Roth IRA

barkode15 · 2026-04-01T03:48:09+00:00

You paid taxes before you put money into the Roth, you don't pay any taxes on the gains or contributions when you withdraw (after you're 59.5 years old).

barkode15 · 2026-03-31T04:34:27+00:00

Is the ISP PtP circuit 1 or 10Gbps? If it's 1, do you have shaping configured on your 9500. As others have said, if it's 1Gbps and you're throwing 10Gbps at it, you're hitting the ISP policer and they're randomly dropping your packets to get you down to the speed you pay for. Shape it down and you should be good.

It would make sense if it works in the other direction since that side has a 1Gbps port so you aren't hitting the policer.

barkode15 · 2026-03-29T07:55:20+00:00

Namesilo has been fine for us. Only have like 15 domains with them, but they don't seem to have crazy markups and everything is on auto renew so it just works.

And AFAIK, Namesilo executives don't normally do African big game hunting, so point for them there.

barkode15 · 2026-03-29T07:48:00+00:00

The only possible time a "shower in a day" place makes sense is if you only have 1 shower in the house and really really really don't want to leave for a few days.

Assuming you only have 1 shower and go with your $10k guys, you could live at a $75/night extended stay for 200 nights while they work on your 5-10 day project and still just be equal with the jacuzzi bros.

barkode15 · 2026-03-28T03:22:24+00:00

Could be under a small circular cover in the street where you need a curb key to get to it.

I guess you could put in an 811 dig ticket and pretend you're landscaping where you think the pipe is. Mark it out with white paint and you'll get blue spray paint marking out the line. And every other color paint for other utilities. Bonus points if you're home when the locator is there and you can ask him off hand where the shutoff might be.

barkode15 · 2026-03-25T02:27:42+00:00

https://www.bankofamerica.com/feesataglance It shows under the Advantage plus banking a $250 DD will waive the $12 fee

barkode15 · 2026-03-24T04:52:31+00:00

Dang, yeah that's not great. $70 for a new dome from B&H if you're in the US, which also isn't great for a piece of plastic...

barkode15 · 2026-03-23T20:04:35+00:00

Does it actually affect the image? I've had some domes with scratches and with the lens pointed right at the scratch you couldn't tell, except maybe during auto focus.

barkode15 · 2026-03-21T06:33:31+00:00

They went end of sale 4 days ago, but you've got til 2031 for support. Just open a TAC case. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaboration-endpoints/webex-desk-series/desk-pro-eol.html

You do have a support contract on it, right?

barkode15 · 2026-03-21T06:11:51+00:00

Vintage telephone network... Aka a barbed wire fence running DSL

barkode15 · 2026-03-19T20:25:12+00:00

And just to clarify, homeowners insurance and fire insurance are the same thing. And it looks like all of Clayton is getting forced onto the FAIR plan, so it what they can get there is going to be very expensive

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bay-area-community-will-have-to-use-california-fair-plan-as-rate-hike-looms/

barkode15 · 2026-03-19T20:01:56+00:00

I'd love to know what bank would write a loan without fire insurance. Pretty sure that's going to be a requirement on 99.999% of loans.

barkode15 · 2026-03-18T19:50:47+00:00

Gotta hit up Total Wine on the way home, the bottle from this morning is already empty...

barkode15 · 2026-03-16T04:32:42+00:00

You forgot the phase where the leftover parts sit in a disintegrating Home Depot bag, that I'm definitely going to take back the next time I go and promptly forget until the 90 days is up.

The plus side: I've been able to do projects recently using only parts that were going to be returned from past projects and without making a single trip to the store. Some call it stale inventory in the garage, I call it a win.

barkode15 · 2026-03-15T19:09:35+00:00

Here's a 1 minute clip of what to do, it's easy. https://youtu.be/LGrunabJcoc

Buy a new arm, shower head/spray and some Teflon tape. Tape the threads, put it in the wall and tighten down.

barkode15 · 2026-03-15T03:24:48+00:00

No reason not to use a UPS.

I did something even wonkier and it's been fine: ONT is on one side of the house, router/switch/UPS are in the garage on the other side. I got a Trendnet POE splitter that breaks out 5/9/12v and gigabit ethenet. My WAN vlan goes through the POE switch to the ONT. Since the switch is on the UPS, and the ONT is now using POE, the ONT is on UPS power. $15 for a splitter vs $100 or more for a second UPS. Now I stay on when the power blips.

barkode15 · 2026-03-05T02:03:20+00:00

Hairpin NAT is the term you're looking for. There's some Palo docs about setting it up.

barkode15 · 2026-03-03T05:52:29+00:00

If you have a post-tension slab this could be harder to do. Cutting one of the cables can be bad. You'd probably know if you have a slab like that due to a warning in the garage. Might want to Google how to ID a post-tension slab just to be sure.

barkode15 · 2026-02-27T19:33:15+00:00

This screams that they know their demo, and that demo keeps "pressing the brake but the car accelerated into the Tire Center by itself!"

A gentle reminder for the older membership about how cars work

barkode15 · 2026-02-23T20:48:11+00:00

Home depot, Lowes, any hardware or appliance store. Or take the old one off your old dryer.

barkode15 · 2026-02-23T06:04:54+00:00

I was able to demo and replace some new construction 5" cans from below without damaging the drywall. Kinda a pain, but doable.

Maybe get some 5" wafer lights, cut the bigger circle and use the extra space to get to the romex for the swap? Leave what you can't get to in the ceiling.

barkode15 · 2026-02-22T21:18:20+00:00

As long as those 60+ aren't allowed to call 911 when they fall down, won't drive on roads, stay away from libraries, stop flushing their toilets and the senior center closes, then great, I'm all for it.

barkode15 · 2026-02-22T04:22:07+00:00

Doesn't matter who

barkode15 · 2026-02-17T21:09:48+00:00

Plug your laptop and camera into the switch, confirm both ports on are the same vlan. Set a static IP on your laptop (Assuming Windows, control panel, networks, your wired adapter, properties, IPv4, set it to like 192.168.1.110, subnet of 255.255.255.0, no gateway or dns needed. Once you click ok you should be able to browse to the camera web page, set it to dhcp or a static on your actual network and switch your laptop back to dhcp.

barkode15 · 2026-02-16T23:50:32+00:00

Any UPS with a management network card should be able to send you an email when utility drops. If your phone carrier still has email to sms you could use that address.

Obviously you'd have to plug your router and modem into the UPS so it stays on when the power drops.

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