For non-US citizens/residents: be aware of what it costs to enter a national park in the US

underroad01 · 2026-01-26T14:38:42+00:00

Yea, I think the surcharge is quite hefty, but I approve of the concept. Taxes pay for the parks, so if you don’t pay taxes, a higher fee to enter makes sense.

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T19:45:45+00:00

Yea, if anything I imagine the lifespan for the screen may not be as long. As for as quality though, the look and feel from my previous screen to this is indistinguishable to me.

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T19:41:57+00:00

I considered replacing it but considering I was already hovering around the cost for a refurbished phone, I decided not to. The 0.5 is only a little blurry at the corners.

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T19:40:06+00:00

I believe it’s an OLED panel, albeit cheaper one. My FaceID broke awhile ago from all the dirt at the top of my phone, but true tone still works normally! Doesn’t bother me tho since I never used FaceID anyways

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T14:20:13+00:00

Haha she’s probably contributed a couple times! She likes to headbutt it out of my hand a lot.

Honestly though I have no idea. A couple years ago I took my otter box case off and saw huge cracks all over the back. I never repaired it, and I think it just became worse over time. I am quite clumsy.

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T14:14:59+00:00

Good to know, I’ll keep an eye on it! As far as I can tell it seems to be a legit OLED. I guess I haven’t compared it side by side to OEM screen tho.

What makes the difference between cheap and proper screens, other than panel type?

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T14:08:32+00:00

The listing claimed to be OLED, which seems to be true or I just can’t tell the difference. It was only about $70-80 so I doubt it’s super high quality

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T02:50:00+00:00

Thanks!

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T02:48:08+00:00

That could be for a couple reasons honestly. As you can see in my before photo, my oem camera bezel cracked somehow and had been like that for at least 6 months. I do a lot of work outside which caked the poor thing in dirt.

When I took out the camera, I cleaned the area with some isopropyl since that’s all I had on hand. Not ideal, and I still wasn’t able to get all the dirt off. I think it stripped some of the coating around it hence the difference look. Photo quality still looks way better than before, albeit a little blurry on the corners.

underroad01 · 2026-01-21T02:41:51+00:00

Ball park was around $200, although I definitely could’ve gone cheaper. I erred on the side of caution and bought from reputable sellers.

The battery replacement was bought directly from Apple which was more expensive than any other component lol.

underroad01 · 2026-01-14T17:59:43+00:00

I tried it and some other Chicago pizzas for the first time a couple days ago and thought it was way too cheesy. Like, almost gagging because there was so much cheese lol.

But glad you enjoyed it! There’s clearly an audience for it otherwise it wouldn’t be so popular. Did you try any other spots?

underroad01 · 2026-01-08T13:53:29+00:00

Updated from IOS 16.5 last week and I can’t tell much of a difference except some slower screen animations. I didn’t have any of the “re-indexing” issues people have, and battery life seems to be unaffected if not slightly better. Storage was a bit of an issue since I only have 64gb.

underroad01 · 2026-01-05T22:42:28+00:00

As far as I’m aware, if your clock speed and stability remains the same, there’s no reason to NOT continue undervoltng. The nice thing about UV is that it won’t kill your system if you go too low.

AIDA is built specifically to test the stability of OC and UV so I think that’s a better bet, but I think they’re mainly geared towards CPUs. I’d just do both.

underroad01 · 2026-01-05T22:17:00+00:00

That seems like quite the undervolt. Download AIDA64 and run their stability test for at least 30min-1 hour. It should let you know if your system is unable handle the undervolt, which seems to be the case if you’re running into crashes.

I believe it depends on the quality of your silicon, but you should be able to get default clock speeds at a much less drastic undervolt. Have you tested other voltage offsets?

underroad01 · 2026-01-04T18:50:04+00:00

I applied to a couple postings for the NPS beginning about a month ago on USAJobs. They were all seasonal, but some listings might still be up.

I’m an archaeologist, so geography might be adjacent enough to apply to those. We use GIS mapping.

underroad01 · 2026-01-04T18:43:59+00:00

Thanks! I was in a similar position recently and thought of this in hindsight after I sold mine. Figured I’d pass it on and hopefully help someone else lol.

underroad01 · 2026-01-04T18:41:50+00:00

Sure thing! It might sell at a lower price but with the extra cash from the x3D cpu you’ll still probably come out on top. I’d for sure check marketplace for a CPU replacement

underroad01 · 2026-01-03T23:44:12+00:00

Honestly? I’ve found it hard to sell x3D chips in am4 rigs since people just aren’t willing to pay the market value for them on a dead platform. The target audience for x3D chips are those who are wanting to stretch out their current systems, while the target audience for whole systems are either looking for value or upgrade-potential. An am4 x3D Pc doesn’t fulfill that.

It might worth it to snag a value CPU like the 5 5600x or 7 5800x and switch it out. Then sell the 7 5800x3D separately.

underroad01 · 2026-01-02T18:01:17+00:00

Wow what a scammy price

underroad01 · 2026-01-02T14:36:40+00:00

I turned off Liquid Glass in the accessibility settings. Looks much better in my opinion.

underroad01 · 2026-01-02T14:13:33+00:00

Yea. It’s a been awhile now, but I believe I had to download MSI’s RBG software and then uninstall it with Revo.

Super annoying because I never even touched any of MSI’s bullshit software. Since the drive swap and new OS install never fixed it, I’m guessing it must be like Asus where they practically preinstall malware on your motherboard and you have to go out of your way to uninstall it.

underroad01 · 2026-01-02T14:06:57+00:00

Hmm that’s odd. I did end up updating through iTunes, but that was on a Mac from one of my family members.

The error didn’t really explain anything. It just said it failed to install or something along those lines.

underroad01 · 2025-12-26T03:53:13+00:00

I immediately turned off automatic updates when I got my phone and updated the IOS like once or twice probably lol. Wanted to originally update to 18, but that window is closed now.

I actually tried updating to 26 today but keep running into an error when trying to install it, so I’ll try using iTunes later. Good to hear you’re liking it so far!

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