neomachino
@neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Botched structural repair? 1 week ago:
Wow thank you so much. I was trying to find codes earlier but was flustered and gave up after getting too frustrated with google. This is really good stuff for reference. Very much appreciated!
- Comment on Botched structural repair? 1 week ago:
“You only need 2, it’s not going anywhere”
Also most of the bolts they put in are either crooked or not fully drilled in.
- Comment on Botched structural repair? 1 week ago:
I assume it’s the second. He told me he does this all the time and no one’s ever complained. After letting him talk for 20 minutes on the phone and him saying things that I knew weren’t right, I told him I did general construction for 6 years and I’ve done jobs like this before. He tried telling me I was just upset then because I could’ve done it myself for less money. In fact I was so excited to not have to do something, theres so much to do here and I’m beat. I assume most people would just look at it and see metal on wood and think it’s good.
Thanks for the sanity check.
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- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 2 weeks ago:
My wife and I bought our first house before we had kids. It was ~1000sqft, 3 beds 1 bath and perfect for just us. Granted we had 2 dogs and 5 cats so it felt hectic at times, but with a nice little back yard the dogs we’re much more calm.
After having 2 kids it started feeling cramped, 100% doable, but as someone who works from home I was dying for more space. The layout was also awful, it seemed like one of the previous owners tried to make it “open concept” and didn’t think it through, so there was nowhere you could go to get an ounce of privacy aside from the bedrooms which were 8x8 all around.
We recently moved to a 1900sqft house and its absolutely great. I can take work calls while everyone’s yelling in the living room and its not a bother. My toddler can play whole the baby’s napping without waking him up. The bedrooms are big with honestly huge closets. Before I was sharing a closet with my toddler and mostly living out of hampers, now he has a closet that his bed could fit in.
My only desire is am extra to for guest if anyone needed to stay with us for a while. I’m hoping to fix up the basement soon and make it a nice 900sqft guest house type thing.
I think we have more space than we necessarily need now, but that makes me happy.
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 2 weeks ago:
I unfortunately am in the middle of a huge renovation for a new house I just bought 3 week ago. I guess I’m fucking up big time but I’ve had to buy quite a bit of stuff this week. My dryer broke, dishwasher shit out, heater went kaputs, I needed some lumber to keep my porch from caving in.
At least the only new thing I bought was the dishwasher because the panel to get it working would’ve cost me $200 since it’s so old. Everything else has been fixed instead of replaced.
- Comment on Reuse old security system 3 weeks ago:
Ah it it! There’s a metal box in the basement labeled Ademco that I hadn’t gotten around to checking out. I took a quick look inside and did see a plug for a landline. Is the landline just for having a company monitor stuff? Should it still work locally just to like set off an alarm if the door open or motion is detected when the system is active?
When the kids are down I’m going to have to do a deeper dive. Thank you very much
- Comment on Reuse old security system 3 weeks ago:
That’s very cool! I have home assistant set up on a pi but I’ve never really had enough smart things to find it useful, I just think the idea is neat
- Comment on Reuse old security system 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen a single brand name on any of the equipment which has made figuring it out that much harder
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- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 4 weeks ago:
I usually get “stuck” in whatever horrid nightmare I was having before waking up. For the first 5-10 minutes I’m not sure if I’m still in a dream or not, then I spend a while panicking about how I couldn’t figure out reality and if anything is real.
Although things are usually a lot better when my son decides to sleep with us. He’ll wake me up before the sun just yelling the most nonsensical stuff and it snaps me back to reality pretty quick.
My favorite from this week was “wake up daddy put your jeans on! (Throws my jeans at my face) We’re late for work!” At 5:30am. I work from home an don’t have a set time to clock in but oh boy I clocked in early that day.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 5 weeks ago:
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
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 21 comments
- Comment on happy weevil wednesday 1 month ago:
Thanks for the reminder
- Comment on 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2 months ago:
Daniel Tiger is another good one. It’s pretty slow with very easy to follow lessons in each episode.
- Comment on Your Lemmy Weather Forecast 4 months ago:
It’s been rough where I am. We’ve basically abandoned the living room and have all been cramming into one room with the AC on.
Even with the AC blasting in the living room it was 93 degrees fahrenheit inside
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 4 months ago:
As a kid I always said I wanted to “work on the computer at home so I could take care of my farm”.
Which coming from where I grew up was about as realistic as owning the moon.
I do think dreams have gotten more generic with a lot of kids aiming for that influencer life, but the other day I heard a neighborhood kid say he wants to be a deep sea monster truck driver. I’m not sure what that means but I love it.
- Comment on U.S. home sales fade in June as national median sales price hits an all-time high of $435,300 4 months ago:
My wife and I are in the process of buying our second home. When we went to get preapproved we were worried we wouldn’t qualify for the mini farm we were looking at. We qualified for more than we needed just on my income alone. I make $78k a year and they said they’d give me close to $500k. Those payment would be almost my entire monthly paycheck.
It’s predatory.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 5 months ago:
Out of the 8 cousins in my family the 2 of us that didn’t go to college are the only ones who own a house. I didn’t finish 10th grade and I’m looking at buying my second house and trying to figure out how to keep my current one to give to my mom.
My cousins are pretty cool (aside from a couple who are very spiteful) but my aunts and uncles act like I scammed them all for everything they had.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 5 months ago:
~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.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 5 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 5 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 5 months ago:
“To better assist you please describe the nature of your emergency… Let’s try this again. To better assist…”
- Comment on Thank you guys for the advice last post. I found a tech support job now. One step closer to leaving homelessness 7 months ago:
Good luck!
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 7 months ago:
I actually have a few months ago, I made a bunch of crockpot meals, pre-cooked some fresh veggies, made a few deserts. It was great for a few days.
Then I woke up one morning and my freezer door was wide open. My fridge/freezer is like 25 years old and doesn’t really shut properly so it will open if you bump it too hard, I assume a cat jumped up there and got it open. Everything was thawed out and warm, I tried to save what I could but our compost got a lot of it.
It hasn’t happened since but I’m a little scared to put a bunch of food in there again. I have been pre chopping all of my veggies though and that’s been a huge time saver.
I’m just waiting for one of my fancy friends to get rid of their perfectly good fridge and ask if anyone needs it, then I’ll probably try again.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 7 months ago:
I cook 3 times a day. It’s fucking exhausting and I’ve come to hate my kitchen. But it keeps everyone fed and happy for a fair price.
I also work from home though and mostly cook on company time.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 7 months ago:
This is how I feel. Growing up ramen was too expansive. I have no problem going back there.
I worry about my kids but thankfully my sons favorite meals are my home cooked rice and beans and my homemade veggie stromboli that I can get down to ~$2 for a giant Stromboli if I make my own cheese sauce for it.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 7 months ago:
I wish there was a good FOSS (or just works on Linux) alternative to adobe lightroom so I could stop fixing broken windows shit on my wife’s computer.
She’s a photographer and does a lot of heavy editing stuff. I know there’s some alternatives but she says nothing comes close for what she needs to do, and from the few examples she showed me I agree.
I don’t know what the fuck Microsoft is doing but almost everytime there’s an update something breaks on her laptop. The only thing she does is use lightroom, occasionally Photoshop and Firefox.
I recently had to use her laptop to make a windows installer USB for someone and Rufus was cool. When installing windows though it just didn’t see any of the drives in the laptop? Apparently I had to load storage drivers specific to that laptop, which weren’t available anywhere online I could find. I managed to get it working by loading a bunch of unrelated drivers for a different HP model laptop, none of them related to storage. I think it was the Bluetooth driver that got it working, after it installed nothing was working, no mouse, speakers, USB ports. I had to install all of those same drivers again for some reason. Before that just to make sure the drive wasn’t bad I installed Debian on there and what do you know, it just did it, because of course it did, and everything worked.
I got way off topic, but again what the fuck is microsoft doing?
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 8 months ago:
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.
- Comment on 4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer 8 months ago:
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.
