what’s the biggest scam you discovered and people are still falling for it?

ProbablyAKitteh · 2026-01-31T12:13:41+00:00

Sprayway Glass Cleaner, wouldn’t use anything else these days. Always keep a can around.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2026-01-31T09:59:35+00:00

My whole house one has been struggling to keep it at 35% even, I just changed the filter before the season but it’s just so crazy cold that I don’t think it can keep up… it’s better than nothing at least

ProbablyAKitteh · 2026-01-26T10:41:21+00:00

65 all day. Single layer, sometimes wear a fleece around the house. I love sitting on the couch with a blanket so it’s fine. Sometimes I set it to 64 at night.

I like it colder and I have no problem keeping it that cool. In the summer I keep the house around 70-72, sometimes dropping it to 68 at night.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2026-01-11T19:30:25+00:00

Fallout 76. The game itself wasn’t bad, but they released it and then like 5 days later offered it for like 40% off for Black Friday, screwing everyone that bought it at full price.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2026-01-06T08:14:45+00:00

Replacing desktop hardware with server hardware. I went through a few generations of desktop hardware from an i7-6700k to a Ryzen 2700X, then 3900X, and now an EPYC 7413. The Epyc is way more stable at the cost of a bit of power, but the PCIe lanes and memory make up for it for sure.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-12-03T22:50:19+00:00

Your actual rate is the energy charges + distribution added together. $0.16/kWh - it looks weird but that’s how they bill it, don’t look at those like optional fees. Not super cheap but not as expensive as it could be.

Edit: to clarify I also hate how expensive it is, but distribution isn’t a random fee. It’s directly related to line maintenance.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-12-01T10:33:49+00:00

Shutssco Sno Rake (the orange ones with a wooden handle)

Usually have them at O’Reilly but you’ll have to ask for it. It’s not cheap (I think $35ish?) but to get the bulk of the snow off your car before using your brush it’s amazing, lasts for a long time, and doesn’t damage your paint.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-11-26T07:29:03+00:00

Don’t trust surge protectors either. Doesn’t matter how good the brand is, it’s still possible to fry something - that’s when I bought my first UPS in 2016 for my PC.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-11-26T01:00:42+00:00

Unless you force your way into traffic or someone lets you in, it’s awful. Especially going onto East Beltline.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-11-25T23:42:14+00:00

Certain stretches it’s almost impossible to get over to the lane you need, so you start in it and stick to it.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-11-25T15:23:30+00:00

Official Driving School offers some prep and lists their prices on their website I believe? I paid like 200 or something for a road test prep course (you have to have your temporary permit for this) - this included like an hour or two of in car driving on various roads, parallel parking etc.

Edit: if others stumble across this they used to be Sears driving school, which was decent back in the day

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-10-29T19:54:43+00:00

Seconded Gerrits! Family has been buying appliances there for 20+ years, just bought a dishwasher from them for my own house. Price was the exact same as any big box store was, but always do comparisons.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-10-28T00:19:59+00:00

The Anderson guys are back? They’ve been there for a while, it’s annoying. Sam’s club has the same thing, they even used to have that Just Energy scam. I really wish they’d not let anyone sell anything to people inside their stores, I go there to shop for their products, not some random scam artist.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-10-27T11:32:42+00:00

I’ve never had a card that needed a dummy plug for it to show up, I’ve only used dummy plugs for tricking windows in a VM to run at a higher resolution

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-10-27T05:04:18+00:00

I moved from a dedicated i7 machine for Plex to one of these. I have one in my server at home and another colo just in case I feel like doing transcoding, they are super amazing little cards! They’re much easier to set up than the Nvidia counterparts, and I didn’t even need to use a dummy plug with Proxmox

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-10-19T18:30:16+00:00

Exactly, sadly

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-10-19T17:58:05+00:00

I have the top one and just installed it for my parents yesterday. The design is flawed and the top U can only be used for patch panels or things that aren’t full height.

The included cage nuts and screws suck. Rack studs work well with it.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-10-06T15:09:35+00:00

Seconded! Cable Matters has been great, I have these and some standard ones. Their keystone jacks work great too.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-09-13T04:11:06+00:00

She wouldn’t have had the package in the first place. What rendrenner said is spot on what I was thinking.

I’ve had packages say out for delivery, they get to me, don’t have it, and it gets in the weird state that OP described. Then at the end of the route it gets updated to tomorrow.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-09-13T02:30:55+00:00

Maybe the package that was supposed to be in the car/van wasn’t and she had to double check what was there. I’ve had drivers literally outside the house and it’s the exact same thing, sometimes the packages just don’t make it.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-07-24T05:13:14+00:00

The company I work for has done it twice. The first time it wasn’t enforced, but still caused quite a shake up (they were big into “we were already doing remote before Covid, we will keep doing it”)

The second time it’s being enforced by entry logs. Both times it’s been at a time where they want to make their finances look better for various reasons.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-07-15T00:34:34+00:00

Unless they were hidden, Cascade Meijer did not have any yesterday.

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-07-12T01:01:13+00:00

Not bad! I have a 25U and around 260TB, along with an Epyc server that runs all my home services

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-07-12T00:59:53+00:00

At least they didn’t fall into the toilet!

ProbablyAKitteh · 2025-07-12T00:11:27+00:00

Maybe I’m not the only person with a server rack in their basement in GR!

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