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Comcast, $65 a month for this and basic cable. But it doesn't matter, we're going to a corporate rate which will get us a free upgrade to HD and cut our bill in half.
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Just had a massive fight with the wife over stupid bullshit. Marriage is sometimes the hardest thing. some texas redneck posted:Went ahead and yanked the CFLs, tossed a couple of spare LEDs into it. Much more tolerable. When we renovated our place, I went and replaced every single light bulb with an LED light. since then our electricity bill has gone from ~$200/month to ~$90. MrChips posted:Internet speedchat: Mine is 250GB as well. I'm sure glad the CRTC gave literally all of the power to 3 companies, who colluded with each other in non-compete's right? 
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They still work fine, just take a minute to reach full brightness now. Home Depot store brand (Commercial Electric).
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Apr 28, 2015 08:07
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Rhyno posted:It's 3am and I just want to fall asleep. Im with you...
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Apr 28, 2015 08:10
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Rhyno posted:It's 3am and I just want to fall asleep. ssjonizuka posted:Im with you... Yup. Woke up at 2am after falling asleep at 10pm. Wide freaking awake
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Apr 28, 2015 08:42
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I have hit a new low in terms of lovely service at the dealer today. Seat was moved but not only depth, also height and inclination, and dozens of random settings were changed including disabling the loving parking sensors and some safety features, changing the automatic climate control power to the not default setting, and other random stuff. Tried to charge me for a gallon of wiper fluid, which I had filled just before coming too. WTF Volvo ?
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Apr 28, 2015 08:48
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LOL @your lovely internet (or not, i've got 20/2 at home)  this is the internet on my school, and this  is from my pc, running from a wireless hotspot from my phone.
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Apr 28, 2015 08:55
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Guys, I think my hard drive is in less than stellar condition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Alok9lnn4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIcoA8L7mao
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MustardFacial posted:When we renovated our place, I went and replaced every single light bulb with an LED light. since then our electricity bill has gone from ~$200/month to ~$90. The majority of bulbs in the house were CFL, and have been for years now - I'm slowly changing them out to LEDs. The pain in the rear end ones to replace (i.e. way high up, such as the 6" recessed cans in the den), or the ones that are used most frequently, have been getting swapped to LEDs ahead of everything else. The only incandescent lights remaining in the house are a couple of table lamps that take candelabra bulbs (and I'm getting to those ASAP), the garage door opener (gently caress that, incandescent last longer in it due to the vibration), and a floodlight on the side of the house (motion sensor on it doesn't play nice with anything else). The den has four 6" recessed cans; 3 bulbs are PAR38 LED floods, I went to pick up a fourth the other day, but Ikea was out of them (I want them all to match; Ikea is cheapest, and for whatever reason, certain family members in the house like the look of the Ikea bulbs the best). The kitchen has 8 cans; 3 are Commercial Electric retrofits (I REALLY wish I'd gone with screw-in bulbs now that prices have dropped, the retrofits are $36 + tax each), the rest are CFL, with one CFL burned out (it occasionally flickers and crackles, I should probably remove it). Two of those CFLs are over the sink (so rarely used, though those will get PAR30 LEDs next week, since the CFLs take a good 5 minutes to warm up), and one is over the bar (so also rarely used, also takes about 5 minutes to warm up). There's gimbals above the fireplace and feature wall in the formal living room that both have PAR30 CFLs, those will likely remain CFL since they're used so rarely. The front porch lights stay on the most out of anything; there's two fixtures that each take 3x candelabra bulbs. I swapped one of them to 2.3 watt clear LED bulbs the other day, which is a bit dimmer than the bulbs in there before (40w incandescent), but it's a very nice soft light, a little on the pink side. I'm swapping the other fixture tomorrow. That takes those lights from 40x6 (240 watts) to 2.3x6 (13.8 watts). Our back patio has 6 small recessed lights in the eves, plus a wall fixture by the door. 5 of the 6 recessed lights are cheap 40W replacement LEDs (they're directional anyway, so they wind up shining almost as much light as the 50W halogens they replaced, just a lot more diffused), and the one remaining halogen has been burnt out for months (I've been putting off replacing it because the fixture itself has broken loose from its mounts and hangs out a bit, I need to figure out how to get it apart and get it reattached). The wall fixture has a 13W CFL, since that works better than an LED in that application. We also have TONS of landscape lighting. It used to be set to run from dusk till dawn. The timer for the backyard lighting crapped out, so we put it on a plug-in light sensor, which also crapped out - but the outlet next to the one intended for the lighting is on a switch that was originally intended for a fountain (the fountain fell over and broke years ago). So now that lighting is only on when we're actually in the back yard (rarely). December saw our lowest ever electric bill (parents have had the house for 15 years), at $120. That's for a ~2330 sq ft 4 bedroom house, gas furnace, electric oven, gas stove, electric dryer, gas water heater, 5.5 ton a/c, and I have an 800W space heater in my room that I use on the coldest days. I've also turned into a bit of an energy nazi when it comes to walking through the house and turning poo poo off, ESPECIALLY the 36" CRT TV in the den. And now that I've KozmoNaut posted:Guys, I think my hard drive is in less than stellar condition. Well if it wasn't before you took the cover off, it certainly is now.  But yeah, that sounds dead. Hope you had backups. The best is when you have a 3 month old drive that's pulled the click..click..click.. after you've moved everything to it and gotten rid of the drives it replaced. With no backups. 8 years of photos... 
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The lid is off because the spindle was stuck and needed a push. The disk is my sister's and contains 2TB of fansubbed anime. So it's a net gain, I'd say 
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Apr 28, 2015 11:17
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some texas redneck posted:The best is when you have a 3 month old drive that's pulled the click..click..click.. after you've moved everything to it and gotten rid of the drives it replaced. With no backups. 8 years of photos... RAID is your friend. The acronym used to be Redundant Array Inexpensive Disks for a reason. WD 2TB's are $80 each, too cheap not to buy in pairs.
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Apr 28, 2015 12:31
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We are pretty much 100% CFL and I can't convince myself that moving to LED is a worthwhile move.
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Apr 28, 2015 12:50
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The one really important thing to remember about RAID is that the 0 in RAID 0 stands for how many of your files you will get back if any of the drives fail. Also, don't buy "pseudo RAID" cards. They have all the proprietary goodness of a real, expensive, hardware RAID card and all of the performance issues of a software RAID. Either full, quality hw RAID (3ware, adaptec, LSI, PMC, etc, I have been out of the game a few years now) or linux/BSD based software RAID is the way to go.
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Apr 28, 2015 12:50
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I'm a big fan of HP's P420 cards, but they're not exactly consumer kit.
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Apr 28, 2015 12:56
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And don't forget that RAID is not back up.
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Apr 28, 2015 13:09
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Lightbulb Out posted:And don't forget that RAID is not back up. Cant be quoted enough. And your backups dont exist unless they are tested.
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Apr 28, 2015 13:20
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Everybody has to loose their important files at least once to learn the valuable lesson about keeping backups! I've just been going through a spindle full of 10+ years of backup CD-R's/DVD's from my home machines as I am now backing up everything into a onedrive (I'm picking off anything I want and chucking the discs). Many of the oldest discs wont read now. I'm glad there is nothing important I want from them!
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Apr 28, 2015 13:51
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Have local and online. Crashplan is cheap, and works well. There are other options to. I lost one drive full of photos years ago (RAID was not a backup :P ) and I've been extra-careful since. Losing files sucks.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:18
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Home nas and a backup HDD at the parents 30 miles away. If both locations are destroyed I'm probably dead anyways.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:27
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Sitting in court waiting to fight my speeding ticket. Sitting next to a smoke show, cotdaym son.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:28
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Cat Terrist posted:Cant be quoted enough. And your backups dont exist unless they are tested. Backups don't exist unless they're backed up - automatically - in two separate places, one of which is offsite and tested monthly.
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CommieGIR posted:http://store.steampowered.com/app/310560/ Well known AAA franchise game is in early access? gently caress Early Access.
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Ozmiander posted:Well known AAA franchise game is in early access? gently caress Early Access. Yep. Early Access is the new EA 0-day release: Pay us full price for an unfinished, super-buggy game and gently caress you if you complain about it. I got shouted down on an online forum for berating a developer who still had a game [GameY] in "Alpha Early Access" status, but announced a week earlier that the sequel [GameY 2] was being placed into Early Access. People even defend that bullshit.
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MrChips posted:Internet speedchat: Yay for lovely overpriced Canadian internet!  Same price (roughly) and worst service.
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Also, do Ruckus guys not realize that if you strip the plastics off almost any japanese/chinese scooter, they look like a ruckus underneath?
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KozmoNaut posted:Guys, I think my hard drive is in less than stellar condition. Head crash!  Sigma X posted:Yep. Early Access is the new EA 0-day release: Pay us full price for an unfinished, super-buggy game and gently caress you if you complain about it. Well, yea I dislike large companies taking advantage of it, however, Early Access gave me quite a few good games like Kerbal. I'm willing to let Early Access pass for indie developments.
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I just buy new hard drives every 4 years or so while everything is still working great and move everything over. I am basically inching myself down a really thin branch but it hasn't snapped yet so I keep doing it. Im sure one day it will bite me in the rear end. Also, STR don't post any more pictures of your thumb.
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Apr 28, 2015 15:57
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Beat my speeding ticket. 
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Apr 28, 2015 16:10
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Cage posted:Also, STR don't post any more pictures of your thumb. Did someone mention hosed up thumbs? be real careful around bicycle chains, kiddos!Beach Bum posted:
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Beat my speeding ticket. did you get the girls # tho
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Beach Bum posted:Did someone mention hosed up thumbs? You trim your nails way too short, dude
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kastein posted:You trim your nails way too short, dude I have a nailbiting problem. I'd rather chew my nails to nubs than smoke, though, and I'm doing pretty good on that front.
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Nah, I suck. We chatted for a bit because she was nervous. I told her to smile and act cute and she would get off. She did. Tried to find her after I was done but couldn't. I know her name and where she goes to school but I'm not gonna bother. One of my best friends called me last night. He's coming up from NC for a week tomorrow night for his sister's birthday. Haven't seen him or his GF in about 2 years now so it should be fun.
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I can't put any of my music from my laptop onto my new phone because it's too old to talk to the Samsung installer 
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Apr 28, 2015 16:32
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DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:I can't put any of my music from my laptop onto my new phone because it's too old to talk to the Samsung installer The S5? Just plug it in, and drag and drop the music files. I think there are apps somewhere to sync iTunes playlists, but I always just used drag and drop for the albums I wanted, and let Google Music's ~~~~cloud~~~~ hold everything else.
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Apr 28, 2015 16:37
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Did anyone else have to google "smoke show" after realizing that they aren't talking about some stoner?
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Cage posted:Did anyone else have to google "smoke show" after realizing that they aren't talking about some stoner? Look up 'Draft Vaping' Yeah. Competitive Vaping.
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Cage posted:Did anyone else have to google "smoke show" after realizing that they aren't talking about some stoner? What, really? CommieGIR posted:Look up 'Draft Vaping' That sounds like the dumbest poo poo ever.
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Alarbus posted:The S5? Just plug it in, and drag and drop the music files. I think there are apps somewhere to sync iTunes playlists, but I always just used drag and drop for the albums I wanted, and let Google Music's ~~~~cloud~~~~ hold everything else. No what i'm saying is it doesn't even show up.as a hard drive on my computer at all, no.drag and drop.option.
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