ApisMellifera

I have an old dell laptop that I use for HA, Plex, Immich, etc. I swapped it to Unbuntu earlier this year and have been happy with it.

I had never messed with Linux before so it's been an adjustment but I'm happy with it.

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My wife wanted to get married during football season. So I knew LSU always has open date before Bama, so I convinced my wife to get married on the 30th because it would be right before her favorite holiday, Halloween. Til this day she doesn’t realize what I did.

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Not only that, but you've pretty much guaranteed that you always have a free weekend for the anniversary dinner. Smart play!

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It's closer to Pecan Island than it is to Hell.

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Have you been to Shreveport?

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If he puts in his own airport he’ll have less air traffic to deal with.

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I’d think they would be using barges for a lot of the materials.

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I see this morning after I did all of that that someone posted to run it under load for half an hour so I may go back and do that.

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Yes, just make sure you plug something in you don't care if it gets screwed up. If it isn't running right, the "dirty" power could cause issues and you won't know until you run it with a load on. I usually plug in an old ice cream maker or something else that's cheap to replace.

There's a 13 page thread on the Tech Board about installing lights outside.

Also, Quindor's site is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to these projects. This LED power calculator is especially useful.

I went with 12v pixels around the front of my house so I didn't have to run as many injection points. It wasn't extremely difficult, just very time consuming. The biggest pain was the channeling. I used vinvyl j-channel and drilled +400 holes 1 by 1. It would have gone much faster if I had made a jig.

It's well worth it though. I don't have to put up christmas lights each winter (or take them down) and I can change the display for LSU games, 4th of July, etc. I have it connected to my Home Assistant so I can control it remotely and put it on a schedule to automatically turn on and off when I want. I also bought a mini controller to keep on our camper when we hang lights on our canopy tent.

I've had them up for 2 years now I think and have only had to make 1 repair.

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I have centipede.

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Careful with the fertilizer then. Centipede is known as the lazy man's grass in that it is generally low maintenance. Slow growing and doesn't like a lot of fertilizer, it thrives in poor soil where other grasses struggle. Over fertilizing is one of the most common ways people kill centipede. Also, it's going to take a while for centipede for really fill in.

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If I laid a Bermuda centipede mix, it doesn’t come up looking like a weird mixture?

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If you do this, depending on how much sun your lawn gets and if you fertilize regularly, expect for the bermuda to take over. Bermuda is the opposite of what I stated above about centipede. It's a nitrogen hog and fast grower. As long as you have enough sun, water, and nitrogen that bermuda will eventually overtake the centipede.

You have a choice to make, bermuda or centipede. If you have limited sun and want a low maintenance yard that you don't need to mow often, centipede is your choice. If you have full sun and don't mind fertilizing a couple of times of year and mowing 2X a week, bermuda would be the option.

Me personally, as long as I have full sun, I'm going bermuda. It is quick to recover from damage (dogs and kids) and weed control is very easy in that celsius knocks out 90% of weeds.

I'm assuming it's under a covered patio.

Have you tried an anti-glare screen?

Photodon

I hope it isn't true and won't panic yet until something more reputable comes along reporting it.

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what is the legality of essentially selling part of a public entity - LSU - to a private entity - private equity?

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I would assume they are just selling LSU's interest in the media rights, not actually an interest in LSU itself.

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$100,000,000 now to give up 10% of future media rights money forever?

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Perhaps it's current media rights, which would expire under a different contract with ESPN? No clue how much the current media rights are worth though.

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I noticed while spraying that some of the especially waxy plants would bead everything off the leaves and little would get to the base of the plant close to it.

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Salt on the leaves most likely isn't what's killing, it's the salt going in the soil and being taken up by the roots.

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It also rained heavily about 7 hours after I sprayed it.

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Well, that might have diluted it depending on how much it rained.

A month ago my water valve on the back of my fridge/freezer sprung a leak. 1 drip every 2-3 seconds. It must have been there for a while because on the other side of the wall is our closet and the carpet was soaked pretty good.

Luckily I have LVP so no damage in the kitchen and I was able to pull the carpet, dry, and replace the pad underneath. The fridge part was $30 and 10 minutes to swap out.

Overall, the biggest PITA was this all happened 2 days before going out of town so I was on a time crunch. All in all, it wasn't bad and could have been much worse. It definitely makes me want to integrate some leak detectors into my Home Assistant setup though.