jdeibele

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by jdeibele 2y ago
One of things that's a concern is the consolidation of industry into fewer and fewer bigger and bigger plants. Not only does that mean a bottleneck in one place is far worse, it also means that there's not the depth of experienc
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by jdeibele 2y ago
We stayed with friends outside Madrid who owned a home. They had bought it officially for 400,000 Euros. They also paid a similar amount "on the black", meaning that they had to pay the sellers in cash so the sellers would only
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by jdeibele 2y ago
For 14 months, I charged my 2023 Bolt EUV via the Chevy EVSE plugged into a wall outlet. I was getting about 2 miles of range per hour. There's a setting in the Bolt for a "home location" where you say you have a dedicate
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by jdeibele 2y ago
Read somebody saying that they used their phone to take a picture of the stove knobs before leaving the house. As a person who has returned to the house at least twice to make sure the burners were off, that resonated.
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by jdeibele 2y ago
If you're traveling with a SO and have joint accounts, check the account numbers. My wife was pickpocketed in Madrid and 2 of our 3 joint cards had the same number, meaning that even though I had the physical card, it was cancelled u
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I have a Chevy Bolt EUV and charged it on an ordinary US 120V circuit. Because there was nothing else on the circuit, I could tell the Bolt to charge at 12A at home, otherwise it limits itself to 8A anywhere that's not-home. It seem
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by jdeibele 2y ago
In the US, key boxes seem the exception and smart locks are the rule. Nothing to lose, can be programmed to not work past a certain time, etc. That works well for a single deadbolt. Many years ago we stayed in a friends apartment in Mad
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by jdeibele 2y ago
Picking a state that's not California nor New York, Massachusetts, etc.: https://www.indeed.com/career/assistant-professor/salaries/A... Says $60,000 for University of Arkansas or 2/3rd of what was
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by jdeibele 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, the option I'd want - memory utilization - doesn't seem to be one of the choices.
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by jdeibele 2y ago
"The cost of alterations is an economically reasonable risk: the above would come in at £1,600 with Terry when they would need £5,000 to 7,000 for a replacement."
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by jdeibele 2y ago
Airlines seem to have a policy of passports need to be valid (not expire) for six months after the trip. Our daughter was going overseas and we had to get her passport renewed because it would expire 3 months after she would have gotten hom
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I set up several websites for non-profits of various types. The thing that WordPress.com has going for it is better security (updates applied promptly), lower pricing than dedicated WP accounts at DreamHost, etc. (typically these kind of
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by jdeibele 2y ago
"Idea Man" is by Paul Allen. "The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir" looks like an interesting book on Paul Newman but I haven't read it.
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by jdeibele 2y ago
How can you tell that they're 3d printed? Because they don't have a part number or the manufacturer's name and logo on them? I don't have a 3d printer myself so maybe it'd be obvious if I printed some.
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by jdeibele 2y ago
What I've read is that some/most taxis in Japan have an automatic back door for the passenger. https://musa4trip.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/taxis-in-japan-do... Searching, I see references to automa
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by jdeibele 2y ago
We have an Apple TV connected to an LG OLED. We very rarely use Blu-Rays but we have a Blu-Ray player also connected. The family has been instructed to never connect the LG TV to WiFi. Anyway, I'm sure you could use HDMI from your co
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by jdeibele 2y ago
We have 2 Chevrolet EVs, a Bolt EUV made in the US and an Equinox EV made in Mexico. They're great. I have rotated the tires twice on the Bolt and I'm getting some different wipers for the windshield because my wife doesn't
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by jdeibele 2y ago
People will mention PiHole and that's a neat solution if you want to maintain a server. If you don't, https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html lets you point your DNS servers at AdGuard and let them block ad
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I moved to a home that's part of a small (47 homes) HOA. Here, the visitor restrictions are aimed at commercial visitors. You're not supposed to run a business like a massage parlor or barbershop out of your home.
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I've tended to buy iPhones that are 2 or 3 generations old from eBay and Swappa for my family and use Mint or Tello for cheap cellular service. Our costs might be $350 for a phone and $100 - $150 per year for service. We do get them
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I've read a lot of articles saying that the real problem with theft is from employees. That might be true but it certainly hasn't made me feel good about watching people walk out with a big jug of wine, electronics, a case of toil
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by jdeibele 2y ago
We visited somebody in Nairobi. She picked us up at the airport. On the way into her apartment complex, she had to stop her car while the guards ran mirrors under the car to check for bombs. This was shortly after the Westgate Shopping Ma
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by jdeibele 2y ago
One thing that with Spotify is that not everything is available. For a while, the soundtrack to "The Bourne Supremacy" was available, then it wasn't for months, now it is again. This has happened with a few songs on other
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I've been doing 120V for just over a year with the Chevrolet portable charging cable. It's mostly been fine, the main issue is that it stops working every so often and has to be unplugged and plugged back in. My Bolt lets me say
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by jdeibele 2y ago
You're using the wrong pricing. AT&T has one price. Utopia has 2 components, the ISP and Utopia itself, making up the total price. If you go to the website link I posted, it's not $45, it's $45 to the ISP and $30 to
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I think there should be a $30/month charge for Utopia added to their service. https://www.utopiafiber.com/residential-pricing/ So it's slightly cheaper than AT&T for 1Gbps and a more significant differenc
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I use Mint Mobile because it's cheap and has been reliable for my family. A couple of months ago, I traveled to Belize with my iPhone 14 Pro, which only has eSIM. The websites for the two local companies said that I could buy them at
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by jdeibele 3y ago
Honest question: have you ever run a business? You're talking about setting up millions of accounts to pay them $.02 or $.20 or even $2.00. ACH payments cost an average of $.29/each https://gocardless.com/en-us&
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by jdeibele 3y ago
I was going to say that you could do it for free, like I did years ago. But now it requires a payment of $5 to opt out of receiving junk mail. https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail says it's free
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by jdeibele 3y ago
This is neat. I was curious about the demand for steel that wasn't exposed to atomic explosions, making this a kind of treasure map for scavengers. However, Wikipedia says that there's much less need because there haven't be

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