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  1. Intrinsic

    Home Improvement

    Appreciate it. Yeah that's a long term goal. Have to balance it by how long we'll be here since it isn't a forever home. We're looking at 5 - 8 years max, but that's another topic. I do believe you about the ADT stuff. It runs in and out of the walls on opposing sides of that closet but is the...
  2. Intrinsic

    Home Improvement

    Nah, no concern from me about danger or inconvenience, really. They're going to come out tomorrow and give me an estimate to do that + other stuff that I need. No commitment or cost for it so may as well listen.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13399128/ This was moderately bad. I have no idea about the history or making of this but it seems like a film festival specific type movie? I don't know what that means really, just a vibe. Also with it being almost exclusively limited to one actress, most of her...
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    Home Improvement

    Had to jump on a call when I got back home but snapped this. The black box I'm guessing is part of the chime / doorbell system. Pull cord on the light turns the doorbell on/off! May hire this one out and get the closet sorted to fully take the equipment I want.
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    Home Improvement

    Figured out today that the coat closet downstairs has a light fixture mounted to the wall with a fuse screwed in to it. So was playing with that thinking about where to centrally locate the NVR and PoE switch. It’s where the existing, non working, ADT box and stuff is from the previous...
  6. Intrinsic

    Home Improvement

    Haha no, nothing comes out at all. But that would almost make it worth it.
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    Home Improvement

    yeah, tried talking through it and using the "sound alarm" feature and nothing comes out. I can hear clearly audio coming in to the doorbell. Checked all the setting in the app volume wise, etc, and no joy. Didn't feel like fiddling with it any more today b/c it isn't something that really...
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    Home Improvement

    The Reolink doorbell went in, mostly, without issue. The speaker on the thing won’t work at all. At first I wasn’t sure if setup was working because it guides you with audio prompts from the doorbell. But just continuing through the process it worked fine. App set up and everything was about...
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    Mrs. Davis

    I’m not quite finished but have been doing an episode or so at night catching up on work. This is such a bizzare, quirky show. I love it. The one I just finished that was the long backstory campfire exposition was probably a low point so far mostly bc it seemed to drag.
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    Home Improvement

    I think most of us are just tech geeks and like bells and whistles and projects. In my neighborhood our 70 year old neighbors will text if an Amazon package is on our doorstep for more than a few hours and gossip about all the goings on up and down the street. They’re cute. All retired with...
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    Home Improvement

    Yeah I read in to the manual after buying and there was a mention about jumpering across the chime otherwise the cam would not have enough power. I’d have to go back and find the specific section. I’m honestly happy with that because while our charm is working today, it has been used 2 times in...
  12. Intrinsic

    Home Improvement

    I was just saying that I'm not going to be bothered running a CAT6 through the brick by my door where the existing doorbell is or routing a new line to a new doorbell location. I'll make do with the WiFi doorbell now and run PoE later to cameras. Just haven't gone up in to the attic or in the...
  13. Intrinsic

    Home Improvement

    Went ahead and ordered the Reolink WiFi doorbell since we don't have CAT5/6 to that and I'm not sure about drilling in there to run it. Existing doorbell works so I feel like tapping in to that would be easiest. Have a couple of ideas for running equipment in the house, but none of those...
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    Home Improvement

    I've been lazy about buying a doorbell cam just because I have no idea what home cameras I want. Buying a Ring seems like a waste if the rest of the system doesn't play together.
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    Mortal Kombat 1

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    Mortal Kombat 1

    Maybe it is a play on words, like Mortal Combat 1, 2nd go around. So, like 12, but with a comma.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Rugged for what? I’m barely down anything. I’m just tired of checking it every three months feeling like I missed another meme run in order to dump.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Someone @me when my Eth and TRU hit like $10,000. Thanks.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23036112/ Filipino scifi movie. Unfortunately not as cool as the box cover would make you believe, and not about Transformer knock offs. It is more like a Mech / Robot Jox / mutants / aliens thing. It's Filipino scifi so we'll just roll with it. Compared to...
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9600274/ So when this started streaming the first thing I noticed (or anyone probably notices) is this: It definitely lived up to it. Cheap shots aside, it really wasn't THE WORST b-movie ever. Was pretty familiar with most of the cast through tv series or other...
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    Favorite albums of all time?

    Been thinking about this one for a bit and most of these are extremely close to ones I would pick: Soundgarden - Superunknown; I don't know how much we listened to this in school. In 10th grade or 11th grade I even did a reading of Fell On Black Days in AP English class. Dream Theater - Scenes...
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    Home buying thread

    Little Rock isn't really that bad and being centrally located is helpful. I'm not a fan of NW AR for a lot of reasons that I'm not a fan of, let's say, other trendy developing places? Not sure how to put that exactly. Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, and Fayetteville are everything I dislike...
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    The Diplomat - Netflix

    Thinking back on it more I did like Studio 60, so that wasn’t completely fair. Newsroom though was hard for me to stomach. Hopefully we can catch up on this show over the weekend on our vacation.
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    Post Your Pet

    Picked up my girl from vet this morning.
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    Sisters of the Spires - by me!

    Yeah, exactly. And to reiterate this is just my perspective on how it goes together in my head. It may not be your style or anything! So not suggesting it is wrong. I think I had a similar complaint about Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and it being difficult to get a good rhythm going. So hey...
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    Sisters of the Spires - by me!

    Read about half of Book 1 last night. Really excited for you and glad you were able to get everything out and listed. No doubt it was a huge undertaking and something that is well beyond my capability to craft. Without getting in to specific story content and criticisms (which I'll hold until...
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    The Diplomat - Netflix

    Maybe better to say “a writer from The West Wing” since the primary writer was cocaine Aaron Sorkin. But it does look like she took over at Season 4 which would have been around the time Sorkin started stepping out. Which for me was when the show started going downhill. Doesn’t say much since...
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    Rabbit Hole

    I’ve been watching as they released, just not the finale yet. It’s been cool. Somewhat convoluted but fun.
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    DOTA 2

    @Dandain time to get the band back together!
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    "Wool" series by Hugh Howey...

    I don't remember making this post or anything about the book...
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    Warhammer 40,000 Novels

    I’m almost finished with Fulgrim and was going to take a break, but depending on how this ends I may trudge on a bit more. Took a break in between 4 - 5 to read Captain by Will Wight. But I'm mostly fine with moving forward with some HH or 40k. It helps, having never played the table top or...
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    Home Improvement

    $1300 + $500-600 for the dust extractor. If there's one thing I've consistently heard / seen good things about it is Festools dust extraction. I've wanted to get one myself to roll around the shop and connect up to small tools. Supposedly that's a huge benefit of their mitre saw, but at $1,600...
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    Audiobooks

    Forgot to follow up that I finished Infinite on my last work trip. This book was a mess. The first 25% was enjoyable and then the entire concept was dropped and it turned in to a bland evil AI plot, then a bland multiverse whatever you want to call it plot, then just more bland. My give the 2nd...
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    Ted Lasso

    haha I made the same comment to my wife. That locker room scene was the worst written, least organic, completely forced and unnecessary, unnatural conversation. And it isn’t even relevant since The Fappening was so long ago. No one cares about leaked buses at this point. And then Keely has her...
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    Home Improvement

    My Craftsman Briggs and Stratton has been fantastic 😬 Bought some of that trimmer line you were going on about but then realized I needed to order a new head for my Ego trimmer bc mine was no longer feeding properly. Get back out there this weekend and finish up the edging.
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    Computer Issues

    I use Paramount+ through their direct page but it looks/feels like Amazon and I think it is what first prompted me to install the player. Happens on NetFlix too. Anything that uses that damn auto-background video play over title while browsing the page crap. Whole monitor shuts down b/c I lose...
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    Computer Issues

    Having a strange issue that I think is related to Silverlight, or is at least the most reliable method I have of repeating the issue. Occurs on Edge, Chrome, and Brave. Issue is that whenever I open a site with a Silverlight player (Paramount+, Amazon, etc...), the graphics driver crashes and...
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    Ted Lasso

    The Jamie thing is a bit strange because in the Season 2 finale he gave Dani the PK which was his big “taking a step back for the team” moment. Now they want to recreate that whole thing over again with the formation. It just feels clunky. Too much stuff shoved in at the moment and forced. Zara...
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    From

    I'm perfectly fine with the whole thing being a The Mound or Mountains of Madness type situation. There doesn't really need to be a plausible explanation, so to speak, but a wholly supernatural explanation works for me as long as it is spelled out. The horn I thought was related to the...
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    From

    Caught up on this and it is some hybrid of Lost and The Leftovers. At least in this they aren't even trying to find an explanation for anything (for the most part) and constantly offering more and more mystery. I mean, it does do that, but they're all mostly related. Lost was just random new...