No, not really. They are apparently 99% predatory scumbags or incompetent junkies who will fuck you over as soon as possible. They fill me with such rage that I have given up on using those lying assholes for almost everything except for roofing, some electrical, and some plumbing.

If you have to subject yourself to their bullshit: Always get at least 3 quotes from licensed bonded professionals. If they aren’t licensed and bonded, tell them to go jump into a wood chipper because it is 100% not worth the risk.

Nancy Grace

Gross.

Roman

Oh, ok.

Yep, I’ve volunteered off and on since I was a kid. I’ve done everything from volunteering at a museum to search and rescue. Usually it starts through a friend who is already doing it or sometimes meetup.com.

Reflash their firmware and make them do all my chores.

Hah, dumbass has to help Mrs. Pearson take out her trash and do your taxes! What a rube…

Eh, you can eyeball it towards the end: Nothing wrong with improvising if you ask me.

I’d rather have cheese if I’m on a train and don’t need carbs for fuel. If I was riding a bike, I might feel differently.

If there’s a disparity in your bread/cheese supply, you could stretch it out by only eating one slice of bread at a time, folding it over a whole piece of cheese (also folded).

Closest I can stand is highlights or the little reviews Dunkey does.

Most sports have some aspect that is impressive, I just can’t stand watching them. Watching someone else play just bores the hell out of me 95% of the time if it’s already a sport I’ve seen a lot of. If it’s something new or something I know very little about, it will hold my interest for a little longer.

I also get bored watching other people play video games.

With that in mind I think most of the time if a manufacturer cheaped out on making a less reliable component then the engineer designing whatever circuit it was going to be in would probably rather find a more reliable chip, create a different, more reliable alternative to the problem, and/or try to omit that feature entirely.

This is pretty much binning in a nutshell.

Servers are fueled by renewables!

Kinda depends: Usually yes, unless the label says otherwise or the exterior is super dirty.

Personally? I prefer evening unless otherwise needed/wanted: I kinda just like it but also deodorant works better when you put it on the night before.

A lot of the time I end up showering in the morning though because I ran out of time the night before.

They kinda do (look up binning - not exactly the same thing though, there is still QC there) but the problem with putting out unstable chips is that, unless all the other companies do the same thing, people will just start buying from the companies that make the chips/devices that function reliably. Nobody wants to use a computer that crashes all the time or is otherwise nonfunctional.

I’m almost daily, I usually take a break on the weekend though.

Just keep at it, keep shooting, keep editing what you shoot, refining, and learning: You’ll get there!

Lean into the urban hellishness: You can get good pictures just about anywhere. Figure out what story you want to tell and then find the moments that tell it: Frame them in a way that highlights the story.

Alternately: Travel!

Sounds like you should adjust your subscriptions?

That’s me, and I commute on cheap entry level bikes and e-bikes. Sometimes I even skateboard or walk! It’s not without risks, but you’re statistically more likely to die from living a sedentary lifestyle: In fact, even mountain biking is statistically beneficial to your health, despite the risks of serious injury. People really underestimate how bad sitting around in a car for huge chunks of our lives is.

edit: lmao at the downvote, really???

Stop on by !micromobility@lemmy.world - I commute almost every day on a bike or e-bike (sometimes I even skate).