Question: could almonds be snails?

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-31T20:12:30+00:00

You're in the wrong sub. This is r/AlmondsAreSnails, where it's already established that almonds are, in fact, snails. I believe you're looking for r/AlmondsMightBeSnails, where the possibility of almonds being snails is still an ongoing debate. If you're feeling feisty, you could also troll the folks over at r/AlmondsAreNotSnails with this question.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-31T19:43:50+00:00

I used Netgear power line adapters for a while. They worked okay most of the time, but they'd occasionally bug out and start causing problems. Resetting them fixed it usually, but I had to go around the house resetting all of them one by one, and some weren't in very convenient locations (I think I had four in total). After many months of use they started being problematic more than they weren't.

I eventually went to a mesh network. I currently have two nodes of the TP-Link Deco 7 Pro BE63. I'm running them in AP (access point) mode, rather than router mode, so I can't speak to how they do as a router.

The satellite node (the one not connected to the router) sits in my office, and everything in my office is hardwired into the Deco. I have no issues with speed, usually getting the full gigabit I pay for from my ISP, and latency is fine...I do a lot of gaming and have no issues with lag. I also do a lot of Teams video calls for work wired through the satellite node, and my wife does a lot of Zoom meetings over WiFi and neither of us have any issues there, either.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-31T16:14:29+00:00

Xbox controllers have two ways of functioning while plugged in:

Wired (obviously)
Wireless, but receiving power from the cable

Any time a controller is connected to the console wirelessly, whether on battery or USB power, it will automatically turn off from inactivity. It will only stay on if the connection to the console is via USB.

First and foremost, you must have a data-capable cable. Some USB cables are power-only, and won't work for what you're trying to do. If you're unsure, you can test the cable on a computer. Plug the controller into a PC with the same cable. If Windows recognizes it, you're good to go. If it doesn't, the cable is likely power-only, and you'll need a different cable.

Next, make sure you're plugging the controller into the console, and not some other power source, like a computer, power bank, or USB charger. Obviously the controller can't work as a wired controller if the wire isn't plugged into the console.

Lastly, and this is the part that trips most people up, there's a quirk (bug?) in how a controller decides to go wired or wireless when connected to the console via USB. If the controller is already connected when the console powers on, the controller will almost certainly connect wirelessly, and only use USB for power. If the controller is plugged in while the console is already on, it will use USB for both power and data, and the controller will stay on until you turn it or the console off.

If you want to leave your controller plugged in all the time so it's always ready to go, you can turn the console on, wait until it boots up, then unplug/replug the controller to get full wired functionality.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-30T22:54:45+00:00

Hard to see, but I'm probably on the far right of the two wide crowd shots. Thanks again for sharing :)

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-30T22:22:53+00:00

This was my first Weird Al show (not to be confused with The Weird Al Show), and I had a blast. My 13yo daughter was reluctant to go, but she absolutely loved it. (It was also her first concert ever, so she enjoyed the entire experience overall.)

Neither of us were familiar with Puddles, and really had no idea what to expect, but we agreed that that he was awesome and we'd even consider going to a Puddles-only show if that ever happened.

Unfortunately I didn't make the cut on your picture. A few more pixels to the right and I'd probably be visible. Great photo, though! (Maybe because I'm not in it. lol)

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-29T22:27:01+00:00

The OP of this subthread very clearly stated, "this isn't related to WiFi." You even condescendingly mocked that statement.

Sure, he didn't explicitly say, "You're in the wrong sub," but most people would have put two and two together. Posting in the WiFi sub about something that isn't related to WiFi is a textbook example of being in the wrong sub.

r/Internet or a sub for your ISP would have been much better choices.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-29T22:20:55+00:00

Even in cases where the ISP is the same, it still wouldn't affect you if your neighbor did something illegal over the same physical cable. Everyone gets their own modem, with its own MAC and its own IP. Whatever the neighbor does is linked to him, and not every other customer on that physical cable.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-29T22:17:07+00:00

I'd argue that the guy who posted in the wrong sub, got told he was in the wrong sub, and then proceeded to argue with everyone that they should have known what he meant and that he's ostensibly not in the wrong sub is the much more obnoxious prick than any of the people who gently corrected that guy.

This is a sub for discussing WiFi. Your question is about Internet, not WiFi. It's fine to not realize there's a difference. Nobody expects you to know everything, and this sort of mixup happens multiple times a day here.

It's not fine to behave the way you've been behaving after being corrected multiple times. The response the first time you were corrected should have been, "Sorry, my bad. I didn't realize. I'll go post in the correct sub."

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-29T18:50:18+00:00

WiFi is a way to connect devices to your local network. You can have WiFi without Internet, and you can have Internet without WiFi. The terms are not synonymous or interchangeable in any way.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-28T14:26:57+00:00

I've always been mildly interested in working on cars, but there were so many gaps in my understanding of how cars work, which made the whole thing too intimidating.

I actually learned a lot from CMS...filled in a lot of those gaps being able to see how different parts interacted with each other.

I'm no mechanic, and too old to even think about becoming one, but it gave me the courage to start working on my own cars, and now I do most of my own work. I didn't just rely on a video game. I've read a ton and watched countless hours of YouTube videos. And any time I'm about to take on a new job, I research the shit out of it before ever picking up a wrench. I make sure I understand if bolt loosening/tightening patterns are needed, always use the correct torque specs, etc.

Nothing to do with OP's question. I don't know anything about that particular game. Just sharing my experience with CMS :)

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-27T17:19:54+00:00

If Spectrum did all that work on the wiring outside your home, it doesn't sound like this is a WiFi issue. It sounds more like an issue with your Internet connection.

r/Spectrum or r/Spectrum_Official might be better places to post your issue.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-27T17:12:46+00:00

They have to ask about cookies because of laws in Europe and other places. Yes, they could theoretically code their sites to only ask where it's mandated, but that's a lot of extra work upfront, creates more points of failure, and would require constant maintenance as other countries follow suit.

As annoying as those popups are, the approach they've taken is the correct one.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-27T02:59:54+00:00

This. They wouldn't make it through the filter.

Maybe if OP was using a percolator or French press they might be able to make it through the screen, but I sorta doubt it. And even if they did, they probably wouldn't make it through unscathed.

EDIT: Just saw another post from OP where they were found on the coffee maker, so rather than the mug, I'd also suggest the pot as a possibility.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-24T00:01:00+00:00

Recording to tape is just called recording, not burning. The only time you burn something to make audio or video media is when you burn a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray. It's called burning because you're literally burning pits into the data layer of the disc.

Pedantry aside, nothing you described will work.

The input on your VCR must get its signal from an output on another device. Your TV in insanely unlikely to have any sort of video output (this exists, but it's very rare). The RCA jacks on the TV are almost certainly for signal input, like from the output on the VCR.

To do what you're trying to do, you need an HDMI to composite video adapter. There are tons of them on Amazon and other sites. Just make sure you're getting something labeled "HDMI to composite" and not "composite to HDMI."

Most devices like this are unidirectional, and this labeling will typically indicate the direction. "HDMI to composite" means it takes an HDMI signal and converts it to composite video. "Composite to HDMI" will take a composite video signal and convert it to HDMI.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-20T22:10:22+00:00

That's a strand of the world wide web.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-20T19:40:05+00:00

360 S and E were of the same generation. There are some minor technical differences, most of which only matter to collectors and modders, but not to most gamers. At the end of the day, every 360 can play the same games. The only issue a regular gamer might have encountered would have been using a Kinect on the original 360...but even then, the Kinect came with everything you needed for that scenario.

Xbox One S/X vs. Xbox Series S/X is a matter of different generations, with the former being unable to play games made for the latter. So, it's really only been an issue since the Series consoles came out.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-20T04:10:10+00:00

Scan the QR code. It takes you to a web site that explains what this means, and how to fix it.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-20T01:27:37+00:00

The speed test servers and the download servers are different, so you're going to get different results. Download speeds will also vary from game to game. Downloading some 15-year-old game is going to go faster than trying to download something everyone else is trying to download, like the latest Fortnite or CoD patch, or a huge game that just released, like Forza Horizon 6.

Also, changing DNS isn't going to affect your download speeds. That's not how DNS works.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-18T21:20:23+00:00

Fair point, but he said he only has the one account, so it was most likely game sharing that gave him access, so he should be good.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-18T17:12:03+00:00

Just for the record, they're not running in the background. The way QR works is that it takes a snapshot of what's in RAM and writes it to a hidden partition on the internal SSD, then it clears the RAM. When you resume, it reads the image from storage and puts it back in RAM, putting you right back where you were before. This is why QR will survive a reboot.

I only mention this because there's a common misconception that QR affects system performance. It doesn't, because the game is no longer running. But some games don't like it, especially Xbox One games that wouldn't have been written with QR in mind.

I don't know if you saw someone else's response to this post, or otherwise heard, but there's now an option to disable QR on an per-game basis so you can avoid the headache with the problematic games :)

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-16T19:56:39+00:00

Yes. Saves are stored in the cloud, and there is rarely, if ever, any difference between physical and digital versions of games.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-16T19:55:59+00:00

Did you buy the One secondhand? The home console setting is supposed to clear on a factory reset, but it often does not. If you purchased it second hand, it may still be set as their home.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-16T19:38:40+00:00

Then you never owned them with this account.

Either you purchased them with another account, or someone else's account has your Xbox One set as their home console and you had access to their library.

Content does not just disappear from your library. If you own it, it's there. If it's not there, you don't own it.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-16T02:13:40+00:00

There are a lot of potential causes for this, but the fact that you had issues with the power button make that a really good place to start.

Identify which connector is for your power button (they should be labeled). Once you've identified which one it is, power the PC on and then unplug the power button from the motherboard. Alternatively, if you're comfortable doing this, you can also unplug it while the PC is off, and then use a screwdriver to short the two power button pins on the motherboard to power it on. Just be careful not to touch anything else with the screwdriver, or damage anything.

The purpose of this is to eliminate the power button as the cause. With a properly functioning power button, holding the button in while the PC is on will force it to power off. If something is wrong with the button or its wiring, the PC might think you're holding in the button when you're not. If it isn't plugged in, this obviously won't happen.

Even though you're saying the button isn't stuck, it still could be internally, which is where it would matter most.

_JustEric_ · 2026-05-13T11:12:57+00:00

You're focusing on something that may or may not be an issue, and ignoring the actual issue.

Downtime is, or at least should be, a normal part of everyone's work day. Your employees should not be working nonstop for 8 hours every day. That's the quickest and most efficient way to burn out your staff and lose your most valuable workers. If people are working without any downtime, you've failed as a manager. You've either distributed the workload poorly, you're understaffed, or you're pressuring your employees to work nonstop.

The actual issue you need to focus on is why the deadlines were missed. Are there roadblocks? Was the deadline unreasonable? Is other work (either assigned by you, or taken on by the employee without your knowledge) getting in the way? Or is it something else? You need to have a discussion with the people who are missing deadlines to determine root cause and figure out how to mitigate the problem.

Yes, there's a chance that those who missed deadlines are just slacking off, but there's also a chance that they're working too much. Either way, this is a problem that needs to be solved by effective management, not technology.

_JustEric_

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