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Jac 1 year ago
So I went to the cell service store today to test a new service. I was told the provider is more of a post paid company, and as a result my preference for pre-paid service would result in tower deprioritization and sub-par service. They offer a 14 day low cost test drive, fine…let’s do that. Twelve days later I go in to wrap up the test drive and I’m there for three hours to accomplish that feat. No I won’t agree to you dating the end of my service for a month later than today’s date, that defeats the purpose of the 14 day trial and validates a long term contract that I don’t want. I try to be patient with the remote worker whose thick Indian accent makes communication really challenging after being asked to carry on this conversation on a store employee’s phone…yeah, sure, I want a device near my face that has your filth all over it, I mean I’m filthy too, but it’s MY filth! The service itself is really good, the next day I went and bought a pre-paid SIM. Guess what, the service is just as good. Take away, you don’t have to let them rope you in to financial or contractual commitments to get great service for the same or lower cost, they push this because it forces you to commit for years to their business. #cellservice #cellular
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Jac 1 year ago
I see content on TikTok that makes me smile. I don’t interact and feed the algorithm, I don’t provide personal details, it adjusts as I show time preference to content that interests me, typically heart warming human experiences. Is the proposed ban as simple as keeping people from relating and sympathizing with one another? We can’t unite against a corrupt government if we’re all afraid of each other. #humanity #anthropology #socialmedia #tiktok
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Jac 1 year ago
For those off-grid folks who have a 240V water heater but one inverter with 120V single pole power here is a solution. You can hook the red and white wires to the neutral bus, the green to the ground, and the black wire to your line circuit 15A circuit breaker. Because Ohm’s law works consistently, the water heater will function at roughly 1200W. It will take four times as long to heat the water, but a large tank will allow reasonable daily use. If you wish to test the concept and have a multimeter, unhook the water heater, turn the thermostats all the way up and test the resistance red wire to black wire, then connect red to white and test resistance from black to the connected red and white. It should read roughly 12.6 ohms either way. 1200W/120V=10A #homesteading #offgrid #waterheater
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Jac 1 year ago
The Keet messenger application is pretty badass. So is the Pear developing platform. #keet #messenger