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Yeah, comprehensive coverage is usually pretty cheap. Might be worth checking if your insurer offers $0 glass deductible comprehensive coverage. You'd get a $x deductible ($1000/500/etc) for all but glass claims, which are covered free of charge.
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Mar 5, 2019 01:40
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Yeah my comp deductible is $100 specifically because I want it to cover stereo theft, and it still only costs me like $15 a month.
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Geoj posted:Yeah, comprehensive coverage is usually pretty cheap. Negative on the $0 coverage. It's not offered by any carrier in my state. I live in a high property crime city, so coverage is not cheap. I carry a $1000 deductible and still pay close to $2000/yr with 0 claims, tickets, shop every year. In fact, I lowered my liability limits and took out an umbrella policy because the umbrella was so much cheaper. I can certainly eat the cost, but it still stings. I'm also jealous of people who have inexpensive insurance. Except Rhyno, cause gently caress Indiana (I keed, I keed) Goober Peas fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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Mar 5, 2019 01:53
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You Am I posted:A clear out of 90s celebs, both Keef from The Prodigy and Luke Perry in one hit RIP Dylan McKay, I never thought Shannon Doherty was gonna outlive him. Also RIP Keith Prodigy, he was the best of his kind. These things go in 3's, who's going to be the next surprise celeb death?
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Mar 5, 2019 02:46
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Man he drove a Porsche back in the day man
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Mar 5, 2019 03:30
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Aw man Luke Perry died what the fuuuuuuck 
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Ether Frenzy posted:Also RIP Keith Prodigy, he was the best of his kind. The lovely radio station the boss enforces that we have in the office finally played some good tunes today in rememberance. I don't think I've ever heard Firestarter on a commerical station.
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Mar 5, 2019 09:26
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47418405 0-62mph in less than 2 seconds 0-186mph in less than 12 I hope the interior is brown
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Mar 5, 2019 12:53
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freelop posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47418405 I want one in blue-grey with red trim. Nothing will ever go over its head, because it is too fast and it will catch it. I'll barely even have to change the nameplate.
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Mar 5, 2019 14:21
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I rolled out of bed at 8 this morning only to find that I had a call with a Turkish ship owner starting that minute. Last night I had a call with a service company in Singapore that ran until 10. Tell ya what, time zones are something else aren't they?
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Mar 5, 2019 14:40
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Goober Peas posted:I lost a windshield due to a truck kicking up a poorly patched pothole this weekend. I died a little inside when I found out how much an acoustically laminated, HUD display, rain-and-humidity sensing, lane departure assisting, and adaptive cruise controlled windshield costs (including calibration). The future! is expensive.
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Mar 5, 2019 17:42
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Goober Peas posted:I lost a windshield due to a truck kicking up a poorly patched pothole this weekend. I died a little inside when I found out how much an acoustically laminated, HUD display, rain-and-humidity sensing, lane departure assisting, and adaptive cruise controlled windshield costs (including calibration). Thats not too bad, buddy has a Toyota crown and cracked the windscreen, hes gonna be looking at a 2k bill and it doesn't even have any fancy gadgets, ah the joys of grey market cars (worth it for a turbo jz wagon tho imo)
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Mar 5, 2019 17:50
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WHY IS IT SO GODDAMNED COLD I'M TRYING TO INSTALL NEW BATHROOM CEILING FANS
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Mar 5, 2019 17:55
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Rhyno posted:WHY IS IT SO GODDAMNED COLD I'M TRYING TO INSTALL NEW BATHROOM CEILING FANS lol you live in Indiana and it's winter
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Mar 5, 2019 18:45
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It's supposed to be almost 50 saturday.
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Mar 5, 2019 18:48
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Rhyno posted:It's supposed to be almost 50 saturday. Oh puddin. It's currently 0f here right now, it was -30f earlier. Also, I'm just being an rear end. But keep kicking rear end on home reno's! I wish I had 1/2 your drive for it.
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I'm just high on new homeowner bullshit. Get at me in a year and I'll probably be over it. Edit: hopefully after I've cleared all the drat branches and dead trees. Yoiks. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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Got a free 2x faster internet speed upgrade yesterday courtesy of Charter Communications, run a speed test, still old speed. Plug directly to modem, run speed test, getting new speed. Put router back in mix, run speed test, back to old slow speed. No problem, just upgrade router firmware... BRICK! loving poo poo... Well, it was 5 years old anyway, so it was probably time for a new router anyway. Picked up a Netgear Orbi mesh kit, works tits and all devices have new speed, even on wifi and no fuckery involved (installing DD-WRT over the top) for VPN and DDNS since it's built in. Previous wifi router wasn't reaching 100% of all areas of the property, new one does with the mesh wall units. A+++ Would brick router again.
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Mar 5, 2019 19:09
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keykey posted:Got a free 2x faster internet speed upgrade yesterday courtesy of Charter Communications, run a speed test, still old speed. Plug directly to modem, run speed test, getting new speed. Put router back in mix, run speed test, back to old slow speed. No problem, just upgrade router firmware... BRICK! loving poo poo... Well, it was 5 years old anyway, so it was probably time for a new router anyway. Picked up a Netgear Orbi mesh kit, works tits and all devices have new speed, even on wifi and no fuckery involved (installing DD-WRT over the top) for VPN and DDNS since it's built in. Previous wifi router wasn't reaching 100% of all areas of the property, new one does with the mesh wall units. A+++ Would brick router again. I'm about to ditch Comcast for Verizon and I have never been happier about tossing a $150 modem in the trash. Good part about this is that I won't need to buy another router. I want to do ethernet from VZ ONT to my gateway. I gotta figure out what to do about the TV though. I think I still have an old Verizon router somewhere I can use as a MoCA bridge.
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Mar 5, 2019 19:27
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KakerMix posted:lol you live in Indiana and it's I live about four hours east of him in Ohio. There's winter, and then there's March. I can deal with winter, but what drives me up the wall with the month of March is we see the wildest temperature and weather swings of the entire season. Right now its hovering around 15 degrees (F) outside. By Sunday the daytime highs will be in the 60s. Then sometime next week or the week after it'll plunge again, rinse & repeat until we're well into April.
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Goober Peas posted:I lost a windshield due to a truck kicking up a poorly patched pothole this weekend. I died a little inside when I found out how much an acoustically laminated, HUD display, rain-and-humidity sensing, lane departure assisting, and adaptive cruise controlled windshield costs (including calibration). I gave my buddy a lot of poo poo when he had to pay a similar amount for the windshield on his MDX with all the fixins. Luckily, he was just buying the car and the dealer ate the cost. However, "I had to get my windshield programmed" is one of those sentences from the future that should not exist.
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That's the thing I like about Charter, there's only 1 internet package and customers get whatever the fastest available is. Currently 250down/10up for $65 a month. Supposed to be gig by next year. Before when I had Charter I use to bitch about them, but then I moved and had AT&T/Comcast/Another rural wifi internet provider, all with data caps and lovely speeds being within acceptable range. When I moved back to my house again, I had a new-found respect for Charter and how little they actually gently caress with the customers and leave rates alone.
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Rhyno posted:It's supposed to be almost 50 saturday. I hear you. It was 28F here (Dallas) this morning, is 42F now, and forecast to be - get this - 70F by Thursday, though cloudy with a chance of rain. keykey posted:That's the thing I like about Charter, there's only 1 internet package and customers get whatever the fastest available is. Currently 250down/10up for $65 a month. Supposed to be gig by next year. Before when I had Charter I use to bitch about them, but then I moved and had AT&T/Comcast/Another rural wifi internet provider, all with data caps and lovely speeds being within acceptable range. When I moved back to my house again, I had a new-found respect for Charter and how little they actually gently caress with the customers and leave rates alone. I have few complaints about Spectrum (formerly Time Warner), but really, my only other choice is AT&T/U-verse, with their caps and speeds well below Spectrum for the price. AT&T kept going on about their new faster service, but still hasn't brought it to my neighborhood yet, while still crowing about it in emails (I still have AT&T mobile service.) Spectrum was up front about the promotional price, and what it would be after the promotional period (unlike Time Warner was,) and my speed and service have been consistent. I was a little annoyed to learn that their modem won't do any routing if you opt out of WiFi (they just wholesale turn off WiFi and all router functions in the firmware, and don't mention the routing part...) but I had a Netgear router I could use. I've since bought another router that supports OpenVPN to configure my NordVPN on for VPN access for all WiFi devices as needed without having to install the client on the device. Suck it, Feds.
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I signed up for two OT shifts and I'm still gonna take advantage of the weather and try and clear every downed branch from my front yard. Coworker sold me a chainsaw on the cheap so I'm gonna chop up a tree that toppled over as well.
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Darchangel posted:I have few complaints about Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) The transition from TWC to Spectrum couldn't have gone better here. Prior to their takeover I was paying $80/month for 40 down/5 up, which became 100 down/10 up with a reduction to $65/month. Outages and service improved immensely too (fewer of the former, faster and more thorough responses for the latter.) OTOH I did have to call them to have myself removed from the prior TWC plan, but that's fairly typical with cable providers.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm about to ditch Comcast for Verizon and I have never been happier about tossing a $150 modem in the trash. If you can't find the router, I'm currently doing ethernet from the ONT and using a NIM100 for the MOCA. At just over $20, you can just get an extra as a spare or whatever. It's "only" 100Mbps, but you only need it for the guide AFAIK. https://www.ebay.com/p/Motorola-NIM-100-NIM100-Ethernet-Over-Coax-Moca-Adapter-Bridge-HD-High-Def/1424490266
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What do you guys think of Century Link? They ran fiber in my neighborhood and have been advertising gigabit internet for $20 cheaper than I'm getting 150mb with Comcast. So should I change or just tell Comcast I want to change to get a cheaper price?
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Geoj posted:The transition from TWC to Spectrum couldn't have gone better here. Prior to their takeover I was paying $80/month for 40 down/5 up, which became 100 down/10 up with a reduction to $65/month. Outages and service improved immensely too (fewer of the former, faster and more thorough responses for the latter.) That, too. When I was looking at TWC, before the takeover, it maxed out @ 50Mb in my neighborhood (and the aforementioned lack of "how much will it cost after the special price for a year?") When I signed up with Spectrum, it was suddenly 100 Mb, *and* I didn't have to rent the modem, just pay a bit extra if I wanted WiFi, which is built in to the modem... but disabled unless you pony up. I guess they figure most people will. I'm not most people and already had a Unifi AP-Lite since the U-verse modem's WiFi sucked and was not 802.11ac.
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mungtor posted:If you can't find the router, I'm currently doing ethernet from the ONT and using a NIM100 for the MOCA. At just over $20, you can just get an extra as a spare or whatever. It's "only" 100Mbps, but you only need it for the guide AFAIK. I'm just gonna go to Goodwill and buy back one of the 40 routers I've donated for $2.
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NinjaTech posted:What do you guys think of Century Link? They ran fiber in my neighborhood and have been advertising gigabit internet for $20 cheaper than I'm getting 150mb with Comcast. So should I change or just tell Comcast I want to change to get a cheaper price? If you're happy with Comcast I'd say just go drive the price down. If you have outages or run into speed caps then maybe read local reviews and then switch. I've had Comcast for 12 years at my house and it's been full speed and more reliable than my electricity service itself. Like I can count the outages I've had on one hand. And one of them was an accidental disconnection by a tech who gave my line to a new neighbor because the label was so old it had fallen down and worked its way in to the ground. They did try to charge me to hook it back up, I refused that poo poo. Hehe.
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CL is okay, speeds sucked here but that was down to the local telephone infrastructure. I hear their fiber is much better.
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Good news -- the windshield installer was familiar with GM's systems, said the cameras would recalibrate themselves as long as they were off during the install. True to word, that's what happened. So it was only $937. And he cleaned all my windows and put new wipers on.
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My wife works for a commercial roofer and pays the guy that replaces the glass on all their trucks. He saw her LS460 and told her to get any chips fixed immediately because to replace it is expensive and difficult. She commutes on the interstate and her last car has chips all over the bumper and windshield  [e] just checked, anywhere from $1200 to $1500 for OEM windshield replacement holy crap Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm just gonna go to Goodwill and buy back one of the 40 routers I've donated for $2. Cool if that works for you. I had a hard time with the Actiontech crap just bridging, but to be honest it has to like 7-8 years ago now. I'm more impressed that you've donated 40 routers.
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Liquid Communism posted:CL is okay, speeds sucked here but that was down to the local telephone infrastructure. I hear their fiber is much better. It is. I have their 1Gbps service and it's loving great. Splashed on some Ubiquiti gear and regularly see 850+Mbps from the Internet over wifi. 
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Somehow I bet the basic as gently caress glass on my mazda2 is reasonable.
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mungtor posted:Cool if that works for you. I had a hard time with the Actiontech crap just bridging, but to be honest it has to like 7-8 years ago now. I'm more impressed that you've donated 40 routers. Yeah I somehow became a dump for everyone's leftover technology. I gave my friend an entire storage bin full of different Linksys routers I had amassed. They're really useful when you flash them with DD WRT. But, trust me, nobody needs 50 lbs of routers.
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Darchangel posted:That, too. When I was looking at TWC, before the takeover, it maxed out @ 50Mb in my neighborhood (and the aforementioned lack of "how much will it cost after the special price for a year?") When I signed up with Spectrum, it was suddenly 100 Mb, *and* I didn't have to rent the modem, just pay a bit extra if I wanted WiFi, which is built in to the modem... but disabled unless you pony up. I guess they figure most people will. I'm not most people and already had a Unifi AP-Lite since the U-verse modem's WiFi sucked and was not 802.11ac. They actually gave us a separate modem and router where I'm at now, and remotely disabled the router when we called to say we'd be using our own. mungtor posted:Cool if that works for you. I had a hard time with the Actiontech crap just bridging, but to be honest it has to like 7-8 years ago now. I'm more impressed that you've donated 40 routers. They use Motorola now, AFAIK. The Actiontecs were a serious pain in the dick to put into bridge mode (and keep it there).
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