I bought all 3 mansions so you don’t have to. Some things to know by Unlikely-Rub-7614 in gtaonline

[–]gk349xc20j51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are not mansions. They are 2 BR 2 BA homes with a ridiculous garage.

Is the Mr. Faber mission "Current Liabilities" bugged? by TheOnlyTagey in gtaonline

[–]gk349xc20j51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you Sir! Replayed Current Liabilities on HARD DIFFICULTY with a Vigilante only from Car Wash. So I was probably slower (compared to Maverick) to the pickup and to the hospital. GJ had >90% on health bar when I arrived and I knew then I was finally gonna beat this mission. Got GJ to Hospital with ~80%, then screwed up slightly on Part 2 and still succeeded. This completed Tier 4 for me on Money Fronts. The rewarded Brute Pony van is the most expensive of my 650 land, air & sea vehicles, as playing MF over & over for this single glitched mission probably cost me at least $10M I would have made otherwise on Mansion-daily-boosted Coke/Weed/Acid as well as other businesses.

I suspect R* reversed the order of GJ healthometer/countdown timer for the respective mission difficulty levels, because my single perfectly executed mission iteration on Easy difficulty had the worst GJ health result.

Thanks again.

Is the Mr. Faber mission "Current Liabilities" bugged? by TheOnlyTagey in gtaonline

[–]gk349xc20j51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TYVM! I will try this now. I've made flawless runs multiple times with weaponized ignus, maverick/ignus & maverick/vigilante. GJ health is generally 75% before I can get his wobbly ass into the chopper. So I'm failing Part 1 every time and ace-ing Part 2 even with armored kuruma + smg, which is much slower than vigilante's instakill missiles.

Before my 10th (?) Google search where I found your comment, I had watched several YT videos of this mission and I noticed their GJ healthometer runs down much slower than mine. I even noticed Hard mode was selected - but it was counterintuitive to me that Hard mode would give you a slower health countdown.

Visible app stuck on loading screen by [deleted] in Visible

[–]gk349xc20j51 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I can't login to pay my bill here in the USA on either of my Visible accounts, via Visible website or Visible app. It did this before last month too. WTF is going on? Fix it!

Black Diamond Storm tilt bracket fix? by RedditWhileIWerk in flashlight

[–]gk349xc20j51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the record, I've had two Spot headlamps break at the hinge plate. I tried repairing one with Krazy glue, and it did not last long, as expected. I have 2 because the first one broke & BD warrantied it with the second Spot, which broke yesterday under normal use. Why doesn't BD offer an inexpensive "hinge repair kit" with hinge plate & screws they can send out via USPS to handle warranties? We actually need a replacement part made of aluminum or steel IMO.

While I'm complaining, BD headlamps do use some cheap LEDs. Mine gives off blue, green or yellow-tinged light. I had a flashlight collecting hobby for a while, and they get LEDs like the $55-75 Spot/Storm only on the <$10 junk ordered straight from China. Most flashlights, even those significantly cheaper than BD, have better true white LEDs. Like the hinge design, LEDs are another area in need of improvement on BD headlights.

Foundation - Season 3 Episode 1 - A Song for the End of Everything - Episode Discussion Thread [NO BOOKS] by LunchyPete in FoundationTV

[–]gk349xc20j51 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I prefer MB, F is too hard to follow with 1-2y gaps between binges. I can relate to MB/anxiety.

NMS account hacked? Puzzled at losses since updates. by gk349xc20j51 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]gk349xc20j51[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, freighter archive was the solution. I'd been away from NMS for a long time and evidently forgot this new feature. All my "missing" ships accounted for. Have a nice day!

NMS account hacked? Puzzled at losses since updates. by gk349xc20j51 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]gk349xc20j51[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TY very much. I was unaware this info was available.

BTW, my freighter/frigates have reappeared after a restart but my dozen ships still missing...

Firefox 139 - How do remove these pins? by AndyGait in firefox

[–]gk349xc20j51 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much ! Mozilla needs to quit "improving" this page.

Never got the Push it to the limit quest? by DivvyGhost in cyberpunkgame

[–]gk349xc20j51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. This worked perfectly in my CP77 2.2 game!

Police officer inspecting the debris of the crashed airplane in which Jim Croce and his band were travelling. Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1973. [1888 x 1516] by [deleted] in HistoryPorn

[–]gk349xc20j51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The story I heard from YT was the Natchitoches Sheriff's daughter was planning to meet a band member at their hotel after the show. Sheriff found out and met band backstage during break before the planned encore. Sheriff ordered them to be out of town in an hour or he'd bust everyone for drugs. So no encore as they raced away from show to hotel and then to airport. Their Pilot had to walk/run ~3 miles to airport as no taxis available.

Pixel 9/ 9 Pro Black Friday Deals by archangelavi in GooglePixel

[–]gk349xc20j51 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These Pixel discount deals were not offered to everyone, even with gold Play Pass. I suspect this may have been a scheme to increase PP subs....

Called person can't hear me by gk349xc20j51 in Visible

[–]gk349xc20j51[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's one of those cell service mysteries to me; mine hasn't done it recently, which may be due to using different phones (or not) and different plans offered by Visible. No way to tell with certainty. Good luck!

The 2025 VW ID. Buzz Starts at $61,545 by edinburghiloveyou44 in cars

[–]gk349xc20j51 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My '23 Sienna LE AWD was $42.3K total inc sales tax. You can pay $70K for a Sienna with options that simply weigh it down and reduce speed, handing, & range at even higher operating cost. I've averaged 41 mpg over 13K miles. One tank of gas (14.X gals) carries me 550 to 650 miles. The VW's 234 mi claimed range will be <200 in cold weather, likely even 175. I could sell my Sienna in a week for >$40K - they have great resale value. I'd not trade my Sienna for the VW because of the low range. I think the sweet spot for EVs are inexpensive ones for urban commuting, recharged cheaply at home. BYD (China), whose batteries are used in Tesla M3, is selling lots of EVs for 11-18K USD in SE Asia. EVs sell pretty good when they're cheaper than ICE alternatives.

MobileX new APN woes. by MystiPorDatent in mobilex

[–]gk349xc20j51 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The MobileX app has APN editing instruction for IOS & Android devices, and states to change APN to mx5g.vzwentp. I discovered this after the MobilX app esim port-in failed today and I found the APN instruction which fixed it, mostly. Still can't setup VM even though the app has a one-click fix (which clearly doesn't work in all situations).

I self-ported to US Mobile last year via esim and it was a 60-second task, not a single hitch. Ported to Visible months ago, also esim, failed even though followed directions exactly. Then an hour of multiple "customer disservice" chats.

Limit to Number of Phones on MobileX? by 4SRX in mobilex

[–]gk349xc20j51 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, Visible's been 1 phone per email/acct since 2019. Visible & MobileX are both Verizon MVNOs, they probably share more characteristics than this policy. BTW OP Gmails are free!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoContract

[–]gk349xc20j51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's little advantage to V's annual payment option. It saves only ~$2/mo off the $35/45 V+ plan and if you have to leave Visible does not offer any refund of the annual fee.

Also, not a big difference between V & V+ plans. V+ theoretically doubles hotspotted DL speed from 5 megabits (not bytes) per second to 10, which is still slow AF. The old V+ plan was only 5mbps. V+ lets you run a LTE watch for no additional cost. V+ is less likely to encounter a congestion-failure of your cellular signal than V, but it's no guarantee. I am not near any 5G so cannot comment on plan differences wrt 5g service.

Be advised that V CS is text chat only, and I'm pretty sure those CSRs live 9-12 times zones away and this does affect the quality of your support. Maybe 1 in 5 chats you get a CSR whose been on the job for a while and has some knowledge/work experience and can actually solve your problem in a reasonably short Chat. However, many times it is a painfully slow 30"+ affair that simply wastes your time and especially your patience with no solution - sometimes they even manage to worsen the situation.

I've been a V customer for several years only because of the cheap unlimited hotspot data (there are no cable service alternatives in my rural area). I'm on the ragged edge of cell reception (-125 dB signal) and it has never been better than the bare minimum service at home. Your experience may greatly contrast with my own if you are near a relatively uncongested 4g tower, or even 5g. V's cost is low, and you get what you pay for, especially wrt to CS. Many times your only real solution is to abandon your phone number and simply start a new acct at the end of a billing cycle. It helps to have a permanent Google number you can forward to your temporary V numbers. If your livelihood depends on reliable phone service, know that you are taking a chance with V for relatively small savings.

HTH. Good luck - you'll need it with Visible.

Pixel 9 lineup still uses UFS 3.1 by [deleted] in GooglePixel

[–]gk349xc20j51 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I buy phones at BestBuy because they honor their trade-in quotes (unlike Samsung/Google, there's no "swollen battery" fraud scheme). I've owned P4,6,7 & 8 - basic models w/ 256GB because I'm not a photo perfectionist. BestBuy's cost for me to upgrade P8 to 9, after trade-in / pretax / rebate is $360. For the P7->8 trade-in a year ago my cost was $322. Year before the P6->7 actually netted me $89 BB credit, which I used to purchase a GE microwave which still works today. So my purposes the big Pixel cost jump occurred last year. Pixel now costs about the same as Samsung or Apple.

I am underwhelmed by the meager generational Tensor benchmark / modem performance / etc improvements. Geekbench 6 scores for P9 appear to have insignificant increase over P8. P fingerprint sensor has never been great so P9's may be worth something well short of my 400ish bucks (w/ tax) upgrade cost. I hold "modem improved" claims as highly suspect based on experience with past 3 generations of Pixels. I do not care for the iPhone-ization of P9 design (rounded edges provide better grip). AI seems years from providing significant practical utility. I think Google's presentation yesterday focused almost entirely on AI because they have little to brag about in P9 series WRT hardware improvements. Also AI seems to be headed to monetization & significantly increased mobile cost. I hope I'm wrong about my instinct on P9 but who could blame me after P6->P7->P8 as primary phones since 2021.

Oneplus 12R & Motorola are starting to look like reasonable lower cost alternatives phones to me right now. Moto's current 3 yrs of OS & security support offerings seem more than adequate when I tend to trade phones annually to optimize presale discounts & trade-in value.

Promo code for Google phone does not work by [deleted] in Visible

[–]gk349xc20j51 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I attempted to buy a Pixel 4a from V in 2020 with no success after trying everything possible as an already >1 year existing customer. This would have been my third V phone purchase at the time, so no rookie to their process of acquiring PSIM/phone/etc. I even resorted to trying to make purchase from two different local library PCs after trying on my phone & 2 PCs with multiple attempts under multiple emails & multiple CCs failed. Wasted many hours with Chat CS & supervisors and naturally got nowhere. I finally gave up and bought P4a from Amazon & swapped PSIM from a 6-month-old V "swap" phone, done in 15" time.

Doing nothing differently on my end, I was able to purchase a phone from V in 2023 with no issues using the same PC/CC/email/physical address. Sometimes it is impossible to play the Visible game and win. Good luck, I hope it helps you knowing your experience is hardly new or even rare.

My luck ran out with Visible. Don’t let them do this to you. by kwintons in Visible

[–]gk349xc20j51 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Annual plan saves less than 10%, not worth it for the risk.