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I don't care about my data, that horse left the barn 10 years ago. I just don't want to be hung out to dry with useless hardware if the vendor goes out of business or Google cancels the product line.

9.2% of mortgages last week were ARM, apparently. Seems like a recipe for being extremely disappointed. I don't expect to see 2-3% again ever based on the fact that the US basically has no choice but to inflate its way out of our debt. The 5.5% 30-year I pulled the trigger on in March is...

On a different note, does anyone have an app-driven/wifi thermostat they like? I just want basic wifi control and programming, bonus points for NOT being connected to any cloud services. Willing to self-host software if necessary.

Equity loans and renovation loans exist but the rates are shit right now. Personally, I'd rather DIY something or live without rather than go in debt for it. When we bought the house earlier this year we bargained and budgeted accordingly knowing that we were going to have to redo the bathroom...

Yeah, I certainly didn't accept those quotes. A contractor friend refused to let me get ripped off and did the full bathroom remodel himself, stripping the room down to studs, squaring the floor and walls, blowing out the exterior wall and reframing the window, insulation, stucco, plumbing...

I'd never paid much attention to Kushner on the assumption that he was a bog-standard upper crust product of nepotism, but was pleasantly surprised by how much sense he made.

I have an 8bitdo Pro 2 and it's nothing but fucking headaches getting games to recognize it at all when wired, and it seems to have a half second lag over bluetooth. When playing Elden Ring it would only get picked up by the game maybe 1/10 times I started the application and then would be fine...

Any kind of work is fucking bonkers expensive. I had people wanting $12k for a plumbing rough-in on a bathroom and $150k for a 50x5 retaining wall.

Super interesting. I've done various kinds of simulation modeling that touch on future population structures and the specter of the demographic transition has been looming on the horizon for decades without people really talking about it. Now it's here and I hope everyone is paying attention...

New hottest pepper in the world. 2.6 million Scoville.

Up next, background checks for pipes and welders.

I went to Idaho to see the total eclipse in 2017. Well worth it. The totality was so far beyond the experience your brain is calibrated for it just cuts out for a while. I'm going to Indianapolis for a mini family reunion to see the one next year. As some astronomer said, the difference between...

I'm digging Enshrouded, too, but holy hell does it run like dogshit. Needs serious optimization work.

This? Despite there being a picture of leg mounting, my gut says this type of fastener wouldn't be robust enough enough applied this way. Does your table have aprons? I'd just use a more traditional diagonal bracket along the lines of this:

I imagine he'd prefer to maximize his chances of winning the fight. As it stands he can fight again in a few weeks so it's not like the payday is lost in perpetuity.

My grandmother lost her family farm in the Depression and was borderline homeless for a while. She was comfortably wealthy late in life and still carefully saved and reused Christmas wrapping paper. Those scars are so deep I even have some of them.

Yeah, my mom died at 53 clipping coupons so that she could take that three-month, five-star European tour when she retired. Get your financial situation straight so that you wouldn't regret anything with a random shitty ending.

Was he? He had surgery right afterwards to remove a bone chip in his elbow, but that's an easy recovery.

Volk was definitely had the momentum and was winning by the end, though he clearly lost under the 10-point system. (That 49-46 was bullshit, though.) Islam was all banged up and Volk was barely scratched. Under Pride rules he'd have won.

Hyped for this. I think Volk can push things enough to beat him this time.

They're pop-up chinese companies that just fold and rebrand if anyone complains about anything.

I use a Wahl Peanut. My wife hates daily sandpaper stubble but my beard is pathetic so I keep it long enough to be softer but short enough not to look like I'm trying too hard - #1 on the face about every 5 days. It's a small form factor so it works fine for other areas.

I've had two meniscus repairs and four menisectomies. Happy to answer any questions if you have them.

That number seems high by a factor of 5, if not 10. I think you're thinking of the total number of illegal immigrants living here, not the annual flow. Re-ruralization of the population is not happening. There's insufficient infrastructure, housing stock, anyone to build the housing, or...

Yeah, let's blow up a quarter of our national wealth. What could go wrong? I understand that there is a problem with housing affordability (I just bought one myself earlier this year and it hurt), but completely ass-fucking everyone who currently owns real estate is not the answer. Fixing...

I have a friend who is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in shoulder replacement. If that's really what Dillashaw got (and not some kind of exotic repair/reconstruction and he's using words sloppily) he'd be a fucking moron to try to fight again. Shoulder replacements are not remotely as good...

You could try Kwikset hardware. You can re-key them in about 10 seconds as long as you have the current key and their little reset tool.

We've been told is this is treated as a contract dispute between the insurer and the in-network hospital (no balance billing). The insurance company, hospital, and surgeon have told us that our part is done. The letter the insurance company sent says clearly that the hospital is not allowed to...

Insurance is so fucked up. I just got a notice that they're trying to deny payment on the 18 hr inpatient stay for my wife's appendectomy. They say she should have been sent home despite her getting out of surgery at 9 pm and being on IV morphine until the next morning. We were home by noon as...

I remember liking this a lot, though it was probably 20 years ago and I hardly remember anything. I'll have to re-read it sometime. My son is on a mysteries kick, and while he's reading middle school stuff it's given me the itch again.

Those aren't mountains, they're clouds. This took one second of critical thinking and five seconds of google searching to establish. A thorough debunking of that specific picture:

I built my own 16 TB FreeNAS server (now upgraded to TrueNAS Core) a few years back and it's been great. I run Plex, Sonarr, NZBGet, NextCloud, Transmission (restricted to VPN access only). I'd just head over to their forums and see what people are recommending these days for hardware. If you've...

Reset your brokerage account and registered email passwords to some random garbage you can't remember. Problem solved!

@meStevo Have you taken or considered taking any grappling training for yourself? If you're dealing regularly with potential physical violence from someone within a dangerous size range of yourself, I think it'd be worth learning to be able to control them safely. Six months or a year of jiu...

Detailed breakdown and testing of finishes vs various kinds of liquids, plus some surprising/important info about VOCs.

This is a light day for me.

Just watched this, mix drove me nuts. Maybe I'm going deaf but I borderline needed subtitles. Someone watched Tenet and decided that was a good idea... Other than that, enjoyed it, didn't notice the "easter eggs" at all.

JFC the hand strength and endurance this must take (in addition to the obvious dexterity). And the voicing is unreal.

Edit: FML I keep posting here by accident instead of the video thread.