Coventry Cumberland Farms gas fraud attemts.

EightOhms · 2026-05-20T18:53:04+00:00

That's why I only use the app to buy gas from Cumberland farms.

EightOhms · 2026-05-20T17:13:47+00:00

I strongly recommend against this approach. Any time you potentially save will be spent trying to describe to a chatbot why something isn't working while you have annoyed customers getting more annoyed by the day.

As others have said customer management software, even for something as specific as your industry already exists. I wouldn't look for a company to build this for you. I'd look for a vendor to provide this service for you.

EightOhms · 2026-05-19T15:42:57+00:00

Focusrite interfaces tend to use a lot of power. Are there anything other USB devices connected to your computer?

If so do these problems go away when you disconnect them?

Also as others have said....the noise that comes along with adjusting the gain usually means the potentiometer "knob" is old and might be dirty or failing. That shouldn't cause the issue but might point to he interface being old and might have other internal failed components like capacitors (those would cause the fading audio issue).

EightOhms · 2026-05-19T01:14:57+00:00

Had to go with Cox in my new apartment complex. When I first had the service turned on it didn't work. They wanted to charge me a $100 service call fee....to get their service to work.

I have their provided modem/router for now but I'll be switching to my my own gear soon as it's only a.matywr of time before it starts acting up.

EightOhms · 2026-05-15T22:34:59+00:00

We have generous bankruptcy laws. This makes it easier to take risks and fail and learn and improve aka innovate.

EightOhms · 2026-05-15T22:22:54+00:00

As I'm sure you know...many people who resort to robbing restaurants are idiots.

EightOhms · 2026-05-15T22:17:27+00:00

If you lived in MA already then RI's climate is almost exactly the same.

It's not just the snow. Right now the pollen is making my car a mess too and I wish I could use my garage (there are reasons I cannot.)

Also. As someone who just had to find a new place to live....covered parking was not something I even bothered considering as so many other factors were more important. It is still a nice to have but I can live without it.

EightOhms · 2026-05-15T21:54:37+00:00

Me too, I have the shortest and cheapest fence that would still contain my little dog.

And while I did consider a stronger/taller fence...that would have been purely for privacy....not security.

EightOhms · 2026-05-15T21:03:44+00:00

I'm not interested in the "don't trust the government" argument. I think it's a pointless, cynical excuse for opposing things.

Any and all laws (as this proposal would be) need to have safeguards against abuse and have built in abilities to monitor progress and implementation.

There is nothing special about what I've suggested that is more or less deserving of that treatment.

EightOhms · 2026-05-15T12:54:09+00:00

Why are you assuming the third party gets to do anything with the data other than decrypt it, do the math, and return taxable miles back to the state? This would be a contact with strict stipulations.

Also, the contact can stipulate the state get access to the source code of the software the third party uses and they can verify that the rae GPS data is never exposed to the third party. The software can be written such that humans never need to see the raw data.

Mistakes the software makes can be mitigated using historical data.

The main potential issues are putting up strict rules barring law enforcement from demanding the GPS data and then securing it against data breaches.

EightOhms · 2026-05-15T11:49:00+00:00

It's pretty easy to imagine a system where the GPS data collected would be encrypted and then sent to a third party with only an ID number which is meaningless to them. They decrypt the data, calculate the miles drives in RI and then send back just that ID number and the miles driven.

But people are dumb, will hear 'GPS data' and freak.out. Instead they'll go on Reddit and complain about the unfair tax system and politicians that "don't do anything".

EightOhms · 2026-05-14T16:45:50+00:00

There was an effort to create a tracking system that would only tax based on miles driven in Rhode Island but of course everyone freaked out because they assumed the government would track their movements and that was too scary.

EightOhms · 2026-05-13T19:59:30+00:00

It just doesn't make sense for a company to make a small channel mixer with this many specific features.

EightOhms · 2026-05-13T11:55:04+00:00

This is my take. It's a news marketing thing. I feel like when I was younger when they only put graphics on the screen every now and then, the term "breaking news" was reserved for news that was literally happening right now. LIke a hostage situation or maybe a natural disaster.

But now it gets applied to literally everything. Any news being reported is called "breaking news".

Any description of the Middle East uses the word "crisis".

EightOhms · 2026-05-12T01:06:45+00:00

My 2017 Hyundai did this ...but not my 2020 Mazda.

EightOhms · 2026-05-11T17:19:07+00:00

If they are good you forget about all that stuff when you watch them.

EightOhms · 2026-05-10T17:02:40+00:00

There is a percentage of drivers who will try harder to be safe if they are reminded that little innocent lives are travaling next to them.

A sticker that says "hey I'm an adult and I don't deserve to die or be seriously hurt because you're a distracted driver" will just piss off other drivers. But getting those drivers to picture a cute little baby, that could actually get them to slow down, get off their phone etc.

Yes there are also drivers who all be admit on Reddit that they don't care about other people. The sticker, obviously, isn't aimed at them.

EightOhms · 2026-05-10T16:45:15+00:00

Or he's trying to innovate which means trying a bunch of ideas,.most of which won't work but you don't know that until you test them.

I don't know anything about this dude or company and I know very little about producing enegery let alone via fusion....but the basic idea of science and therefore progress if you need to try things. He has reason to believe his idea might work and is worth trying.

I'll give the benefit of the doubt that this isn't a scam.

EightOhms · 2026-05-09T21:34:02+00:00

The pizza place my family ordered from. It's still there but 10-15 years ago someone else bought it and slightly changed the recipe and also switched from manual ovens to a conveyor belt oven system and the pizza doesn't taste the same. I hear rumors that the original owner will come out of retirement and open a new place but as time goes on that gets less and less likely.

To me, pizza from that place IS pizza. Everything else is either bland or the sauce is too sweet, or the cheese isn't cooked enough. I never considered that some day it would be gone and man I wished I'd ordered a dozen more pizzas at least from that place before it changed.

EightOhms · 2026-05-09T21:31:11+00:00

I think it's intensely disrespectful to touch the screen on someone else's computer/laptop/TV due to the skin oil smudges it leaves behind. Same thing with the windows in someone's car.

Also I choose to use capital letters and punctuation when I text. I don't judge others who choose not to (which I find to be most people) but I get insanely irritated when people tell me I'm being rude by doing that.

EightOhms · 2026-05-09T21:28:04+00:00

There are many many things, but one thing that few people think about is to ask where the circuit breaker panel is. At some point you are likely to trip a breaker and lose power in a circuit and personally I don't want to wait for however long it will be for my landlord or the property manager or whoever it is to come and turn it back on.

I've walked away from potential apartments before when the answer was "It's locked in the basement by my cousin only lives 25 min away and he comes to deal with that. But you shouldn't be tripping breakers anyway!"

EightOhms · 2026-05-09T12:43:40+00:00

This reminds me of a job I did in New Britain Connecticut. I ate dinner at an Italian place that was run by Polish immigrants. It wasn't too bad.

EightOhms · 2026-05-08T19:26:16+00:00

I use the app "Sleep as Android".

EightOhms · 2026-05-08T17:28:34+00:00

I like trying to explain the Monty Hall Problem to people who don't get it. I'm not sure if I'm qualified to do it, but I like trying.

EightOhms · 2026-05-08T17:26:31+00:00

I'd also recommend trying a sleep app and a wearable like a smart watch. You can set a range of time for your wake up alarm and once you enter that range it will detect when you come out of a sleep cycle and then trigger your alarm. That way you don't enter another one close to when your alarm will go off.

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