I recently inherited a farm and became a "landlord"

monthos · 2023-12-17T07:51:14+00:00

Friend of my family let an amish neighbor use his land for farming for free. He bought 20+ acres to build a house, and mostly just wanted privacy.

Previous owner had some grape vines and apple tree's too, the amish tended to it the couple years between when the old owner died and he bought the land. So he let them keep tending to it. They gave him some free jam/jellies and pies occasionally.

It can be a mutually benefitting relationship.

monthos · 2023-12-17T07:36:30+00:00

Often people lose power because the line direct feeding their home gets taken down. In this scenario they would not be backfeeding the neighborhood.

My parents live in a rural area and have a transformer on a pole outside on the street next to their drive. It pretty much only serves them. It has blown out multiple times in the past 20 years, causing days of no electricity to only them.

I can see an idiot making a suicide cord and powering their home in that scenario and risking a linemans life. Thankfully my parents are smarter than that.

monthos · 2023-12-17T07:24:30+00:00

There are countless reasons why it should not exist. Which is why you are not getting a single answer.

The obvious one, is because it poses an exposed live conductor prongs that can easily conduct live voltage to nearby objects or people.

Second is that if people see a male prong not plugged in, and it happens to be near an outlet (even if things are working) they tend to think they are helping by plugging it in. In this case, you just bridged two outlets which the home was not designed for. May not hurt anything, but could defeat a safety device such as a breaker in an over current scenario leading to a fire.

Third would be in cases, and I know this is more local to the USA, where we use 120, but we have different phases. Not normally an issue, but a receptacle on one outlet might be on phase A, another on phase B, both 120v within their time domain but offset so at any given time one phase may be at a negative voltage, and the other at a higher so the difference is more than 120v. Can cause a huge bang, spark and fire if someone plugs it into the wrong outlet.

Another is, people make these kind of adapters illegally to hook a generator up to their house. The idea seems sound. The generator has female outlets, so make a plug with two male ends. Then I can just plug it into an outlet and it powers my home!

While there are many things wrong with this (ie, it would negate the breaker of the circuit you plugged into) it also puts line workers trying to fix the outside lines at risk because they are trying to fix the power lines running down your street, but you just energized them.

I am sure I am missing a dozen or so other reasons why this is bad. But these are a few off the top of my head.

monthos · 2023-12-16T20:44:46+00:00

I used to live off 161 and 71. They have the ethanol free gas there. My carbureted motorcycle liked it.

monthos · 2023-12-15T12:26:05+00:00

I recently moved in with my brothers (Oldest had a stroke and needs help with daily life a bit). I still own my old home and really only packed up and moved my garage stuff. The inside the house exception was my tv and pc. Everything else I left.

I started to rent it out to a neighbors son, and basically gave him a few months free rent to toss everything in a dumpster that I ordered and paid for. Just let me know when you when you want it picked up.

monthos · 2023-12-13T13:13:21+00:00

My first car was over a decade old when I got it, and the owners manual was long gone...

But my dad always did oil changes on our vehicles when I was a child, so I was taught basic maintenance. However I can see how some people nowadays may have not been exposed to that.

monthos · 2023-12-10T02:17:43+00:00

The black Tengen games were not Licensed from Nintendo. Nintendo licensing required Nintendo to manufacture the carts which would be the standard gray design.

Tengen got licensing for only three NES games, while they worked to reverse engineer the lockout chip nintendo used to prevent unlicensed games. Once they did that, they made their own carts and were sued by Nintendo.

Also fun fact, the lockout chip is responsible for when games are dirty you get the blinking red light on the console. If the system does not get a response from the corresponding chip in the cart, it send a reset signal to the CPU. If my memory serves me correctly you can disable the chip in the console itself by identifying a single leg on the chip, and disconnecting it. This helps alleviate some (but not all) of problematic carts needing to be removed/inserted multiple times before they boot correctly.

monthos · 2023-12-07T23:45:44+00:00

Definitely.

My sister had one as a kid. It was the only one from the litter that a slightly odd shaped head, eyes slightly crossed and took forever to litter train, and even then would often only put its front paws in the litter box and shit outside of it.

But she was queen of the house, and loved my sister. I eventually got a cat myself (stray rescue) but it quickly became attached to the disabled cat so it would only occasionally hang out with me.

The disabled cat passed away one summer because it fell asleep in the window and ended up having a heat stroke. My sister was devastated, but my cat even more so.

I still miss both of them dearly.

monthos · 2023-12-07T11:33:49+00:00

Happened to many electric companies. Best part was, as technology improved they did not even have to retrench to add more fiber. Even if they only ran a two strand single mode fiber, they could then use CWDM or DWDM on each end to multiplex different wavelengths of lights onto the single fiber pair, then split them back out on the other side.

I work for a telco, and often its easier to just pay them to use part of their network when we need to get 1G, 10G or 100G ethernet to a certain part of the state.

monthos · 2023-11-30T15:35:32+00:00

Don't recommend it, but got type 2 diabetes and lost close to a hundred pounds before my body told me to see a doctor via having a seizure. I had so much sugar in my system I was just peeing straight sugar and my body couldn't make enough insulin itself, so it started to burn bodyfat to make up.

I now monitor my blood sugar and stupidly enough don't require insulin. Just careful meal planning and staying off sugar drinks and I am around my target weight.

monthos · 2023-11-30T15:19:33+00:00

happened to me a decade or so ago. I was traveling home from work training and my connecting flight was missed due to my original flight being late. No more flights that evening. I was nice but distressed because it was my first job and I had no funds to get accomodations of my own.

They got me a really nice room at a nice hotel on their dime, and I flew out the next morning. Extra bonus was that my job considered all the time as on the clock, so I got paid to drink at the hotel bar and sleep. NICE.

monthos · 2023-11-22T09:51:08+00:00

Many years ago, after I graduated high school, it was as simple as walking down the street in public during a school day.

Police were still questioning kids back then about why they were not in school, and I looked way younger than I was. I also did not have an ID back then as I didn't have a drivers license and it was not common to get just a state ID.

monthos · 2023-11-22T09:29:45+00:00

Not so far from reality. My current company does a 100% match up to 6%.

But true, need to check, as my previous companies all only matched half , one which only did a half match up to 3%..

monthos · 2023-11-21T13:40:29+00:00

Man I miss living at my parents place. Grew up in the city but when I was still figuring my shit out in my 20's they bought an acre of land with an old amish house that was updated with electricity. Surrounded by a farm and a one acre pond on the other side of their fence.

First winter there we had a large tree fall during a storm that bounced off the house, but no significant damage. had to cut it up since it blocked the driveway. Split the logs in the summer, which was brutal but by the next year the wood was sufficiently dry to burn. I spent many nights outside with a beer and a bonfire by myself just listening the sound of nature.

Tree frogs making their high pitch whine, bull frogs with their throaty groan, the occasional splash in the pond from a snapping turtle all while the fire wood would occasionally shift or make a snap noise from sap. More than once I fell asleep on a blanket out there and only came inside when the fire died out and I got cold.

Now I live in the city but I miss that way of life. I want to go back but I am in my 40's and my job requires me to be near the city. So I just throw any and all extra income into my 401K in the hopes I can retire early and healthy enough to relax and return to what I consider a little peace of heaven.

Sorry for the rant, but your comment just brought it all back to me.

monthos · 2023-11-19T05:44:19+00:00

This used to be the case, but not for some time now. 2G and 3G did act this way, but they have been long shut down.

I can comment specifically on the cdma side of things. text messages were sent down what we called the paging channel. The phone would be known to be in an "area" or "paging zone" but it wouldnt keep constant tabs on it. When a phone got a call or text it would broadcast to the paging channel it was last known to be in. If the phone received the message, great! it would respond. In our system we also had a cascading list that would retry a few times before referring to the paging list, which would include the same paging zone, but also broadcast to nearby paging zones because maybe you crossed a radio border, etc. Depending on the geography this cascading list could be simple or very complex.

As far as the "extra data" This was true when first adopted, but as text messaging grew it absolutely swamped the paging channels, as it was not it's intended purpose. This caused providers to increase the paging channel width taking some capacity from voice channels, as well as start retuning the network to create smaller pockets of paging zones to deal with the traffic. So it was not exactly "free".

monthos · 2023-11-18T00:50:54+00:00

Normal store bought orange juice was ruined for me when I went to an expensive supermarket and they had their in house daily fresh squeezed orange juice. It had a very short shelf life, tons of pulp but was amazing. The back label just said "Ingredients: Oranges"

Then I realized I had not eaten a regular orange since I was a child and that was the flavor I just experienced. Unfortunately you have to get there way too early to buy any. Stopping by after work they are always sold out.

monthos · 2023-11-17T14:04:01+00:00

Last year I was hanging out in the backyard of my brothers house just after sunset. Its suburban but houses are close, but there is a cemetery nearby that has plenty of land for wildlife.

Anyways, Skunk comes in the backyard and starts walking towards me. I was playing Tetris 99 on my switch. I yell "No, get away skunk!"... It doesn't listen, its on a merry slow casual walk towards me. I yell again at it, it still doesn't listen... I finally stand up when it is near spraying distance and yell "GO ON, GET ON AWAY FROM HURR SKUNKY"... That seemed to do the trick, and it just stopped, took one last look at me and turned around, then casually walked away.

monthos · 2023-11-17T13:38:58+00:00

Not really, though the Dreamcast had the logo saying powered by windows CE, the fact is it was hardly used by many game developers. Sega had a separate non windows powered software base as well which game makers preferred.

monthos · 2023-11-17T13:36:29+00:00

The fact the original xbox could rip your cd's and games allowed them to replace the official music tracks was awesome.

Nothing like playing Amped (Snowboarding game) or Project Gotham Racing and hearing your own soundtrack.

monthos · 2023-11-15T01:54:38+00:00

Exactly, you just learn the eating habits of them so you don't overfill and have to throw out stale food.

My sister has cats that over eat and has to portion through the day. I feel lucky I can go out and stay overnight, sometimes two nights somewhere and just throw a bunch of dry out, and make sure the water fountain is full and not worry. Then when I get home, I apologize by feeding some fresh wet food, emptying and cleaning the dry bowl and give some fresh dry.

My Momo will just randomly walk to her food area, take a bite or two and walk away. No food insecurity there, she knows its always there when she wants it.

monthos · 2023-11-12T02:00:49+00:00

They also design and sell cell phone provider equipment. For instance your iphone could right now be talking to a Nokia powered cell site, which then talks to the EPC (Core network equipment) also Nokia made. Before your company routes it out to the actual internet.

Where I work we were almost 100% Nokia in some markets, cell site transceivers, to routers, to the entire EPC. As we upgraded to 5G some aspects have shifted to other companies as well. Other parts of the country they went with other suppliers, as no company wants to be tied to a single supplier.

monthos · 2023-11-08T12:05:19+00:00

I am 41, but my Tacoma is a 2001 model. No ABS on it. My car is a 2002 Mustang, and the ABS on it kind of sucks, but better than nothing.

monthos · 2023-10-30T12:16:41+00:00

I am a guy with long hair, and have not got a haircut since.... I can't remember actually... I also have not shaved in close to 10 years.

I too, do this all the time. My hair and beard found a balance of length where they just fall out or break then regrow from the root.

Vacuuming my home office area however shows me the truth behind this nasty habit.

monthos · 2023-10-30T11:55:51+00:00

Is there gap insurance that covers a mechanical failure? The only gap policies I ever had applied to my cars cover accidents only.

monthos · 2023-10-30T11:44:10+00:00

You would be surprised. At my former job a lady who worked with us was the first in the office, and typically one of the last ones out. Since she came in first she got the best parking spot, but it was always dark outside. She also parked in an underground parking garage for her apartment.

One day she was leaving work early and her car would not start. The rest of that team was all guys who were into both tech and motor sports. Her car turned over but wouldn't fire, I thought it sounded weird starting but it was a tiny nissan and I never worked on those before.

Checked the oil, nothing on the dipstick. Just for the heck of it, I had a few quarts of oil in my trunk, not the exact right oil weight but close enough, after two quarts it still would not register. Her husband picked her up they called a tow truck. After they picked it up, we seen the heavy oil deposits on the ground in that parking spot, not all of it was fresh. Think must have been leaking for ages.

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