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jg1i

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  • What skills are needed to self host without too many headaches?

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  • For sure use Tailscale for VPN. They have apps for iPhone, Android, macOS, and Linux, so setting up your own personal network will be easy. Hosting on the real internet is definitely advanced and not always necessary.

  • Not enough people buying Premium, eh?

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  • More than you think, actually. My wife recently signed up. I'm like, Babe! I already have uBlock Origin to block ads on desktop! On mobile, Firefox also blocks ads and allows listening to videos with the screen off. 😫

    But, we still get ads on our smart LG TV. So. That's apparently enough to throw the money away.

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • how much power does your system need?

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  • What do you host for your finances and why!

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  • That link kinda showcases exactly my point... It's pretty useless to me. I know how to install the app. I don't know what the daily workflow looks like.

    Compare that to the tutorials YNAB has on YouTube. Those talk more about how to use the app to budget.

    Anyway, it's fine. I understand I'm not the target audience for Actual. It seems like it's for people who already have prior experience with finance apps.

  • What do you host for your finances and why!

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  • Do you just use a limit set of YNAB features? It seems like Actual only has a tiny fraction of the features YNAB has. For example, it's currently missing category targets.

  • What do you host for your finances and why!

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  • As a note for people new to budgeting apps, YNAB has a toooonnn of tutorials and videos about how to create a budget and what the end-to-end workflow looks like in their apps.

  • What do you host for your finances and why!

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  • Is there some tutorial you'd recommend to get started? I didn't find the docs or demo helpful and a lot of videos seem to be focused on background or setup. I can install the app fine, but like how does one actually use this?

    I've never used budgeting apps. I'd like to learn more about them and why they're useful. My current budgeting is: positive balance=good; negative balance=bad

  • It has been two years since the release of ChatGPT. How has it impacted your work or personal life? What changes have you experienced, and do you see it as a positive or negative influence

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  • I absolutely hate AI. I'm a teacher and it's been awful to see how AI has destroyed student learning. 99% of the class uses ChatGPT to cheat on homework. Some kids are subtle about it, others are extremely blatant about it. Most people don't bother to think critically about the answers the AI gives and just assume it's 100% correct. Even if sometimes the answer is technically correct, there is often a much simpler answer or explanation, so then I have to spend extra time un-teaching the dumb AI way.

    People seem to think there's an "easy" way to learn with AI, that you don't have to put in the time and practice to learn stuff. News flash! You can't outsource creating neural pathways in your brain to some service. It's like expecting to get buff by asking your friend to lift weights for you. Not gonna happen.

    Unsurprisingly, the kids who use ChatGPT the most are the ones failing my class, since I don't allow any electronic devices during exams.

  • Has anyone regretted buying a fully electric car?

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  • Yes, I ended up selling and buying a hybrid. Super happy with the hybrid.

    • Basically instant "recharge" speed.
    • Longer range.
    • More vehicle options.
    • Don't have to worry about heat or cold draining my fuel.
    • Can leave the car stationary for long periods of time without the fuel draining.
    • More fueling stations.
    • More reliable fueling stations (chargers may be broken.)
    • Less software bullshit. (Tesla)
    • Less possibly breaking updates. (Tesla) No joke. My car's software literally crashed on the freeway once and I was essentially driving blind because all the screens went blank.

    I drive a lot and for long distances. Switching to hybrid made trips shorter by an hour.

    And I still got to keep fancy drive assist features. It's like 80% of autopilot, if not more.

    Oh! And big one! Even though an electric car may say something like 500km range! That's NOT the usable range! You're not going to be driving the car to 0km. You're not even supposed to charge to 100% most of the time! So most of the time you'll charge to 80%, that's 400km in the battery. But, you probably wanna play it safe, so you'll want to recharge with 50km to 100km left in the battery. Leaving you with about 300km of usable range.

    Then the heat, cold, and time will slowly drain your 300km....

    Meanwhile, my hybrid has about 700km of usable range, regardless of time and weather.

  • Rule of owning

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  • OK. I know I'm about to get blown the fuck up but... You will own nothing and be happy. But. Like. Unironically.

    I really don't think most people want to manage thousands of music files on their computer. Or hundreds of movie files. Or thousands of picture files. Or hundreds of video game files.

    There are definitely options for doing this, but people who go this route are usually tech elite nerds. Not your parents or grandparents. Not normies.

    (I self-host Navidrome, Jellyfin, Immich, etc.)

  • Rule of owning

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  • You know, I tried telling them this at Hertz, but they still called the cops on me! WTF! I gave them money, they gave me car. What's the problem officer?!?!?

  • In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.

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  • They maybe use Plaid to connect your bank? I still wouldn't do it though. Fuck Plaid. Fuck handing out creds. Find another way.

  • Lowest bidder quality

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  • Cy: People buying million dollar homes think they're getting the A-Team. They're not. It's the same builders that build the cheap homes.

  • Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?

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  • Explain how!

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

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    • Syllabuses, not syllabi
    • Matrixes, not matrices
    • Indexes, not indices
    • Cactuses, not cacti

    Standardize plurals!

  • Framework 2880 x 1920 (new) display review

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  • It's all right otherwise. Not phenomenal, but not crap. The specs you can get with other laptops. The hardware feel isn't as good as a Dell XPS or an X1 Carbon. The expansion card stuff is kinda cool, but other laptops have ports too. I've never swapped out the cards.

    The main reason I bought this laptop is repairability. If that's not your main priority, then I probably wouldn't recommend this laptop.

    If you want to use this laptop with Linux and not spend time fixing hardware compatibility issues, then I definitely would not recommend this laptop. Definitely get a Dell XPS for a Linux laptop that Just Works.

  • Framework 2880 x 1920 (new) display review

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  • Agreed! Not saying it's not a software issue. Of course the software is broken. Of course I wish it was updated.

    But, Framework seeing the landscape and picking hardware with known issues is a bad choice. They could offer lower DPI and eliminate entire pages of workarounds and half fixes.

    Yes, high DPI should work, but it doesn't everywhere. That's just the reality, I wish it wasn't.

  • Framework 2880 x 1920 (new) display review

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  • Blurry and tiny apps come from Framework's poor choice of display. Other laptops don't have this problem.

    Yes, I'm aware of software-side issues, but it's still their fault for seeing the software issues and then picking a broken display anyway.

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    Framework 2880 x 1920 (new) display review

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How does renouncing citizenship work?

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    Friends don't let friends buy HiDPI displays

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    Framework vs Dell laptop display comparison

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Can I block posts about Reddit?