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bummer, I have a wifi only iPad 7 that I posted on market place today
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first thing i thought too.
Call police and Lawyer, THEN do this
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I've had one for years, it's pretty simple once you get it setup and surprisingly affordable (look up an ANET A8) Most things I've wanted to print, thingiverse.com has it. If you are designing your own thing, that can get trickier. My biggest complaint honestly is that it takes up so much table top space.
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savings account, gave the wife her half of it and I put mine in my savings... not sure what she did with hers. Would be nice if she used it on bills for a change though
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Another thing to consider potentially. I've been work at home for four plus years now with the career gig and first three years I did the exact same, hunted down the best bang for buck office chair as I spend 9-10 hours a day in it.
Year ago I got sick of sitting constantly and started enjoying walks on my lunch around my immediate neighborhood so I got the idea to build my own homemade hydraulic treadmill desk so I could walk AND work both at the same time. It's huge at 9 feet long with big twin monitors mounted to arms that I can swing from left to right side. Right side, I can set the desk to sitting height and sit as much as I want. When I want to walk a bit, I raise the entire desk up to 52 inches which is standing height when on top of the treadmill, swing my monitors to the left side and have a walking treadmill under it with a wireless keyboard and mouse.
So I literally walk all day and work now. Not fast, as you can only use a keyboard and mouse at 2.2 to 2.4 mph accurately but it completely changed my day to day work life. SOO much more productive and energy. Started just using for an hour or two here or there and sitting rest of the day but it built up to the point where I haven't sat down now in the chair for over three months and I walk 12 to 15 miles daily easily. Combines light exercise and work, two birds and one stone ya know? Couple weekends ago I was curious to see my walking endurance after months of the above and went for a stroll and didn't stop for 17 hours and hit 100,000 steps in a day, total of 47.05 miles. Couldn't have walked even three or four miles ago a year ago without effort. Now I don't even feel it until mile 20 plus..... nor am I a health nut or anything by any means.
Likely not an option for most to build a homemade, giant hydraulic desk but there are lots of companies out there that make treadmill desks with varying price points. Worth looking into.... you very likely would find yourself using it far more then you think.
Also the first thing I ever built with wood....discovered I both enjoyed it and had a knack from it but only from sheer stubbornness to learn no matter how many mistakes I make and not make the same mistake twice. Ha
Please tell me more about the treadmill you are using.
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following as as said above the life of an IT guy, 12+ hour days are the norm and although my chair is "ok" I really need something more comfortable.
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I've thought the whole thing was an overreaction from the start and I completely understand what a virus could do to the population, I also understand the bigger picture of the cost of shutting down the entire planet of billions to save a million or two.
I'd hate to have to make those decisions and I'm shocked at the way we went because to stop it spreading we can't do enough and to do it half assed is just dumb.
to me it feels "half assed" as people aren't following the guidelines that we were given.
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Not sure if I should be really giving my opinion on this because of 2 reasons, 1. I have an auto-immune disease so I feel that people should keep their ass in their home and 2. I have a job that allows me to work from home so I'm not feeling the economic pinch yet. But I'm having a hard time understand why people are all bitching about their jobs because they are to be getting the stimulus check that is more than my mortgage and utility costs AND getting unemployment so from an outside prospective it feels like people just want to complain but again, I'm not quite in that situation since I can work from home and I'm extremely high risk of dying if I catch it. I think we've been doing a DECENT at best job at staying at home as the few times that I have ventured out for the grocery store or something necessary I've seen WAY too many people out and about. Can anyone that has a different prospective chime in and help me understand the other side of the coin. My thoughts, Stimulus check of 4 people in a family is over 3k plus unemployment and if it's 12 bucks an hour that check will be just shy of 2k before taxes so that's 5k in a month, how are people not able to live off of that?
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It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people who have no problem managing their own 401ks can't look at a trend line and figure out the obvious conclusions. This website has been making the rounds, it's one of the models Ohio is using to make decisions. It does predict a flattening off of new cases and deaths, based on our current policies, with the "light at the end of the tunnel" being around mid-May, May 15th-ish. At that point nearly 2000 Ohioans will have died.
No big deal, right? That's only 2/3 of a 9/11. Except we know that for every death we have about 10 hospitalizations. That's 20,000 hospital beds, and upthread someone bragged that we should have 9,500 free at any given moment (which I doubt is true, sadly). 9,500 minus 20,000 means 10,500 getting sent home to die, or being treated in makeshift hospitals. If we can't save those 10,500 people that's like, three 9/11s!
We're just at the beginning of a big ramp up, meaning the virus is just starting to hit critical mass. According to that model, those 9,500 empty beds that we may or may not have will be completely filled up on April 19th, 2 weeks from today. The two weeks after that are going to be an absolute shitshow. So let's just do what we're doing for another month, we can manage that in the greatest country on Earth, don't you think?
In terms of Covid-19 information I'm getting everything from DeWine/Acton and the WH task force. They talk numbers a lot because it's a concrete way to make people realize the gravity of the next month, which might just scare people into not being morons. If we're talking shark attacks or immigrant crime I'll be right there with you blaming the media for blowing shit way out of proportion, but in this case all they're doing is reporting on what's being said by our (Republican) elected leaders and their respective teams. Journalists are not qualified to develop medical treatments so I'm not sure what else you want them to do.
very true, my sister was turned away over the weekend when she is having problems breathing until her tests results come in next week. The hospital can see her labored breathing but yet choose to do nothing without a confirmed case... This makes absolutely no sense
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Right about $500, anything touching soil is pressure treated, what little bit isn't touching soil is untreated. That includes some mulch and pavers for the walkways. I'm sure it could be done for cheaper, if I'd have known it was going to add up to that much I would have thought about it a bit more, there's probably room for some cheap decking somewhere. I built each long side and situated it in place then connected the short sides to box it in, those long sides were heavy and I hated every minute of moving them around.
I put semi-permeable weed blocker stuff down under the whole thing, with 18" of dirt I'm not sure that's going to matter for the garden boxes but it should help with the walkways.
I'll get some pictures of my "plans" and get back to your PM tomorrow.
awesome thank you!
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I had them on my Camaro at one time before going with true duals on it... They are nice but frankly I appreciated more when I had the sound that I wanted all the time. Also the exhaust dumping under the car meant that whenever they were open I would just smell like exhaust which wasn't too much fun. Also like Brian said, holding the switch and the time it takes to open and close, they aren't really ideal... just get the exhaust you want to begin with.
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I also built some raised garden beds, my wife's garden was sacrificed when the new garage went in last fall so I owed her something nice. No idea how I'm going to fill these with dirt and plants with everything being locked down now.
dude, this is perfect, how much do you have wrapped up in this and did you use weather treated wood
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who would have thought corona would have made personal freedoms, guns, and manufactoring in the usa cool again.
lol, it was never uncool to me, but again, I'm not a democrat
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Wait until the sedation/analgesia supply starts wearing thin (it already is). Vents won't do you a bit of good if you can't sedate people. I believe most of this is made overseas. Might be a good time to start thinking about bringing these essential things back stateside.
my opinion, we should have brought things back state side many years ago. Hopefully this is the wakeup call that we need.
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Plaquenil and Azythromycin, yes. Zinc? doubtful.
check out the study that Dr. Vladimir Zelenko is doing
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what I'd like to know is are the doctors trying the cocktail of the malaria drug, zinc, and z-pack? I'm reading good things about it and honestly if these people are on their death beds, why not try it?
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How to solve it..everyone stay home for 21 days.
Those who have it will respond in one way or another then it stops
Or maybe 28 days later...it's a zombie movie..lol
I would agree with you except people have to be out to keep our infrastructure running (power, water, etc...) and honestly, I don't have 28 days worth of food in my house and our current grocery situation can't handle everyone going shopping to stock 28 days worth of food... hell I can't even find toilet paper right now and that isn't "essential" like food would be.
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I recently bought a set from walmart, the set was pretty reasonable considering what this stuff goes for... it was under 200 for the entire set, 5-25 plus stand.
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every trailer I've ever owned and I've owned probably 5 (My latest one is an 18 footer I bought brand new) and every single one you go get weighed then go to the BMV with it and they give you tags based off of that
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Built me a raised veggie bed today
as soon as this shit blows over, I'm going to do the same
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kind of off topic question, do you have an iPad? If so, go download Duet, it will give you a 2nd monitor through your iPad
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what size are you looking for?
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The shutdown comes tonight.
Shutdown of what? most things are already closed....
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WTB: Microsoft laptop for diagnostic software
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