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MonkeyDoughnut

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  1. yeah, I thought boats would be cool change, I was wrong. They needed to at least decorate the boats or something.
  2. agreed, although based on what I've seen so far I can understand the tape delay. Trying to understand where are the people are?
  3. Verizon still has their Peacock Premium + Netflix Premium deal going on for anyone with Verizon and Netflix who wants to save money for a year... I went from no Peacock and Netflix Std subscription to: Peacock Premium and Netflix Premium for a year for $86 (saving over $115 for the year in the process) https://slickdeals.net/f/17638494-verizon-mobile-internet-fios-tv-1-yr-peacock-premium-1-yr-netflix-premium-80-via-play?src=SiteSearchV2Algo Super easy signup for existing Netflix account holders, was completely seemless, didn't have to cancel anything, Netflix just changed the billing to via Verizon.
  4. So now the "walk-ons" will get full scholarships is a bad thing for him?? Don't understand the walk on take.
  5. To me this is what McAfee brings. I personally like his addition. The other guys have been stale for a while. I'm not even sure Howard watches CFB anymore. Pollack... he ran out of things to say years ago. Energy, new blood is what has been needed. FOX is great mainly because they aren't the same guys talking about the same things using the same phrases they have used for years. It's good because it's different.
  6. Isn't the Big 10 the only conference with a current back to back champion? That's seems like pretty good parity to me.
  7. damn you IBRX.... not doubling (...yet) but added some more at @5.53.
  8. Damn that's sad. This world is becoming a very unwelcoming place for people just trying to live their lives.
  9. My money is on them already giving away your wife and daughters seats to other standy by passengers.
  10. My rejection email was really long this year. It felt personal.
  11. You running any Synology units currently? I'm a big fan of them. Using as drives for VMWare backends as well as ABB (Active Backup for Business) app for machine/data backups/Google/Dropbox, etc, hyper backup to USB connected drive array and Backblaze. Makes it really easy to spin up another VM when needed and super easy for handling entire backup process.
  12. I used this process for renewal for the wife and I. Getting it to accept a phone picture was more pain than it should be - ended up using some online tools to ediit picture so it would accept, basically smoothing out the background, reducing the compression, etc... but it was otherwise simple and from the day I pushed final "submit" button I had our passports in hand in 13 days.
  13. Looks good, but not sure on need for the Ubiquiti Power Backup. How mission critical is the need? ie. I probably wouldn't be using Ubiquiti if mission critical and with Ubuiquiti what I've read/seen is the device failure not being a psu failure. I'd go with the dual RS1221RP+ at least if critial as that would be more problamatic on a PSU failure.
  14. Already on my second package of Hatch Chile Bacon for this year... damn this stuff is great.
  15. I want to see the youth wake up and show signs of life. I think they will.
  16. If it's Harris, there cannot be enough debates before election day. She will crush him in every debate. She should demand allowing for interruptions and fact checking and just go to town on him letting him make a fool of himself.
  17. Joe can now truly take his place with great Presidents by making this move. Unfortunate he's isn't in a position to continue to run, but grateful for his service and decision to step aside.
  18. Yep, that's their plan. I believe still waiting on state signoff as part of their improvements plan.
  19. Good explanation/analogy: Here’s iFixit’s resident battery expert, Arthur Shi: “In general, li-ion batteries don’t like to operate near max capacity. My go-to analogy is a sponge and a cup of water. The sponge represents the graphite anode and the water represents the lithium ions. “When you charge a li-ion battery, the lithium ions have to embed into the graphite (intercalation). When a sponge is bone dry and you pour water onto it, it readily absorbs water. As it saturates, you have to slow down the water input, or water will start puddling on top of the sponge.” But this last part is not only slower, it’s also the part that causes the most damage to the battery. “Imagine that the water that puddles on top solidifies irreversibly. This would reduce the mating surface area of the sponge and reduce the amount of water that can be recovered from the sponge,” says Shi. “For a li-ion battery, this is known as ‘lithium plating,’ which irreversibly reduces the battery capacity.” Limiting the maximum charge gives a substantial increase to the overall life of a battery. If we measure the life of a battery not in cycles, but in the number of electrons it can deliver to your phone over its lifetime, then we’re looking at a possible increase of 400%. That is, your battery could deliver 4X the number of electrons. And yes, that means it could last up to four times as long, according to some simple testing: “[C]harging to 80% instead of 100% multiplies by 4 the amount of energy the battery will have transferred to you over its life—the only tradeoff being to compromise on how much energy you can get out of a full charge (big slices, small cake VS small slices, large cake). This also means you can use your battery for 4 times longer before it gets to the end of its rated life,” “space mechatronics engineer” Mister Mystère wrote on Stack Exchange last year.
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