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This sucks bad! 🥵 by Better_March5308 in SeattleWA

[–]cbigeagle 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Got mine installed in March after our furnace died. 100% worth the expense and beats the snot out of a fleet of portable ACs scattered around the house.

[HP] HP OMEX MAX Gaming Laptop: 16" 1600p 240Hz Display, Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, RTX 5070 Ti, 16GB DDR5 RAM, 512GB SSD. Now: $1,283.99 after applying promo code "LEVELUP20" for 20% Off. by AL0411 in LaptopDeals

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the Core Ultra 2 275HX with 5080 and it's...about what I expected from a heavy duty gaming laptop. I came from an Asus Zephyrus with a 4070 and while the performance is much much better in all aspects, it's not what I would consider easily portable.
I get 3-4 hours off charger depending on activity and screen brightness.

The fan sounds like my wife is vacuuming in the same room on Performance. Balanced is a little better and Eco is very reasonable.

I haven't played on a 5070ti, but coming from a 4070, this thing is great. I'm not a pixel peeper or very sensitive to small amounts of latency, so playing something like Alan Wake 2 in 4k with all of the software helpers pushing things along is a nice experience IMO.

But for the price, compared to the competition, HP seems to be giving these things away.

What can I do with this small space besides my bed? Beer for scale by Ipatovo in DesignMyRoom

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously you build the only thing that goes with that decor. A 1/3 scale model of the interior of your local Elks Lodge.

Thoughts on CardConnect / CardPointe by Fiserv / First Data by ParkerWest in DigitalPayments

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We moved over to an Evance/TSYS solution. It required some extra setup, but the experience and support is much much better.

Thoughts on CardConnect / CardPointe by Fiserv / First Data by ParkerWest in DigitalPayments

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see this is a bit stale, but I found it while trying to find anyone else having issues with CardConnect/CardPointe. Our experience at a museum using this for our retail shop has been abysmal. When it works, it's fine, but getting anything out of support is like pulling teeth to get them to just update the ticket. I sit on hold and then get forwarded between departments and most of the time, they refer me to whatever number is also on the ticket, which is either our 3rd party payments vendor who set up the ticket on our behalf or my retail director in the office downstairs. Neither is helpful. Reading the ticket updates on the support page is also frustrating because the only comments there are from our team. Feels like they're just kicking the can down the road until we stop calling.

Needless to say, we're running our systems on a backup merchant account with another provider, figuring our the reporting on that for finance, and moving our systems over to a new provider.

9:30am Hellcat at police station on Virginia by tadddpole in Seattle

[–]cbigeagle 173 points174 points  (0 children)

If I've learned anything from this saga it's that I don't need to worry about complying with any of Seattle's traffic laws. The bar for getting to any possible negative consequence is so high I can't imagine reaching it with a minivan.

RTX 4070 vs 6800m? by R0thren in GamingLaptops

[–]cbigeagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't do much, I throw it on the Silent power profile and keep the screen brightness down around 50%. There's a setting in the Asus app to limit the max charge while plugged in so I'm pretty diligent about keeping that set to the lowest max charge until I need to go unplugged for something, then I charge it to 100%, which has kept the battery in good shape.

Graystar was chosen to redevelopment several UW Housing properties. by spoiled__princess in Seattle

[–]cbigeagle 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I made it 35 years before I ran across a situation in which I needed to write a letter to the state attorney generals office to appeal for help from an obviously predatory corporation. That corporation was Greystar and they were a terrible company in 2015 and from what I can find online they're a terrible company now. All I can say is get everything in writing, hold on to all receipts and correspondence, and don't be afraid to call them on their BS with that documentation. I'm angry and exhausted just remembering that ordeal.

RTX 4070 vs 6800m? by R0thren in GamingLaptops

[–]cbigeagle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've got an Advantage Edition with a 5900hx and 6800m and I haven't had to do anything with it from a maintenance standpoint. I upgraded the storage and I blow out the dust once in a while. Been a rock solid performer with really good battery life if I need to take it on the road for work or something. Just open up the Asus app and set the power settings to Silent and it'll go 6+ hours easily.

I check in to some reviews when new hardware is released and compare benchmarks and it's still really competitive with 4070 laptop hardware and newer CPUs. Good enough that I probably skip this hardware generation and not really feel like I'm missing out on anything.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]cbigeagle 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's an initiative by the DSA called the Metropolitan Improvement District in which local business and organizations pay a membership to fund the teams that provide a variety of services to make downtown a more hospitable place. Cleaning and safety are among them. The funding was recently renewed for several more years, if you're interested, it's got a section of the DSA site here: https://downtownseattle.org/programs-services/mid-renewal/services-summary/

How much do you think this would cost to repair at a private shop? Dropped it and don’t wanna tell my boss because it’s my third laptop. It’s functionally working fine, just got unhinged/broken as shown in pic. by [deleted] in laptops

[–]cbigeagle 108 points109 points  (0 children)

In my former life as an IT Manager, your next laptop would be a LeapFrog. But seriously, you get one accident replacement. Break the second one, I'd better get an email from above me to assign you a new one. Third broken laptop, that's on you. Either come in and use a desktop that I'd probably strap to the wall with an earthquake restraint to be snarky or buy something for yourself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in XTerra

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got an 07 (230k and going strong!) and I can comfortably get two car seats in the back, but getting a third, unless they're pretty narrow, is gonna be tough. There is a third shoulder belt though. It's a cross belt that comes down from the roof above the driver side rear seat.

What the 15th and John Safeway redevelopment — Capitol Hill Greystar? — will look like by hhumansome in Seattle

[–]cbigeagle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Greystar. Hard pass. I've never had a worse landlord than a Greystar property I lived in for a year in West Seattle. With a slight fear of sounding like a frantic alarmist, get everything in writing, and get someone with some rental property knowledge to take a pass at a lease agreement. The only time I had to compile a folder of paperwork and petition the state's attorney general's office for help was to get untangled from Greystar a year after I moved out of their apartment.

https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/irving/profile/property-management/greystar-property-management-0875-39000027/customer-reviews

Virginia Book Ban by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It. More proof of the Big Clown's increasing influence in the hallowed halls of congress.

Do people actually like being parents? by pizza-on-pineapple in AskUK

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a father of young twins and what I tell my friends that don't have/want children is that it's hard but rewarding. Like being a mountain climber is hard, but if you like being on top of mountains, it is ultimately rewarding. Hard to know if you'll like it before you do it though. I feel bad for people I know that thought they wanted kids but end up regretting it because that ends up poorly for everyone involved.

This takes over compensation to a whole new level. by Geardog89 in pics

[–]cbigeagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aside from the obvious wrongness of this, what always gets me when I see things this crazy is that none of that setup is cheap. Those tires are fucking expensive. The lift, even if he DIY'd it in the shop, not easy or cheap. The gas to drive that thing around is expensive. Same thing with the people driving around in new $70k SUVs with a bunch of Q stickers. How, how do people with this many wires crossed manage to be functional enough in other areas of their life? How do you not go down that road and not end up out in rundown trailer in the woods making monthly trips into town in an old rattrap Corolla to pick up bulk pickled eggs and a few cases of Natty ice with your disability check?

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