The "I just bought..." thread.

[Pohemi]

Been kind of thinking of getting a bike myself. I have a foot related illness that stops me from being able to walk so been spending all summer sitting around the house. I should be able to bike as pedaling is not putting weight on the ball of the foot which is the part that's affected so at least it would let me get out more and get sun/exercise.

Yeah, I have diabetic peripheral neuropathy from the waist down, and I limp a bit when I walk, use a cane around half the time...but riding a bike is relatively easy. I have to be cautious as I stop and get off the bike after riding though, my legs are often wet noodles and I almost face-planted twice already when stopping and getting off of it, lol.

It definitely increases my mobility outside my apartment though, the range that I can go, such as going to the beach less than a mile from my place. It's often too far for me to walk (roundtrip), but just an easy two minute ride over there.

 

[ElFenix]

well, I'm still just rocking the 2700X...so you beat me there.

As for my most furious posting pace: it was achieved, I want to say....2010-2017, or so. (this is based off of work time during that era, minimal effort required, troll concentration on the boards, etc)

my most furious mastu... er, posting pace was nearly 40k in 2 years from 2002-04. iirc i hit 10k in april of 2002. at that time barely cracking the top 10. hit 20k 6 months later, and 30k 6 months after that, 1 year to the date after hitting 10k. i was on pace to hit 50k exactly 2 years after hitting 10k but caught a ban. yes, there was porn behind the ftp link, but i didn't provide the user/pass for it.

 

[Charmonium]

I'll probably do a couple of updates on this.

I've always been a little curious about ice makers. This one seems to work by having 2 rows of what I'll call 4 shiny metal "teats." Apparently these get dipped into a very shallow plastic tray that fills with water. I'm guessing that the coolant is circulated thru these but I think they might use 2 or more temp settings during the freezing process. One seems to give you the air/ice "cubes," while the other gives you what looks like mostly solid cubes.

Note: all of the so-called cubes are actually hollow cylinders. When a new set of cubes is ready, the machine seems to use air to dislodge them one by one. It's actually sort of fun to watch, but as I have said many times, I'm easily amused.

The air cubes are probably chewable but I haven't tried yet. These transfer all of their chill to a room temp liquid very, very quickly and then just disappear. The more solid ones tend to last a while.

The main diff I see between these petite little cubes and the ones from the freezer is that the latter come out much colder. The freezer is set between 0 and 5 degrees F. So these tend to be much colder than what you get from the machine and therefore say, 8 freezer cubes seem to last about the same amount of time as a couple small scoops (comes with dainty scooper)from the machine.

I should also mention that the body of the machine does not appear to be refrigerated. It is insulated though. Even so, if you leave several batches in the machine, they tend to melt and stick.

Another important observation is that, aside from turning it off, what will happen is that either the basket will fill with ice and the machine then stop or it runs out of water. In either instance, the ice basket will let the ice melt and then drip down into the reservoir underneath the basket. As the basket becomes lighter (or as the bottom fills with melt water), the machine will keep going through these cycles until you turn it off.

The ad for this item claims to produce ice, from a standing start, in 6 minutes. I don't have the attention span for that but I take them at their word.

Yeah, I have diabetic peripheral neuropathy from the waist down, and I limp a bit when I walk, use a cane around half the time...but riding a bike is relatively easy. I have to be cautious as I stop and get off the bike after riding though, my legs are often wet noodles and I almost face-planted twice already when stopping and getting off of it, lol.

It definitely increases my mobility outside my apartment though, the range that I can go, such as going to the beach less than a mile from my place. It's often too far for me to walk (roundtrip), but just an easy two minute ride over there.

You poor dear. Have you been diabetic for a very long time? I'm been so for over 10 years. Probably pushing 15, and I only have a touch of that and only in my toes.

If you've been seeing a GP/PCP ditch him/her and get yourself an endocrinologist.

For the minimal neuropathy that I have, I take 1600mg/day of neurontin. It has virtually no effect on me so I don't even notice it but some folks (seems to be mainly former junkies though) that cop a buzz off of this, especially at that dose. That sh** is fire for neuropathy.

Also, get yourse3lf one of the new deeb meds likes victoza. That attacks the problem and will do a much better job of keeping you glucose stable - more or less.

For me, I tried to go down to 1.2 units from the 1.8 unit max and my response doesn't seem to be linear. So start at the high end (assuming the doc agrees) and if you feel like your A1C might be dropping too much, only go back maybe one click per day. Each click seems to be about 1/10th of a unit.

 

[Pohemi]

You poor dear. Have you been diabetic for a very long time? I'm been so for over 10 years. Probably pushing 15, and I only have a touch of that and only in my toes.

39 years this past March, type 1 (juvenille, insulin-dependant)...and "brittle". So yeah...a LOT of complications now.

If you've been seeing a GP/PCP ditch him/her and get yourself an endocrinologist.

I have a PCP, but I also have an endocrinologist, neurologist, nephrologist, etc. etc.

For the minimal neuropathy that I have, I take 1600mg/day of neurontin. It has virtually no effect on me so I don't even notice it but some folks (seems to be mainly former junkies though) that cop a buzz off of this, especially at that dose. That sh** is fire for neuropathy.

It's effective for some folks...but not everyone. I took 3200mg a day for years, and when I stopped taking it, my neuropathic pain lessened in severity. It made me wish I had stopped it a lot sooner. I also tried Lyrica for a few months and all it did was make me put on 10% of my body weight in a few weeks time. When I stopped taking it, I dropped that weight again in a month.

Also, get yourse3lf one of the new deeb meds likes victoza. That attacks the problem and will do a much better job of keeping you glucose stable - more or less.

Most or all diabetic meds other than insulin...are ONLY for type 2 'betics.

 

[Charmonium]

39 years this past March, type 1 (juvenille, insulin-dependant)...and "brittle". So yeah...a LOT of complications now.

I don't even have words for Type I. So many new meds for T2 and zilch for T1 - insulin pumps maybe. An old friend I've sort of lost touch with has had since young adulthood and she's been T1 for at least 30 years. But I have never met such fastidious person when it comes to her blood sugar. She tests all day every day - or at least used to. But she never wanted to use an insulin pump for some reason.

I wonder if the body habituates to neurontin. I'll have to see the mech of action for that drug is known.

 

[Captante]

@Charmonium Chrome is weirding out on me hence the strange PM sorry!

 

[Charmonium]

@Charmonium Chrome is weirding out on me hence the strange PM sorry!

S'all rite (remember the guy with the little Mexican ventriloquist dummy?)

 

[Fenixgoon]

my horrendously expensive "miniature" has arrived. assembly has commenced. painting, on the other hand....will take some time.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Just bought a pair of Ariat western boots. 2nd pair. Love their boots.

 

[JM Aggie08]

4 bay Synology NAS and 2x 16TB Seagate Exos drives for.... things.

 

[Muse]

Just ordered 3 extra NB-11L batteries off Amazon for the used Canon Powershot ELPH 110 HS point & shoot camera that I bought used off ebay last week, and received today. For all the world the camera looks brand spanking new after wiping a few finger prints off the 3" LCD screen.

4 bay Synology NAS and 2x 16TB Seagate Exos drives for.... things.

I've had a 2 bay Synology DS2014play since, well, 2014. The two mirrored 3TB HDDs are around 2/3 full, and I figure to replace them with larger drives. I was talking to a Synology tech the other day and he said I could put in up to 14TB drives in there! Any data that I care about is on that NAS. I back it up pretty much every week and store the backup off site. I don't have any data in the cloud that I care about that isn't on my NAS (and its backups).

 

[Muse]

Been kind of thinking of getting a bike myself. I have a foot related illness that stops me from being able to walk so been spending all summer sitting around the house. I should be able to bike as pedaling is not putting weight on the ball of the foot which is the part that's affected so at least it would let me get out more and get sun/exercise.

One day I left my bike unlocked downtown outside a bank for 5 minutes and never saw that bike again. I was so pissed off I walked around town for years. For exercise I was a runner, on the streets almost daily. Did that until I had a foot injury (from my street running) that prevented me from walking. Only then did I buy another used bike, a Schwinn 10 speed (and I had no car). When that bike's frame broke I bought another used bike, an almost new Miyata with triple butted frame that I still ride, almost 25 years later. Last week a guy at the bike racks was admiring my bike, said those old Miyatas were highly sought after and difficult to find, said a buddy of his bought a Miyata frame like mine for $400 recently. I decided I'm gonna keep mine. I do all my own maintenance, except one time I brought it to a shop. But that guy closed his shop, so it's just me nowadays. I have a nice big steel basket over the rear tire I can plop a backpack in or whatever, brackets on the handlebars for removeable accessories: a lithium-ion light, bike computer and cellphone. It's a 6x2 = 12 speed road bike with leather toe straps. I ride 1 3/8" tires with urethane liners to prevent flats.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Just bought 3 extra NB-11L batteries off Amazon for the used Canon Powershot ELPH 110 HS point & shoot camera that I bought used off ebay last week, and received today. For all the world the camera looks brand spanking new after wiping a few finger prints off the 3" LCD screen.


I've had a 2 bay Synology DS2014play since, well, 2014. The two mirrored 3TB HDDs are around 2/3 full, and I figure to replace them with larger drives. I was talking to a Synology tech the other day and he said I could put in up to 14TB drives in there! Any data that I care about is on that NAS. I back it up pretty much every week and store the backup off site. I don't have any data in the cloud that I care about that isn't on my NAS (and its backups).

Nice. All of my data that cannot be lost is hosted on my Google Drive. Everything I have locally is easily replaceable -- living that RAID 0 life lol.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ouch raid 0. I like the idea of that kind of performance and disk space but I'm not brave enough haha. Now days with size of drives I do raid 10 but I still have a raid 5 running with 1TB drives. At some point I think I will upgrade the drives in-place one by one then grow the arrays. My biggest drives are 3TB. Crazy you can get up to like what, 18TB now?

 

[Captante]

Ouch raid 0. I like the idea of that kind of performance and disk space but I'm not brave enough

Also it's mostly pointless these days with cheap, large and readily available NVME drives everywhere.

Yes it's "measurably" faster but having tried it you can barely tell by the seat-of-the-pants @ double the price, increased CPU overhead plus added points of failure vs a single fast NVME.

With NVME drives the only RAID I would consider using is 1 or possibly 5 if the MB has enough full-bandwidth slots. Without some redundancy it doesn't seem worth it to me.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just ordered a 10z silver bar.

WSS | 10 oz Our Choice of New Silvertowne Silver Bar

A great option for anyone looking for the lowest price on precious metals and diversifying their collection. If you are looking for value and design isn't a concern, this may be the best option available. We randomly select a 10 oz silver bar crafted at the prestigious Silvertowne mint. The...

silvergoldbull.ca

This will bring me to 100oz total in my stack. At this rate I need to build a small vault.

 

[MrSquished]

Bought a unique silver ring and pendant from Crete, both made locally.

Also some pottery, including two unique mugs, made in Greece but not necessarily on Crete.

Heading back tomorrow, along with some COVID. Because people are dicks

 

[K1052]

Haven't seen a single one of these on a shelf in TX. Move to CA and boom just hanging out at a local supermarket.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Oof, lucky! Bourbon/Rye interesting in Texas has skyrocketed these last few years.

 

[lxskllr]

I just ordered 24 cans of AmericanTuna bricked smoked with olive oil. I love that stuff, and it's been oos forever. They keep sending me discount codes, and I always read the emails, but they never have the smoked tuna... Til today! Came to $184 after the discount code. That'll last awhile. I take a can to work every so often as a "premium" lunch when I think I'll be really hungry(they're 6oz cans)

 

[IronWing]

That’s enough mercury to make your own thermometer.

 

[lxskllr]

:^D

It tests low in mercury. They catch small fish one at a time. Less mercury than big fish. I get your point though. I don't eat a lot of tuna. Most days I have herring or sardines. I like tuna every once in awhile to change things up. 24 cans will last over a year.

Pole & Line Caught Albacore Mercury Levels are well below U.S. and International safety standards

• American Tuna harvests albacore tuna averaging 3-5 years of age near the surface of the ocean using the sustainable and time-tested “Pole & Line” method. Younger tuna are naturally low in mercury.

Testing

americantuna.com

 

[ElFenix]

Haven't seen a single one of these on a shelf in TX. Move to CA and boom just hanging out at a local supermarket.


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I should have looked for that instead of wine in Napa

 

[Charmonium]

I'll probably do a couple of updates on this.

I've always been a little curious about ice makers. This one seems to work by having 2 rows of what I'll call 4 shiny metal "teats." Apparently these get dipped into a very shallow plastic tray that fills with water. I'm guessing that the coolant is circulated thru these but I think they might use 2 or more temp settings during the freezing process. One seems to give you the air/ice "cubes," while the other gives you what looks like mostly solid cubes.

Note: all of the so-called cubes are actually hollow cylinders. When a new set of cubes is ready, the machine seems to use air to dislodge them one by one. It's actually sort of fun to watch, but as I have said many times, I'm easily amused.

The air cubes are probably chewable but I haven't tried yet. These transfer all of their chill to a room temp liquid very, very quickly and then just disappear. The more solid ones tend to last a while.

The main diff I see between these petite little cubes and the ones from the freezer is that the latter come out much colder. The freezer is set between 0 and 5 degrees F. So these tend to be much colder than what you get from the machine and therefore say, 8 freezer cubes seem to last about the same amount of time as a couple small scoops (comes with dainty scooper)from the machine.

I should also mention that the body of the machine does not appear to be refrigerated. It is insulated though. Even so, if you leave several batches in the machine, they tend to melt and stick.

Another important observation is that, aside from turning it off, what will happen is that either the basket will fill with ice and the machine then stop or it runs out of water. In either instance, the ice basket will let the ice melt and then drip down into the reservoir underneath the basket. As the basket becomes lighter (or as the bottom fills with melt water), the machine will keep going through these cycles until you turn it off.

I think I'm almost at a final judgement on this. The ice melts pretty quickly so I know they're just going for the the bare minimum in terms of the final temp of the ice. So I can fill a 1 pint beer mug with ice, add some beverage or water, and I'm good for maybe 2 hours. The problem is that amount of ice adds a lot of water once it all melts. So since I've been drinking prepared ice tea, I had the genius idea of using that to make ice. But the freezing point of pretty much anything you add to the water, liked brewed tea, is not going to freeze at the precisely the same temp as the water. So you get ice, but it's a bit mushy. And the dilution issue I think is the real problem. So I'm going to swap between the ice machine and my freezer ice for a while and reviews again, maybe.

 

[Pohemi]

Motorola MB8611 cable modem and TP-Link Archer AX10000 router

I had a TP-Link modem and router for the past 7 or 8 years. I had already been thinking about moving to a DOCSIS3.1 modem, and when my Archer AX50 router started acting up and dropping speeds, I decided to replace both. I wasn't planning on going with TP-Link again since they've gone to a subscription for full router functionality, but the model I ordered includes the sub for life so w/e.