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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • In Florida. Small 3/2. Biggest expense is home insurance. In Florida it is crazy expensive. 10k a year with windstorm at a crazy high 20k deductible. And insurance demands a new roof under 15 years old, even if the roof has a 20 year warranty.

    Taxes are 6k a year. That’s with all the benefits I could claim.

    Everything else is 2k a month.

    Everything except house upkeep. Everything breaks and Everything is so expensive to get fixed with a pro. I’ve learned a lot of DIY , but there are things you just can’t tackle. Plumbing, 220 electrical, HVAC… If anything breaks prepare to spend 1k to 7k depending



  • Improve user experience?

    I don’t give a flying fuck if a web page loads .5 seconds faster.

    What u care about is an interface that works, has labels instead of symbols, that doesn’t change every month trying to be more minimalist.

    A bank website doesn’t need my browser history or my charges to Amex or what pets I have or what car I drive or the color of my bedroom. But they want all that and a mobile phone number to tie it all up with a common index. VoIP numbers are refused because they change too often.

    That’s what pisses me off











  • I bought a sager laptop, matching the models that system76 uses. Loaded pop os and away I go.

    So far, very stable. I am forced to use Nvidia performance mode if I want an external monitor which is slightly annoying, but I can reboot into normal mode when on battery.

    Its the poor battery usage that irks me. The battery life gets me 90 min of use, so not great.

    I got steam for some gaming, guitarix and ardour for music, libre office, IDE and git tools all good to go.

    Worth it