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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 01:44 AM
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The laptop is awesome. I would buy another one. Almost bought one for the Wife too. Might do that a little further down the road.

Yeah, the snow wasn't great last year either, but this is way worse. The State just bought US Magnesium, and the water will be released back into GSL. Hope 30 million dollars was worth it.

https://www.fox13now.com/news/great-...reat-salt-lake
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Haven't been following , sounds like a huge undertaking. Seems like the right people are working on it as well.
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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 09:52 AM
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The GSL being full makes it snow more, so this is a good thing. I'm not a scientist by any stretch, so I dont know the science behind it... but somehow it works that way, lol.

"Lake effect snow" is the term.
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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 03:58 PM
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The cold snap killed the battery in my F150 so dead my little charger wouldn't even acknowledge there was a battery connected to it. I decided this will be the last time I fart around with this, so I ordered this. One charger to rule them all.

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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 05:02 PM
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Nice one!

Like K-tool or Century personally. Have a 25 year old K-Tool that rarely gets used


The new to me truck came with a Motorcraft, that went bad last fall almost 6 years according to the date. The truck has been parked outside since I have a few projects going inside. It's been cold as shiiiiii here as well, but haven't drove the truck in 2 or 3 weeks since the roads are wet and salted. Not worried though, spent a little extra on a Odyssey battery, like the one I had in the gen 10 Started it about 3 days ago, it didn't whip it over like it did when I first installed it , just a nice steady crank until it fired.
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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 05:18 PM
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Mine sat for two months, but I'm sure it was the below 0 temps that killed it. It's the Interstate that came in it, so it might be on its way out now.
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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 06:37 PM
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Speaking of batteries... I got this Dewalt 5AH right out of the box like this (swollen). HD exchanged it, but I had to go to the West Jordan location - roughly 30 mile drive.


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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 06:50 PM
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That looks scary. Could blow at any time.
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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 10:29 PM
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Agreed!

I took a pic of the inside of my Nimo laptop. I read that they use the same mobo for the 15 and 17, so that's why it looks like there's so much room in this (it's a 17").


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What's a Nimo laptop?
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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 10:33 PM
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A company in Deleware that makes laptops and mini PC's.

https://www.nimopc.com/

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