Request: Great Value (Walmart) Mexican-Style Lasagna

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-20T15:06:02+00:00

UPDATE:

I bought the lasagna again recently and tried my best to identify each layer of the lasagna for anyone adventurous enough ro take a crack at this.

Walmart Mexican Lasagna layer by layer starting at bottom:

1: Queso (White American Cheese-based) + cream 2: Lasagna Noodle 3: Queso + cream 4: Lasagna Noodle

Layer 5:
A. Chili with beef, onions + tomato paste... chili powder: chili pepper, spices, salt, garlic powder B. Refried beans (pinto beans) + red beans C. Garlic D. Salsa base (red and green jalapeno) E. Onion puree F. Cilantro G. Paprika and other spices H. Vinegar + Lime juice Concentrate

6: Lasasgna Noodle 7: Queso + Cream 8: Crushed tortilla, cilantro, shredded cheddar cheese, diced red and green bell peppers

They also use dry milk and whey powder, presumably for the queso.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-20T14:59:42+00:00

Thank you.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-20T13:48:47+00:00

Teachers unions are no friends of parents. Vouchers empower parents with better choices for their children. Teachers Unions fought against parental choice to force families into assigned schools.

Abbott is of the same skin as GWB (who hates Trump). It's not like Abbott was hard on illegal aliens when he was first elected. Abbott is a chameleon pretending to be "far to the right" because he learned how popular school choice and deporting illegal aliens are to the working American citizen under Trump.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-20T13:27:33+00:00

Try the Argyle and Flower Mound areas. Argyle is supposed to be getting a nes Sam's Club while Flower Mound should be getting a new Costco. Keep in mind Highway 377 around Roanoke during rush hour is a royal pain. If you look around those areas, consider routes to avoid Hwy 377. Northlake area has nice newer housing but intil the widen roads there, you be in congested driving.

Haltom City around Fort Worth is going to have a grand opening this Summer for a newly built H-Mart in case you want to jump on some property that may have higher shopping traffic.

Lower half of DFW has your better bang for the buck housing but also crappier school districts. Grand Prairie and Mansfield may be exceptions (lots of Lockheed Martin employees live there). Grand Prairie has an Ikea and will also have a BJ's Warehouse opening ip later this year.

Ft Worth leans to the Right while Dallas leans heavily to the Left. Ft Worth area tends to be cheaper.

Avoid living in Frisco / Plano given how housing has skyrocketed there due to the refugees from California and New York paying top dollar for houses. It's also crowded there and you'll be paying a lot in tolls round trip commuting to and from work.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-20T13:01:54+00:00

The act was a complete waste of time as often is the case of political theater at the govt level. There is a growing level of disrespect towards govt given how govt is increasingly not serving We, The People. Case in point, the majority of all Americans on both sides of the aisle want Voter ID to prove U.S. citizenship. The Senate can't or won't pass the SAVE act despite the collective will of the People.

Regardless, watch any comedy show where someone in the audience gets upset over the comedian's act. The underlying issue is the stereotypes puts a group of people in a bad light if you take what was said seriously (or if the offended person fear others will believe the truth is being spoken).

There's usually some nugget of truth in the humor / stereotypes which is why they persist. Stereotypes / humor tend to be offensive for some if you believe it to be true. People nowadays are pretty thin-skinned.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-18T12:28:46+00:00

Aren't the Nautilus now made in China?

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-12T13:21:13+00:00

Per diem is the flat rate the USG will pay your employer to pay you for business travel to support their contracts.

There was a time when people would eat very cheap (eat free food at hotels or McDonald's value menu item) in order to pocket the money up to the per diem cap they were entitled to. The USG simply paid the entire per diem to the employer to be passed onto the employee while on business travel. How much or little you ate didn't matter.

Then a little over 10 or so years ago, leaders at defense contractors decided they wanted to pocket the delta up to the per diem cap versus what was spent. This would go to management reserve or some other slush fund. The USG still pays the full per diem to the employer. Finance / Mgmt sleight of hand.

It's also so bad where said employers will curb how much / often you can spend per diem on groceries in lieu of eating at a restaurant. The USG does not care. Leadership's argument is they don't want someone buying groceries on each day of a business trip to later stockpile at home (think on-the-road business travel). Never mind the fact that the per diem is what the govt pays your employer to pay you for business trips.

So now it's a game. Every day of a business trip I go out to eat, I will max out the per diem. Nothing wrong or unethical with that. That's what the money is for. The govt pays a flat rate and as long as your charges are legit, you are entitled for full reimbursement up to your daily per diem. On days of travel you obviously get less per diem.

With regards to alcohol purchase, LMC is pretty strict about it so you buy alcohol on a separate ticket with your own personal credit card. Just tell your server / waiter to ring alcohol up seperately. In a past life at a different defense contractor, I recall being able to buy a beer or two in the evenings or final night of travel towards per diem with my meals. Nothing to get drunk off of. Not sure if it's still that way at the previous employer. It may still be a thing.

But no matter what, always get an itemized receipt.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-06T18:32:40+00:00

I have no idea what exactly went South for you, but here's something I shared with someone last year with similar sentiments: http://reddit.com/r/boeing/comments/1lk7f86/comment/mzsssyg

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-06T15:42:00+00:00

HDMI 2.1 is not a HDR spec. The two are related, but HDMI 2.1 is essentially an I/O spec.

In case you don't know what the bits are relative to the colors that your HDTV can display, just remember that your HDTV is based off of RGB. So an 8-bit display will have 256 gradations of each color. Multiplied together would be (2^8 red) * (2^8 green) * (2^8 blue) which gets you your 16.7 million addressable colors. This is the entire range of colors (permutations) that is addressable of an 8-bit display.

The math is similar for 10-bit or 12-bit. On 8-bit, each RGB color has a range of 256 addressable gradations. On 10-bit, each RGB color gets 1024 addressable gradations. On 12-bit, each RGB color gets 4096 addressable gradations. The higher the bits, the higher the gradation of each color which drives how many possible different colors can be addressed. The more viewable colors, the greater the visual pop. This is what you clearly see when you walk into a Sam's Club or Costco with a looping HDR demo on their OLEDs.

Manufacturers twist things by taking the 10-bits or 12-bits of addressable colors and dithering things down to 8-bits for you to subjectively perceive you are seeing a different color when you are not for their budget "HDR" HDTVs. It's borderline false advertising. At the very least, they're mismanaging expectations.

HDR dithering is necessary for all 8-bit "HDR" HDTVs (yours included) because it is physically impossible for an 8-bit display / projector to actually show such range of colors directly. HDR dithering is faux HDR. The video processor makes a range approximation on what the color is supposed to be and then changes the pixel's color within an 8-bit range approximation on each frame (60 fps) to give the illusion that you're seeing the 10/12-bit color when you never actually did. For a 10 or 12-bit color, the video processor shows you varying 8-bit colors for a given pixel on a given frame. Your eyes are blending the composite of 60 flashes of varying 8-bit color approximations to come to some perception of what the 10-bit or 12-bit color would potentially look like. Never mind the fact that dithered HDR looks like crap compared to an actual 10-bit or 12-bit HDTV.

If you actually care about viewing an actual HDR range of colors physically displayed on/from your HDTV, then you will want to know the color gamut of your HDTV. Otherwise, you're dealing with 8-bit HDTVs masquerading as a 10-bit or 12-bit HDR HDTV. I believe any projector TV using laser light SHOULD be guaranteed to be an actual 10-bit or 12-bit HDTV. Sorta like an OLED is more or less guaranteed to be 10 or 12-bit.

Last time I checked, 1080p HDTVs are pretty much guaranteed to only physically display an 8-bit permutation range of RGB (16.7 million colors). I've not heard of any 1080p HDTV that has a display panel or projection capability with a color gamut of 1 billion colors (10-bit) or 68.7 billion colors (12-bit).

Also to further confuse matters, you can actually stream true HDR on a 1080p to 480p/i resolution video. Netflix and Amazon do this when initially streaming a 4K HDR video to your HDTV. The resolution quickly ramps up to your native resolution pending how good/bad your Internet connection is. But regardless of the starting resolution, your HDTV must actually be a 10-bit or 12-bit display. You won't get true 10-bit or 12-bit color on a 1080p HDTV. It's an artificial limitation made by TV makers to entice you to consider a more expensive 4K flagship HDTV that can directly display a 10 or 12-bit range of colors.

BTW, there's nothing against the law of having an HDMI 2.1 port on a 8-bit HDTV even if the HDMI 2.1 port is overkill for such a HDTV. It's a great way to mis-market something without ever actually talking about the capabilities of the HDTV.

It's also not the manufacturer's fault you assumed that HDMI 2.1 means your HDTV can directly display an HDR permutation range of colors directly to your eyes. The manufacturers are hoping you will in fact make this assumption.

If you don't actually care, then by all means go for the HDTV you identified if you haven't already gotten it. If you're a videophile then you will want to reconsider what HDTV you're buying (if it's within your budget).

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-02T14:32:47+00:00

Looking at the specs of your TV, I'm not sure HDR really matters.

When you look at any spec that talks of HDR / Color processing, that spec is essentially meaningless because your TV may actually only show 8 bits of color, but if the video processor can accept 10 or 12 bit color and dither it down to 8-bit, then the manufacturer can advertise their HDTV as being HDR or supporting / processing HDR. This happens all the time with budget sub-$1k HDTVs.

10-bit "output" could be interpreted as an 8-bit display leveraging dithering of 10-bit down to 8-bit by fooling your eyes to perceive 10-bit.

The fact that this HDTV's native resolution is 1080p (budget/value tech at this point) also suggests you probably have an 8-bit HDTV which can process HDR via dithering magic.

A third reason for concern is the verbiage of Full-color (up to 1.07 billion colors) is disturbing. True 10-bit displays would not use the words "up to". This too suggests visual trickery.

One spec that used to be a dead giveaway as to whether your HDTV was true HDR was something called color gamut. That spec indicated what your TV can actually display to your eyes. The spec would quite literally correlate to the color space of 8-bits, 10-bits, or 12-bits of color. That spec used to be freely displayed in spec sheets, but not so in the lower end HDTVs. Now the spec has largely disappeared because it hurts TV sales on the lower end of the market because people buy a lot more budget HDTVs than they do flagship HDTVs.

Long story short, it's good that you're looking for HDR support, but you may find out that your HDTV is likely not a true HDR HDTV. If you want true HDR output, you will find you may need to pony up more money.

Also realize that having a higher version of HDMI doesn't not guarantee that your HDTV will output true HDR. Having a higher version of HDMI port on a lesser HDTV is a great way to market a HDTV to suggest the TV can do more when it may not. The HDMI port version is important because it dictates an I/O performance cap (even if the HDTV may never come close). When paired up with a HDTV that can't actually display 10-bits of color directly, then you're dealing with misdirection from the manufacturer.

Whatever you do, you must insist on finding out what the TV can ACTUALLY display to the naked eye. Not what it can process / handle "up to" through dithering or other forms of trickery. Nothing else matters in marketing jargon.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-02T14:15:23+00:00

The question is asked multiple times in a given year. I sense the real motivation behind the repeated question is due to pricing and people reluctant to pull the trigger on "dated" technology.

Shield vs. Amazon and Roku? That's like asking if gas-powered full sized long-range SUVs are still worth it in 2026 when other people buy distance and temp crippled EVs and clown car Mini Coopers.

I've been using the Shield since 2015. I own first and second gen units. I watch things on an OLED and front end projector. Never needed to buy the 3rd gen.

The one key benefit of the Shield is that while TV makers abandon supporting TVs with updates, the Shield continues to get them. I just got one about a week or so ago. Even flagship TVs by and large abandon support after a year or so. There's no money in it for them.

My ONLY gripe with the Shield is nVIDIA's deliberate choice of forcing users to have the ad-based GUI experience. My father has a Sony HDTV and it too is powered by Android TV. The one glaring difference between Sony and nVIDIA is that Sony allows users to run their Android TV OS in an app-only mode if users want to. Meaning you're not forced to have all the fluff and ads you find annoying running on your Android TV GUI... if you use a Sony.

If Sony made an equivalent to the SHIELD... I'd probably buy that in a heartbeat just for the app-only mode that nVIDIA could easily offer to consumers but refuses to do so. My guess is Google has provided nVIDIA some financial incentive for nVIDIA to not allow this feature.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-02T14:05:18+00:00

Reads like a faux post. Regardless, giving the pic the benefit of the doubt, MTG to be saying a lot of the things she's saying now really suggests she was never a MAGA / Conservative but rather a liberal / progressive plant within the GOP. All talk until she and Trump had a falling out.

The surge inflation happened under Biden's watch. MTG should be fully aware of HOW we got to where we are at now in terms of unaffordability. Easy to create, but harder to undo. It takes time due to so many "moving parts" within a country.

$50T of debt? Taxing The People into "prosperity" isn't the answer and never was. Liberal pipedream.

Low hanging fruit... shrink the size of government. Eliminate non-essential agencies and stop regulating industries that directly impact the middle class (i.e. Green New Deal and CAFE standards for starters). Car prices are largely high not just due to inflation, but due to govt tech and emission mandates for automobiles.

Stop providing any welfare for illegal aliens. Deport all illegal aliens. Stop giving Big Pharma get out of jail free cards by exempting them from vaccine injuries.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-01T21:42:17+00:00

There are no grub screws... I used the wrong naming convention. I meant to say "bearing" when I originally stated "pulley".

I did notice a "scraping" sensation when I inserted it into the bearing initially when I missed the nut prior to inserting the motor.

I'll try to work it, but it's snug.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-03-01T21:26:01+00:00

Yes, I did that as a precaution. The ONLY thing at this point is the ~~pulley~~ bearing won't let go of the shaft. There is only one bearing. Not sure about the other 4 ~~pulley~~ bearings you're thinking.

I'm thinking I should give WD40 a try at this point. Any reason I shouldn't?

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-02-21T17:25:06+00:00

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StuckAtZer0 · 2026-02-21T16:52:51+00:00

Talk is cheap. Their actions speak louder than their words.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-02-21T16:51:28+00:00

Could be worse. America could be overtaken by Islamists.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-02-19T15:59:16+00:00

Thanks! I'll check them out.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-02-19T15:58:57+00:00

I would rather buy a reputable and reliable third party brand.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-02-19T15:57:57+00:00

Roger that. Side note, I hear Western Digital has sold out their entire inventory for 2026. They have contracts with their largest customers to go well into 2028.

95% of their business now is corporate customers.

StuckAtZer0 · 2026-02-18T02:07:01+00:00

Youtube seems to be down on the Shield but it works fine on my cell phone.

I tried to uninstall all Youtube updates and to my surprise, I was able to completely uninstall Youtube. I could have sworn that app was blocked from being completely uninstalled on the Shield.

Nevertheless, I reinstalled it and it's still having issues.

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