Mostly I get printers at the thrift store. For some reason people donate perfectly good working printers. They cost like $15 and all you need to do is find out what kind of ink they use and get some

I have internal curtains and blinds and this actually still works well, at least better than keeping them open. Maybe it would work better with externals but this is still worth doing if all you have is internal

I used to not have AC. I found the best strategy was to open up all the windows at night and let the cool night air in, and then as soon as I wake up I close all the windows, curtains and blinds to trap the cool air in and prevent the sun from heating it up through the windows. If you live in a house that has a basement and central heating, you could add some intake ducts down there and turn your furnace on to fan only mode to circulate the cool basement air into the rest of the house.

GM W-body and GMT platform cars from around 2002-2008 I’ve found to be decent. The GM 3800 V6 engine and 5.3L Vortec V8 are extremely reliable and easy to maintain yourself if you’re into that kind of thing. You can very easily replace the stock radio with an aftermarket unit that has Android auto/Apple Car play and won’t spy on you. Since it’s an American car and so many were sold in America, both new and used parts are pretty easy to find and pretty cheap. The biggest thing that kills these cars is rust, especially if you live in the salt belt, so just make sure you look underneath the car before buying.

Look for: Pontiac Grand Prix, Chevy Monte Carlo, Chevy Tahoe, Buick Regal, Chevy Avalanche/Silverado. A good example of these can be found for under $10k easily and if you look a little harder you can usually find good ones or ones that need minimal work for less than $5k.

Personally I plan on driving these cars until it becomes impossible to find them anymore. There’s a junkyard near me that specializes in GM cars where I can get parts for DIRT cheap.

Currently I have an 05 Avalanche (140k miles) and an 07 Grand Prix (165k miles). Before those I had an 05 Grand Prix which died only due to rust, engine and transmission still strong at 160k miles. They hardly ever have issues, and when they do they are typically cheap issues or issues I can easily fix myself.

Sure - they’re nothing flashy, but the cost of purchase + repairs is almost certainly less than the cost of a new or lightly used car alone. Also, minimal complicated computer systems, and no corporate spying.

Ive been considering buying a new old stock “backup pebble” for when mine goes. Basically the perfect smartwatch

Pebble is peak smartwatch. Fight me on it, I wont change my mind. Its just smart enough, without being too smart. Battery lasts for days, its waterproof, and side buttons instead if some impossible to use tiny-ass touchscreen. Perfection.

Unpopular opinion - in Spotify (and Spotify ONLY) I actually like that it does this. I like discovering new music and Spotify seems to have really good recommendations sometimes. Sure they collect a lot of listening data - but how else could they give good recommendations if they don’t know what you like?

Yeah I think OP’s preferred subject has something to do with the issue he’s having. I mainly watch car and tech videos, and I even use the algorithm suggestions sometimes (bad, I know), and I rarely see anything I don’t want to or that makes me roll my eyes.

I like LTT, Junkyard Digs, Pole Barn Garage (small channel, just passed 100k subs), and Donut Media

Same, sometimes (usually while driving for some reason) I just get overwhelmed with happiness at how well my life is going. Yeah it’s not perfect, and obviously I was incredibly lucky to get where I am, but it’s more than enough for me to be truly content.

Isn’t it “embrace, extend, exterminate”?

Idk, I feel like all the reddit users who are going to transition (of which I am one) have already done so

Would be interested in a community for general purchase recommendations (any product, no specific category). Having a thread site like this where actual humans who bought the product and don’t work for the company can write honest reviews/recommendations is extremely valuable

I love it so much when people give an excellent well thought out answer but they have a username like “dingus” lol, I never notice it until someone like you points it out and at that point it’s even more hilarious

www.phind.com - it’s a combo AI + search engine geared towards developers. You get the AI answer and the search engine answer side-by-side, and the AI answer will cite it’s sources for you to investigate/verify what it’s telling you

I’m a developer and I’ve been trying out www.phind.com, has been decent so far. It gives you both a chatGPT/AI answer and a regular search engine result at the same time. Just don’t rely on it to write an accurate RegEx…

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but the word “Fediverse” leaves a sour taste in my mount just because it sounds so much like the stupidity that was “Metaverse” (yes I know they are completely unrelated)

King of the hill

I don’t really play that much anymore, really only when my brother is bugging me to play. Kind of got burned out on it when I used to play it too much

Upstate NY here, it basically looks like Fallout NV outside right now

This is a bit extra effort, but the brussel sprouts marinade outline in the link is very good. The link says to grill them on skewers, but I have also baked them and air fried them using the same marinade and it was always good. If you’re opposed to grilling them or don’t have access to a grill, the air fryer is the next best option for sure

https://www.wellplated.com/grilled-brussels-sprouts/