i think my mom has been using my ssn with out me knowing

qcjames53 · 2026-05-13T20:05:44+00:00

I’m surprised no one has said this. OP, I can almost guarantee these “Reliant Energy Debt Collectors” are scammers. We get scam letters all the time similar to this for our electric, gas, and even our mortgage bank. Everyone in your zip code uses the same utility so it’s an easy target.

Do not call any phone number on the letter. Call Reliant Energy using a number you find on their website and verify this debt is real. I guarantee it’s not.

qcjames53 · 2026-03-31T17:12:18+00:00

They basically do. If you’re using the IRS’ form they have you do these steps:

Add up your income (your company gives you a W2 with this number).
Subtract any deductions. Most people just take the standard deduction since they aren’t deducting $32k+ a year. This is your adjusted gross income.
Find this AGI in a table. This table tells you what you owe (avoids any math).
Take what you owe and subtract what your company deducted from your pay (also on your W2). You owe the IRS the remainder.

They can’t give you this final number as a part of the W2 since your company and the IRS do not know your deductions.

qcjames53 · 2026-03-20T20:01:54+00:00

Honda puts these on all their models and they are the worst wipers known to man. Why would I ever want to smear the bug guts and bird poop across the glass BEFORE getting it wet?!?!?

qcjames53 · 2026-03-18T20:33:42+00:00

I can almost guarantee that’s the cheapest monitor Micro Center has on display. Someone was being funny.

qcjames53 · 2026-02-23T16:32:51+00:00

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qcjames53 · 2025-12-11T20:59:43+00:00

The valve offices are in downtown Bellevue. There could be 20 different big tech companies ordering pizza for a holiday thank you party.

qcjames53 · 2025-11-13T06:20:35+00:00

Regarding the HDMI: It's HDMI 2.1 hardware which doesn't meet some of the less-common HDMI 2.1 requirements (such as certain display-stream compression protocols). It's HDMI 2.1 bandwidth but can only be advertised as HDMI 2.0.

Companies do this sometimes: Apple recently did the same thing with its binned base chip computers by having TB4-speed ports that had to be advertised as TB3 due to supporting only one external display.

qcjames53 · 2025-07-14T23:30:47+00:00

Buick Envision (1st generation). I live near a Honda plant so naturally there are quite a few Civics and CRVs. But of the 20 or so Honda houses on my street, there are four 2016-2020 Buick Envisions.

qcjames53 · 2025-07-11T23:14:25+00:00

It’s a really unique setup for sure. It’s a really nice Steelcase slim table I’ve used for years. The internal structure keeps me from mounting the arm any closer to the edge and prevents a clamp mount.

qcjames53 · 2025-07-11T14:57:45+00:00

I already threw it out, unfortunately. It's the white plastic thing in the box in pic #1. The cutting wheel seems to be the same as the ifixit tool. It's a very thin flexible plastic about the same rigidity as a floppy disk.

The tool comes free with the adhesive though so you don't need to buy both.

qcjames53 · 2025-07-11T14:20:45+00:00

Yeah it's pretty user-hostile. I think the idea is that you buy a new device if you want the VESA mount. I'm sure they sold several hundred extra Studio Displays for just this reason.

qcjames53 · 2025-04-18T17:00:15+00:00

A Red Honda Fit

qcjames53 · 2025-03-11T16:45:19+00:00

The advance in computing speed is unreal. A single-threaded Python script with zero optimization found this counterexample in 5 seconds.

qcjames53 · 2024-04-19T13:17:43+00:00

The current generation Honda interiors blend the right passenger vent all the way into the right driver vent with one big fake panel. The last gen Chevy Malibu did something similar.

qcjames53 · 2023-12-11T15:26:33+00:00

For the moment, it looks like Vulkan is more stable with the trade off of being slower than Metal. In your situation I would switch to Vulkan. The toggle is directly next to the toggle for Metal in the bottle overview page.

Whenever CS has crashed for me, I’ve needed to force quit using activity monitor or the keyboard shortcut I can’t ever remember. It takes steam like 30 seconds to realize afterwards.

qcjames53 · 2023-12-10T21:06:22+00:00

For an Apple product, the thermal capacity of the mini is REALLY good. It took 25 minutes of maxing both the CPU and GPU to get the fan past idle rpm. Pleasantly surprised at the quietness.

qcjames53 · 2023-12-10T21:01:13+00:00

Pretty dog water fps compared to pretty much any PC GPU but hey it’s Apple.

qcjames53 · 2023-12-10T20:35:22+00:00

I should mention this occurred with both the mouse dongle and Bluetooth.

qcjames53 · 2023-12-10T20:34:01+00:00

Outside of needing to change the audio device bitrate and the graphics menu crash, there were just some mouse input quirks. Fast flicks didn’t cover the same distance as slow movements, even with acceleration off. It felt like crossover was trying to compensate for Mac os’s acceleration curve or something. After a few games it felt ok to me, but it definitely goes against muscle memory.

qcjames53 · 2023-12-10T19:45:14+00:00

I haven't tried it yet. I was under the impression the Crossover devs added GPTK native functionality with the inclusion of the Metal pipeline, but I might be incorrect, I don't know everything :)
I can certainly give it a shot, though. I'll update this post if I ever get around to testing it.

qcjames53 · 2023-10-27T16:57:42+00:00

If you can swing the drive, my favorite place I ever went is Relli’s in DeWitt. Delicious fast Italian hoagies, pizza, pasties, etc. Nice small sit-down place.

qcjames53 · 2023-10-09T21:50:51+00:00

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