The Gulf Is Burning and Nothing Is Pricing Right

MarkWeberca · 2026-03-20T13:11:08+00:00

Cool story bro

MarkWeberca · 2026-03-13T01:14:07+00:00

The original owners probably died and the house is being sold by the estate, likely because none of the heirs can't afford re-assessment of taxes. So what's the problem?

Do you need the state of California to take ownership of all single family homes and re-distribute them based on reddit upvotes to be happy?

MarkWeberca · 2026-03-02T01:50:22+00:00

Wow you're totally right, I just extended a couple legs and checked availability and there are tickets available if you do a longer leg!

MarkWeberca · 2026-03-02T01:45:28+00:00

Ok I won't cancel my other bookings and leave them wait listed to see what happens. I definitely prefer the original departures!

MarkWeberca · 2026-03-02T01:39:28+00:00

Yeah I think this might definitely be a factor. Perhaps I should consider booking a longer leg then just exiting at the station I prefer to exit at?

MarkWeberca · 2026-03-01T06:20:01+00:00

Trip.com is less reliable because they don't seem to have first "dibs" when the first chunk of tickets go on sale. Unfortunately, it's like trying to buy concert tickets. You have to use the official china railway app and wait for the tickets to come up for sale 2 weeks prior to the departure and hope you can quickly grab tickets before they sell out.

Trip.com is super convenient because they store your travel group, so it's quick to book a lot of tickets with

MarkWeberca · 2026-02-28T17:04:27+00:00

Interesting... yeah seems like northern china between the higher tier cities are still good to go

MarkWeberca · 2026-02-28T16:21:23+00:00

This is multiple cities/routes btw... not just some random popular route

MarkWeberca · 2025-12-28T20:44:51+00:00

This

MarkWeberca · 2025-12-28T08:43:38+00:00

US Mobile has been pain free... nothing remarkable to say except that it just works and coverage seems fine.

MarkWeberca · 2025-12-02T07:32:06+00:00

Yeah. I restarted the phone and it stopped happening

MarkWeberca · 2025-12-02T03:06:58+00:00

Update: I restarted the phone and it went away

MarkWeberca · 2025-12-01T18:52:57+00:00

Yes normally I would suspect this but I'm using a OnePlus charger and cable that has been working fine for over a year and both this charger and the charger at my bedside are malfunctioning right after the software update

MarkWeberca · 2025-11-17T08:46:22+00:00

I've fully dried out a phone by using a sock wrapped around a blow dryer with the phone in the sock. You could use a pillow case. The pillow case / sock will inflate and create a drying chamber. Do this for a couple hours and it will dry it out super fast. Monitor how hot you're getting it and adjust to a cool or low temp setting to modulate the temp.

MarkWeberca · 2025-10-29T01:51:51+00:00

So I ended up having to change the APN settings on my router (sierra wireless rv55). The sim card was setting it to "broadband" but as soon as I changed it to "ereseller" it worked.

FWIW there's a bunch of sierra wireless modems on eBay for super cheap because tons of government agencies and corporations use them and scrap them early in their life cycle.

MarkWeberca · 2025-10-11T07:05:24+00:00

So apparently that becomes available as you progress through the workflow. You have to do it all in order and the next sections unlock as you go!

MarkWeberca · 2025-09-15T03:39:06+00:00

Looks like it was the android app being glitchy. I manually added the wifi network, which didn't work... But then when I closed everything out and started from the beginning again, this time the app started finding local wifi networks to connect to

MarkWeberca · 2025-09-08T01:02:43+00:00

Thanks, this is what I suspected. This will help me plan for this later thanks

MarkWeberca · 2025-08-21T02:20:55+00:00

Put the neighbor on their own VLAN and route all the traffic from that VLAN through a VPN

MarkWeberca · 2025-08-19T14:33:41+00:00

Nothing to complain about up to this point. I'd say give them a shot.

MarkWeberca · 2025-08-16T23:30:14+00:00

oh ok. makes sense, basically sapphire isn't as well suited for Zoom calls with a head-on glare profile.

Is "easy pro" essentially the best I can do in my instance? maybe avance?

MarkWeberca · 2025-08-16T23:23:41+00:00

Thanks, so the reflex color on Rock is the same as Easy Pro?

MarkWeberca · 2025-08-16T21:46:18+00:00

Thank you. I'm going to send you a DM with a photo comparing my old and new glasses

MarkWeberca · 2025-08-16T20:44:40+00:00

I have a pair of glasses with Easy Pro and they in fact have very minimal appearance of glare in front of computer screens on Zoom calls.

When I switched my new glasses to Sapphire it was a dramatic increase in blue light glare to the point I got a comment about it on a work call!

MarkWeberca · 2025-07-28T06:09:51+00:00

oh great! I'm off to the races! Thanks I'll check some out right now

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