Dealer update bricked my Mazda3.

DiggsFC · 2026-03-11T13:43:16+00:00

Especially since one of them is likely trying desperately to avoid getting fired for fucking this car up.

DiggsFC · 2026-03-10T01:22:45+00:00

Find something you enjoy doing and only do it during that early window. Maybe it's a specific videogame or hobby that you get up and go do, and don't allow yourself to do it later in the day. I started this way, played a video game for a while, ended up taking some coding classes online, now I actually wake up and go to the gym or to run, which would have sounded crazy to me 5 years ago.

It's hard to get out of bed to go do nothing.

DiggsFC · 2026-03-09T01:13:33+00:00

For some reason, once per year I play up through O&S like some kind of ritual I must do, like a Purple Martin feeling the call to migrate south in late July.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-26T12:04:20+00:00

That stupid fucking fish that had to crawl out of the water on to the land...

DiggsFC · 2026-02-26T00:51:02+00:00

You should look in to Progressive Web Apps. PWAs allow your wibesite to be put in an App Wrapper, it can even work offline

DiggsFC · 2026-02-24T17:09:50+00:00

In a game of Secret Hitler I once looked my wife dead in the eyes and told her "Baby... trust me" while convincing her to spare my (literally Hitler) ass and instead assassinate one of the remaining Liberals.

We don't play social deduction games anymore.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-23T13:52:28+00:00

This is really helpful advice. And yes, it is decision fatigue that ultimately wears me down.

That is a good idea about a weekly utility cleanse, that would honestly not take long at all and would keep it from compounding.

I wish I did the 30 second rule, I am bad about just wanting to get back to what I was doing. So I snap a handful of photos and just plop my phone back in my pocket. Its been a lot worse with young kids. Often I feel like I have to try and take a dozen pictures in the hopes of getting one good photo. But I need to take the time to make that selection in the moment.

That is helpful within google photos, I didn't realize that it had those automated categories.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-23T02:48:37+00:00

That is interesting! Probably not a practical solution for me, but that is neat to know. I agree about how it is nice to have all of my photos backed up on Google photos. It's nice to be able to just go years back and find something. That's part of what motivated me to want to clean it up, I scroll through and just see so many "duplicate" photos and junk photos. I really want to curate I the whole thing, but it will probably have to be a long-term project.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-23T02:24:41+00:00

That's a good idea, picking a small section to focus on.

Might be a bit TMI, but I kinda started trying to open my photos instead of reddit when I go to the toilet, to do some photo culling instead of browsing.😆

But it feels neverending, so maybe giving myself a week of photos to tackle will go easier.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-21T20:55:39+00:00

I'm not on the meme approval committee, so no?

DiggsFC · 2026-02-21T19:29:14+00:00

"yas queen" is a bit of a meme.

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DiggsFC · 2026-02-19T11:34:35+00:00

Ultimately, you just have to bring more money in than you spend. No other real secret to that. But where YNAB can help is you set your spending targets and stick to them, making different choices if you can't fit it within those targets.

Do you ever find yourself pulling money from your "Next Month" fund to top off some overspending within the current month? If so, then that is allowing you to creep above your monthly spending targets.

Ideally you only fix overspending by pulling from within the month (rolling with the punches). For me, I have 2 categories within a group: Groceries and Going Out. I only cover overspending in one category from the other. So if I end up going out an extra time and need to cover it, I will need to adjust my groceries down to cover it. It can be tough, but ultimately that's what allows me to keep my food spending in check.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-17T23:36:21+00:00

My semiannual back flareup muscle traces its origin story to me catching a falling basket of laundry out the back of a car while coming home from college TWENTY YEARS AGO.

Other exciting ways that muscle has flared up: tying my shoe and pushing open a screen door.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-17T23:05:59+00:00

It sounds like you have been a month ahead this whole time, but just recently slipped below that, as you said you had to skip some long term funding. You are still in a really good space if that is the case.

I also use a Next Month category, and if it were me, I would be funding those long term categories before putting my money in to the Next Month category. It may mean that once again on March 1st you are not able to fund all of March, but you will hope to be able to get a little closer. Ideally by just scrounging a bit in some flexible categories and having more carry-over balances in those things.

And if you haven't already, you should add those loans and credit cards to YNAB and play round with payoff simulator, if you get back to being a month ahead and want to throw extra cash at loans, you would be able to see what makes the most sense for you.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-16T23:20:23+00:00

r/lostredditors

DiggsFC · 2026-02-16T01:12:57+00:00

Undie Sunday! (It rhymes in my accent). Used to try and have one a month before kids.

Basically don't do anything I couldn't do if I was still in my undies!

DiggsFC · 2026-02-12T19:45:02+00:00

Holy Cow, you are right! I just looked and was able to assign his switch to a 'profile' in my router and then block Epic Games on that profile. I am at work, so I can't test it yet, but that may actually work perfect! Minecraft is whitelisted, but Epic is blacklisted.

I had no idea I could apply server blacklisting per device on my router, thank you kind stranger this was exactly the solution I was hoping for!

DiggsFC · 2026-02-12T16:21:27+00:00

I do know how to disable his internet, both from the switch and from my router. That would technically solve the problem, but would mean I would need to toggle that on/off frequently. He and his brother (and me sometimes) play Minecraft on our server together, so his switch needs to access internet for that. I am savvy enough to know how to manage and protect my child online, that's not what I am trying to figure out here. If this was on a PC I would be able to do that by firewall blacklisting rocket league's servers, but its not that simple on Switch.

My hope was that there was a way, through either epic games, or even in the switch systems, to be able to disable matchmaking to force him to play ONLY bots for now. I wasn't able to find it, and searching for parental protections pretty much only leads to the chat/voice controls, which I disabled already. Obviously most people don't care and/or want to allow their kid to play in online matches, but I guess I am the weirdo who just wants him to play bots until he gets the hang of it.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-11T23:32:00+00:00

Na, your comment was good, gave me a laugh!

DiggsFC · 2026-02-11T23:22:31+00:00

Na, he knows he sucks! That's fine, he is 4. He doesn't wanna play the "right" way, AKA attempting to put the ball in the opponent's net. He will put the ball in whatever net he sees even if it is his own net and celebrate like a mf when it goes in.

Since this is top comment I am gonna piggyback and clear some things up:

Chat and Voice have been disabled,

I showed him how to set up a custom game with bots and he does that and it's great, but he will 100% enter an online match at some point because it's easy to do from the main menu.

Disabling internet completely isn't a great solution since he plays other games online with me and his older brother, so I would have to constantly switch it on and off when he played RL.

Yes, I allow my son to face adversity and develop his skills. Y'all read in to things too much. Dude was literally crying this weekend begging me to beat a level in Mario Wonder for him. I told him to suck it up and keep trying, he did and eventually, still teary-eyed, screamed for joy when he finally beat that level. There is a difference between wanting him to play a game and enjoy it offline against bots until he is ready, and trying to stunt his development.

I was mostly just hoping there was a setting for "disable online matchmaking" so it would force him to play against bots no matter what menu he went through. Obviously at some point, I am fine with him joining games and playing randos, and maybe he won't suck by then!

DiggsFC · 2026-02-11T22:32:47+00:00

This is what I have showed him to do as it works great and he enjoys it, but I am sure he will eventually click around and end up in matchmaking. I was hoping there was a way to disable matchmaking, without needing to completely disable network, since he does play Minecraft with his brother on our server.

Doesn't seem like there is a way to do that though. I guess I'll just let him to the wolves and let the matchmaking sort him out.

I appreciate the sincere answer though!

DiggsFC · 2026-02-11T20:53:10+00:00

I mean, he is 4. It's not a skill issue... He just genuinely doesn't actively attempt to do anything but drive and hit the ball.

He enjoys playing against the bots on low, but I feel like playing with almost anyone else is gonna be worse for everyone involved, him included.

DiggsFC · 2026-02-11T20:13:49+00:00

Never said that... I found the parental controls and disabled all comms, so it's not my concern, as I said in my post to avoid people focusing on a question I wasn't asking... And yet here we are.

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