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WTF? How?
My water heater has to be going on 20 years now.
They generally rust out at the bottom. Having a gas burner at the bottom of a glass lined steel tank rusts it out, and it eventually fails. That they fail at 7 years when the warranty is 6 speaks to just how carefully the manufacturers control the tank thickness.
First water heater in this house lasted 25 to 30 years. My first replacement lasted 10. Then 8, now 7. I expect this one will fail at midnight after 6 years and a day.
Have you tried replacing the anode? Once its sacrificial service life is depleted, the tank and fitting are on the death slide. Maybe doing so preemptively every couple years could help. They're inexpensive and much easier to replace than changing out the whole unit.
About once every two weeks, I get a call from "Steve from Canadian Online Pharmacy."
Also, I'm fairly certain that "Steve" lives in either Mumbai, New Delhi, or Bangalore. Not Toronto or Lunenburg.
I was in Lunenburg just last week. Can confirm I did not run into Steve there. I'll be sure to tell him you miss the sweet caress of his voice on your eardrums if I run into him in the future though
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Originally Posted by rleete
They generally rust out at the bottom. Having a gas burner at the bottom of a glass lined steel tank rusts it out, and it eventually fails. That they fail at 7 years when the warranty is 6 speaks to just how carefully the manufacturers control the tank thickness.
First water heater in this house lasted 25 to 30 years. My first replacement lasted 10. Then 8, now 7. I expect this one will fail at midnight after 6 years and a day.
Bruh...
Not at my house though.
Can't make it up. We have a water heater fail just days after I was talking ****.
Looks like it's just the element though.
If latter, I recommend visit to medical professional before picking bridge.
Agreed.
I'm not a doctor, but it seems like the physical trauma which would result may delay healing of the surgical wound, and possibly also result in other complications.
Also, damn you viperormiata, for making me learn what a pilonidal cyst is.
I think we have some console gamers on here. If you're like me, you've been looking at the Playstation 5 and the Xbox Zero, and thinking "Yeah, I guess they're ok. But what I really want in a game console is an integrated chicken-warmer."
Well, your prayers have been answered.
I first thought this was a joke. I really did. But multiple reliable sources claim that it is a real product.
Behold, the KFConsole:
The KFConsole is real, and it boasts one big advantage over the PS5 and Xbox Series X
Approved by Colonel Sanders himself, the KFConsole is here – and it finally solves a problem that literally no one cared about until now: how to keep your chicken warm while gaming.
The KFConsole, created in partnership with PC hardware manufacturer Cooler Master, promises to shake up the console war like a bag full of 11 herbs and spices with its built-in chicken chamber – a world’s first. It means the days of stomaching lukewarm poultry or suffering through a slightly cold piece of thigh are thankfully over. And it’s about time.
The KFC console was first teased back in June, and caused more commotion on social media than a fox entering a chicken coop. Demand, strangely, was high for a console from the long-running fast food chain, and well… here it is.
The KFConsole is designed to keep your freshly purchased food piping as you frag foes online, something which the PS5 and Xbox Series X simply can’t do (and we wouldn’t advise trying, either). The custom built cooling system extracts system heat around the outside of the chicken chamber, so the hardware stays suitably cool and your chicken stays warm.
The Bargain-Bucket shaped machine is also capable of chewing through the latest games, too. While the specs are still firmly under wraps, the console promises to have a top-end Intel CPU inside, an ASUS hot swappable mini-GPU, and an NVMe 1TB SSD from Seagate.
It means that the KFC console can run Crysis and even Cyberpunk 2077 (bugs and all), as well as I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator at an impressive 4K, 240fps.
The KFC console is a weird feat of human engineering, then, and exactly the kind of silly nonsense we need during this trying year. It reminds us of how Microsoft brought the Xbox Series X fridge meme to life (and how we can't help but want a mini fridge version).
Honestly, the KFConsole wouldn’t look out of place next to Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen systems – though the faint smell of chicken would certainly raise a few eyebrows.
Suspiciously, the console doesn’t have a release date, price or any nailed on technical specifications to share yet, although it does have a website. Nevertheless, we’re crossing our fingers that the Colonel delivers a consumer-ready product in the near future, as we’re unsure whether a heated chicken chamber would pass health and safety regulations.
While we'll have to wait and see whether the KFConsole actually makes it to market, if you're still searching where to buy PS5 or where to buy Xbox Series X, we're checking all the retailers for any new stock updates to help you secure the elusive systems as they continue to remain sold out, with stock flashing in and out.
The ATSC3 experiments are mostly being done in small markets, as there are extremely few TV sets compatible with the signal.
ATSC3, or at least the OFDM component of it, would have been awesome 20 years ago, when we first did the DTV conversion. Back then, there was an FCC mandate that all new TV sets be made compatible with the then-new ATSC signals, and there was a government-subsidy program to purchase set-top ATSC decoders for older TVs.
Today, there's none of that, and so manufacturer support for the standard is very low.
Sinclair and Scripps are both very excited about ATSC3, at a corporate level. My fear is that any TV station which switches to it is going to lose most of its OTA viewership. It's a great technology, but it's too late to do any good.
Yikes - HARD PASS!
Whenever I see advertising like: "NEXTGEN TV means viewers get the content that's most relevant to them.", all I can think of is how it's just more of the big data mining, confirmation bubble making, social media nightmare, matrix blue pill mind **** reinforcement.
Yikes - HARD PASS!
Whenever I see advertising like: "NEXTGEN TV means viewers get the content that's most relevant to them.", all I can think of is how it's just more of the big data mining, confirmation bubble making, social media nightmare, matrix blue pill mind **** reinforcement.
It's just targeted advertising, same as with every online content provider.
Frankly, it doesn't work at the moment. There's nothing wrong with the underlying tech, but the TV manufacturers aren't supporting it.
As it looked less and less certain that the current administration would be leaving the White House in 2021, Brad became morose, then despondent.
He was sick of the world -- of Covid-19, Brexit, Russian belligerence, global warming, racial tensions, and the rest of the disturbing stories that occupy media headlines.
Brad decided he'd had enough and said his goodbyes.
He drove his car into his garage and then sealed every doorway and window using plastic sheeting and duct tape. He got back into his car and wound down all the windows, selected his favorite radio station, started the car and revved it to a slow idle. Two days later, a worried neighbor peered through his garage window and saw him in the car. She notified the emergency services and they broke in, pulling Brad from the car.
A little sip of water and, surprisingly, Brad was in perfect condition, but his Tesla had a dead battery.
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Didn't we have an audio thread around here somewhere? Hi-Fi audio? Swear i saw it in the past....
Anyway, someone gave me this equipment. From some brief internet searching, it seems like this stuff is pretty dang rare. Gotta love reading through forum posts from the early 2000s. I found a couple pieces for sale on ebay and it seems like this stuff is worth some money.
Anyone into this stuff? I'd love to use it, but i just don't think i have big enough speakers for it really stretch it's legs.
Edit* I still have all it's original packaging.
Crown makes excellent pro audio amplifiers. Their D45 and D75 have been a de-facto standard in radio & TV stations for longer than I've worked in the business. Replace the pots and the capacitors once every decade or two, and then put 'em back in the rack.
I've never used any of their consumer gear. Looking at the back panel, it doesn't appear much different, apart from all of the connections being unbalanced.
Back before radio stations started caring about OSHA, we used to install D45s as headphone amps.
I've been preparing to say "**** you" to the company which installed the fire protection system at my transmitter suite at Hancock for some time. And this ain't some bit player. They're one of the big names in the Chicago fire protection market. But they're just smarmy as hell, and have a weaselly disposition about them.
Mind you: I pay them an annual contract to inspect, service, and maintain that system. It's one of those things that I just don't have time to deal with, so it's easier to pay someone else to worry about it for me. I have no problem with that. Me paying someone else to keep track of my fire protection systems is a totally legitimate business model.
The last inspection was last month. We paid for that inspection, as usual.
Last week, I get a report which says that the filter cartridge on the VESDA* system is expired, and needs to be replaced. $131 for the part, and $618 to install it. .
* = fancy smoke-detector that draws air into a central unit with a pump from sampling-points all around the room, and shines a laser through it. It is, in seriousness, the best money can buy.
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Now, to be clear, I don't give a **** about $618. I have spent more than that while taking a ****. Not kidding. Unzip, start the stream, phone rings, answer with left hand, hear description of problem, give an order on how to solve it, put phone away, stream ends, two shakes, tuck and zip. That was a $7k ****.
It's the principle of the matter. If you're going to try to **** me, at least tell me that my hair is nice and soft, and that you like the color of my shirt, as well as how it fits me.
After my first email, which was phrased along the lines of "I think there may be an error on this quote. $618 to install a filter? Would you please check on this for me?" they replied back that service calls are a four hour minimum, but they will graciously cut that in half because they have a job in the building next week anyway.
After much deliberation, I sent them the following: .
Eric, what's puzzling me is this:
[Company name] installed this system.
[Company name] has maintained / inspected this system since it was installed.
Given that the usable lifetime of these filters is known and documented, it seems that [Company name] should know, in advance, when it's time for one to be replaced.
So, I guess what I'm asking is whether [Company name] is not keeping track of the service-life of components in our system, or merely electing to send technicians out to perform inspections without them being equipped with the service parts which they know will need to be replaced?
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