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On 11/10/2021 at 6:21 PM, Mainecoons said:

I've had this thought it might be cost effective to get a small electric utility car and add sufficient panels to keep it charged.  Has anyone here looked at that?

 

Maybe a small utility car would work but a normal Tesla/Leaf does not work unless you got a whole pile of panels or do not drive much. It was much cheaper to buy a cheap small good quality city car like a March/Micra. But we don't drive much.  I guess the question is how much juice does your utility car take to figure out how many panels you would need. What works in Seattle with cheap dam power doesn't work here due to ridiculous electricity prices.  Friends added panels to established solar system and they still went to DAC with Tesla.  You got some calculating to do. And while  I don't count value of driving electric you might feel differently. 

59 minutes ago, Jubilacion said:

Those are the exact numbers I came up with a couple days ago when I looked on line.... and it said delivery "early 2022". They certainly aren't giving $$ it away, even here in Mexico.

It's not that I want Elon Musk to keep his spot in the top billionaires club, but we live in Tlachichilco area (20 mins east of Chapala) and our internet sucks on a good day. I've been following the Starlink progress in the States and would be thrilled to have anything that resembles consistent strong service.

Suggestions welcome! Does anyone know how you can share this type of service with a neighbor to split the cost up --- WIFI extenders?

You bury a cat six cable (internet cable) from your house to the other house.  Put an access point at the other house and plug your end of the cable into the starlink box assuming it has more than one internet jack on back.  If it doesn't you have to add a hub to your house to split the signal.  Even if you don't understand my blah blah my point is its very doable and lowers monthly cost to 60 USD or so for each house.

17 hours ago, mudgirl said:

Anyone can check their bank account online. I honestly don't know anyone who still gets mailed statements.

BBVA/Bancomer requires a smart cell phone and pesters you with ads.  The little electronic dongle that allowed one online doesn't work anymore.

Steren has high and low  capacity NIMH AAA that I bought for my panasonic phones.   Phone never runs out now.  These are good quality.

1 hour ago, sunnyvmx said:

It wasn't his Bancomer. It was BofA. I pay my rent with a check from BofA each month and my landlord received notice that he would pay a fee now for checks over $500. So now I write 2 checks each month. I think this is all coming from the bank trying to minimize the new reporting requirements. 

For people on BOA please read email sent recently  showing changes coming up in November.   For example now 5 bucks for most money transfers.   etc etc etc so now we will do one 5000 a month instead of three transfers to XE.  Sorry for the drift but the once great money transfer policy is going to be history soon.

9 hours ago, mudgirl said:

He didn't learn anything. He blames the bank and warns others to be wary of Mexican banks, for his own failure to pay attention to the terms of his account or to ever look at his bank statements. And all that cost him was $50.

They don't send out statements anymore and have not for years.   Only way unless you let them on your cell phone is to ask a banker and that usually requires a wait.

While they have branches everywhere they are a giant pain in the ### and they seem to be driving everyone to Intercam.   Disclaimer I have accounts at both banks.

1 hour ago, cedros said:

My Mexican neighbours say to put cloro down the drains but would not chloro kill good bacteria which are supposed to be doing the digesting.

Same for drano with a septic tank.  

8 hours ago, ACD said:

The PCR................

 

Deleted by MOD5

 

Your source sucks.

You can muffle or unmuffle a jake/exhaust  brake.  The real loud ones are the un muffled type. 

Not happy about the very large electronic sign that they put on roof.  Who cares during day but it needs to be turned down at night.  

It was a configuration error. 

1 minute ago, tomgates said:

Ajijic weather site says 2.82"

Difference in local weather we only got 1.18 inches in SE SAT at 7am.

.55 inches in SE SAT.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have apparently all gone down in a major outage.

The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms all stopped working around 11:30 a.m. ET Monday morning according to the site Down Detector. The outage affects nearly 7 billion users between the three platforms.  

Users going to Facebook's site saw an error page or an onscreen message that said, "Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can."

Instagram and WhatsApp are not showing new or updated content. On Instagram, messages including "Couldn't Refresh Feed" or  “5xx Server Error” appeared.

Facebook did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.

From USA today

16 hours ago, Alexito10 said:

Thanks. Any one have an idea why the water smells and tastes badly? Only the RO filtered water tastes good.

It could be a cheap carbon/charcoal filter.  Try replacing it with a Block carbon filter.  

15 hours ago, Alexito10 said:

We're in search of a new company to help us with an existing water purification system. For the main house we have combination of carbon and UV light with RO under the kitchen sink. We had to install the RO system because the main house water filtering through the carbon filters and UV tastes terrible and has a weird smell.

It's been checked out by the supplier who installed the system said it was fine. He said possibly the water should be checked for arsenic. We have not done this. Filters have been changed, etc. We live in Chula Vista.  Our neighbors say their water is fine.

Any thoughts on this problem and recommendations for a different supplier? We think the problem may be in the filtration or ?? Can PM me if you like. Many thanks!

If you have RO at the sink you don't need to worry about arsenic.  If you depend on your carbon/charcoal filter to do so it won't. They do have specific filters for arsenic but normal filters around here are not this kind of filter.

1 hour ago, johanson said:

Hey,  Mostlylost, what is an Android? I think I saw some once in a toy store, but I am  not sure.

Google stuff.  Can be watch, TV Box hooked up to internet etc etc.

Leather shop east of colon on lake side of carraterra in Ajijic.

8 hours ago, ACD said:

Why bother with it at all?

Because you can't go to USA without one.  (edited by mod)

Thanks

Old site is gone.  Anybody know the URL for the new site?

Any decent size truck I drove had the emergency brake drum on the driveshaft not like a car.  No way is this enough to stop in a hurry.

I just moved 40,000P from money transfer service to BBVA.  Why don't you go ask your bank?

3 hours ago, cricket said:

https://clearchoice.one/ is the link to my account and their main website.  We have had it for months and are very pleased.  We have three tv's, three firesticks.  No contract, just monthly fee.

Be aware when you sub is up it just stops working. No email note or anything.  Pay for another subscription and it comes back.   

1 hour ago, happyjillin said:

If I can read my Spanish lab test results and understand them so can any doctor.

Agreed!!  Chopo results easy to translate.