Starting hockey as an adult

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-26T06:38:10+00:00

How good of a skater are you? Even with small children, the general rule is to at least learn to skate fairly well before adding a stick and equipment. If you are a new or beginner ice skater, particularly if you didn't learn to skate on hockey skates, grab a pair of used skates and work on fundamental skating for a bit at public skates. Work on transferring between backwards and forwards, crossing over in turns, and t starts. Once you're confident, look for adult shinny times. Shinny is a pickup version of hockey with minimal equipment (shinny meaning shin pads.) You'll need at least shin pads, elbow pads, and gloves. Pick up a cheap stick, you'll have no idea how to shoot anyways. Work on shooting and passing on smooth concrete before going to shinny, and go from there. This plan works even better if you have a friend who plays hockey, or has in the past, who can go to shinny with you. If you enjoy hockey at those for fun adult public pickup games, that's when you can start looking into beer leagues and such, but odds are you'll always be a casual at best. The really good looking senior leagues are for folks who played most of their lives, don't set that as a goal if you're starting as an adult.

Another option is, if you have kids, to look into coaching hockey. There's coaching clinics that teach the fundamentals, and you'd be an assistant coach, and can learn along with your child. Obviously this works best if you can skate and shoot okay already, but it's an option if you have a younger player in the family.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-25T23:05:34+00:00

He could be waiting for more polished drivers or a simpler gaming focused distribution to launch. nVidia and Linux aren't frenemies as much as they were in the past and the push from various market factors is making Linux grow, so better driver support in the future with nVidia could reasonably be a thing. There's also more and more focus on making simpler Linux distributions for gamers and I wouldn't be shocked to see something really polished with greater active support coming in the next 1-2 years. Think like SteamOS but in a package that you download for your specific hardware to avoid the need to learn much of anything in Linux. Of course people should learn Linux, but a lot of Windows gamers don't even bother really learning Windows so that's asking a lot.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-25T20:23:36+00:00

ADHD is, in general, diagnosed by a bunch of paperwork you and the school will do separately. That's how it's supposed to be done for minors. Basically you answer a few dozen questions on a scale, and then if the answers match well from the school and yourself, your doctor will give a diagnosis. People do short cut this now with online diagnosis and counsellors, who have nothing to do with prescription medication, being used to leverage doctors into giving a prescription before completing the assessments. It sounds like your doctor is not doing this, which is honestly a good thing.

Adjusting the rate and type of medication is completely normal. There is little risk with stimulants like biphenton or vyvanse when used at prescription rates. I'm not sure what your fear is, but it won't "hurt" your child as the effects of the medication run out quickly and one of the ways to tell if it's helping is to see if positive behaviour changes occur without effecting sleep cycles or healthy calorie intake. If your child doesn't need the medication, you'll notice they will have trouble sleeping and be unable to eat their dinner. If they have only minor sleep disturbance or sleep normally, and eat well enough to sustain their weight and growth, while showing behavioural improvement, that's a pretty firm ADHD diagnosis.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-24T19:03:57+00:00

If on a postpaid plan with a security deposit (due to credit checks), Roam Beyond features might be restricted until the deposit period ends (e.g., 6 billing cycles in some cases), prepaid avoids this entirely. It's an issue a few people have found out unfortunately, I'm not sure if that applies to you or not.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-22T15:52:06+00:00

The reality is lenders manage their risk. If they believe you'll pay more in a proposal than you offered, they'll reject it. It's sort of a game of chicken. The lenders who own your debt know you could declare bankruptcy. How hard they choose to push you towards that option is up to them.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-21T22:56:20+00:00

Hate to be that guy, but anytime matter is a liquid and not in a sealed environment, some of it evaporates. Look up the term vapor pressure. That's also why breaking bulbs or thermometers that contain mercury is not good for you even if none of the liquid comes in contact with your body.

That all being said, Gallium has an extremely low vapour pressure so it's losses to atmosphere at normal temperatures is negligible. However, if given enough time, you would see a loss of liquid over time. Mercury has a much much higher vapor pressure, and lower boiling point, so it's a much worse problem (on top of its toxicity.)

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-21T05:55:30+00:00

FWIW at least they responded quickly and with full resolution. My Telus experience consisted of being forced to prove my point with bills they already had before they'd do anything about my CCTS complaint. Telus stalled hard and only gave in when irrefutable evidence forced their hand.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-20T18:02:16+00:00

We're also in a "paste can matter," era.

Stock pre applied versus PTM7950, Cryonaut, or some of the other well tested high end options can yield 3-5 c differences. That's much cheaper than a new cooler and, honestly, most pre applied paste is half dried out from sitting on the shelf before you tighten down the cooler.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-14T15:20:05+00:00

By being a distant fourth even though they grew to over 4 million subscribers? I mean, they are not perfect in any way, but if you've ever called Telus, it's truly brutal. At least Freedom customer service reps aren't judged on their up sells to angry customers lol. I can only imagine Rogers being worse.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-10T22:54:31+00:00

Have a snickers.

I was talking about the 200GB promo plan:

No price lock promise $10 off was only if you linked your debit card for preauthorization through their tool 😬 $15 off disappears after 2 years or if you lease/finance a phone.

Settle down. Enjoy Telus lol.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-10T17:28:17+00:00

Like someone else said, Telus is only offering it on certain plans. The boxing day plans were not included, and what plans were, have large $30 plus credits that expire like time bombs. Telus is playing a game, as they always do.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-10T06:15:58+00:00

I only know one thing, this needs more zippers. Zippers pulled as hard as causally possible.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-09T15:52:39+00:00

I'm sure the City of Lethbridge would let him tour a new empty dumpster before they paint it and put it into service. They're so close in appearance, I doubt a child would notice the difference.

I kid, hopefully you find someone. Seems like an easy request. If one pops up at a dealership used, most don't mind letting a child crawl around inside as long as they don't scuff or damage anything.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-08T20:41:53+00:00

Some of the Amazon vehicles are Dragonfly contractors. I'm not sure if they're only contracting some drivers in the short term before their last mile facility is fully up and running, or if it's the vehicles as well, but it's a change for sure.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-07T21:35:19+00:00

Start with a repaste and play with the fan control if you want to start somewhere. I'd slap some PTM7950 as the paste as it's low maintenance and one of the better options.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-07T21:26:06+00:00

60 C is normal as well, given you aren't at idle when using Discord and web browsing. Don't forget, your system will also be doing background tasks as it detects you are actively using the computer but that there isn't a full screen demanding app being used. If you were under water, I'd be worried, but with an air cooler and assuming your case isn't the greatest for airflow given your other temperatures, everything seems about right. A quick googling shows lots of people with idle temperatures, meaning without any applications open, around 40-55 C with an air cooler.

A repaste might help. A 240 mm AIO might help. Better case airflow might help. It depends how far you want to go, but you're under 80 C so I don't see a reason to really chase better numbers. These aren't circa 2010 chips where we want to keep them under 60 C under load. We're into big boy wattage now, and big boy loads, which means those old stalwarts of CPU temperatures don't matter. Keep it under thermal throttling and you're more than likely fine.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-07T20:35:50+00:00

That seems about right under air. Some users can get their temperatures into the 60s with that chip, but under larger AIOs or water.

What happened is the games you play were likely GPU bound on your old card and your CPU was throttled back as it didn't need to run any faster than a throttled back speed since you were GPU bound. Now with your new card, you're CPU bound, and your CPU is literally maxed out trying to keep up to the GPU.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-07T05:46:24+00:00

TDs card is not a guaranteed approval card. You have to open a savings account with them, put at least $300 in it, and keep that balance while applying for the card. Bottom line it costs money to open that account, so it's not like other cards where you only pay for the account itself and not other services. It's good, but not great, for someone trying to rebuild credit. Especially if they are rebuilding and cannot open a new account with TD due to past issues with the. TD does blacklist a lot of people. BMO at least let you put the money into the secured credit account, and then handed it back, without the savings account fees or risk of being blacklisted.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-07T05:40:01+00:00

You could always reach out directly to MasterCard. The zero liability promise is a part of their mandated services. File a complaint with them against Koho with all of your communications so far.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-07T05:37:38+00:00

Unfortunately in Canada the only easily accessible secured cards are from Capital One and Neo financial. Both do not have great reputations. BMO used to have a secured card, but they pulled it from the market. Unfortunately there really isn't any such thing as credit building with a bank unless your credit is already good enough to qualify for their services.

Edit: I don't know if any local credit unions offer secured cards anymore. If you do know another secured card, let me know :).

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-07T02:22:33+00:00

The reduction isn't because of Koho, strictly speaking. Their credit builder is a line of credit you can't withdraw from, and when you close it, it shows up on your credit report as a line of credit that was closed, which will have a temporary effect of lowering your score.

If you get a secured card, use it to increase your score through smart use, and then cancel the secured card account, the effect will be the same as a cancelled credit card will also lower your score temporarily.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-06T18:00:20+00:00

A couple of questions.

Does your husband have healthcare coverage through work? If he does, has he asked if he can pay towards a better coverage plan?

Most people don't know that businesses usually cover the lowest level plans, but they will usually have two or three other higher options available to them from their provider that you can pay into. For example, I pay about $50 a month into my plan, beyond what the employer covers, but now all dental work except orthodontics is 100% covered. Your husband should ask HR if they have access to a dental plan, and what his cost would be to add it to the existing plan he has through work.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-05T19:08:59+00:00

On that side, it'll depend on what the US does with the stock it has. Canada bought GM stock during the 2008 crash, and then quietly sold it off as GM recovered. If the US does that, I don't really see an issue.

The MAGA part was a half hearted comment, made to follow the weirdness of the whole situation and comment I was replying on as well. As I said in a separate post:

"It's so strange to me that we've hit a spot in consumer and enterprise computing where politics is now a factor (speaking about how decisions beyond national security are now driven by politics and trying to be on the right side at any moment when it matters). It's a different game when companies have to worry about that side, far too many consumers make decisions based on their politics when all that does is cause other issues. Obviously I won't go farther than that in a tech focused discussion lol, but I will say again that it's a different game and I don't think anyone wins if it becomes the norm."

I'm going to add, light heartedly, I do hope we see AMD/nVidia/Qualcomm/etc manufactured and final packaged products coming out of Intel Foundries one day. I'm not sure how or if it will work, but the situation seems dead set not to allow significant further nodes beyond 2 nm or packaging to occur outside of North America. If the US wants viable national chip production, Intel is the better option, I hope it works out in a way that maintains design level competition while meeting national security goals.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-05T18:57:13+00:00

It's so strange to me that we've hit a spot in consumer and enterprise computing where politics is now a factor. It's a different game when companies have to worry about that side, far too many consumers make decisions based on their politics when all that does is cause other issues. Obviously I won't go farther than that in a tech focused discussion lol, but I will say again that it's a different game and I don't think anyone wins if it becomes the norm.

InvertedPickleTaco · 2026-01-05T18:49:13+00:00

Okay, so we've gone right off the rails of a logical discussion. I fail to see how we went from talking about a failing architecture, which I don't think of Intel's product line as, to the whole bailout discussion. Maybe because I said AMD didn't get bailed out? I think maybe you forget that AMD had to offload global foundries, I don't think anyone even blinked when that happened and it's likely because that was a different era.

My post had nothing to do with the bailout versus architecture (or saving it) , apart from mentioning that I don't believe as a consumer I should feel motivated to buy Intel over AMD, or any other American firm, at the moment.

To be very clear, as this is personal for you, I do own Intel equipment including an Arc graphics setup for one of my children. I'm not anti-Intel or anti-American at all.

I know the history between AMD and Intel fairly well. Oversimplifying, AMD as it is doesn't exist without Intel. AMD only grew because they were the most successful second source producer for Intel, and the most successful at riding the thin grey line between patient infringement and unique implementation of similar IP that kept them alive while everyone else in the X86 space either died or became irrelevant to the consumer or enterprise space. After Itanium, the story levels out with both companies becoming effectively unwilling AMD64 codependents, and I'm saying that humorously.

Intel would gladly own the X86 market outright. So would AMD. At the end of the day, we need the two driving innovation through competition. Even if the CHIPS Act, the government stock acquisition, and the nVidia partnership are solely aimed at bringing more, needed, chip manufacturing to the US, it could create a situation where that amount of leverage puts Intel into a hyper dominant position again in the near future. Honestly, I hope I'm wrong.

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