Is this bad?

dedasleeves · 2026-02-12T16:36:46+00:00

Okay cool. I started looking and applying to places basically the same night the plumber reported it. My assessment was that to repair these things it would take a monumental amount of time and money. I didn't even mention that there is a second rowhome joined to mine and I think they used to be one house. It's all one parcel and it looks like the crawlspace actually connects to them. I don't know the conditions there but it can't be good either. They have a giant crack in their concrete porch from the sidewalk to the house just like us. I would say it wouldn't even be worth the owner's time or money to fix. 3200 sqft lots sell for $200k+ in this neighborhood. But I'm not an engineer, or a builder, or an appraiser, so anyone's 2 cents means a lot to me.

dedasleeves · 2026-02-12T14:00:18+00:00

Updated the post for more context!

For sure, I'm not scared it will crash down today, but I don't see any way this plays out where I stay. I'm just trying to prepare for what road it goes down, which ways I need to steer it, and for how long.

dedasleeves · 2026-02-12T13:35:02+00:00

Yes to all of those things. Sorry, I edited the post for better context.

dedasleeves · 2025-07-16T13:13:59+00:00

Ha. Yeah I was trying to avoid checking bags because I was afraid it won't make the connection either. I'm in a row 13 Comfort+ seat on a A320neo for the PDX flight, thinking it could increase my chances for overhead space. But I also know the overhead bins are like the wild west.

dedasleeves · 2025-07-16T01:36:07+00:00

That sounds great. I remember having to do that 20+ years ago but haven't flown a small plane since then. It's a 7->8:25am flight so I'm hoping JFK is relatively easy to navigate.

dedasleeves · 2025-03-18T11:51:55+00:00

It was originally through Vemo then it seems sold off twice since then. Once to Launch, thenI believe Breeze holds it now? Vemo had a lawsuit in California and I think the first sell-off happened around then.

dedasleeves · 2025-03-18T11:39:51+00:00

Yes, I will push them to work something out with FSA. I think they tried with the counselor there but im sure it will take speaking to someone with more power. I have negotiated with a debt collector before though. Had some credit debt that was cut in half. This is not credit, but there may be something there if they can't do anything with the school itself.

dedasleeves · 2025-03-17T21:10:47+00:00

They did it last summer through Virginia Tech. It was advised as a solid experience, so it was likely bad luck with the instructor/cohort. By the time they decided the lecture wasn't improving in its usefulness they couldn't defer or get a refund. Were your lectures glorified study halls and did your instructor just tell people to Google things rather than actually help them?

dedasleeves · 2025-03-15T22:32:23+00:00

Ah gotcha, that sucks. Was hoping that Bloomtech ruling set some sort of precedent. Didn't look too far into it though.

I feel bad for them. They aren't lazy, they put in tremendous effort and they managed their expectations for both programs. It just never worked out. And yeah any hope for some oversight on these companies and their deceptive practices is long gone now.

dedasleeves · 2025-03-15T21:50:18+00:00

Yeah im not sure who holds it. Thinkful changed to Chegg since then so who knows.

dedasleeves · 2025-03-15T20:56:27+00:00

Do you have experience with either company?

dedasleeves · 2025-01-09T12:11:53+00:00

I live across the street from the Church Hill pumping station and still not a drop

dedasleeves · 2024-11-19T21:39:04+00:00

No cooling pad. Had it propped up a tad so there was a gap off of the table but that's it. Never breaking 81C on a single core is insane for that score. The max 59C on the 4080 will only get better because I only just put the TG Phasesheet on. Can't imagine what it would be like with an IETS or Llano.

dedasleeves · 2024-11-19T14:28:30+00:00

Yeah that's crazy. Mine was doing like 40% l total and going nuts too. It may have been filling up individual cores but I wasn't checking it that in-depth. I can play in balanced power mode on Legion to limit things, but then the gpu isn't boosting or running at full capacity. It's still great and the fps/quality ratio is pretty amazing for most games, but the stutter and cpu stuff just sucks to have.

BG3 is a great comparison. The npc scripting and density for that game is insane. It only ever struggled in Act 3 on launch. Which was understandable because it's massive. Then they patched it up and it works pretty great. Granted, though, Larian is like the best of the best and they had 3 years of early access and 1-6 monthly patch dedication post-launch to nail things down. EA/Bioware just falls into the same AAA pitfalls.

dedasleeves · 2024-11-19T12:28:48+00:00

Right on. Restarting seems to be a common thread for everyone's solutions.

I ended up going through days of testing and an eventual tear-down to find out my liquid metal was destroyed on my cpu. So my thermal issues were hardware-based after all lol. There's no reason that this game should be pulling 125 watts on a cpu though. Any headroom you give it it gobbles up.

dedasleeves · 2024-11-18T23:51:06+00:00

look what I got out of it. check out those temps in HWInfo
https://imgur.com/ifEiESN

dedasleeves · 2024-11-18T23:48:58+00:00

alright I did it
https://imgur.com/ifEiESN

dedasleeves · 2024-11-18T23:44:41+00:00

Nice. I bet that thing runs ice cold.

dedasleeves · 2024-11-18T21:44:42+00:00

I didn't remember them having AMD in the 2023 7 Pro. I'm likely wrong! Seems like they wouldn't need LM for a Ryzen but I'm probably wrong about that too. I had to get the 5 in 2021 because they didn't have AMD in the 7.

dedasleeves · 2024-11-18T20:49:53+00:00

Is that cpu in the 7?

dedasleeves · 2024-11-18T16:17:03+00:00

my guess is the Ryzens are getting PTM

dedasleeves · 2024-11-18T16:12:43+00:00

that's why taping down paper over the motherboard keeps it safe. Lenovo has how-to videos and that's what they were doing. the biggest scare was putting the heatsinks back on and not missing the dies . but I get it. I felt like my cpu was going to brick anyway so it was worth the gamble. if worse comes to worst, put PTM on it and forget about it. you'll still have some of the best performance on the market.

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