Surge Protector Power Strip, One Beat Ultra Thin Flat Plug Extension Cord 5ft, 6 Outlets 3 USB Ports(1 USB C), 3 Sided Outlet Extender for Home Office Travel Dorm Room Essentials
Lookit these cute little mfers, how could you not
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We recently got a 3D printer, so it’s kind of just filament, filament, filament, filament, random part upgrade, filament, filament…I think you get the picture.
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Good heavens, this is such a great/terrible idea : ) For my part, this will just be an endless parade of randomness and embarrassment…
Socks for my son (10 pairs? because it’s 10 for $17 or 4 for $10, so…), Airborne (because other humans keep getting sick) (roll higher Cons, people!), and a(nother!) pair of running shoes for my wife (because she’s bought three in the past two weeks and none of them fit right).
@js619 that surge protector strip looks great. Everything should be flat-plug at a right angle.
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Not if they’re 3-prong…
Amazon put it in my hand right now….
Got some sleeves for 7th citadel
Medium Square Sleeves (80x80mm) -… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CFAE3IM?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
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Required “not today,” but a month or so ago I’d had enough of eero’s nonsense. They used to be a great mesh system with fantastic support, but kind of took the proverbial long walk off a short pier when Amazon bought them. They were laggy, hard to attach new devices to, and began randomly dumping the whole network.
After much research and hand wrangling, I went with the Linksys Velop 6E system -
Linksys Velop Pro WiFi 6E Mesh… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6N3TM8T?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Pros- easy setup, look nice, ok app. Full stop.
Cons- entire network randomly fails at least thrice a day without reason BUT will still appear to be connected, which was tons of fun.
After several days of my wife and daughters yelling that they couldn’t get online, which begets the question as to why tf I’ve been christened the local IT guy (the pay here sucks and the hours are unpredictable), I returned them and splurged.
That’s right, folks, I bought the Asus ET12.
ASUS ZenWiFi Pro ET12 AXE11000… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QRLZMMH?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Strong enough to power your entire block with looks and size to match. They’ll irradiate your neighbors for a 5 square mile radius with WiFi, cancer, AND blindness from the fuckboi lights they put out. Strong WiFi and EDM lighting? Why pick one when you can have both?
Pros - the best WiFi I’ve ever gotten. But no joke, you won’t be able to connect to CarPlay till you’re two blocks away from your house cause the signal is that strong. App is also fantastic, with way more settings than I should be allowed to touch even as the house IT guy. Luckily there’s a factory reset button.
Cons- I’m not kidding when I say they’re the size of a Mercedes and just as expensive. They’re a tiny bit smaller than an Xbox X but not by much. The lights are more obnoxious than the latest songs my kids are listening to, but thankfully can be turned off without protest, unlike the songs. Only issue here is that the color of the lighting shows the status, so I did leave the den one on. Jokes on you when you sleep over, Nana.
eta: should probably crosspost this to hardware but no clue how on my iPhone. Insert tech support joke here.
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Speaking of routers, I bought this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BKRFKMM1?th=1
Really like it. Supports the 1,000,000 WiFi connected devices in our house.
Cool things are setting up multiple networks to keep IOT devices separate, I can see who and what devices are connected (and name them), and it has easy to use parental controls to limit internet usage of gaming devices, etc. This can all be done remotely. And I can give my work computer priority access so streaming does not interrupt my work meetings.
I bought a second one and setup it up as an access point (wired second location) and it was super simple to do (relatively speaking).
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11,000 meg per second??? I can only assume your kids are mining the bitcoin.
Wait, I think your network is showing up on my options list…
I have no idea how this happened at my house either. But I have somehow won the role for life.
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I hate this job and want to quit but my boss won’t let me.
Pretty sure she sexually harasses me too but in what can only be described as a conflict of interest the boss appears to be head of Human Resources too.
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Two refurbished 32gb iPod Touches for my daughters to take to sleep away camp.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVHX8XCH?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
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My most fun Amazon purchase this year was a Meta Quest 3 bundle so that I could play VR Golf+. My latest Amazon purchase was a dozen Srixon Q Star Tour Divide golf balls so that I can play IRL on my annual golf retreat with the guys next weekend. Hope I don’t lose them all.
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Today I WOULD have supported Jeff…
Homeworld 3 Collector’s Eddition
Especially the Space Boomerang of HW3 CE would look nice aside my HW1/2: Remastered CE Space Banana…
But the Price…(and I have not the real estate place in my cupboard to put the stuff there)
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–Gift card for a PTA function
–Two mysteries for my wife’s mother for Mother’s Day (and which I hope are one day loaned to me, because I’m a horrible person):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1728258871
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1728278562
–A baseball book for me because I’m about to finish the tome that is the writer’s previous book, The Baseball 100, and this one looked good as well. I am not much of a baseball fan these days, but I was back in the eras that he often writes about.
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A new battery for my lawnmower, and a face shield for when I’m breaking up the concrete step on the front of my house which is crumbling.
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I envy the amount of lawn you have! It takes me about 10 minutes to mow the back and 10 for the front.
I am very fortunate. We wanted to live off in the woods somewhere, but also close to a giant employer and walkable to everything. The compromise we ended up with is a narrow lot in a moderately dense area, but where ours happens to be unusually deep due to the streets bending a bit. So, in the summertime, when all the underbrush is in leaf and we don’t look right or left, it can still feel like we’re off in the woods, but the kids can walk to school my wife can walk to work if she’s feeling ambitious.
Sadly, emerald ash borer reached our town shortly after we bought the house, and most of the big trees in the back are ash, so we’re slowly letting the farther ones back die while treating the closer ones, with the aim of letting the way back develop some mid-size trees before we let the closer ones go.
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The growth of EAB has been something to watch from my vantage across the pond. Glad I don’t have to deal with it.
It does suck. New York is 61% wooded, and 8% of those trees are ashes, which is the highest density of vulnerable trees anywhere EAB’s ever been. 99% of untreated ash trees in EAB-infested areas die, so roughly a million acres (maybe 4,000 square kilometers) of trees are doomed.
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I live in Westchester NY and we have 2 acres in forested area. We have not had an Ashe problem, but a couple of the Birches were sick last year and we had to have them removed before it spread. I guess there is a Birch problem also.
Trijicon RMR type 2 in coyote brown for an offset mount on a scoped rifle build. Expensive, but I’m a big proponent of buy once cry once when it comes to gun stuff. This build will probably become my goto work gun and live in my truck once it’s done, so I’m willing to put in the additional dollar.