neomachino
@neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 4 days ago:
I can’t remember the last time I had french toast but after reading the comments here it seems like necessary step to survive the weekend.
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 6 days ago:
Dibs if they’re US 9-10
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
A few weeks ago I was at the store picking up a few things for my sick kid. The very first aisle I go to as I’m trying to leave it a lady pulls into the aisle to look at whatever was on the end cap and puts her cart right in the middle of the aisle so I can’t get through with my cart. She saw me, we made eye contact for a second and I moved to the right of the aisle. I get to the end and she’s just standing there, not even looking at stuff just looking at me waiting for her to move. After about 20 seconds I can’t believe I have to say anything so I just go “excuse me” and she scoffs and says “you’re fine”. Another 10 seconds and I have to say it again, “excuse me I’m trying to get through” and I don’t know what was going through her head but she started freaking out, “go ahead and get through then I don’t know why you’re standing there”. So I do just that, I used my cart to push hers out of the way (very intentionally just enough to get through) and she lost it. I just proceeded on my way but even after I turned down the next asile I needed something from she was still yelling. This was like 10:30 at night, the store was almost empty so there was plently of room.
This was in an expensive grocery store in a pretty wealthy area. In contrast on my way home I stopped at the poppy shop around the corner because they have a drink I like for a good deal and there was someone who looked like they were emptying their pockets by the trash can but checking out a couple receipts before throwing them away who was blocking the door, I said excuse me when I was a few steps away and he apologized, told me to have a great night and held the door open for me.
- Comment on Botched structural repair? 1 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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"? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago to [deleted] | 21 comments
- Comment on happy weevil wednesday 2 months ago:
Thanks for the reminder
- Comment on 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! 4 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 5 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? 5 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 5 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 6 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? 6 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 7 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! 7 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 7 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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.
