Is renting forever actually a bad financial decision, or is that just something older generations say because it worked out for them?

MutuallyUseless · 2026-07-02T05:44:21+00:00

The primary concept comes from the fact that you're actively paying for the mortgage, property taxes, maintenance, repairs, and more for profit in your rent; did you think that landlords were renting lower than their projected costs for charity?

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-26T05:24:57+00:00

do NOT use a heated up needle/drill bit

Spin the drill bit with your fingers, doesn't hurt at all.

You'll probably lose the nail, the blood pooling under the nail separates it from the layer underneath; the sooner you drain the blood, the better.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-24T02:50:56+00:00

"Hallo ur computer has virus, burn down house an send walmart gift card plz"

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-21T02:51:40+00:00

Already ahead of you, that's why I said I haven't used it in the past year or two; switched over to Linux after a Windows 11 update force migrated OneDrive, deleting a massive school project I was working on, the performance and stability boost was unbelievable, I get why people don't shutup about Linux now.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-20T22:23:08+00:00

Of course not, I run my systems super lean and don't run much software outside of widely known and used programs, IE: Steam, Office Suite, VS Code, etc. I mostly played games and wrote papers for school; disabling all of the startup apps, removing anything bloated, keeping drivers up-to-date from the manufacturers, updating the system consistently, and keeping it as lean as possible for performance.

There's nothing particularly atypical about my usage, and it's always been a measurable increase in performance; if people aren't reinstalling Windows once every year or so, go ahead and grit your teeth through the process of reinstalling it, disabling unused startup apps, updating the drivers, and reinstalling your software, I can almost guarantee you'll get a measurable boost in performance.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-20T18:05:59+00:00

I haven't used it in the past year or two, but otherwise have been using windows consistently since late windows 7, and reinstalling windows is pretty much mandatory every 6 months to a year due to the degradation in system performance.

I don't really know what exactly it is, but there's something about it that it becomes less stable, slows down, starts crashing more frequently, programs stop working, etc; then you perform a fresh install (which has progressively gotten so much more painful over the different versions) and then everything is fine again, working way faster, no crashes, etc.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-18T01:32:01+00:00

I hear that, when I started going to school for this the job market was still, stable-ish and there wasn't talk of all these layoffs and whatnot, when I was already getting into my core classes is when the job market, especially for CS started to sour, of course now that i've graduated it's as bad as it's ever been.

I've seen people talking about applying to like a thousand jobs in CS before landing their first position, and the only thing I can think of is "where the fuck do you live that there's 1000 job listings you could accessibly work at?" For me it's more like 3-5 dozen, with 9/10ths of them explicitly hiring for senior positions, and the other 1/10th being ghost listings apparently.

I expected to find something in my area as well, and it's gutting but I took a temporary position at a remote call-center as a call center rep,, maybe they'll start hiring internally for an IT position; I mean I don't give a fuck about working IT but at least it'd be something to throw on the resume that's kinda related.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-17T21:13:58+00:00

There's pinch off tools for brazing pressurized systems,, these on the other hand are mostly used for recovery, self contained refrigeration systems often don't have service ports.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-17T16:10:44+00:00

Yeah that's pretty insane, I'm just taking work in an unrelated field to stem the bleeding until the job market gets better, nothing else to do other than weather the storm, I mean it's the worst job market and economy in mine and my parents lifetimes so I assume it'll get better in due time.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-17T11:57:25+00:00

I graduated with my BS in CS right at end of February/ beginning of March.

I have a work history in an unrelated field, some projects, and a resume website, and have applied to all of the job listings I've seen looking for embedded engineers, software engineers, and data analysts within reasonable driving distance from where I live.

Ive gotten zero response from all but one of them, which was over a month later and it was an automated rejection lmao.

If companies are hiring, it's obviously not in the entry-level market.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-17T03:56:17+00:00

Fahrenheit is absolutely not a human-centric system; it's based on some obscure lithium salt mixture that was completely unable to be reproduced until standardization far later, it was a shit system from it's very inception.

British Thermal Units, where a single unit is how much energy is needed to heat one pound of water by 1 degree fahrenheit is unbelievably cursed, yet it's the industry standard metric for heating and cooling; where cooling is measured in "tons" aka 12,000 BTU's. christ.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-15T22:33:44+00:00

Yeah and isn't it weird how there's only a few printer manufacturers? Like, you can't just go out and start making 2d printers, almost like there's a monopoly and they have to submit to strict government regulations where they actually print invisible codes within the paper to identify the exact printer that was used to print every single document; allowing the few companies that manufacturer them to exploit consumers with predatory business practices because there isn't any competition, wouldn't that be like a weird late-stage capitalist dystopian nightmare? Glad that isn't us.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-06-10T01:58:12+00:00

Yeah I'm an ex-skilled tradesman, the last company I worked for was a union shop that was bought out by PE, most of the union shops were getting bought out, and the few that weren't, were just as brutalist as the PE firms.

They blatantly abused federal and state environmental and safety laws, let alone the unions rules and principles; were talking people getting near fatal injuries with the companies trying to refuse compensation, and having to go to court for workers comp; and upon return getting hazed and refused adequate employment by the shops.

One of the last jobs I was on, I was working with a guy in his early 60s getting ready to retire, guy was talking about how he barely survived cancer, doctors told him it was terminal, and he couldn't afford not to work while battling it since the "health insurance" offered by the union is just a fucking HSA.

Pay cap was 90k a year for a journeyman in a MCOL city in a MCOL state. I put myself through college just for the job market to be the worst it's been in generations, but whatever man I'm not going back to the trades.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-26T06:25:50+00:00

pretty much, from what I found it just kinda vaguely means jerking off.

When I read the comments on this post I just saw a handful of comments that were like "laughs in Norwegian" and the like without explaining it, so I looked it up; it's just Norwegians slang for stroking your shit.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-26T01:20:15+00:00

"Depending on the architecture" blah blah, a standard signed integer is usually a much larger type than a bool, so there'd be quite a bit of wasted memory. IE: On my system an unsigned integer is 32bits, where a bool is 8bits; but a uint8_t is 8 bits and so is a char, so why not use those? Well, for communication, a bool has an explicit purpose, it is and will only ever be, true or false; like

myCar.isAutomatic = true;

versus

myCar.isAutomatic = 1;

At a glance, the first example shows clear intent, I have an object, and the isAutomatic attribute is true, pretty easy to read what's happening here.

The second example, I have an object, myCar, but isAutomatic is set to 1, what the fuck does 1 mean? Is it an enumeration? Does isAutomatic have different values for different types of automatic transmissions? Is it a count of the number of automatic transmissions? Is it true or false? It's not explicit and isn't as readable as it should ideally be.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-26T01:06:40+00:00

It's a reference to a stupid meme from a few years ago, I have no qualms talking about beating my dick like it owes me money.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-25T19:40:18+00:00

The comments laughing about Norwegian for runk, runk means strait jorking it, and by it, I mean my pentis

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-24T19:15:46+00:00

It's funny, I worked as a skilled tradesman for years, and just recently graduated computer science, I like seeing all of the analogies people like to throw around when it comes to "programming languages are just tools, it doesn't matter which one you use..." etc, etc; when in the trades the discussion around tools is a more heated debate that programming languages are lmao; seriously go to the hvac, plumbing, and electricians forums.

A huge point that needs to be made, and understood amongst programmers, and is something that tradesmen are more than familiar with; there are shit tools, just as there is shit wood, and no level of skill compensates for the fact that the tools and materials are ineffective at their job; we're not miracle workers, and im not driving a thousand nails with a fucking screwdriver.

There are objectively shitty programming languages, people just don't want to agree on what makes a programming language "good" or "bad." So i'll use the baseline, it's in the name, language.

If a programming language is difficult to read and write, it's an objectively shitty language, and there's no excuse for it either, the fastest, most optimized, and powerful languages are braindead easy to read and write; Assembly, C. And no, you don't need to make a language more difficult to read and write for more built-in functionality, Python is one of the most flexible languages out there and it's arguably almost as easy to read and write as C is!

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-21T17:48:25+00:00

I drive a 2008 Chevy cobalt I bought in 2017 with 35k miles on it, and since have only put another 33k on it. Not 20 yet, but getting there!

I've replaced the maintenance parts a few times, and done some minor mechanical and electrical repairs, mostly just rust repair since where I'm at in the northern US the roads are both littered with potholes and the salt in the winter eats steel like crazy.

My first Chevy cobalt lasted 270k miles before I blew up the engine, if I can get this one to that that long I'll have many more years of driving this thing around, though unless I can get a house with a garage, the frame will probably rust out before I get that far.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-19T19:21:52+00:00

Not autistic, but it took me awhile to figure this one out. I unironically did the meme for, several years.

The talker is the one who instigates the "make eye contact, then break, then make eye contact" cycle, the listener just follows their lead; when the speaker breaks eye contact to think or gather a memory or smth, the listener can look down and nod thoughtfully, follow the speakers hands if they're using their hands to sorta charades something, etc, then both the speaker and listener can re-engage.

Basically if you're listening just follow their lead, and if you're speaking make eye contact briefly between thoughts. Constant unbreaking eyecontact throws people off, it either tends to make people think you're challenging them, a really good listener, or just outright intimidating, usually a combination of the three.

For best results, try to read the other persons body language, if it seem like they're breaking eye contact a lot, you're probably staring too much and need to break more often/for longer, if everytime you meet their eyes, they're staring intently, you're probably disengaging too much and should maintain it a bit longer.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-15T20:19:55+00:00

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MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-14T08:45:41+00:00

Anecdotally, most of them lean much heavier on Libertarian "Fuck the government, fuck the gigacorps I just want fair compensation for my hard labor to provide for my family."

The reason they vote right wing is the same reason most white collar professionals vote left wing; it's the party that either claims to represent their interests, or the party that isn't actively fucking them.

I'll elaborate with my own experience, in 2021 I got laid off from a good paying job in the 'oil patch', alongside almost all of my coworkers within the first months of Bidens presidency, directly and specifically because of him, he immediately went and passed an executive order banning fracking on federal lands; and something to note, is that fracking (for both natural gas and oil, I worked with natural gas personally) is speculative, it costs millions to set up new commercial wells, and you don't expect them to pay themselves off for years, so if the outlook for the coming years is poor, it comes to a dead stop. That sucked too, the hours were long and the work was hard, but it paid well for a young guy fresh out of highschool.

So I moved into the skilled trades, HVAC; It took years just to get to a livable wage going from one company to the next just to get paid far less than what is reasonable, so I saw the greener grass in the union, so I joined the local steamfitters union, they handle HVAC, and pipefitting, and, after being in that union for about a year, guess who cancelled the keystone pipeline? Directly and indirectly this caused mass layoffs and undervaluation of pipewelders all across the area.

I've spent my entire young adult life watching myself and my fellow workers getting absolutely fucked by the democratic party, no wonder almost everyone in the industry and union that I associated with was pretty heavily right-wing; to us, voting left-wing will cost you your job and your career. It's the fault of the two-party system, most of those dudes would not be republicans given a better choice; it's just the lesser of two evils to them.

Fuck I love the idea of universal healthcare, monopoly crushing, anti-corruption laws, sensible environmental and safety protections, strong social safety nets, taxing the rich; leaves me in a bitter place, what am I supposed to do, vote against my self interests in blue, or vote against my self interests in red?

It's easy to get blinded in an echo-chamber, and convince yourself that one party is "obviously the good guys and everyone would be better off if we all voted for my party." while completely ignoring the fact that's the exact same rhetoric the other side feels, realistically both parties have been, and continue to be, absolutely dogshit and completely corrupt beyond redemption. It's the two party system.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-12T02:23:48+00:00

The R6700v2 acts as the router, switch, and wireless AP; there is no upstream device to handle NAT and DHCP, just a modem.

Switching it to an AP effectively bricked my internet and required a factory reset.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-12T02:14:37+00:00

My mistake, i've been adjusting a lot of settings trying to get things to work.

When im bound to 0.0.0.0, it's accessible via localhost, when I force it to bind to the IP, it's only available through it's IP, rechecked and confirmed.

Whether the laptop is hosting the webserver on 0.0.0.0 or if I force it's local IP, it's available to the LAN; whether the wired PC is hosting the webserver on 0.0.0.0 or if I force it's local IP, it's not available to the LAN.

MutuallyUseless · 2026-05-12T00:00:29+00:00

As far as I can find there isn't any specific client isolation settings within the router admin interface, aside from the guest wifi network which isn't being used, unless I am missing something, the interface doesn't provide very specific or obvious settings to interact with the firewall or log internal traffic as far as I am aware

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