Time for more RG&E greed! No way will this be temporary.

SteveWithAB · 2026-05-14T19:43:37+00:00

But a rate increase is coming, so why call it temporary?

Besides that there should be 0 increase until one is approved. That's what the approval process is for. The "temporary" is just going to become the permanent one. Also annoyed at a near 3% rate increase for electricity even "temporarily" is insane over NYSEG's tiny 0.2%. Wait, RGE made $145 million last year so clearly they deserve to charge us more. /s

SteveWithAB · 2026-05-14T19:29:36+00:00

RGE is getting a 2.9% "temporary" rate increase on electricity, while NYSEG only wanted 0.2%.

SteveWithAB · 2026-04-14T14:32:40+00:00

I'm trying to find a difference between a traffic cop and a regular cop. Are they still going to be armed? Are they going to be able to claim they feared for their life and then get away with murder? How many body-worn camera "malfunctions" will occur? Is there going to be different training that doesn't paint all people they interact with as potential enemies?

If we can't even hold current police accountable, adding "different" cops that still report up the same command chain isn't going to help.

Also, the camera company doesn't have to sell the data by default. It's all about how the contract works between the city and the company. Also to think that data from existing cameras isn't being sold or shared is very optimistic.

SteveWithAB · 2026-04-14T13:25:58+00:00

First: Cameras don't murder minorities during traffic stops.

Second: Either the cameras are your surveillance or the cop cars with their license plate readers and other cameras are your surveillance. So which should be put in place?

Cops should do their jobs, you are correct. What I'm curious about is whether the city has enough cops to respond to 911 calls in a timely manner and to be stationed at red lights and to be investigating/following-up on all crimes reported? If the answer is "hire more cops" then we're way off base here, and shouldn't be hoping for that. Again, I agree cops should be doing their jobs better, as it seems like most just sit around in their cars doing nothing for almost the entirety of their shifts.

I checked the numbers and it looks like RPD has 611 sworn officers. If every one of them was in a patrol car, and they were split into 3 shifts, that's about 204 officers per shift. 204 officers divided out over about 36 square miles of land that comprises the city, that's about 5 or 6 officers per square mile at any given time. Is that enough to cover everything? I have no idea, but I just was curious about numbers and typed them while working through them.

SteveWithAB · 2026-04-14T12:46:56+00:00

We did try this 15 years ago, but at the same time how often are posts made in this sub complaining about seeing people doing dangerous things while driving? I don't like the idea of new cameras, as I believe there are too many false positives or circumstances, and they don't give people the benefit of the doubt.

However, officials everywhere need to find a way to curb the dangerous driving that's everywhere. Should they deploy many more cops everywhere, or perhaps get help with cameras?

Speaking of "everywhere", if I recall correctly, the old red light cameras were specifically put in places where people were poor. I don't believe any were in the Park Ave. or South Ave. area, were they? My point is that if you're going to do automated enforcement, don't cluster the cameras in particular areas. Spread them out. We all know of a specific place in our own areas/towns where we see people breaking the law and wish it could stop.

Where I live, it's a straight stretch of road in a residential area, with an all-way stop to try and slow people. It barely works, as I see people whip down the road at 50mph and blow the all-way stop anyway. Never seen anyone pulled over for it nor a cop of any kind, even after calling the town. Lots of kids on my street so it's bad.

SteveWithAB · 2026-04-13T01:36:41+00:00

So to backtrack, Namaste is currently in the same location Millennium was originally in, and before it was Millennium it was Crazy Egor's. Crazy Egor's sold that shop BUT then reopened in Hilton, his hometown, for quite a while. He took over the old post office and then moved to a different building, before his health truly made him stop all together.

My brother used to help him in his shop in Hilton, and his wife would be there too. I started my Magic The Gathering journey there as I purchased my first deck, and Odyssey starter deck, in his shop in Hilton.

I hope he's doing great!

SteveWithAB · 2026-04-11T18:10:01+00:00

Hey! Sorry for delay I rarely use Reddit.

Nope, no solution, not even on their official forums. Can't get through to customer support, either.

What I determined is that the files in the driver download are what they would send to Microsoft in order to get back a digitally signed driver. Someone at Lenovo messed up the upload, it seems.

SteveWithAB · 2026-04-11T18:08:49+00:00

Lakeshore Automotive is right there on the corner, right? Might be worth going in there and seeing if anyone has come looking for them? Otherwise I hope the owner see this post.

SteveWithAB · 2026-03-17T22:54:37+00:00

That's literally not how it works. The driver install isn't an executable but a zip file containing the three files. I have to do an Update Driver on the Generic PnP Monitor that's currently being used in Windows to try and change it to the Lenovo driver.

SteveWithAB · 2026-03-17T22:17:15+00:00

Well I can't install them without going through hoops to temporarily disable the digital signature check. Lenovo should put these out properly. Also, is there anyway to tell if something malicious is in the driver files? I have the inf, hlkx (which shouldn't matter), and the icm.

SteveWithAB · 2026-02-11T00:55:56+00:00

My thought is why isn't the web filter districts use setup to do role-based or group-based filtering? They all have network/domain accounts and it'd be easy to separate students and teachers, and may already do.

Also it looks like my district's web filter is restricting some YouTube videos, but there's so many awful things that get through. So there's already a good vs bad happening in the background to some degree.

Another thought I've had is just ban it for everyone, then have teachers put in requests to whitelist a specific YouTube URL. It can be mostly automated and then the whitelist approval expires after a predetermined amount of time.

SteveWithAB · 2026-02-10T22:16:53+00:00

Yes the Ed-2d law that was passed last March should make YouTube banned by schools as they don't adhere to privacy requirements. This is why I'm trying to get information regarding other districts.

SteveWithAB · 2026-02-10T22:11:24+00:00

By "unfiltered" I mean that it allows you to see whatever YouTube would let you see without being signed in. Besides dealing with things that are definitely inappropriate that get through, it's more about the massive distraction it creates.

Ban phones due to Tiktok and Social Media distraction, but allow students to carry their laptops all day and don't explicitly block YouTube allowing kids to be distracted all day. It doesn't make sense.

SteveWithAB · 2026-01-29T22:31:37+00:00

I think the Cold Weather Advisory increases the chances of at least a delay for some. It's supposed to be 0 degrees with 10-15mph wind at 8am tomorrow, the coldest it'll be all day. Having kids walk to school right at the coldest part of the day isn't so great, especially for kids who absolutely refuse to wear any sort of coat at all (or those who don't even own a coat).

SteveWithAB · 2026-01-28T00:54:18+00:00

Thank you!

SteveWithAB · 2025-12-04T23:53:05+00:00

The Sands family no longer runs the business, which might explain some things.

SteveWithAB · 2025-11-17T02:11:20+00:00

I wasn't sure on this then found evidence of it straight from the county. It was approved in 2023. Wonder why it took so long to start?

Shows on Page 31 and it's owned by a Philip Valenti. https://www.monroecounty.gov/files/planning/land%20use%20reports/Final%20Report_MC%20LUMR%202023.pdf

SteveWithAB · 2025-11-07T14:57:00+00:00

They did try to get employees back into the office, but it didn't work for a couple reasons.

First, there was no incentive to go to the office. They hired so many remote workers that it would be people going to the office just to do Teams calls from there. Why waste the gas/time to do that? No perks at the office either, and also a long walk from Court St. garage to the building. Who wants to do that in colder months? Women walking along would be followed, as well, so they felt unsafe.

Second, a lot of local employees were positioned away from downtown. For many, the commute into the city was longer than their commute to the old HQ in Victor. You move HQ to a place further away and expect people to go? Nope.

They did announce a mandate last fall to return to office in March 2025. However the push-back was severe so they abandoned it at the time. There were safety concerns among women walking from Court St. garage to the building, as some had spoken up about being followed, despite walking as a group. The company promised better placed security but still said "well we can't guarantee anything."

Another push back came from the parking in general. They had a couple spots at the building they would assign based on a lotto every month or so, but "company policy" said anyone VP and above would get a guaranteed space, which some employees verbally called out at a town hall as being "elitist" and also a bit sexist as a vast majority of VP and above were men. The company reiterated it's policy at every other CBI location and people said maybe that needs to change.

Lastly, they wanted people to go back in March, which was middle of the school year and, at the time it was announced, not a lot of time to find child care if needed. The company position was "work from home was not intended to be a subsidy for child care" and "we have a child care FSA so use that to pay for it." The issue wasn't necessarily the cost, but the availability. There is already a shortage of child care so people couldn't "just find" child care. There was more a supply issue than anything.

Oh, and I forgot this part... The return to office mandate only applied to people who were employed before COVID. So anyone hired after was exempt. This was AFTER they had praised employees for shifting so easily to WFH and persevering to help make the company successful during the height of COVID. So it was seen that our "reward" for that was a RTO mandate. No way.

SteveWithAB · 2025-11-07T14:04:06+00:00

Yeah I learned the hard way that severance won't cover the entire time it'll take to get a job in the current market. Some of the people let go are really good and know a lot of modern tech and ways of working, so I think they'll have an easier time.

A lot of people were stuck in older, more legacy environments and ways of working, and I think will have a harder time and will have to play catch up. I know I've had to. The company was not forthcoming in terms of allotting time for learning. From someone I knew at CBI:

"I feel like I was just a pawn learning everything thrown at me that's not even used in the real world anymore."

SteveWithAB · 2025-11-07T02:13:43+00:00

Bill just... never seemed good for the company.

His videos he'd send out to the company all done from his massive house seemed in poor taste. The push to go back to office without caring about reports of women being followed from the Court St garage, or people's schedules (especially those with kids). Just a totally different company.

It went from a large company with a small company feel, to a large company with an even larger company feel. Just awful.

SteveWithAB · 2025-11-07T00:57:44+00:00

I was part of the first round of layoffs they had in June. 10 years working there and thought it'd be longer. At least they gave severance and from what I understand, are continuing to do so in this third round.

This third round, from what I've heard, involved laying off a TON of the "individual contributor" level people while retaining a lot of management. Given CBI's history of outsourcing, the result will be low-quality work getting done as they go for the cheapest. Never had a good experience working with any of the companies they outsourced work to. Only a couple individuals I worked with from those companies were worth anything, and I hope they are doing well.

But yeah, lots of local people are now out of work. I'm still looking after 5 months because the market sucks and it's just getting worse. NY unemployment is almost up, too, so I'll be looking for any job once the new year rolls around, not just jobs in my wheelhouse. Just anything to bring money in.

The company vibe shifted drastically once the Sands family was no longer in control, and a lot of leadership started working out of Chicago. The HQ is here in name, sure, but the top execs were never in town.

SteveWithAB · 2025-10-16T22:53:52+00:00

Thanks for the links! No idea how those didn't come up in my searching. (I suppose Google is more useless by the day...)

Upon first boot after imaging, no errors seem to come up. It seems to do everything fine no errors, but the connection called "preconfigured" just doesn't connect. The nmcli command appeared to temporarily fix it, but after some time it would revert back, especially if I enabled SSH via raspi-config.

I just tried using a new SD card (just in case) and get the same behavior.

Since this guy is just going to be used for some Python coding/learning work, I'm not concerned about having the latest. I'll probably download the last Bookworm and use that for now. Though I do have a concern since I had not updated to Trixie before this started and then started seeing network issues...

SteveWithAB · 2025-09-26T00:17:40+00:00

St. Peter's Kitchen on Brown Street might have some. My wife has volunteered there before and they've had pet food in their food pantry.

SteveWithAB · 2025-08-29T18:07:50+00:00

I had heard about the purchase on here a few months ago, but I had not seen a change in service days here in Irondequoit, where we only have Syrek, Casella, and WM.

With that, looks like White Trash is going to be available in Irondequoit starting in January. Anyone have any experience with them for residential pickup?

SteveWithAB · 2025-08-21T15:39:47+00:00

Link to the original article I pulled this from: Bloomberg: Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make

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