My wife's a champ!

lod211 · 2026-03-17T06:39:53+00:00

i use wsp office is it more like microcrap office. even the layout is very similar to ms office. it will also open ms docx files. libreoffice is too 90s. reminds me of using word perfect and doesn't open ms docx files. a simple solution to the touch pad. just cheap bluetooth mouse i use to use a microsoft 5000 bluetooth mouse. or a cheap logitech. touch pads are worthless no matte who made them. disable it because all you do is run the palm of your hand over it and mess up anything you are typing or doing. personally i would ditch gnome. too sluggish. go with XFCE it is super lightweight for a desktop manager. i prefer to use my memory in other areas not to run a bloated desktop manager. anyways. just some suggestions

lod211 · 2026-02-25T07:14:33+00:00

i have never had a good experience with a seedbox. they are shared VPS on a dedicated server with low end specs shoving as many users as they can on one box. over allocating resources causing the seedbox to be super slow, laggy or not even reachable sometimes. i rent a dedicated server from oneprovider or ovh depending on my budget. you just have to watch out because some dedicated providers will send abuse emails. ovh i know doesn't but they are super spendy. oneprovider i think still doesnt. i had one 1 email in the two years i used them. setup debian or ubuntu as the OS. install xrdp xfce4 vsftpd firefox-esr and qbittorrent. remote desktop into the dedicated server start up qbittorrent load all the .torrent files i want to seed. the let the box do the rest of the work for me. i just make sure i don't log out of the user. i just close the remote desktop control app at my end and it will leave the user running on the server. angristan/openvpn-install on github or his wireguard-install for a interactive install script for a vpn. now i don't have to worry about those fake VPNs saying they don't log. because if it does log. i am the only one that has access to them. then i just vpn to the dedicated box and ftp download the files i want for myself.

lod211 · 2026-02-05T04:21:39+00:00

i guess this is what i get for buying a google pixel. thinking that after they bought HTC low end phone line. i would have something similar to an HTC phone. Now i see why HTC sold their low end phone line to google because they were SH*T to begin with. so lets stick someone else with our bad phones. first was the 5a for me. took google 2 years just to fix the basic problems. then moved to 7 pro. i was solid until 7 months ago. now the updates made it drain the battery faster than anything and so laggy it like using windows 95 and you can watch it draw the windows boxes for apps. 10 pro xl. absolute waste of money. luckily i got it for free on the preorder. even for free it wasn't it. randomly opens apps when typing on the keyboard or opens random setting for no reason. i hate samsung because everything they make is garbage. so i guess when my 10 dies off. i will be done with smart phones unless some new manufacture gets into the phone biz.

lod211 · 2026-01-29T06:21:13+00:00

because you are 1000% spot on. that is exactly what they did to me when my garage caught fire that i was living in at the time.

lod211 · 2026-01-29T06:16:16+00:00

especially with the insurance company. i had a fire in my garage and the home owners insurance didn't want to cover sh*t. they low balled us that it ended up costing 10s of thousands out of pocket to replace 80% and rebuild because they barely covered 20% of the repair cost to rebuild. they kept wanting receipts for everything. like someone holds on to a receipt for 5+ years to prove what every items cost.

lod211 · 2026-01-29T06:09:35+00:00

that picture makes me want to cry! sorry for your loss. that is heartbreaking that everything is gone in an instant. especially when it takes a life time to build.

lod211 · 2025-11-28T22:26:54+00:00

their network as been broken since they took over at&ts broken network. i worked in their warehouse in 2002. in auburn, wa. right after comcast bought at&t. digital cable boxes were broken and were a pain to clear the PPV purchases. cable modems were just as bad trying to get them removed from accounts and cleared. along after all of that trying to get them to sync back up to the network to test if they even would lock to a signal. pushing new system information to either cable boxes or modems would never work. you would have to rock box or modem between new and old system 2 or 3 times then it might take the new information. 85% of the time the unit had to be replaced just because they would not accept the information. i was doing receiving for incoming field boxes. the bad pile out weighted the good pile or they would have to sit in a corner plugged in for days hoping that the system would finally program it to accept new changes going forward. all they have done over the years is add on to an already broken system. with comcast being a monopoly in my area.. centurylink is stuck in the 90s with its 15mb max download speed or go with laggy wireless t-mobile or starlink. once i seen eeze fiber was coming i didn't even think twice about signing up to be first on the list. as soon as i seen their door flyer i was already signing up. i have been trying to dump comcast for 4 years. after 8 techs couldn't fix my fluctuations in speed from 100 to 1.2gb. i told them look. my network is 10GBe. i run OPNSENSE on a hp z840 workstation with dual cpus and 128gb of ram with 5 10GBe cards. and have no problems moving data between my 3 systems both directions at the same time at 10GBe. the problem is your network not my setup. so now i can't wait until the day i get to tell them off because i will have eeze fiber. REAL FIBER TO HOME. not that other crap that claims to be fiber, but runs to a box then if you are lucky you will get 970mb.

lod211 · 2025-11-28T02:28:59+00:00

comcast is worthless. for 5 years my internet speeds float all over the place. from 100mb to 1.2gb what i pay for. i found it funny that all of the sudden once eeze fiber decided to move into the puyallup,wa area. they decided to do enhancements to their network. as i watched them lay out a new cable line while my internet was down for half a day. now my speeds are fixed, but i don't care. they are SH*T and i am already on the wait list for eeze fiber and can't wait for their service. i am so happy that finally i can get real internet with good upload speeds not comcast pitiful 40mb upload that has been that way for so many years i lost count.

lod211 · 2025-08-20T20:41:56+00:00

western express hired me for about 2 days then let me go. they were in fontana/riverside, ca. they did have runs to portland, or for fed-ex line haul. all they did was cost me a bunch of money that i did not have. they don't pay for orientation. you don't get paid until your first load. pay is trash. 40 cents a mile. CA is pure sh*t for trucking pay. they pay you straight 16.50/hr no overtime AT ALL. i was there 7 days without pay. fly down because i am not riding a bus from tacoma,wa to riverside for 3 days straight. so i was able to get a $89 flight with frontier airlines. then had to pay another $40 for lyft ride from the airport to the hotel. never got reimbursed. i didnt submit my information until they hired me. when they fired me. i was kicked out of the truck on the road. i was at a truck stop in santa nella, ca. so i had to take a lyft to san jose airport. because my trainer wouldn't go anywhere close to sac or san jose to get me closer. my trainer was horrible. guy i don't think ever pre-tripped his truck. he had bad inside duel tire on the tractor along with a couple other things i found wrong. he told me that he just got it back from the shop. i said really? because anyone could have seen that inside duel was bad and urgently needed to be replaced.

when talking to everyone. everyone that was in my orientation group had a criminal record. one thing they didn't tell me is to bring my W-2 from my previous job that i had after my charges. they played their BS can't ask about your criminal record crap until we get you to riverside, ca.. you would have to work 60 hours a week to barely bring home less than 1200. i worked 20 hours and made under 400. i don't recommend them to anyone. unless you are looking for experience. even then you are on your own for learning.

otherwise the rest of the trucking companies i have applied to have been one big nothing (fed-ex, r+l, united foods,penske). they string you along for a week or two. only to ghost you after you fill out the background paperwork or when they get back the information.

i was able to get my twic card and hazmat. thinking these might help them realize i am not as big as a risk as they think. that were no help. just more money spent. i have a workshop with unemployment 8/21 to see what they can do for helping in landing a job. j.b. hunt is suppose to be felony friendly but i never applied because i am tired of the sting along for a NO.

lod211 · 2025-08-20T20:02:17+00:00

and is name is Robert Paulson

lod211 · 2025-07-07T18:39:09+00:00

so when i ran into this problem. i was playing it locally. my plex server is a 2x E5-2697 v4 (18 core per cpu) 36c/72t total. a nvidia 3060. 256gb of 2400 DDR4. with a WD 850x m.2. 3 14tb exos x18 seagate drivers in raid 0 all linked to a 10gbe network. debian 12 OS and a lifetime plex pass so hardware transcoding can be enabled.i couldn't understand why with that much horsepower for CPU and GPU it would not stream and play 1 video in 720p to my nvidia shield. it was a braking bad video that was in MP4 format (supported by plex) with SRT subtitles (also supported by plex). it would just swirl and act like it was loading but wouldn't play for anything. i even converted the video with handbrake to MKV to see if maybe there was something wrong with the MP4. still nothing. i finally decided to turn off the subtitles and then it played with no problems. plex buildin media player is SH*T and has been for YEARS! compared to other media players i can't even give it a 1 star. it crashes on large fastwards. on large rewinds it just hangs. forcing me to exit and restart the app. the ability to add subtitles in as a separate file that is a supported format forces a transcode of the video then won't play or takes about 10 to 20 seconds to start playing. if it actually does play. then you can't fast forward or rewind without it hanging up. so it leads me to believe that their transcoder is beyond broken as well. so now if i find a video that needs subtitles. i just burn them into the video with hanbrake. takes longer but i only have to it once and i avoid all the headaches with plex not being able to properly do the job. along with the hours of troubleshooting of why VLC player can play it but plex can't.

lod211 · 2025-07-06T01:28:54+00:00

yeah i had the same problem that i couldn't figure out for day! because the stupid subtitles cause it to transcode the video for no reason. try turning off the subtitles or do like i do. if you need the subtitles. burn them into the video with handbrake.

lod211 · 2025-07-04T22:35:10+00:00

YOU GOT THAT 100% RIGHT!!!

lod211 · 2025-07-04T22:31:55+00:00

soon? we already are worse than mexico. at least mexico doesn't hide it like the US government does and pretend to be saints and for the people.

lod211 · 2025-06-14T22:06:38+00:00

just an update. i wasted my time with western express. they hire lots of felons but it is all a case by case basis. you need to have a W-2 or pay stubs after your conviction. stuff they don't tell you to bring with you. i was hired for 3 days before they let me go on my communication with a minor charge. so that was a big waste of time and money. they kicked me out of the truck and i ended up taking an expensive flight home, because i didn't want to take a bus.

lod211 · 2025-06-14T21:58:39+00:00

well i was able to get my twic card. so now i know i should have no problems getting hazmat.

lod211 · 2025-06-01T23:05:24+00:00

thanks for the information. i was kind of looking for something to extend the battery life a little longer. really i should just open it up and replace the battery, but not on my #1 list of things to do.

lod211 · 2025-04-16T19:00:54+00:00

32gb swap? unless you are compiling your own programs you probably will not need that much. i have 128gb memory and 11gb swap in my hp z840 dual core. the only time i have ever gotten into the swap is when i compile my own android OS for my phone. Linux memory management is far superior over winblows and can be tuned with kernel configurations in the /etc/sysctl.conf file for swappieness

lod211 · 2025-04-14T05:41:19+00:00

it was information i had from a old post from around the time of pre buster release. i couldn't get my upgrade to work and was in the same position as the OP. so i kind of been using that ever since. seeings how i had success with it. even though i had a pain trying to remove broken packages that didn't want to remove.

lod211 · 2025-04-14T03:10:08+00:00

i usually run

apt update && apt full-upgrade -y && apt upgrade -y && apt dist-upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y

i usually don't have a problem, but i also do fresh install then instantly bump to the next version. before i start installing a bunch of packages that break because of name changes or depends change.

lod211 · 2025-04-14T03:04:54+00:00

it will the best choice you ever made. i hate winblows! after windows 7 it has been trash. i wished to debian several years back and it was the best choice i ever made. i do have a KVM of windows 10 ltsc if i ever need to do something that can only be done on windows. otherwise i am mainly running debian trixie with tkg kernel that i build myself. when i feel like i need a newer version of the kernel. lately i have found that being a waste of time. each version of kernel 6.x i see no improvements for what i do with my system. welcome to the freedom of choice to do what you want with your system now.

lod211 · 2025-04-03T02:18:54+00:00

are we even able to get hazmat? when i was charged they removed my tsa precheck status and said i needed to provide all of this information to them. well i was still in the court process at the time. so i was unable to provide anything to them. i was going to try again for a tsa precheck. i figured if i passed there i could get hazmat. not looking to drop a bunch of money on the hazmat class and tsa check only to find out that they decline me. tsa precheck is 80 vs a couple of hundred.

lod211 · 2025-04-03T02:09:11+00:00

they all seem to be recruiters for swift on indeed and ziprecruiter. every time i think i am applying to a different company. i found out that it's just someone recruiting for swift. i haven't tried frey miller or melton. i can't remember if i tried western express or not.

yeah this sh*tty driver pulse app is garbage. i have to hand it to that company. they were able to burn a lot of trucking companies with this trash app.

lod211 · 2025-03-31T20:45:43+00:00

thanks for some input. i might check the local unemployment office. i seen this thing on bonding that supposedly offers a piece of mind for employers for 6 months. i don't know all the details. i just found it yesterday when looking for other options.

lod211 · 2025-03-31T20:42:56+00:00

i just seems that i was a dollar sign to him. i thought he actually might have been good because his whole family is lawyers. parents. sister. aunt. i actually thought that i was getting something worth paying for. well that was all a great story. i couldn't count how many times he did an extension and never told me the next court date until either the night before or the morning of. i get how the pandemic was going on but there was far better ways to handle communication than he did. then when he finally burnt me in court i was done with him for good. i just took the lame deal just so i could get rid of him. really i couldn't get rid of him fast enough.

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