hittheskids

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[–] hittheskids 2 points 1 week ago

I got into silverchair in 1998ish between Freak Show and Neon Ballroom. Freak Show was exactly where I was musically at the time, and Neon Ballroom was very unexpected for me when it first released, but I really felt like I grew with the band. I can't really even listen to Frogstomp or Freak Show anymore, but I still love Neon Ballroom onward.

[–] hittheskids 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I knew that she was a comedian but hadn't seen any of her standup so I didn't really have any attachment to her as a reason to want to watch the show. But I like it. It's definitely getting better, but it also definitely depends on the chemistry of the guests. I remember the one with Gillian Jacobs (obligatory "oh, Britta's in this?") was particularly good. Their YouTube channel puts up a playlist of most (all?) of the previous night's show, and it has become a regular watch while I'm doing emails etc in the morning.

[–] hittheskids 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the inconsistency and congestion are the main things I wonder about. I'm not that sensitive to latency, but if it's bad enough that video calls will get choppy regularly then maybe it's not worth it. I have also wondered how home internet plans get prioritized. I haven't noticed any significant performance or congestion issues on my phone on Mint/T-Mobile but I'm not pushing that connection as hard and as often as I would a home internet connection.

As far as I can tell, Starry is not available in my apartment building. They do love to send me junk mail anyway though. I think CenturyLink might be in my building, but I had an overwhelmingly negative experience with CenturyLink in Denver a while back and I'd really prefer to avoid them. Google Fiber does not look to be available in my building.

Looks like my options so far are:

  • Comcast: Currently paying $60-70 (including fees) for I think 200Mbps, but I can probably call and haggle to get it down.
  • CenturyLink fiber: $50 plus fees for 500Mbps. Probably plus equipment rental.
  • T-Mobile: $60 flat plus a $150 cash card promo, but I can't tell if I have to buy or rent the equipment without going deeper into the process. This would be $10-20 cheaper if I also had mobile service directly from T-Mobile instead of Mint Mobile.
  • Verizon: $50 probably plus fees plus a $50 Target promo card. Not sure if there are equipment fees.

I might see about trying T-Mobile since they have a trial period and I'm guessing it'd be pretty pain free since it's wireless and nobody needs to come do any installation or configuration like tends to happen with Comcast or CenturyLink. Maybe I can use that to haggle with Comcast.

 

I have Comcast, but my deal for the last two years recently ended just in time for me to also start having hour+ long outages multiple times per week. I'm curious about my options, and specifically I wonder how viable wireless options like Verizon or T-Mobile are. Are the speeds consistent (and high) enough for video conference? Video streaming? I don't really game so I don't think latency is that important for me.

I live in the Cheesman/Cap Hill area and have one of those hideous green Verizon 5g poles right outside my building, but the eligibility checker on Verizon's site thinks it may not be in range for me somehow so I wonder how fragile it is.

I have Mint Mobile (T-Mobile) with no issues at home but I guess I'm not really stressing the throughput on my phone.

[–] hittheskids 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Her new district is actually the eastern plains. And the western slope isn't all bad. Fruita is pretty great.

[–] hittheskids 96 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's got what plants crave

[–] hittheskids 3 points 1 year ago

Not an answer to your software question, but you will very likely struggle with overheating since your phone will almost necessarily be in direct sunlight for hours at a time. If you really need to do this, avoid mounting your phone with a case and try to use a mount that does not cover too much of your phone's rear surface- cases and mounts can make it harder for your phone to dissipate heat.

[–] hittheskids 2 points 1 year ago

Looks more interdimensional than my 2019.

[–] hittheskids 18 points 1 year ago

I grew up in Alabama but live in Colorado now. If I were forced to live somewhere in Alabama, Huntsville would be at/near the top of my list. But it's still Alabama, and I'd still waaay rather live in Colorado. It obviously doesn't keep everyone away, and there's a lot of inertia there with all the existing space/rocket/defense industry in Huntsville. But is Space Command even going to be hiring heavily in the engineering fields that are concentrated in Huntsville? (That's a real question- I'd guess they're not hiring primarily engineers that they'd find in Huntsville, but I don't know.)

[–] hittheskids 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh, thanks- this is pretty much exactly what I had in mind.

[–] hittheskids 2 points 1 year ago

I have two bikes that I ride frequently- commuting or otherwise. I have a saddle bag with a quick release latch that makes it easy to switch between bikes depending on which one I'm going to be riding. I keep two tubes (I run 28mm tires so the tubes aren't huge), a small pump, tire levers, a multi tool, a small tubeless plug kit, and a little shop rag.

My nicer bike is set up tubeless so I don't need to deal with flats often, but I have needed to stop and put in some extra air after a persistent leak before. My other bike runs tubes and I do get flats sometimes despite running Continental GP 4 Seasons tires.

The worst part is the pump. It takes forever and it's physically awkward. Electric pumps are getting smaller and cheaper, but I worry I'll forget to keep it charged.

[–] hittheskids 2 points 1 year ago

I watch a lot of speedruns and challenge runs etc (for games in general, not just Hollow Knight), but I don't usually watch a lot of straight, blind playthrough videos. But the algorithm pointed me at Symbalily's playthrough, and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a really great balance of relatable, insightful (apparently she has worked in the industry), and endearing. Her ongoing playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom has been pretty good too.

[–] hittheskids 1 points 1 year ago

I mean if I don't need to use them, I'm happy to leave them unused. But I do want some sort of tool storage so I don't have to ride with a hip pack or camelbak on shorter rides. The Dakine Gripper I used on my old bike is just about the right amount of tool storage for me, but I just need a better way to mount it to my bike. As is, it just always slides down the frame after some bumps. Besides just being annoying, it also scuffs the paint on the frame after a while, so I'd love to find something similar that uses the bottle cage mounts instead of strapping onto/around the frame.

 

I bought a new mountain bike recently, and it has three sets of bottle cage mounts. But there's no way I could actually get two bottles inside the front triangle, and the third set is on the bottom of the down tube where I don't think I trust a bottle to stay anyway. So I have one bottle on the top of the down tube, but the other two mounts are currently unused.

I was using a Dakine Gripper on my old bike, but it never stayed in place, so I was hoping to find something like that that would mount directly to the bottle cage mounts. But I can't seem to find anything like this.

Does anything like this exist? What do you do with extra bottle cage mounts?

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