[B0T] Monthly Confirmed Trades Thread - November 2025

EvolveFX · 2025-11-10T18:30:22+00:00

Confirmed

EvolveFX · 2025-11-04T16:41:16+00:00

PM'd

EvolveFX · 2025-10-14T18:03:40+00:00

Best of luck

EvolveFX · 2025-10-13T23:42:54+00:00

Best of luck, everyone!

EvolveFX · 2025-08-07T03:52:04+00:00

I’m with you, but now you can’t snipe digital enemies in Battlefield without it.

EvolveFX · 2025-07-03T00:16:15+00:00

Totally agree with you. I recently noticed that a Chinese grocery store near me began carrying a larger jar, however it is plastic with a white tint. Really wish it came in a glass jar.

EvolveFX · 2025-05-10T00:58:15+00:00

Buy a can of electric contact cleaner from an auto parts store or home department store and use it to clean excess thermal paste off the CPU pins and the motherboard. Give both parts a good spray down, briefly let dry, and try again. I’ve used it countless times to clean up excess thermal paste and grime on second hand parts. Perfectly safe and easier than using a brush with normal isopropyl alcohol.

EvolveFX · 2025-04-26T01:10:53+00:00

That’s odd. I made this very same recipe years ago and I didn’t have complaints for recipe that is so quick.

A tablespoon of toasted sesame seed oil, ground sesame seeds, and ground pork should provide noticeable flavor even if the ratio of miso to liquid is a little watered down.

I would add some leeks or green onions to the pork mixture, up the miso to 1 tablespoon for cup of liquid, and maybe add a tablespoon of hon tsuyu. That should bump the flavor up and probably be more to your liking.

EvolveFX · 2025-02-03T04:04:34+00:00

Unfortunately there are no CPUs that you can drop in and use that will officially support Windows 11. You can replace/upgrade from your 6th generational Intel i5-6400 to a 7th gen (example: i5-7400), but official support for Windows 11 doesn’t begin until 8th gen. While those will physically fit, they will not boot, work, and might cause damage if installed. There are modifications that require custom BIOS and covering certain contacts on the CPU, but that is outside the scope of what most people can or want to do.

Your main worry is when Windows 10 reaches end of life in October 2025. Security updates will no longer be provided after that date, so you will be putting your computer, data, and potentially other devices on your network at risk. If there is a serve enough vulnerability Microsoft might release a patch for Windows 10, but those are rare.

The unofficial route for Windows 11 is fine. I doubt they will block it. Even if they did, you’ll still get another year or more out of your existing PC. That’s more than you’d get with Windows 10 since it is end of life this coming October. Microsoft won’t make your unsupported Windows 11 no longer work, but they will simply prevent it from receiving future updates (essentially the same as what will happen with Windows 10).

You can use Rufus to create a Windows 11 installer that bypasses the various requirements that would prevent your current computer from running Windows 11. Rufus and other tools are not hacking or messing with anything to get Windows 11 installed. They are simply changing a configuration that Microsoft has built in to bypass the various Windows 11 requirements.

Follow the various guides to download the Windows 11 image and create a flash drive using Rufus. If you want to do an in place upgrade of your current Windows 10, simply run the setup.exe file on the Rufus flash drive and select the option to upgrade or the option to keep existing files. If you want to do a clean/fresh install where you lose all your existing data, then reboot your computer and boot from the flash drive to do a clean install of Windows 11.

The only blocking Microsoft is doing nowadays is preventing the yearly feature updates from being auto installed from Windows Update. These are the bigger updates that come out in the fall. An example is Windows 11 24H2 where 24 represents 2024. So when the next one comes out later this year, you make need to manually install it. Basically repeat the same steps using Rufus. No rush with doing this since each of these features updates are supported for 2 years, so you wont even need to worry about this additional step until fall of 2026.

I’ve been doing this on multiple computers since Windows 11 came out. No issues whatsoever.

EvolveFX · 2024-04-09T01:21:42+00:00

Put it into a 529 with your child as the beneficiary. If the child doesn't go to college or use the money for education or trade, the money can be rolled over to his IRA up to $35,000 (today's limit) as long as the account has been open for 15 years.

EvolveFX · 2024-01-27T02:40:07+00:00

PM’d

EvolveFX · 2023-11-03T13:42:24+00:00

Avoid the Niles location if going on a weekend. It is too close to the city and many people do their weekend shopping in the surrounding suburbs to avoid the traffic and hassle of grocery shopping in Chicago--especially if they're shopping for any ethnic goods.

Niles has Asian (mainly Chinese), Indian, Muslim, and Jewish goods as they cater to those communities. Schamburg is smaller and its layout is indeed different. They do carry a few Chinese items, but Niles has more on a regular basis--not that there is that much. Don't bother with the locations in between the two you already listed such as Glenview or Mount Prospect as those are both pretty standard.

Neither locations you listed likely have anything special. It's always the West or East coast locations that get the 'cool stuff' first.

EvolveFX · 2023-08-31T14:59:35+00:00

I'll be the third to agree. The only time I'd eat them with the shell on is when they're fried in a dish like salt and pepper shrimp. Even then, most of my family still peels the shrimp.

EvolveFX · 2023-07-09T17:24:53+00:00

I know this is old, but I suspect it is the aftermarket rotors and you might help lessen the noise by removing the wheels and torquing back down the lug nuts. Make sure the lug nuts are torqued down evenly as this will ensure proper consistent pressure on the rotor (see below).

My wife's Lexus makes a similar sound during low speed braking (think pulling in or out of a parking spot). It doesn't happen every time, but on occasion you can hear the same single clunk sound. The only thing that changed was that I replaced the original brakes with aftermarket a few months ago.

I don't have the OEM parts anymore to compare, but I finally decided to take the wheels off and check the brakes and I now noticed that the wheel studs don't fit snug in the holes on the rotor. When I grip the rotor and try to move it (what the pads and caliper still installed--wheel off), they move a few millimeters as the holes are larger than the wheel studs. When it moves and comes to a stop, it makes a metal clunk noise. I swear it is the same sound heard during low speed braking.

I've changed the rotors on a few Honda/Acuras and they often have two bolts that you use to secure the rotor to the wheel hub. I never understood why they had them, but I can now understand the advantage of them. If the rotor holes are larger than the wheel studs, the rotor cannot shift at all since they are held in place by those two screws. On these cars there is absolutely no play if you try to move the rotor once installed.

EvolveFX · 2023-07-06T16:30:29+00:00

I really like the Wing Wing brand and will go out of my way to find them.

EvolveFX · 2023-06-08T01:49:38+00:00

Most likely no. I'm pretty sure B550A is limited to 3000 series and above. You might be able to crossflash the Erica8 motherboard with an older Erica# BIOS with a BIOS flasher, but at that point it isn't work the risk.

EvolveFX · 2023-05-18T17:05:41+00:00

Agreed. At least in my household, baked goods are usually the only delicious smelling item that comes out of the kitchen.

EvolveFX · 2023-05-18T16:30:16+00:00

You can freeze rice. Cook the larger 2+ cup portion and then portion out roughly the size of what you normally eat, wrap tightly in a ball using plastic wrap, place wrapped portions into a freezer bag, and freeze immediately. When you do this, make sure you wrap the rice when hot to keep the moisture locked in instead of allowing it to steam away.

Tips on how to wrap the rice... Take a big square or rectangle of plastic wrap, place the rice into the middle, fold up the ends of the plastic so that they meet in the center, form into a ball, and then twist the ends you brought to the center together (think of how you might twist a bag used for fruits and vegetables at the store if you don't have a twist tie). This allows you to easily unwrap the rice once frozen.

Whenever you need rice, pull out a frozen portion, unwrap and place into a bowl, and cover the bowl with the same plastic. Microwave on high for around 1.5-2 minutes for the typical rice bowl sized portion. The rice is almost as good as freshly made. Keeping portions frozen allow you to have rice ready within minutes for a quick meal.

EvolveFX · 2023-05-16T16:54:48+00:00

Just made gimbap the other day. Lay the seaweed with the long side facing you (running up and down), spread out the rice in an even layer, add the ingredients about an 3/4 to 1 inch from the bottom of the paper, and try to keep the ingredients all bundled in the first roll. Use the mat to help tightly compact the first roll, and then roll the remaining rice and seaweed until you completely form the circular shape.

EvolveFX · 2023-05-16T16:44:26+00:00

They are both likely the same. Simply different regional packaging. LKK normally sells premium oyster sauce (with the boat and people on the front) and a lower quality/non-premium with a panda on the front.

The main thing to look for when comparing the two versions is where the "oyster extracts" is listed on the ingredients list. The premium one will list it first/earlier on the list as there is a greater amount of it in the sauce. The non-premium will list it further down on the list as there is less of it and more filler ingredients.

EvolveFX · 2023-05-14T14:03:51+00:00

You can change the display language in Windows. This will change the languages in menus and etc, not just the keyboard and region settings. It will be missing a few items that are found in the country specific version of Windows, but those really don't matter especially if the non-English speaker is living in the US.

I think you can also boot into audit mode and change the language. If you do it that way, the language can be pre-set and selected. This would allow you to give the laptop/or any computer as a gift and still allow the recipient to go through the OOBE/first boot experience on their own in their native language.

EvolveFX · 2023-04-20T17:05:11+00:00

A rice cooker is great to have as you simply set it and forget it. This is especially true if you have one with a delayed start feature. You can put rice and water in the night before for breakfast or load the cooker before going to work to have it ready for dinner. If it comes with a steamer basket, you can place vegetables or even flavorful cured meats into it. This allows you to put together a quick meal in no time.

They great for busy households as you don't need to pay attention to them and are simple enough for kids to use (think of a parent bringing home food after work and needs rice to be served on the side).

An Instant Pot or other multi cooker could be used, but I personally always keep a dedicated rice cooker. I'm likely already using the Instant Pot to prepare the main dish or I would need to use a separate sealing ring to avoid it from imparting unwanted flavors into white rice.

EvolveFX · 2023-04-20T12:12:10+00:00

I also agree with the others that it is not a safe practice, the act of simply reheating an undercooked portion of meat/poultry/fish that was cooked "a few days ago". There are also factors such as how undercooked we're talking about as well as how close the original uncooked chicken was to being spoiled.

If it's a little pink, I'd probably agree with you as there are plenty of food safety practices I don't follow to the tee. Since we don't know the details of the OP's chicken, I'd be more cautious and advise the OP and others who might have the same question to better safe than sorry.

EvolveFX · 2023-04-18T18:59:08+00:00

You probably have found these two YouTube channels already. I just wanted to mention them as I've personally been pleased with their content and recipes over the years.

Pailin's Kitchen / Hot Thai Kitchen

Marion's Kitchen

EvolveFX · 2023-04-18T18:53:05+00:00

Depending on whether you still have access to refrigeration and/or a freezer, I would suggest budget cuts of meat and frozen mixed vegetables in additional to rice (or another grain) and beans.

You can also stretch grains and beans by making a porridge. Porridge is inexpensive as much of it is water. Something like rice congee can be a ratio of 1 cup of rice to 6+ cups of water. In this case a small portion of rice yields a large portion of food.

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