bluGill
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- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 3 days ago:
That is an important point - prices are all over as is service. If they reprint failed prints at 'no charge' that is worth a lot as well
- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 3 days ago:
Take a first aid + CPR class. You can get them that cover everything in as little as 4 hours, but try to get a longer one since they go more in depth. They cover most of the common situations and so will make you calmer when it happens because you had a couple drills. Even if you don't remember the details you will remember something - and when you call the emergency number it will come back what you are supposed to do making it easier for them to explain it.
Everybody should take first aid and CPR classes every few years. Ideally keep your certification up to date, but even if you certification is 20 years out of date, when you need it you will have a clue and so be a lot more helpful.
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 3 days ago:
Do you need one? There is a 3d printing service near me that has better printers than I could afford that is happy to print for me. For many the cost of a service is less than printer for as little as they really print so something to think about. Check your options. If 3d printing isn't the hobby but a means this might be your better option. Don't forget that once you agree to outsource creating parts you get access to wood, metals, and additional plastics. You also get many more processes (injection molding, lathe, milling machines, SLA/Resin printers) which lets give you many more options. And you get access to machines that wouldn't even fit in your garage.
I'm not saying don't get a 3d printer. For some it is the right decision. I'm saying don't overlook the other options. Even if you get a 3d printer you should use the other services instead of making everything a nail just because you have a hammer.
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 6 days ago:
Not really - keyboards need to be much farther from the screen than that. Laptops are terrible for the same reason. Maybe your body can accept that bad ergonomics, but mine cannot. which is why I carry a separate keyboard for my laptop and phone. (plus mechanical keyboards are much better anyway)
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
That doesn't change anything useful. There are many not for profit health insurance companies in the us - they are no cheaper and don't have better service than the for profit ones.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
For many people owning their own housing is the wrong decision. That means somebody else needs to own their housing and that person may as well be you (depending of course on your situation - it isn't for everyone)
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
If you say that "look at how much money I'm making, tax me harder daddy" it's another.
That is a bad thing for affordable housing. For affordable housing you need profits from investment property just enough to be worth doing. Any taxes a property owner pays needs to come from the rent they charge so high taxes mean they are charging more rent to cover it. So if taxes are high that means that rents are higher than they could be. You should get rich - to the extent you do - in property ownership by owning a lot of property for a long time, not charging high rents.
- Comment on [Help] My first serious self hosted server 1 week ago:
Parts fail all the time. The problem with hardware raid is you need a compatible controller or none of the data can be read even though it is still on the physical disks. Computer hardware is often only made for a few months before there is a new model and so you are risking that the manufacture really made the new model work with what you have. That is assuming the manufacture doesn't go out of business which could happen without warning. \
Also, if hardware breaks that is often a good excuse to replace it - odds are better hardware is available for the same price and sometimes a lot less $ - with hardware raid you are stuck paying whatever price they charge.
- Comment on running Media Services on NAS or separate server 1 week ago:
Either works fine for most homes. for most homes everything on the nas makes sense as that saves energy vs a second always on box. For enterprises you want them separate because you can't get cpu's powerful enough.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 2 weeks ago:
You don't have to be very good at a language to know when a translation is horrible. I'm not very good at spanish and I can do better than machine translations.
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 2 weeks ago:
We have been trying for years. It has only rarely worked. Often coups and corruption destroy any good we do. (some corruption is us some not. Some attemyts have been really bad)
i donft disagee, but I can't agree either and I don't think there will be a good return on investment. (Though return on investment isn't the only goal)
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 2 weeks ago:
the difference is I don't think anything else will get china's attention. I don't support tarrifs except as a last resort.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
unless you are rich you/him should be putting the cost of the apartment into savings for college. The rich can pay full price for their kids ivy league college and not notice it - almost nobody is that rich.
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 2 weeks ago:
I'm not sure isreal raises to that level - there is other pressure that is lest harmful to us that would work (i think) if we applied it.
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 2 weeks ago:
We should throw those tarrifs on China. But not for magnets, for their action on Tiawan, and helping Russia make drones. (The list of reasons islonger than that, but those are big ones)
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
The average car is 12 years old. Car makers start to drop support (making/stocking parts) when the car is about 10 years old. Come back and talk to me about that car when is is 25 years old and tell me how it is. I have a 26 year old truck, the bed has holes, the frame is showing signs of rot - I'm trying to decide if it is worth trying to rebuild the transmission, my mechanic isn't intersted in part because they are not sure if they can find the parts - they will be more than $1000 in labor in before they know wihch bearing it has and thus can check if it can be had.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
Most suburbs a store is not that far. you will often drive more than that for a store you like but something is closer.
american suburb covers a lot of variation. If you have a horse as some of the least dense support that is different from ones where you get a postage stamp lot. Streetcar suburbs designed before cars are ess dense than the new developments they are putting is around me today.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
And people were concerned. My grandpa only had initials published not his full name because he knew some widows [when my mom was a baby] afraid of crime who only published their initials and wanted to make things harder for those criminals who targeted on widows.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
They won't be buying new cars in the near future, but their cars will be wearing out and spare parts for old cars always become hard to find. Either they will be spending a large part of their time maintaining the car, including making parts from scratch, or they will forced to buy a new car anyway.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
The car is more valuable than the crap.
Only if you spend way too much money on a depreciating asset that won't be that valuable for long. For that matter storing inside or outside makes zero difference to the value. The stuff in my garage is more valuable than my car (my car is 26 years old so this is a much lower bar than most people), is more sensitive to weather than my cars, and I enjoy it more than cars.
I don't get this obsession people have with depreciating assets like cars. They brag about how great they are, take good care of it, and then 3 years latter trade in that piece of junk...
Besides, the worst weather for cars is bright sun, and most cars are parked outside in a parking lot (at work) when it is sunny, and only put in the garage when it is dark.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
The work isn't hard - I did it myself (I checked my spare parts box and discovered the only thing I was missing was the cover for the outlet, so it cost me $3). However if you don't know what you are doing around electric I can't train you on the internet. While you can find good instructions via a simple search you can also find instructions that are dangerous and if you don't know what you are doing you won't know the difference.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
Most suburbs have plenty of density to support transit as proved in other countries that provide good transit to their areas of similar density. However most suburbs have such bad transit you can't use it for anything and to people start believing the idea that it is impossible to get them good transit and so they won't agree to get it.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 weeks ago:
No, the problem is the network matters. When you can't get anywhere on transit you don't use it and in turn won't help improve it. I've many times looked at the transit options available to me and found I was unable to get my errand done on transit so I was forced to drive. One place I lived I checked and transit could do the job so I sold my car (but my wife still had hers because there were still many things we couldn't do on transit)
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