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by qwerpy 2y ago
> now that Fusion costs money I know they've been obnoxiously chipping away at the features available in their Personal edition and introducing artificial limitations. But my free installation still works and I haven't seen any
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by qwerpy 2y ago
I'm relieved that at least HN is pushing back on opinions like these. If you really want to be scared, look at the reddit threads discussing this on technology, worldnews, etc. The young online generation is more than happy to embrace
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> As someone says below, it's important to drain the gasoline at the end of the winter, so it doesn't gum up over the summer. Even if there was a battery-powered two-stage snowblower, why would anyone get one? It'd be a wa
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by qwerpy 2y ago
Not OP but I live in Washington state. I recently added an outlet to my closet for a vacuum cleaner charger. I watched some instructional videos and did some reading and felt I could do it safely. Technically I’m “allowed” to do this but I
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by qwerpy 2y ago
I still buy a lot from Amazon but they're definitely on the downswing now. Their app is highly infested with unblockable ads to the point that I will only use their website on a browser with a good ad blocker. I've found that I s
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by qwerpy 2y ago
I have a different experience in Bellevue, WA. I take my kids to parks multiple times a week. There's natural shade from the tall trees here, and some of the parks without natural shade have artificial shade. The parks here are clean,
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by qwerpy 2y ago
Apparently your comment is divisive though!
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Seattle-area commuter here. I have to agree, transit seems mostly designed for people who don't value their time. Which don't tend to be the highly paid tech workers with families. I tried so many times to give transit "one m
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by qwerpy 2y ago
Don't believe everything you read on the internet, especially the places pushing an agenda. As a self-described non-douche (at least, I don't go around judging people simply for buying a particular model of car), the CT is actuall
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by qwerpy 2y ago
This is exactly it. Chasing high salaries for many of us isn't about buying more expensive things. It's about obtaining freedom in your life as early as possible. Add in a family, and the only way to do it in your mid 40s when you
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by qwerpy 2y ago
I've heard from friends who worked at an "unlimited" place who said there was a soft threshold at 4 weeks. If you took more than that your boss would very quickly give you a call to discuss it.
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Agree but Microsoft has more going for it than just remote work support. My wife switched from Microsoft to a much younger, hip tech company and her quality of life plummeted. The higher work intensity, forced RTO, and the overall lack of p
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by qwerpy 2y ago
I was wondering how far I would have to go to see King County come up. Not very far! We simply can't have nice things here. At least not in the Seattle city core. Everyone says "just have free bathrooms bro" but no one saying
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I think it's counterproductive to tell people that "this time of your life is the best, you better enjoy it". People are different and framing something like that as a universal truth means that anyone who didn't have a
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by qwerpy 2y ago
I do think a tighter community would be a much better, universal part of a solution to the difficulties of being a parent in the modern day. Maybe another part of the solution is to have some "buffer" of humans in a community inst
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Having gone through this recently with grandparents in their late 60s and 70s, it is absolutely a problem for new parents now. Both my dad and I had our first kids in our late 30s, and now he really struggles to do much of anything helpful
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By "official replacement" I meant taking it to the store and having them do it. My wife recently got a battery replacement at the Apple Store, around $100. Paying that every 2 years is a lot cheaper (and better for the environment
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by qwerpy 2y ago
Treat the battery well (avoid wireless charging when you can, don't charge when hot) and these devices can last a long time. And even when the battery starts to die, you can get an official replacement for much less than the cost of a
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by qwerpy 2y ago
Apple has a long ways to go before they get to Microsoft levels of enshittification. The News app has ads and premium-only content mixed into the content you do have access to. They know I don't pay for News so stop showing me the arti
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by qwerpy 2y ago
I wouldn't say miserable, but there are sharp edges that don't exist in Windows or MacOS. I've been steadily getting annoyed at Windows so I've started trialing my steam deck as a desktop replacement when I travel. It&#x
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by qwerpy 2y ago
Cis person who drives a big truck in Washington state, don’t leave us out! To be fair it’s a cybertruck so I’m not sure how gender affirming it is. The manly gas guzzling truck drivers don’t seem to approve.
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Apple Maps was a punchline for a while but I’ve been steadfastly using it for the past few years. There’s only a handful of times I questioned the results and consulted Google maps, only to be bombarded with ad PoI’s and reminded of why I a
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“JavaScript engineer confidently makes assertion about actual engineering”
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by qwerpy 2y ago
How do you “feel it coming on”? Would love to develop a sense for it so I can save myself from days of discomfort.
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by qwerpy 2y ago
> software updates change key features such as how the cruise control functions with little notice That’s news to me. Did I unintentionally risk my (very non-technical) wife’s safety when I gave her my Y? The reliance on touchscreen cont
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by qwerpy 2y ago
This is also my preferred way of consuming YouTube. In addition to zero ads, you get instant seek, consistently high bitrate, ability to watch anywhere, and no autoplay for the kids to get sent down an addiction spiral.
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> using a phone, a water bottle, or both as a pacifier I slowly put my phone down in shame after reading this. But I really love this sentence because of how true it is. Why is it always a phone and a water bottle?
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How nice it must be, when the schools around you have to compete in an actual "market". My kids are reaching school age soon, and I'm weighing the public/private school tradeoffs. Unlike in Florida, here in the Seattle a
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I don’t think it’s a shame thing. It’s just that some of us don’t care to partake in the American culture wars. Especially us Asians. We don’t tend to use Reddit or X or read that much Western news media, which relentlessly push the anti-
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I took my cybertruck on a beautiful road trip through eastern Washington just this past week. I needed nearly all of its advertised 320 mile range because charger coverage is sparse. Sure I may only make trips like that a few times a year b

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