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by stasomatic 29d ago
I live in a condo in Florida in a 3 building high-rise compound. There are no water meters per unit. Water is covered by maintenance fees. They are atrocious and rising, but water is "free". Retrofitting will increase maintenance
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by stasomatic 29d ago
and probably the reality is much more mundane and boring. usually technical people have absolutely reasonable concerns , yet most of the time they misjudge the cost-benefit ratios. Are there "technical people" who will volunteer
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by stasomatic 29d ago
I can run a broken toilet tank all day long without extra fees, hundreds of gallons. Can turn all faucets on without penalties, nobody is counting and the utility doesn't care. The maintenance fees for water cover it, spread across all
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
I tried to build a Polymarket bot during Christmas break last year, and didn't get as far as I'd have liked to. But I spent a lot of time thinking about prediction markets thereafter and it certainly became a germination point fo
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Hey, thanks for this comment. You seem to be knowledgeable about the topic and I am a moron. What happens to consumer spending and associated tax revenue when imported goods cost significantly more? Let's take a hypothetical German aut
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Your thing is past its warranty, Mac or Toyota. You can take either to an authorized repair center and get an estimate.
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
How can "it" run forever? Things burn out, overheat, bit rot, SSD read/writes, blah blah. The warranty is the warranty, or you get an extended one. Comparison to a Hilux seems fair on surface but isn't in reality. At som
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Engaging story. As it is fiction, were you influenced by personal events to write it? I don't have Aarons like this in my life, but there is one childhood friend who'd take on risks I'd be afraid to myself. Still my best frie
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
It's nice but the original hits more raw to me. Perhaps because I heard it first ages ago. There was a kerfuffle about the song's provenance a few year ago. I am a fan of covers, like Johny Cash's NIN "Hurt" or Mary
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
I've used Hackintosh sporadically since the netbook days. Intel support is finally deprecated with Golden Gate, and Rosetta 2 is mostly kaput. I do have a mint x230 I7, might throw Tahoe on it for fun.
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Good for them. Things cost what they do. I hear you that one can fall into the 0% interest trap, but that’s on us. Not that I want it to happen, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple could get away with even higher prices today. Like 50% mor
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
My 2019 macbook pro recently started giving me CATERR errors. It's a seven year old laptop. Did you want to be buried with it? All in good humor, my guy, only wondering about your expectations. The error seems to be Intel related, Ap
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Can't say about Ollama but my 2017 Intel NUC 32 GB runs all of the arr and fin stack while it's idling, swimmingly.
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Are you sayin 0% is bad? What is better then? If you have the means, pay outright, no? It used to be a lot worse, paying $16K+ for a 128MB Quadra something based RIP in mid nineties . Do you mean that these things are overpriced from the ge
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
But you aren't buying a Mac at that point, no? The hardware is 1/2 or 1/4. I'd get an X1 myself if it could run macOS, I like the looks and the aesthetic, don't much care about Linux besides my Proxmox / HA&#x2
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
I tip (live in US) as we are shamed into it, but I find the relationship between the customer and staff subservient and dehumanizing. The service folks must do the dance and check on you every 5 minutes ("Are we doing good here, hon?)
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
edit : and disclaimer, I live in France and I'm not proud of our public toilets because we are clearly amongst the bad ones (even if again it really depends on where you go, that's still too random to be acceptable) but my experi
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
actual good workers, like myself, will be fired for Hey, not personal, you are a good worker how? Self eval? Good workers are in the eyes of the employer, no?
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
In my case, this forum is habit forming to engage in the comment section. If a post has enough comments, to me it signals it's an interesting topic, never mind if I don't know anything about the subject matter, there might be very
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Hi lapcat, apologies, I meant no disrespect to you in my comment. I had a knee jerk reaction to what seemed to me "another Apple bad" post and exercised bad judgement. Cheers.
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
i still, deep down, identify as being "smart". Is it that you think you are smart, or smarter than the others? Is it about your deeper knowledge about a few specific subjects that interest you but not others? I've been and
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Unihertz has a carrier compatibility check: https://www.unihertz.com/pages/telecom-compatibility-check They were having some issues with ATT certification in the States, but looks like it's done. They have more in
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
You are joking, but perhaps it's exactly what it's for.
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
This is a square screen BB KB style Android phone: https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-2-elite
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
that you can visualize precisely what the hw is doing with no abstractions to hide it. How can one hold the nuances of different architectures in their head, unless you stick to something like a console that doesn't evolve much for a
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
My building is leaky. The association won't fix it. How about this compromise, you set yours to 74 to compensate for my 68. Fair enough, or will you say I should move?
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
In Ukraine of all places? (I'm from there). It seems rather sensational.
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Tipping culture is the least of our problems, lol, it's only an annoying mosquito bite we can bitch about collectively. I haven't bothered to look into how it started and why it's different from the rest of the world. Some do
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
It's not OTC in the US.
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by stasomatic 1mo ago
Why "accursed"? Because of the special military operation?

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