SpacemanLost

I am curious if there has been any confirmation that the Ultra 5 250K plus and Ultra 7 270K Plus are it or if there will be any more Arrow Lake Refresh SKUs.

I am setting up a couple more small form factor builds that are power limited to the 65w/182w CPUs due to the power supplies and GPUs. I was going to get Core 7 Ultra 265s, but the workloads could actually make use of the extra e-cores, and well... the Core Ultra 9 285 is still nearly $600. (and DDR5 costs have not helped).

One of my kids will be attending University in Oklahoma next year and I am looking at alternative housing options for her. She's a few years older than the typical undergrad, and roommates are a no-go for a few reasons, so the traditional dorm or shared apartment is out.

Looking around, there are a several RV campgrounds within ~15 miles of campus, and one of the options we are considering is staying at one in a fifth wheel for the school year(s).

I'd appreciate hearing the about experiences of anyone who has done that or something similar, especially about any issues or challenges unique to that kind of situation.

PSA post: I discovered last week that it is nearly impossible, as an individual citizen, to ship anything with a large lithium battery around the US. Large meaning anything over 100 to 160 watt hours total, or over 2 grams of lithium per cell.

If "you" are a company that makes a product, like a Solar Generator, you can setup a business arrangement with UPS, FedEx, etc to ship 'dangerous goods' and you gotta follow a bunch of procedures, rules and documentation, etc.

If you are an individual who say just bought a power station/Solar generator that has 1k w/hr Lithium Battery and you wanted to reship it somewhere else that's too far away for you to just drive it over drive- even if it is st

I am a divorced dad, and a fan who has never seen MCR live. That was about to change, and now it won't.

---

For the last 14 years, my ex had prevented my children from coming to visit me, only allowing me to come to them for visitation. I've encountered plenty of armchair redditors who say that I could have just done this or that and it would have been completely different, but they have no real world experience with a high conflict individuals basically waging war, parental alienation, family courts and dirty tricks that include false allegations. But discussing that is getting off track.

My adult daughter remains alienated from me, but my son has had enough of his mom's (r

Bear with me for a couple paragraphs while I give the context for the question.

My wife and I haven't made the RV plunge yet, but are hoping to try 4-6+ months a year on the road in about 2 years once the youngest is off to university after this year. We've been doing our homework towards this since before the pandemic, and are pretty solidly sure that we want to try this for a couple years minimum, if for nothing else than to visit a good number of places we've always wanted to go and see, with the time and freedom to do it at our leisure. Financially, let's just say that we're fortunate to be able to do it without worry.

The other day, the topic came up about the amount of ongoing "ove

This is the hard lesson learned post.

A few months ago, we got a new 17 cu ft Freezer, standing style, and put it in the garage

I did the former and got a remote temperature sensor thanks to another reddit user's post, but I forgot to set the alarm for when temps go outside a range you specify.

You can guess what happen the other day - the door didn't fully close after someone probably got something out of it and no one caught it. Discovered it a day later, and a check of the remote sensor display (it also shows highest and lowest temps) showed it got up to 58 degrees f inside, and a quick check of the bins of carefully vacuum sealed meats reveal they all had the the squishyness of cus

This is for u/DoubleDVa and anyone else who is interested in data on just how crazy bidding on houses has gotten in the metro Seattle area.

Link is to the Seattle Real Estate Podcast, specifically this episode where they go over stats on how many homes have sold for over $25k, $100k and $300K over the asking price.

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7kW5B44jRw

For readers unfamiliar with the Seattle/King County, WA , the geography of the area plays a bigger factor than in a lot of other markets. The hills, mountains, lakes, Puget sound, greenbelts and the like render the area like a fancy map in a strategy-war game. There is very little flat land to be had, and commuting fr

Like most people, stuff I've needed from the grocery store, etc hasn't always been there when I've gone shopping for it.

Recently there were a couple items the grocery store was unexpectedly out of (a certain cooking oil, specific spice mixes) and I decided to see if I just order them from Amazon.

Earlier this year, I installed the "keepa" extension ( https://keepa.com/#! ) in my web browser, which tracks the availability and prices - new, used, and 3rd party - for virtually everything on Amazon, and presents it in a interactive graph that appears just below the description on the amazon product page.

When I pulled up the cooking oil, and looked at the keepa graph, I saw that it had be

Saw this update vido from Haylett RV - aka "Josh the RV Nerd" earlier today:

INDUSTRY UPDATE: Running Out of WHAT NOW?!

First a shout out to u/chunkymonkeychow for his post here 3 days ago in the thread: What is striking you as odd or concerning you right now? calling out the major raw material shortages of vinyl, ethylene, etc impacting plastics, resins, glues etc. This post is basically a follow on to that.

tl;dr - RV manufacturers (mostly located Indiana/Ohio) can't get the raw materials needed to make the fiberglass end caps on RVs an