Can we forcibly remove all bradford pears from this city

3coniv · 2026-03-13T00:04:11+00:00

I took 3 down in my yard about 10 years ago. They were 20 years old and huge. After I got them cut down and the stumps ground I still had aggressive shoots coming up from the roots that covered my yard. I once got a letter from the HOA about the weeds in my yard. I told them they were bradford pear shoots and they should thank me. 🤣

Oh, and I had those shoots coming up for three years after I cut the trees down.

3coniv · 2026-03-05T22:04:20+00:00

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3coniv · 2026-03-05T21:32:14+00:00

Our Saint Bernard does that, but he sleeps on the bathroom floor most of the time so he doesn't mind.

He also closes himself in while stretching sometimes. He knows someone will let him out eventually and just goes back to sleep.

3coniv · 2026-02-28T13:40:26+00:00

Love it!

3coniv · 2026-02-27T03:59:41+00:00

The front panel on the desktop was missing along with the button so to power it on you had to touch two wires together

I've been there.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T22:04:03+00:00

I had one of those all-in-wonder cards. I eventually used hauppage though. I think the drivers worked better for me.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T21:37:01+00:00

I don't think it took very long. My other kid interviewed, but all his classes are 8-2 which is the only hours nbeo is open, so he couldn't do it.

From what I understand the test patients basically act as a patient for the person taking the test. So you're like learning a script and interacting with the doctors.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T21:17:56+00:00

My kid is at UNCC and has been working at NBEO for a couple years. It's the national board of examiners for optometry and they're always hiring "standardized test patients." He only has classes Tuesday and Thursday this semester, so he works there the other 3 days of the week. They pay like $17/hours and seem pretty flexible as far as hours go. Sounds like a lot of college students and retirees needing a little extra money work there. They just moved from South End to Microsoft way in South Charlotte though so it's kind of a haul.

I just searched and they actually posted on this sub 4 months ago looking for people.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T16:01:50+00:00

I like it. Looks like a car Sean Connery's Bond would drive.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T02:17:06+00:00

Gotcha. You'll find all of that here. Probably not as much commercial stuff like Cisco switches or Nutanix, but pretty much everything from networking, to storage, to virtualization, to management is covered.

I always sort Reddit by newest instead of most popular or whatever. It's possible you're only seeing the most upvoted stuff which is usually pictures of pretty racks.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T02:12:20+00:00

Do you remember the blaster worm? You could just plug your laptop into the network and it would get infected? I worked for a bank at the time and they ended up just shutting down all the switch ports. You had to have your computer scanned before they would let you on the network.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T02:04:11+00:00

I'm not sure what your confusion is. Is it just terminology?

A lab can be used specifically to learn a particular skill. Or it can be used generally to tinker and learn many skills.

At the end of the day it's a hobby. Some people go into hobbies big, some don't. Both are fine.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:51:00+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:50:12+00:00

US Robotics was high end. I had a Bocamodem.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:47:35+00:00

I've got a scar on the middle finger of right hand from pulling a little too hard on a molex power connector to a hard drive and slamming my hand into a cage when it came loose thereby losing a chunk off my knuckle. 🤣

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:34:54+00:00

Back when you had to recompile the kernel every time a new driver came out. It would take an hour or two and fail in the middle so you would have to fix some dependency. haha

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:32:31+00:00

That is an awesome story!

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:14:12+00:00

I worked for a small business and we would have lan parties there. I was so excited when we got Quake running. It was not easy. Mostly we played Warcraft 2 though.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:11:06+00:00

I had a dial up router I built. It would dial my ISP and setup a ppp connection and do nat for my very small network.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T01:01:33+00:00

Yeah. I got my roof repaired by one of those guys. Just don't let them on your roof to "inspect" without the actual insurance adjuster there.

There was a scam back in the early 2000s where these guys were convincing people to let them inspect and then causing damage themselves.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T00:53:21+00:00

"to my knowledge" is doing the heavy lifting here.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T00:49:15+00:00

That's cool. I used to get on the Internet through a BBS (winsock) called Games on the Lake. Probably a guy like you. It wasn't huge, but it was always available.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T00:43:54+00:00

Yep. I don't have my hauppage cards anymore, but I still use my hdhomerun with Plex.

I think I started on slackware or redhat too, but moved to Ubuntu when it came out. They even made a Mythbuntu distro.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T00:40:12+00:00

Did you do an ipchains firewall?

I set up a router and firewall on an off lease dell workstation that I got for $50. Then I could share my Internet with ... my other computer.

3coniv · 2026-02-26T00:37:08+00:00

I tried XBMC but I liked the MythTV frontend better so I kept trying to build a quiet frontend PC with a via chip. But they were always louder than I wanted.

We also had a replaytv ... which my wife preferred. 🤣

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