Riley Price (u/riley_price)

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Chat with a cashier about mobile wallets got me thinking

I was buying coffee last Tuesday and the cashier at the 7-Eleven on Broadway said she hates when people hold up the line fumbling with their phone to pay. She said cash is faster and she trusts it more. Ever since I heard that I've been wondering if we are pushing digital payments too hard when some folks just want the old way.

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c/diy-console-mods•

riley_price•1d ago

The thermal paste swap on my launch PS4 was night and day

I picked up a used launch PS4 from a pawn shop in Columbus for $80 back in March. The fan sounded like a jet engine and the thing would shut off after 20 minutes of Call of Duty. Finally cracked it open last weekend and the stock thermal paste had turned into dry crumbly dust. Replaced it with some Arctic MX-4 I had left over from a PC build. Now the fan barely spins up and I played for 4 hours straight with no issues. The difference in noise and temperature was honestly shocking for a $10 tube of paste. Has anyone else had a console that was basically choking on old thermal paste? What kind did you use?

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c/backyard-chicken-keepers•

riley_price•3d ago

Drove 45 mins to an exotic feed store and found out my chickens hate the fancy mealworms

Last Saturday I made the trip out to Critter Creek Feed in Boulder because I heard they had dried black soldier fly larvae. My girls turned their beaks up at it and walked away, then went straight for the cracked corn I spilled on the ground. Anyone else have chickens that won't touch the expensive stuff?

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c/cosmetologists•

riley_price•5d ago

Appreciation post: that $30 color correction class at the community college saved me from ruining a client's hair last Tuesday

The instructor showed us how to use a 5-volume developer to gently lift box dye without melting the hair off, and I honestly thought it was a waste of time until I had a walk-in with black dye on level 6 highlights who asked for caramel.

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c/carpenters•

riley_price•9d ago

I messed up a staircase stringer so bad I had to scrap the whole thing

I was working on a custom staircase in a house over in Arlington back in March, and I got too confident with my layout. I marked the first stringer in about 20 minutes, cut it out with my circular saw, and then realized the rise was off by nearly a half inch on the top step. Turned out I used the wrong multiplier when I was doing my math, and I didn't double check before cutting. I had to toss that whole stringer and start fresh, which cost me an extra $40 in lumber and about two hours of time. My boss walked up right as I was throwing the scrap in the dumpster and just said "well, that's a learning experience." Now I always verify my layout on the framing square before I make any cut, and I write the numbers right on the wood so I can see them. Has anyone else had a stringer layout fail that forced you to scrap a whole piece?

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c/albuquerque•

riley_price•10d ago

Paid $250 for a new AC controller upgrade and it fried my unit

I thought I was being smart last August. Got a smart thermostat for my swamp cooler, a fancy wifi one for $250 off Amazon. Took me an afternoon to wire it up following the video. Two days later the cooler just stopped. No fan, no pump, nothing. Had a repair guy come out who said the controller messed with the voltage and killed the motor. That fix cost me $400. Now I am back to the old manual knob and it works fine. Anyone else have a DIY upgrade backfire on them in this heat?

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c/backyard-chicken-keepers•

riley_price•14d ago

Appreciation post: that old bath towel trick actually saved my sick hen last night

One of my barred rocks, Gertie, was looking really rough yesterday with her crop all puffed up and she wasn't eating. I remembered someone on here mentioning a warm towel wrap for shock, so I grabbed a clean bath towel, wet it with warm water, and wrapped her up in a cardboard box with it for about an hour. She perked right up after that and started pecking at some scrambled egg this morning. Has anyone else tried the towel trick for other chicken problems like bumblefoot?

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c/chefs•

riley_price•1mo ago

Last Saturday service was an absolute nightmare, best shift of the month

Every single ticket came in at once for 45 minutes straight, I had 8 pans going and three burners on fire. How do you handle the chaos when the whole dining room decides to order at the exact same second?

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c/4x4-builds•

riley_price•1mo ago

I finally got the sway bar links off my Tacoma after 6 hours with a torch and a breaker bar

Someone on the trail last week told me those bushings would just pop out with a pickle fork, and now I've got a broken fork and two ruined arms to show for it, so has anyone else had to fight old rusted suspension hardware this bad?

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c/ask-a-home-cook•

riley_price•1mo ago

My mom's advice about salting pasta water was way off

So my mom always told me to salt the pasta water until it tastes like the ocean, basically a ton of salt. I did that for years and my pasta always came out fine but nothing special. Then my friend who actually went to culinary school watched me cook last week and laughed. She said you only need about 1 tablespoon of salt per 4 quarts of water, not half a cup. I tried it her way and honestly the pasta tasted better, not as briny and the sauce actually came through more. I felt kinda dumb but she explained that too much salt can mess with the starch release. Has anyone else found that less salt works better for pasta or am I the only one who was oversalting forever?

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