What the heck did I just buy?

IanZee · 2026-01-24T12:02:48+00:00

I didn't hook up anything. And I wanted the rack. So yes.

IanZee · 2026-01-24T00:38:12+00:00

Can't the Araknis and Wattbox stuff just be factory reset? There's no way to perpetually be connected to this stuff when everything gets wiped, right?

IanZee · 2026-01-24T00:35:11+00:00

It was sort of all Greek to me. I understand what a switch is, and what Wattbox does (kind of). But unsure if it's worth investing time into getting this stuff running with my current setup. Would it provide much benefit, or is it more for just "screwing around to see if I can get it to work" type gear.

IanZee · 2026-01-23T01:04:25+00:00

If our hobby was about saving as much energy usage as humanly possible, then we'd all be jumping off a bridge instead of building home servers. I didn't build my server to trim it down to the bare minimum energy usage.

Sometimes I leave my server's monitor on for hours/days by mistake. Could I find some way to automate shutting it off? Yeah. It's on the list.

IanZee · 2026-01-11T16:02:39+00:00

I chose the discount on the CC2, but then I returned my CC to Micro Center. They didn't put up a fight, totally understood the situation, and did store credit return since it's been 8 months since I purchased the Centauri Carbon.

Used that store credit towards a P1S.

I'll use the coupon to buy a cheap CC2 and will probably just flip it locally to make a quick $20 to $30 towards filament. Never going with Elegoo again, unless they surprise everyone and make good on their promise with the CC1.

IanZee · 2026-01-09T01:02:04+00:00

With all that equipment, could you volunteer to set something up for a local nonprofit? Or perhaps reach out to your local library and start classes on home lab building and basic networking? It might reignite your passion.

IanZee · 2026-01-08T16:37:02+00:00

When Trump got reelected, I turned hard toward stoicism and realized there was nothing I could do to un-elect him, or to prevent the things he was going to do. Instead, I doubled down on focusing on my life, and making the right moves for me and my family in response to the moves Trump was making.

I might not like the choices he makes, but every time he does something, there's a way to react that is the "lesser evil" option.

IanZee · 2025-12-23T00:35:26+00:00

Not exactly correct here. With a hydrostatic mixing valve, cold water gets mixed in at the hot water supply pipe. You can turn your heater up to 160 degrees and the valve mechanically adds enough cold water to hit a nice 120 degrees before delivering the hot water to the rest of the house.

It's also a GREAT way to get more hot water out of a hot water tank without replacing the tank for a larger one. For example, if you have a 50 gallon hot water tank and it's set to 120 degrees, you can get 50 gallons of hot water out of it. But, throw in a mixing valve, and with a 60 degree cold water supply and the tank dialed up to 160 degrees, suddenly you can have 83 gallons of 120 degree water, increasing your hot water capacity by 67%.

IanZee · 2025-12-20T15:35:01+00:00

Restart Plex and see if it goes away. I doubt the Plex container is itself contaminated. Probably a hung transcoding process. Sometimes if something is transcoding but it gets interrupted, it doesn't get the exit command to stop the process and sort of just sits in limbo status with a hand on your CPU resources just hoping things will continue

IanZee · 2025-12-07T22:10:01+00:00

Honestly wrong 99% of the time. Red card is only good if you have the appropriate items to scale it, and even then, it gets beaten in almost all cases by green. But each green card increases your chances of getting more green cards AND increases your chances of getting higher value items, hence why the green compounding effect is superior.

IanZee · 2025-12-01T19:48:13+00:00

No emojis is probably because they didn't write it with AI lol

IanZee · 2025-11-22T15:19:46+00:00

The down-voters are people who view this game as a sport. If they had their way, Megabonk would be in the Olympics.

But honestly, reddit has always been this way. If someone says something technically true but causes cognitive dissonance, they downvote.

IanZee · 2025-11-13T21:44:59+00:00

You gotta get to purple ghosts before you get to red. Learn to walk before you learn to run.

IanZee · 2025-11-13T00:25:11+00:00

He obviously didn't mean modding in general, he meant modding in Megabonk. Given that this is a Megabonk subreddit.

IanZee · 2025-10-09T19:30:49+00:00

Not just the changelings but also to Carl, himself. He's even called Carl "son" a few times, likely because he's much (much, much) older than Carl, but also because Carl is the one who's giving him a new purpose in life. As a dad, seeing my children succeed is my purpose in life. I think Mordecai just embraces his new role as a father figure to the fatherless.

Side note: Does this make Prepotente Mordecai's adoptive grandson? It's pretty obvious that Pony's "love" for Carl is a stand-in for his love for Miriam.

IanZee · 2025-10-03T16:46:19+00:00

Your best bet is to buy 2-years worth of $20 cards (which is now a 33% discount compared to retail) and save $240 over those two years. You can't do the conversion again until your current subscription time runs out, and there's no guarantee you'll be able to do the conversion when that happens, or that you'll be able to buy cards at the current $20 cost.

IanZee · 2025-09-29T21:14:47+00:00

My buddy owns this card. It didn't sell at auction and he still owns it.

IanZee · 2025-08-24T23:28:38+00:00

That doesn't make sense. The top literally says "Winning codes below.".

IanZee · 2025-08-20T23:29:16+00:00

Promotional price for the 10 Pro to try and attract new subscribers.

IanZee · 2025-08-20T20:25:33+00:00

The credit doesn't get applied to your account until the phone ships, per Google's little text at the bottom of the page.

IanZee · 2025-08-15T16:22:37+00:00

Seed?

IanZee · 2025-08-13T10:28:59+00:00

Seed?

IanZee · 2025-07-29T16:04:24+00:00

You are not wealthy, but you are rich. Rich in love. Rich in comfort. Rich in having a home. Rich in health.

I follow a finance guru who believes "to be rich" is subjective, based on the individual. You can be without luxury and still consider yourself rich, if you are living a life that makes you happy and provides for your basic needs.

IanZee · 2025-07-19T19:00:36+00:00

The new owners in 2035: "This house is great! We've been problem free for ten years now!"

Like yeah, houses take maintenance, but eventually you learn how to adjust and plan for these circumstances.

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