you feel less jealous. Let's go with that.

forest edge
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lol jealous

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ironically in this one scenario I am a little. think it would be cheaper for me to pay for bus fare and room accomidations to bus some labor from california or texas and then send them home in 2 days then the average rate going for locals here lol

tidal bronze
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Guess what they will do a better job as well.

forest edge
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ohh I almost made a comment but I better keep that one to myself lol

hollow glacier
dire spear
weak musk
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That’s a bummer. Working on what?

dire spear
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bit broke somehow on an ebony inlay. and now it will be 2 weeks before replacements arrive, so im stuffed

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ha

forest edge
weak musk
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That’s super rad

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Do you have to do anything to stabilize the wood?

dire spear
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stabilise? in what way?

weak musk
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To prevent cracking/warping

dire spear
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it wont crack or warp

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ive stepped on them and throwned them at the wall and they dont break. its kinda impressive. **provided you use appropriate wood - not pine

weak musk
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Pine is nice for burning

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I just wasn’t sure if you had to use resin to stabilize any of the wood. Pretty common with small turnings using exotic woods.

weak musk
dire spear
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hehe

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now fusion is annoying me cause im trying to use an alternate tool for the pink ivory caps in the video (square vs pointed).

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bleh

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there is a super basic path ever software has called a projected pocket. you take a shape, and project it to a 3d surface. Does fusion have it? no. that would be too easy

sturdy sphinx
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Did my atom echo come with a double slit experiment?

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ocean oar
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So I needed a very small RP-SMA antenna for a Bluetooth device. Did a bit of shopping around.

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Whaddaya think, perhaps too small?

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Spec sheet literally says 0dBi gain

forest edge
ocean oar
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I actually bought some 2dBi ones too. Same straight design but about 35mm long

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But I wanted to try this, if the lack of directionality pans out then it might actually be useful

forest edge
ocean oar
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Yeah, that +/- a few millimetres of length

forest edge
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a little too short imo lol

last cedar
primal laurel
ocean oar
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Indeed that is what made it interesting

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As it's for a thing intended to be used interactively

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So avoiding any issues of what angle you have to be relative to it is possibly useful

primal laurel
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curious how it performs, I dont expect much

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an adapter with a pcb trace antenna will probably perform better

ocean oar
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Me too. Should find out on Friday when both things are delivered

forest edge
last cedar
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WHAT

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Haha

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Twitch is a bad name for it, I don't think it will be twitching at all 😦

forest edge
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this is cool https://youtu.be/K0C2XZ-U4dA?si=wXK45539J4zkscq3

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not the thin flex part, but when they turn it over

midnight adder
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ZHA Intermittent unavailable on Skyconnect. For about 2 days now about every 5 minutes (4-6) all zigbee go unavailable. No recent zigbee updates.

young sigil
midnight adder
prisma raft
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Hi, definitely outside of HA scope though somewhat related. Has anyone found an addon implementation (I use HASSOS) of a notification service? (Gotify/ntfy.sh/Pushover)

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Would love to self-host it

dusky plank
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Definitely outside?there‘s a channel dedicated to addons

forest edge
red rock
orchid rose
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I don't get anything about this driver market. Sergio Perez gets a two-year contract in this environment, Sainz gets the boot and I'm supposed to believe these people know what they are doing?

primal laurel
last cedar
orchid rose
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He's French

weak musk
primal laurel
prisma briar
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Uninsulated room with transparent plastic roof

forest edge
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just rename it greenhouse and it will be perfectly normal

ocean oar
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My glasshouse doesn't even get that hot. But it has temperature-activated vents to prevent it

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Fairly typical February temps, 37C/99F is about where it maxes out

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I liked this temperature graph too. Cold front swept through, temperature dropped 22C / 40F in a bit over an hour.

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real frigate
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I love seeing the graph of my mailbox sensor:

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tidal bronze
real frigate
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That’s cool actually… it’ll sit around 130F for most of the summer.

tidal bronze
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So a hot 🔥 one

forest edge
ocean oar
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Just a whole flounder, in a manilla folder

tidal bronze
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Finally! Some bomb Singaporean chilli crab outside Singapore

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forest edge
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what animal crapped that out?

tidal bronze
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The Crab

static schooner
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Looks awesome

tidal bronze
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NY never disappoints! Although host had an issue with table for one. 🤣 Night ended with host joining me for some wine. 🤣

forest edge
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prob thought you might be depressed with your food choices

tidal bronze
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All I had to say was I am from LA❤️ she sat down to comfort my appetite, I guess.

forest edge
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she was like, "Oh so sorry to hear about that. Do you need a number for a good therapist?"

tidal bronze
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Forget the crab I was sold on raw mango salad

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forest edge
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had my hopes up for a brief second. thought those might be fries lol

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I need to clean my grill

tidal bronze
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It's a Malaysian eatery with Singaporean + South East Asian fusion.

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Anyways, awesome night. Off to San Jose.

forest edge
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so tn then ny and now back to ca?

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this recent surge of contractors or workers for contractors posting youtube shorts complaining about people not accepting thier quote and going with someone much cheaper who does things a little diffrently is giving me hope lol

weak musk
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Dude just make some fries

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No quote needed

forest edge
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you might be alone in that little circle of knowledge

dire spear
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yay

glacial knot
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Looks a bit too smooth for self printed 🤔
Is it wood and just a printed stem?

real frigate
cold glacier
tidal bronze
tidal bronze
torpid grove
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any thoughts on a good place to talk about personal organizational problems?

dire spear
static schooner
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just ask youself, "Does it spark joy?"

dire spear
torpid grove
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not that kind of organization

dire spear
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😛