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Merry Christmas, AI. I got an early present: my COVID test came back positive. Yay. We go and knock out all our Christmas errands and go to a doctor's appointment for the first time in 6+ months, and end up catching it. I can't wait for this poo poo show of a year to be over.
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sharkytm posted:Merry Christmas, AI. The Door Frame posted:
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InitialDave posted:Check your air filter, if it's dry, you're pretty safe from having drowned it. You know drat well it's damp.  Not dripping though, just barely damp. One of the intake resonators is broken off, so my factory intake is now a hot air intake. So long as the hole for that doesn't get submerged, it shouldn't soda straw.Upside: it's a Fram filter, so it was due for replacement the day before it was installed.
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Woke up to a car bomb for Christmas this year. I’ve slept through tornados and we were 5-7 miles away and it shook the house. It’s insane someone parked an RV downtown Nashville with speakers announcing it was about to detonate and to evacuate. I will find the security camera link this is insanity https://youtu.be/5nygTJeu9fU
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Dec 25, 2020 21:33
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Jesus dude, what the gently caress. The videos are eerie as hell. Hope the injuries were limited. What sick bastard does something like that.
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everdave posted:Woke up to a car bomb for Christmas this year. I’ve slept through tornados and we were 5-7 miles away and it shook the house. It’s insane someone parked an RV downtown Nashville with speakers announcing it was about to detonate and to evacuate. I will find the security camera link this is insanity I saw that on TMZ... weird poo poo with no explanation so far. But my belly is full of all I could eat of 15 pounds of prime rib, so I'll look more after my food coma wears off.
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Dec 25, 2020 22:08
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My wife's cousin lives about a half mile from there. She says it woke her up. From what I've read, police were able to go door-to-door and evacuate people such that nobody's been killed.
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the spyder posted:Jesus dude, what the gently caress. The videos are eerie as hell. Hope the injuries were limited. What sick bastard does something like that. We were 5+ miles away we just figured gas line exploded or something, didn’t get on our radar til later bc Christmas morning. I have close friends on fire and PD, it was just a handful of cops downtown at the time who risked their lives once the countdown started. No warning. Cops saved a lot of lives risking their own. All of downtown is sealed off I dont have super secret Info but my friends expect another to go off tonight or they are looking for another.
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Dec 25, 2020 23:02
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meatpimp posted:I saw that on TMZ... weird poo poo with no explanation so far. The current armchair consensus seems to be an infrastructure attack targeting the fiber at the AT&T building. A lot of poo poo is offline, including 911 in at least two states. The links are vibration sensitive and a well-placed but relatively small explosion would be sufficient to knock it out while minimizing collateral damage. Considering how well-targeted it was I'm seeing some other armchairs talking about how it was likely a disgruntled engineer trying to prove a point or someone with knowledge of the AT&T building.
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Fermented Tinal posted:The current armchair consensus seems to be an infrastructure attack targeting the fiber at the AT&T building. A lot of poo poo is offline, including 911 in at least two states. The links are vibration sensitive and a well-placed but relatively small explosion would be sufficient to knock it out while minimizing collateral damage. That or it's 5G conspiracy nutcases trying to take down the chinese nanobot vaccine towers at the source.
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Fermented Tinal posted:The current armchair consensus seems to be an infrastructure attack targeting the fiber at the AT&T building. A lot of poo poo is offline, including 911 in at least two states. The links are vibration sensitive and a well-placed but relatively small explosion would be sufficient to knock it out while minimizing collateral damage. We call it the Batman building and this was not near I mean it was near walking wise but not explosion wise. They knew this hub that no one else knew about on the most expensive street in Nashville exactly where to put it. Still on lockdown everyone thinks something else waiting somewhere. You could t make a movie as. Reedy as the rv blasting its warnings before it exploded. Just doesn’t seem real that street is where I grew up in high school doing stupid poo poo
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the spyder posted:Jesus dude, what the gently caress. The videos are eerie as hell. Hope the injuries were limited. What sick bastard does something like that. They stopped getting reliable funding 19 years ago. Not sure why. One of life's mysteries I guess.
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Let us not forget our home-grown bois McVeigh and Kaczynski when it comes to blowing stuff up
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My friends, if i could lend you some christmas wisdom, it would be to NOT spear yourself onto a tree stump on the morning of christmas eve. Was cutting trees down for Koala food, had running chainsaw in right hand, piece of tree in left hand, turned to pull tree out of the scrub, tripped on a stump in the long grass and went down on another stump and took it up my arm and into my arm pit. Didnt get myself with the chainsaw fortunately!  That one stings, and catches on EVERYTHING.  And you can even see the size of the stump i landed on because it left a loving mark to measure it off!  Two days later this itches and catches on EVERYTHING and the bruising has started in my arm pit. I have had an absolutely awful Christmas because It hurt to breath, or sneeze, or cough, or eat, or sit, or lay, or move or lift or do ANYTHING. It even hurts to sleep because I'm a left hand side sleeper. loving 2020 can just be over and loving done with. Now im bored out of my mind and still hurting cos I cant do ANYTHING, and ive got what i suspect is mild ADHD so I cannot sit still without going out of my mind.
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Dec 26, 2020 05:42
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Do you have Gympie Gympie where you are? F either way
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wow, thats loving creepy, I was watching some coverage a bit earlier but my soul couldn't take anymore so I just stopped - kinda like this:  So, again Mrs. Lobsterboyx is one bad b and really knows what I like - this "lamp" was my xmas gift:  but its not a lamp, its a Red Crown gas pump globe:  again... shes a keeper. I got her this cool sign  its in reference to this, with some slight modifications of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Allah_Hotel And I got my boy(s) his(their) first wagon:  so merry christmas dweebs, hopefully next year wont blow too hard.
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If we could only all be as happy as your kiddo.  Merry Christmas / Festivus / Saturnalia, cool dudes forum.
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sharkytm posted:Merry Christmas, AI. Holy poo poo dude, hope everything goes ok.
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kastein posted:Holy poo poo dude, hope everything goes ok. Thanks. We've both got relatively minor symptoms. Wife feels like she's got a bad head cold and loss of sense of taste. I had a low grade fever and a cough for a day, and now I have the worst body aches I've ever had. It feels like someone beat my chest, arms, and back with a wiffle bat. The worst part is that it meant my mom was alone for Christmas. She's been part of our bubble all year, and the last time I saw her was the final F1 race on the 16th. She made latkes, we decorated her house, and we all had a good time. Two days later, we went to the doctor's appointment and ran our errands, with the plan to get tested a week later to ensure we were safe to see her for Christmas Eve. We had big news that we were planning on breaking, but that's been delayed because of the 'Vid. She's had an awful year: 3 brain tumors, 16 rounds of chemo, being completely trapped in her house, and now this. She deserves so much better, and I feel like we let her down. Who knows if she'll even make it to Christmas next year. My MiL works retail, and that means that we haven't really seen her since March. She's dangerously depressed and Christmas is like her FAVORITE thing. We were going to set my shop up with a tree and lights, and have her, her partner, and my BiL over to open presents wearing masks and staying physically separated. 2000sqft with the bay doors cracked and game on meant we could have actually spent an hour or two together safely. I was going to cook 2 separate meals, and we could eat in 2 separate rooms. All that planning and anticipation went out the window because we weren't careful enough. It just sucks. The kicker: the contract tracers that called my wife said they think ~2% of the population that's out in public has COVID right now. That means that: 1. It's impossible for them to do their jobs, 2. That even wearing a mask and trying to stay socially distant doesn't protect you if you're spending more than a few hours in public places because you'll end up with >15 minutes of cumulative virus exposure, and 3. There's going to be a huge spike in deaths in the next 4 weeks as Christmas infections and people insisting on travelling combine.
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I need another laptop. My kids are taking turns on Minecraft and I want to do stuff*. First world problems. *Stardew valley got updated and I can't wait for it to come to Android
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cakesmith handyman posted:I need another laptop. My kids are taking turns on Minecraft and I want to do stuff*. First world problems. To take my mind off this messed up world I’m the laptop guy! I’m not trying to sell you one but I finally caved and ordered myself a new one Black Friday. I don’t game but I got a ryzen 7 with 1080/backlit keyboard for $399. Slapping 32gb of ram in it at work Monday. Took two weeks to ship. Some really good deals out now for intel stuff with discrete graphics like $699 range.
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oh god i ate too much ham, i feel like utter garbage but i cant stop eating ham. this happens every goddamn year
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Not eating more of my roast beef was a massive effort. So good.
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big dong wanter posted:oh god i ate too much ham, i feel like utter garbage but i cant stop eating ham. this happens every goddamn year Same. But just finished a kilo of prawns.
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i have a love hate relationship with christmas, i love stuffing my face with food but i loving hate everything else. this year i did a pro gamer move and did lunch with family and dinner with a friend, i ate so many hams.
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I can guarantee I'm up 5lbs from Thanksgiving. It's a good thing there's no ham around here.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Not likely. A substantial and vocal portion of the population has chosen MAH FREEDOM over public health. The most we can hope for is a mandate for vaccination to return to school, and even that is unlikely because we have no widespread testing on young children. We're going to see 500,000 dead before deaths plateau, and even then I doubt we'll have enough doses available for everyone who wants them. This is true, but I'm pretty sure people will be required to have the vaccine before boarding an aircraft. Hell they may even require you to have the vaccine in order to buy groceries.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I need another laptop. My kids are taking turns on Minecraft and I want to do stuff*. First world problems. Are you managing with one laptop between 2 adults and 2 kids at the mo? impressive! There's only 1 of me and I have like 4 laptops and a desktop and a server in use! (though none of them are new ones!) I have a dedicated laptop for using with the car/landy ECU's (which lives in the garage). One that sits under my TV that I use when I want to stream or watch stuff that isnt netflix or amazon, my main work laptop that goes to site with me and a backup work one (which is falling apart and party destroyed but still works enough to be useable in an emergency) If you decide you want to buy one then give me a shout. My main work one is a 2nd hand/refurb one that I just bought 2 or 3 weeks ago and I can tell you what models last well in education if you are looking at the 2nd hand market!
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StormDrain posted:I can guarantee I'm up 5lbs from Thanksgiving. It's a good thing there's no ham around here. No it isn't, gaining a bunch of weight is a small price to pay for stuffing your face with delicious ham
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So I gave the Lenovo Smart Clock a sidelook a few weeks back when I saw them at Walmart. Been wanting to finally give up any semblance of privacy and dive into a Google Home speaker of some kind, but I wanted something small with a display. Hell, I just wanted a working alarm clock that isn't my phone again (thanks to wire eating cats, my phone sits in a drawer when charging). Fuckers are on sale for $40. I finally bit. It's a bit limited in what it can do - it's an alarm clock first, Google Assistant second - but it at least has Bluetooth + supports casting audio (no video unfortunately). Neat little thing even if it's a little crippled compared to a full on smart display. Unfortunately no radio, but it did come with 3 months of Pandora Premium and 2 months of Calm Premium (Calm is pretty awesome if you have trouble sleeping, but drat it's expensive if you want more than a couple of sleep stories). Calm didn't want a CC; Pandora did, but my bank has a browser plugin that generates a virtual CC # anytime it sees a CC field. Made a virtual card, Pandora did the preauth to make sure it's valid, then I deactivated the card.  gently caress you, auto-renewing poo poo.sharkytm posted:The kicker: the contract tracers that called my wife said they think ~2% of the population that's out in public has COVID right now. That means that: 1. It's impossible for them to do their jobs, 2. That even wearing a mask and trying to stay socially distant doesn't protect you if you're spending more than a few hours in public places because you'll end up with >15 minutes of cumulative virus exposure, and 3. There's going to be a huge spike in deaths in the next 4 weeks as Christmas infections and people insisting on travelling combine. I work retail. Already had two scares, one positive antibody test (but two negative infection tests), and the dry erase board they're using to inform us of new cases in the store is getting updated daily now instead of every few weeks.  On top of that, last night I went in at midnight and got off at 8:30 this morning.. meaning I was around customers for 2 1/2 hours (we open at 6).Hope you guys have a quick recovery, and I hope your mother and MiL stay well.  When Houston got hammered, contact tracers and their public health authority were estimating much more than 2% - they were thinking closer to 10%. We're in our... third? wave here; we're in better shape than the rest of the state, but our idiot governor retweeted a video of a large indoor Christmas church service... saying "who said Austin is locked down?". (we're teetering on the edge of a 10pm-5am curfew) big dong wanter posted:oh god i ate too much ham, i feel like utter garbage but i cant stop eating ham. this happens every goddamn year I wound up doing a turkey breast + mashed potatoes + gravy + green beans + pumpkin pie. All from scratch except the pie (just did a frozen one, meh). Made sure the shitter's full before leaving work.  everdave posted:To take my mind off this messed up world I’m the laptop guy! I’m not trying to sell you one but I finally caved and ordered myself a new one Black Friday. I don’t game but I got a ryzen 7 with 1080/backlit keyboard for $399. Slapping 32gb of ram in it at work Monday. Took two weeks to ship. Some really good deals out now for intel stuff with discrete graphics like $699 range. Jesus, that's half the price of just a GTX 1080 right now. Video card prices are loving nuts. The 1080 is at least a generation old now, yet those cards cost more than some cars I've owned. My laptop is rather long in the tooth, mind sharing where you got that, even though I know that price was a Black Friday only deal? It may be time to turn my desktop into a server hiding in the closet... everdave posted:We were 5+ miles away we just figured gas line exploded or something, didn’t get on our radar til later bc Christmas morning. I have close friends on fire and PD, it was just a handful of cops downtown at the time who risked their lives once the countdown started. No warning. Cops saved a lot of lives risking their own. All of downtown is sealed off I dont have super secret Info but my friends expect another to go off tonight or they are looking for another. Jesus. Obviously an attack targeting infrastructure or businesses since they went through the trouble of doing an audible countdown, but drat. AT&T, refund this dude's modem deposit already...
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Tomarse posted:Are you managing with one laptop between 2 adults and 2 kids at the mo? impressive! There's only 1 of me and I have like 4 laptops and a desktop and a server in use! (though none of them are new ones!) Well there's only a couple of games and any CAD/slicing I want to do, everything else is done on tablets and phones. I was thinking a used Lenovo 430 or 440 would suffice but I'll take any advice. Something cheap I throw more ram and an SSD in would do too.
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STR posted:So I gave the Lenovo Smart Clock a sidelook a few weeks back when I saw them at Walmart. Been wanting to finally give up any semblance of privacy and dive into a Google Home speaker of some kind, but I wanted something small with a display. Hell, I just wanted a working alarm clock that isn't my phone again (thanks to wire eating cats, my phone sits in a drawer when charging). As far as Christmas, it was even shittier than I expected, but not by much. I didn't get a single gift or card or anything from anyone. I called my Mom and Step Dad, and I got a stupid meme in a group Facebook message from one of my sisters, that's it. I gave my wife a gift card (didn't even put it in a Christmas card or envelope), and my kids really loved their gifts. It could have been a worse day but at the same time I cant help but think I would have been better off not there. It's important to be there for my kids, but it's also important to not fight in front of them. A Christmas ham was made, it's delicious but I can't force myself to eat any of it. I've lost about 6 pounds in the past two days, it's unhealthy as hell but I am obese (my BMI is 31, anything over 30 is clinically obese) and I guess loosing weight is a good thing. I just look forward to going back to my lousy, crappy retail job tomorrow where I will at least be around people (young teenagers) who will fake being friends with me. The AT&R RV thing is pretty hosed up. I guess this could be a foreign terrorist, I just think it was internal. If it was foreign, I would expect them to hit a more high profile city like NYC or LA, unless they just really hate country music. Was there anything else of value like a bank or big office building nearby? I am surprised that it took out 911 service for such a large area, they should have redundant capabilities. At the very least, I'm sure 911 call centers have their own redundant power source and redundant radios if necessary, but I guess you cant make a redundant AT&T data center. Don't they have communication lines from another provider, like maybe Verizon or the local Cable monopoly?
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STR posted:So I gave the Lenovo Smart Clock a sidelook a few weeks back when I saw them at Walmart. Been wanting to finally give up any semblance of privacy and dive into a Google Home speaker of some kind, but I wanted something small with a display. Hell, I just wanted a working alarm clock that isn't my phone again (thanks to wire eating cats, my phone sits in a drawer when charging). Pretty solid info that it was a direct attack on AT&T's secret building. I have been looking at smart displays but we are overloaded with Amazon alexa's and smart plugs I probably don't have $100-125 total in the all, balls deep in that infrastructure and i snap them up when they have stupid deals. It just works. A new $399 Nvidia card is coming out that is supposed to be amazing...but who knows if you will be able to find it. I have two gaming systems built at work waiting for buyers and their choice of video cards. Let us know how that Lenovo works out...I am tempted but I don't know if me and the kids would use a smart display...never thought I'd be using Alexa devices like I do so... 
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StormDrain posted:I can guarantee I'm up 5lbs from Thanksgiving. It's a good thing there's no ham around here. e: Any of you guys use electric shavers? I prefer quality disposables, and shave in the shower (I find I get a close shave that way) but now see some electrics are wet shavers as well and appear to be shower safe. Anyone use one or recommend one? slidebite fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Norelco/philips makes good water proof shavers I keep a slight beard / scruff but use it for trimming etc... in the shower not very expensive either
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My wife and son got me the electric skateboard I was talking about earlier   This thing is loving amazing, something I dreamed about as a kid. The torque and speed is going to take some getting used to tho
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I'm just gonna leave this here: Camaro Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x6oJQIDl1k
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