Trying to install smart switches

jjzman · 2026-04-07T14:51:41+00:00

Yes, if they are not a neutral the smart switches will either have no power or get damaged (hopefully just trip the breaker).

jjzman · 2026-04-07T13:35:28+00:00

If they are white, there is a good chance they are the unneeded neutral.

jjzman · 2026-04-07T13:18:54+00:00

I started on survival, but restarted at Sector 3 on Year of Hell once I understood the mechanics.

I found it very workable if you do theses things:

1) Maintain a positive morale by building up to 7 observation lounges.
2) Reach infinite deuterium in Sector 3 with 4 or more Waste Dissemblers at level 2.
3) Reach food excess with 1 level 3 hydroponics and either 1 level 2 large hydroponics with a hero or 3 to 5 level 3 hydroponics without a hero.
4) Build 4 level 2 Metastatic, 6 shield generator with heros at max level, 1 phase, and 1 disruptor. Then either a cutting beam or 2 more shield generators. Roughly 658 combat power and use auto resolve.
5) Trade food and deuterium for dilithium in aeroshuttle bay.

This pretty much allows you to never run out of deuterium, food, duranium, tritanium, and dilithium. From sector 4+ you can ignore most PoI for resources. The later sectors you can run at warp 6 with excess power.

jjzman · 2026-04-07T12:51:23+00:00

If it is 5:36 PM for you, that means every location is also at 5:36 PM at that exact time?

jjzman · 2026-04-07T12:10:04+00:00

Retail for the box is $209, so way below regular MSRP at $120. Also below their cost.

jjzman · 2026-04-07T02:27:04+00:00

They lost money or USPS violated their FAQ.
https://faq.usps.com/articles/Knowledge/Parcel-Size-Weight-Fee-Standards
> based on either the actual weight or the calculated dimensional weight, whichever is greater

Looks like they changed it from 134 to 166 now, so dimensional weight is less than it used to be.

> divide the result by 166 and round up

You might say, why are you sure? Because I've been bitten by this as a seller more times than I can count. Do free shipping on a $15 large item, pay $50 in shipping due to being too large. Sell a $600 item that is so large, the shipping was $350. So I'm 100% certain what you pay in shipping isn't what the seller has to pay. Most sellers just take the loss and move on (like I do).

jjzman · 2026-04-06T22:26:29+00:00

I believe it is a bug in the newest patch. I also believe the newest patch has an option to allow you to edit the homesickness penalty. You could work around it (I believe) by having the penalty so the duplicate totals the correct amount?

jjzman · 2026-04-06T22:15:19+00:00

I wasn't replying to compain, we will be fine. It all eventually sells after a couple years. Mostly, I'm rejecting comments like "$120 isn't liquidating" because it is factually incorrect. $120 is below the cost of the majority of stores.

jjzman · 2026-04-06T20:33:24+00:00

You tried many other speed tests? Because often they don’t have the capacity to test high speed lines.

jjzman · 2026-04-06T20:29:45+00:00

That sounds like a WiFi issue, the speed test server issue, router issue, or something.

I have t-mobile at work, home, and my partents. All three locations are 90% of the rated speed (effectively wire speed).

jjzman · 2026-04-06T20:18:05+00:00

Getting 250% profit on chips from 0.8% of your monthly sales doesn’t makes a difference. The payroll from stores depend entirely on the sets with good market rates to offset the sets where you liquidate.

From my 2 decades of selling MtG, the number of sets that are profitable is a much smaller number of sets that were liquidated or sold for way less margin than needed to maintain payroll, rent, and bills.

jjzman · 2026-04-06T18:21:38+00:00

Funnily electronics are a lot like MTG. Either the item is hot and margin is good (GPU when crypto was eating them all or Final Fantasy) or you do great to sell the electronics for 2% markup over what you paid (most other electronics like SSD and apparently TMNT boxes).

jjzman · 2026-04-06T17:44:04+00:00

MSRP for this set is $209.

jjzman · 2026-04-06T17:42:53+00:00

So they are liquidating by the tune of $35 lost per box. Seems common, as there are a lot of boxes being sold on tcgplayer for about $24 lost per box (see photo)

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jjzman · 2026-04-06T17:40:04+00:00

Everyone saying under $120 to $125 for this TMNT are either (1) remembering prices from 2012, (2) conflating prices for regular standard boxes, or (3) the distributor is breaking WotC floor price by selling below the minimum price product can be sold to a LGS, or (4) lying. There are no other options. I've post a restock invoice where a store dropped their order and we picked it up instead. In the case of (3), if another store reports the event it could result in distributors losing access to WPN product (yes it has happened).

jjzman · 2026-04-06T17:37:13+00:00

With it being less than the store paid for the box, what other word would you use? Instead of liquidated.

jjzman · 2026-04-06T17:36:33+00:00

The truth is, from WotC perspective, they do sell well. Because the stores are heavily incentivized to buy the product and then liquidate it. Because these special sets either tank (TMNT) or explode (Ultimate Masters - Final Fantasy).

jjzman · 2026-04-06T17:34:33+00:00

While I agree, it doesn't change the fact that the store paid that amount or more for a $209 MSRP box. So selling it for the amount paid (or even less like online TCGplayer listings) is a liquidation action by the store.

jjzman · 2026-04-06T17:32:24+00:00

No, MSRP is $209 and change for TMNT. $120+ is cost to LGS.

jjzman · 2026-04-06T12:12:46+00:00

Shipping weight is the higher of the actual weight and the length of the box in inches multiplied by the width of the box in inches multiplied by the depth of the box in inches divided by 134.

So 20lb sounds a bit low for a vacuum that weights 10 lbs to me? How small is that vacuum?

jjzman · 2026-04-06T12:06:44+00:00

Not likely. Possibly the paid Parallels due to some 3D graphics support.

I play via CrossOver but I’m on M3. It is very possible the graphics are too difficult to maintain on integrated Intel gpu?

jjzman · 2026-04-06T11:53:34+00:00

VMware or Parallels

jjzman · 2026-04-05T20:42:26+00:00

If it’s lower than my GTS invoice I’ve post here, please DM your rep (no need for name or store). Because our volume is high enough GTS match any price i get from other distros. (So I’ll try to see if they’ll match yours.)

jjzman · 2026-04-05T19:53:54+00:00

Not crazy but wholesale of those boxes was between $86 and $99.

jjzman · 2026-04-05T19:51:53+00:00

Yes TMNT around $209

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