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The Three Captains deck is the first Ultra Deck released for the One Piece Card Game. This version of the classic starter deck comes at a higher MSRP than every other product, but it comes with plenty of goodies to make up the difference.

The Ultra Deck comes packed with three different leader cards, a pre-built starter deck, a set of ten foil DON!! cards, and an amazing deckbox featuring all three leaders: Monkey D. Luffy, Eustass Kid, and Trafalgar Law. This product is the best bang for your buck, especially when you keep in mind the excellent reprints of Red staple cards that will be excellent additions to any deck for years to come.

The last member to join the Straw Hat Pirates, Jinbe, is one of two 2,000 power counter cards in the Ultra Deck. Not only is this card great to have in your hand at all times, Jinbes When Attacking effect is a great way to get over huge blockers like OP-02 Monkey.D.Luffy.

Activating Jinbes When Attacking effect is a huge commitment, but the minus effect that he can inflict on your opponents characters will save you in a pinch, or facilitate your Trafalgar Law leader effect.

Until the release of the Ultra Deck: The Three Captains, Straw Hat Pirates decks did not have a searchable boss card for the archetype. With this Monkey.D.Luffy card, you can remove a blocker or any other obnoxious card on the board while attacking with a huge 11,000 power character.

A lot of decks have to play a big number of high-cost cards to see them as often as possible, subjecting your deck to possibly bricking, but with Luffy, you can tone down the amount of cards you play since you can search him with Nami or In Two Years!! At The Sabaody Archipelago!! Event card.

Heart Pirates cards have been in an interesting spot for most of the game. With Trafalgar Law being the only leader with the same type, and no search cards for the archetype, the card tends to be slightly lackluster. OP-05 gave the Heart Pirates a way to find pieces with When Youre At Sea You Fight Pirates!! card, making Jean Bart a great option for early-game ramp.

Jean Bart lets you rest one DON!! And gain an extra DON!! as active, letting you get to your higher-cost characters quicker, or giving you more versatile turns.

Heat might seem like an underwhelming card at first, but its actually one of the most slept-on cards in the Ultra Deck. With purple constantly returning DON!! from the field to the deck, Heat is a great character to play early on that will draw constant attention.

In a meta where 6,000 power leaders are viable, Heats constant 6,000 power is a great way to pressure your opponents without committing too much DON!! to it. Pairing this card with other ramp cards, like the five-cost Eustass Kid, can make this a deadly threat.

Theres a reason why the Ultra Deck is named Ultra. Not only do you get a set of shiny new DON!! Cards and a spiffy deck box, but you get a set of OP-01 reprints, including Roronoa Zoro.

This Zoro card is one of the best in the game, letting you attack once more with his Rush ability. The card has been fluctuating in price, being such an important staple card for red decks, but with the release of the Ultra Deck, the card is now more accessible than ever.

This version of Kid is one of the biggest threats that the Ultra Deck has to offer. At 8,000 base power, the captain of the Kid Pirates can be quite hard to remove, and the longer he stays on the board the bigger problem he becomes.

Kid, whenever he is played or he attacks, will give your leader a 1,000 power boost until the start of your next turn, making your leader a mini Whitebeard, or in Red/Purple Luffys case, a 7,000 wall to overcome.

Just like Jean Bart, Shachi & Penguin are Heart Pirates that not only boost the archetype, but are also generic ramp for any purple deck. While the effect might feel quite specific, Shachi & Penguin work excellently in tandem with the Red/Purple Trafalgar Law found in the Ultra Deck. Since Laws leader ability revolves around constantly returning three DON!! back to your deck, Shachi & Penguins ability can help you ramp back up to a healthy board state to cheat out even more four-cost characters.

The other set of reprints from the Ultra Deck is none other than the Straw Hat Crews navigator, Nami. This card is one of the strongest characters in the game solely due to the number of Straw Hat cards found in the One Piece Card Game.

Nami is such a strong card, she even saw a short stint on the banned cards list for the game. Luckily, you can play the card again and look better doing so with this stunning new artwork.

Hand control in the One Piece Card Game is one of the most important aspects of the game. In high-level play, opponents will base their attacks on the amount you can probably counter out of your hand.

Purple Trafalgar Law is a Blocker that also lets you rip two cards out of your opponents hand if they have seven or more. If you play your cards correctly, you can set your opponent back quite a bit by turn three if you go first.

Bepo can get your DON!! ramp going fairly quick and it is quite scary. Just like the Eustass Kid found in the Ultra Deck, the Heart Pirates second-in-command can activate his ability On Play and When Attacking.

As long as your opponent has more DON!! Cards than you have on their field, Bepo can add one from your deck for free. He works incredibly in decks piloted by his captain, Trafalgar Law, but he can still be used in cheeky purple decks with enough creativity.

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Over the last several years, the shape and size of mounts used in residential solar projects have changed to a lower profile attachment that can be installed over the shingle instead of slid underneath like metal flashing sheets. The next obstacle in residential solar design was expanding these top-mounted attachments that could primarily be installed on rafters onto the decking surface of the roof. Ryan Estrada, technical program outreach manager, and Nico Martinez, senior product manager at Unirac, are here to discuss whats new with solar mounting and, more specifically, the advancement of direct-to-deck attachments.

A written portion of this podcast is below but be sure to listen to the full episode on your preferred podcast service.

Nico Martinez, senior product manager, Unirac.

Nico Martinez: Were starting to see rail-less make a little bit of a comeback here in the solar racking industry. Weve also seen a big push for open channel rail systems, both of which we provide here at Unirac. But rail-less, were starting to see a lot of of our competitors starting to focus on those types of systems. There are some big pros there. It can help reduce the number of attachments, which as we all know, one of the ways that your crews get called back to a house is with roof leaks. So, if you can reduce the number of attachments that are penetrating that roof, that really helps. Then it also helps reduces labor time for crews.

Ryan Estrada: Another trend were seeing is polymeric or chemical flashings for roof attachments. Whats gained a lot of popularity now is the butyl mastic roof attachments, and these will go directly on top of the shingle. So, the benefit there is you dont have to pry nails, you dont have to risk damaging shingles in cold weather when it gets really rigid. You dont have to pop up nails and create holes and then backfill them, and its been tested and tried and true in different industries, and now its making a comeback in solar power on top of your comp shingles.

Ryan Estrada, technical program outreach manager, Unirac.

RE: An interesting topic here because the typical test standards used in the industry are made for connection into the rafter. And so the test standards havent fully caught up to what the industry is doing with deck attachment. So your typical rafter-attached test standards are ASTM 7147, which is a specification for testing and establishing allowable loads of joist hangers. And then theres 1761 which is the standard test for mechanical fasteners and wood-based materials. The gaps that we see in using these standards for direct deck is that its really limited.

NM: What weve discovered when were doing some side-by-side comparison testing with our competitors, especially on the direct-to-deck attachments, is that these loads that some of our competitors are claiming, No. 1, were having a hard time meeting, and No. 2, its in a very controlled laboratory setting. What we really tried to focus on in our testing and this is why weve taken a very strict engineering approach, I know some people may think we might be a little overly conservative sometimes but the reason that we do that is we dont want our cause the issues on your roof, on your solar, because once that starts happening, its not just bad for Unirac, but its bad for the entire industry.

RE: We can all agree that were going to have more severe weather events in the future. And were seeing a high frequency of severe weather, and we expect that to continue. Roofs are designed to withstand uniform loading, so uniform snow loads or uniform wind loads. When you attach direct to deck, youre turning that uniform load into point loads. Once you reach a certain threshold, you can actually start to weaken that roof. We really do our research and due diligence in identifying that and were not just making solar mounting systems, its an ecosystem thats tied in with building and construction, we have to follow the building codes.

Not all direct-to-deck connections are bad, right? Its just a matter of knowing what the limit is and what that threshold is.

This podcast is sponsored by Unirac

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The Finals has finally left its beta and is now on Steam for everyone to play. However, can you play it on the go with the Steam Deck?

Theres a brand new FPS multiplayer game to dig yourself into with The Finals. Finally leaving its extensive beta period, the game is now up for free on Steam.

However, theres some rotten news for those on Steam Deck. The game is running Easy Anti-Cheat, a common issue for many players on Valves handheld. We cant even launch the game to see how the performance is without reinstalling Windows.

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So the answer is no, The Finals will not work on Steam Deck due to its anti-cheat. Once developers Embark Studios and Nexon decide to flick the switch, well be able to gauge performance.

For now, if you really want to play The Finals on the go, you might need to consider other routes.

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Theres a precedent of Easy Anti-Cheat games working on the Steam Deck, however. Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Apex Legends. Weve even seen some teams shift to a new anti-cheat, just to ensure that players on Steam Deck are included.

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Valves Proton supports Easy Anti-Cheat, and even other anti-cheat developers have said that its on the game studio to push the button. Its been a running occurrence with Linux since online gaming started. Some studios dont feel comfortable with a player on an OS that in the right hands, allows for a lot of shenanigans.

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The world is ever-shifting however. More and more people are being exposed to Linux each day. As Valves handheld is still taking the world by storm, it still only accounts for 2% of the player population on Steam.

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Perhaps Nexon doesnt see the effort needed to ensure The Finals works well on the OS as a priority right now.

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The Steam Deck OLED has been on the test bench the past few weeks at Phoronix. The HDR OLED display of the updated Steam Deck handheld game console is gorgeous and was very impressed by it. On a technical level the battery life improvements are significant and one of the items I was most curious about were the power/performance implications in moving from the 7nm Van Gogh APU to a 6nm die shrink version of it while retaining the Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA2 integrated graphics. Here's a look at the performance and CPU power consumption between the Steam Deck LCD and Steam Deck OLED models not only for gaming but other Linux workloads too.

As my first set of Steam Deck OLED benchmarks, I was curious to stress the new hardware with a focus on looking at the power/performance difference of the 6nm AMD APU compared to the prior 7nm Van Gogh APU of the original Steam Deck (LCD). The 6nm APU is effectively just a die shrink with the new Steam Deck will having four Zen 4 cores (8 threads), clocking up to 3.5GHz, 8 RDNA 2 CUs clocking up to 1.6GHz, and an APU power rating of 4 to 15 Watts.

While running a wide range of workloads -- both gaming as well as other CPU/system workloads for being curious over the 6nm power/performance, I was also monitoring the SoC power consumption using the exposed PowerCap/RAPL interface. I would have also monitored the SoC temperature too for differences but it wasn't loaded on SteamOS

Both Steam Deck models were with 16GB of RAM and running the latest SteamOS rolling as of testing.

Page 1 - Introduction Page 2 - Steam Deck LCD vs. Steam Deck OLED Benchmarks Page 3 - Steam Deck LCD vs. Steam Deck OLED Benchmarks

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The Performance & Power Improvement Of Steam Deck OLED's 6nm APU Review - Phoronix

Its a Friday, were less than three weeks from Christmas, we have ourselves a full slate of NFL this weekend and Paige Spiranac is feeling festive.

Who has it better than us? Nobody, thats who.

Oh yeah we also have the most patriotic Saturday of the year on deck with the Army-Navy game set for tomorrow. My goodness. What a damn weekend!

On that note, welcome to a Friday Nightcaps where I do my best to power us all through the final hour of the work week as we all sip on our Yetis full of whiskey during the days final zoom call. Allegedly, of course.

Yes, were gonna deck the halls with Pageviews Paige Spiranac today. Nobody has the Mrs. Claus market cornered quite like she does.

Were also going to do some shopping at the Kroger and hope we dont catch a fist to the face, and then hit the Dunkin drive-thru on the way home because my experience from earlier today deserves attention.

Anything else? Well, Will Levis sister, Kelley Levis, turned 23 this week. Feel like well end class with her, if yall are good. Well see.

Keep sucking down that ice cold Yeti whiskey and settle in for a Friday Cap to cap the week. Lets roll.

Look, I know we usually start with the reason youre all here on a Friday, but Paige Spiranac is gonna have to wait a bit, because we need to discuss this drive-thru nonsense.

Ive noticed it for a while now, but admittedly thought it was more of a Starbucks thing. But lately this morning, in particular I realized its spreading like a wildfire.

The drive-thru banter needs to stop. Like, now. Immediately.

I was in the Dunkin drive-thru this morning with The First Lady and we were in somewhat of a rush. I needed my daily breakfast coffee and a nice rogue so we pulled into the Dunks line because it wasnt too long. Thought to myself, great, this will be nice and quick and well be on our way.

And then it just didnt move. We sat in the same spot for a solid five minutes before we saw any movement, and it must have taken us 15 minutes to get to the giant board to make our order. It was insanity, because there were only like three cars ahead of us.

And then we got there, and the lady queued the mic to take our order. Thats when I realized why it was taking so long

Welcome to Dunkin! My name is (dont remember, dont care) how are you doing today?

Me: Great.

Thats awesome. Im doing pretty good, too.

Me: Awesome.

Yeah always good when its Friday. Cant complain.

Me: Yep.

So, what were you thinking today?

Me: Large peppermint mocha iced, creme only, turbo shot.

Nice choice. My favorite!

Me: Yep. Id also like

How about some food today?

Me: Mhm. Yeah. I also want a bacon wake-up wrap with

Bacons the best one. Can I interest you in some hashbrowns?

Me: Yep. Wasnt done. Ill take some hashbrowns, too.

You want them loaded?

Me: Nope.

OK! Got it. Have a great day, see you at the window!

Me: Yep. Cant wait.

Im telling you, that is word for word the encounter I had this morning. It was a solid 90-second process.

The First Lady got pissed because she couldnt believe I didnt initially ask the girl how she was doing after she asked me. I said nope, not doing it. Not now, not ever. Im not there to make small talk.

People who use the drive-thru are generally in a hurry, or else theyd go in.

I dont want to make a friend during my drive-thru experience. I dont want to learn what their favorite food or drink is. I could not care less. You work at Dunkin, life cannot be that exciting. It just cant be. Its impossible.

I want all drive-thru operations in this country to be exactly like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld.

Order, pay, get food, go. Its perfect. You know who does it well? Chick-Fil-A. Those people are like robots over there, and guess what? There is no smoother drive-thru process in the world than Chick-Fil-A.

Be more like them, America.

Now, lets get back on track and into the Christmas season with Paige Spiranac, who puts a whole new twist on Mrs. Claus:

Come for the tits, stay for the tips is an all-time slogan. Nobody in this newfound Influencer age does it better than Paige Spiranac. Frankly, nobody even comes close.

Merry Christmas indeed!

Now, lets head back up the sky and check in with the airline industry. For this who skipped yesterdays class, we showed video of a #maskedup passenger wreaking havoc on a Spirit flight because he couldnt wait five more minutes to deplane.

For todays encore, heres maybe the grossest Mile High Club video Ive ever witnessed:

Now, I love shrimp, and I love garlic. So, I dont think Id be that pissed if I was on that plane and it smelled like garlic shrimp for three hours.

That being said, I feel like Im in the minority on that one because the First Lady (hey, thats two cameos from her today!) is sitting across from me and when I told her what I was watching she legitimately looked horrified.

Also, could you imagine walking into the bathroom on an airplane and seeing a giant ass battery hooked up to the sink like that? The balls on this guy must be massive. Unreal move. Not convinced the FBIs not showing up at his door today now that that TikToks gone viral, though. Head on a swivel.

Now, for as good as the airline industrys been this week, the lunatics fighting in public industry has been on an entirely different level.

First you had this from our neighbors to the north:

Then you had this from a courtroom in Mississippi:

And finally, we now have this from your friendly neighborhood Kroger!

Mount Rushmore of grocery stores? Why not!

No further questions.

Id also accept: Albertsons!

OK, rapid-fire time so we can start doing things that well regret in the morning.

First up? Charles Barkley just now realizing nobody watches CNN anymore:

For those wondering, Barkleys new CNN show debuted last Wednesday and averaged 501k viewers. Thats awful, for those who dont know. Sad. Come to FOX, Chuck! Jon Rahm loves it here!

Next? Now that we know that Bills HC Sean McDermott was a big fan of how the 9/11 hijackers went about their business, I figured it was as good a time as any to resurface this little gem from Joey Mulinaro:

Hilarious. Joey, by the way, is an excellent follow on Elons site. Hes todays version of Frank Caliendo.

As for Sean McDermott what a take. Just a wild, wild take.

Finally, I stumbled across this little story on Reddit today and it screamed Nightcaps:

A bunch of us went to Nashville for a bachelor party for one of my best friends. Were all Alabama grads (Roll Tide) and I still live in Tuscaloosa but most of the other guys have moved away so it was pretty much a college reunion.

We hit the bars downtown early and we hit them HARD, and pretty soon every drink was basically just a double shot of whiskey. We were ripping shots and also shooting our shots with every bachelorette party we met (there were a shit ton of them.) It wasnt even that late on the first night we were there but after drinking the whole day we ended up at Kid Rocks bar.

More shots, more beers, and somehow in my blacked out state the beer I was holding slipped out of my hand as I was leaning over the railing on the second floor and shattered on the floor below em.

Well we obviously get kicked out pretty quick, and I decide that Im just gonna call it a night and head back to the AirBnb. I was already pretty f*cking drunk at that point anyway, so it was probably for the best anyway.

Except somehow in my drunken state when I called the Uber, instead of putting in the address for the hotel I just clicked Home (I guess I thought the Airbnb was home for the weekend). You can probably see where this is going

I stumble around and finally meet up with the Uber and pass out pretty much as soon as I get in the car.

When I finally wake up I realize that Im not at the Airbnb, but back home in Tuscaloosabecause I had set my destination as Home.

At this point the bachelor party weekend is already f*cked for me so I just I get in my bed and pass out, and wake up the next morning to see that the ride back home cost me $1253.

Amazing. What a night! Is it on the Uber driver to confirm with the blacked out dude that he actually wants to drive all the way to Tuscaloosa? Maybe. But probably not.

He knew exactly what was going on and saw a $1k payday coming his way. A little dirty? Maybe. But its business.

OK, thats enough for today. Lets all say happy birthday to Kelley Levis before brother Will gets destroyed by the Dolphins Monday night.

See you then.

OutKick Nightcaps is a daily column set to run Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. (roughly, were not robots).

OG Mrs. Claus or the Paige Spiranac version? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.

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I'm as surprised as you are but The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition just got a brand new update that includes Steam Deck support.

This update brings "Bethesda Game Studios Creations" to the Special Edition, which is a new and updated way to download community-made content in-game. Not only is this for making downloading mods easier, but Bethesda said modders can get verified through it and earn money from their creations. That's right, paid mods are coming back.

On top of that there's now support for "ultrawide PC monitors, including 16:9, 16:10, 21:9 and 32:9 displays", lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, localization fixes and various in-game console improvements.

When it comes to Steam Deck support, they don't exactly say what they improved or added for the announcement. Big studios being as helpful as ever. In the patch notes it says:

Steam Deck Support (PC)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is now supported on Steam Deck! Whether your adventures take you on the road or just on the couch, enjoy Skyrim wherever you go with Valves portable PC handheld.

And then under the PC Only section it just says "FEATURE: Support for Steam Deck."

It's currently at time of writing rated Steam Deck Playable by Valve, which was reviewed back in April 2022. The issues preventing it being fully Verified were needing to manually bring up the on-screen keyboard and a problematic launcher. Testing this update myself on Steam Deck and there was no launcher, it went straight into the game that's one tick. And when going to name my character, the big Steam Deck overlay keyboard appeared so another tick. Looks like it can be bumped up to Steam Deck Verified now.

That said, the trouble is, the game is old and doesn't let you change graphics settings in-game. So you're stuck with the defaults they set. If you wish to change them, setting SteamDeck=0 %command% as a launch option in the Properties will bring back the launcher.

Also, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition looks awesome on the Steam Deck OLED. I have so many other games to go through butit's now calling to me again.

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A smart Nigerian lady has taken social media by storm with a viral video flaunting her acquired skills.

In the awe-inspiring video, the lady identified as @queenzita52 showcased her incredible range of talents, revealing herself to be a true jack of all trades.

From intricate hair braiding to stunning decorations, mouthwatering catering, delectable baking, and impeccable sewing, she has mastered an impressive array of skills that have captivated the hearts and minds of viewers worldwide.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a little girl has grabbed the attention of TikTok users with her outstanding ability to catwalk like a model. The performance of the girl who was dressed in a knee-length gown was captured in a video posted by Iyabongwa. The short clip lasted just 40 seconds, but it was enough for the girl to sweep the audience off their feet.

Her star performance saw the crowd shouting and clapping for her while many more removed their phones to video her. She walked confidently into the arena, making her girlish moves like a professional supermodel.

She walked to each table and greeted those seated with so much air of confidence, showing that she was prepared for the show. Many people who have come across the video have expressed deep admiration for the girl. She has been called a future supermodel by fans she won after the video was posted on Christmas day, 2022. Over 467k people have seen the clip.

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Keeping your refrigerator up and running typically requires minimal effort. As long as you clean up any food spills or messes, and periodically check the seal to make sure it's not leaking cold air, you should usually be in good shape.

But, like any appliance, your refrigerator may have occasional issues that require attention either from you, or a professional technician. For instance, one day you might walk into your kitchen and find a pool of water on the floor in front of your fridge. Upon closer examination, you determine it's not a spill or a melted ice cube: It's a leak coming from the bottom of your refrigerator.

This is a relatively common problem, which, in some (but not all) cases, may have a relatively simple DIY solution. But before you can attempt to stop a leak, you have to figure out what's causing it. I enlisted the help of an appliance repair expert for advice on troubleshooting refrigerator leaks, and why you shouldn't ignore them.

Working as an appliance technician for more than nine years, Jason Carter has found that most refrigerator leaks can be traced back to one of three common issues: a blocked water line, a clogged defrost drain, or an improperly leveled refrigerator. Here's what Carterwho is also the founder of Simply Swider, a website providing expert advice on DIY appliance repairs and other home maintenance tasksrecommends doing to locate the source of your refrigerator leak:

Typically located at the back of the freezer compartment, the defrost drain often becomes clogged with food particles or debris. "Look for ice buildup or blockages, and clear any clogs by using warm water in a turkey baster to melt the ice," Carter advises. "If the blockage is deep, you might need to access and disconnect the hose by moving the fridge."

If you didn't find any ice buildup or blockagesor if you did, but removing them didn't stop the leakit's time to move on to the second-most-common culprit: The water line (if you have one).

Refrigerators that have a water dispenser or ice maker also have a water line; fridges without those features don't. Here's what to do if yours has a water line:

"Turn off the fridge and the water supply, then examine the line for any damage or ice blockages," Carter says. "Damaged lines should be replacedpossibly by a technician." Ice blockages are an easier fix: Simply defrosting the refrigerator for a few hours can resolve the issue.

Finally, make sure your refrigerator is level. When a refrigerator is uneven, it can cause condensation to form, accumulate, and eventually leak, Carter says.

But don't be concerned if you place a level on top of your fridge and notice that the bubble isn't exactly in the center: According to Carter, the front of the refrigerator should be slightly higher than the back. This ensures that the internal coolant is able to flow properly. If the front of your fridge isn't elevated slightly, Carter recommends adjusting the legs to achieve the right balance.

Of course, if, at any point, you feel like you're in over your head, stop what you're doing and get professional help. "If you don't have experience with DIY repairs, it's best not to attempt them and call a technician right away," Carter says. "You could potentially cause more harm than good."

On the other hand, if you do feel comfortable with DIY repairs, but need some additional advice and instruction, Carter suggests turning to online resources. "I would recommend joining Facebook groups where there are experienced repairers who can offer remote assistance for free to help identify the problem," he says. "Keep in mind that the most challenging part is often identifying the cause of the issue. If you're experienced with DIY repairs, you can also find tutorials on YouTube, as there are plenty available there."

In addition to the inconvenience and hazards of having a perpetual puddle of water on your kitchen floor, there are other reasons why your leaky refrigerator requires immediate attention. For starters, it can damage the floor, causing stains, deformation, or mold growth, Carter says. "In the long term, this can significantly shorten the service life of the appliance, leading to corrosion and rusting of internal components," he says. "Consequently, more costly repairs or even complete replacement may become unavoidable."

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To determine the home warranty companies ranking, the Forbes Home editorial team analyzed 54 companies, with each companys star rating determined by evaluating a variety of metrics and subcategories, including:

Credibility and customer satisfaction ratings were determined by each companys BBB grade, accreditation, reviews, complaints and the number of years in business, as well as consumer ratings on Trustpilot and Google Maps.

Ratings for nationwide availability include the number of states, plus DC, in which coverages are available.

When looking at pricing, we looked at subcategories such as example pricing as shown on the website, instant quotes and highest and lowest service fees.

The number of covered items in the policies and the number of optional items available for coverage determined the included coverage rating.

Sign-up and restriction ratings were based on the number of plans available, whether or not an inspection is required, available contract terms and whether or not age is a factor for denying system coverage.

This cCategory rating was based on whether customers have the option of choosing their own technician or if the company assigns one.

We looked at any fees or penalties resulting from discontinuing coverage before the companys threshold.

We added or removed additional points based on average service fees and customer representative responsiveness.

When ranking each company on customer support, we looked at service request methods and availability.

Discount ratings for each company were determined by the availability of veteran or military discounts and any sign-up price reductions.

When rating for property types covered, we examined coverage availability for homes such as mobile or manufactured houses, condos and rental properties in addition to typical single-family home coverage.

All figures and facts were accurate at the time of first publication.

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Top 5 Best Home Warranty Providers in New Mexico

Here are our top choices for home warranties in New Mexico:

Note that unless otherwise noted, all cost data in this article is based on quotes for a 2,000-square-foot, single-family home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The MarketWatch Guides Team developed a calculator that analyzes the anticipated yearly expenses associated with owning a home warranty in New Mexico. To determine your projected annual cost, simply input your monthly premium, service call fee and estimated number of claims. We recommend getting quotes from our top providers directly, as prices vary by plan, location and home size.

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American Home Shield strikes a balance between affordable premiums and comprehensive home protection. While many companies limit their coverage to issues caused by normal wear and tear, an AHS home warranty covers undetectable preexisting conditions and poorly maintained items.

Alternatively, you might choose AFC Home Club for its range of coverage options, First American for its extensive list of add-ons, or Select Home Warranty for its budget-friendly prices.

Before making your final selection, we recommend gathering custom quotes from at least three providers. To find the best deal, make sure you compare not only prices but also terms and exclusions.

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