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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regular gym-goers probably avoid the gym on New Years Day because it's too crowded⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do a lot of road cycling and yesterday there were a lot more runners out than I usually see. It should taper off in a week or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How the mighty have fallen. 20 years ago Tom’s and Anandtech were amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Samsung appliances have been like this for a while. I got a Samsung dryer in 2015 and it is by far the biggest piece of crap I have ever used. Thankfully I’m good at repairing appliances but this was a next level piece of crap. It was constantly wearing out drum rollers, belts, belt tensioners, and other parts. I was having to repair it almost on a yearly basis. I ended up just stocking a bunch of parts in a cabinet in the laundry room so when it failed I was able to fix it the same day. There are some 3rd party parts kids where they provide upgraded parts that seem to last longer. The drum rollers and belt tensioner pulley use low quality bushings that I upgraded to a 3rd party ball bearing parts and that made a big difference in reliability. I gave it to my mom and warned her about the issues with it and stocked her up on parts so anytime she has an issue she calls me and I can repair it the same day. Thankfully it’s not too difficult to work on.

  A friend of mine got an entire Samsung appliance package and he dreads that decision every day. He hates his fridge, dishwasher, washer, and dryer.

  Years ago I got two Bosch dishwashers and those have been great. Only minor repairs like replacement spray arms and a replacement rack glide have been needed on those. Otherwise they have been solid units and have fantastic performance.

  A few years ago I got a GE combo washer/heat pump unit and it is definitely more convenient than separate units but it does have some flaws. The drain pump filter needs more maintenance than a typical unit. Some of the gunk gets past the drain filter and has caused the drain pump to clog. The dryer filter lets some lint past which causes the evaporator coil to clog somewhat over time. Cleaning the evaporator is difficult as access is quite limited so I had to buy some special long reach cleaning brushes and vacuum attachments. Sometimes the door doesn’t unlock when it’s supposed to because of a firmware issue. And lastly it causes more wrinkles in clothes than a conventional dryer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can relate. I have 96 GB of RAM in my computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How is the modding on it these days? I have a modded one from a long time ago and I did a modded firmware on the dvd drive in the 360 so it would ignore protections and another mod on a Liteon dvd burner in an old Windows XP computer for writing the games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It even works for winning gold in the Olympics barbend.com/olympic-weightlifter-hidilyn-diaz-qua…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most useful things you've printed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First thing I ever printed was a spout to replace the elephant trunk on my Rancilio Rocky coffee grinder. It allows me to use the grinder with basically 0 ground retention so it was a huge improvement and allows me to accurately use the grinder for single doses. www.thingiverse.com/thing:101392

  Another thing I made were some spacers to correct alignment on the freezer door of my French door refrigerator. They’ve been working great for years now and keep the door seal in perfect alignment. I custom made these and they’re unlikely to be useful to anyone else.

  I also am very fond of some wire organizers I use for managing USB charging cables so they’re not a jumbled mess. www.thingiverse.com/thing:5340635

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really glad to see someone say Earthbound. I love that game and have really enjoyed sharing it with my kids. I started them young on it while teaching them to read. I’ll sit with them and narrate the game and it really helps them a lot with learning to read. Just got to Happy Happy Village with one of them the other day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DDG also seems to exclude some websites from search even if you specifically give terms that should give results for a site. Try searching for any model from Bad Dragon’s website like “bad dragon nova” or another sex toy maker “mr hankeys beefcake” and the first result should be for the item on the maker’s website. I can’t ever get DDG to give results and safe search is already off. It has been like this for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been running a Rheem one for almost 5 years now and I haven’t had a single issue with it. It’s nice that it will keep the garage dehumidified. I also set mine to 140F and it does pretty well with multiple showers. We occasionally run out but that doesn’t happen very often, maybe a handful of times per year. With rebates and installing it myself it was able to pay for itself in about 2.5 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to think the same thing and would have my wife wax me. The razor is much faster, doesn’t hurt at all, and accomplishes the goal of keeping my massive ass forest under control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shaving works too. I’ve gotten pretty good at getting it clean with a double edge safety razor. About once every couple of weeks keeps the wiping pretty easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Insurance won’t cover a reversal. It will be 100% out of pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I quit drinking alcohol a few years ago except for one certain Mexican restaurant because their margaritas are so good with the food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or sometimes they remove a 25% off coupon that usually shows all the time and for the “sale” they just reduce the price of the item to that same amount without and then remove the coupon from the page. It will then look like it has gone on sale from camelcamelcamel because it wasn’t accounting for the price after the coupon it was only showing the item price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨goodbye plex⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  github.com/intro-skipper/intro-skipper solves your intro skipping issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep same. I got an Intel Arc card for transcoding and it plays on anything perfectly now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The solar panels are sucking all the energy from the sun and not allowing anyone else to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your setup. no matter how uggo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, thank you. A lack of a mobile app isn’t a big deal as I don’t really use the YNAB mobile app to begin with since the browser version works so much better on a computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your setup. no matter how uggo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s your experience with actual budget been? I’ve been considering it and am currently using YNAB.