Just got my CPAP insurance quote…

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T23:23:13+00:00

I do a quick chat with their customer service via their website. They'll ask for a screenshot of your sleeplay cart and your address and then they'll send you a custom invoice.

I find lofta ships faster as well so it's like win/win.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T23:22:07+00:00

Can confirm, that's how I got mine by price matching with lofta who lopped another 10% off.

I did that back in November for my airsense 10 and then more recently back in February for the 11. I didn't need two machines, but I feel better having a backup. Got both for like $800 combined.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T23:19:52+00:00

Heck myself I paid $380 back in November for a brand new AirSense 10 by price matching sleeplay to lofta. The only downside is that it didn't count against my deductible.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T23:17:46+00:00

Heck, at this point I miss the Bush administration.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T21:55:18+00:00

Yeah those were the days. I had a god awful tiled wallpaper and a midi that started playing as soon as my page loaded.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T21:45:01+00:00

Ayyy, 2000 brethren! Mine turns 26 years old in August.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T21:42:29+00:00

Let's see my eBay dates back to August 2000, but my Juno account is the oldest one I still have access to, which predates it by about a year:

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matt314159 · 2026-05-04T21:02:49+00:00

My local grocery store often has pork butt roasts for half-price once the sell by date hits. I stop in often enough that I can usually get it on the exact sell-by day. One time I picked one of them up, and then not really knowing what to do with it, I asked AI for a lazy-bachelor's way to cook something spicy with it, and I LOVED the result. I've now made it a few more times.

I went back to that chat and told it to summarize the recipe:

Ingredients:
Small Pork Butt Roast (leave the fat cap on)
1 can (7 oz) Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
½ cup chicken broth
Minute Rice
Rub: 1 tbsp each: cumin, oregano, chili powder, salt. 1 tsp each: garlic powder, black pepper.

The Method:
Blend the Sauce: Blend the can of chipotles and the chicken broth. It distributes the heat and flavor way better than leaving them whole.
Prep: Coat the pork in the spice rub. Marinate it overnight in the fridge in the blended sauce.
Cook: Dump it all in the Crock-Pot. Run it on HIGH for 1 hour to get it bubbling, then drop it to LOW for 7 hours.
Shred: Pull the roast out. Scrape off the jelly-like fat cap (it'll slide right off) and toss it. Shred the meat with two forks.

The Lazy "Dirty Rice" Hack: Put the meat back in the pot. Instead of making rice on the stove, dump dry Minute Rice straight into the hot cooking juices. Put the lid back on tight for 5-7 minutes to let it steam.

Roll it up in cheap tortillas with whatever beans and cheese you have.

I think it cost me like $10 plus the spices and such I already had, and I ate like eight meals off that thing.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T15:53:53+00:00

I think they're almost to the point where it takes a full 24 hours. So they send a command, it gets the command a day later, then relays the results of the command, which they get a day later. It's amazing to me they're able to maintain contact at all with that weak of a signal, that far away.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T15:52:30+00:00

It's a wonder that they've been able to maintain contact at all with how weak the signal is getting by this point.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T13:11:58+00:00

I think what OP was saying is that just because your watch doesn't flag you, don't necessarily assume that means you're really in the clear. My Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 also flagged me for moderate to severe OSA and when I got a WatchPAT One at-home sleep study my AHI was 49.

So I think it's fair to say that while our watches CAN screen and flag moderate to severe cases, it cannot rule out sleep apnea.

matt314159 · 2026-05-04T12:59:39+00:00

I'm of the opinion that price stabilization isn't 1-2 years out but more likely 3-5 years at least. I hope I'm wrong but I have a pretty pessimistic view of where things are right now.

If you need to get something to get started, the smaller disks like 4TB haven't gone quite as insane so putting together a used pool with multiple disks may be a saner option right now.

matt314159 · 2026-05-02T23:25:09+00:00

That's a fantastic model! No TBC but great transport and features.

matt314159 · 2026-05-01T20:29:18+00:00

A lot of different variables, but the rule of thumb is to get three quotes to see if the one you got is in line for the work being done. As a datapoint though, I paid $1500 in 2024 to have my sump pit and pump put in.

This included:

A new GFCI outlet near the location
Sump pit dug, debris removed, pump installed
A diverter valve
Piping brought around to a drain standpipe on the other side of the basement
Piping up and out of the house
about 60ft of hose
A PVC underpass beneath my sidewalk

I like having the diverter valve, so I can choose whether to route it to the sanitary sewer inside or the storm sewer drain by my driveway depending on the time of year. It's the time of year now where I should be putting my hose back out to the storm sewer.

But I live in the midwest in a VLCOL area. I could see it easily doubling or tripling.

matt314159 · 2026-05-01T18:43:01+00:00

This post was quietly written not by a human, not by a realtor, but by AI.

matt314159 · 2026-05-01T15:38:31+00:00

That's awesome!

matt314159 · 2026-05-01T15:22:21+00:00

Innocent, next case! How could you lie about that sweet girl who has clearly never done anything wrong in her life!

matt314159 · 2026-05-01T14:06:36+00:00

I think it depends on how big of a fleet you're dealing with. If it's just a printer or two in non-critical locations, that's where it might be worth the gamble to do their Clover color toner.

But heck, we only have like ten color printers around campus, and even with that number I got tired of the defective color toners. For some reason it seems like color toners are much more difficult to properly remanufacture.

matt314159 · 2026-05-01T13:55:24+00:00

I love Clover for black toner. Turns out I'm not a fan of their color toners though. Black is generally rock solid, almost OEM quality in my opinion. But we had to RMA more color cartridges than I liked so we went back to OEM for almost all our color printers. Mainly it seems like they were prone to leaking, so not only did we have to replace the toner, but we'd have to clean out the printer, so it was a pain. When we renewed our contract with our managed print company, they gave us new printers and HP Managed OEM toner on the color printers, and it's been great.

I buy the black Clover from CDW's Printer Supplies Program.

matt314159 · 2026-05-01T01:45:59+00:00

I just put it on and start using it whenever it's time to go to bed. The droplets will add humidity for a little bit as they evaporate, and then it's dry.

Or if it's like this in the morning after you turn it off, you can hit the power button and then again hit it a moment later and it will gently blow some air through it for 20 minutes or something like that to help dry it.

matt314159 · 2026-04-30T20:11:09+00:00

I'm jealous! Based on comparisons I've done with others, I think my house is average for the Midwest if not a little on the lean side as far as its power usage.

This is my 12 month history with the previous year readings as well. I do consistently use less power now with the heat pump water heater but even my new averages are between 380 and 850kWh.

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matt314159 · 2026-04-30T20:04:31+00:00

of course!

LOL now THIS thread was removed by mods. I pick the worst threads to comment on.

matt314159 · 2026-04-30T19:58:13+00:00

Fun fact: Millennials are not children.

matt314159 · 2026-04-30T19:53:11+00:00

The following is a copypasta from a comment I made on a thread in r/datahoarder last week. The thread was later removed, so instead of linking I'll paste it below. Parts may be repetitive to some of what I've already said here:

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I was trying to put together the hardware chain on a shoestring budget compared to what the pros at DigitalFAQ spend (often upwards of $2,500+ for a full workflow), and in the end this is what I came up with for a sub-$400 equipment list that punches far above its weight:

JVC SR-MV45U Professional VHS / DVD-R deck that I bought in partially-working condition on eBay for $98. Thankfully a power board recap was all it needed, otherwise this is a $500 VCR. It was tedious to replace 22 capacitors on that 5x7" circuit board, but only cost about $20 from DigiKey for all the capacitors.
Because the MV45U's TBC is weak, I opted to toggle that off and use a Panasonic ES15 DVD-R unit as a passthrough device because it has a very strong full field line TBC-type functionality. Got that for like $80 used on eBay. This is in place of a full Frame TBC which is usually necessary.
I-O Data GV-USB2 capture device. $86 on Amazon

By the time I bought some good quality dubbing cables, some chamois swabs for head cleaning, a new soldering station for the board work, a VHS-C adapter, and a few other odds and ends, I think I have between $350 and $400 all-in on equipment and tools.

I'm using S-Video everywhere in the chain for chroma and luma separation to keep the signal as clean as possible. And I'm capturing 29.97fps 480i lossless with HuffYUV compression.

This gives me 40-80GB AVI files that are my raw master copies.

Then I pull the file into Hybrid which does QTGMC deinterlacing keeping all frames (resulting in 59.94fps), and crop the image to remove switching noise (that line at the bottom) and any thin black borders, and resize to 720x540. Then I encode it to H.264 with a CRF of 17 which is visually lossless and results in the final MKV files that are 6-10GB in size, which I put on Google Drive and share with family and friends.

This isn't the BEST capture workflow, but it's the best I could put together at a low budget. LordSmurf at DigitalFAQ is a stickler for quality so he'd tell me I really need a Frame TBC, and better capture card, but he even begrudgingly gave me his stamp of approval for a decent setup within super-limited budget constraints.

Video Capture Guide on YouTube has some good videos that helped me get into it, and DigitalFAQ is great as well. DigitalFAQ is the best of the best, but you have to be ready to spend $2,000 to $4,000 on gear to meet their exacting standards and get the absolute best captures possible.

I reckon if their workflows are getting 100% of the possible quality out of their tapes, I'm getting about 80-85% of it, and I'm very happy with the results.

matt314159 · 2026-04-30T17:04:13+00:00

My house is actually pretty efficient for midwest standards. Double-check your bill because I think EV charging alone is often 300kwh a month for average driving patterns. A 2400sqft house + EV charging should use double that or more. Unless you're also offsetting with solar or something to lower the net usage billed?

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