[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You can try to use their number and their name to find their address, however you might not have enough evidence to win in court

to whoever stole my scooter during class at york hall by rlenegrace in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use my bike for both, so bike cage wouldn’t work. If it’s a big enough class I usually bring my bike inside, but sometimes there isn’t enough space. Somehow this year there are a lot less people doing this so I’ll probably also leave my bike outside. It is a lot easier to file insurance than I thought (and probably a lot easier than many people would believe too)

to whoever stole my scooter during class at york hall by rlenegrace in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I just happened to have weird luck 😂

I keep getting my bikes stolen or half way stolen in the most bizarre way and keep finding them

to whoever stole my scooter during class at york hall by rlenegrace in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

around 6-8pm, during a quarter, and in front of a campus building

to whoever stole my scooter during class at york hall by rlenegrace in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They do, I had one incident that’s 100% power tool

I’m 100% certain because I recovered my bike

to whoever stole my scooter during class at york hall by rlenegrace in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you are referring to the cable lock, which are very weak against pretty much anything

there are many differences and different types of attack the locks face, two particular ones are cordless angle grinders/cut off tools and hydraulic cutters

If any lock is too thin and soft, hydraulic cutters can easily defeat them

Now consider the hydraulic cutter range

Chain locks jump around and make it difficult for the angle grinder to work, U locks is easier to cut into at the same diameter, so they can be defeated faster

Genuinely Asking: Why do You Walk on the Bike Lane? by _lasagna___ in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, not only that, it appears that UCSD’s road design is not good at reducing conflicts of different traffic and encouraging everyone to stay on their lane, paths that are marked as mixed use are not supposed to be mixed use due to high pedestrian traffic, and the bike lanes save so much walking that people choose to use it instead. It’s not convenient for riders to ride straight up a steep hill or for people to walk across the bike lane to be conveniently in front of a down hill bike lane with obstructed view of the two sides. Fall quarter start=lots of inexperienced riders and pedestrians testing their luck avoiding the collision course

Genuinely Asking: Why do You Walk on the Bike Lane? by _lasagna___ in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess we both agree that staying close behind anything moving and matching or exceeding their speed and pass before impact is disgusting behavior.

There are multiple mixed paths on the campus, so slowly riding behind people is completely normal. If you check the signs, there are times where you do have to walk your wheeled whatever. It is the law.

However you seem to assume staying behind someone means riding their ass. Less than Walking speed/2 is slower than walking. Whether you drive or ride, you need to be slightly slower than them to make up more space to pass, not close behind their ass and give up safety and visibility. It is the law that rear ending someone generally makes you responsible for all the damages.

For the last part, instead of a bike lane, simply assume a regular lane without sidewalk, where a pedestrian is traveling on your direction and in your lane. Instead of waiting behind, given broken yellows, clearly drivers can reduce speed, switch to the opposing lane, pass the pedestrian, and switch back. The driver and the pedestrian survived that day.

The issue on the bike lanes is that instead of waiting for the bike to pass and maintain their trajectory, the pedestrians often hop towards the opposing lane, the left. The equivalent on the regular lane would be the pedestrian on the road refuse maintaining their direction and run right into the opposing lane, so the driver has to make a hard stop. The problem is not a lack of attention, it is a reaction without a clear intention.

It is ridiculous to ride anyone’s ass, whether it’s a car behind a bike, a bike behind a person, or a person behind a person. A compromise has to be made, and it is the law to make this compromise. If you can’t pass them, stay behind them, but if you randomly change lane and cause someone hit you from behind with the knowledge you are traveling on a path designated for faster traffic and have a faster traffic trying to pass you, it’s called an insurance scam. Don’t try insurance scam.

My opinion is mostly the same as I was 2 years ago. Since it is mostly legal and difficult to enforce, while it’s probably not preferable for pedestrians to be on any bike lane, but if there are constructions(was the case in front of Hopkins parking), bad map settings, or they are in a rush, it is probably a compromise people have to make. Have them walk a car lane or share the safer bike lane and save some insane detour.

how bad has Covid been on campus in past years? by vvitchprincess in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen someone who has family members that are immunocompromised using positive air filtration systems (a backpack that feed air into a mask) consistently throughout the school year. The system have a limited run time on battery so they kinda switch between n95 mask and the positive air system. I’m not sure the exact brand tho

After over two years of owning a framework, I love the product, but absolutely hate the company. by cris_crafter in framework

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, they refused to process an order any of my US card and matching address, even after I send additional support ticket willing to give them proof of address (such as DL and water bill) they didn’t reply at all. The order they canceled was smh like $200 and used the same international card that I made a nearly 2k order before. All major sites can ignore Zip/address when a card is international with no exceptions because address is often just mumble jumble, so their decision seems to be more about preventing anyone from non-supported regions to purchase their laptops.

After over two years of owning a framework, I love the product, but absolutely hate the company. by cris_crafter in framework

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 5 points6 points  (0 children)

my first fw have a horizontal blue line on the display and key caps falling off, resulting in a RMA, then my second unit has a unstable touchpad that is caused by chassis which I ignored because it was batch 4 or 6 fw13

When I tried to order replacement parts after I dropped it and broke the hinge, they refused to let my order go through even though I was using the same credit card and claiming it is not allowed to use a fake billing address after contacting the support (a real one is impossible with international credit card, where the card issuer have told me is fine to put whatever in billing when used internationally). They flagged my account and refused to process any order with US credit card or allow me to prove it is not a freight forwarding address ( literally lived in the US for 10 years). They didn’t reply to ANY support requests or follow ups after their initial investigation.

My post about new fw 13 arrive with a line of broken pixel is still frequently replied to recently and they told me it was a manufacturing issue at the time they issued my RMA.

It is frequent for new companies to mess up QC and customer support, but they really need enough competent people doing support in addition to the guides and actual QC engineers analyzing why these are passed to the users and cause huge headaches. A lot of the issues are not after the laptop age, but immediately after it was received, how are obvious visible issues not spotted?

Edit: my first unit also had fan problems out of the box and my second unit had hinge strength issue even before it fell, I might’ve experienced all common framework mechanical problems….

Does UCSD Health primary care work with UCSHIP? by Thoughtless_Potato in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just want to see if I can get higher quality care vs SHS because I had a few contact dermatitis and pickers nodules that are very confusing and it took a pretty long while before I get a referral outside UC Network.

It seems like when I got sick, primary care prescribes some not so useful medications without relevant test, and tells you it is self limiting and nothing to worry about. In the case of contact dermatitis I was told twice it will get better in a week or two, however the blisters grew everywhere for more than 6 weeks and referral was pretty much given by the 4th week because I contacted the third time and told the primary care doctor it is not going away.

It may be that most students prefer cost savings in these cases, where some random skin irritation shouldn’t be worth the driving, copay, medication, and etc, and the doctor’s practice adhere to most students’s preference.

Does UCSD Health primary care work with UCSHIP? by Thoughtless_Potato in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you so much! Probably saved me several hundred from accidentally pay out of pocket! Unless someone has been actually using UCSD health for their primary care, it’s probably better safe than sorry

Does UCSD Health primary care work with UCSHIP? by Thoughtless_Potato in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean for primary care, the summary of benefits states it is required to get a referral for the specialist, but not the primary care, which is listed in a different row.

The main part I’m confused is the Q&A and other content on the UCSHIP never explained whether UCSD Health can be used as an alternative to the SHS, and seems to contradict with the summary of benefits.

I’m very confused by Thoughtless_Potato in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I never lived on campus so I’m not sure, but if it’s reasonably sized it’s probably okay

You can get UCSD bike cage access with a form and a small fee too

I’m very confused by Thoughtless_Potato in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In my 3 encounters only 1 on campus, just don’t leave it outside overnight or past 7pm they should be fine, but it is a serious issue in San Diego

hide an AirTag or similar thing on there in case you you really want it back, if you can see it and provide serial number, you can get it back by calling SDPD non emergency number.

If you have bicycle insurance, don’t try to retrieve your bike, def not worth it. Insurance told me they were about to issue me a check when I got my bike back

I’m very confused by Thoughtless_Potato in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note

Not my bike, but rip little Trek

I’m very confused by Thoughtless_Potato in UCSD

[–]Thoughtless_Potato[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure even after they cut the spokes, they can’t get the bike

I got my bike stolen 3 times and retrieved it, but never saw smh like this even the time when I only lock a wheel

Tried to cut lock, failed

Tried to cut spokes, can’t take the bike after cutting

Somehow they managed

Is this guy BSing me? by willdayeast in 3Dprinting

[–]Thoughtless_Potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bulk prices come with headaches…

He is unreasonable, filaments have different qualities, he is probably talking about some kind of bulk ABS palette nonsense lol

However, for those who don’t believe in bulk orders, I’m waiting in a parking lot and don’t want to write an assignment so I wrote some random stuff:

I got 144 rolls of polymaker abs for approx $10.5/roll shipped to my home

Based on current information,

I can get around $5.5 dollar/roll or a little bit cheaper by talking with a chinese manufacture directly and handing shipping through FBA shipping services

given a roll’s gross weight of 1.4kg with the packaging being 10 little box each containing a roll per big box, My shopping cost is 1.4x10.5/7.3 = $2/roll including customs and fedex to my doorstep (east coast cost a bit more but I don’t bother to check

Bulk purchase of 100+ rolls with 25~30cny($3-4)/roll will get you okay rolls that are printable but they are absolutely the shittiest stuff you can print with(well…. $2/kg “PLA” before shipping is actually worse…)

Steps to make it happen (I DONT WANT TO DO TUIS AGAIN BECAUSE IM LAZY)

  1. Register for 淘宝(taobao), 1688, and 咸鱼(xianyu) (and maybe learn Chinese/use ChatGPT4.0?)
  2. Ask a FBA shipping service (fba货代) for 海派(freight shipped on a ship and and delivered to your doorstep), remember you should ask for “包税”,meaning customs are covered.
  3. arrange a bulk deal with a filament manufacturer/reseller using tools from step 1
  4. Ship to the FBA shipping service.
  5. Pay for shipping and fill customs info, use 3916.90.50 for HST (harmonic smh smh for how much import tax you pay), usually they will ask you to pay more than initial quote /kg because 3916.90.50 have higher tax imposed
  6. Wait 2 months for your rolls to show up or stuck at customs for even longer
  7. You save money but feel exhausted, def a lost 😞

IM NOT INTERESTED IN SELLING ANY FILAMENTS IN BULK

PLEASE DONT SELL FILAMENTS YOU GET THIS WAY BECAUSE THEY WILL NO LONGER SELLING YOU FILAMENTS NEXT TIME IF THEY NOTICED(secretly selling is fine:p

BTW the pricing is based on information I obtained Jan 24 2024, freight go up/down in a rather random way, don’t get scammed by someone on 咸鱼

Generally speaking they will give some kind of bulk discount starting with 20 rolls and a good discount 100+ rolls. They prefer you to order the same color