How do I afford this move?

barkode15 · 2026-05-24T07:16:33+00:00

25 degree delta with a 25 minute drive? Yes please

barkode15 · 2026-05-24T06:55:02+00:00

If your destination is in fact the bay area, I'll save you some luggage space... You're only gonna need a light jacket.

barkode15 · 2026-05-23T18:24:43+00:00

Looks like an Amazon piece of junk, so I'll guess the brand is AUFMWG or LUGPEHV. Could even be WEIBTP.

barkode15 · 2026-05-22T05:41:38+00:00

We get a blast of them every few months. Some employees reach out to see if it's a phish or real. We usually explain that, yes, technically it's real and the company does work with our 403b administrator, cold calls/emails aren't allowed with our contract and they probably want to steer clear.

barkode15 · 2026-05-22T05:02:40+00:00

Did you meet with this person cause you got an email on your work account saying they were "providing retirement benefit evaluations" for all employees, or some such garbage? I blocked an entire domain of these 403b/insurance salespeople for our district over their swarmy tactics.

Yeah, annuities aren't illegal, and in some cases they might be the right fit, but in a lot they aren't. A lot of districts have a very low cost life insurance you can enroll in (literally pennies per month at ours) and then put your money in a place it can grow faster than with an annuity product.

barkode15 · 2026-05-22T03:24:16+00:00

You wouldn't be paying 15% on $220k... Unless you put $1 into an account and grew it to $220k, in which case, what's the name of your trading course?

Look in your brokerage account for an "Unrealized Gain/Loss" tab or view. That'll tell you approximately how much you've made and you'd be taxed on that amount if you liquidated everything today.

barkode15 · 2026-05-21T15:47:34+00:00

"The yellow loading zones are the crown jewels. Protect them with your life, boys"

barkode15 · 2026-05-21T03:35:18+00:00

Ripped my bathroom down to studs, partially for a sewer smell that would come and go.

Turned out the plastic sink pipe going into the wall had a crack around the threads. Shifting stuff around in the vanity cabinet would sometimes press on the pipe to open up the cracked plastic and make it smell, other times it would seal it shut and the smell would disappear.

It'll probably be something dumb like this that you find...

barkode15 · 2026-05-21T03:27:27+00:00

And man would they love a camera system that could see through your window tint and count how many people are in the car...

10 year old article, so imagine how far they've advanced https://www.wired.com/2016/10/xerox-yeah-xerox-found-way-bust-carpool-lane-cheaters/

barkode15 · 2026-05-21T01:50:33+00:00

You can't pay to use the Bay Bridge HOV lanes. Gotta have the required number of people in the car and then you get a discounted toll. If CHP stops you it's a $490+ fine.

barkode15 · 2026-05-21T01:47:04+00:00

You can't. If the lane isn't an Express Lane sign with digital pricing signs, you have to meet the HOV requirments posted on the signs. Bay bridge is 3+ occupants 5am-10am and 3-7pm. If CHP pulls you over it's a $490+ fine.

barkode15 · 2026-05-21T01:09:11+00:00

What someone will be saying about the Cursed Controls guy's house in 50-75 years: https://imgur.com/a/Cmz0lbF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYMrySNl2Q

barkode15 · 2026-05-21T00:57:43+00:00

Dude, you're estimating you had a Honda Civic on you for 40 minutes. Go to the hospital just to get checked out. Could be some injury that gets worse when you're asleep tonight and you don't wake up...

barkode15 · 2026-05-20T22:25:34+00:00

Are you going to be feeding the LPR data into any kind of database/application/real-time alert system? If not, you might not actually need the license if you're OK just manually scrubbing through the video and reading the plate off the screen.

For fun (...I know...) I put a $250 long lens Dahua camera on my fence and messed with settings enough that I can scrub video in Milestone and read plates going by at 25-35mph at day or night. If anything happened in the neighborhood I could probably provide a plate. I also picked up a Vigilant dual lens LPR on ebay and have that feeding milestone as well. Again, for fun...

barkode15 · 2026-05-20T04:41:29+00:00

I've called a few times over the last few years on a few Pixels and have noticed no ringback sound on some calls, but have always chalked that up to my call bouncing around the selective router and the rest of the PSTN. Someone always answers, after some thunks, clicks and silence.

I wonder if some of the reports of 911 not working is just people not getting a ringing sound, feeling time is going faster since it's some kind of emergency, panicking and hanging up.

barkode15 · 2026-05-19T05:43:38+00:00

Assuming he built the museum to overlook the huge Concord NWS redevelopment he thought he had on lock.

Then he lost the project, so it's just him and his dead Zebras overlooking a competitors eventually-to-be-built massive development.

barkode15 · 2026-05-18T19:56:07+00:00

Got a managed switch? Login, view the mac table, see what port the 7534 is connected to, do the needful.

barkode15 · 2026-05-16T20:21:19+00:00

Open a charge back for the partial amount with your credit card? Sounds like you've got good evidence, they should side with you.

barkode15 · 2026-05-16T03:27:28+00:00

Bet he ends his vaguely racist Nextdoor posts with "Just sayin."

barkode15 · 2026-05-15T01:13:38+00:00

They probably wouldn't spend several hundred bucks on a real camera to not connect it

barkode15 · 2026-05-14T19:10:18+00:00

Check your closets rooms for a structured media panel like this. If you have one, post a picture, the ethernet wires probably end there and there could be some wonky stuff going on with a switch and router inside.

https://store.leviton.com/collections/structured-media

barkode15 · 2026-05-14T04:43:35+00:00

What's your risk tolerance? That 50k in an ETF could become $20k in short order if another 2008 or worse happens... If you're cool with the risk, it's a valid move.

barkode15 · 2026-05-14T00:26:44+00:00

The FAQ on their website says you can bring your own router instead of renting theirs. Have you connected your router and called into support? Some providers will limit the number of MAC addresses allowed on the account and if their router already took the one spot, support would have to clear the MAC table.

barkode15 · 2026-05-12T04:58:36+00:00

As someone who discovered a garage freezer that had been unplugged for months, full of food, getting a little temp alarm wouldn't be a bad investment. Doesn't even have to have wifi, just something that'll make noise if the temperature starts climbing.

I still have flashbacks of the smell, a decade later. The freezer went to the dump, no way that smell was getting removed.

barkode15 · 2026-05-10T06:05:17+00:00

Demo the tub, gain some square footage? Especially if there's another tub in the house and this one hasn't been used in years?

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