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IOwnCalculus posted:Curious, indeed. Yes, what IS he up to? Edit: This is quite a haul (watch for the towing rope lol) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DlfVl4C30Y Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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I've had a sinus infection since Sunday, and now I get to go get my brain poked in about an hour and a half. I caught this from my niece, who nobody in the family warned me was sick when I was around her on Christmas Eve and Christmas. If I test positive I'm going to tear my brother a new one.
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I'm waiting for a doctor to tell me I can get a brain poke.  All of the urgent care places and CVS are booked solid for days. Found a cancellation with my regular clinic for today, though with a different doctor. Have a video visit in a couple of hours, then I'll go sit in a line at their drive thru testing.
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wesleywillis posted:If this truly is the case, expect a poo poo load of people to be all like "SEE?!?!?!? WE TOLD YOU IT WAS *JUST* THE FLU"!! I have an ex-friend who has been crowing since day one about natural immunity and that those getting sick were unhealthy. Apparently his mother was unhealthy because she died with it. 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The term Common cold includes covid viruses (15% cases). OC34 is part of that. Our province did the first update since before xmas and Omicron is rampaging as expected, doubling every couple days. Our labs are at a testing limit and something like 1 in 3 who test are positive and true numbers are without question drastically under reported. If you are in a public area, count on it being there, it's everywhere. BUT The hospitalization numbers are steady and ICU numbers are actually still trending down from before Christmas, even with a spike of new cases as high as it's ever been in any wave. I am actually for the first time cautiously optimistic we might be get through the worst of this. I fear hard lock downs again like some are calling for, especially people that are vaccinated and will almost certainly not require medical care, will be counter-productive at this point and actually cause problems in the future if we need to do it again. I'm not sure if a lock down would appreciably slow it down at this point, it seems to be so virulent. I totally get the whole bending the curve so we don't overburden the health system, but if it were anywhere near as dangerous as delta we'd be triaging in field hospitals by now. Not eager to go to a pub or NYE part with 20 people, but I am comfortable getting together with a couple friends that feel fine.
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We were looking forward to going to see the new Matrix for my wife's b-day/NYE, but now with the 'micron? eh i think we'll watch it on HBO.
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Goober Peas posted:I have an ex-friend who has been crowing since day one about natural immunity and that those getting sick were unhealthy. 800,000 dead in the US alone were just "unhealthy", I guess. I mean, they are now... So what are the odds of him doubling down on the stupid, or actually thinking for a moment, as a result of his mom dying? luminalflux posted:We were looking forward to going to see the new Matrix for my wife's b-day/NYE, but now with the 'micron? eh i think we'll watch it on HBO. From what I've been hearing, you shouldn't pay money to see it, which is disappointing to me.
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I wish OSHA would put on their big girl panties and actually remove the weekly testing exemption that lets unvaccinated people keep their jobs. Except for people who can't be vaccinated due to medical reasons, of course, they should still be doing the weekly testing and allowed to keep their jobs
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Darchangel posted:From what I've been hearing, you shouldn't pay money to see it, which is disappointing to me. I've heard from people who love it and people who don't like it. I'm going to err on "yeah i kinda want to see this" due to it being filmed in our city and our shared love for grizzled sad keanu
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Got a call from my Dad that my mom has gotten a lot worse. I'm sure it's the short days that really exacerbate the problem, and it won't get any better. The fact that he called speaks a lot more about how serious it is than his description. His words were that it's getting bad and he needs help. The real story is probably that it's more than he can handle and he needed help 6 months ago. Now I need call to my sister to break the news and I think Mom has to move to assisted living. Being responsible seemed more fun before I had to be responsible.
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Dec 29, 2021 22:08
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Goober Peas posted:I have an ex-friend who has been crowing since day one about natural immunity and that those getting sick were unhealthy. Wow! It still breaks my heart a bit when someone has to lose a loved one and they still don't understand anything. Like that unhealthy people still don't deserve to die. And that it was preventable. And the worse fact that a lot of people aren't as healthy as they think.
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My neighbor has lost her husband and a son since we moved in last April. Get other son and his kids have moved in because she couldn’t handle being alone and didn’t want to leave her home of 51 years. Both died of Covid and there and there is a lot of “Jesus called them home” stuff going on so who knows what their heads are being pumped full of at Zombie Death Cult Meetings.
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Fermented Tinal posted:48-96 hours to get my results, guess I ain't working tomorrow. Same. And I burned a bunch of sick time when they were having warehouse issues... we were supposed to somehow get reimbursed for burning our sick time, but of course we didn't.  slidebite posted:Our province did the first update since before xmas and Omicron is rampaging as expected, doubling every couple days. Our labs are at a testing limit and something like 1 in 3 who test are positive and true numbers are without question drastically under reported. If you are in a public area, count on it being there, it's everywhere. We're around a 30% positivity rate here - and you know that's way underreported. TX only counts lab PCR tests - antigen tests, if done in a clinical setting, get counted as a "possible positive" but don't go against the official numbers. At-home tests don't get counted at all. PCR or nothing. I got the PCR brain tickle a little while ago. Again. I feel like complete poo poo right now, but driving the 'vic now that it has a tune loaded in it did make me smile a little. Emailed the tuner to see if we can firm up the shifts a bit more, but otherwise the tune is loving perfect.
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slidebite posted:Thanks - ended up down a common cold rabbithole because of you lol It does take a week or two for most cases to go from sick to in the hospital, so those numbers may well be about to hit. I ain't doing poo poo inside in public spaces without a p100 mask on at this point. Been a week since my booster, hopefully this wave passes soon but I'm not holding out much hope for that. I have like a dozen friends down with it right now. One is just out of the hospital. Guess what? He was one of the few antivaxxer ones. I'm mad that he believed the dumb poo poo and put himself in the hospital over it. The vaccinated local guys he knows who are also sick? None of them are in the hospital.
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I have been using a N95 and people look at you as if you are mad or something. Edit: just in CVS and a woman walks up to the pharmacy and asks if they have home Covid tests. No mask and coughs on the pharmacist… yeah. BigPaddy fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Dec 30, 2021 |
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I just reconnected with my older sister (10 years older) and it's been a great hour of catching up. She also just pulled the rug out from under one of our mother's claims about my childhood issues so dinner on saturday is gonna be interesting.
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kastein posted:It does take a week or two for most cases to go from sick to in the hospital, so those numbers may well be about to hit. I'm not too sure on that. Other countries esp with a shitload of vaccinations and prior infections aren't doing badly with hospitalisations and deaths - and it's been long enough to see the increases if they were going to follow previous waves. It seems fairly safe to say there is a disconnection between infection and hospital / death rates and Omicron is only going to be a huge hospital issue due to the amount of people being infected Unvaccinated esp those without a prior infection the data seems to be that it's not quite as bad as the OG variant but still the outcomes are considerably worse in percentage than if you are vaccinated. But also the issue there is that the numbers are nt looking like previous waves due to it being mostly younger people being unvaccinated and they werent the more likely to end up in hospital so....... kinda not easy to make any really good statements other than if you are vaccinated, you could have a few lovely days but almost certainly will be fine afterwards.
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good thing i didnt get my haircut before xmas, barber came down with the cron - Listen! So remember when I asked some audio nerds to help me out with some sound system profiling? I scaled back on my silly asks and I think I'm just going to go with a more simple system for the room in question, which is essentially an ADU off my garage thats 10x12, its going to be a tiki bar so style is a thing I'm after - I found this thing : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0851HGH73/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=A3LLMZ9K72U9P2&psc=1 before you get all "spend more and get x" - I've done a bit of looking and I feel like something like this would work for me, as well as become part of the style of the tiki bar - which is going to be like an indiana jones lookin outpost my question is, if I was to run 2 of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08C7SJ2J3/ref=crt_ewc_img_dp_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3LLMZ9K72U9P2 would that be enough to fill a room as I described with sound? I've been slowly starting to understand impedance and basics of amplification - I kinda get it, kinda dont - I'm wondering if I could wire maybe 4 passive speakers to hit all 4 corners of the room... would that be enough, is it possible? Am I an idiot for thinking I can get out of this so cheap? in other news, ive been oiling this antique 7' long gator hide for a few days... why? why not. 
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kastein posted:It does take a week or two for most cases to go from sick to in the hospital, so those numbers may well be about to hit. Once again, I'm an idiot and know nothing.
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Got a canned tune from the god of Panthers, went back and forth with him a little on the shift firmness. I like a very firm shift. Finally told him to give me whiplash. I want to say he saw that and did the "O'RLY" and dialed it up as high as he could. Car tried to go sideways on the 1-2 upshift @ WOT. That's close to perfect! Can't really go any further without an actual shift kit. This tune already changed the shift quality considerably - much snappier shifts overall, nice and firm, shift points are a bit higher, and overall the car feels a lot better in general. Telling him to try to break my neck got me to where I want to be with shifting; I honestly didn't think software could take a transmission from "gonna just slide right into that next gear, over here" to "I see you like that neck, can I bounce your head off of the back window on this shift?". Canadian Bacon is now a shitload more fun to drive. And likely homicidal in the rain... randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Dec 30, 2021 |
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LobsterboyX posted:good thing i didnt get my haircut before xmas, barber came down with the cron - Have you done any research into tube amps? They can distort the sound. If you're into that, go for it. It's hard to say if those speakers will fill the room well without actually hearing them. It's amazon so you could buy it all, wire it up, and return if you don't like it. I have these and really like them: https://www.amazon.com/Sony-SSCS5-3-Driver-Bookshelf-Speaker/dp/B00O8YLMVA I've seen them go on sale from best buy and b&h photo for ~$70. With my goodwill receiver, they can get very loud. EDIT: It seems like your speaker budget is ~$160. Why not spend the money and get a pair of nicer speakers instead of 4 potentially mediocre speakers? mariooncrack fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Dec 30, 2021 |
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Lobsterboyx I would start conservatively and build form there. I personally would prefer a well made cheap to acquire Onkyo or Technics or similar 80s/90s solid state amp, with some modern well Made speakers you will have no problems filling the room with great sound (and they don’t have to be big). I gave up on life a bit and went and gave away all my good stuff, but my acoustic research Bluetooth outdoor speaker I now have in the living room fills the room very well, I’d love to have more power but it works for my needs when h the e kids aren’t there. I did go crazy and bought back some similar equipment but it’s just sitting at my store as it takes so much room and my house is small.
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Just make your own. You're handy and like a good project. Years ago( 2008ish) in DIY there was a build your own speakers thread I followed and ended up making a set of bookshelf speakers I still use today.
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STR posted:Got a canned tune from the god of Panthers, went back and forth with him a little on the shift firmness. I like a very firm shift. I literally laughed out loud at that. quote:This tune already changed the shift quality considerably - much snappier shifts overall, nice and firm, shift points are a bit higher, and overall the car feels a lot better in general. Telling him to try to break my neck got me to where I want to be with shifting; I honestly didn't think software could take a transmission from "gonna just slide right into that next gear, over here" to "I see you like that neck, can I bounce your head off of the back window on this shift?". Canadian Bacon is now a shitload more fun to drive. And likely homicidal in the rain... Considering mine likes to go sideways in the rain with a stock tune, until the traction control kicks in - which obviously doesn't always help with the sideways bit already happening - I'd say you will be correct. Could be down to the Goodyear GSAs not being completely awesome in the wet. I don't really know. The Falkens I had on it before weren't any better (and wore like poo poo, which pissed me off. DT claimed that Falken would likely reject the treadwear warranty claim, since it "looked like alignment wear." They literally wore out on the corners in half the treadwear warranty, properly rotated, AND the replacement model of the tire had half the treadwear warranty  )Now that I got a raise, both actual and effective (cheaper [but better!] health insurance), I'll have to get that tune for my CV, once I've paid down some credit cards a bit.
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Maksimus54 posted:Just make your own. You're handy and like a good project. Years ago( 2008ish) in DIY there was a build your own speakers thread I followed and ended up making a set of bookshelf speakers I still use today. Parts Express has some nice kits with decent budget drivers.
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Darchangel posted:Parts Express has some nice kits with decent budget drivers. Yup. There's basically two levels. Either build some bookshelves from a kit or buy a set of 5" or 8" Yamaha Studio Reference Monitors (HS5/HS8).
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the thing thats hard to express when talking about my personal needs with audio stuff is that I really don't listen to anything that deserves really nice audio. this room is going to be playing a lot of mono recorded music from 70 to 100 years ago, sound effects of birds chirping in the rain forrest and 1940s radio broadcasts. Pretty much this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUOmWfCTllo&t=312s
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LobsterboyX posted:the thing thats hard to express when talking about my personal needs with audio stuff is that I really don't listen to anything that deserves really nice audio. this room is going to be playing a lot of mono recorded music from 70 to 100 years ago, sound effects of birds chirping in the rain forrest and 1940s radio broadcasts. Pretty much this: If I were you, I'd try this: Get yourself an old 30s/40s standing radio with the guts taken out of it. Cut the front face off or make a panel so you can open it like a cabinet. Then build a shelf unit inside and drop in a "goodwill" or "electronic recycling" vintage receiver, maybe add some LED glowing lights for the outside dial. Then you'd have a vintage radio look with a dirt cheap receiver stereo inside. Get yourself a couple of wooden tiki / voodoo masks and put some cheap speakers in the mouths and mount them up in the ceiling.
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I dont care how, I'm going to find a way to stab a year and shank the poo poo out of 2021.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I dont care how, I'm going to find a way to stab a year and shank the poo poo out of 2021. Save a piece for me.
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LobsterboyX posted:good thing i didnt get my haircut before xmas, barber came down with the cron - It depends on what you mean by "fill a room with sound." The amp says it can apparently handle 35W @ 4ohm RMS but that only tells half the story. I'd like to know what the crossover is and see a speaker impedance graph before I make a recommendation. The sensitivity on those speakers is pretty terrible so they're going to suck a lot of power just to be audible. 85db @ 1W @ 1 meter. As a rule of thumb you lose about 6db for every meter of distance you put between yourself and the speaker so if you're across the room, then that 85db could be more like 67db at best and that's barely louder than a toilet flushing. To achieve the 85db sound pressure level across the room, that amp would have to be cranked all the way up. None of the calculations account for losses at certain frequencies though. That's a best case calculation on power alone. You start considering how much bottom end gets lost by the crossover and small driver size and you'll probably want a LOT more power just to be able to hear that sweet sweet bassline. Will that setup make noise? Yes. Will you be able to hear it over a crowd of people? Probably not very well. Will you be able to hear it over a power drill? Definitely not. Here's some links: http://www.hometheaterengineering.com/splcalculator.html https://mehlau.net/audio/spl/ https://geoffthegreygeek.com/understanding-speaker-sensitivity/ https://www.aperionaudio.com/blogs/aperion-audio-blog/the-truth-about-speaker-impedance
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of all people, lobsterboy is the one i would least expect to see preferring some cheapo stuff from amazon over like, some 40yo sansui kit from craigslist that said, sounds like you've got something really specific that you want in mind
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I dont care how, I'm going to find a way to stab a year and shank the poo poo out of 2021. KillHour posted:Save a piece for me. Indeed. Let's set up a queue.
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BigPaddy posted:I am saving myself for 2022 because it is looking shifty right now. You sure? You'll never get a shot at '21 again and you'll always be wondering what could have been. cursedshitbox posted:fuckit i'll take 2020, 2021, and 2022. Like... all at the same time? 
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Raluek posted:of all people, lobsterboy is the one i would least expect to see preferring some cheapo stuff from amazon over like, some 40yo sansui kit from craigslist Seriously, an old Kenwood or something would be great. I've got a couple of older receivers I use for stuff like that, retired when video standards or requirements changed. There's probably a sweet spot of not-quite-vintage, but too old for modern AV that would work a treat. For example, I've got a lovely 5.1 Harman Kardon that I had to replace when it decided to not pass video any more. Sound still works, so it's a good unit for sound only, or a single-source AV setup. The old '70s Kenwood I have out in the shed for noise would be great if one channel weren't significantly quieter than the other. Really scratchy volume, too, but that's just a good cleaning (which might fix the balance issue, too, now that I think about it.) edit: some of those "Chinese" amps are pretty decent, too, with radio, BT, a pair of analog inputs, and USB/SD readers. Most are 2-channel, but there are some 4-channel. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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cursedshitbox posted:fuckit i'll take 2020, 2021, and 2022. fire up the blingees boys
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ARTPUP posted:If I were you, I'd try this: Get yourself an old 30s/40s standing radio with the guts taken out of it. Cut the front face off or make a panel so you can open it like a cabinet. Then build a shelf unit inside and drop in a "goodwill" or "electronic recycling" vintage receiver, maybe add some LED glowing lights for the outside dial. Then you'd have a vintage radio look with a dirt cheap receiver stereo inside. Get yourself a couple of wooden tiki / voodoo masks and put some cheap speakers in the mouths and mount them up in the ceiling. I have a few things I was going to do that with, including a 1936 Rockola juke that I'm considering for the space. Raluek posted:of all people, lobsterboy is the one i would least expect to see preferring some cheapo stuff from amazon over like, some 40yo sansui kit from craigslist well, I'm running in to a lot of walls with this, I don't want a massive project just to be able to listen to my bullshit music in this space - and quality noise making stuff has never really been my forte so this is why I'm kinda drawing blanks here. as I've described before, this room is going to be very immersive, and my goal is to make it somewhat rentable for photo shoots and/or tv movie shoots. I've been collecting artifacts for this room for so long, I'm focusing on the presentation of that rather than the quality of the sound in said room. now, In my garage I have this: https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/sony/cmt-rb5.shtml I made a little shelf for the receiver part of it, then mounted the speakers on little shelves, pointed inward at the top corners of the garage door. I have a logitech bluetooth adapter that I have plugged in to it it with one of those little headphone plugs that splits to RCA jacks. Just to give you all an idea of what I'm working with; aside from my 2006 lexus Mark Levinson sound system, this goofy rear end setup is the "nicest" sound system I currently own that can play things from my phone. Every thing else that makes sound in my home is tube driven and no less than, again, 70 years old. The other thing I listen to in my home is a 1937 Firestone (yes that firestone) console radio that I can plug in to my phone with one of those iphone dongle things, the other is a 1948 Rockola jukebox that plays 78 records. So me talking about this kind of stuff, and the confusion you guys are having about my asks really shows how big the rock I'm crawling out from under is. I'd love to go thrifting and find some old receiver and old 70s big brown boxes and do it that way, but the fact of the matter is, I just want something simple thats not a huge project and doesnt cost a lot of money, that looks cool and plays music from a computer. as silly as this sounds, and I realize this, I have an animatronic replica of the tiki room parrot from disneyland. He is powered by a raspberry pi unit and interfaces with Reaper. The more I looked in to it, the more I realized that I have to have a dedicated computer to run this rooms av - originally I wanted different zones, inputs and bluetooth stuff, but I'm realizing that the only way I can get the room to behave how I want it to is if the room has a dedicated computer - so this is what turned me on to a unit like the china tube amp. firstly, it has 2 inputs, one for the computer, and another for maybe a turntable in the room, in addition to that, I see it can do bluetooth, so in my head, if I'm not using the computer that controls everything in the room, and I'm not listening to a turntable, I can pop it on to bluetooth and listen to my phone while I'm sitting alone in my palace of excess. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:It depends on what you mean by "fill a room with sound." and right about here is where I realize I'm in over my head.
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