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  1. Comment on My son pooped in the toilet in ~life

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    When people ask me what it's like being a dad, there's a lot of great things I can talk about, but I always make sure to mention: Potty training is, in my opinion, in that exact same line of...

    When people ask me what it's like being a dad, there's a lot of great things I can talk about, but I always make sure to mention:

    You as a person just don't really appreciate that you're able to eat with a spoon, until you have to teach another tiny human just how exactly to eat with a spoon.

    Potty training is, in my opinion, in that exact same line of thought. Congratulations!

    11 votes

  2. Comment on What's a show you love that's from before your time? in ~tv

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    The A-Team movie that came out in 2010 was the perfect amount of excessive, for a one off viewing that I laughed at, enjoyed, and hardly thought about again ever since. Worth a watch if you're in...

    The A-Team movie that came out in 2010 was the perfect amount of excessive, for a one off viewing that I laughed at, enjoyed, and hardly thought about again ever since. Worth a watch if you're in the mood for it.

  3. Comment on Adulting -- what advice or encouragement did you receive / wish you had received when you were just starting out moving out? in ~life

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    It's okay to be who you are. Don't live life behind a mask because you think the mask is more aesthetically pleasing to others. Make a budget. About 13 years ago I started using YNAB, and it was...

    1. It's okay to be who you are. Don't live life behind a mask because you think the mask is more aesthetically pleasing to others.

    2. Make a budget. About 13 years ago I started using YNAB, and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. It showed me just how fast and loose I was living, financially. It helped break me out of the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. It taught me to save and prepare for expected and unexpected large financial events. Some months I still feel poor, but I describe it as "YNAB poor, not actually poor". It doesn't have to be YNAB, that's just what works for me. But don't let one expensive surprise make you miss meals.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Songs about doing chores / daily routines? in ~music

  5. Comment on Any electric vehicle owners with an Android phone using the ChargePoint app? in ~transport

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    Thank you! Fortunately I'm a pretty handy guy, I'm installing my own level 2 charger at home on Tuesday. Between that, and free charging at work, I doubt I'll ever need to charge elsewhere. We're...

    Thank you! Fortunately I'm a pretty handy guy, I'm installing my own level 2 charger at home on Tuesday. Between that, and free charging at work, I doubt I'll ever need to charge elsewhere. We're now a household of one EV and one ICE, we're taking the ICE on a road trip today because it's more spacious for the kids. I doubt we'll be using the EV for a road trip, for now. Eventually we plan to replace the ICE with an HEV SUV/minivan. But, according to PlugShare anyways, there seem to be a decent number of CCS chargers available to me. If we were taking the Ioniq today, it wouldn't have been an issue.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Any electric vehicle owners with an Android phone using the ChargePoint app? in ~transport

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    I'll definitely be playing with it over time, because free work charging. I may try calling the number some time and see what they have to say.

    I'll definitely be playing with it over time, because free work charging. I may try calling the number some time and see what they have to say.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Any electric vehicle owners with an Android phone using the ChargePoint app? in ~transport

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    Thank you! I'd appreciate the info!

    Thank you! I'd appreciate the info!

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    Your #2 point is my biggest pain. I've been a Debian user for.. 15 years? Give or take. Old packages were the bane of some of my biggest problems. Thankfully, now a days, we've got better options....

    Your #2 point is my biggest pain. I've been a Debian user for.. 15 years? Give or take. Old packages were the bane of some of my biggest problems. Thankfully, now a days, we've got better options. Repos from people who develop/maintain their own current binaries, backports, and even containerized images.

    But whew, when I first started using zfs, there was quite a bit of pain from being several versions behind the (at the time) current.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    Debian is love. Debian is life. I'm reminded of an old bash.org quote:

    Debian is love. Debian is life. I'm reminded of an old bash.org quote:

    Ubuntu is an ancient African word which means "I was too lazy to install and configure Debian"

    16 votes

  10. Comment on Any electric vehicle owners with an Android phone using the ChargePoint app? in ~transport

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    I wonder if that's it, the logic flow of default NFC is Google Wallet, unless the ChargePoint app is open. I did get a passive notification popup (not in the drawer, but in the middle of the...

    I wonder if that's it, the logic flow of default NFC is Google Wallet, unless the ChargePoint app is open. I did get a passive notification popup (not in the drawer, but in the middle of the screen), for about 2 seconds from ChargePoint when tapping. So I assumed the app was doing whatever the app needed to do. But I'll try having it actively open next time. Thanks for the idea.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Any electric vehicle owners with an Android phone using the ChargePoint app? in ~transport

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    Yeah, I ordered my one free RFID card, it just hasn't arrived yet. I have a personal preference for trying to "single point of contact" my life as much as possible, so I heavily use my Google...

    Yeah, I ordered my one free RFID card, it just hasn't arrived yet. I have a personal preference for trying to "single point of contact" my life as much as possible, so I heavily use my Google Wallet and would love to just use my phone rather than the RFID card. But that might be the way to go for a while. Thanks for the response!

    4 votes

  12. Any electric vehicle owners with an Android phone using the ChargePoint app?

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    I won't be surprised if this is moved to ~misc or something, I thought transport might be most appropriate since it's about EV's, but I'm probably wrong. I made the jump to an EV this week (Ioniq...

    I won't be surprised if this is moved to ~misc or something, I thought transport might be most appropriate since it's about EV's, but I'm probably wrong.

    I made the jump to an EV this week (Ioniq 5), and for the first time, I'm charging away from home. My work has free level 2 chargers (via ChargePoint), but I can't for the life of me activate the charger by tapping my phone to the terminal, I have to activate it through the app.

    When I tap my phone (Pixel 9 Pro), it seems to act like I'm tapping a credit card, I get an error screen:

    Card rejected error
Card not supported

    The only things I can find online are in response to iOS people who apparently have to add a virtual ChargePoint card to their wallet, but from what I've read, this isn't necessary on Android since the ChargePoint app can interface directly with the phone's NFC capabilities.

    I'd appreciate any tips on where I may be going wrong.

    12 votes

  13. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    One member of my DnD group brought it up and it quickly spread among the rest of the group. I've added them to my "Want to read" queue, and have added the books to my Audio Bookshelf server, but...

    One member of my DnD group brought it up and it quickly spread among the rest of the group. I've added them to my "Want to read" queue, and have added the books to my Audio Bookshelf server, but I've got a few ahead of the series to get through first. I'll probably start them by October. But the people in the group who have started the series have ranted and raved about them, so I look forward to trying them out.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What's something that's more challenging for you than it is for others? in ~talk

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    No, or not explicitly anyway. I grew up in north Atlanta (GA), by a mom from Louisiana and a dad from France. Being polite and respectful in the Southern Charm way was heavily reinforced, but a...

    I assume your parents taught you to always reciprocate questions?

    No, or not explicitly anyway. I grew up in north Atlanta (GA), by a mom from Louisiana and a dad from France. Being polite and respectful in the Southern Charm way was heavily reinforced, but a part of that was acknowledging other people (Hey! How are you? How was your weekend?), rather than explicitly reciprocating questions. I was your pretty socially average kid in school, I wasn't "in the popular crowd", nor was I "a social outcast". There were one or two "popular kids" who took occasional interest in trying to bully me, but I wouldn't say I stood out from the crowd or made people feel any kind of particular way. Which is a lot of words to say, in my mind, I couldn't see why others wouldn't be as interested in even a polite "How was your weekend" as I tried to do for them.

    But, I don't lose sleep over it. For all the ups and downs I've lived through, I love my life. And as you say, I'm very lucky to have my consistent core group. It is difficult for a lot of people, but I'm grateful every day to know who my "ride or die" friends are. Over the last 20+ years we've shared a lot of really good days together. Which is definitely important, but I'd argue more importantly, we've also shared some of the worst days of our lives together. And the bonding that comes from that has, in my opinion, tempered the bonds for life.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on What's something that's more challenging for you than it is for others? in ~talk

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    Initiating a (platonic) relationship. I remember having this realization as a kid, I think somewhere around grade 6 or 7. After the weekend when we came in to school on Monday, I'd ask other kids...

    Initiating a (platonic) relationship.

    I remember having this realization as a kid, I think somewhere around grade 6 or 7. After the weekend when we came in to school on Monday, I'd ask other kids how their weekend was. And the vast, vast majority would tell me, but wouldn't reciprocate the question. I came to view it as "if they don't give a shit about me, why should I give a shit about them". You know, the kind of thing that comes across as a profound life realization at the ripe young age of 13.

    It altered the way I interacted with others. On the one hand, it really, really tightened my friendship with what I now think of as "my core friend group". We've been friends for over 20 years, and despite having moved all over the place, we still talk in our group chat almost daily. There are no words for how much I love and value these guys. But on the other hand, it really dampened my mentality to reaching out to others and trying to make new friends or establish new relationships.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not hostile towards people I don't know. I just don't feel the overwhelming need to try to become friends with them. I'm aware of it, and at times I do try to consciously fight the behavior. But I often fall back in to it if I feel like I don't make any progress quickly. As a result, I feel it's challenging for me to establish "friendly relationships" with people.

    12 votes

  16. Comment on Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful in ~tech

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    Yeah, none that I can see for consumers. I'm now envisioning some home-baked browser extension that, on transaction purchase, writes the relevant data to a DB or JSON file, which can then be...

    Yeah, none that I can see for consumers.

    I'm now envisioning some home-baked browser extension that, on transaction purchase, writes the relevant data to a DB or JSON file, which can then be accessed by a process (cron probably?) and use YNAB's API to push the transaction.

    Again... one day...

    7 votes

  17. Comment on Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful in ~tech

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    I would have loved to borrow a copy of this from you. Perhaps there's an API one can use to get their own Amazon purchases? I'll add looking into that to my todo list to get to..eventually

    I would have loved to borrow a copy of this from you. Perhaps there's an API one can use to get their own Amazon purchases? I'll add looking into that to my todo list to get to..eventually

    7 votes

  18. Comment on What are your thoughts on audiobooks? in ~books

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    Different take: I love them. I live in a car dependent city (Atlanta), and am a father of three kids. The amount of time I spend on the road, between my errands and theirs, I have knocked out 33...

    Different take: I love them. I live in a car dependent city (Atlanta), and am a father of three kids. The amount of time I spend on the road, between my errands and theirs, I have knocked out 33 audiobooks so far this year. And when I'm emptying the dishwasher at home by myself, and other house chores, it's great to dive more into the books I love.

    6 votes

  19. Comment on Help with troubleshooting PC hardware in ~tech

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    In that case, my train of thought would be: The motherboard isn't receiving power The motherboard has a faulty connection, within itself/on the board Swapping the PSU functionally eliminates #1,...

    In that case, my train of thought would be:

    1. The motherboard isn't receiving power
    2. The motherboard has a faulty connection, within itself/on the board

    Swapping the PSU functionally eliminates #1, leading me to suspect #2. If you've got a multimeter, I'd break it out and get to work. This video may be helpful.

  20. Comment on Defective D&D magic items in ~games.tabletop

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    [My DM] Sure, sure, no problem. Just be aware that for every hour you scream at the absolute top of your lungs, non stop, you will incur one level of exhaustion. He's a tough DM, but a fair one....

    screams for 24 hours straight

    [My DM] Sure, sure, no problem. Just be aware that for every hour you scream at the absolute top of your lungs, non stop, you will incur one level of exhaustion.

    He's a tough DM, but a fair one. He'll let us exploit things where it's reasonably explainable, but screaming for 24 hours straight, he wouldn't let fly.

    4 votes