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  1. BuckGup

    God damn praise the lord for multi-meters and v…

    Hahaha you are right though. I learned inspectors always favor the party that hired them. So always hire your own and not to take the sellers inspection report
  2. BuckGup

    God damn praise the lord for multi-meters and v…

    Hahaha smart guy! I did exactly this as well. I found another 240v circuit that ran to an old washer/dryer hookup with cloth cables so I just turned the breakers off until I get the time to remove it. I can't fathom it passed inspection but it did
  3. BuckGup

    God damn praise the lord for multi-meters and v…

    Wow and yeah it makes me cringe so hard when people can't take an hour to watch some youtube videos and read some forum posts on how to properly do something. Or when they feel they need to save $20 on an essential part of infrastructure that is heavily impacted by the $20 in savings. Like you are going to run power and water probably once in the lifespan of your home so why not spend $30 more and have a much safer, longer lasting, and efficient component.
  4. God damn praise the lord for multi-meters and voltage detectors. I rewired my stove circuit yesterday and the previous home owner must have had suicidal ideations 😅  It was asbestos cloth cabling with the neutral connected to the ground creating a short. So when I turned off the mislabeled breaker it was still receiving power from another breaker. Replaced that illegal shit with some chunky 6 awg 4 wire metal clad with 50A breakers and a NEMA 14-50R. 

     

     

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    2. BuckGup

      BuckGup

      On 2/1/2024 at 4:43 PM, Dillpickle23422 said:

      Yeah. I get not having the cash on hand, but I do believe that it's either you don't fix it or do it right. I wouldn't risk a 6 figure home to save 30$. if you've got an electrical issue, turn that dang breaker off that controls where/whatever the issue is, and live without it until you can afford to do it right. I'd rather live without power in a certain area than go to bed knowing damn well that tonight could be the night your house burns down.

      Hahaha smart guy! I did exactly this as well. I found another 240v circuit that ran to an old washer/dryer hookup with cloth cables so I just turned the breakers off until I get the time to remove it. I can't fathom it passed inspection but it did

    3. Dillpickle23422

      Dillpickle23422

      On 2/3/2024 at 8:03 AM, BuckGup said:

      Hahaha smart guy! I did exactly this as well. I found another 240v circuit that ran to an old washer/dryer hookup with cloth cables so I just turned the breakers off until I get the time to remove it. I can't fathom it passed inspection but it did

      The home inspector must have forgotten to take off the 20$ bill over his eyes, given to him by the previous owner 😆

    4. BuckGup

      BuckGup

      On 2/4/2024 at 3:49 PM, Dillpickle23422 said:

      The home inspector must have forgotten to take off the 20$ bill over his eyes, given to him by the previous owner 😆

      Hahaha you are right though. I learned inspectors always favor the party that hired them. So always hire your own and not to take the sellers inspection report 

  5. BuckGup

    -8 degrees Celsius outside. Oof.

    Luckily the Buick Lesabre has the battery inside the cab under the seat. So yes it won't help that part fully but better than in the engine bay
  6. BuckGup

    -8 degrees Celsius outside. Oof.

    Many people in very cold areas have engine block heaters or a garage. I had a Buick Lesabre and it came stock with an engine block heater. Thought it was silly until is was -30C for a few days and wow it is a luxury piece of engineering. Or you do it the russian style and always leave your car idling 24/7 until it's warm enough again
  7. BuckGup

    Put 32GB of RAM in my desktop rig. 16GB was jus…

    Yeah and when DDR4 was $$$$ or when SSDs were $1400 for 960GB
  8. Bitcoin-ETF official, 2024 the year of crypto

  9. BuckGup

    Put 32GB of RAM in my desktop rig. 16GB was jus…

    128Gb is the new 16Gb
  10. Hello, I just got this https://sabrent.com/products/ds-sd6p sabrent USB C dock for my steamdeck. I’m trying to play games at 1080p on my 4K TV but it’s not working. If I set the resolution in windows to something other than native when I launch a game it disconnects and won’t output any video. If I change the resolution in game and keep windows native 4K it again just goes black and won’t output. I believe the issue might be from HDCP and the sabrent is not allowing output of 4K content in 1080p or some copyright protection going on. Anyone have an idea how to fix this? I’m using high quality HDMI 2.0 cables in the TVs preferred port but still nothing. Thanks
  11. BuckGup

    balance

    pshhhh
  12. Probably because that's what his Youtube analytics are.
  13. Do people still legitimately believe crypto is a scam? I have yet to ever hear anyone be able to actually articulate why they think so.

    1. YoungBlade

      YoungBlade

      It depends on what you mean by "crypto" and "scam."

       

      Crypto in-and-of-itself is not a scam. The technology works. It can be used to make purchases. It is a volatile currency, and that makes it a risky investment, but something being risky doesn't make it a scam.

       

      But if someone mints their own coins, claims that they are more valuable than they actually are, and cons people into buying them. That's probably a scam.

       

      If someone is saying that buying Bitcoin is going to make you rich overnight, that's a lie, and could arguably be called a scam if the person telling you this is benefiting in some way from you doing that.

       

      If a company claims that they are going to be using NFTs in some novel way, and convinces folks to buy them, but never delivers on any of their promises, that might be a scam, too.

       

      So while I'm sure some people believe that crypto on the whole is a scam, I would imagine anyone informed about it will have a more nuanced take. Crypto is not inherently a scam, but there are many scams involving crypto.

  14. BuckGup

    What do y'all think about the new Honda Accord?…

    New cars are one of the worst financial decisions you can make. The car you own is solid still and routine maintenance can make it easily last years longer. 23mpg isn't bad at all either, for perspective the best selling car in america the 2023 F-150 which almost 600,000 were purchased in 2023 gets 18mpg... Don't live based upon fear, stick with your plan of saving for 2-3 years and getting a used newer car.
  15. It's hilarious, the US has become so fixated on short term profits and capitalism if you simply offer a quality product consumers like at a price they think is fair you can easily get more sales and make more money overall

    1. Dillpickle23422

      Dillpickle23422

      2 hours ago, BuckGup said:

      It's hilarious, the US has become so fixated on short term profits and capitalism if you simply offer a quality product consumers like at a price they think is fair you can easily get more sales and make more money overall

      The really funny thing is, companies that started selling good products at a good price, then slowly cheaping out and selling worse products for even more money (looking at you, carhartt). (still pretty well made workwear from them but not nearly as good as they used to, and about 4x more expensive)

  16. BuckGup

    Took apart my aging, but perfectly functional K…

    That looks amazing. HPE's coolant before swapping to PGW lasted less than 4 months before it needed to be fully taken apart and ultrasonically cleaned. It made me appreciate more the liquid in AIOs
  17. BuckGup

    It's hilarious, I signed up for the SAVE act fo…

    Yeah and it's so bad. I've started a wall of documents in my house that look like legitimate documents but are all actually scams. Old people stand no chance
  18. It's hilarious, I signed up for the SAVE act for my students loans and allowed the IRS to send data to Nelnet (my loan issuer) to see what I qualified for. Within a day or two I got spam physical mail that had information that was from sharing it to Nelnet. So Nelnet sells all your data

    1. RollinLower

      RollinLower

      physical spam is still a thing???

    2. BuckGup

      BuckGup

      On 10/16/2023 at 2:31 AM, RollinLower said:

      physical spam is still a thing???

      Yeah and it's so bad. I've started a wall of documents in my house that look like legitimate documents but are all actually scams. Old people stand no chance 

  19. BuckGup

    I never realized how bad American infrastructur…

    You're 100% correct. Americans are incredibly individualized. People will buy f150 trucks and giant suburban/escalades as commuter vehicles. It really makes you consider the cost of standards and the perception to "how bad" things are. Sure inflation is high as hell 5.99% but you don't need to buy a new pickup to drive to work everyday. You also don't need a heated garage and a car for every person in the family. I bike year round in the north and it's never that bad. Sure a heated car is nicer but I'd rather save thousands of dollars and be healthier.
  20. Hello, I was wondering if there are any AI tools out yet that will take a text prompt and generate a video from it. Like stable diffusion but for video. As everything I have found so far does not do this. It's either a template, pre rendered, or is a glorified video editor. Thanks!
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  22. Yeah esims have changed the game. You just scan a QR code now and you can add an esim. But pretty soon esims will be obsolete as well with web3 wallet sims coming soon!
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