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I think everyone in your replies is conflating being a full time landlord and a part time landlord. One of them is definitely more evil than the other.

I thought all FSD updates were beta updates? Did I miss the announcement of FSD going GA and being stable?

If that's the case, then yeah I probably wouldn't test run a new update on the highway first. But I also have no idea if this issue happens at lower speeds as well.

I live in a city where taking an Uber or Lyft a few miles is like $25, maybe $50 at the last call surge. Unfortunately ride-sharing is a lot more expensive in cities that don't also have good transit, so I keep getting reminded that $25 is cheap for a ride share across any distance.

Back when I used to go out drinking, catching the last train home or taking an Uber was my go-to choice. I don't drink much nowadays, but the rush home in an area without good transit infrastructure is still something I think about a lot.

Like the island that's a part of Hawaii? /s

In fairness there have been hundreds (750+) of Simpsons episodes so they're bound to have done some that line up with reality. I'm really sick of people saying the Simpsons predicted something considering those numbers.

My understanding is that you're not going to find a self hosted solution that makes use of SMS (not counting email to SMS gateways) because sending SMS programmatically requires a SMS gateway those aren't cheap (think of Twilio). You can find many options for app-based notifications (push notifications usually) and email-based notifications as a workaround.

Accidentally checked the bot flag in your account?

MA (and much of the US) has a multi-level tax system where they all stack up.

Let's tax someone in Boston, MA making $1.5m/yr

Local = 0% State = 9% (previously 5%) Federal = 37%

So on their final dollar of income they'll be paying 46% income tax now. Note of course because of graduated income tax schemes, that 46% is not applied to the entire $1.5m but instead only to the amount that fits into the highest bracket.

It's even worse when you go to the manufacturer's website, order it directly there, and then have it delivered using Amazon fulfillment still despite trying to avoid it.

In the US they're a lot cheaper now than they used to be. You can pick up 3M Aurora N95 masks for about $1/ea in store in many areas. Still not nearly as cheap as surgical masks, but also clearly better than surgical masks.

Once you have to start importing them, the price seems to rapidly increase.

That's where I'm at. Discord isn't the issue for me, it's them not using their own platform to communicate major announcements. At that point it's like you've given up on your own platform.

Good point, it doesn't appear to be. Might be good to drop a note on GitHub (or their contact method of choice) so they can set that flag.

Edit: I just went and sent them a mention on Mastodon. I noticed it's an admin account so I wonder if Lemmy lets both flags be set at once.

I personally just started using Owntracks, which is a standalone location tracker. There is also Traccar which I looked into but opted not to make use of.

Some people use it as a Find My replacement, I personally make use of it as a Google Maps Timeline replacement (and have imported my previous data as a result) as well as for Tile tracker location history (which I've got custom scripted currently).

Wait since when does a tilde mean high availability?

Yup, there was a very well known case covered on an early episode of Mayday / Air Crash Investigation (like season 1) about this. A lot of people got to watch the same terrifying view as the pilots as their plane plummeted from the sky.

That's a popular enough opinion that it's being worked on and should be coming soon.

After a while you just get used to the fact that your license plate is going to be bent at the very bottom if it doesn't have a plastic holder behind it.

Can we consider this an open and obvious secret? They're DDoSing that instance not because they think it'll take everyone down, but because it'll take down the most number of people with the least amount of effort.

They don't call it the Orange Line because of the color of the trains, instead it's because when they're actually running you see can see the orange flames! /s

In fairness the new ones don't catch fire nearly as often as the old ones did.

Definitely agree with this one, though I will say you can replace one proprietary bit of software (Microsoft Office) with another (Google Drive/Docs) and get a large portion of the way in some industries. Really depends on what you need to do.

But alas, still no widely accepted FOSS alternatives.