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The kitchen table developed a split. We’ve been told it would cost as much to fix (by a professional) as it would be to replace it. That said, I’m sure a woodworker would have no issue repairing the table for himself at minimal cost. I know I’d need a couple of clamps that go beyond 3 feet, wood glue, a reinforcement strip that would be glued and screwed into the underside of the table. Thoughts?

You can skip most ads in 5 seconds. Streaming is being bleed slowly…imaging paying a fee for each channel you can tune in, regardless of how much content you actually get to watch. Sometimes the ads provide entertainment by showing how self-unaware the algorithm is. The ads at least give me a heads up on what products and services to NOT buy.

Why would anyone pay for the garbage they call entertainment?

Finally installed. We get 30 channels now (5, 11, 19, 39 & 68). Took two days in this heat. Got the antenna set up and ran wire through the house to ensure it worked as placed. Today, I ran the wire down the wall to the TV. I was fortunate to get the hole placed correctly on the first try.

The only use I see for that is if you’re disabled or need hands free operation, but then where’s the motion sensor?

In truth, I've changed nothing. My house is too far away from anything to even bother changing the password. Default had 2.4 and 5g turned on. I turned 5g off and just used 2.4. I suppose I could try a factory reset, but I'd not expect it to do anything more than a power cycle restart would do. Not me, but maybe so many others overwhelming a data choke point. At work, even on the IT backbone, responsiveness drops when everyone is trying to get work done at the same time (e.g., right before end of shift). It's why I log off 15 minutes before going home...nothing is going to get done efficiently during that window when everyone wants to get last minute work done. Things went from sugar to shit (for my normal performance) in the last half hour. My iPhone, iPad and work laptop being the only thing drawing on the network. No change in weather. *** Ironically, it's gotten better in the last 15 minutes. *** Well, this bullshit is my only option. Starlink requires unobstructed sky and we keep being told fiber optic landline is coming, and I'd rather hold out for that if I can. My question is why would the router work fine for several hours then turn to shit if it's failing. I'd expect consistent issues 24 hours day...not just during certain time frames. So far, it seems most of the buggery kicks in around 11:30-12:00 and stays that way the rest of the day. Router is on 24/7 and is located in the basement, so I shouldn't be a heat issue.

Both guest networks are turned off. I only turned on the 5g one a few months back…and I use it for my work laptop presuming that sharing bandwidth with other devices on 2.4g was causing an issue. ironically, the internet’s working pretty good this morning, even though my download is throttle because I’ve used up my allotment for the month. It’s possible that my problem has nothing to do with my in home network, but rather the rest of the Internet. Too many people trying to access the same basic website at one time resulting in poor responses or dropped transmissions. The downlink station being overtaxed by too many users at one time? Hell, I don’t know to what end the forest fires in Canada could be impacting things, and even at the office, when plugged into the network directly, of late it seems to be less responsive than normal.

This will be the reverse of what we did in our house. We replaced the countertop, but deliberately looked for a pattern that closely matched the old countertop and the backsplash, so it would look good. Perhaps you can find a veneer that matches the countertop?

FDA has been a joke for decades.

Have no idea what that means. The modem has 4 channels. Primary and guest for both 2.4 and 5.0. I have no idea if they can see each other, not that I’d expect that to matter where connecting to the internet or when testing between a device and the router as compared to device to device within the network(s) run by the router. HughsNet satellite. That my jitter is worse via cable compared to WiFi is mystifying.

Okay, the results from my work laptop using speed.cloudfare.com. WiFi results taken within 3 feet of modem/router. And, yes, it appears the WIRED connection did worse than WiFi. At the time of these tests, I'm on my "bonus" time (no throttled performance) and there should be considerably less internet usage than during work hours. WiFi 24 20230724 0458am.csv WiFi 24 20230724 0458am.pdf WiFi 50 20230724 0502am.csv WiFi 50 20230724 0502am.pdf wired 20230724 0454am.csv wired 20230724 0454am.pdf

On satellite, I can’t go by latency because…satellite. What is considered “healthy” jitter? I downloaded an app (WiFi SweetSpot) to test data transfer rates between device and router (in-home WiFi), but without a guide of what is good and what indicates trouble, the data is of little use.

Curious. Just now, wired has a jitter of 238ms…wireless was 152ms. The 5 gHz channel is not showing on phone, pad or laptop. Interface says it’s on. I’ll try a hard reboot of the router. Nope. No change. Granted, the laptop is from 2013, iPad is 5th generation, but iPhone is a 12, so unless all of these don’t utilize the 5g band…. Work laptop does see and operate on the 5g radio, but I can’t install Speedtest as an app and the online version doesn’t report jitter. There’s a saved link to a different test. If it reports jitter, I’ll see what it gets.

Recommendations on what to use to do that?

My WiFi is a combo cable (coaxial) modem/router unit. It’s gone out once before…so I know it can fail. Last time, one of the two radios failed completely. What warning signs are there that the radio is going out? I have a 2.4 gHz and a 5 gHz channel. I suspect the 2.4 is dying…again. What can I do to test WiFi performance (to/from router)? How would healthy vs. failing look? Of late, internet performance has been bad, but between weather, haze in the air, etc., I don’t know if it’s the router or not. Downloading 10 GB of data (game update), the download kept failing. I have “rebooted” the router 3 times…which helped the performance for a while.

I’ll know when I get to drive it. It was quiet before I changed the oil.

Lucas 80-90 gear oil plus Yukon friction modifier/posi additive.

Done. Not anywhere near as bad as you all suspected. No gunk or clumps. Dirty, yes. It was worse when I did my S-10 years ago, and it didn’t have even 100K on it. Hardest bit was cleaning off the old gasket.

Sigh.... Research "grazing."

Run for the bunkers! Tomek and I agree on something! The apocalypse is upon us!

I would be more appropriate that we obtain better quality from meat than elsewhere. B vitamins, for example, come in a readily absorbable form from meat than from other sources. It’s the same deal with colloidal mineral supplements. The body processes less than 10% of straight mineral supplementation. Up to 50% if it is in chelated form. Colloidal is around 90%. Plants grown in mineral rich soil convey the most effective amount of mineral supplementation. You’d have to take double or even 10 times the desired dosage in lesser forms. The meat from animals works the same way. Being an “athletic vegan” means nothing. It’s an uphill battle to remain pure vegan before it’s just easier and healthier to start reincorporating real meat into the diet. There is zero evidence that fake meat is more environmentally sound. The costs of making and transporting the chemicals they need, the costs to grow and transport the plant crops needed to make it, the power required to synthesize the end product, etc. Unless they’ve produced numbers subject to scrutiny and peer review, I know of very few synthetic processes that use less energy than the natural process. Any idea of the water crops require? I know of blood feuds in Wyoming over water rights because farmers want the water for crops and the Indian tribe (who has superior legal right to the water) lives in a desert because all the water was diverted away from the reservation for the farmers. Cattle are naturally harmonious with the environment. Indeed, they help sequester more carbon back into the environment than they are accused of releasing. Pretty much every criticism you can cite is focuses on industrial ranching operations…just like raising chickens. Poor land management. Etc. I see idiots complain how land used for cattle could be used to grow crops….WRONG! Maybe if an operation is located where there is rich soil with lots of rain and long growing seasons, but you can raise food animals most anywhere…your “heads per acre” depends on the natural food available for grazing. That’s why you see cattle, horses, etc. shipped en masse north and south with the changing seasons…trying to maximize use of available grazing land. So, perhaps we should rethink how much meat we consume regularly. What the WEF wants is to essentially ban meat consumption for the commoners (why else do you think Bill Gates has been buying up farmland and bankrolling “fake meat” research). Every “synthetic” replacement for a natural product has produced health problems that did not preexist the release of the product. Artificial sweeteners, margarine, fat substitutes, etc. Presuming you don’t have certain health issues, eating red meat, butter, whole milk, natural cheeses, etc. (in moderation, of course) is a healthier choice than trying to eat the synthetic substitutes only to suffer the long term consequences of their impact on the human body. Remember, high cholesterol is not a disease…it is a symptom of a larger issue, but how many doctors and pharmaceutical companies focus on forcibly lowering the cholesterol numbers with drugs? How often do they consider that some people have naturally high cholesterol in spite of healthy diet and exercise practices?

1. It is well established that we get things from meat we can’t get elsewhere. We’re omnivores for a reason. There’s a reason you can’t survive on a pure vegan diet. 2. The process to make fake meat is energy intensive, uses a whole host of chemicals to mimic the end product, and it is also well established that our bodies DO NOT do well with processed foods. We are designed to eat simple, natural foods.

You do realize you can absorb stuff rectally? Don’t attempt a wine enema. You’ll be dead in minutes.

The process to make the fake meat simply isn’t worth it. Real meat isn’t a problem. Overconsumption is the usual culprit.

For that effort, I'd just sooner put it in the attic. I'm looking for the best way to run it through the wall. I do have the thought to simply buy two wall plates for coaxial cable and install one opposite the one behind the TV and in the ceiling of the closet. The cable itself might be an eyesore, but at least the connections will look professional. It has to be aimed generally in the direction it picks up signals, and it's too damn large to sit indoors.