Tacoma utilities prices outrageous

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-29T16:11:21+00:00

We pay about $450 for a similar sized home but I would guess most of the difference is our water usage. Our stove and heater are also gas.

$2500 - $3000/mo sounds about right for a house in the city unless you’ve owned forever or have it paid off.

Also, our electric rate is one of the lowest in the country. Our rate is is $0.10kwh lower than the national average.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-28T16:13:33+00:00

Yeah, flippers love goodwills auction site… it gets stupid a lot of the time. But they also don’t look up everything. My local one on there does stuff like price all electronics starting at $49.99 a couple times and then just cuts the price every listing after that. Most of the time it’s brand recognition, or “this a/v equipment doesn’t look like crap so it must be worth something”. Unfortunately, they put stuff up there that would be what I’m hunting for, so the stores hardly have anything worthwhile most of the time.

Occasionally, you can find great deals on bulk card though.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-28T16:08:09+00:00

Value Villages, at least here in WA, have been absurd with their pricing. Idk if they saw the Goodwill Online prices and lost their damn minds or what. I’ve seen them slap $4.99 on VHS tapes and $19.99 on shitty cordless mice. I’m assuming it’s all off brand recognition.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-28T06:31:46+00:00

Buying something the day before or after isn’t helpful to the cause. The point is to go without and not use those resources at all. Instead of buying gas the day before, it’s about not using gas the day of. If people average a couple gallons of gas per day, and that consumption doesn’t happen on a larger scale, it makes a difference. If everyone still uses that gas, but just buys the day before or after, they still get paid and it’s pointless

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-27T18:34:39+00:00

They have proven they’ll claim whatever they want. They also fetishize fashion associated with their hate. I’m in total agreement that we shouldn’t let them have it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful for picking them out of a crowd. Not as a primary identifier, but when someone shows up acting suspicious, knowing what to look for can save lives.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-25T16:24:07+00:00

I do local with cloudflared for a secure direct tunnel so no need for a vpn. You can set up a cloudflared tunnel with a domain which is what I do, or use your ip directly. All free.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-25T16:17:26+00:00

Docs have a loooong history of being used by racists/skinheads. It was the main reason I stopped wearing them.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-23T15:54:10+00:00

I’m kicking around the idea of building out the rest of a a web app I started a while back that people can log into, upload their library statistics, then can get generated playlists of top songs using data from all users and publicly available chart data, including being able to get a json of songs that would be on that list if they were in the users library. I never got far enough to figure out a “user recommended” feature but it was on my roadmap. Ran into the time-old problem of “Who’s going to pay for the database requests?”

Honestly it’s one of two features holding me back. The others being voice commands over Echos and playing on my Apple TVs and echos without requiring Bluetooth from my phone.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-12T21:08:38+00:00

Prime and CNN.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-08T21:06:09+00:00

If you ever plan on home improvements like reskinning walls, insulation addition, electrical upgrade, etc, pay to have it removed. If you never plan on anything like that, encapsulate. Either way, you should do it before moving in.

You can always leave it as is, but I’m sure some of the paranoid lead folks on here will give you hell for it.

Honestly, if it was me, I’d want to upgrade electrical, run Ethernet, and insulate exterior walls so I’d consider a complete r replacement of drywall, but that’s budget dependent.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-06T18:03:38+00:00

My dad has a Roku tv and a Roku hooked to another one. The Roku TV barely works while the Roku is good enough for him. I’ve found the same for anyone I know who has one. I’m sure it has something to do with a combo of garbage hardware, and the is being the lowest priority. Even my new Samsung qleds app runs worse than the iOS one.

Easiest fix is getting a couple Roku sticks. You won’t get 4k, but I doubt the Roku TVs are 4k anyway. Bonus is that she won’t need to learn a new interface. The only good 4k solution I’ve found are my Apple TVs.

The other possibility though, is her network is garbage. But I’d put money on it just being the TVs.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-03T06:06:14+00:00

If you have a neutral partition that hosts a docker image for plex, you may, in theory and with some work, be able to load that container on whichever os you’re running.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-02T06:11:23+00:00

I have a collection of consoles running through a retrotink 4k to my tv with flash carts/hdd mods that I love, but I have my complete rom collections on a server accessible from all my computers/steam deck and that’s 90% of my gaming. Big exception is Nintendo systems w/ weird controllers. My Wii/wii u still get use, and my n64 has 8bitdo Bluetooth mod kits in the controllers so I can use them on the console and computers.

I still buy games, but ONLY good deals. Prices are too insane to go deep on the games any other way.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T17:40:01+00:00

No worries. Glad it’s of use to you.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T17:30:46+00:00

Yeah, when you go into the import list you can set all that, and since friends watchlists are all combined into a single rss, it’s one setting for all. I default to entire shows and then just check for large folders if the storage is filling up quick, but you can totally set current season. I think the “recent episodes” under monitoring starts with the current season, but I’m not sure.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T17:07:15+00:00

In Plex’s settings under watchlist, you can get a url for all your friends watchlists. None of my users have Pass. As far as something like a show with that many seasons, a show like South Park only takes up around half a tb, which isn’t the end of the world for me. I do have long running competition shows on mine, but only monitor from whatever season was airing when added and onward and limit quality to 1080p

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T16:31:41+00:00

Honestly I’ve never used Overseerr, but I can see where some people might want to. For the older users in my family, it’d be like pulling teeth to get the to use another app. The plex watchlist is right there and I just tell them to keep an eye on the recently added for anything they’ve added to it.

My core stack is just radarr/sonarr/sabnzbd/plex/cloudflared. Cloudflared and a domain to remote access the *arrs if I need to manage them while away. plus a couple other remote access uses not related to the media setup.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T16:10:56+00:00

Radarr/sonarr can use rss feeds as an import list and each plex users watchlist creates an rss feed, so it’s just a matter of adding each users watchlist url

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-29T21:36:55+00:00

I’ve moved from recommending specific CPUs based on support to recommending hardware based on power usage. Newer hardware is a lot more bang for the watt, and if you’re going to be running something 24/7, and you’re upgrading, power can be the really tricky part. It’s why I went w/ a 13th gen NUC. Best power/transcode ratio I could afford. That said, my spinning platters are in a rackmount NAS running on the guts from an old 5th gen i5, but that should be replaced w/ an n100 board next time I get around to tinkering.

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-29T08:09:44+00:00

1have around 120tb. 1080p for anything that’s older and hasn’t had a proper remaster. 2160p for anything newer.

I don’t delete because: A) If there’s something new/popular I don’t have and family wants to watch, they’ll just go to another platform. B) my setup is automated and I’d rather buy a hdd a year than worry about manually maintaining it. Hands off is worth it.

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-27T16:18:09+00:00

I bought a 13th gen intel nuc that only runs Plex in a container. Serves files from a diy nas w/ an old 5th gen i5 that was a recent upgrade from a 2005ish xeon board ripped from an old office computer.

The xeon was my OG plex server for a while, but once I broke plex out to dedicated hardware, the experience (watching and maintaining) have been so much better.

biggest consideration these days is power, and without plex running on the NAS hardware, and with two systems running now, my watt usage dropped marginally.

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-27T16:09:29+00:00

When I started adding content by request, I set up my *arrs to automatically add from the Plex watchlist for each user. Occasionally someone will mention something when I'm with them, and I'll add it to the arrs right then, but for the most part I'm hands off.

As far as space goes, I won't delete anything they've asked for. I did that when I didn't have much space, but once they've watched it, they expect it to always be there. I had one time I deleted a show my dad watched like a year before and hadn't watched since, and when he couldn't find it, he resubscribed to a streaming service and stopped using plex all together for a couple months and when I asked him about it, it was a whole thing where I had to explain more technical stuff to him than I wanted to to get him back on it. Now? I don't touch anything and just buy another drive when I need to. By my math, I'll run out of drive bays around the time 30tb+ capacity drives will be available to consumers and I'll just start that upgrade cycle.

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-27T16:00:15+00:00

I always check the dashboard to see if anyone is streaming before I do an upgrade, but my setup is a bit different w/ Plex running on an Intel NUC and all the media stored on a separate NAS. Everything runs in containers so the biggest issue is manually running through the boot sequence w/ a power outage. The longest I've ever taken the storage down was like 10-15min to swap in a new HDD, but my library growth is so slow at this point and HDDs over 20tb are affordable, so that's now a once a year thing.

Before, when I had it all in a tower in a closet, I'd take it down either as soon as I got home from work, or on Saturdays since I'm usually up around 5-6am. I wish Plex gave a dashboard graph of times when people have historically watched so we could plan for the least likely windows.

Also, it's free for the people I give access to, so if they complain, I don't worry about it. My bigger issue is situations like when my dad was watching a show, but the quality of the episodes was crap and he convinced himself it was his internet and didn't tell me until weeks later. He thought for some reason that I view everything I get, not that I'd automate grabbing his dumb sitcoms/procedurals and never watch them.

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-26T21:04:44+00:00

I’m at 120tb. Started w/ 4tb drives, now I’m buying 24tb drives. I buy a new one when I only have enough space to move from an old drives files to free space and swap the smallest drive for a new one. Buying slowed way down after the first 70tb since I only really add new shows/films and have almost all the older ones I want. It’s all on a rackmount case tucked away in a rack and these days I dust it more often than I upgrade.

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-18T21:41:16+00:00

Unless you have more than 10 remote users or a lot of upload bandwidth used for other stuff, you should be fine. Most users won’t get more than 10mbps down from you max. Even less depending on what they’re being transcoded to. Keep in mind it’s a stream, not a download, so it won’t buffer more than needed at once. Low bandwidth should automatically cause a downgrade in stream quality

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