neomachino

joined 2 years ago
[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

Usually charger brick or just brick

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

My son once took all the cards our of my wallet and put them in the printer/scanner that we never use. I only found out 2 years later when I finally went to print something and there was a jam, opened the scanner lid to get inside and boom.

Could be there.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

I always wanted to have a farm and be well off enough that I could take a good portion of the yield and just give it out in my old neighborhood.

Kids there are starving, most of them have never seen an eggplant, it's cheap ultraprocessed food or half moldy apples from the food banks.

I know there's a lot of other stuff too, but I think food education is pretty important, most of the adults I knew didn't know how to cook resulting in everyone eating worse for more money, thinking they couldn't afford to eat any healthier.

Although at this point my old neighborhood has been gentrified and filled with $3000/m studio apartments. I'd probably also buy out the neighborhood and give it back to everyone who lived there 10 years ago.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

It's been rough where I am. We've basically abandoned the living room and have all been cramming into one room with the AC on.

Even with the AC blasting in the living room it was 93 degrees fahrenheit inside

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Looking through these comments I don't know what half of this stuff is and I don't think I want to.

My wife's freind came over the other day and asked me if I could fix her new glasses because they were crooked, being polite I said I liked them (they're hideous but to each their own), and she responded "thanks they're D and G, they only cost me $700". These were $700 glasses with no additions. No blue light thing, no scratch resistant stuff.

I don't care for that.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A quick search on eBay for "chromebook gm02xl battery" shows me a ton of battery for under $20 with shipping, saw one for $12 with free shipping.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

As a kid I always said I wanted to "work on the computer at home so I could take care of my farm".

Which coming from where I grew up was about as realistic as owning the moon.

I do think dreams have gotten more generic with a lot of kids aiming for that influencer life, but the other day I heard a neighborhood kid say he wants to be a deep sea monster truck driver. I'm not sure what that means but I love it.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

My wife and I are in the process of buying our second home. When we went to get preapproved we were worried we wouldn't qualify for the mini farm we were looking at. We qualified for more than we needed just on my income alone. I make $78k a year and they said they'd give me close to $500k. Those payment would be almost my entire monthly paycheck.

It's predatory.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Not exactly quiet but works for me because of the layout of my house.

I go to the laundry room which is on the other side of the house from the bedrooms, turn the kitchen light on, laundry room like off (so it's light enough to see but pretty dim), sit on the washer and play sad songs on my guitar.

It's therapuetic and after about 20 minutes I'm just exhausted.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Out of the 8 cousins in my family the 2 of us that didn't go to college are the only ones who own a house. I didn't finish 10th grade and I'm looking at buying my second house and trying to figure out how to keep my current one to give to my mom.

My cousins are pretty cool (aside from a couple who are very spiteful) but my aunts and uncles act like I scammed them all for everything they had.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

~3tb of a jumbled disgusting mess of miscellaneous files. Somehow it all works on jellyfin though.

I'd be down to try something new if you do end up releasing something. Jellyfin works just fine but I'm not in love with it.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My job used to outsource a bunch of dev work to another company and oh boy did those people love their tests. I don't get it. In my case they weren't even using our actual database to pull data from. They had a bunch of fixture files with generic data that they would use to make a temporary sqlite db for the tests. All of the test ran perfectly with that data, not so much with the actual data. The code is there, can't you just read it and know what will happen?

When I write something I'm never not building it and at least checking that it works and trying to break it.

 

I'm about to start my 12 week paternity leave next week thanks to a state program and almost everyone that I've told has had their jaws on the floor that I would even want to do that.

Today I witnessed a group of coworkers almost bragging how little time they took after their kids were born. I've heard stuff like "Most men are hard working and want to support their families so they don't take leave".

To me it was a no brainer, I'm getting ~85% of my normal pay and I get to take care of my wife, our son and our newborn for 3 whole months. and for someone who hasn't taken a day breathe in the past 3 years I think I deserve it.

I'm in the US so I know it's a "strange" concept, but people have seemed genuinely upset, people it doesn't affect at all. Again, it's a state program available to almost anyone who's worked in the past 2 years, I've talked to soon to be dads who scoffed at the idea and were happy to use a week of pto and that's it.

I feel like I'm missing something.

 

I couldn't find an askvets or any similar community, so sorry if this doesn't fit here.

My dog has this weird spot in this left eye where it's cloudy with what looks like a blood vessel in the middle of it.

Over the past couple weeks I think it's moved around a bit, but it's really hard to get him to sit still for more than half a second to take a good look.

He doesn't seem to be in any pain or bothered at all, he's his normal goofy self. I assume one of the cats scatched him and got his eye but with how big and clumsy he is it could've been anything. It has definitely gone down since we saw it about 2 weeks ago.

The only vets nearby are either crazy expensive or mainly deal with livestock, the one we called told us to just keep an eye on it and bring him in if he seems bothered.

Anyone have any idea what this is or if it will go away on it's own? We're debating taking him to the vet but we're talking $300 to walk in the door.

Any insight is appreciated!

 

We have a couple big projects that I'm not comfortable doing myself (mainly roof/foundation repair).

I've had a couple contractors out that I found on google and have been very displeased. Their work might be good but jesus the salesmen they send out.

They range from overly aggressive to incompetent.

So how do you find good contractors? I've noticed the bigger the company, the worse the impression.

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