boilerhorn
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Indiana at Nebraska Fox
IU exposing how mediocre Nebraska is. I saw it in person against a really shitty Purdue team. IU still has Michigan and tOSU on the schedule. I can see them winning both. Not super-high likelihood, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. I believe they beat Purdue by 35+ to close out the season.
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Going Win 10/11 to Linux
There are a bunch of great comments on here already, but I will add my opinion, for what little it is worth. Problems w/ Windows, its support for peripherals, intermittent failures, etc. are reasons to get frustrated. To me, migrating everything to Linux would be my 4th or later option. Option 1: get a different Windows laptop. Option 2: Get a Mac laptop. Option 3: wipe and reinstall Windows. Option 4: Linux. Your windows laptop may have strange compatibility issues that can be solved by reinstall or using a PC from a different vendor. As noted, the Linux Desktop is subpar (to some) compared to the Win or OSX desktops. To address the "I really want to learn Linux, I would say that it is indeed worth it. Tons of code development is done in a Linux environment. If you've never used Linux, there will be a learning curve. I am not sure how much of your hardware swap, repair, upgrade tech experience will transfer. The intellectual curiosity will. The desire to get things to work will. It might frustrate you at the beginning, but it will make you smarter - just the intellectual stimulation alone will. Also, Mac's OSX is a derivative of BSD Unix and its terminal and command line interfaces will feel a lot like a linux experience, but with a far more seamless integration into the entire product. Most Mac users do not use the terminal or command lines on a daily basis. I use Mac and Windows interchangeably as "daily drivers" to access the professtional and personal world. The OS/Desktop integration to almost every piece of production software is important to me. You will not get that with Linux. I have not messed with MS Office, evernote, Chrome, etc. on Linux, but its integration is quite good on both Mac an Win (as one would expect). However, I do use Linux when I develop just about any code of any sort. The tools supporting development, compilation, debug, etc. are all there and are actively being supported and developed. So, I think you are really asking 2 questions. What do I do with this laptop problem? and Should I learn Linux? For the first, I offered 4 possibilities above and could also offer, "solve it w/o using BlueTooth," which is not really helpful. For "Sould I learn Linux?" I say, yes. And there are myriad approaches you can use to get started: Grab a box and install linux on it. It wil be standalone and any damage you do is isolated easily be fixed w/ reinstall. Install a virtual machine manager on your Win machine (VirtualBox is what I have used) and install linux there. Create a bootable Ubuntu USB and dabble Continue using Win and install Windows Subsystem for Linux Personally, I would do #1. It's pretty easy to find old-ish hardware for cheap/free that folks are wanting to discard. In many cases, Linux extends the life of these platforms, as the resource requirements for basic linux is considerably lower.
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
Thanks. There was no visible indication outside. In fact, the 2nd leak required ~12" of digging in the correct space before there was softer ground. Without the new CoA meters, we might not have seen the extra consumption until Nov/Dec. An extra 2500 gals/month in the summer is easy to miss.
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
As of yesterday, I believe the problem is solved. First leak detection test isolated a leak near where a pipe was entering the garage. When the house was built (decade before I bought), the builder installed a water softener in the garage. Instead of running from the utility source directly to the household plumbing, the builder redirected the main line to the garage and then cut back in toward the main plumbing access to the house. The test process found a leak in a PVC coupling as the water entered the garage. The fix was trivial and hardly worth what I spent - it was not very deep. It was something that anyone with a small background in PVC work could have done. And there's a reason I mention this. As noted, water flow persisted. Leak detectors detected another leak - this one near where the line entered the house - around 40 feet away. Given my experience from the initial leak, I decided to DIY. After about 1 hour of digging, I declared, "screw this," and called a pro. Turns out a coupling from PVC to copper had failed. Plumber put a PVC -> PEX -> copper repair. No more leak. Both repairs involved something like the picture below - involving 4 90-degree angle couplings. There seems to be no material impact to pressure or water flow. Hoping I do not have to deal with this again for a while. My guess is that leak #1 was not the original leak, but that the testing accelerated a future failure.
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Game week 2024, week 7 Georgia @ Texas
Over 50. White. Spoon fan. Worked with their drummer in tech many years back.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Farce.
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2024 Random Games thread
FIFY.
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2024 Random Games thread
Venables’d.
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Leave Quinn Ewers alone
Quinn was rusty and we won by 31. F UGA.
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Leave Quinn Ewers alone
Ur. Uh, You’re.
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Tell me about the University of Southern California
FFS. USC losing to pedo st is a travesty. Anyone losing to pedo st is a travesty.
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
Quick update. A leak was found and fixed. 1" PVC heading into house did indeed have a hole. After fixing that piece of PVC, water was turned back on and... ~3 GPH of running water. Yippee. A leak of some sort persists. I suspect the leak detection process found a weak area and accelerated its failure, which is fine. However, a leak - somewhere - remains. Leak detectors coming back again on Tues for yet another test. Silver lining is that I have not seen a problem inside the house and - so far - the costs have not bankrupted me.
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
Not sure. Today was "find the leak." Tomorrow is "fix the leak" and I will ask for details. Around the time the house was built (10 years before I bought it), the main line into the house was modified to support a water softener. The leak detection guy theorized that settling, shifts, etc. could have weakened a copper pipe joint. I will find out tomorrow
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
American Leak Detectors for the win. Turns out it is a leak just outside the house, which explains why there is no internal sign. I guess I *could* have found it myself (I had guessed "close") and dug and fixed it, but that would have required TONS of labor and getting lucky on my guesswork. The key is knowing exactly where it is of course...
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
Agree it is a water leak. I suspect it is a water leak into the foundation. I need to adjust the title
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Kris Kristofferson Rest in Peace
A different Charlie Rose interview than what was posted a bit upstream. NSIAP, as I looked
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
Thank you, @EE2B ... I will call American Leak Detectors. They have been recommended by several plumbers and sites.
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Help with possible foundation water leak...
I will try this. I checked all toilets by cutting off the water at the wall, however I could have a faulty valve.