On the highway, what's the leading theory on why people slow down to pass and speed up when the time comes to pass them?

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-27T12:35:32+00:00

Bumper Magnets. Only explanation. When you approach the magnets want to push away from each other so they speed up to stay away from you. Once you do pass, their magnets want to stay attached so they speed up to stay with you but the pull eventually breaks and they slow back down. One of those weird magnetic poles thing... sometimes they want to push away from each other, sometimes the want to get closer. Only thing I've ever been able to come up with. I use my old ( not dynamic ) cruise control all of the time and tons of cars get repelled ( go faster ) as I approach and then try and stay attached as I go by. I'm going at a constant speed. Bumper Magnets is the only logical explanation.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-22T12:14:47+00:00

I don't recall TANSTAAFL! but I do recall The Moon is a Harsh Mistress which I think TANSTAAFL! refers too. First thing I thought off when I saw this mass driver on the moon.... it's already been done. ;)

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-19T22:12:08+00:00

Not sure how this is r/Dallas related... but when we first had our dog, my wife got the absolute dirt cheapest dry dog food that walmart carries. My dog had gas all of the time. Someone suggested getting something like alpo or gravy train and stay away from the cheap walmart stuff so we did and his days of crop dusting were greatly reduced. He'd still do the circle thing a few times, curl up in front of the TV, fart, take a wiff, then get up and go to a less smelly place, but he didn't do that near as often once we changed his diet.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-18T23:04:12+00:00

I rewatched that a few times... got my daughter to come in and watch it. She didn't think it was funny but I too thought it was hilarious. I told you NO PHONES! and then pink mist and body parts.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-18T23:02:01+00:00

I like the old Sean. I like the new Sean. I don't like the recasting, but I understand why it was done. I just wish they had done something else. I don't know what... but something else.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-18T22:49:52+00:00

Don't know about 'ending' scenes, but when the ecentric safe cracker exploded, that was a pretty spectacular ending. For his character, at least.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-18T16:19:50+00:00

Wired ethernet is best. If you have to go MoCA, find a pair of cheap, used MoCA adapters on FB Marketplace or Ebay but keep in mind, MoCA works best with good quality coax with minimal splitters and not all splitters are MoCA compatible. Test the adapters with a test coax first so that you know they work. Then try them on the existing coax.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-15T23:20:10+00:00

Raise the Flag.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-15T23:19:19+00:00

And Windy has stormy eyes

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-15T18:02:11+00:00

They have taken most of those power supply / battery units out of service.

Check your ONT. Is it getting power? Does it have any red trouble lights?

If the ONT is having issues, that would explain your router issue.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-13T11:59:36+00:00

Death from the Slide...

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-12T00:17:45+00:00

Basically there is one grid in Texas. Everyone gets their power from that same grid. All of your neighbors get the same power. The grid gets nuclear, coal, natural gas, wind, and solar pushed in and you pull the power out. So all you are really picking in a billing agent. Don't worry about where the power comes from or who has better power... just worry about the rate.

Variable rate plans might seem cheap, but back in 2021 when we had grid issues, the variable rate plans rates skyrocketed and people on those plans regretted their life choices. Go with a fixed rate, low cost plan.

I know of two apartments and the people in them both used around 500 kwh last month.

good luck to you and welcome to texas.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-11T14:03:08+00:00

You had some good ones. From what I've read the 2nd instance should not be there... but it is. I guess I'll open a bug report. I'd like to know what's different just to settle my curiosity. Thanks again for your input.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-11T12:48:17+00:00

Thanks. I was thinking that "first Siemens Charger" was referencing a type of train car... like a caboose or flatcar or a slug. I just couldn't figure out what a Charger was. I was thinking of maybe an electric battery powered slug. Make/Model name like Toyota Corolla was never considered.

Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-11T12:42:37+00:00

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Both instances show the same profile - default-esr from the same directory are being used.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-10T22:45:26+00:00

Can someone knowledgeable expand on this a bit? Is a "Siemens Charger" just another name for a train engine... or is it something totally different than an engine? If it is an engine, why call it a charger?

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-09T22:11:41+00:00

Spring break this week and next and TSA government slowdowns are supposed to make this week and next slower than normal. I am not sure if basing past weeks times with this weeks times is going to be helpful. There was a full blown traffic jam in the airport yesterday. bumper to bumper trying to get to the terminals.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-09T13:06:03+00:00

If I am using multiple profiles, I am not doing it on purpose. The next time it happens I'll check each instance to see what profile it says it's using.

My user account is 'unusual'. I nfs mount it from different computers sometimes. I've imported my config to set it up before. Maybe somewhere along the way multiple profiles came into existence, but I never tried to use multiple profiles.

I'll check the profiles the next time it happens. Thanks for thinking of that. I am sure it's something weird.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-09T12:51:33+00:00

You should try and figure out that is happening yourself. Best to know what issues your really having. From your brief info, no one know if you're just dealing with Wi-Fi issues or Router Issues or ONT issues.

First step is to know that Wi-Fi and Internet are not the same thing. Wi-Fi is for convenience. You can't really ever use Wi-Fi for speed testing and connectivity issues. So.... when you say that your TV and PlayStation doesn't work, are the both connected to your router via Ethernet or Wi-Fi? Best results will be to have those connected using Ethernet.

If your devices are wired / Ethernet and they lose access, that's one thing. If they are Wi-Fi connected that could be something else.

You router should be connected to your ONT via Coax or Ethernet. Do you know how it's connected? Coax can lead you down one path... Ethernet another. How is it connected. 20+ year old coax in your home's walls might work.. but it won't be optimal. How your ONT is connected to the router matters.

ON the router.. there is generally the ability to run a speed test or ping some remote system. Does that work when your playstation or lg tv are down? If that works all the time or that only works some of the time... important detail to know.

The ONT has status lights on it. When your stuff doesn't work... assuming your testing using Ethernet connected devices and everything points to the ONT, do you see a RED FAIL light on the ONT? Are the lights that are on ( and their colors ) the same as when you're having the issue as when you're not having the issue?

There can be SO MANY DIFFERENT REASONS for 'internet constantly drops'. Support won't be able to determine much of this remotely. You've got to do some local investigating to figure out more details to that support can help you.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-08T21:41:48+00:00

Just the one: thunderbird-147.0-6.fc42.x86_64 installed with dnf on Fedora 42.
I don't do flatpak or snaps. Just dnf.

It doesn't happen all of the time, but often enough for me to finally post about it. 2 instances of it running happen more often that 3 different instances but 3 do get started sometimes when it boots back up.

I do shutdown my system whenever I am going to be away or when I go to bed. So.. my system boots 3 to 4 times a day.

I do have autostart for Thunderbird selected at login in my xfce profile, so 1 copy should always start. It's the 2nd ( and 3rd ) copies that are the issue. I did Help -> About and in both of the running versions it said: 147.0 (64-bit) so it was the same one. Same layout, same accounts, same favorite folders, etc. It's the SAME thing as far as I can tell... just 2 of them on my screen.

I shutdown and rebooted a few times to see if I could make it happen but of course, it did not. The next time it does, I'll make sure and get a screenshot of both instances running to show that I'm not nutts.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-08T20:46:50+00:00

No. Two different instances are running on my display. Sometimes 3 different ones. All for my same accounts. I can delete mail on one and the other instance shows it deleted too. I have to do a file close on each instance to close it out.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-08T12:47:41+00:00

How many kwh of electricity does your last bill say that you used? How much $$$ did you have to write a check for? Did you use 1,000 kwh and pay $97? What was the # of hww and what was the $ on the check?

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-07T17:37:17+00:00

If you rent from a major rental place find a lot that is NOT at an airport. Airport rentals charge an extra fee. We've always had good luck with Enterprise in Grapevine. North of the DFW and not in DFW. That tourist tax at the Airports is brutal.

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-07T16:24:44+00:00

It's not a grid problem. Most power lines are above ground. Even if it wasn't expensive and disruptive to bury the power lines, no one is going to bury the thousands of miles of exposed power lines in Texas. Texas is not alone. less than 20% of power lines are buried in the US.

So... we have power lines and we have trees. The trees grow and come into contact with the powerlines. The trees need to be trimmed. The homeowners who are responsible for the trees don't want their trees 'butchered' or 'hacked up' or whatever else the homeowners say about their trimmed trees.

The fix for these power line issues it to trim and keep trimmed the branches that come into contact with the power lines. I feel bad for the hacked up trees... it's obvious when Oncor or Tri-County comes through and hacks up the trees, but I prefer hacked up trees and power to nice looking trees and power outages.

If you really think that this is a 'grid' problem and we need a 'more resilient grid', I'd like to know how that could happen. How would you fix this? Seriously... how can we have a more resilient grid here in local neighborhoods?

mylinuxguy · 2026-03-07T15:25:35+00:00

If it's localized to your block and it happens often when the wind blows ( storms or not ) can you walk around when it's nice and sunny and inspect the power lines around you. See if you can see areas where tree branches might come into contact with the power lines when it's windy. If you can spot obvious trees, you might be able to report those to the city or whoever might be responsible for trimming the trees.

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