They tried making us come in one day a month so me and the other developers just wouldn’t work when we were in the office while we were “planning”. Then it became “we need the day before to plan what we’re going to talk about tomorrow” and “we take the day after an office visit to go over what we talked about”. So 3 days out of the month where nothing got done and it made enough of a difference the office days lasted maybe 3 or 4 months before they fizzled out

I think it’s something like they but the car for $20k from the factory, it sells for $35k new, but instead they let it sit and sell it as used for $25k. I think they get some sort of refund or something from the manufacturer if the new car doesn’t sell within x days or something like that.

The way it was explained to me in they’re making almost nothing on each sale, but they’re the only place in the area that can get decent cars in right now so enough people are coming in and doing this where it makes sense to keep it up.

My brother in law works at a pretty big dealership in the area. He said the markets so stupid right now that they’re buying new cars from wholesalers and holding them for 30 days so they can sell them as used. Somehow this has been incredibly profitable for them. I don’t really understand how but it apparently works out that the customer gets a hefty discount on an essentially new car without the manufacturer warranties and the volume is big enough to where the dealership is hitting record numbers.

None of it makes sense.

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Very cool. Godspeed to the real heros.

Looking through these comments I don’t know what half of this stuff is and I don’t think I want to.

My wife’s freind came over the other day and asked me if I could fix her new glasses because they were crooked, being polite I said I liked them (they’re hideous but to each their own), and she responded “thanks they’re D and G, they only cost me $700”. These were $700 glasses with no additions. No blue light thing, no scratch resistant stuff.

I don’t care for that.

Not exactly quiet but works for me because of the layout of my house.

I go to the laundry room which is on the other side of the house from the bedrooms, turn the kitchen light on, laundry room like off (so it’s light enough to see but pretty dim), sit on the washer and play sad songs on my guitar.

It’s therapuetic and after about 20 minutes I’m just exhausted.

~3tb of a jumbled disgusting mess of miscellaneous files. Somehow it all works on jellyfin though.

I’d be down to try something new if you do end up releasing something. Jellyfin works just fine but I’m not in love with it.

My job used to outsource a bunch of dev work to another company and oh boy did those people love their tests. I don’t get it. In my case they weren’t even using our actual database to pull data from. They had a bunch of fixture files with generic data that they would use to make a temporary sqlite db for the tests. All of the test ran perfectly with that data, not so much with the actual data. The code is there, can’t you just read it and know what will happen?

When I write something I’m never not building it and at least checking that it works and trying to break it.

I’d be fine with this as long as the packaging was also cardboard. When I see a drink in a full plastic cup with a soggy paper straw I’m baffled.

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I used this service breifly a while ago. Not enough to say whether it’s good or not, but I remember it working just fine.

Is Streamio considered safe/private? I remember looking into it a while back and saw something about needing an account on their servers or something.

I used Kodi with addons for ages but switched to jellyfin because kodi felt too clunky and slow for my wife.

“To better assist you please describe the nature of your emergency… Let’s try this again. To better assist…”

I feel like everyone thinks they’re behind in life in general. It’s a really messed up mind set society puts us in.

It might feel like a big thing now but you’ll be fine. I went to get my GED once and failed the test, I thought it was the end of the world. Turns out none of it mattered and I ended up doing pretty well for myself.

I was gonna say I thought this had been the case forever. I don’t use this feature but I recall seeing it on pretty much every custom ROM I’ve used over the last few years.

I find that I’m pretty much useless after 4 hours. I usually do a 4 hour stretch during the day and then hop back on for another 2 hours when the kids are down and that seems to be the most productive for me.

I once worked at a place where I built out a bunch of internal tools that became pretty heavily integrated into the development workflow. Everything I built was the shittiest, most disgusting piece of garbage I’ve ever seen, but it worked. My job became solely managing these tools, as everyone else struggled to read and comprehend my filth.

I ended up switching jobs because they wouldn’t give me the compensation I asked for and half of the development team quit before my 2 weeks was up to avoid dealing with my slop, a lot of them were already considering leaving for lack of compensation, but this was the nail in the coffin.

I found out a few months later that instead of just going back to life without these tools or finding someone to take them over they just shut down the development department. The people who were left either got fired or moved to a different department to pursue a new career path.

I always wanted to be a stay at home dad. My wife’s a gig worker and tried branching out on her own business and quickly realized she didn’t like the actual business aspect. Which is fine, I genuinely love what I do most days and make enough to where she can mostly stay at home.

I’m about to go on a 3 month paternity leave and oh boy am I excited. After the first few weeks once my wife recovers from surgery it’ll most be my oldest and I hanging out while my wife is with our second. I bought stuff for my son and I to record our guitars (he’s 3 but he gets so into it), have a little list of science experiments that he loves, plenty of home renovation projects that he gets surprisingly into, a bunch of seeds and a few more raised beds for the garden, and of course, foam baseball bats to hit eachother with.

I’m getting git just thinking about it.

I don’t see how anyone could get tired of that, I’m already dreading going back to work and my break hasn’t even started.

PS: not to say that it’s all fun, I know a lot more goes into being a stay at home parent that baseball bat fights.

Super easy, we just throw 1 cup of oats and 4 cups of water in the blender, blend it for ~45 seconds and put it through a cheesecloth bag a time or two. I like to throw a little maple syrup in there to sweeten it up a bit.

As another commentor said, you can soak the oats overnight, and that makes it better, but most of our oat milk is for my toddler and I’m not prepared

I’ve seen my neihborhood slowly shifting in the few years I’ve been here.

I got everyone on my small street to start gardening and they got other blocks to start, we all share our extra crops for the most part. No one is very good quite yet aside from a few houses who’ve been doing it for years and have been trying to help us non green thumbers.

There’s a plumber 2 streets over who’s lived there for a decade, I used him for a job and now he’s the go to guys for most of my direct neighbors.

I make my own oat milk so I buy oats in bulk. A few people in the neighborhood buy a bunch from me for much cheaper than the grocery store and some have even started making their own oatmilk with me.

Anytime someone needs tech support they come over to me first, I used to see a geek squad van in the niehborhood weekly since there a lot of elderly. I hate doing it, but my god those tech support companies are slimy.

I’ve done a couple carpentry projects in the neighborhood and helped fix quite a few fences.

I feel like I moved here and said “why don’t we help eachother out?” And it was a revolutionary idea that no one had thought about before.

When I was in the city it’s just what you did. People survived with eachother but out here in a weird mix between the sticks/suburbs it seems like most people don’t even know their neighbors names.