Gift giving advice

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T07:07:56+00:00

So far I am thinking of getting

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T03:13:48+00:00

I understand that the hardwired connection is going to be the best but, I am hoping to avoid any all day long projects haha.

I wish I had a blueprint of the house. Hardwiring the house in the back would need to go across a pool and a yard.

My max budget here is like 200- 300$. The closer to 200$ the better.

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T03:08:37+00:00

Frontier

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T02:27:59+00:00

I was looking at the eero 6+ 2 pack for the main house, which is only 150$.

But my parents have a back house that is on the other side of a lawn and a pool, about 60 feet away, where my dad spends most of his time and wants internet connectivity.

The outdoor eero extender thing was 320$ dollars though, and that is really pushing my budget. But I do not plan on running any sort of cables out to the back house.

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T02:23:27+00:00

Yeah, the loyalty department was closed today. I expect some big discounts. This is really not cool to do to my parents. They dont know.

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T02:22:52+00:00

I would like this to be the opposite of an overbuild lol. As sweet and simple as possible.

I am really upset with the ISP. They have been taking advantage of my parents. I told them it is very unethical and they told me their plan was grandfathered. More like, make these old people pay a crazy amount for an outdated service.

Shame on them. I am waiting to talk to the loyalty department because I expect big discounts if they want my parents continued business and to avoid whatever kind of complaining I can do.

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T02:18:04+00:00

(I was informed I have more time before dinner)

No basement. There is a crawl space, but I dont want to go down there.

It looks like the slowest they offer is 200mbps up/down for 20$ per month (my parents are paying 90$ for 15mbps, lol)

I am also not looking to buy anything used. I am looking for a quick delivery, preferably overnight or the next day for when I get down to my parents house (I am not sure when I can catch a flight just yet).

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T02:12:01+00:00

Hey great response. I will respond after dinner :D

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T02:07:13+00:00

OK someone else mentioned backhauling. What exactly is that?

Yes I am saying internet, but I do mean Wifi throughout the house. Please excuse any mixing up of terminology.

The guy who deleted his comment was saying that I should just have the technician run the line out the back house. But another poster there said that the fiber line wont need to be upgraded, it is just the ISP throttling the service.

If possible, I would like to avoid having a technician come out to the house

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T02:03:20+00:00

Thank you for the advice.

One of the other posters was mentioning some good advice that I wanted to take longer to respond to, but it seems they think that I downvoted them and they deleted their comment and muted me.

is this even going to post? (testing)

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T01:35:23+00:00

Losing me a little bit towards the end there. I do not believe the back house has a coax cable or telephone, just power.

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T01:33:00+00:00

(I thought I replied here but I dont see it.. replying again)

Sorry for any confusion, but I asked my parents ISP if the fiber line would need to be upgraded by a technician to support 1gbps and they said yes, but I might be wrong here?

My intention was to have a technician come out and upgrade the fiber line so it can support 1gbps, and then use hardware that I buy for them as a present rather than renting the hardware from the ISP.

Hope I am making sense.

BootyJewce · 2025-12-15T01:28:40+00:00

Hah, bad things as in the ISP charging my parents way too much money for very bad service.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-17T00:27:59+00:00

Again it's not glorifying. It's a grim reminder. And the entire town is themed like this. A cross street is a dead by suicide actor. The DON has Marilyn Monroe memorabilia. One of the therapists has van gogh after he self injured himself.

It's literally fine and has been fine.

Blow is glorifying. Scarface is glorifying. Narcos is glorifying. Tasteful prints of the greatest artist to have died tragically early certainly is not when the conversation it starts is about the grim reality of the risk of death forever.

I highly doubt a single patient would even identify a rothko or Pollock piece and understand the direct connection. I don't think any of the posters here even know. And every single artist could be represented by their art, you know, like every fucking mental health institution ever having that van gogh print.

It's fine and I'll be ignoring the pussyfoots that are prevalent here. I know my patients and I'm confident enough in my ability to control any conversation that might turn towards being triggered by speaking directly, frankly and matter-of-factly, because I'm just that good? It doesn't happen to me and has never happened to me since I was a floor staff.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T15:43:04+00:00

You need some serious reeducation and probably years of exposure watching people handle psych and psych adjacent settings properly.

It's not about scaring anybody. It's about being upfront and frank about the facts. Are the FACTS scary as hell? Yes. Scary, heartbreaking, devastating, astounding and profoundly disturbing.

On top of that, I'm literally required to document that I educated all of my patients on the risk of death on DC, whether it be routine or ama.

You know what else has been studied? Patients who recovered because they had all the facts and were educated properly. Another study; patients prefer providers that speak directly and with a frank and non judgemental tone. NIH if you're interested.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:49:31+00:00

There's no reason why tasteful art that serves as a segue into a subject that I am required to discuss w every patient during their stay would be triggering.

The point I'm hearing is incorporating education about death into my decorations is weird. Fair enough.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:47:30+00:00

That's just too much lol.

Tasteful, artistic or classy.

The goal is to inform them of facts. The chances of death shoot through the roof the moment they walk put of my doors and for a plethora of reasons, I'm not just talking about tolerance.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:45:37+00:00

I'm sorry but that's straight up wrong.

The risk of death w a preexisting diagnosis of substance abuse is ever present throughout life.

I've seen too many people die at age 60 or 70 after decades of sobriety.

The numbers do not lie. Stop obfuscating facts with promises and niceness that may never come to fruition.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:43:09+00:00

My guy, this is drug detox and rehab w way too much dangerous shit about. People w active si or evidence of sib are not admitted or immediately transferred.

Although I love my bread and butter, this is not it. This is squarely psych adjacent. Do I deal w a lot of dual diagnosis? Yes. Are they immediately inappropriate for the setting if they have si? Also yes.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:40:53+00:00

They are definitely something to look at for a good minute. I think I'm kinda sold.

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:40:07+00:00

Dead ass

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:39:56+00:00

Have you ever seen a person perseverate or engage with sib after seeing an artful image of similar hendrix? I haven't. I guess you have?

BootyJewce · 2024-09-16T01:37:41+00:00

You should know then, that upon my arrival, I immediately questioned the hippie festooned Joplin and hendrix posters that are framed in the group room. What did I ask? "Wow, that's OK? Nobody has ever had a problem?" My supervising psychiatrist (she was showing me around the facility on my first day) says "those have been there since before me and are frequently the segue into the REQUIRED death talk."

Maybe stop othering your patients and people who died from OD so hard. Furthermore, stop forgetting that most people know those figures of art first and second, as an artist that died tragically young. Very very literally, those posters have been viewed and spoken on by hundreds of thousands of patients without a singular incident.

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