Re: bandwidth usage - 2 days ago

QuoteGGD Quotebazookaman Haha. You're confusing her internet provider with one that is NOT located in Bumblefuckville, NC. Although Google Maps can't seem to locate it, I did find a post of yours from 2007 mentioning that she lived there then too. Also related to the poor internet options in Bumblefuckville. Quotebazookaman LOL! So do I. Unfortunately my mom lives in Bumblefuckville, NC whe

Re: bandwidth usage - 2 days ago

QuoteForrest She should be able to log into her account and see total data transfer. Haha. You're confusing her internet provider with one that is NOT located in Bumblefuckville, NC.

Re: Pharaoh Canceled by comments over Israelites - 3 days ago

I love it when a rant contains a postscript.

Re: Microwave apparently just died, worth trying to repair? - 3 days ago

I would have replaced it after the bulb blew the first time.

Re: bandwidth usage - 3 days ago

It's Schrödinger's bandwidth. Until I hear from my mom, it could be 50 or 500gb.

Re: bandwidth usage - 3 days ago

Ha. I just looked up Starlink... Starlink is targeting coverage in your area in mid to late 2021. You will receive a notification once your Starlink is ready to ship. And based on where she lives, it will probably be several years....somehow. I just looked up her provider and I think she was mistaken. I think she has 500gb. So not quite as shameful. But still sucky.

Re: bandwidth usage - 3 days ago

Yuckus! She just told me her cap is 50gb. 50! What a crock.

bandwidth usage - 3 days ago

My mom lives in the middle of nowhere and only recently (within the last couple of years) got cable internet access. Obviously she's not paying for a lot of bandwidth but she finally has high speed access. Of course its capped so she is super paranoid about using the internet. Therefore she is totally against even trying things like Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime etc. Is there any way to calcula

Re: Stop dripping your faucets: Texas officials say the state’s water supply is at risk - 6 days ago

When I was younger and lived at the end of a dirt road in the rural NC mountains, my dad would shut off the water whenever we went on vacation during the colder months. He would shut off the water then connect his compressor to the line somewhere and blow all the remaining water out of the pipes. So there was literally nothing to freeze. But our house was on rock "piers" so in the front

Re: woohoo! I have 4x gigabit ethernet to the far corner of the house! - 7 days ago

I've been there and done that. I had a wonderful feeling of satisfaction when I finally finished my dozen or so runs. My 16 port switch upstairs (that I thought I would NEVER fill) is one or two ports away from being done. As well as the 8 port switch in my network closet downstairs. And all with homemade ethernet runs. I just keep finding excuses to run a new line. Wether its to add an AP to som

Re: This morning's roll call - 8 days ago

Here in NC, I've noticed that even AFTER the snowing has started, our forecasters cannot predict with any certainty what the totals might bes. Forget the days leading up to the event. We might get a foot. Or we might get nothing. Ice on the other hand, they seem to be able to predict with 100% accuracy. Which is what is planned for tonight and tomorrow. Fun fun.

Re: Scientists Accidentally Discover Strange Creatures Under a Half Mile of Ice - 9 days ago

QuoteZoidberg Here's an image of the team:

Re: LED TV Mounts with Sound bar Mount and cable management. Suggestions? - 9 days ago

Its definitely NOT an extension cord that goes in the wall. Its NM cable with a custom connector at each end. In the old days you just bought the top and bottom "connectors" and had to BYOR (Bring Your Own Romex).

Re: LED TV Mounts with Sound bar Mount and cable management. Suggestions? - 10 days ago

For running the cables, I have this or a version it on almost every TV in my house... And although not a soundbar, I mounted my center channel speaker using l brackets flipped upside down so they mount to the wall behind the speaker then screw to the bottom. Practically invisible.

Re: Friday Funnies - 13 days ago

I amazed at the first one. It's not too difficult to do that stuff with the right skills. But replacing the car behind the woman was pretty good. I mean its obviously a different car, but finding something similar at the right angle...yeesh!

Re: Why are so many drug ads filmed in slow motion? - 13 days ago

One thing I've noticed with a couple drug ads is that the "talent" are wearing masks. So with the completely generic settings most drug companies use to sell their wares + everyone wearing masks, they have effectively created "stock" ads. So you can just insert whatever VoiceOver you want and it can become a beer ad. Or an eyeglasses ad.

Re: Vaccines work... - 13 days ago

Quotespace-time I just have to take it on faith that these guys have been building vaccines for longer than I've been alive and that has to count for something. this mRNA (also called RNA) vaccines are not that old. I said I was stupid. Seriously though. I did know that. But not ALL the vaccines are the mRNA type correct? And by the time I am eligible to get mine, I doubt I'll be able to pic

Re: Vaccines work... - 13 days ago

I don't doubt that the vaccines work. I'm casually concerned about the side effects. But mostly concerned about the long term effects. Am I still getting one? Hell yes. I'm not stupid. But I am stupid enough to not know exactly how these work. I just have to take it on faith that these guys have been building vaccines for longer than I've been alive and that has to count for something. I have to

Re: Truly unbelievable sports pictures- - 13 days ago

QuoteSteve G. NOTE: These pictures are webp. that's the way the Guardian does'em webp is a Chrome thing. All these save as good old jpgs from Safari.

Re: Speaking of Time Machines - 14 days ago

Well thats weird. So this morning after I got to work, I checked and now I have 800gb available. However, it says my OLDEST backup is February 9! So I spend the Time Machine disk and it shows that I have 217 backups going all the way back to May of last year. So WTF is up with Time Machine? Either I do or I don't have a valid backup? Time Machine says no, I have two days worth. The Time Machine d

Re: so true?!.....this 90s mega action movie being rebooted for TV --> ordered to series....... - 14 days ago

QuoteSarcany I'd watch if Eliza Dushku was the lead. I'm shocked they didn't do a gender swap where Harry's movie daughter (Eliza Dushku) grows up and becomes a spy and it is her HUSBAND that assumes the Jamie Lee Curtis role.

Re: Speaking of Time Machines - 15 days ago

QuoteSarcany If you have 800GB available on a Time Machine backup drive, it sholdn't be bugging you to exclude items. Well I thought so too. But there you go. It have the little red exclamation point icon and everything. QuoteSarcanyDo you have a Parallels or VMware or other virtual machine? If so then consider excluding the virtual drive file. I moved my Parallels VMs to an external awhile ba

Re: Any Windows freeware that can trim an MP4, without bloat? - 15 days ago

I'm not sure what these companies do when you get these webinars downloaded but they are SUPER DUPER compressed. A 29 minute video is usually NOT 113 mb. 100mb webinar files chokes out Premiere while a 1.5gb Prores file chugs along quite happily. These files bring Premiere to its knees b/c it has to uncompress and recompress every frame while you are working on it. The point being that just about

Speaking of Time Machines - 15 days ago

I just got a warning that mine is filled up and I should exclude some items. Well I've excluded all the items I want to exclude. I really haven't had a need to redefine what gets excluded from my backup. But apparently that is Apple's solution. So I have around 800gb left on a 12tb hard drive and I'm just supposed to keep excluding more and more things? I really thought Time Machine started to

Re: Managers: Impeachment managers laying out the facts - 15 days ago

I'm sure the Trump acolytes won't let things like facts get in their way.

Re: not the boss of me?!.....Bruce Springsteen arrested for DWI in NJ....... - 15 days ago

Quotemrbigstuff My first thought: what car was he driving? Jeep?

Re: Why does everyone say "oh no, you can't paint wallpaper?" - 15 days ago

My entire house is painted wallpaper. As a matter of fact when I changed out the thermostat and smoke detector I found not one, but two layers of wallpaper. Along with a couple coats of paint.

Re: My Krispy Kreme on Ponce de Leon, Atlanta burned down... - 15 days ago

Re: The better webcam: I’m a fan. - 15 days ago

I use one of these: and one of these:

Re: Wandavision... Did NOT see that coming... [Spoiler thread!!] - 19 days ago

Although my daughter knew what was going to happen beforehand, I guessed what would happen the minute her brother was mentioned. However, it was later on that I thought it might be the OTHER brother...which I thought would be cooler. Then I remembered reading something about Feige using this series to "introduce" mutants to the MCU.