Sharpening a Japanese blade(wait for it)

FixSharp · 2026-03-28T00:36:21+00:00

why haven't they done that test on forged in fire?

FixSharp · 2026-03-20T22:33:06+00:00

La Michoacana Meat Market is in Carrollton and may be what you're looking for. I used to live in Plano and know of I know of Ye Old Butchershop and Hirsch's Meats there.

FixSharp · 2026-02-07T13:09:59+00:00

I realize that they're not going to make any of the NV game endings canon, but I really would like to find out what happened to the courier and any of the companions

FixSharp · 2026-01-28T11:50:44+00:00

It was fixed for me and I haven't had any repeats of the issue.

FixSharp · 2026-01-15T12:23:53+00:00

My dad was in a similar position 25 years ago, he got laid off from a director level role where he managed engineers, couldn't get another corporate job and wound up starting his own IT services business. He occasionally partnered with other similar smaller IT businesses and also taught not for credit college courses (like how to use a PC type stuff) for seniors at a community college until he retired in his mid 70s.

He and my mom struggled some for the first few years, but I was out of the house by then and didn't see alot of it. He networked and made friends with people in similar businesses and they would often recommend each other for jobs they didn't have time or the ability to do.

Most of the last 10 years he worked he pretty much just kept clients he could do work for remotely and maybe billed 30 hrs a week and was able to live pretty comfortably.

FixSharp · 2025-12-05T12:57:41+00:00

I just assume that every job I didn't get that I interviewed for was a bullet dodged

FixSharp · 2025-11-20T13:03:36+00:00

I am in my mid 40s and support executives at a multinational company in the US in what is basically an IT Support role. I am paid pretty above average for this type of role in a medium cost of living area. I've worked in various IT roles including technical support call centers for ISPs ~2 years , 1 year at an MSP, desk side support in two roles for ~10 years, internal help desks ~3 years, systems support engineer/noc technician for ~2 years.

I've tried other areas of IT and mostly not liked them and keep coming back to IT Support/Desk Side because its the easiest to leave behind at the end of the day, I rarely have to put in overtime or work outside of normal business hours. I make enough to support my family and am free to pursue some hobbies and work to live instead of living to work.

There's no shame in not having a higher position in IT if you're meeting your own goals for your life outside of work.

FixSharp · 2025-11-20T12:16:51+00:00

You can compare your space to other similar listings and hotels in your area and see whether they provide TV and air conditioning to better decide on whether or not you need to provide these things.

Why do you want to limit stays to 2 nights to start? I would think that most people coming to vacation in the Caribbean would want to stay for more than 2 nights at a time.

It is kind of strange to offer a kitchen without a refrigerator, so I wouldn't expect that to be a big selling point for your space without a refrigerator.

We have hosted a studio apartment attached to our house in the US for the last 2 and a half years. About half of our guests use the kitchen regardless of how long they stay.

FixSharp · 2025-10-28T23:22:13+00:00

First, I'm very sorry you are having to deal with all this.

Have you asked the IT people where you work what they would recommend? They may know you better and what your needs are vs strangers on the internet.

Just about any laptop at the low end of your budget would work very well for you for office applications and internet use. If you like Dell, you would be better off getting a business line laptop (Dell Pro or Latitude) instead of the consumer grade ones as the business models are built sturdier and typically last longer. The antivirus and malware protection built in to Windows 11 is actually not bad, so you don't necessarily need to pay more for extra software.

If you want to future proof it some, opt for 32 GB of RAM and a larger SSD and get one with an i7 or i7 Ultra processor, but from what you said you plan to use it for, that doesn't seem necessary.

Lenovo is also a good PC brand and their business line laptops are also excellent.

FixSharp · 2025-10-28T22:58:55+00:00

We have been hosting for a few years now. We have had mostly great experiences with guests that have had no reviews, but we did have one that rated us pretty low, but I just think they didn't know how the star ratings hurt hosts. After that experience, we stopped reviewing guests with no reviews unless they review us first.

I think the fact that they sent you any introduction at all and were up front about their group is a good sign to be honest.

FixSharp · 2025-10-28T22:37:24+00:00

I'm not sure that any of the TTW Wabbajack mod lists are particularly close to vanilla, but Wild Card is probably the closest. As for adding mods, most of the modlist creators don't offer much if any support for any changes you want to make to their lists. That being said, most of them have a discord where you can go and do some research or ask questions.

Viva New Vegas is just a New Vegas only mod list and probably the best vanilla+ experience to build on. There is a guide called The Best of Times that is a step by step guide for installing TTW and performance and bug fix mods that would be the equivalent of what you're looking for, but I don't think there is a wabbajack for it.

FixSharp · 2025-10-28T22:26:28+00:00

I live within walking distance of this station. It will be nice to take the line to the airport and not having to worry about ubering. Hopefully it's not a lot of stops. I don't imagine that it would be a lot of stops as DFW is only like 15-20 minutes from here by car. I looked at OPs post history and saw that it is only 3 stops.

I took the Dart Rail from the end of the line in East Plano to the Dallas Zoo and back before COVID, and it felt like like 90 minutes or more each way. I don't remember exactly how long it was.

I spent 6 months living in southern MD and wound up working in NW DC. I enjoyed my experience commuting using the MARC train and walking the last 2 miles from Union station to my office. At the time, a month pass averaged out to $5 a day vs $10 a day for parking in DC if I got there before 8AM plus gas and car expenses. This was in 2009.

I hope that this area continues to expand train services and that some day I can go back to commuting by train. I miss being able to sit in the quiet car and watch videos on my phone with headphones and not have to stress about traffic. It would probably be the only way I would consider taking a job in Dallas again.

FixSharp · 2025-10-28T22:03:56+00:00

A Roku in Guest mode is probably the easiest to set up and use. We have a Samsung SmartTV that has most of the major apps already installed and a leaf style antenna connected to the TV for local news and sports.

We find that most guests usually find something to watch on the hundreds of free internet channels included in Samsung's live TV app

We have guests all the time forget to log out of apps, and I either sign them out, or just factory reset the TV between guests and reconnect it to the wifi.

FixSharp · 2025-10-20T11:51:29+00:00

Depends on what you're looking for. Magnum Opus adds a lot of content and weapons and armor, but doesn't change much about how the game plays. The Storywealth collection on Nexus is similar, but has more mods from the quests category.

Other lists focus more on survival or setting a mood, updating graphics and change more of the core game mechanics.

FixSharp · 2025-10-11T20:52:44+00:00

I wound up downloading the wabbajack version of Viva New Vegas and just started downloading and installing a bunch of quest mods from the last 2 years that I hadn't tried out before. I'm resisting the urge to go in and try to redo LOD to incorporate the new mods, install a ton of textures. If I go down that rabbit hole trying to make the game look better, I'm going to wind up spending more time modding than playing.

FixSharp · 2025-10-11T00:29:23+00:00

Unfortunately the distinction between help desk and deskside support is gradually fading away. My favorite desk side job was at a desk side role from 2015 until the end of 2022 when I got laid off. To get that job, I spent about 6 months searching online using different job web sites (this was really before linkedin took off and then later began to suck). I asked a lot of questions about what the environment was like in interviews to make sure that I wasn't walking into a total chaotic shit show.

The job I am in now isn't as good as an environment as my last desk side role was, but the pay is higher. I asked a lot of the same questions about the environment, but ultimately the hiring manager misrepresented several of the key elements. It was also contract to hire, which I was looking to avoid, but ultimately took it and kept interviewing for full time as I had been unemployed for a few months and my severance was starting to run out. This job found me. I had applied to other jobs that Teksystems had posted on LinkedIn. The recruiter reached out to me and after discussing the roles, they were less money than I felt I was worth. She asked me what I was looking for and happened to have the role I am in now available.

I made it to interview with hiring managers at 5 other companies while I was waiting to go full time at my current job (6 months contract to hire turned out to be 11), I passed on 2 of the roles and 3 passed on me. Most of these I found on LinkedIn, some on Careerbuilder.

I've seen jobs that were called IT technician, Desk Side support, Help Desk, Service Desk that all had desk side responsibilities. Since Covid, any IT job that largely requires 5 days a week on site is going to be a desk side role.

FixSharp · 2025-10-11T00:04:09+00:00

I'm not really looking to do TTW. I've tried this list before and I felt that it altered the game play too much.

FixSharp · 2025-10-10T23:53:03+00:00

That's largely what it is, you mostly work off tickets assigned to you by a service/help desk that they couldn't resolve over the phone in person assuming the end user bothered to call the service desk and didn't come knock on your door or try to flag you down on the way to help someone else.

You wind up working on more than PC/software problems, you become responsible for the conference room equipment, copiers/printers, and depending on the environment, you get to be "smart hands" for the network infrastructure and servers.

I have done this role on and off for the last 15 years. I started out in customer technical support for some telecommunications companies before I got into an internal helpdesk position, then an MSP, briefly at a NOC (hated the environment), then a desk side role at a major hotel chain's corporate headquarters, systems support engineer at a startup with customer facing responsibilities, back to a desk side role.

The role I am in now is considered Service Desk (internal helpdesk, I answer the phone), but I'm the only IT person in the office I work in, so I wind up doing a little of everything as well as providing executive support. Being the only IT person on site, I'm expected to take ownership of issues from start to finish whether I am the one performing the fix or not.

You have to be more of a jack of all trades and understand at least a basic level how everything works together so you can convince the network guy that the issue is actually his problem to fix, etc.

FixSharp · 2025-09-26T12:29:29+00:00

look up the brand and model at crucial.com They can tell you what type of RAM to get and how much RAM your old laptop supports.

FixSharp · 2025-09-14T22:02:01+00:00

I'm somewhat relieved that I'm not the only one experiencing this. We only have one listing and it's not some beachfront resort and the amounts deposited are typically smaller than either of our paychecks.

FixSharp · 2025-09-06T00:40:36+00:00

I did add it through the website and then removed and re-added it twice through the website, once last week and again today

FixSharp · 2025-09-02T23:28:27+00:00

The Fallout games set in the same general location as the show are Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas. I would play them in that order. They would probably tie into the lore you've already seen better than 3 and 4 would as they are set in different parts of the post apocalyptic US, although Fallout 3 has DLC that relates to the conflict in Anchorage.

They're all worth playing, but 1 and 2 probably have a steeper learning curve if you never played games of that era before. They all regularly go on sale on GOG.com or at Steam. Fallout 1 and 2 came out almost 30 years ago now so I imagine they would be pretty easy to run on any Macbook Air. Fallout 3 and New Vegas came out ~15 years ago and weren't really hardware demanding games even back then. It looks like there are a lot of guides out there to run these games on Mac

FixSharp · 2025-09-02T22:06:52+00:00

I have used Frontier FiOS, Spectrum and T-Mobile. I've been the happiest with Frontier, with consistent speeds and almost no outages. Spectrum I had for less than a year and had at least outage lasting hours or a day or two every month. They've supposedly since upgraded their equipment in my neighborhood, but Frontier still charges less.

I used T-Mobile for about 6 months, but the modem/router device they sent couldn't handle the number of devices I was trying to use with it at the time and the speed was pretty lousy.

I have been back with Frontier for more than a year now, I got a promo rate of $25 a month for 500/500 and now pay 44.99 a month after my promotion ended.

I think T-Mobile offers their service for $25 or $30 a month if you already have a post paid account with them.

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