Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Zed Clampet]

CoPilot is an egregious mansplainer.

 

[Zloth]

Maybe half a foot to 8 inches of snow expected here, with temps dipping down to just above 0... or maybe just below. That should make for really light snow, so it should be easy to blow off on Sunday.

It's a pity the Miami Dolphins aren't in town. They love playing football in this sort of weather!

CoPilot is an egregious mansplainer.

CoPilot's response

 

[Colif]

I could hear this weird noise coming from mums room, it sounded like her cooling fan was rubbing against something... so i went in and woke her up - was going to use torch but I couldn't find one and I knew turning light on would wake her so I just called her name
The noise was her snoring... I have heard her snore before, this was almost mechanical.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I could hear this weird noise coming from mums room, it sounded like her cooling fan was rubbing against something... so i went in and woke her up - was going to use torch but I couldn't find one and I knew turning light on would wake her so I just called her name
The noise was her snoring... I have heard her snore before, this was almost mechanical.

Reminds me of the horrible experience I had last time I had a bad chest cold. First time I've ever had a cold where I could hear my wind pipe rattle when I coughed. I'd heard of the expression wind pipe rattle before, but it's very painful and scary when it happens to you.

 

[Zloth]

The noise was her snoring... I have heard her snore before, this was almost mechanical.

I remember as a kid going on vacation and being in a hotel room with my parents. They both snored. Sometimes, one would stop snoring, and I could hear the other's snoring become more... worried? until both were snoring again. (Or I could have just imagined it. I was terribly tired after a long, hard day of sitting in a car and doing nothing at all.)

 

[Colif]

Bureau of Meteorology website on my PC says temp here is 36.9c
Their app on my phone shows it as 35.8c

Its the same source, be nice if it agreed. Which one is accurate?

 

[Zloth]

Maybe 4 inches of snow here and the sun has already come out. The temperature is up to 6F (-14C). As expected, the snow blows off pretty easily. The cold turns my long extension cord for the snow blower into a giant spring, though! I didn't even try to wrap the thing back around its spool.

Its the same source, be nice if it agreed. Which one is accurate?

Neither. Given the coal fire going on in your PC, they are both lying to spare you the mental anguish of reality.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I feel like I had a sublime moment of advanced communication with my dog.

The kids were here for a few minutes Friday night before they and my wife went to spend the night in a hotel next to the airport since they had to be there so early. A few minutes after they left, my dog let out a quiet, forlorn whimper. I quietly responded, "I know, I feel it too." And she never made another sound the rest of the night.

I realize this is probably anthropomorphism, but dogs know more than we imagine.

I'm doing much better than I used to do, but I guess I will never truly get over not having my kids around.

 

[BeardyHat]

I'm doing much better than I used to do, but I guess I will never truly get over not having my kids around.

Well now I don't want my kids to grow-up.

Helped my sister in law move on Friday and today, she needed some help getting her internet setup. I managed to get things working pretty much immediately, but noticed her speeds were absolutely pathetic; standing next to the router, I was hitting 50Mbps and plugged in, similar speeds. Apparently she pays for 1Gbps, but the modem she has (which I gave her some time ago) only supported up to 343Mbps, which it wasn't seeing and the Router was like 450Mbps, but was just old and busted.

Told her she unfortunately needs to spend some money for updated equipment, so we went over to Microcenter and I picked out a new modem and router for her. Now she's getting damn near 1Gbps over Wifi next to the router and 600Mbps+ around the house over Wifi, which is just amazing to me.

Made me realize my own Wifi is fairly pathetic, given I'm only seeing about 500Mbps right next to my AP and generally around 100-150Mbps around the house on my laptop. So I found a new Wifi 6 Unifi U6 Pro at Microcenter, Open Box, for about $140 out the door; going to go pick it up tomorrow and see how it works in my non-optimal spot I currently have my AP.

If it doesn't work well, looks like I'm going to learn how to make ethernet cables and then do a few drops around the house.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Friend of mine is an astronomer. He sent me a couple of pictures. Apparently he just took pictures of the terminal he was using.

Andromeda:

Orion Nebula

He works at a park that has a large telescope, a space gallery and a planetarium.

I went there a lot as a kid. They have a little zoo, as well, with animals native to the area like black bears, wolves and deer. They have a lake and trails. When I was a kid, they also had an insect exhibit, including a massive bee hive where one side is made of glass so that you can watch the bees. They probably still have it. I just haven't been there in a very long time.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Maybe half a foot to 8 inches of snow expected here, with temps dipping down to just above 0... or maybe just below. That should make for really light snow, so it should be easy to blow off on Sunday.

It's a pity the Miami Dolphins aren't in town. They love playing football in this sort of weather!


CoPilot's response

That scene is so obnoxiously bad and so typical of Hollywood that I have no idea how they still get people to watch that crap. It's a toxic combination of Marvel dialogue with melodrama. I mean, you are apparently in a fight for your life, and you take the time to pull your helmet off and say a one-liner (very over-acted)? This sort of thing only belongs in comedies. For instance, this is wonderful:

View: https://pie.yt/?v=https://youtube.com/shorts/1D1dm5w6JAU?si=TfxWCZ7qbSNHVkoK&pieshare=1

And despite it being a comedy, when he speaks his one-liner at the end, the contrast between what he had been asking for--power and money--and what he really wants, but knows he can never have, is actually very powerful. And he only says it after striking the killing blow. There is a fine line between idiocy and art, and I think these two videos show that pretty well.

 

[BeardyHat]

Friend of mine is an astronomer. He sent me a couple of pictures. Apparently he just took pictures of the terminal he was using.

Andromeda:

Orion Nebula

He works at a park that has a large telescope, a space gallery and a planetarium.

I went there a lot as a kid. They have a little zoo, as well, with animals native to the area like black bears, wolves and deer. They have a lake and trails. When I was a kid, they also had an insect exhibit, including a massive bee hive where one side is made of glass so that you can watch the bees. They probably still have it. I just haven't been there in a very long time.

Really cool! I took my oldest to an astronomy night, hosted by our city maybe a month or two ago and there was an Astrophotographer there taking long pictures of Andrometa.

Was really cool to see that, as well as look through all the other telescopes there. I think it was a little beyond the 8 year old, but at least I had fun.

 

[Colif]

Glad I have air cooling in PC compared to AIO. Air coolers don't hold onto the heat as long as water coolers do. So when I turn PC off on a hot night, at least the PC cools down fast and doesn't continue to heat the room for a few hours after.

The thing that lets them run cooler than Air during operation doesn't work once its off.

Really only a problem if you sleep in the same room as PC. And you close the door at night, and its a small room... and you can't open the window without spiders invading... guess the number of people in that group is pretty small.

I am in the middle of a heat wave and my room feels cool compared to past years.
Would be different if I were playing a game. Can't seem to find any I want to play.
Tomorrow might change that but only as its meant to hit 42c.
Today was meant to hit 37c but it didn't, so I wait and see.

Only way to escape heat is to let it rain. Honestly, in summer its either too hot to game or there is a storm and its too risky. This is why I like winter more:

Meanwhile its -10c in Tennessee.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Glad I have air cooling in PC compared to AIO. Air coolers don't hold onto the heat as long as water coolers do. So when I turn PC off on a hot night, at least the PC cools down fast and doesn't continue to heat the room for a few hours after.

The thing that lets them run cooler than Air during operation doesn't work once its off.

Really only a problem if you sleep in the same room as PC. And you close the door at night, and its a small room... and you can't open the window without spiders invading... guess the number of people in that group is pretty small.

I am in the middle of a heat wave and my room feels cool compared to past years.
Would be different if I were playing a game. Can't seem to find any I want to play.
Tomorrow might change that but only as its meant to hit 42c.
Today was meant to hit 37c but it didn't, so I wait and see.

Only way to escape heat is to let it rain. Honestly, in summer its either too hot to game or there is a storm and its too risky. This is why I like winter more:

Meanwhile its -10c in Tennessee.

With the wind chill factor, it's -18c, but that doesn't apply to me because I won't be going outside.

Our heat isn't working very well. It was working a little, so I didn't notice until the temperature dropped way below freezing. We heat with natural gas, and it shouldn't be having any problems heating the house, but it won't get above 14 c. I can't find our emergency heaters, and it's 3 am in Hawaii, so I'll wait awhile to text her. I turned the oven on 500 degrees and left the door open and got the temperature up to 17 c.

The top floor is, naturally, warmer and actually feels comfortable to me, so I'm probably not going to call a repairman today because they are likely being slammed right now. Since I still have at least a little heat, I'll let them take care of the folks who have completely lost theirs.

 

[BeardyHat]

With the wind chill factor, it's -18c, but that doesn't apply to me because I won't be going outside.

Our heat isn't working very well. It was working a little, so I didn't notice until the temperature dropped way below freezing. We heat with natural gas, and it shouldn't be having any problems heating the house, but it won't get above 14 c. I can't find our emergency heaters, and it's 3 am in Hawaii, so I'll wait awhile to text her. I turned the oven on 500 degrees and left the door open and got the temperature up to 17 c.

The top floor is, naturally, warmer and actually feels comfortable to me, so I'm probably not going to call a repairman today because they are likely being slammed right now. Since I still have at least a little heat, I'll let them take care of the folks who have completely lost theirs.

Is it possible your furnace just can't keep up with the cold outside? Perhaps your house may have leaks? I learned about a summer ago that AC generally only cools about 20* and that's pretty much it's limit, so my AC unit wasn't broken, it just couldn't handle the temps. No idea if that's the same for a furnace. But our downstairs is generally the coldest area of the house, with the basement and the upper floor staying decently warm.

So about a week ago, I impulse bought a Surface Pro 7+. I'll spare the details, but I felt a little silly at the time for buying it, because I just got rid of a bunch of PC's and why am I buying another?

Anyway, I received it yesterday and I feel like everything is telling me to return it, though I'm struggling with that decision. To start, the typecover failed almost immediately. It worked when I initially received it, but upon using the computer as normal it just failed. I tried using it in the BIOS, bootable Linux USB and a fresh reinstall of Windows, no dice. Finally, this morning it randomly worked...for 5 entire seconds and then quit again. So I'm assuming it's totally dead and failed. But it could very well be the PC itself.

Second, I took a look at the battery health and it's very off from where the seller reported it. It supposedly had 82% battery health left, but this one actually has a piddly 72%.

Anyway, I want to keep it, but...yeah, I think I'll file a return.

 

[BeardyHat]

Oh, also, I got the WiFi 6 AP I wanted. Set it up yesterday afternoon and then installed it after my wife was done with work and the speeds are just incredible. In the worst spots in my house previously, I'm seeing at least double the Mbps. In many other spots, such as my Den, I'm getting 2.5x to 3x the speed previously, seeing almost full Gigabit over WiFi, which is just absolutely incredible to me. It may actually make Steam streaming in my house viable.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Is it possible your furnace just can't keep up with the cold outside?

The temperature of the air coming into the house is much cooler than usual. It might be possible that it is so cold under the house where the ducts are that it is simply being cooled before it gets to the house.

 

[neogunhero]

I was so bored of being snowed in this past weekend that I called my ISP and upgraded my plan. Now I hit 700Mbps (about 90MB/s download speed, 45MB/s previously), unlimited data (technically 4TB cap, 1.5TB monthly cap previously), all at $15 less per month. Awesome!

 

[Frag Maniac]

Glad I have air cooling in PC compared to AIO. Air coolers don't hold onto the heat as long as water coolers do. So when I turn PC off on a hot night, at least the PC cools down fast and doesn't continue to heat the room for a few hours after.

The thing that lets them run cooler than Air during operation doesn't work once its off.

Really only a problem if you sleep in the same room as PC. And you close the door at night, and its a small room... and you can't open the window without spiders invading... guess the number of people in that group is pretty small.

I am in the middle of a heat wave and my room feels cool compared to past years.
Would be different if I were playing a game. Can't seem to find any I want to play.
Tomorrow might change that but only as its meant to hit 42c.
Today was meant to hit 37c but it didn't, so I wait and see.

Only way to escape heat is to let it rain. Honestly, in summer its either too hot to game or there is a storm and its too risky. This is why I like winter more:

Meanwhile its -10c in Tennessee.

Man, I feel for ya dude with those hot temps. The place I moved into recently is one of the best apartments in this building for avoiding heat. It only feels hot when the weather outside is in the 90s (F) or 30s (C), and even then, I can just crank up the two box fans I have in my living room to high.

That said, since I'm on low income and never turn my heat on (see UDP below), it gets fairly chilly in the winter. Lately I've been wearing 300 wt polar fleece pants over jeans, a thick cotton long sleeve under a 300 wt fleece pullover, and a light fleece blanket over my legs when I recline a bit in my task chair to watch movies or TV. Our winters aren't extremely cold here, but cold enough to make the living room in the low 60s with no heat on.

Today I found out my 12v battery in my hybrid car was at 5v because I unknowingly nudged the headlight switch into parking light position with my knee again getting out. I curse Ford when this happens because they put it in a bad spot. On the plus side, the store I had bought the 12v battery from several months ago was a quick bus ride down the street to get a free charge on it.

Once I put the charged battery in though, I noticed another problem, I had a wrench icon on my dash, which I've never seen before. In my searching I found this could pertain to anything from the throttle system, or inverter, or HV battery charging system, or HV battery sensors.

I drove it anyway to charge the HV battery and see if assist mode was still working. It was so I thought it might be the throttle system, as taking off from a stop was sluggish. In further searching I learned many such things are tied to the HV battery, so I read up on jump charging it via the high power onboard charger. I only had to pull a small cover off the driver side of the dash, and push a button.

In a video I saw of this procedure, the guy doing it said the LED light on the button is supposed to turn red, then blink several times to let you know it's charging the HV battery, and it takes about 8 min to complete. My HV jump charge system has an LED on the button, but it wouldn't come on. So I pushed it harder, then I heard a click and it stayed in a depressed position.

All sorts of thoughts ran through my head at that point, is my switch broken, is the charger not getting juice? I decided since the area under the cover looked in FAR better shape than the one in the video, Ford may have changed to what I'd call a "push and pop" switch, where it stays in a depressed position, then pops back up when it's done charging. Maybe it doesn't need the LED this way, but they just used the rest of the buttons with LEDs they had.

So you do this with no key in the ignition, and with a fully charged 12v battery. I just pushed the button, put the cover back on, locked up the car, and went on a nearby small grocery trip. When I got back, there I was, literally praying the thing was fixed. I got in the car, turned the key, and NO WRENCH icon! Man was I relieved, because it was a very stressful day, in fact when I got back from the drive earlier, I couldn't find my cell phone. I was sure I'd lost it, but our apt manager called my cell number while I looked through the car again. It had slipped down where I couldn't see it between the seat and the console, EUREKA!

Funny that what I'm now thinking about is I might be able to spend the little over $200 rebate check I usually get for low energy consumption (part of the local Utility Discount Program), on some Seahawks swag instead (since no repair bill on car). Our Seahawks NFL team is headed to the Superbowl! Most are favoring the Seahawks to win, so it just may come down to a matter of what swag I can afford. That said, the frugal side of me says a non licensed item without the logo or name might be more sensible.

Our #1 in the league defense calls themselves The Dark Side, so I'm liking this. It's also 100% cotton, and only about $21 with 15% Off.

What's cool about a shirt like this is only true Seahawks fans know what it means. You're likely to get more thumbs up from fans and less roll eyes from non fans this way. I ordered one btw after talking to them on the phone, 30 day return or exchange, cool. It's preshrunk cotton too, and said to be a bit heavier weight than the give away Ts at games. They also say the print is far better quality than sublimation.

 

[Colif]

its currently 42.2c (107.96f) which is slightly above what they expected... guess its within margin of error. Shame warmest part of the day is still to come. they can get more wrong.

It isn't that bad inside though. Only sign its a little warmer is CPU is running warmer than normal. I just turned my fan on which will help move the heat out of room as well.

I don't have any reason to go outside so I can mostly ignore it.

Hottest day on record here was the 20th Jan 2020, It hit 44c aka 111.2f - I remember that day well since we saw it coming and stayed in an air conditioned motel room for 2 nights. That night was also the hottest minimum as well, 29c. For some parts of Australia, that night temp is normal. Not here.