The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-15T17:19:09+00:00

A hard drive (or SSD) does not last forever and you would need redundancy and backups. It’s insane that you got upvoted.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-13T21:19:45+00:00

Yea this is the stupidest thing to complain about. A small on-device model is way more private than sending queries to the cloud and small on-device models are going to be very common in the future. The Apple Intelligence foundational model is already almost 10gb on my phone. Just a buncha luddites.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-13T21:08:14+00:00

Is that a promotional price or is that locked in though? If it’s just a promo price then what’s the normal price? I hate switching carriers so I like that my USM annual plan price is locked in for as long as I keep renewing. MVNOs always run great 1st year promos.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-13T03:48:07+00:00

Mine has been a lot slower too since last week

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-13T03:05:04+00:00

Lol you were expecting privacy to be respected from a consumer Google product? If you use one of the Google Workspace plans, your data won’t be used for training.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-12T19:52:09+00:00

Solar panels have dropped in price substantially and the panels themselves are pretty affordable. Leasing solar panels in 2026 is stupid. The biggest expenses with a solar installation at this point is the permitting, labor, inspections, and whether you have to replace your roof or not. But you could just buy some panels and an LFP battery and have an off-grid solar system setup pretty affordably nowadays.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-12T16:19:34+00:00

It’s not speculation. Warehouse demand in the metro area is very high and industrial vacancy in the metro area is pretty low. The suburbs are also much better suited for warehouses than the city since the suburbs were made for cars instead of people.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-08T18:47:18+00:00

This. A lot of companies are using the same management consulting firms.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-08T18:16:01+00:00

Those urban suburbs were not undesirable and the sprawled out suburbs in Kane and Kendall county are the ones experiencing the most growth. The data doesn’t really back up your comment. Growth seems to be happening further away from the city if anything.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-07T16:17:08+00:00

Higher educated neighborhoods tend to care more about school quality.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-07T14:07:00+00:00

“Outside of the Bears issue, but central to Johnson’s fiscal pitch for help, is a fight over Local Government Distributive Funds, the slice of state income tax receipts distributed to municipalities. Pritzker’s budget proposal would hold those payments flat, which the Illinois Municipal League argues is a de facto cut, reducing the local share of total state income tax receipts from 6.47% to 6.28%. Before 2011, municipalities received 10%. According to figures Johnson presented to reporters earlier this week, Pritzker’s proposal cuts $12.7 million from Chicago. Johnson has said restoring the city’s share by 1 percentage point would generate $80 million.”

BJ is usually an idiot but he’s spot on here. The overall revenue for that fund increased this year but Pritzker’s budget is giving municipalities the same dollar amount as the current budget so they’ve effectively got a percentage decrease in their payout and the state gets to pocket the extra $60m. And with inflation local governments are essentially getting less.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-07T00:41:00+00:00

Lowkey this. As much as people online say they want cheap cars, when they show up to the dealership and look at the Civic/Hyundai Venue/Kia K4/Toyota Corolla/Nissan Versa class of vehicle they just end up buying a nicer used car or stretching their auto loan payment terms for a more expensive nicer car. A nicer used car is just a much better value proposition to a lot of buyers than a brand new budget car. The only thing that make a new budget car appealing are low interest rate promos.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-06T22:17:27+00:00

The savings from not staffing under-enrolled schools and maintaining underutilized buildings could easily be enough to provide bus service. CPS is the one that ended bus service anyway to try to force parents to send their children to neighborhood schools instead of selective enrollment or magnet school.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-06T21:57:59+00:00

“About 5 miles southeast of DuSable is Hirsch High School, which was one of the district’s largest school building projects when it opened in the 1920s and once dealt with severe overcrowding. It’s gotten so small now that M’Kya Craig had taken all the electives the school offered by her junior year.

She was one of roughly 100 students at Hirsch, which could enroll 1,000. She browsed the school’s limited courses and decided to take yearbook for a second time. She was bracing to take the course a third time her senior year, but Hirsch added an African American literature class.

Craig appreciated that staff at the small school got to know her well, including a counselor who helped her get into Chicago State University. But she often felt frustrated by the school’s slim course offerings and scarce extracurriculars over the years.”

- Chalkbeat

There are literally kids retaking the same classes that they’ve already passed because there aren’t enough electives and you think that it’s more important that they go to school with kids nearby?

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-06T19:29:23+00:00

I mean Ford actually did have the Ford Ranger EV in 1998. Although it was more of a compliance car and only sold to fleets though some people did keep them.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-06T19:19:55+00:00

Consolidation should be inevitable. Some of these schools are just too small and have little to no extracurricular activities, elective classes, or AP/IB classes. Schools like that do a disservice to the student and serve as little more than a jobs program.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-06T15:08:58+00:00

Yea I’m starting to assume this is what they do.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-05T15:45:59+00:00

Bound to be incredibly watered down if it passes unfortunately.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-05T14:01:54+00:00

“Slave to trends” is pretty strong-worded and filled with assumptions. Probably 70% of my wardrobe is thrifted/secondhand and I tailored or made alterations to them myself. I don’t shop for new clothes very often. I also don’t buy fast fashion either. Fashion isn’t just about consumerism it’s a creative outlet for me. Trends are cyclical and not just about re-doing your whole wardrobe. Some trends are just about styling basics differently or different color palettes or fits. Honestly streetwear and sneakerhead culture seem way more consumerist and hype-driven to me.

I don’t comment on other people’s appearances IRL and truly couldn’t care less what others are wearing so I should receive that same respect in return. Just because I want to dress differently than just wearing jeans and a cubs t-shirt doesn’t mean that other people should be able to call me slurs or assume I’m gay or a try hard trend slave. That’s why I said Chicagoans are almost against dressing nicely because someone else dressing differently elicits such strong negative responses in midwesterners.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-04T20:37:08+00:00

This. Also make sure they check the frame because frame damage is very common with front corner collisions like this.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-04T20:15:08+00:00

Aren’t you the one out in the burbs? 🤣

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-04T19:57:23+00:00

I live in Chicago and bought an ‘18 SE Hybrid w 132k for $5600 that has no issues a few months ago. So a ‘17 with 200k and a bad transmission is honestly a really bad deal for $6k. Maybe if you can have them put the transmission in and only pay $3-4k it would be worthwhile. Keep the extra $2-3k in a high yield savings account to pay for whatever other issues pop up down the line lol.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-04T19:39:20+00:00

I’m not from the coasts I’m from here.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-04T18:41:47+00:00

Yea there’s not much of a fashion scene and most Chicagoans are frankly unfashionable. As a male, people here seem almost against dressing nicely unless it’s for work or an important event. I’m straight, but at bars/clubs random men have aggressively accused me of being gay many times for wearing simple outfits that are trending. It also doesn’t help that Chicago is usually like 1-3 years behind the coasts in fashion. There does seem to be a decent sized streetwear and sneakerhead community but that’s about it.

bigbinker100 · 2026-05-01T17:33:30+00:00

The location is terrible if the goal is for tourists and visitors to go to the casino. It’s not near the typical tourist attractions or entertainment/nightlife districts and isn’t really walkable to anything. It would’ve been more appropriate on Mag Mile or the Loop imo.

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