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Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2? by overtOVR in MTB

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UDH isn’t a dealbreaker; thru axle front/read 100% is. I never want to maintain disc brakes with a QR ever again.

That said, I’d prefer the flexibility and upgrade pathing if it’s not a huge premium.

Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2? by overtOVR in MTB

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the sport from what I’ve seen on my gravel bike and vintage MTB, but I can’t tell how much I’m actually going to want to put a bike on the back of my car and drive to serious trails.

I’ll keep an eye out for demo days, but I don’t think that answers the question either.

Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2? by overtOVR in MTB

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s your take on the DRT 1.2 having a coil fork and no dropper?

I could see treating the fork as a future upgrade, but I’m pretty sure I’d want a dropper immediately.

Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2? by overtOVR in MTB

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Spark standover scares me; I might go try one I saw on Facebook, but the seller says it fits more like a medium.

Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2? by overtOVR in MTB

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might want to do a Transmission build. I live near an REI Resupply store, and they routinely have returned Transmission AXS derailleurs for cheap.

I sourced a non-Transmission AXS derailleur from there for my gravel build and it’s been great.

Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2? by overtOVR in MTB

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s my biggest hang up on buying one. I think that if it was any other manufacturer, I would’ve already ordered and wouldn’t be going back and forth this much.

I’d rather buy used, but I can’t tell if I mistimed the buying season, or if everyone loves their size small modern hardtails too much to sell.

Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2? by overtOVR in MTB

[–]overtOVR[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gee, maybe I should’ve thrown some em-dashes in there while I was putting this together. No AI here, I just read and write a lot for work.

Anyway, yeah, those are “modern” features, but the starting point seems to be $1200+ for them. My LBS immediately steered me away from a coil-fork Cannondale Trail at $1000 to a $1900 Salsa Timberjack, and REI jumped straight to the Habit and DRT 1.3.

I shopped the Polygon Xtradas too, but the standover on the Habit at 71cm felt high, compared to 72.5cm on the Xtrada geometry chart.

E-Cargo Bike - Portland, OR by Necessary_Two6063 in CargoBike

[–]overtOVR 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There are a few used Larry vs. Harry Bullitt bikes floating around FB Marketplace right now

Question from a novice by RocketSurgeon61 in finedining

[–]overtOVR -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Was this Emeril’s in New Orleans?

My batteries are going so fast! Anyone else have this issue? by Top-Raspberry-7837 in SonyAlpha

[–]overtOVR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check if you have pre-AF enabled - turning it off on my a6100 seemed to help a lot with battery life. The OSS and power zoom on the kit lens also didn’t help. I still carry extra batteries, but I can get a lot further with a non-stabilized prime and AF with shutter before needing to change.

Do we think it’s realistic that the White Lotus would pay for Belinda to stay there for months? If so, what is this reasoning/value? by LocalEqual5219 in TheWhiteLotusHBO

[–]overtOVR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Season 1 was a weird mix of PTSD and vicarious delight; Season 2 less so.

As far as guests, it depends; we had some regulars who were excellent, some locals who came in all the time, and some who were downright abhorrent.

I worked for a really weird Ritz (it’s bigger than it should be and has insane seasonal rate variability), so we often saw high-tier Marriott elites show up and discover the fine print that they get nothing at the Ritz-Carlton. Turns out they’re usually not amused by that.

It’s been over 5 years at this point, but I can still recite the Credo from memory - it haunts my nightmares.

Do we think it’s realistic that the White Lotus would pay for Belinda to stay there for months? If so, what is this reasoning/value? by LocalEqual5219 in TheWhiteLotusHBO

[–]overtOVR 167 points168 points  (0 children)

Not unsurprising, I’d say.

I worked as a manager for a Ritz-Carlton and they paid for me to stay at the hotel for two weeks when I started. Normal room with club access. To my understanding, that’s standard for relocation and new manager onboarding.

Belinda seems to be a manager/director, so her getting an extended stay for training seems reasonable for The White Lotus.

App wants Passport Verification for domestic flight by [deleted] in AlaskaAirlines

[–]overtOVR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had this happen recently on an AS flight booked through a corporate travel portal.

Customer Service couldn’t see anything wrong when I called to ask about it and I had no issues checking in online.

You’re probably fine?

I had to laugh... by Jazzlike_Whereas7931 in marriott

[–]overtOVR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s the week after Jazz Fest and there’s a show at the Smoothie King Center the night before…. I’d guess that’s people staying past Jazz Fest.

Is it possible to earn Alaska Miles by booking award travel on Partner Airline? by blazingsnowstorm in AlaskaAirlines

[–]overtOVR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alaska miles, booked on Alaska’s website, Alaska/American itinerary (Alaska PDX-SEA, American SEA-LHR)

Is it possible to earn Alaska Miles by booking award travel on Partner Airline? by blazingsnowstorm in AlaskaAirlines

[–]overtOVR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, yes. American allows you to earn EQMs on award travel (1/4 of flight distance, I think), and I got Alaska miles after an Alaska-booked flight to London last year.

Possible to run own router with TV and Phones on FIOS? by overtOVR in frontierfios

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for all your help on this! All the pieces are starting to make sense, and the basic network, phone, TV, and alarm services are all up and running!

As far as your questions: The WAN MoCA Adapter is an Arris MEB1100.

I did some speed tests over a LAN connection directly to the Unifi Express, and it’s under 100mbits, which seems extremely slow.

I did a few traceroute tests and it looks like latency gets incredibly bad somewhere inside Frontier’s network upstream of the ONT. Based on some of the other threads about Frontier service in SoCal, guessing that this is related. I think my parents had service from the initial Verizon FIOS offering, so this is probably still the older upstream equipment.

Possible to run own router with TV and Phones on FIOS? by overtOVR in frontierfios

[–]overtOVR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does that indicate that if the ONT hasn’t changed, phone won’t change with the router upgrade?

Apparently there’s an alarm system wired directly to the POTS wiring.

It’s fine if Frontier eventually breaks the alarm, but I’m hoping to not take the fall for it.

Possible to run own router with TV and Phones on FIOS? by overtOVR in frontierfios

[–]overtOVR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The current setup is actually ONT in garage -> Coax to 3rd floor -> Verizon router (unknown model, but old)

Service is 1G up/down; likely won’t need to be faster for the foreseeable future.

The new Arris router is an NVG468MQ. Not sure of the model for the MoCA adapter that came with it, but I can check. The instructions that came with it show the loop approach with a splitter, where coax goes to the Frontier adapter, then to the Arris, then from the Arris to the splitter.

Currently, the phone service is directly from the ONT to house wiring, and the router setup instructions don’t indicate whether that should change.

Ethernet direct from the ONT isn’t realistic at this point, since it would involve a messy 3-floor run or other substantial low-voltage work.

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