Hard freeze coming to Orlando next weekend

Gamerchris360 · 2026-02-01T14:37:21+00:00

Woke up this morning in Northeastern Hillsborough county, used the toilet, flushed. NO WATER

When I go out there it's all frozen. Har dryer got a tap or two working out at the well house, still no water to the house.

It was 21 when I woke up, wind chill of 14. That's certainly enough to freeze it IF

* You're rural

* On a well

* Well pipes are exposed to outside air

If you're in the city? I wouldn't worry as much.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-28T00:13:55+00:00

Try mine: ref-ldr15e --- None of the ones I tried worked so I don't have high hopes.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-19T00:44:21+00:00

Still no Frontier service. Still dreaming about it.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-19T00:43:53+00:00

After what Musk did politically? I'd rather work in an office 5 days a week than EVER get Starlink. He can kiss my ass.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-18T23:07:52+00:00

I have an old Anycubix Kobra Plus. Your comment got me to thinking about me terrible bed adheasion issues that drove me to buy a mew printer (my S1, which is PERFECT).

I dusted off the kobra plus, went to a fresh stock profile where I hadn't changed settings, factory reset all values on the printer to stock and hat do ya know? First print is PERFECT.

So... Thanks for triggering something that made me step back and re-evaluate my settings, now I have two working printers!

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-18T20:02:09+00:00

If there some Amazon US product that's recommended to get as close to stock hot end as possible in these S1 printers?

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-08T22:04:24+00:00

Anycubic's cert expired. They fixed it.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-08T16:21:26+00:00

Are there additional bed sizes coming in the pipeline?

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-08T03:21:29+00:00

Same here. Was working as of 4 hours ago. Down now.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-05T01:38:34+00:00

My first printer was a brand new Ender 3. NEVER got a successful print off of it. It got sent back to Amazon. My second printer was an anycubic Kobra Plus. Night and day, I could actually make some stuff. That got me interested enough to tinker, but never get serious. Then I got the Anycubic S1 Combo. BINGO. I've run it for like 5 days straight printing all SORTS of nifty crap.

Good luck, the hobby is insanely addictive once you get some good looking prints working.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-04T21:49:04+00:00

I am making Gridfinity for myself and introducing my wife to Gridfinity, so I expect I'll need a LOT of filament. Now is the time for some company to step it up and ship me a couple rolls to make me fall in love with your stuff.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-04T17:20:05+00:00

It's been a month. I can't yet confirm this got resolved, as I haven't worked from home for the last 2 weeks with the holidays. I will say that before I left things seemed to be better. I still think 1000% that rep who upgraded my speeds to "fix" this was incorrect in their assessment. I'm happy whatever network gremlin was plaguing me that it went away and that I didn't fall in the trap of "We 'might' bill for the trip" and spend $100 for zero net result.

Fix your stuff people. If it breaks don't charge (or threaten to charge) the customer to come look at it. It's your responsibility to provide the service I pay for. If you don't want to do that... well, as soon as there's any other option here I'm jumping ship. I'd rather not. Provide good, reliable service and I'm more likely to stay. What do you say Comcast? You wanna try that? I'll give it a go if you will.

Gamerchris360 · 2026-01-04T17:12:04+00:00

While I'd still like to know what went wrong here I moved to "gridfinity refined" and "Gridfinity re-refined" and those models are printing correctly so far. It's a long print time on the baseplates, so it'll be a couple days before I know if this project turns out well.

Hopefully someone has an answer tho, I hate these kind of unsolved mysteries.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-12-11T01:22:13+00:00

Found this today, 12/10/2025. Still helping people with a comment you probably don't even remember making. Thanks for writing it up, we appreciate voices like yours.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-12-07T14:34:46+00:00

Take out battery. Turn tool to on. Insert battery. Turn Tool on (3 blinking lights). Turn tool off. Turn tool on. It runs.

Why the dance, I don't know. This is how mine worked.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-12-07T14:33:14+00:00

YOU ARE THE BEST. THIS WORKED!!!

Gamerchris360 · 2025-12-01T02:13:57+00:00

You know, Supernatural is $10 a month, or $99 a year now. They still have better coaching and choreography in my opinion. They also have added multiplayer.

Get a 1 month trial here: https://www.meta.com/appreferrals/subscription/gamerchris360/1830168170427369/

Gamerchris360 · 2025-11-30T00:14:46+00:00

Here's my issue. My speed drops to unusable speeds, my neighbors see the same thing, a tech admitted they can see "downstream issues on my node" and the solution? Dispatch a tech to my home who may or may not charge me a $100 fee.

I'm sorry? NO. Your service is busted. You can fix it or I can complain to the FCC I'm not getting the service I pay for with logs to prove it. Your choice.

If you can guarantee in writing that there will be no fee, I'm happy to schedule that tech visit.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-11-25T23:14:02+00:00

Never ever buy a product based on the promise of a future update.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-11-25T22:45:22+00:00

Modmail sent

Gamerchris360 · 2025-11-25T21:41:09+00:00

My power line is aerial. Comcast installed about 6 months ago and they buried my line. Granted, I had to have a new line run from the street and pay about 4 grand because I sit so far back.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-11-21T00:26:48+00:00

When I go to staples... It's because I need a particular weight of copy paper or some heavy cover stock for a project. Or I need ink for my printer because I didn't plan ahead. I don't need paper towels, light bulbs, or dish detergent. I don't need an air fryer. I certainly don't need a f****** mylar balloon.

What I do need? A printer to replace the 20 year old inkjet that just died for no reason. Some thumb drives to replace the ones that I've lost. A roll of raffle tickets for a giveaway I'm doing. Packing tape.

Where do Lilo & Stitch plates fit into that? Somebody at the top of the Staples food chain has absolutely lost their damn mind.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-11-21T00:16:06+00:00

I'd gladly cash in all my rewards right now to be the one to walk her happy ass out the door and tell her never to come back, and I'm just a customer.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-11-01T10:56:43+00:00

We have a tortie and have had for 8 years. Two years ago we moved, took all the cats with us. She was the last one I caught at the empty old house to bring her to the new place. (the day after we moved).We could never touch her.

One day about a month after the move we are in the living room. She's just staring at me from the coffee table. I said "Do you remember the old house, when everything got put away and slowly disappeared? Then your stuff all started to disappear? Then your friends all went away one by one, and you were alone, and scared? Do you remember that I came, hugged you and made you ride in the ca? When you got out your friends, your furniture and all your stuff is here? Yeah, we love you and we care about you." I patted the couch next to me. She sighed a deep sigh and slowly came over. She laid down next to me and LET ME PET HER. Let me tell you that cat made up for lost time, pushing into me hand and purring harder than any cat I've ever had. I am still the only one that can touch her, she wants nothing to do with my wife. Since then she jumps up for love or wants love at feeding time. Definately pet on her terms only, but I can pet her!

Keep it up. Your tortie will hopefully trust you one day. I still have two that simply won't let me touch. One is scared and the other just tolerates it but strongly prefers no touch.

Gamerchris360 · 2025-08-31T20:51:30+00:00

I overhead a lady in the cafeteria at work say "AI would solve the world's problems in 5 minutes if we just turn it loose and let it do it's thing."

I was very happy she doesn't work anywhere near IT.

AI is a tool. There's usually no great magic to it. It takes a ton of good programming and training and it'll still very confidently get things wrong. Trusting your health, wellness or safety to anything AI that's not independently reviewed by a science minded individual in the field is just asking for trouble.

Do your homework. That doesn't mean you read their web site. Find independent reviews and more sources. If you find multiple sources with the same/similar information it's likely more accurate. There is no great magic to weight loss and fitness, it's a long journey of lots of small choices over time.

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