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by lh7777 6y ago
I've had a Sonos system for maybe 5 years and just started dismantling it a week ago. The hardware is great, but the apps have always been terrible -- they add just enough friction that I've been subconsciously avoiding using the
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by lh7777 6y ago
What's availability like, though? I know that my car doesn't make any financial sense, but my primary use case is getting out of town to go hiking, skiing, etc. I've looked into Zipcar before, but it seemed like I'd have
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by lh7777 7y ago
There's an 8 year old issue in Bugzilla for this.[1] The Firefox team has finally put some resources into fixing it, but progress has been slow. I'm not holding out much hope -- Chrome has had this feature for a long time and it&#
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by lh7777 7y ago
We have municipal composting here in Seattle, which can handle everything from food scraps to yard waste to bioplastics. The city incentivizes recycling and composting by charging a lot for trash collection, less for compost, and nothing fo
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by lh7777 7y ago
I don't if/how the banks make money with high-yield accounts, but you might be better off with treasury bills if: 1. You're in a high income tax state -- interest is taxed as income but t-bill yields are exempt from state tax
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by lh7777 7y ago
Here's a good, brief article that sums this up pretty well: http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/04/how-to-tip.html Until I read that, I honestly didn't know that people tip on top of the tax. I was firmly in
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by lh7777 7y ago
I'm a big fan of thin, fanless machines, and have both a 12" MacBook and a Surface Pro 5. While it's much less powerful, I find the MacBook more pleasant to use (even ignoring MacOS vs. Windows 10) -- way better trackpad, key
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by lh7777 7y ago
Right. The only thing I've ever done using my Sony smart TV's native interface is to go into settings and turn off WiFi. It isn't a dumb TV, but might as well be.
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by lh7777 7y ago
This isn’t the case for “day labor” volunteering in my experience, although of course that’s not for everybody. I build & maintain hiking trails a few days a month and occasionally work construction at Habitat for Humanity. In both case
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by lh7777 8y ago
I recently discovered my local tool library -- seems like a really great idea. For a small annual (suggested) donation, you can borrow just about any tool a homeowner could reasonably expect to use (except heavy machinery, of course). I liv
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by lh7777 8y ago
I've had reasonable success cutting back on useless catalogs with catalogchoice.org. There are a few very persistent clothing companies that I'll have to call to see if I can get them to finally stop sending catalogs every few wee
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by lh7777 8y ago
Are you able to disable auto-playing trailers, or are you just using the web interface or a smartphone/tablet that don't have this feature in the first place? I have a recent AppleTV, which doesn't have any way to disable aut
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by lh7777 8y ago
I think their worst decision of late is to include auto-playing "trailers" (with sound!) when you pause for more than a second on a title. Between that and the lack of a decent "browse by category" interface you mentione
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by lh7777 8y ago
Apple, too, though. Apple needs to show via their hardware choices that they're still committed to developers and other pros, and Microsoft needs to keep cleaning up Windows.
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by lh7777 8y ago
I switched from a MacBook to a Surface Pro (i5) maybe a year ago and just finished switching back to the same MacBook. I agree that Microsoft's vision for pro users is much clearer than Apple's, which is why I switched in the firs
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by lh7777 8y ago
I've worked in product development consulting for over a decade, and I wouldn't say stateside manufacturing is more difficult -- quite the opposite really for many of the reasons mentioned in other comments. There are plenty of sm
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by lh7777 8y ago
Pretty much off topic, but the opening paragraph of this article highlights what I think is a little-known benefit of Prime membership. The author notes that "sharing an Amazon Prime account with loved ones is surprisingly intimate&quo
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by lh7777 8y ago
I just immediately close the tab on any article that starts with "[person's name I don't recognize] was [doing something not directly related to the article's title]". If it's a topic of particular interest (li
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by lh7777 8y ago
I'm not an expert by any means, but if the Commons Clause's FAQ is accurate, the copyright holder is only retaining a very specific right to commercial use, not all rights to commercial use: "Commons Clause only forbids you f
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by lh7777 8y ago
The new construction buildings I've lived in in the US definitely solved the neighbor noise issue except when the guy next door would have loud parties on the balcony -- I'd hear that through the windows even if closed. But while
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by lh7777 8y ago
Agreed! Really wish we could get Macouns in Washington. Honeycrisp are good, but a bit sweet for my taste. I also like how comparatively small New England apples are.
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by lh7777 8y ago
They're over a year old, so probably not worth the trouble. Just dug the AirPods out of the junk drawer and they seem to be working better than I recall. Recently got a new iPhone, so perhaps some of my problems were the old phone&#x27
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by lh7777 8y ago
I'd never understood the appeal of wireless headphones, and I guess I kind of do now that I have AirPods. Mine fit fine and stay in while running, but that's the only use I've found for them. Anywhere else and I'd much r
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by lh7777 8y ago
I never tipped Uber drivers, but I stopped using Uber before they added the option to tip through the app. On Lyft, I've always tipped ~15% if the car was clean and the driving seemed safe, often more for <$10 rides. From what I&#x2
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by lh7777 8y ago
Thanks -- I didn't realize that reordering tabs had been fixed. It only works on the active tab[1] and I guess I've only ever tried moving inactive tabs before. It's not perfect, but so far seems better than in Edge (which al
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by lh7777 8y ago
They've actually fixed a number of minor issues over the past year or so, but Firefox still doesn't support pinch zoom on Windows[1]. Being able to reorder tabs using the touchscreen would also be nice, but not as critical. [1] h
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by lh7777 8y ago
I really want to like Firefox (or any of the alternative browsers mentioned here for that matter), but I frequently use my Surface in tablet mode and the only browsers with acceptable touch screen support on Windows are Edge and Chrome. Las
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by lh7777 8y ago
I'd be very interested to hear more about your 2nd house experience as I'm currently considering building a similar-sized house using SIPs in rural Washington state. Ideally, I'd use a GC (if I can find a good one!) to get th
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by lh7777 8y ago
Not the OP, but I have Windows Firewall set to block outgoing connections by default, which renders WSL mostly useless due to the way firewall rules work. This is supposed to be fixed in the next major update, so I may move over. There is s
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by lh7777 9y ago
FirstTech's credit card is PIN priority. I've only used it in Canada so far, but it works as expected there.

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