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by jdeibele 6y ago
My mom worked very hard and well for a company that administered benefits for union employees. The way that things worked would be that if you worked at least a certain number of hours in January you would have medical insurance coverage
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Google Maps is slightly superior to Apple Maps but the gap continues to narrow and it's possible that Apple will pull ahead. The competition between the two means that it's important for new features to be added and incorrect dat
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There are a fair number of clinics that will do blood tests for you. This is the first one that came up on DDG: https://www.everlywell.com/products/vitamin-d-test/ $49 but you have to prick your finger for the
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Get a Google Voice account. You can lock a Google account down so that you must use 2FA to login and the 2FA must be Yubi Key or an authenticator app (Google Auth is OK, Authy is better). SMS can be removed after you set up 2 other ways t
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by jdeibele 6y ago
It would be interesting to let passengers have a slider that let them show how price sensitive they were and the drivers were able to set a minimum price for total (driving to passenger + driving to destination). Maybe you'd be willin
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My house was built in 1914, which is fairly old for Portland. It's been heated by 5 different technologies: 1) Manufactured Gas, which I assume is the same as coal gas. The pipe for this is about 3 times as large as natual gas. 2) Wo
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by jdeibele 6y ago
We had a dispute between employees of a coffee shop and the owners spill over onto our neighborhood mailing list. The owners wanted all employees to be available to work 8-10 hours/week. Employees were understandably not thrilled abou
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Two of my children are still using these. The Toshiba Chromebook 2 is available (swappa.com, eBay, etc.) in 2014 or 2015 versions. The major difference seems to be that the 2015 has backlit keys and is very rare compared to the 2014. I bo
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Their lowest price is $500/month billed annually. So it's $6000 day one. And that's the cheap plan - the other two are "contact us for a custom quote". https://www.quickbase.com/plans-and-pricing
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Disappointed not to see more attention paid to this release. Also would like to see other states picking it up immediately. With Canadian https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-exposure-... and Irish
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Warning if you want to switch from developer beta to public beta: it wants to download the full 12.3 GB file. I saw this after installing developer beta 4 (3.67 GB), which installed relatively easily. Beta 3 required me to create a flash
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I had bought a new Nest thermostat and was going to install it at about the time that Google went from having different things Nest-integrated to having them be Google-integrated. I chose to sell my thermostat to somebody and buy an Ecobe
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by jdeibele 6y ago
You're combining their two statements. They said that somebody who wants in your house is 100% going to get in if they want to badly enough. They also said that saying that you have guns definitely increases the attractiveness to burg
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Good to see an article calling this out. Temperature-screening might catch a few people who know that they have a temperature (or are just not feeling well) and are going to "tough it out". Here in the Portland, OR area I've
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Reddit does offer the option to "use old Reddit" if you're signed in. I only learned about this recently, maybe it's common knowledge. I often browse Reddit with Safari and there haven't been very many extensions a
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by jdeibele 6y ago
Both my mom and my aunt died a couple of years ago. I had all the paperwork that I needed but it was 2-3 hours for each account that needed to be closed and a new account opened for the estate. I was able to close one of my mom's and
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by jdeibele 6y ago
"The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty, according to an analy
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by jdeibele 6y ago
There seem to be two types of air rifles in the US: BB guns, which shoot BBs, and pellet guns, which are rifled and shoot a pellet that look more like a bullet. There are all kinds of variants, including BB guns that are fully automatic.
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by jdeibele 6y ago
We have a credit card with Capital One because they allow for credit cards to minors with a monthly limit that you can adjust. My 3 kids started out at $250/limit (way more than I expect them to need but also what we could live with
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I just spent a few hours at an elderly relative's house checking over her computer. She had her screen lock and a message on Chrome saying that she needed to "Call Microsoft" and she wasn't able to close the window, etc.
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by jdeibele 6y ago
If you want to take the trouble to sort people into lists, I reccomend https://github.com/KrauseFx/twitter-unfollow It unfollows everybody you're currently following but moves them onto a list called "Old F
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I was going to correct you on pricing because I did a one-time payment of about $11 back in 2010. It used to be that there was a one-time price that incremented as people signed up. So really early people could have paid a dollar or so,
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I'm using Adguard's DNS on my router. 5 of us at home due to Covid-19 and no complaints from anybody about things not working. NextDNS has a more advanced version (you can add and remove domains) for $19.90/year It's no
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I can't replicate on the iOS beta or the MacOS beta for realty.com. For "sketch" - first result Safari shows is sketchup.google.com but it shows Skechers.com as a choice. BTW, been super pleased with the betas so far.
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I use LastPass for passwords and Authy for 2FA. I like the idea that two different programs have to be attacked to get access to Google, Facebook, etc. There's a little bit more friction than having both in one program but that&#x27
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I use AdGuard DNS. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html No connection with the company, just happy how it's worked for the past month with all of us (Dad, Mom, 3 teenagers) at home and zero com
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I was going to add my mother-in-law to our Spotify account and Spotify wanted her to be at the address provided on the account. I didn't follow through because I assumed (didn't try) that they would do some sort of GeoIP lookup.
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by jdeibele 6y ago
I'm using Display Menu on the headless Mac Mini that holds my ripped CDs and DVDs. Seems to work great with Screen Sharing from my other Macs. I've been very happy with how it works. I've gone from a 2007 to a 2012 to a 2
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by jdeibele 6y ago
One of the things I was curious about was how many people are in school now compared to the 60s and 70s. I had trouble finding a graph or statistics on how many people are in school but https://www.statista.com/statistics&
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by jdeibele 7y ago
Mine shows nothing: "You have no available activity to show at this time." I have been running Facebook in the special Firefox container pretty much since it was available. I took off the WhatsApp and Instagram apps from my phon

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