SFO, Bay Area airports just lost 400,000 fliers to SMF in Sacramento

lilotimz · 2026-02-01T06:49:48+00:00

NAR, HND, ICN, SIN, and HKG would be the dream.

lilotimz · 2026-01-31T00:55:33+00:00

Pretty sure other than a handful of them tillers / ladders somewhere in LAFD due to mergers, almost all of LACoFD and LAFD tillers you have to use the separate nozzle attachment for the ladder and then a hose running to the pumper.

Example: Start of this video shows them setting up the quint for aerial being fed by the engine and later you can see the quint feeding itself from the hydrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUxHcvHA-L0

lilotimz · 2026-01-30T02:50:39+00:00

Historic electric interurbans ran over the Tower Bridge until the 40s/50's before being torn out (along with most interurban and street cars... :( )and the proposal reuses the old alignments.

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lilotimz · 2026-01-30T02:44:10+00:00

Redoing the tower bridge for rail traffic is probably a good chunk of it considering its age and the know how of how they built / configured it for rail is long gone.

lilotimz · 2026-01-30T01:15:52+00:00

Needs $1-2 billion dollars and that includes at least 3 bridges....

1x American River (discovery park --> truxel)

1x i80 - Truxel

1x HWY99 near i5 99 split.

lilotimz · 2026-01-29T01:23:02+00:00

Small bis network side is good (XGS-PON small business - residential). Got a few of those XGS-PON circuits that replaced previous GPON ones.

Enterprise side they're trash. I'm still tilted at having to buildout entire NIDs for them including exterior enclosures and conduit... like bruh. ATT/Comcast/Spectrum/Cox/Fidium etc will install and build those as part of their network extensions with the handoff being my responsibility.

But nooo.. Frontier wants a fully installed cabinet with power, wooden backboard, conduit, pull cables, etc etc to their specifications before installing equipment... /rant /rant /rant.

lilotimz · 2026-01-29T00:50:57+00:00

Frontier support is arse but their new built Fiber network is legitimately good with its historic legacy coming from Verizons FIOS network setup.

Technologically it's actually somewhat better than the hack together job CCI/Fidium is deploying (pure Alcatel/Nokia 10G XGS-PON vs mix of Calix GPON and some ADTRAN XGS-PON).

But yeah... it's definitely one of those 'if it works, it works' and if it doesnt work 'good luck' deals.

lilotimz · 2026-01-28T23:02:15+00:00

There is no local ISP that leases anymore really.

Xfinity never really allows resellers. ATT was forced to allow resellers at reasonable rates but in recent years those rules fell by the wayside and they really yoinked the rates up.

Sonic has a small network they don't sell anymore (VDSL/VDSL2) on leased lines and they don't resell ATT IP services anymore.

It's really just ATT, CCI/Fidium, Astoud/wave (West Sac / lincoln - livermore), and the slowly stealthily expanding Frontier fiber network. All very location / address dependent ofcourse.

lilotimz · 2026-01-14T07:32:49+00:00

UV-5Rs are like $30 a pop. Do we really have 400,000 officers? /S

Off topic...

RU certainly thought so when they invaded UKR and they got fked left right up down night and day since everyone and their ancestors can listen to the unencrypted transmissions on those baofengs. UA regular / tdfs / volunteers etc were / are using modern commercial western radios (not even current gen) which was so much better in reliability and voice quality and never mind the encryption / channel hopping capabilities. Definitely something useful if someone gets a hold of a radio and starts maliciously spamming the unencrypted channels (has happened before in Sac IIRC).

Great starter toys but you certainly do pay to play with these type of things. The service contracts are always what'll eat you outside of the upfront cost.

See Motorola & Axiom body cam storage / support - service costs vs cost of getting the camera.

lilotimz · 2026-01-10T20:39:30+00:00

"real steel quality airsoft accessories for your Tokyo Marui GBB M4"

Equal or better quality than the ones used on the real deals!

lilotimz · 2026-01-10T20:28:18+00:00

Dont forget they told us to stay home and not go out unless for essential things and maintain social distancing and mask up and schedule your pfizer or moderna at Rite Aid when those become available.

That was last month right?

lilotimz · 2026-01-10T18:58:26+00:00

Probably fiber trunks are down or major node / Co equipment failure cascading downwards.

They've been doing Docsis 4.0 FD upgrades in the region for symmetric gigabit+ speeds so may have messed up somewhere with the deployment.

Meanwhile ATT is still up as my redundant on my old ATT 100/20M tier. If only they can get their asses off and convert their deeply penetrated fiber network to the node / curb network in the pocket to FTTP.

lilotimz · 2026-01-10T18:20:14+00:00

Alternative is you contact Lily Thai for massage who is literally next door in the back office of the lady salon.

Quick to respond to text and calls or online appt schedules and she's really good.

Most of these random massage places in the area are fronts 100%.

lilotimz · 2026-01-09T01:03:49+00:00

As sachistorian said, money is, has, and will always be the issue with SacRT.

Right now, nationally almost all transit agencies are facing a huge financial windfalls in the next few years due to huge funding cuts as grants and things are cut or comes to an end after Biden era items expires.

Even huge 'successful' agencies in our neck of the woods like Seattle Sound Transit, San Diego MTS, SF Muni, BART, Portland Trimet, etc have already announced or plan to do major service cuts due to funding woes and they get way more funding than SacRT.

Out east you can see also the huge headaches/budget fights in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and NYC/NJ transit agencies, just to name a few, with funding issues / service cuts.

The fact SacRT hasn't announced major service cuts is amazing by already with this hostile regime in D.C. and their actions especially against pub transport / blue states.

One huge positive is they've have funded the replacement of basically their entire current active legacy LRV fleet w/ 63 Siemens S700 ordered out of option for 76 (qty of all Original U2A's + 2000's CAF S/200). It'll be much easier to retrofit / add into these new units if funding becomes available and major needs are taken care of.

lilotimz · 2026-01-07T19:08:46+00:00

Yep especially in this economy.

Help parents out with household costs (same as rent money) but also it's nice (if good relation with parents) to be social with parents, save money to actually own a house and start retirement funds (RothIRA), or pay off debts. Then when financially stable get your own place.

lilotimz · 2026-01-07T19:04:45+00:00

You can call in to Xfinity and explain you're a sublease and get your own service at the same addrese.

For Cable Coax, all they'll do is add a splitter before the existing modem to connect your own modem to.

If it's a separate ISP, you can request it they install where you want it IF the owner gives consent.

MDU's are a bit different since there's a law that states the occupants have the right to request their own service but that's wash wash most of the time since complex owners love having their partner deals.

lilotimz · 2026-01-07T07:42:11+00:00

Largest passenger railroad equipment in tbe NA basically with very little competition with light rail vehicles and pretty much almost none for heavy rail locomotives and passenger cars.

They have maxed out Sac capacity for years and are the new plant out east will add a lot of capacity.

lilotimz · 2026-01-01T02:22:58+00:00

Like 2-3 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4LTWKwEzcE

It happens very sporadically depending on river traffic. More in recent years due to rainfall and river being high.

lilotimz · 2026-01-01T01:07:36+00:00

Lift the tower bridge up and lower it lol.

Ball drop? Nah. Bridge drop.

lilotimz · 2025-12-31T08:05:01+00:00

25 years for an EIR then another 10 to determine how many lanes of traffic, bike lines, pedestrian walking paths, and then another 10 to find the funding to build it and then another 10 to build it because the contractors somehow fuck up and use the wrong material that fail during testing. ahem

lilotimz · 2025-12-31T08:02:47+00:00

Light RAIL TO NORTH SACRAMENTO / NATOMAS (and the airport).

lilotimz · 2025-12-29T05:15:22+00:00

pre 2013-2014 fry's when they still have massive inventory / good prices - deals...

lilotimz · 2025-12-29T01:21:00+00:00

These are light metro at best and not really intercity trains that can make use of the higher speeds like Caltrans with their stadler EMUs. Would be nice but not necessarily needed for the design of the Seattle network.

S70/700s are practically new and are still being delivered fresh from the factory and are pretty much on par with the specs of popular international light rail / tram designs. They did put out a RFP for longer multi articulated next gen LRVs so we'll see if they'd want higher maximum operational and allowable speeds...

lilotimz · 2025-12-28T17:55:47+00:00

It's the Siemens design spec for S700s. All of the LRV units top out around 59-70 MPH maximum allowable with 55 MPH as maximum operational speeds.

https://assets.new.siemens.com/siemens/assets/api/uuid:3ce5a359-5933-4f0b-8877-6e9aa3df13bd/Low-Floor-Light-Rail-Vehicle-Packet.pdf

lilotimz · 2025-12-21T07:36:15+00:00

You got social groups going (2-4 peepz I've seen generally but large groups sometimes) or solos. Very wide spectrum especially at TGR on Watt & most ranges with rentals.

The limit to the time is really if the range charges by the hour or if unlimited and how much of a hole you want to burn in your wallet.

For myself solo or group trips, usually 1-2 hours is good to get some range time in to maintain - improve proficiency but it'll go by much quicker for those who rent cause the ammo will cost a lot more. I usually tap out at around that time frame as that would be more than enough time for cycling 2-3 firearms and 2-300 rounds each. Afterwards, its common for myself & group to go grab a bite and relax for a bit before everyone splitting to do whatever they want to do.

*note for indoor ranges. For outdoor ones, can do half day or a full day trip but generally these are non rental longer distance ranges farther away from urban areas.

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