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I'm going to have to get some additional canned food and water if it continues toward Raleigh. We might have downed trees and power for some weeks. It'll be interesting to see how people here do the hurricane dance.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Awesome, anything you grow yourself seems to automatically be ten times nicer. There's actually a shameful science to this. The vast majority of supermarket apples are, in fact, cultivars selected first for shipping durability, then for good looks. Flavor is a far, far distant third. You can grow apples that are -so much better-.
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nm posted:I know we all knew this, but the bendable extendable magnet is the best thing ever invented. And a long grabber for non-metallic things. And a really strong, small flashlight.
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Liquid Communism posted:There's actually a shameful science to this. Yup, I want fruit trees at home but there currently few choices for the dwarf ballerina types I've space for. I really don't want to get into grafting etc, that's another time sink hobby I don't need.
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Sep 9, 2018 22:53
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I was scheduled for a work trip this week starting in Savannah this evening and ending in Richmond on Friday. Just cancelled it. Not getting in the way of that one. All the while, the remnants of Gordon knocked out power here this morning, just turned back on.
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:How excited is everyone on the east coast about Florence? They've already informed me at work that I'm in the first group to go work power restoration in NC if we're asked for. Assuming it continues the northern track and we don't get slammed ourselves. Really as long as they don't have is working in the middle of it like they did with Matthew it'll be ok. Funny thing about when the rear end-kissing ladder climbers are the ones in management positions, who never were very good at the work....
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Well as well as the chainsaw I had so much drat branches and twigs to break down I pretty much either had to hire a chipper (150 for two hours) ooooor.... https://www.bunnings.com.au/ozito-2400w-silent-electric-shredder_p3380292 And then spent three hours shredding four large debris piles into the size of a small trailer. If it fits, it shreds. One of the better 300 bucks I've spent, saves me the hire and / or tip disposal fees..... And I'll def use this thing more than twice. Plus there is something just so satisfying about feeding in 4 meter branches and seeing them sucked in and munched. It claims to reduce garden waste to 1/10th it's original size whiiiiich.... actually seems about right.
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slothrop posted:How well does it work on unnecessary Subaru panels? No such thing. You use them for a hobo tent
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So I know we have some tech nerds in this forum, what's the best watt hour/dollar battery something you folks would recommend? The last time a big storm ripped through where I am we were without power for 3 weeks, and it's been 15 years since then so we need our phones/ a low power laptop for as long as we can. I was looking at a ups, but I'm really bad at electrical poo poo so I doubt I'm doing the conversions right, and I don't know if a ups would do what I actually want anyway.
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Sep 10, 2018 00:15
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I bought one of these for $99 on sale. Came in real handy during the last hurricane. You can recharge it via you vehicle also, if you do it carefully. Sims and dickpanther can confirm that it will crank a SBC in the wastelands of Nebraska too.
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And one of these are pretty great for USB-only stuff in a smaller package. One charge keeps my school Surface 3 going for an entire week of a couple of hours a day of use.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I built the GT3 RS last summer on a two-day marathon building session of two 10+ hour days, I filmed the whole thing for a timelapse that turned out underwhelming, and it was grueling - I did not anticipate it being such a project, these models are insanely well built & designed. I'm taking my time with this build, probably have it done by the end of the month.
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angryrobots posted:I bought one of these for $99 on sale. Came in real handy during the last hurricane. You can recharge it via you vehicle also, if you do it carefully. Let's assume I'm an absolute idiot, how would one charge this from a car? Just reverse the leads while the car is off and baby it for a bit? We've got three cars with batteries less than a year old here, and realistically we only need one to drive during this poo poo. And I'm definitely picking up a big honking anker battery pack, I love those things and gift them to all my relatives the second they complain about phone battery life.
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:So I know we have some tech nerds in this forum, what's the best watt hour/dollar battery something you folks would recommend? The last time a big storm ripped through where I am we were without power for 3 weeks, and it's been 15 years since then so we need our phones/ a low power laptop for as long as we can. I was looking at a ups, but I'm really bad at electrical poo poo so I doubt I'm doing the conversions right, and I don't know if a ups would do what I actually want anyway.
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Let's assume I'm an absolute idiot, how would one charge this from a car? Just reverse the leads while the car is off and baby it for a bit? We've got three cars with batteries less than a year old here, and realistically we only need one to drive during this poo poo. They plug in to your 12v/Cigarette port.
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^ I knew other ones did, that one doesn't mention it or look like it has the right cable, but it's got a lot of utility so it doesn't matter much to me as long as I can charge it *somehow*ilkhan posted:How much stuff do you want to power, and for how long? If its just phones and a intermittent usage laptop you don need a ton. The wife would rather die than go without her vape, so that's ~18 watt hours daily. I'd assume she'll end up watching about a movie a night (which means I'll have to clone the plex library to her laptop), and both of our phones just to keep up with work/family poo poo. Personally after all this blows over I'll be chopping up everything that falls, drinking, and roasting whatever I can find in the freezer on a fire before it goes bad.
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Transfer the movies early, or at least onto an external HDD. Phones and the vape aren't much, so a decent sized battery should be fine for those. Depends on how much power the laptop draws and how much she wants to use it. A couple hours a night isn't a ton, but getting an AC source from the battery will mean getting a good sized option.
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This may seem insane but I got it as habit from growing up in a rural area with lovely cars: I keep a car battery around on a tender as a backup. Either a backup for jumping my car if something craps out, or to use for electronics. Now, with the modern age and universal 5V lithium packs like the Anker I have/linked, it's decidedly less useful, but I've still got an optima yellowtop chilling on a tender ready to power the UPS if I ever need it.
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Queen Combat posted:This may seem insane but I got it as habit from growing up in a rural area with lovely cars: I keep a car battery around on a tender as a backup. Either a backup for jumping my car if something craps out, or to use for electronics. Gutted pressure washer frame + retired battery + clamps from busted old jump pack = magic
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I can get a day out of my cheapo UPS running a modem and router. The fiber station is next door, so in theory as long as their generator fires up and the lines aren't damaged I'm good. Came in handy today as we didn't have power for most of it. Can always run out to the car to charge laptops and cell phones and use the LTE hotspot there too.
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ilkhan posted:Transfer the movies early, or at least onto an external HDD. Phones and the vape aren't much, so a decent sized battery should be fine for those. Depends on how much power the laptop draws and how much she wants to use it. A couple hours a night isn't a ton, but getting an AC source from the battery will mean getting a good sized option. The reviews for that jump box linked above stated that someone ran a cpap off of it for a few nights and it was still decently charged. The cpap machines I've found ran around 30 watts, which is a bit more than my thin laptop pulls playing local movies. Between the jump box and the battery bank I doubt I'll have to run a car to recharge them unless things go to hell and we go weeks without power again. Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the help. Maybe during all this I'll actually work on my car, instead of poo poo posting on a car forum.
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You're only losing power for days/weeks at a time if you live in a remote area or if you're at ground zero for hurricane landfall. I kept connected to people with a 23000ma/h battery pack after Irma went dead over my house as a cat 1.
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ilkhan posted:Football is back. The only reason I give two shits is it means I need to schedule my days off around it, if I want to make any money.
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The NFL sucks and can gently caress right off.
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I’ve had season tickets for 20+ years but I’ve only been to one game in the past 8 years (I sell them)
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Apparently the Browns are a real team and not just a poop joke, and also apparently they are so bad they broke their losing streak by not winning (a tie) and Reddit is losing its collective poo poo over that. Let me be clear, my lack of enthusiasm is not a general disdain for sports (sports can be cool and good). It's for the NFL and their slave ownership contracts, lobbying, hyper-conservative-bootlicking, politics, and lack of respect for humans and basic human rights.
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ilkhan posted:Football is back. Football has been back for about a month already mate
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Rhyno posted:The NFL sucks and can gently caress right off. Queen Combat posted:...Reddit is losing its collective poo poo over that. *rapidly swirling drink straw* hahah yeah bud, I know what you mean. poo poo is weird these days right? Hey I'll be right back,
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So we're building a house, and to do that we need to demolish the existing one. One can't just do that, you need a demolition permit. I just received a letter with an invoice asking me to please pay for the time spent processing this demolition request: 1 hour, 9 minutes and 29 seconds. No word on whether I can demo the stupid thing or not. Gotta love bureaucracy.
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Elmnt80 posted:You're only losing power for days/weeks at a time if you live in a remote area or if you're at ground zero for hurricane landfall. I kept connected to people with a 23000ma/h battery pack after Irma went dead over my house as a cat 1. Sadly it looks like I'll be at best 6 hours past initial landfall. I don't want to cook over a propane torch for three weeks again, but if I have to I fuckin will. Again. Dammit. Thankfully I'm not one of the poor people in the outer banks, my friend is almost certainly going to lose her house to flooding. Who the gently caress builds a slab home right off the beach at sea level, in prime hurricane real estate? Idiots, that's who.
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Queen Combat posted:Be still my beating heart Disctinctively remember our family having a VCR and one friday night trip to the video rental store i selected Tron. I want to say I accidentally picked it up on Beta, but purhaps it was Video2000. Those tapes really look familiar. everdave posted:I’ve had season tickets for 20+ years but I’ve only been to one game in the past 8 years (I sell them) My company sponsor a team here in Australia and always had free home game tickets available. The only time I have ever watched a game was an away game and I was in the oppositions corporate box (I went for the opposition too). Humphreys fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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Humphreys posted:My company sponsor a team here in Australia and always had free home game tickets available. The only time I have ever watched a game was an away game and I was in the oppositions corporate box (I went for the opposition too). Not to get heavy but we had a QB get murdered and the magic is gone. I have 3 seats which seems to be rare i make way more selling tix than not.
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Good news for all of you former football fans. It’s also Rugby season!
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Queen Combat posted:Apparently the Browns are a real team and not just a poop joke, and also apparently they are so bad they broke their losing streak by not winning (a tie) and Reddit is losing its collective poo poo over that. Agreed. T20 cricket's still on, though, so I'm set.
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Liquid Communism posted:Agreed. Big Bash is only a few months away.
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mariooncrack posted:https://krikzz.com/store/home/28-everdrive-64-v3.html Last I heard of roms/ emulators there was only about 20 games that worked well enough, but I know things have improved in the last 18 months so it seems that looks good now (even for PAL/Euro/AU). I'll have to find a vendor selling to AU and I may have wait a while (to save an extra $100, make sure I can find PAL roms, and also hope that our AU$ stops tanking - Its OK against the euro and pound but sucks so much to the US$ that I've put off any BMW parts I want to buy for a while too)
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Big Bash is only a few months away. Have to figure out if I can get it in the states. Been watching the CPL for a few years now.
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:Who the gently caress builds a slab home right off the beach at sea level, in prime hurricane real estate? Idiots, that's who. I don't know that it's prime hurricane real estate, I equate the gulf states with that. I'm going to guess it's also partially a factor of cost. But still, sucks, and hope they don't lose everything. Jumping back to tangentially related to NFL: You guys see that dream crazy Nike commercial? It's a great little watch. I'm mildly bemused by everyone losing their collective poo poo over it - from both sides. Good on Nike for doing something to "advance the discussion." But holy hell - the controversy over labor practices, which aren't unjustified. What a beautiful disaster.
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