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Running a bank of them could make the sustained rate more reasonable for other applications, but if you are time-shifting, that seems reasonable enough.

Thinking about it, I probably have $4k of UPSes in my house already that are collectively less capable than this thing.

There are three main techs that I know of: Bi-color Polarized Active Shutter The active shutter are the coolest, technologically speaking. They have LCD screens in each eye and alternate which one is blanked out in sync with a master IR signal built into the theater.

2D Glasses.

It is one of the options made available to me. I can have it follow a predefined 24-hour cycle or adjust in real-time based on their availability. Their website will even tell me how much each of the plans would have cost me last year to help me choose.

Since they are all internet connected, they could do more interactive time-shifting than just daily. I can see a model where the power company effectively leases local storage from you that they can manage in real-time. This could be really valuable to them.

My workflow is probably very different from others, and I'll need to explain a bit before the rest makes sense. I have a closer relationship to my "clients". 80% of my time holding a camera is explicitly for my wife, with the rest being shoots for friends and family. Frequently I've been brought...

I had a great teacher on student loans. My best friends dad was the most respected doctor in town, he paid off his loans the year he died of cancer just so they didn't go after the estate and his widow.

Folding on "Home1" and "Home2" actually redlined the UPS that they live on. Even while gaming on one screen and playing video on the other on both machines the UPS never goes over 50%. Seems I found a use for those 1200W PSUs that isn't hard drives...

Sorry, didn't mean to sound rough at all. I meant it to just say that I don't keep track. All my pictures pass though Adobe Bridge/RAW/Photoshop with some level of lens distortion correction and sharpening. Most end up with a brightness/contrast adjust, and if I didn't calibrate the white level...

Mine either does monthly charts for a year that don't have numbers unless you hover over a bar (one bar at a time) or exports hourly data for a week to CSV. It also has usage and pricing in two different CSV exports. Pretty obvious they don't want you to actually use the data.

It seems my electricity is more than either of you. I can't find a handy export like that, but I use about 1mwh/month and it costs me about $300/month. Cost averaged to $0.40kwh this month. This is with everything but the water heater and clothes dryer running on electric. They need to make a...

How did you get $20k? Including storage? I was putting it closer to $40k ($30k solar, $10k batteries)

Started folding on "Home1", then the air conditioner kicked in. I'm not paying twice for the electricity. I'll start it at night.

No idea. Probably? I'm with Lunar on this one, the goal is to have a bunch of pixels arranged in a way you like. How you got there is less relevant, unless you are trying to learn or replicate a result.

Still holding out just a little bit for the Solar/Battery/EV package (I feel it will become an even better value proposition soon), but I did recently double my holdings in TSLA and SCTY ;)

At work we are inundated with massive contracts on a daily basis. 99% of these are absolutely identical and need no attention paid, but every once in a while there is a stinger in there somewhere that we don't catch. What I'm looking for is something that can take in all these docs (1,000+, ~300...

Does safe mode kill the touchscreen? Can you kill the touch drivers from there? If not, open it up and just unplug the touch bit.

Looking at the lives of my friends with such degrees (music, art, lit, history, education), it seems just a little more useful to their career than if they had spent all that time and money learning scotch or golf. A long, very expensive vacation that they somehow managed to finance with the...

I've gotten a few of those here, actually. Someone revives a thread years old and their first post is "did you get this working?". Usually, "nope" is the answer in such cases.

Looks cool if a bit tricky to get started. How often to you use this over ninite?

Welcome sticktrip! Considering your first posts, I'm presuming you've been lurking for a while?

This should only matter if you are in a new-ish relationship with them at the time.

If we're doing bees I'll drop this one:

Rough times, sedrosken. I can't provide much advice, my parents are still together, I was out of the house at about your age, and quit college after 6 weeks (when the first bill arrived, "fail fast, fail often"). Best advice I can give is to get your situation/future identified, organized, and...

8 years? I was going to go again at 10.

Could very well be stress, but I'm still not worried about it (is that ironic?). Shaking hands, migraine, chest pains, etc. The missus worries about it from time to time, but it has been the norm for over a decade at this point, so I'm considering the situation stable?

Looks amazing. How long would it have to function for you to call it a good buy?

It isn't the years, but the mileage ;)

I've never had coffee, and the problem isn't bad enough to let anyone poke at my brain. I could blame it on the concussions (5) or electric shocks (countless) or chemical abuses in my youth, but I'll just go with being old.

If the report or advice is from the public at large, I give it effectively zero credit. Too many idiots, too many agendas, too self-selecting a group doing the reviews.

I should count myself lucky then. 5 systems, all ASUS motherboards (yuk), and no issues with any of the components on the builds.

RAM or PSU. I have run across bad boards, but they are super-rare compared to those.

I was pretty good in my teens; EE/prototyping was my summer job during high school. I could even hand-solder larger SMDs. Now my hands shake enough that I'm lucky to reliably do 2mm pads with a cheater holding everything still.

Are you running any software that would let you monitor temperatures? I've had issues where CPU or chipset heatsinks slightly disconnected from the components they were supposed to cool. If the system has been turned off for a few hours, does the BSOD take longer to happen?

Anything specific?

I'm pretty sure the short answer is that they just do. My iron holder has a damp sponge built into it that I use to wipe the crud every time I pick up the iron.

Look on the bright side, I'm about to pick up an additional $1000/mo cost. My camera spending is probably over for a while.

I have three great cabinetmakers. This is mainly because I want to give it a go. Though it would probably be $20k+ in total for the cabinetry I'm after, and I am careful with that kind of money.

I got the Joby sling and hand strap along with one of their tripod ballhead mounts. Really nice.

Most of my users are such poor typists that 160-character e-mails are all I get. I've also trained them to include only one topic per e-mail and have that be the subject. I consider this the only effective way to use e-mail, particularly once multiple parties are involved.

One of the parts of the house which we haven't completed yet is the cabinetry. Kitchen doors/drawers along with large floor-to-ceiling units in the living and dining rooms just haven't been completed yet. This rack will be in the cabinet when it is built. Nearly finished with the 3rd major...

I can respect you decision, but I actually prefer both as Gmail handles them ;)

Gotcha. The functions that I specifically consider irreplaceable are the spam and virus(ish) filters, along with threaded conversations which I love. I remember having to administer Exchange servers as the dark ages of e-mail.

VMs is a big thing for RAM, but it also allows me to be really sloppy with my photography workflow and Solidworks will chew through all of it during crazy renders or FD sims.

I did not encounter the error. What do you consider a viable alternative to Google's mail service?

This is in plain sight in the living room, and something similar has been equally visible for 7 years. My wife is very understanding.

I've never seen a suspension system integrated with tracks like that. Is that a new thing?

No risk. Spec is backwards compatible.

I was assuming an oversight ;) And I suspect your car came with the same wheels (potentially slightly wider).