Favorite team:Missouri 
Location:Texas
Biography:5.5x Message Board Genius “I do think that Dallaswho MIGHT BE Drinkwitz, posting on SECRANT, not kidding.” -HRV
Interests:Football, cars, building things. Failing at garden/landscape.
Occupation:Oil/Tech
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Registered on:12/4/2023
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Coaches without championships ahead of Kelly: Deion Sanders Bill Belichick Kalen DeBoer Lincoln Riley Steve Sarkisian Dan Lanning

But only Deon doesn’t have a major bowl win and he is not reality.

re: Bad Sequencers Inside AC unit

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/13/25 at 9:32 pm
Take it to an electronics tech who works on circuit boards all day everyday and he can tell you exactly what is wrong. Let an AC tech look at it and you’re screwed.
Can we just all admit that CBK likely has the lowest moral character of any FBS coach in history(given own actions, murderous alum) and he still hasn’t ever won a decent bowl game?

re: Documentary on Texas BBQ

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/13/25 at 3:03 pm
I bbq pork at home. TX BBQ simply isn’t good. TX fusion bbq is outstanding though. Curry boys (SA) or Vaquero (grapevine but just moved somewhere East) or Panther City(FW) I believe all have James Beard nominations and all are excellent. I never understood Goldee’s at #1 but there are some theories floating around.

re: Home Networking Systems

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/13/25 at 9:20 am
I had the orbi 960 for a couple months and got rid of it.
It does have a LOT of antennas/streams meaning you can make a decent network without using any wires. It wasn't a good system though. Not a true mesh and would have trouble recovering after outage. Data monitor would crash system every couple weeks too.
By simply using wires for backhaul, you can make a new/used $150/50 set of deco x55s much better than a orbi 960 set that costs 10x more.
4 ton unit goes for $4-5k but there might be be a “retail” markup and high labor this time of year. Most all furnace are 96% now so they may have to convert your chimneys or try to find an 80% unit which are only legal for a couple more years and may be hard to find.

re: Best options for WIFI

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/12/25 at 5:21 pm
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I didn’t think T Mobile home internet was mobile.

You mean “on the road” and not parked for work or something? In that case, all mobile providers including Starlink will be more pricy and may have extra data restrictions.
I thought evobee worked with HomeKit…

re: Best options for WIFI

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/12/25 at 6:33 am
That is entirely dependent on exactly where the camper is placed. Some RV parks have decent WiFi for free. Maybe cell signal is good and you go 5g. Maybe you’re staying behind someone’s house with fiber and use their WiFi. Starlink is superior for mobility but 5g with decent signal is significantly faster, lower latency, and cheaper.
Fixing a car AC is exactly same as the home: As long as it isn’t the inside coil, easy peasy.

re: Anyone looking at these? (Jetson)

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/11/25 at 8:13 am
Thanks. Didn’t realize enc/dec was any different from GPUs. Frigate community seems to have it all figured out but I don’t have 30 cameras so no need really.
It would be a huge value if I could put Jellyfin on there also but that looks a little too tricky for me right now. Hopefully they make it easy soon.

Edit: looks like only the nano uses the NVMPI and this larger AGX xavier has standard NVENC (and has 2x of them). Wish there was better documentation out there.

Anyone looking at these? (Jetson)

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/11/25 at 7:07 am
$139
2x NVENC
2x NVDEC
32GB 256 bit unified RAM
30+ TOPS
8 core ARM
<50w
Too slow for LLMs but would do a TON of frigate cameras and Plex/Jellyfin streams.
Think they’re a pain to use?
Ebay

re: Firestick vs Roku

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/10/25 at 8:34 pm
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Yes, of course a user asking a simple question is going to be a hardcore side loader and IPTV stealer next week.

Is there any other reason to ever own a firestick?
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Cox has a subset of ports they block like 80, 443 and 25 for residential service

Are you serious? That’s insane. Do they still have data caps too?
You can still do a free reverse proxy via cloudflare and just change the port back via local NAT with your own router.
I don’t know good of a job it would take to hold pressure. I’d check Craigslist marketplace and offer up before attempting a repair then check YouTube to make sure I was doing it right.
I’ve only repaired an ABS RV tank in layers and that’s like 0.7 PSI, not 25-30.
You still need all the same parts to have a functioning air conditioner. Outside coil or condenser may be suspect. Inside or evap or low pressure coil should be fine if air is moving through it. Everything should be pressurized if the condenser kicks on if it actually has a pressure switch.

re: How to repair crack in pool filter

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/9/25 at 11:05 am
Please do not buy any all in one solution. There are 100 common plastics out there and each requires a different solution to correctly bond.
ABS requires ABS dissolved in acetone, PVC requires PVC cement, thermoplastics require heat.
Fiberglass requires adding layers of resin and glass matting to build up the fiberglass. Bondo liquid resin and Bondo fiberglass mats would be the best Walmart solution.
In a just world that would mean it is pressurized and should at least produce some cold. Are you giving it a couple minutes? I’m thinking clean the outdoor coils or check outdoor fan. The inside ones should be fine if you have airflow.
I think you’d use a resin or epoxy and roll fiberglass mats on one at a time.
Don’t have to spend $2k. Check offer up, CL, marketplace, etc.
same filter housings are generally used shared amongst several sizes w different heads and same for DE and cartridge so compatibility is pretty high or at least it used to be.
Ours is 20+ years old and used to splinter so we spray it with a UV resistant clear coat every year or two. More to not make me itch when working around it but maybe make it last longer too.

re: When to retire a home server?

Posted by Dallaswho on 6/8/25 at 7:54 pm
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Actually starting moving VM workloads over to N100

Great. Now you’re making me want to sell my GPUs and move over to Jetson devices. Found my next project.
Nevermind, Xavier 32GB w/ board is only $139 on eBay but I’d prob need Orin to make the transition bearable. Still tempting.