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This is in Dallas, TX and Oncor is our utility/provider.

We're planning on an addition/remodel that likely involves rebuilding the garage. Which means we'd lose power to the home since our electric meter is on the exterior wall of our garage, connected to our load-center/breaker-panel directly behind it on the interior garage wall.

We're also in the process of a rewire. The upstairs is done, and will be starting on the downstairs soon.

I'd also like to convert the overhead power going to a weatherhead on the garage to underground (part of the addition is adding a second floor apartment above the garage).

We could probably eliminate 60% of our wiring by putting a sub-panel upstairs, and u

Just bought a 1500 Limited with the HO.

I see a few posts, but not a ton of info so thought I’d throw in my 2¢.

I’ve owned a Grand Cherokee with a Hemi V8 (don’t remember displacement), a Silverado with the 6.2L V8, and a BMW 4.4L twin-turbo V8. I’ve also owned a couple Duramax (diesel) V8s.

The BMW was the most powerful. On paper the HO is supposed to be close, but BMW is known for underrating. Wouldn’t be surprised if it actually made over 600ho at the crank. Either way it pulled much harder, but you needed to spin it up.

The HO has a lot more bottom end. It gives you that “freight train” feeling a strong V8 will. I haven’t measured it, but the Ram doesn’t feel like a 4s vehicle. It

Does anyone have any experience with this? Whom I should contact?

I want to bury our relatively low-hanging power and telecommunications (fiber) lines that run from the utility pole across the alley to our riser mast from the meter up through the garage roof.

Trenching our own property and the layout is straight-forward, but once we hit the alley, we'd need to (presumably) cut a trench across the alley and repair it in order to get to the utility pole. Or I suppose the line could be bored without the cutting, I'm not sure what's typical, but I do know quotes I've received for boring under a slab patio seemed so expensive compared to hand excavation a plumbing company has done for us in the

We have a 40,000, ~10’ deep-end pool we want to demo and fill.

We got a couple $20,000+ quotes for the job. Lots of people getting pool demos right now it sounds like.

Our budget is probably half that.

Any recommendations?

In most web frameworks on other platforms I'm familiar with, you could define a route like:

"/images/${id}-${width}x${height}.${format}"

Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't really seem possible with Axum or Poem. The best you can do is a wildcard route and then write custom Extractors.

It's not the Extractors I really have an issue with as much as the route then being much too broad and over-matching. Which feels like you're then having to write a more complex extractor to cover an entire endpoint, that you'd then call other functions in your handler with, effectively hard-coding route handling into your top-level handler.

Yo dawg, I heard you like routers so I put a router

First Rust project...

I'm generating some XML from an Askama template right now, but I'd be happy if I could just get this handler to work right now:

#[oai(path = "/healthcheck.xml", method = "get")]
async fn healthcheck_xml(&self) -> Xml<String> {
  Xml("<status>ok</status>".to_string())
}

Even better if I could get some guidance on how to implement poem_openapi::types::ToXML or ApiResponse or something so I could have:

async fn sitemaps(&self) -> Xml<SitemapsTemplate> {
  Xml(SitemapsTemplate(locations))
}

poem's IntoResponse seems straight-forward enough to implement, but that doesn't satisfy Xml<_>. I feel like all the answers are there in the sou

The second row in the X5 is a bit tight on road-trips when the front passenger would like to recline. We have a cross-country trip planned for next year with five people, and that center seat is not going to cut it.

So I have two ideas:

1. The extra adult can just fly.

2. New car time!

So I'm considering trading the X5 for an X7. I've been thinking of upgrading my 45e for a M60i for awhile now anyways. IAS in the M60i gives the X7 a very slightly smaller turning circle than my non IAS equipped 45e as far as I can find online. That gives me hope the X7 won't end up feeling like a straight-up minivan.

That's my biggest fear. I really enjoy driving the X5. It's a goldilocks size. I really

I’m not taking the car to track days. I do like a very “stuck to the road” feel in my ride which my 45e doesn’t quite have. I had a loaner 750i with some sort of M-sport package that felt amazing.

My 45e has the air suspension. I haven’t seen any of the V8s (at least locally) with that option.

So ride harshness worries me. I still want it to absorb pavement imperfections well. My partner’s iX M60 is amazing at this. Even rolling over really patchy and raw highway pavement on a drive yesterday I noticed that it transferred basically no tire drone or harshness to the cabin. It was just smooth as can be.

I definitely want the V8 though.

So without driving both X5 options myself yet, I’m h

Figured Caney Creek, ERL, etc are pretty popular destinations here so it was the best place I could think to ask. Please feel free to remove if it’s not appropriate for the subreddit.

Does anyone know why so much of the deadwood seems like unburnable “trash wood” in Ouachita? I have a kinda theory that because so much of it seems to have fungus on it, that the saps/oils are all consumed and what’s left behind is basically just fiber that doesn’t really have any fuel to give to a fire.

But if someone had an actual authoritative explanation I’d love to hear it.

I’ve never experienced anything like it outside of Ouachita National Forest but for all I know it’s common knowledge to people wh

Do you have a backyard/pool layout tool you find simple and easy to use you like?

I can google as easily as the next person, but something that would help with scale, appliances, equipment, decking, and didn't have a big learning curve (I've been procrastinating learning SketchUp for years) would be great.

I’m working on relocating my pool equipment. On the old system several lines were capped off and nothing was labeled. At one point there was a heater but it was removed before we bought the house.

So now that I’ve had a pit excavated around the plumbing I’m trying to figure out what all lines I’ve got and I have a couple questions.

First is, there’s a threaded fitting right at/above the pool waterline that one of the pipes goes to. Not a jet or connected to them as far as I can tell. Anyone have an idea what that might be? Some sort of dump return for recirculating?

The second is I have four threaded fixtures in the spa. There are two pipes that go to them from the pool equipment. One w

I'm moving my pool equipment over to a concrete pad along with my generator. I'll be adding a heater in a couple weeks hopefully. I just wanted to confirm that my plumbing plans are sound and see if anyone had any alternative advice since pricing on valves and shipping times can get pretty taxing!

The "Feature" valve is for a potential water-feature. I doubt we'll actually end up using it and I'll probably omit it from the plans. "JETS" refers to the main pool return jets, not the spa jets. Those are labeled "SPA" in the diagram. Hopefully everything else is pretty self-explanatory.

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I've had foundation and plumbing work done a handful of times that meant a company sent out a guy (or team of guys for foundation work) to bring a shovel and excavate a large hole all by himself.

Any advice on hiring someone that does that sort of thing? I need to excavate my pool plumbing so I can re-plumb and move the equipment a few feet over. The plumbing and materials is the easy part so I don't really feel like paying a pool company thousands when the guy doing the hard part probably didn't make more than a couple hundred bucks for the day.

Does anyone have any personal experience to share? I did a search but only came up with rental questions after TV accidents, and didn’t see any actual stories of personal experiences with rentals.

The issue is I’ve got an offer for my 2020 that’s within a couple hundred dollars of what I bought it for. Driving around a truck for a couple years for just the interest and operating costs seems like a great deal so I’d really like to jump on it, but that would leave me without a TV for maybe a half dozen trips over the next 18 months (optimistically?) until GM refreshes the HD lineup.

The cost of a weekly rental looks to be about the same as the truck payment, so even if all the trips we migh

These are just my opinions. It could use some serious editing. I just wrote these down as they came to me.

tl;dr: If I could hand back the keys today and get my money back, I probably would. It’d be the responsible thing to do. But I do like the car quite a bit. It’s just a terrible value at the current price IMO.

Go in with realistic expectations though, and if you’re still sold, I think you’ll enjoy the vehicle. It’s just a tough car to be passionate about.

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Pro S with Gradient trim. White exterior, “galaxy black” interior (with brown accents).

Misses

• Rear Visibility is terrible
• Reverse Camera is a distorted fish-eye view with no correction. Not sure I’ve ever seen that