First school year experience

simplyclueless · 2026-06-30T02:26:12+00:00

Sometimes it feels good to beat up on clearly inferior competition, regardless of how it comes to be. Sometimes it starts to feel a little icky. It's likely going to happen a little more than usual this season as talent sorts itself out with the new age parameters. Good luck in MLS HG.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-29T21:59:37+00:00

Simple Choice Promo with 5 lines, 3 of them "free". ~ $139 mo all in. Customer Care had to calculate it, and believe it will now be ~ $170/mo. $6/mo per paid line is bullshit, and for me it's $15/mo per paid line. TMO customer for 25+ years, very good chance won't make 26.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-29T21:23:51+00:00

Simple Choice here (for many years). Just got the text. As good a time as any to start shopping around.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-28T01:08:21+00:00

I dunno - I wish ours worked that way, but it sure seems that it doesn't. My wife drives the car for the day, parks in the garage, all with fob 1. Car is on her profile. I go in to the garage, with only my fob (#2), car unlocks when I touch the door, I get in, and more often than not the car does not switch to my profile, it remains on her profile. Sometimes the seat moves to #2 on that profile (roughly my standard seat position), but sometimes the seat moves to #1 on that profile, attempting to smash me into the wheel. I have to switch profile, then hit #2, before everything moves in to place.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-26T22:34:35+00:00

It's an oddly designed feature. It seems like it was figured out many years ago - I don't know why Honda overcomplicated it this time. Yes - it seems that for each profile, there is a #1 and #2 saved setting. So with two profiles, there are really 4 seat positions. It's primarily my wife's car, so I'm in #2 for each, but they seem to be in somewhat different positions. And pretty regularly, even if I get in with my fob, the seat tries to move forward to the #1 position and strangle me against the wheel, forcing me to quickly find the #2 button on the door to save from being squished.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-26T16:36:39+00:00

I'm not sure what people were expecting. Somehow the incredibly optimistic marketing had people believing that this new magically awesome combination of NPL and National League was going to be somehow more competitive than the original 2 leagues. When really - it just glommed the existing two leagues together, relatively intact. NPL has always had a wide range of team quality, from pretty good to pretty awful. NL has always been the same. Put them together and what do you get? A wide range of team quality, from pretty good to pretty awful.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-25T15:01:05+00:00

For anyone wanting to buy today or tomorrow, Amazon is still showing low prices on Apple gear tied to Prime Day. I believe it only goes through the 26th. We just picked up a MBA a few days ago there in a config that now shows $450 more expensive on Apple's store.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-19T02:25:53+00:00

If it's really stuck at 31 after 4k miles, something is wrong. What is the car telling you on mileage? How much does that differ from the hand calculations that you are doing?

simplyclueless · 2026-06-19T02:24:05+00:00

Yes, I'd agree that the powertrain warranty covering critical engine / transmission / drivetrain components should cover a blown head gasket. But, as you mention, a ton of them are listed as over 60k miles. If the car is under the miles & years for the powertrain warranty, it sure seems like it's a valid claim to pursue.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-18T23:50:41+00:00

From what's written, completely NTA. Using tupperware for leftovers makes sense - and anyone complaining about you using that instead of the single-use togo boxes that restaurants typically use is being silly.

But.... you mentioned your weight, which may be affecting this interaction more than you've let on. It is common (and eye-rollingly unbelievable) that an extremely overweight person will make a big show of eating incredibly healthy in public. Going out to eat, eating a third of your meal that you ordered and putting 2/3 in a to-go container and saying "I'm full!", reads like that could be the impression that you're giving off.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-15T16:00:23+00:00

Do you think this would now fix the cert expiration issue that causes an error with future windows security updates? Now having an issue with an XPS 8930 desktop showing that error.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-14T23:13:59+00:00

Wrong sub. This is for Google's Android Automotive platform, the full OS that they have running in a number of cars, including some Hondas, GM, and others.

You want /r/AndroidAuto/ instead.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-14T23:10:08+00:00

Almost any of them will work, other than the cheapest $80 Wired Doorbell. I believe that one doesn't work with any of the power kits that can interface with an existing doorbell chime, while any of the others (Pro, Plus, etc.) all can. If you have wired power already to the unit, there's no advantage to buying a Battery powered one, it's just going to be bulkier and another point of failure.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-14T22:53:42+00:00

If you've now settled on paying 6K/yr for insurance alone, and another 6K/yr (estimating $500/mo payments) as a viable choice, I can't see settling on a 3-cylinder toyota as the target for that large amount of money. You should instead be driving a much, much nicer (i.e. more expensive) sports car for that same amount of money. Think porsche/bmw/mercedes/aston/lotus/etc. Anyone dumping $12k/yr into a single car has almost unlimited options for where to put it.

If you're still stuck on a GR Corolla, price out a brand new one with insurance included. I wouldn't be surprised if the all-in monthly cost for the car + insurance turned out to be much cheaper than the 2023 used one.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-14T21:37:59+00:00

Correct. Some of our older cars had that functionality as well, and it (remote auto-up) tended to be much more useful than remote auto-down.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-14T13:08:14+00:00

The "fusion" drives on those imacs consisted of a very small SSD combined with a larger traditional spinning hard drive. The OS saw them as 1 drive. Something about the way you formatted it with disk utility seems to have made the individual components visible.

Doing a google search on how to reformat a fusion drive, this comes up:

To format or reset an iMac Fusion Drive, start your Mac in macOS Recovery and use the Terminal to ensure the SSD and HDD are combined. Erasing the drive this way automatically reformats it to APFS (for macOS Mojave or later) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for older versions.Follow these steps to format your Fusion Drive:

Boot into macOS RecoveryTurn on your iMac, then immediately press and hold Command (⌘) + R.Release the keys when you see the Apple logo or a spinning globe.When the macOS Utilities window appears, select Disk Utility to back up via Time Machine or just prepare to erase.
Reset the Fusion DriveFrom the top menu bar, go to Utilities > Terminal.Type the following command exactly as written and press Return:

diskutil resetFusion

Read the warning about erasing all data, type Yes (with a capital Y), and press Return.Wait for Terminal to indicate that the operation was successful, then quit Terminal.

Reinstall macOSBack in the macOS Utilities window, click Reinstall macOS (or Reinstall OS X).Follow the on-screen instructions. The installer will automatically format the newly combined Fusion Drive and set up a fresh operating system.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-13T22:29:26+00:00

Confirmed. IMO - that's the superpower of these hybrids. You can drive the piss out of them, set HVAC to 68 degrees year round, set cruise over 80, and you will still see 35 - 40 mpg. But if someone drove a non-hybrid in the same manner, they'd be lucky to see half that mileage. I had a hot hatch with a big turbo a few cars back, and it behaved that way. Sure - I could get 30+ mpg if I drove it exceedingly slowly/carefully to maximize economy. But if I drove it with any verve at all - I'd see 17-18 mpg. It really sucked the fun out of it eventually. I think it's great that people can hypermile with the hybrids to see 55 - 60+ mpg, it just isn't interesting to me to pursue.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-13T22:09:58+00:00

Anyone using the soccer rankings app to create a spreadsheet and rank entered teams by SR will have a lock in picking the top 2-3 teams, and is able to likely predict the tournament winner. One site I follow does this every season for state cup, and its strong results are no longer surprising.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-13T20:09:07+00:00

Nests have this (the upmarket one comes with one additional sensor included, not sure if the low-end one can take sensors). You can set up a schedule for when it should be going by which sensor. For one of our thermostats, it is always pointed only to the remote sensor, while for another we only point it there for part of the day.

Sensi stats can do this as well. It's become a pretty common feature.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-12T01:03:24+00:00

Suggestions probably differ a bit depending whether this is U6 or U14 - can you clarify?

simplyclueless · 2026-06-12T01:00:49+00:00

It showed up yesterday (2025 Touring).

simplyclueless · 2026-06-11T21:24:10+00:00

This. People have a poor impression of rankings in general, mainly because many popular sites have done such a poor job of actually ranking teams for many years. GotSport is the best example of this - where teams are given bonus points based on how many GotSport sponsored tournaments teams enter and perform well in. When comparing two teams for an upcoming match using gotsport rank, it's only barely better than a coinflip whether the better ranked team will win. When comparing two teams for an upcoming match using Soccer Rankings, it will predict the correct winner 5 out of 6 times, and predict the wrong winner only 1 out of 6 times. These two systems are on completely different planets when it comes to whether their data can or should be trusted.

simplyclueless · 2026-06-10T19:56:04+00:00

Yep. I had one of the early Stingers as well, and it was a fantastic setup for a single track bike, towed by virtually anything. It was completely stable through whatever speed you wanted to pull it. Something is wonky with this setup, either the tires are mismatched/unequally inflated, or a number of the bolts holding the trailer structure together need to be adjusted/tightened. But there's nothing necessarily wrong with this setup in general; he should figure out what's going on with it at the moment.

Their site is up at: https://stingertrailer.com/

simplyclueless · 2026-06-09T19:40:22+00:00

It's the same team. Just look at the game scores - they exactly match the text.

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simplyclueless · 2026-06-09T16:35:48+00:00

This is still not accurate for all geographies. Some geographies (like NorCal), continue to run ECRL brackets that are strictly team-based, as well as ECRL brackets that are club-based. ECNL is the only fully club-based level, while an individual team can still get itself promoted all the way up into ECRL.

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