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- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 1 week ago:
The oven? I never used anything else. Just put on warm and throw them in while making food and also move the food off to as I finish some.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 1 week ago:
I actually keep them (minus appliance stuff because I just find them online and download the pdf and never found them that important) in a fireproof safe. Honestly, it’s not a lot of stuff, and so the safe is really small. It didn’t cost much at all but you do have to replace it like every 10ish years since fireproof doesn’t last forever.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 week ago:
Oh boy, I have wanted to purchase Roon server for probably 10 years now but haven’t pulled the trigger. I haven’t really looked at it in a while either. I now wonder how much it’s changed since. Wow, it’s $829 for a lifetime now! I wanna say it was like $400 when I first wanted it. I knew i should have!
I used to use Subsonic, then it was abandoned and felt like I needed something better. I ended up on a fork of it called Navidrome which is pretty impressive and are doing some great work improving things lately like adding in more tags to the original subsonic API to do more. The best app Symfonium also came out only a few years ago and is incredible now. It offers soooo much it’s kind of crazy. It also opted to make use of the new API, which allows more as well. One day I’ll move to Roon.
- Comment on Farmers put plans, investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze 3 weeks ago:
They got what I’m sure most of them voted for.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that makes much more sense. I absolutely agree, sadly most places draw the line on ever allowing that to happen. Although I do remember reading that some states have minimum wage tied to it which was pretty shocking, despite making perfect sense.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 4 weeks ago:
I see both arguments for this as valid. I get that you wanna stay and live your entire life in the place you owned forever. The reality is taxes are needed and will increase forever, which are important to keeping your state functioning (as long as the people in charge are doing a good job and actually using the funds wisely). I wonder what state they are from because I know property tax can be wildly different depending upon that. I’m sure they don’t want to, but there are like 6 states that currently offer no property tax to seniors over 65 and 10 that offer exemptions based on income and age. At the same time it is good to see them complain because maybe they can try to sway the state to also offer the no property tax benefit to seniors as well. Still if he is hurting that much, then it’s probably easier to sell the place and move to another place that will allow him to be better off with less worrying. It’s a valid option even if he doesn’t agree with it.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
Considering i get premium Peacock for like $6 a month after discounts I agree. I get the live channel plus a ton of other stuff and other pre-made channels to watch. Some sports as well plus the Olympics when they are relevant. Asking $8 just to remove some ads sounds awful. I will stick to using Firefox on mobile and pc with ublock origin which removes all ads.
- Comment on Is Severance the new Lost? 4 weeks ago:
I came here to say the same thing!
- Comment on Tariff War Risks Sinking World Into New Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce Warns 4 weeks ago:
Are we great again yet?
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, since being introduced to the other side, I probably would never care to have it again anyway. It just tastes so much better to me. Give me a mars bar or Maltesers anyday over milkway or whoppers.
- Comment on YouTube is stepping up its efforts to sell you other streaming services 4 weeks ago:
I’m good. I spend less than $20 a month on 3 services, and it’s all I need. Youtube is not even one of them. Dropped the app, use it directly in Firefox on my phone with ublock origin, and I get no ads which would be the only benefit I would want it for. I still source all my music and keep locally and setup my own music server which is accessible anywhere. Same goes for TV and shows, not the streaming sites but an actual local library. It’s been working for about 10 years now so I have no reason to change.
- Comment on Visions of Mana co-director Kenji Ozawa opens new studio following NetEase departure 4 weeks ago:
That’s some good news. I was sad when the last game came out it was basically released within the same week that the visions series was no longer going to be created. I hope they make some more RPGs and try to make something new and original.
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say 4 weeks ago:
Saw this in our all IT Teams chat today with people complaining. I just laughed and said oh well that’s what you get when you moved from on prem to cloud. At least it was a Saturday, although I think that was by design since it appeared to be due to a change they implemented and reversed so that makes sense.
We recently had a huge outage almost a month ago with RingCentral as well. Our entire call center was down for almost 8 hours due to that crazy outage. I have been with this company 19 years and it was Avaya on prem and never had a single outage, last year we moved to RingCentral and boom less than a year later that happened. The funny thing is they also said they never had that happen that bad ever before either. Thankfully our VP has been around the block and knew to tell the company when we shifted to cloud that we needed to lower our expectations from what we previously had because there’s no way you will have 100% uptime with a cloud solution. 8 hours was never expected, though, lol.
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 4 weeks ago:
Then what? Continue peaking, or does happiness return?
- Comment on Need to save money? You can literally just buy these for pennies, you don't have to go to the Olive Garden. 4 weeks ago:
What if they don’t accept cash?
- Comment on Need to save money? You can literally just buy these for pennies, you don't have to go to the Olive Garden. 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, there’s a 10 breadstick limit now. Can’t have something called unlimited in this economy!
- Comment on Hardcore gaming 5 weeks ago:
This is the kind of setup that once it’s complete you smile at how awesome it is, then pack it up because you don’t know what you even want to play and most of the games I do I wanna play i wanna play on a better monitor.
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 1 month ago:
I honestly don’t have too much to back up, so I run one full backup job every Sunday for different directories I care about. They run a check on the directory and only back up any changes or new files. I don’t have the space to backup everything, so I only take the smaller stuff and most important. The backup software also allows live monitoring if I enable it, so some of my jobs I have that turned on since I didn’t see any reason not to. I reuse the NAS drives that report errors that I replace with new ones to save on money. So far, so good.
Backup software is Bvckup2, and reddit was a huge fan of it years ago, so I gave it a try. It was super cheap for a lifetime license at the time, and it’s super lightweight. Sorry, there is no Linux version.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 1 month ago:
Wow, I for one, can’t wait until we have peak content like this over here.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 1 month ago:
It hasn’t even been an entire month yet…
- Comment on Lasagna dreams, spaghetti reality 1 month ago:
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 1 month ago:
Absolutely, I don’t disagree with your statement at all. I work heavily in systems administration and recently transitioned to networking. I deal with Linux systems, servers, vm’s, Azure daily, and for stability nothing beats Linux. I just tend to agree with the statement above commenting on how you always see these Windows articles, yet almost none actually affect you in the end.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 1 month ago:
It’s been the same on win 11. The only experience i have had was at work. I work closely with the updating team, and there have been a few times where things would break like printers, and we would revert the updates to stop it from going to everyone and uninstall. Sometimes, that meant a help desk guy had to go to the pc or remote in to do it manually. I’ve been there 19 years now, and it’s happened twice?
- Comment on PlayStation Says Outage Was An "Operational Issue"; Offers PlayStation Plus Members 5 Extra Days 1 month ago:
The comment hate on that site is intense. I think the 5 days as repayment is fine. I guess some people take this stuff more seriously than me!
- Comment on How do you keep up? 1 month ago:
I learned this the hard way as well… I did a big OS update on mine once and it broke almost every application running on it. Docker worked perfectly still. I transferred everything I could to Docker after that.
- Comment on Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles? 1 month ago:
I thought about this and imo I give them a pass. It’s just the successor to the switch, it is just called the switch 2. Why would we expect it to offer or be anything different than what it already is? Honestly, I wonder how much time they spent trying to decide if they should even go the new console route or just call it a pro edition.
I think the next console release will tell a lot more regarding this. More than ever, the next console releases will really need to bring something new to the table since, at this point, there’s very little difference between getting a nice PC or a console outside exclusives. I think those lines will continue to blur so consoles absolutely need to start evolving into something more or possibly lose more people to PC rigs.
- Comment on Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles? 1 month ago:
I would say the GameCube was new and different for them because they transitioned from cartridge to disc, and of course, they had to use the mini disc to be extra different from the rest.
- Comment on Is catbox down? 1 month ago:
Thank you! I use Quad9 and have noticed these links stopped working about a week or 2 ago. The problem was I redid my network at that time and kept thinking it was something on my end. I have a firewall with recursive DNS setup and I was able to add my own entry for it, but I’m guessing the IP changes because it only lasted a few days. Now that I know why I’ll see what else I can do since I do enjoy Quad9 otherwise.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 2 months ago:
I believe the precision series kind of took over. They are high-end models but not really built for gaming. At this point, the XPS wasn’t built for gaming either, so I guess having 2 high-end lines just didn’t make sense?
- Comment on Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why 2 months ago:
There will be consequences. Who knows how long it will take. Seems like we’re getting close to that breaking point. There always used to be that fine line were they took just enough so people can survive. Now they are all just extra greedy and took too it all. Tons of people have now used their savings, safety nets, and maxed out credit cards to survive. There’s already more people than ever going homeless and defaulting on loans and credit cards. It won’t be long before an even higher percentage of people have no more options and get desperate. These price increases are just one of the direct causes for failing to survive. I say there’s only a few more years until something big happens.
Just my opinion. I am one of the people effected by price increases and I feel like I make a decent living. I can’t imagine how people who make even less do it…
