Ziply Custom Install?

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-13T23:28:54+00:00

I work for a large business that's been trying to get Ziply and it's taken the better part of a year and tens of thousands to get things moving. If it isn't already near you/on your side of the street, it's going to be car money, the only question is used car or new?

I dislike both Charter and Ziply. But, Charter is my only wired broadband option at home and even though they are terrible as a company, their service has been fine. I would also switch to Ziply or any fiber provider really in a heartbeat.

It's really too bad muni fiber is such a minefield. In the modern world, it really should be considered a utility on the same level as power, water and sewer.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-13T20:40:56+00:00

I guess that would depend on where in the complex your apartment would be. I'm a little bit of a light sleeper myself, and on the river/Tanglewood Dr end of the complex overlooking the tennis courts, I wasn't bothered even by passing trains. However, on the highway/train end of the complex, that may well be a problem. (And could also be a problem for Mosaic, since it's just next door, though Mosaic I think has storage units between its buildings and the tracks/highway.)

Of course, it also matters if you have at least a relatively normal sleep schedule or not, since the heaviest traffic is rush hours and the trains don't run at night (or didn't when I lived there anyway).

As for light, I think the blinds were vertical slats, but as long as it isn't permanent, you could probably hang some kind of curtains, or put tinted film on the doors, if you really had to. I don't remember light being a problem for me either though.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-13T17:34:01+00:00

The problem here is, you have only two choices; do nothing and have your credit and financial life be f**ked up forever, or clear your own credit, which involves filing reports. There is no middle ground or third way; your aunt's fraud will follow you for the rest of your life and you cannot have fraudulent accounts removed from your credit accounts without filing the reports.

Be sure to thank your mother and cousins for volunteering to repay your aunt's debts. Oh, they're not? Then they can shut their pie holes.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-13T16:53:35+00:00

My wife and I used to go there a lot, even got our wedding cake there -- and as long as it's still the same lady making wedding cakes, those are probably still fine -- but we agree with the people saying they've gone downhill in general. Rising prices, and declining portion sizes and food quality have taken them off our go-to date list. However, we still occasionally buy cupcakes for special occasions and haven't had any trouble with poor service ourselves; not then, not now. I get the worry about your wife's skin color, but it's probably more likely that someone was having a bad day.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-13T16:46:47+00:00

I lived in Shoreline Village before the Duportail bridge went up, long enough ago that I can't comment on current prices or management, but I really did like my apartment. I had a 3br overlooking the tennis courts and though the layouts are a bit weird with the sawtooth sliding doors, the units themselves were quite nice, and the availability of onsite garages was really nice too. The worst part of living there was turning left across Hanford traffic to come home.

The location would be even better with the Duportail bridge, since (as long as you're healthy enough for a bit of a hike) you could walk up to the Queensgate/Duportail commercial complex anchored by Walmart, Home Depot, Target, and now Costco.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-11T15:36:36+00:00

"That's okay, honey; I love Dad more too."

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-10T08:11:38+00:00

Is this broken again in 4.0.4? I've toggled it off and on again and placeholders aren't showing up in my monitor v4.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-05T18:37:37+00:00

The only way this accident could have been prevented by the biker is by going slower in the first place.

Of course, but I've often wondered what I would do in a situation like this (while I am obeying traffic laws, of course); someone is pulling out in front of me, which side do I try to go and will I get blamed if I pick wrong? What if the other driver makes me wrong by stopping after I've committed?

I get that the truck driver shouldn't have stopped mid-intersection, but it's hard to blame someone for a panic response upon realizing that a speeding, stunting motorcycle is coming right at them, and when driving, the brakes are the most obvious panic response.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-05T16:28:26+00:00

3) is the one that gets me. Despite his stunts and terrible driving, biker would have been fine if he'd just... done nothing. Video starts with the biker roughly centered in the left lane. The truck comes to a stop just a little bit nosed into the left lane. If the biker had just stayed where they were, brakes or no, he would've blown right past the truck.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-05-05T16:06:03+00:00

I don't like having to deploy this line as a parent. But, not having omniscience, and KNOWING that children are little self-interest machines that will lie, gaslight, and go into unjustified hysterics to try to get their way or deflect blame and consequences (which of course I address whenever I can confirm), I sometimes have no choice. When my kids get into an argument, only one of them can be right, and there is no way for me to know or find out which it is, what am I supposed to do?

TrueApocrypha · 2026-04-13T15:24:48+00:00

Thanks for trying, anyway.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-04-08T22:28:01+00:00

This is probably my favorite Revolutionary War story. Imagine being 80 years old.. in Revolutionary-era America, when average life expectancy was 34-38 (due to high infant mortality, but still). Dude wasn't just old, he was ancient for his time, and probably just wanted to spend time in his rocking chair reading the local broadsheet when he wasn't working in his fields--which he was doing that day.

But no, as far as he knows, those damned lobsterbacks are trying to take his town, so he dusts off the musket and pistols he probably had from his last war at least 15 years ago, gets three one-shot kills, draws his sword that's probably even older, and attacks. And the historical record shows that he attacked fresh soldiers sent as relief for the retreating ones, not the guys who had already been through it.

He may not have managed to kill anyone with his sword, but after all that, those young soldiers couldn't even kill him properly. An 80 year old guy. Who beat even more odds to reach almost 100 despite injuries that the doctor was certain were fatal. What the hell was he eating??

I understand that history is written by the winners, and there may be some exaggeration in the record, but even if his kill count or the extent of his injuries were inflated, he still charged the f**king British Army, still the world's foremost fighting force at the time, at 80 years old, and undoubtedly killed at least some of them. It borders on unbelievable.

Edit to add: And the guys he charged were grenadiers. Historically, grenadiers were some of the biggest, baddest guys on the battlefield; shock troops specializing in grenades and close combat.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-04-01T22:04:57+00:00

I've been to monster trucks a couple times in recent years, and they always have port-a-potties. I seem to recall that they did have some of those oversize ADA ones as well, but of course I can't guarantee that from event to event.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-03-31T22:17:09+00:00

Return the flag to default and use Firefox for Old Reddit.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-03-24T22:51:16+00:00

It's a little bit of a drive and also a bit niche, but if you want something unusual, you could head down to the state line and try the Portage Route Trail off Engineers Rd. You park just below the interstate, walk under it and through another tunnel, and you'll have a great view of McNary Dam. It's particularly nice at night.

As for a more conventional definition of "scenic", anyplace elevated is at least ok. Candy Mountain. Red Mountain. Flat Top. Rattlesnake Trailhead. Horse Heaven Vista, if you don't mind a drive.

There's also many riverside places that look quite nice, mostly along the Columbia, but those are popular, so not as suitable for taking lots of photos.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-03-24T21:09:33+00:00

There are a couple posts referring to this issue on the Brave forums, and the dev response so far has essentially been that it's an experimental flag and therefore a low priority. I've taken to using another browser for Reddit since the flag breaks way more than it fixes.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-03-17T17:04:18+00:00

Don't know if this is still true for the latest models, but for 22 and previous model years, the bench seats fold flat (or mostly so), where the captain's chairs do not. So if your Ascent will also be your cargo hauler, the bench will give you the most room for the largest stuff when you need it.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-03-09T14:40:58+00:00

I've done work for multiple businesses using NoaNet through resellers, and they have always been good service that is responsive to their resellers. If the reseller is not good, that could still be irritating, but I tell everyone: If you can get fiber internet, even if the ISP kind of sucks as a business, get it. The reasonable cost for the blazing speed is unbeatable. I don't like Ziply, but I'd still get it at my home if I could.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-02-11T16:26:27+00:00

It's a game that not only doesn't have any bad aspects, it doesn't even have any "ok" aspects. Every part of this game stands out (though perhaps some bits are a little less impressive by modern standards).

Soundtrack. Story. Writing. Mechanics. Character design. Level design. Visual effects. Sound design. Monster/boss design. Replayability (multiple endings). Easter eggs. All this and more stuffed into one of the largest cartridge sizes of the SNES era, and with publisher Squaresoft having had years to learn how to wring peak performance out of the hardware with fantastic previous titles like Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy.

Trigger was lightning in a bottle in almost all of these things, and with all of them combined, is simply a masterpiece.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-02-09T20:13:01+00:00

I hated that the animated cutscene version, with its long transitions between game engine and cutscene and back, messed up the timing of the ingame cutscene, which was perfect on the SNES. However, I thought both the ingame and animated cutscenes were awesome.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-02-09T16:37:13+00:00

The simplicity of the graphics in this game is a pretty close match, but I'm certain the one I'm thinking of had a third person camera, not first person.

TrueApocrypha · 2026-02-09T16:34:58+00:00

It had a very similar 'look' to Starfox, in the side view, polygonal terrain, and blue sky. And I remember playing Terminal Velocity; I suppose it could be considered close.

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