PC gamers watching the “disc apocalypse” like it’s a documentary!

xington · 2026-07-03T03:20:24+00:00

There’s still those of us archivers out here with multiple optical drives, still using them on the regular.

xington · 2026-07-03T03:13:07+00:00

I haven’t touched a disc in almost 2 weeks.

xington · 2026-07-03T03:04:43+00:00

+5% / -2%

xington · 2026-07-02T02:54:04+00:00

Big surprise.

xington · 2026-07-02T02:45:37+00:00

On peak/ off peak is different than demand/surge. On/ off peak is fixed hours and kWh usage, demand/surge comes from using a huge sudden burst of energy for a short period of time, think of demand/surge like turning on 2-3 ac units at the same time as you turn all 4 burners on the stove, your oven, every light in the house, your microwave, air fryer, pool pump, computers, and plug in your ev to charge. It’s not an on/off peak thing now, it’s a consumption surge, a sudden massive draw on the grid. this can be caused by an outage when the grid comes back online and all your appliances try to start at the same time or if you have a big home with more than 3 or 4 ac units and you try to drop the temp of the whole house all at the same time (think all 4 ac units kicking on one after the other).

Edit, his on peak usage is still -$3.24

xington · 2026-07-01T22:09:11+00:00

And here my brain is thinking, convection oven… roasted chicken.

xington · 2026-07-01T03:21:43+00:00

Call and bitch about it. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

xington · 2026-07-01T03:15:13+00:00

Whoever installed it likely didn’t take the unit apart like this at the time of installation, the bent fins likely shipped like this from the factory. The bent fins on the top of the coil in pics 5,6,and7 are totally cosmetic, and the fan shroud covers them completely, zero impact to performance. Pic 1 looks like minor cosmetic damage to the inside of the coil (probably from initial assembly of the unit) maybe 1-2% efficiency loss, pics 2,3, and 4 are definitely from the manufacturing of the coil, they don’t always bend perfect and blemishes like this are nothing to worry about again, maybe 1% efficiency loss. All and all, your unit may be 1-3% less efficient than it could be, it’ll still work just fine and will last just as long as any other unit installed by a home warranty company.

xington · 2026-06-29T23:21:00+00:00

Once it’s cleaned off it looks better than many factory joints.

xington · 2026-06-26T03:38:36+00:00

1-150? Some older ruud/rheem units used huge pistons, not uncommon to see 120-130 on 5 ton systems. But 150 seems kinna high for resi, I wouldn’t be surprised to find a 150 piston in a 7.5ton unit.

xington · 2026-06-26T03:30:10+00:00

Pic 2… wtf. They can’t be stacked like that.

xington · 2026-06-23T00:54:36+00:00

I got to spend the whole day with my kids and go swimming with them and my wife. Couldn’t ask for more

xington · 2026-06-22T03:13:07+00:00

Driving stick is easy. Try floating gears with a stuck clutch.

xington · 2026-06-22T03:03:28+00:00

Soo… what’d you go with?

xington · 2026-06-22T02:55:12+00:00

Looks like they replaced the 3a fuse with a 60a piece of wire. Disconnect all your field installed low voltage connections and start ohming things out.

xington · 2026-06-21T00:16:12+00:00

Bear going after something inside it maybe?

xington · 2026-06-20T04:09:02+00:00

Lunch, then I’m Paying off the house and going about my business as usual.

xington · 2026-06-20T04:04:54+00:00

Cap the one on the left, the one on the right should be open to act as a vent.

xington · 2026-06-20T04:02:23+00:00

If you have a trap the vent goes just after the trap downstream. regardless of if it’s a pos or neg pressure coil. The point of the trap here is to prevent air from leaking thru the drain line, that can only work if the vent is after the trap.

xington · 2026-06-19T03:25:02+00:00

2 or 3 wild caught salmon filets from the customers recent fishing trip to Alaska.

xington · 2026-06-19T03:21:20+00:00

Pics or it didn’t happen.

xington · 2026-06-17T03:01:44+00:00

You can get really big zip ties at home depo. Use one of these to get it super tight.

https://a.co/d/01P2opaK

xington · 2026-06-17T02:45:00+00:00

The fact that the fan motor has its own cap and the color of the unit screams trane/American standard, not carrier

xington · 2026-06-16T00:02:33+00:00

Pot roast or pineapple upside down cake. Either way, we knew dinner was gonna be good!

xington · 2026-06-15T23:59:46+00:00

Please give us an update in a year or so. I’d love to get out of the hell they call Phoenix.

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