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re: Dislike cellular data speed,at least for 4k movie and tv show streaming,but tried them all

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/29/25 at 8:25 pm

Just buy a 24 v battery, a 24v cccv charger(boost converter if car) and a 19v buck converter assuming your server is a mini or a laptop. Tape them together and you have a UPS.
I’d use 8s lithium iron phosphate for stability when running near 100% capacity full time and maybe turn the charger down 0.1V or so.
Probably not going to get anything like that on a plane.
Edit: with an extra diode and converter you can actually bypass the constant battery havoc and just use a CV charger. Search web or ChatGPT “DIY DC UPS”

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re: Crabgrass help

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/29/25 at 3:40 pm

Grandpa’s Weeder.
LINK

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re: ChatGPT configuration

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/29/25 at 3:30 pm

The only time I worry too much about prompting is when an output needs to be used to generate a subsequent input in the chain. That’s via API though and specifically Google’s API as openai API is prohibitively expensive.
The less the AI caches any of my beliefs or preferences or cares about tone, the better responses I get. I only use ChatGPT for technical things though, or helping me cook. If my project has constraints, I list them. otherwise, I want to be as open-minded as possible.

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re: Its walmart+ week baws

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/29/25 at 10:01 am

I got Walmart+ then cancelled it when they made the 30 minute drone deliveries almost impossible to order. Should have left them on the wing app.

re: Inspection sticker elimination bill just failed at the Capitol

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/29/25 at 9:05 am

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I am always going to get an inspection sticker. I want to make sure my car is sound enough to dodge the caravan of shitboxes tethered together going 45 on the interstate headed to Tejas

A state inspection won’t find anything you don’t already know about. Also those shitbox wreck caravans continue past Texas. I think they’re going to El Paso then Mexico. They all head west out of the metroplex and go on past Odessa anyway.

re: Best toilet to purchase

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 11:08 pm

This one is a little pricy but it automatically cleans itself and your butt. The 25% off sale puts it within reach.
Amazon

Also, how do you “need” a toilet replaced? The only thing I’ve ever seen total a toilet was a bottle rocket.

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re: MZ should jump on Lemonis!!

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 7:24 pm

Sure, as long as our guy’s contract is up we can replace him.

re: Can we stop calling baseball a sport?

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 6:07 pm

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Football takes 3 1/2 hours for 10 minutes of action

10 minutes of war at every position save place kicker. A baseball player might play the whole game and not get 30 seconds, but that was too strenuous for some, so they created a DH.

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re: How is letting men compete in women’s sports good for women?

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 5:57 pm

Does this happen in the SEC?

re: 7-ELEVEN coming to Interstate 10 Mobile County (pic)

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 5:39 pm

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Its Technically Dallas

This is why I don’t go east of Grapevine.

re: Can we stop calling baseball a sport?

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 5:16 pm

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Well...that includes golf also....baseball is much closer to being a sport than golf will ever be. Geez..

That’s debatable, but I’ve never called a golfer an athlete.

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re: 7-ELEVEN coming to Interstate 10 Mobile County (pic)

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 5:11 pm

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Their HQ is in Cypress Waters

Which is a mixed use business park in Coppell on the Irving border.

re: Can we stop calling baseball a sport?

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 3:25 pm

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howabout just win ONE conference baseball game. try that on for size and see if you change your mind

How am I supposed to know if we’ve won a game or not?

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Can we stop calling baseball a sport?

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 3:04 pm

A typical player will play a whole game yet clock in less than 60 seconds of doing anything remotely athletic.

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re: Here's a first look at the Slate EV small pickup truck - Jeff Bezos' EV startup

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 2:14 pm

Does it have a frame?

re: 7-ELEVEN coming to Interstate 10 Mobile County (pic)

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 2:11 pm

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HQ used to be in Dallas(Southland Corp.,) I think they were bought out by a Japanese company a few years back

They’re over in Irving or Coppell still but may have a foreign parent company. The ones in Europe are actually pretty nice mostly. Way too hit and miss here though. Not like QT where every store is clean and friendly.

re: Speed queen not draining

Posted by Dallaswho on 4/28/25 at 2:06 pm

Nope but same thing happened to my dishwasher last week. I just pulled the drain pump and, spun it a couple times, and put it back on. Everything works great now. There was also a piece of glass down there, oops.

Getting in there and taking a look can’t hurt anything.

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