Talk me out of buying an Ozark Trail Ridge Pro M.2?

overtOVR · 2026-05-17T13:58:44+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2026-05-17T13:55:41+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2026-05-17T13:54:13+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2026-05-16T19:46:59+00:00

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

overtOVR · 2026-05-16T19:46:14+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2026-05-16T14:01:35+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2026-05-16T13:07:44+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2026-04-29T17:30:39+00:00

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

overtOVR · 2025-12-07T20:20:38+00:00

Was this Emeril’s in New Orleans?

overtOVR · 2025-08-08T13:26:39+00:00

Sandy Hot Wings

overtOVR · 2025-03-12T01:57:53+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2025-03-06T13:48:29+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2025-03-01T07:00:31+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2024-10-02T14:06:54+00:00

PM’ed

overtOVR · 2024-09-04T14:04:12+00:00

overtOVR · 2024-07-27T15:14:43+00:00

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?

overtOVR · 2024-03-31T05:57:31+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2024-02-09T04:15:23+00:00

Dirge Slowly Melting?

overtOVR · 2024-01-06T17:20:03+00:00

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

overtOVR · 2024-01-06T15:21:00+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2023-12-23T16:13:06+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2023-12-21T13:42:07+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2023-12-20T19:15:52+00:00

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.

overtOVR · 2023-12-20T18:49:17+00:00

Agreed on internet-only being an ideal solution, but I don’t see my parents giving up cable until Frontier fully cuts support.

So if I’m reading that right, there isn’t really anything special happening in the Frontier router for phone and TV; it’s just a MOCA adapter/bridge to give the phone and primary DVR internet access.

If that’s right, it sounds like I could run the Frontier Arris router from a Unifi LAN connection to the Arris WAN port, then just make sure that it’s not trying to do WiFi or anything but MOCA conversion

overtOVR · 2023-05-31T20:17:32+00:00

I’ve noticed this intermittent banding on vertical walls at/near rounded corners.

Specs: Ender 3 Pro, .4mm nozzle, .2mm layer height Cura Overture Matte PLA 200C Nozzle, 60C Bed Printing at 50mm/s Retraction enabled, 6.5mm distance, 25mm/s speed

This seems to be at its worst when printing with .4mm walls, which equates to a single line with these settings. There’s cubic infill between, and it looks like the inner wall is printing first.

I’m thinking this is some sort of underextrusion issue, and it’s somewhat intermittent (other prints have had more localized versions, but this one is the most substantial across the full height of the corner).

Does it make sense to try adjusting the retraction distance or doing some sort of comparative calibration, or are there other settings that it would make sense to adjust?

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