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But he estimated the job would take 3 hours so everyone was happy.

Right?

Water dripping? Don’t call a plumber yet. Get on your hands and knees and try to figure out exactly where the water is coming from. You might need a $5 part and 10 minutes watching a YouTube video instead of a $400 callout. The same concept applies for most things in a home or vehicle. But don’t screw around with electricity if you don’t know what you’re doing.

If you’re shopping around based on price, make sure you’re factoring in the cost of gas and your time. Driving an hour to save $5 actually costs you money.

Need to quickly determine if a caller is a scammer or legitimate? Just ask who they’re calling. If they don’t know your name, you can hang up immediately.

Maintain your things. All your things. If you use something until it’s no longer working, it has moved from inexpensive maintenance to expensive repair.

I cut it twice and it’s still too short!

If FB marketplace is the only game left in your town, create a fake Facebook account solely for using marketplace and you’ll probably have the easiest time selling stuff. It’s less convenient to chat with people if you don’t install their awful apps on your phone, but it’s less invasive.

Craigslist isn’t the king anymore but it’s still very active. There’s also Craigslist clones of various types in various cities that might be active for you - just try a local search for selling stuff and odds are the sponsored results will be big enough players in your area that they bother to advertise.

Or just throw up a sign with your phone number or email and stick it up on a community notice board, apartment building mail room, etc. For types of items that are pretty universal you shouldn’t have much trouble finding a buyer.

In all cases, set a high bar for scammers and idiots. Clearly post in your ad that it’s for pickup only and price is firm. If you get a message from someone saying anything but “is it still available? I can come over tomorrow”, just delete it. I’ve gotten tons of stupid messages like “call me 555-5555” or “I’ll give you 30% of asking price in cash”. Don’t waste your time with those fuckers. They’re either lazy or dishonest and you don’t have time for them.

I wouldn’t go to the trouble of setting up a table at a flea market unless you have a lot of valuable stuff to sell and have a strong stomach for dealing with hagglers.

If you want to automate that a bit, set up https://github.com/meeb/tubesync.

It’ll watch any YouTube playlists you specify (I created one called “Save to Plex”) and automatically download them and import them into Plex. Adding videos is as easy as sticking them into your playlist from whatever YouTube client you use.

TIL about that community. Thanks!

I bought a boring looking office chair from an ergonomic furniture store about 10 years ago. I spent about $600 and it’s still just as good as it was when I bought it.

That’s a sharp contrast from the shitty $150 chairs I would keep buying from Costco and having to replace because the foam or seat started to collapse after a couple years.

Also pretty convenient to fill up before you head out for a day of fun flingin’.

If you don’t want to crush them with the side of a knife to loosen the peels (it works great but then the squashed garlic is hard to hold if you’re grating it), a trick I saw was to chop the bottoms off the cloves and then throw them in the microwave for 10-20 seconds. The skins start to fall right off and peel like magic.

That’s not garlic, that’s its drunk uncle jarlic.

I’m happy to contribute to this project.

“We’ve got a great team of amazing people who are putting forward the kinds of solutions that Canadians need, whether it’s on housing, whether it’s on paying for groceries, whether it’s on building strong careers for the future, fighting climate change, reconciliation,” Trudeau said.

Have their ideas gotten any farther than an email or meeting? I haven’t seen any action. If that were my job I’d have been fired long before 8 years. I wouldn’t have the balls to ask for a 4 year extension.

Housing? Immigration is set to increase the population orders of magnitude more than housing starts. Nothing has changed regarding corporate landlords scooping everything up. Most MPs have a lucrative side gig renting out homes at inflated, crippling rates.

Grocery prices? What have we done? Invited Galen Weston to come to a committee and shrug? They’re still more expensive and in smaller packages.

Strong careers? Salaries have come nowhere near increases caused by inflation. A small number of unions have negotiated something decent, but the government sure doesn’t get any credit for that.

Climate change? The country is on fire annually and the last thing you did was buy Alberta a pipeline nobody can use. The time for action was 30 years ago. You were in power for the last 8 and did nothing.

Reconciliation? You made a holiday for government workers and then went surfing.

The only thing the Liberals have they can use is “we’re not the CPC”, which is often enough, but pretty flimsy when your track record of the last 8 years is part of the next election.

What kind of engineering manager isn’t using a dramatic shrug emoji or emoticon dozens of times every day?!

Don’t tell me your team has their shit together.

Not the answer you were looking for, but these guys sell a solution to get Nest stuff working in HomeKit: https://www.starlinghome.io/

It’s annoying you have to pay another hundred bucks to get this integration working, but it’s an option.

Sonarr and Radarr are there for managing your requests, so they’ll handle things like downloading it when it’s available (either because it’s a new release or because the torrent/nzb weren’t readily available at the time you added it), upgrading an existing file to a higher quality version if it becomes available, sourcing a new copy if you mark the one it found as bad (e.g. huge, hard-coded Korean subtitles ruining your movie).

If you’re trying to find new stuff based on vague conditions (like “90s action movie), I don’t think any of the self hosted apps are a huge help. You’re probably better off sourcing ideas from an external site like IMDb or tvdb (maybe even Rotten Tomatoes?). Those sites maintain their own rich indexes of content and tags, whereas the self hosted stuff seems to be built more around the “I’ll make an api request once I know what you’re looking for”, which sucks when you don’t really know what you’re looking for.

I think there are even browser extensions for IMDb that will add a button to the IMDb movie page letting you automatically add it to Radarr if you like the look of it.

I can’t recommend an all-in-one primer, but if you want to look up guides independently, you’ll probably be most interested in these tools/services:

• a Usenet host (paid. they’re largely the same. Look for deals)
• a Usenet indexer site (analogous to a Pirate Bay type search engine). I like nzbgeek but there are hundreds. Many require a small annual fee and this may be worth it to you, but you can use free ones to test your initial setup.

A Usenet indexer is going to let you download .nzb files, which is analogous to downloading .torrent files from a torrent indexer. The nzb describes what posts in what newsgroups contain the files for a particular release.

• SABnzbd (download client, analogous to a torrent client like Transmission)
• browser plugins to simplify clicking an nzb download link and sending it to SABnzbd (not always needed if you’re running everything on your local machine, but important if your SAB instance runs on another server or in a Docker container)

If you’re looking to set up some extra infrastructure for automating a lot of steps, there’s also web apps to cover a ton of video use cases, like:

• Sonarr and Radarr (for monitoring specific tv shows and movies and automatically searching for nzbs, downloading them, and moving them to a final home on disk)
• Plex or Jellyfin (for providing a Netflix-like UI you can use to look for something to watch and then stream it to your browser/phone/TV)
• Overseerr (for a single interface to look for shows and movies and have them automatically added to Sonarr/Radarr.

I’d highly recommend setting up Docker and putting all of these apps into separate containers. Linuxserver creates easy to setup and update Docker packages for all these things. It’s also a great resource for finding other web apps you didn’t know you needed.

They’re going to start removing quality items from your cloud save games!

Any more than 3 slats holding up a mattress is a frivolous luxury, I say.

Is that the guy that had a bunch of clones of the original dog?

I had the same experience! I got as far as the first boss, died, and thought this game just wasn’t for me and fuck all the hype.

Came back a few years later and actually paid attention to the lore and was blown away.