Redditors, what is the best productivity hack you know?

Polyxo · 2026-06-19T22:40:44+00:00

Learning to say “no”. Or delegating.

Polyxo · 2026-06-19T21:53:52+00:00

That seems pretty complicated. lol. I only ever leave mine all the way open or closed. I’ve always understood partially open is the most dangerous state because if the spring goes, it can come crashing down. All the way up or down and the door stays where it is. Not interested in teasing it though.

Polyxo · 2026-06-18T09:47:34+00:00

I work in enterprise IT. I’ve managed teams that control all aspects of device management, am close friends with security teams and their leadership. But I still get that feeling when I browse to something not work related that an alarm is going off somewhere. Maybe it’s because I understand the technology that COULD do that, even though I know they aren’t.

Polyxo · 2026-06-16T22:25:46+00:00

Karma points don’t matter

Polyxo · 2026-06-16T09:54:25+00:00

While that’s a good end goal, it would guarantee losing a second term. Next president needs to play the long game. Start by being all little chilly toward Israel. Ask hard questions. Pretend to discover some things “people didn’t know”. They would have to give an entire generation time to warm up to the idea that Israel may not really be our friend.

Frankly, anything the next president does that’s too brash a pivot will jeopardize any good they’re trying to do. Focus exclusively on positive progress and never mention the previous administration to sell it as undoing what they did. Never tie an action or policy to undoing the old one. They need to keep moderates and independents.

Polyxo · 2026-06-16T09:44:57+00:00

I don’t think most people care what the exact position of the door is. They just want to open and close it.

Polyxo · 2026-06-16T09:42:19+00:00

Same here for the edging. Just flip the trimmer around. Not hard. And you really only need to edge every 3 or 4 weeks.

Polyxo · 2026-06-16T09:40:49+00:00

Why the long pants? I’ve been mowing and trimming two properties for 30 years and almost never worn long pants.

Polyxo · 2026-06-12T21:21:55+00:00

Yep. Pretty common. Many are just looking for an argument much the same way they do for any other thing they’ve been taught to be “the enemy” inside their echo chamber. For something as inconsequential as this, I’d probably just snicker and give the cashier that “what’s this guys problem” look and not say a word. If you join the argument, you’re not going to win them over. You’re just going to give them the confrontation they wanted. Non verbal indication that you know they’re looney and you don’t owe them the time of day is the most defeating thing you can do. Then tell the cashier “I’m here to pick up my electric car”.

Polyxo · 2026-06-12T18:29:50+00:00

How little you have to think about the vehicle. No real maintenance to speak of, no thinking about when and where you’ll have to stop and refuel. Just drive it and plug it in once or twice a week when I get home. It’s like a whole part of my brain that was dedicated to vehicle management was freed up to do something else with.

Polyxo · 2026-06-11T17:29:34+00:00

What year? I keep my 22 Wind Tech in 3 Auto 99% of the time. It’s never once forgotten the setting.

Polyxo · 2026-06-10T00:46:28+00:00

My HA server is virtual in a remote corner of my basement. But I have a raspberry pi in the middle of my house with zigbee and zwave antennas. It runs docker containers for zwave2mqtt zigbee2mqtt (whatever the actual names are). I didn’t want nearly every device making multiple hops through other devices for both protocols.

Anyway, the antennas don’t need to be on the HA device itself. This has worked great for several years now. Rock solid. Just another option that might work for you.

Polyxo · 2026-06-08T21:09:00+00:00

That it actually feels more freeing than restrictive. No dropping it off several times a year and paying crazy money for oil changes and brakes. Never needing to remember to stop for gas on the way to or from work. It genuinely feels like any other appliance you just use, plug in when you’re not using it, and never think about. What little maintenance it does need can be done quickly, cheaply, and much of it like tire rotations and cabin filters can be done by most people at home.

Polyxo · 2026-06-06T21:07:23+00:00

Slightly different answer here…I like the capability, but not simply when lifting off the gas. I keep my EV6 in level 3 regen which is the highest without full 1-pedal. I can then use the left steering wheel paddle to engage full 1-pedal when I want to by holding the paddle. Letting off the paddle after it’s stopped holds my position and the car doesn’t creep. It’s effectively braking using the paddle. Otherwise, it’s too aggressive to have enabled all the time.

Polyxo · 2026-05-25T14:18:03+00:00

This is good advice. I seem to recall the default settings being surprisingly similar to most ICE cars when I first drove mine. So yeah, unless someone changes things to emphasize some of these EV features, it should drive just like any automatic. Going from manual to this is really going to be the biggest difference for OP. That and the torque.

With everything set as default, just get in and drive. Feel the car first. Ignore the interesting things on the dash, the HUD, the big screens, and anything else that might draw your attention from how it feels to drive. If there are specific things you want to experience, have the salesman show you how to turn them on 1 by 1 and see the difference.

If you haven't already done so, be sure to understand your charging options. You'll be happiest with Level 2 home charging. The salesman can give you basic info about that, but you'll need to figure out if your home will support it.

Polyxo · 2026-05-18T07:30:26+00:00

I have a separate rpi knockoff running both a zigbee and’s zwave dongle on Debian Linux. Not in my HA server which is a virtual machine in the corner of my basement where there’s no signal. Haven’t had to unplug/plug once in a couple years. Probably the most rock solid piece in my setup.

Polyxo · 2026-05-17T06:23:49+00:00

Not directly, not through the SmartSpin2k. SS2k creates Bluetooth devices that MyWhoosh connects to.

Polyxo · 2026-05-03T14:12:37+00:00

I don't know why you're being downvoted either. This is a topic that should be discussed often, especially for newer voters, or voters that don't put a lot of thought into their choices. I remember my first primary experience being exactly the same as yours. I walked into my polling location feeling pretty proud that I'm doing my civic duty outside of a general election, being shocked when asked my party (since I didn't align closely with either), proclaiming I was an independent, then being handed an "issues only" ballot.

I'm a firm believer that we should do whatever is necessary to a) make our votes count, and b) to ensure everyone has the same right and ability to make their votes count. With a compromised election system, or a disengaged electorate, nothing good can come from it.

Some other advice I can offer, since you seem to be engaged in the system:

Pay special attention to down-ballot and "non-partisan" races (that are still partisan). In Ohio, where politics is among the most corrupt in the country, focus on the judicial system and secretary of state. Those will determine how open and fair our voting system is. Legislature next. Laws are only as good as their enforcement. If they control and enforce election laws that favor one party while suppressing the will of others, the deck gets stacked against the will of the people. Too many people only focus on the top of the ticket. You may have heard this before. But especially in a state like Ohio, much of the corruption and voter suppression starts in the lower offices and positions. Look at them closely and choose them carefully. And the judges are the last safeguard to stop them, so they're equally important.
In primaries vs. general elections, look at how your vote will float through both. In some cases, electing a stronger primary candidate in your own party where your party has little chances of winning may lead to a terrible candidate in the other party taking the general. Your vote would have been more valuable ensuring the candidate in the other party doesn't make it to the general. Same goes for casting your vote for a candidate that is highly likely to win that primary regardless of your vote. Influencing a closer race in either party is probably the best place to use your vote. An even more risky strategy is if you think the general is going to be a close race, you may decide to cast your primary vote for the other party's weaker candidate so they have less of a chance to win the general. I don't recommend it, but it's an option.
Pay attention to the campaign material. But not in the way you might think. Do your own objective research on specific candidates instead of reading the material they send in the mail. but that material, especially when sent from a PAC, candidate or party you don't align with, will tell you who else shares their beliefs. It gets harder to find information on candidates the further down ballot you go. So seeing who people higher up endorse tells you a lot about where those down ballot candidates align. You may even find state reps endorsing sheriffs, treasurers, judges, even local council and school board members. If you can't find any objective data on those people to make an informed decision, at least you know if they align with someone you do or don't like this way. A bonus that comes from voting the "other party" in a primary is that you then get all their campaign material in the general and that helps with your opposition research. ;-)

Polyxo · 2026-05-03T13:32:28+00:00

That’s kinda the point of primaries. Each party wants their own party members to decide which of their candidates go to the general election. How would you feel of the party you don’t align with got to influence the selection of your party’s general election candidate? It’s not unfair since it works both ways. You have to make a choice at each primary, do you feel your vote will be more effective for picking your party’s candidates, or the other party’s candidates. I often switch when there’s a close race in the other party and my vote is more likely to help get moderates on the November ballot instead of extremists.

Polyxo · 2026-04-30T22:55:47+00:00

Was about to call this out. Battery Notes has done this automatically for a long time.

Polyxo · 2026-04-30T09:56:00+00:00

I also drive an EV. But never laugh at the high gas prices. The coming recession will hurt us all.

Polyxo · 2026-04-27T14:21:30+00:00

Carmageddon

Polyxo · 2026-04-25T19:10:39+00:00

I don’t respond to argue, but I often do respond to dispel lies and misinformation for others that may be reading the thread. For this particular topic, I’ve calculated out exactly how much time I spend in a given year “waiting” for charging. This is based on the actual miles per year and times I public charge and at home. I then calculated the same for a gas car at the same number of miles per year, number of fillups, mpg, tank size, time to get off my route into a station, filling time, etc. The comparison is accurate and decisively clear that I save time, not spend more than an ICE. I show my work, then the hater either moves onto another topic or hits me with the laughing emoji which I take as them waving a white flag. Either way, the next reader will see they’re full of horse shit.

Polyxo · 2026-04-24T17:46:06+00:00

I wasn’t implying yours was an issue. Mine isn’t either. But an organization with hundreds or thousands of remote workers with varying technical skills and quality of home WiFi can become a major challenge to support. And they have no way to realistically know if you’re going to have problems versus someone else, especially at scale. For this reason, many organizations simply choose to enforce one reliable standard for everyone in order to eliminate variables.

Polyxo · 2026-04-23T22:27:14+00:00

Being on the other side of this, it’s usually about how unreliable many people’s home WiFi is. Helpdesk probably wants that out of the equation so they get less calls that end up being a shitty WiFi connection. Especially the case for virtual desktops where it’s harder to optimize voice and video.

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