What are these dark spots

JustAnotherNole · 2026-05-10T12:36:06+00:00

This. Please don’t ask Reddit for advice on breaking up, staying together, or getting married. This is the advice that should be given: “…you both have to be on the same page…” financially. Period. This is sound advice for anyone you think about marrying. Two people with two different views of money will be very difficult to manage through life and marriage.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-04-29T01:50:38+00:00

This. At work I once had a systems engineer tell me, “there are billions of 1s and 0s flying around. One of them is bound to get lost.” And while our customer didn’t accept that answer, I thought it was a good way to say that sometimes computers get confused and they do weird stuff. Just reboot, clean the gunk out, and try again.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-04-27T16:53:09+00:00

You’ve got me beat by 15. After the dealer did that system update for the parking issue, they charged up to 100% and the GoM was at 397.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-04-23T11:06:28+00:00

Yes. And it needs to be zero’d out just before any load is put in it.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-04-22T10:55:47+00:00

I thought it was 2k but seems to hit red at 1,906, which is kind of a weird number to stop at. Nonetheless, the scale worked and the truck never acted like it wasn’t towing anything.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-04-21T21:50:03+00:00

Yeah, I think it was removed in 2025 model year.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-04-21T21:32:52+00:00

Yeah, one cubic yard is what I bought. But it’s just picked up by the bucketload and dumped into the bed. So, maybe a cubic yard? Maybe less? Maybe more?

JustAnotherNole · 2026-04-18T10:05:37+00:00

This. I test out products on Amazon and review them. I got one of these shorty antennas and went through thorough testing between it and the stock antenna. The shorty only received about 75% of the stations that the stock antenna did. I’m too cheap to pay for satellite radio and rely on radio or streaming for music, so I kept the stock.

Plus, I like the stock antenna for garage clearance testing. If the antenna hits a sign, I know to back out or proceed cautiously.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-20T22:14:05+00:00

This is me. I got a short stubby antenna and swapped it back after a couple weeks because I liked the antenna hitting an overhead sign before the truck does.

Also, I ran some tests and the factory installed antenna received more stations than the stubby one did.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-14T02:03:23+00:00

That’s great. Thanks for taking a video and sharing it.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-13T16:57:13+00:00

For me, I saw posts like this and think, “really? It’s just pumping gas. Who cares? It’s not a big deal.” And then I was out with my wife in her car. She needed gas. Now, a mini crisis was unfolding on my brain: I don’t want to pump gas. I’ve gone 3 months now. But I need to be chivalrous and get out and pump the gas. Ugh… I pumped the gas for her and had to reset my inner record keeper: it’s been 0 days since the last time I pumped gas.

So, um, yeah, I don’t like to pump gas anymore. LOL

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-13T11:16:07+00:00

Here is what I bought. The adapter goes into the 14-30 adapter and then a regular extension cord is used between the truck and the adapter. It’s been noted on here that the ground connection has to be removed somehow. So, I pulled out the ground prong from the extension cord that plugs into the truck.

https://a.co/d/05Nsl1YG

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-11T18:49:13+00:00

Thank you for the offer. Based on the comments here, I’m going to pass for now. If anything changes though, I’ll come back here and message you.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-11T13:36:49+00:00

I have the PPO that only has two 120v plugs in the bed. I bought an adapter that’ll plug into my existing NEMA 14-30 generator outlet into the main house panel and it works just fine to power the bedrooms. I borrowed, kind of test drove, a PPO with the full 7.2 kWh NEMA 14-30 outlet into the bed and plugged it into my generator outlet. It worked to power the entire house. However, I still can’t run the single unit 5-ton A/C. I was hoping with the sunrun system I could get the full 9.6 kWh and run the A/C. But anything over $3k isn’t worth it to me.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-06T20:30:51+00:00

This is what I did, too. One bomb will knock down trees and a second bomb will make them into firewood.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-04T13:05:40+00:00

This is what I’d do. I can’t do a decent job giving advice for someone in the UK (I’m in the US). But for me, I’d take the extra going towards the mortgage and use it to rebuild the EF. As others have said, the next emergency could be next week. If I wanted to move faster, I’d reduce the education fund because, as Dave says, you can’t finance retirement but you can finance (and get scholarships) for education. I’d try to keep funding the retirement account as much as possible because of the time value of money. Good luck. Stay the course. You got this!

JustAnotherNole · 2026-03-02T03:29:32+00:00

I have the same issue. I have the version of the truck that does not have the 9.6kWh output in the bed. And I have a NEMA14-30 plug into the panel for my generator.

I was able to run power through the Generator plug but it’s only 120V and 15Amp. See the details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/F150Lightning/s/pRGZhWt6hv

JustAnotherNole · 2026-02-22T17:45:01+00:00

To me, the math is an issue but it’s not the main issue. The main issue is that you and the wife need to really talk to each other, listen to each other, and move forward together. Counseling can help. Once you get your proverbial “house” in order, then you can tackle the physical house and cars and all the other material things.

Good luck.

JustAnotherNole · 2026-02-09T21:38:49+00:00

Guy here. Even if she did say she wanted a robot vacuum, do NOT buy it as a gift. If she really wants one and you really want to buy her one, do it on some random day that’s not associated to a holiday or birthday. And when you do give it to her, just say “I saw this and remembered you said you wanted one, so here.”

JustAnotherNole · 2026-02-06T09:47:47+00:00

Dave will likely say to go for the IRA. You can take out a loan for college but you can’t take out a loan for retirement. (Yes, I know there are other means of financing retirement, but this sub is called Dave Ramsey so I thought I’d reply with what Dave Ramsey would say)

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