neomachino

@neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you guys for the advice last post. I found a tech support job now. One step closer to leaving homelessness⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely hate that I have a gas stove and water heater mainly for reason 2. It fills me with pure anxiety.

  I know there’s a relatively small chance, but whenever we’re turning the corner and I see the house is still there it’s a huge relief. In the next year or two we should be able to put out the money to put in outlets and get rid of gas.

  I do almost everything in my house but the 2 things I won’t touch are electric and gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy New Year Lemmy! It's 9 pm and I'm going to sleep.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fireworks are very illegal in my state.

  My first Christmas living here when the fireworks we’re going off in the middle of the night I called the cops for the first time in my life. Turns out Joe used to be a cop in the next town over and all my neighbors already knew he was basically immune. I ended up getting a noise complaint because of my dogs, as the fireworks were still going off on the street behind me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I for the life of me don’t even care about 4k. 1080p to me is as good as it gets, sometimes I watch shows in 720p and occasionally even 480p if it’s a significantly smaller file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy New Year Lemmy! It's 9 pm and I'm going to sleep.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every holiday with fireworks I have to stay up ridiculously late to keep the dogs calm and soothe my toddler back to sleep multiple times.

  We had a crazy thunderstorm until about 11:30 that kept my son up extra late. I hate thunderstoms but thought at least there won’t be fireworks. 11:31 ole reliable firework Joe around the corner was out there doing his thing and it seems like he doesn’t plan on stopping soon.

  Also firework Joe sets off a ridiculous amount of stuff at 12am on Christmas eve.