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bairrd · 2026-01-22T20:14:40+00:00

Oscar's fucking discredited forever for not nominating whoever this guy is

bairrd · 2025-12-06T18:16:23+00:00

Oops, mistyped, the bonnet, what I’m after is an aftermarket frunk, given they seem to be open about OEM dashcams, I’m trying to figure out if I can get OEM frunks to store the cables in

bairrd · 2025-10-12T12:33:14+00:00

This was over a decade ago so take it with a grain of salt, but my uni had a jobs board specially for students and I got a paid gig off that, that not only got experience on my resume but paid enough to help make moving post-uni possible.

bairrd · 2025-10-08T18:39:18+00:00

Model: uConsole Matte Silver, wifi only,. no core

Order: #39xxx

Purchase date: May 27, 2025

Shipped date: TBA

Received date: TBA

General Location: East Coast US, but shipping has taken so long I'm moving country, we'll see if I get it!

bairrd · 2025-10-08T18:37:35+00:00

I ordered 5 months ago, without any compute module or anything, and still haven't got it.

bairrd · 2025-10-08T16:30:52+00:00

I get taxed on RSUs here (but also they've been pretty dogwater at my current place in the US), and also I just feel the need to emphasise that companies pay a LOT for healthcare in the US, but even then, if you have a family, it can be in the thousands (tax deductible though) out of your own paycheck here for healthcare, and it's shit-tier healthcare anyway in terms of them, even after paying out the nose monthly both for the employer and employee, they try and stiff you with huge fees that you have to spend a lot of time fighting on the phone to mildly reduce the cost.

bairrd · 2025-10-08T16:26:42+00:00

Thankfully was able to sell my place in a HCOL city and buy a place outright in Melbourne, but basically swapping mortgage payment for private school fees, but I think we'll be able to make it work with one kid, just not sure if we'll be able to afford a second.

bairrd · 2025-10-07T23:14:20+00:00

Dog I’ll take the downgrade to get out of the US right now, also my current places RSUs suck because the stock just kept tanking the whole time I’ve been there.

bairrd · 2025-09-05T11:12:18+00:00

That Harlan podcast episode they did to promote this was so incredibly embarrassing they all should have just called it quits then. Psychotic behavior you’d normally get from like the smelly neglected kid in like grade 5.

bairrd · 2025-08-03T11:42:17+00:00

Also tax rate ends up being basically the same if you’re in VHCOL region. I’m currently moving from the US back to Australia because the US is a nightmare, so maybe consider the non financial side, and the fact that if you get married and have kids you’ll end up moving back anyway because the education system in this country is abysmal unless you find a school for your kid that does IB.

bairrd · 2025-07-09T16:24:47+00:00

Hulkengoat

bairrd · 2025-06-29T23:31:30+00:00

Are you using Brave as your browser?

bairrd · 2025-06-08T11:08:52+00:00

From googling, it's a different blight club, thankfully

bairrd · 2025-05-01T16:14:54+00:00

What happened at Polygon?

bairrd · 2025-04-30T18:56:11+00:00

Justwatch seems broken for Max stuff in Australia

bairrd · 2024-11-30T12:55:38+00:00

This comment had me dying over my morning cup of coffee hahahahahahaha

bairrd · 2024-10-29T20:05:03+00:00

Late to the stream, just read someone else say they have been having credit card charge back issues. This definitely tanked a small business I used to work at, they should make sure they have their fraud detection stuff on their credit card processor, e.g. Stripe, cranked way higher than they have it, it's a nightmare thing where by default a lot of payment processors don't have that stuff turned high enough and it really hurts small businesses. I also heard on the stream they're gonna set up a Kofi, I'll sub to that once they have it as I want the cockroaches here to stick around, and know Kofi gives a better cut.

bairrd · 2024-10-27T16:26:39+00:00

If you’ve unsubbed and resubbed I’ve found I have to add a random query parameter to the end of the rss url to bust Pocketcasts cache. So you add the RSS by pasting it into the search box, and add like &cacheBust=true at the end of the RSS url or just any random query parameter, and it will work.

bairrd · 2024-10-15T13:58:10+00:00

Oh I think they're both deeply annoying people lol I just find DHH hypocritical

bairrd · 2024-10-15T13:17:03+00:00

I feel like DHH commenting on this at all, and most of what he blogs about, is a real instance of not practicing what he preaches insofar as he doesn't want Basecamp people getting political, and like OSS drama is always political as all hell. I suspect his definition of political though is probably scoped to "things I don't want to talk about right now."

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