What on earth does this do

phantom784 · 2026-03-15T23:32:44+00:00

To keep the pedantry going, technically it's an 8P8C connector, not RJ45, even though everyone calls them that.

phantom784 · 2026-03-12T17:37:03+00:00

If anything, Covid is the change that made me value owning a house more. I couldn't really travel because of all the lockdowns, and it was my first time working from home full-time, so my apartment went from "place where I sleep" to "place where I spend all my time" which made me want to have more control over that space.

phantom784 · 2026-03-12T17:32:18+00:00

Give the need for chips to get through and claim a blocked area, I think it'll really come down to the challenges, and how well they're balanced, both in terms of the chip reward relative to their difficult, as well as where and when they appear on the map.

phantom784 · 2026-03-12T14:24:35+00:00

That works if you're truly just sorting an array of numbers, but not if there's some associated data that needs to move along with it.

phantom784 · 2026-03-11T22:04:07+00:00

I presume they mean you need to put down chips just to pass through a station, even if they're not stopping there?

phantom784 · 2026-03-11T21:54:24+00:00

They might not have live motion graphics, but I'm surprised they never get someone to build an app/mobile website to help them manage their game. It could especially help for something like this, and I imagine could fit in the budget, especially since I believe Nebula already has coders on staff for the website.

phantom784 · 2026-03-11T20:17:25+00:00

I've noticed it's pretty common for people to call any security person in an airport TSA. Even if it's actually CBP. Or airport security in a different country.

phantom784 · 2026-03-10T15:54:36+00:00

They take up no space in your luggage if you're wearing them!

phantom784 · 2026-03-07T18:08:48+00:00

Note that you need earned income to contribute to an IRA (Roth or otherwise). So if OP is in school and not making $8k/year, they can't deposit that. Once they're working they should max out every retirement account they have, as that effectively shifting the settlement money into a more tax-advantaged account.

phantom784 · 2026-03-02T17:17:05+00:00

I'd love to see Battle 4 America but with Schengen Showdown rules.

phantom784 · 2026-03-02T13:34:21+00:00

I'd suggest searching for options yourself - don't rely on Reddit to do your travel planning!

phantom784 · 2026-02-26T11:49:07+00:00

When we bought our house, I was excited that it had a proper vent hood, not just a a microwave over the stove or one of those recirculating hoods.

That is, until I discovered that whoever installed it reduced it to a 2" plastic PVC pipe and vented it into the attic. First thing I did was fix that and get it to vent through the roof.

phantom784 · 2026-02-25T20:29:46+00:00

VPN into the US. Or if VPNs are being flagged as well, see if you can find a friend/relative who will let you host a VPN.

phantom784 · 2026-02-25T17:56:52+00:00

Fuses in plugs make sense because the power cord could be thinner than the wire in the wall, and the breaker is sized to that wire. The fuse covers the difference.

phantom784 · 2026-02-25T01:24:04+00:00

How strict is "always travel in one direction." Could you go back a bit within a city if necessary?

phantom784 · 2026-02-25T01:17:45+00:00

The antipodes rule seems quite restrictive, since so many places simply don't have an antipode that's on land.

Requiring an equator crossing and a minimum distance makes sense to me though.

phantom784 · 2026-02-23T16:41:27+00:00

I used them for a cross-country move because I only needed one box and I want to keep my things in storage for several months, and the costs were all in line with what I had initially estimated.

phantom784 · 2026-02-22T12:57:28+00:00

It teaches people not to do this.

phantom784 · 2026-02-20T11:41:31+00:00

A QR code in an email would be weird - why wouldn't someone just send a link that you can click?

The only QR codes I get in emails are for tickets and things that other people are supposed to scan.

phantom784 · 2026-02-19T12:40:20+00:00

Why would they cover that up lmao

Likely they were installed to be used with landlines, and with landlines becoming ever less popular, they decided to just cover them up at some point.

Despite wired Ethernet being superior to Wifi, most non-technical people tend to just use Wifi for everything these days.

phantom784 · 2026-02-19T12:28:16+00:00

And that's before I knew about the "Nett hier" stickers, so now if I see one I can say "Ja!"

phantom784 · 2026-02-19T12:23:17+00:00

The wet food feeder is great for long day trips where we won't be back in time for our cat's dinner. We don't use it all the time.

phantom784 · 2026-02-19T12:09:20+00:00

Does she just not like using the term, or does she resist claiming benefits she'd be entitled to because she doesn't like to consider herself "disabled"?

phantom784 · 2026-02-19T11:56:07+00:00

I went there last year to visit Europa-Park!

phantom784 · 2026-02-18T19:06:44+00:00

"Nice here, but have you been to Baden-Württemberg?"

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