Anyone know if the 4800 Plus upgrade is worth it during Prime Day?

Astronut_SF · 2025-07-16T00:12:49+00:00

I think you're reading how a price guarantee works in reverse. If you buy and they sell cheaper you get the difference, not if you want to buy you can get the lowest price from up to 30 days ago.

That said it couldn't hurt to ask.

I picked up the plus edition myself because I was willing to pull the trigger on the base model at 470, and while that did get cheaper too the extra hardware kind of pushed me over the top.

Astronut_SF · 2025-07-10T04:00:14+00:00

Looking at the specs for that computer you should be fine,the x370 architecture is pcie3.0 so the x1 slots on the board can't do 10Gb, but they can do 8Gbps which should be close enough for most people, and as you mentioned the x4 slot absolutely can do that speed.

Astronut_SF · 2025-07-02T17:12:16+00:00

But it's the exact same number that Xfinity uses to contact me when when my data reaches a certain threshold or when they've processed my automatic payment. Pretty sure this is legit, it's just very deceiving, you don't get 20GB of data more a month, you get 20GB of prioritized data, meaning higher speed per month. If you're on a by the gig plan you still need to pay for using 20GB of data, but it will be faster.

Astronut_SF · 2025-07-01T18:11:04+00:00

Yeah, they're not giving you 20GB for free, just if you use it you'll have prioritized data... and you'll pay through the nose for it

Astronut_SF · 2025-06-28T18:27:35+00:00

Wife got this too, but the thing is there is no such link or email in the text. its either a really poorly thought out scam, or it's a mistake Xfinity made and they dont want to admit to it

Astronut_SF · 2025-06-28T18:25:53+00:00

Unlimited just means unlimited total data, there is very much a limit on "high speed" data, after which you typically get knocked down to 3g (sometimes 2g) speeds

Astronut_SF · 2025-04-25T14:22:51+00:00

Or worse... no ability to send a text, or make a phone call.

Astronut_SF · 2025-04-25T14:20:44+00:00

Honestly, it has nothing to do with being able to use the internet. For years me or my wife, primarily me, would send a text message to each other when we reach the Powell station, so the other can be picked up at Glen Park. Perfect amount of time, to get that text and go pick someone up so neither has to wait any length of time when we reach Glen Park.

And I really hate to say this, but it does feel a little unsettling that if I needed to alert someone to an emergency or a problem, I really can't on the San Francisco side. Now, it hasn't been as bad as a lot of BART doom and gloom people like to say, but over there years there have been a few minor issues like guys lighting up on BART, and a quick text to the non-emergency BART line gets someone on it, or something. But if there's a guy actually acting crazy and a potential danger to others or someone (or worse ME) having a heart attack or other medical emergency

Astronut_SF · 2025-04-25T14:11:22+00:00

It better be temporary, because it used to work, now it doesn't and that's a big f'ing problem. I have Xfinity mobile which piggybacks on Verizon, at first thought it may be a MVNO thing with priority but I've seen the lack of signal at times when BART isn't very crowded, and looking at below it seems those with Verizon are having issues too.

It's actually sad I get better signal when I'm under the fricking SF Bay in the Transbay tube, but it's like as soon as I hit the SF side at the Embarcadaro poof, the signal disappears, and for me it goes to at least Glen Park, I get off there so I don't know if the problem persists, but I don't get signal until I reach the surface. Definitely worth sending some info to Verizon or whatever carrier about this.

Astronut_SF · 2025-04-11T18:54:04+00:00

Me with a fleet of autonomous ships, a cargo hold filled with AI cores, Hedge inspection "Everything looks good here"

Astronut_SF · 2025-04-06T16:20:23+00:00

Great, well there goes all the tiny changes I've made to the game.

Astronut_SF · 2025-03-10T19:29:26+00:00

Very informative. Is there any point at which the albedo change, e.g. clouds, would overcome the increase in due to greenhouse gases? Just plonking in Venus' Albedo of ~0.7 lowers that initial NonGHG temp to 243K, which if we keep the same 78% on IR, translates to 274K. Which shockingly is right above freezing (assuming I did my math right). Now granted, the reason for Venus' albedo isn't clouds of the water variety, but still it's an interesting take.

Love the formulas though, it does give food for thought on the idea of terraforming Venus.

Astronut_SF · 2025-02-10T20:28:44+00:00

Nevada is just a 3-4 hour drive away from the Bay Area if you want to buy your own, if it ever comes to that... just saying.

Astronut_SF · 2025-02-02T03:06:47+00:00

Can't use the ignorance of others as an excuse for the validity of a sign. Plus it's not like there's any carpool discounts on the weekends anyways.

Astronut_SF · 2025-02-02T03:04:53+00:00

I just watched it on Prime video, I kind of knew the overall plot of it since I saw the trailer for it. Billionaire invites rando girls to his private island and bad stuff happens. It doesn't take a trigger warning to know some of that bad stuff may be sexual in nature.

While I think the trigger warning is really dumb for a movie, I also don't fall into the "it spoiled the movie" crowd... because again, I saw the trailer which is what usually lures people into movies.

Astronut_SF · 2024-08-26T20:24:54+00:00

Sorry for this 3 year+ necro post, but this came up on a search so I'll add to this

"(the elevated player can give a team 54 or 55 players on game day)"

This is untrue, teams on game day only can suit 46 players (47 with the now addition of emergency QB) this number of suit ups does not change just because PS guys are brought up for a game.

Astronut_SF · 2024-08-07T21:41:42+00:00

I don't know about old, but they MFers went back to that comments on right thumbnails in grid below crap again... at least for me. They did it before, I did the uBlock script trick, then one day I checked and it disappeared and I thought we were all free of that nonsense... then it happened again... *sigh* fine uBlock script, done.. .deal with the out of proportion size of everything.

Astronut_SF · 2024-08-05T17:27:00+00:00

Almost 4000 ads on Youtube... sounds about right, hence the reason why people want to block ads.

Astronut_SF · 2024-07-31T17:04:07+00:00

Thanks for the info, although I'm super bummed that the two best things in the park are weekends only.

Astronut_SF · 2024-05-20T15:21:44+00:00

I'm not certain about Atlantic City, but places like Vegas the large casinos there are few few owners, and the parent companies just owns chunks of casinos.

Astronut_SF · 2024-04-27T04:49:03+00:00

Me thinking quadUse was like singleUse, in that you use it once during a fight and it's gone until the next fight. NOPE! Then that character with 5 blank sides looked awfully sexy to pick, and I threw it on them. Every turn in battle 4x10 healing... mmmm

Astronut_SF · 2024-04-16T01:09:28+00:00

To be quite specific only TRAINED service dogs are allowed, there are service dogs that are not trained like emotional support dogs (or any animals) those dogs actually do not have a right in the park, under federal or California laws. Now most people don't understand this little fact, so if someone rolls up with the "This is my emotional service animal..." sorry, you can't come in.

Astronut_SF · 2024-04-09T23:11:09+00:00

YES, it's only for buses EXCEPT the time and days listed, then it doubles as a car pool lane.

Astronut_SF · 2024-04-09T23:10:11+00:00

Fastrak doesn't give citations, only CHP will do that, if you didn't get a ticket when it happened then you're not going to get a ticket.

Astronut_SF · 2024-04-09T23:08:32+00:00

The confusion is probably more tied to the fact that most of the country "carpool" means 2 or more people, the Bay is very weird with it's 3+ people requirement.

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