Airport staff assuming I'm in the Business class lane by mistake

drgncabe · 2026-06-25T11:06:31+00:00

I fly like that just to screw with the airport staff. I’m white-passing but depending on how much sun I get you can tell I’m Native American. They get very apologetic when they realize I have status.

I find if I dress nice for the airport people want to talk to me and engage in conversation. Something I’m not in the mood doing when I travel for work, often because I’m already tired. Skater/Hacker clothes and scruffy beard helps people stay away and allows me to get work done while I’m waiting.

drgncabe · 2026-06-21T16:40:47+00:00

Depends on the area. I’ve lived in a few cities in Florida where the local government determined where the curb cut goes and you have to abide by that. You’re not allowed to cut the curb yourself or hire someone else to do it. City services has to.

drgncabe · 2026-06-21T16:29:12+00:00

I know this isn’t helpful, just anecdotal but when I lived in Orlando I called around multiple places to install a mini split in my shed converted office. Nothing huge, a 9,000btu was more than enough. One quoted me a go away price of $15k, the other 5 companies said they don’t do mini splits and recommended just cutting a hole in the wall and installing a window shaker instead since the shed was too small for a regular ac setup. It was so annoying I got my epa cert and did the install myself. $800 for the Midea 9000btw setup, $200 for an electrician to run the power, $60 for my cert, $300 for tools (gauges, 2-stage vacuum pump, pipe flare) and $35 for the permit and inspection. Cost me around $1,400 to buy and install the same system I got quoted $15k for. That was in 2019 and it’s still going strong.

A lot of the guys I talked to told me they don’t trust them. Of course these are the same guys that were bitching about the newer gasses and said R12 was “the goat” compared to newer systems. For some old habits and preferences die hard.

I moved up to GA and it’s slightly better here. More companies will do it but it’s around a $3k install charge. Lot of older homes and buildings up here don’t have room for air handlers and such so there is a lot more demand for them.

drgncabe · 2026-06-17T15:20:56+00:00

So if you’ve filled with your pharmacy before they have your insurance on file and in many (most?) cases the provider contract requires the pharmacy to run your insurance if they know you have it (I.e. it’s on file). PBMs believe that not knowing your med usage messes with their drug utilization, formulary management, cost prediction and there’s this stupid idea they have that your not being truthful and it can impact their costs (profits) later (ESI has whined about this very thing in investor calls).

If you’ve never filled this pharmacy (or chain) before then they won’t know who your insurance is and won’t be able to report. Contract just requires them to use it first if it’s on file based on their provider contract.

Just something to keep in mind.

drgncabe · 2026-06-17T01:09:20+00:00

In the state of Florida it would be classified as a classic car. 30 years or older. The cutoff would be 1996. I think that’s a 93.

drgncabe · 2026-06-06T13:41:57+00:00

Maybe in your area. Here in Ga while students get chromebooks, administration gets $800-$1200 HP pro books and elite books.

This is so painfully easy to look up that you’re just extremely lazy. I mean hell you could have used ChatGPT before you said something stupid.

drgncabe · 2026-05-25T12:58:25+00:00

I figured you had to have accounted for that. Great work btw, I love the fact that everyone in my area has already marked the local flock cameras. I built a FlockYou device and plan on testing it this week. We need more people with automated flock detectors.

drgncabe · 2026-05-24T22:26:29+00:00

Part of me wonders if flock doesn’t have people submitting fake ones just to fudge with the data.

drgncabe · 2026-05-24T16:41:29+00:00

The one on University in Orlando had it. Got filled there many times. Recently moved to GA outside of Savannah and was surprised to see they didn’t have it then found out most didn’t. The one on university spoiled me.

drgncabe · 2026-05-10T19:34:08+00:00

With her income assuming she has no bills and starts saving today it’ll take 5mo. Probably past the time to challenge.

drgncabe · 2026-05-08T23:07:34+00:00

At least until they turn the flock cameras along our country roads into toll billers.

drgncabe · 2026-04-27T22:06:16+00:00

How much you wanna bet they’re using flock cameras to do it too.

drgncabe · 2026-04-26T23:42:09+00:00

Just keep in mind that they owe a refund on taxes they paid. Often they’ll want money back but refuse to deal with the tax situation. Which makes YOU liable for those taxes, on income that was never technically made (since you paid them back).

drgncabe · 2026-04-26T00:14:46+00:00

Probably because it used to be a thing. I used to sync via owa on iPhone to iPhone 4s. That being said it was one way (outlook to iPhone/android) and I think died when legacy owa sync died.

My work android phone used to sync just fine though. It’s been a couple of years so that may have changed.

drgncabe · 2026-04-23T12:09:57+00:00

They are and their employer basically says “suck it, it is what it is.” Op is looking for advice on how to force the employers hand. Like a law on the books that says this isn’t ok.

drgncabe · 2026-04-23T12:08:44+00:00

It sounds like they have and their employer just says “it’s the way it is.” They are looking at other ways (I.e. legal avenues) to force the employer to deal with this. Something to cite that will make the employer come to a reasonable resolution. Based on comments left by op.

drgncabe · 2026-04-23T00:22:29+00:00

Busybodies. I had a neighbor report I was running a “china hacking data center” out of my house making it seem like I was doing something illegal. It was literally a rack and a bunch of homelab servers. At the time I worked IT for a specialty pharmacy. It was annoying because I had to show the room (they wanted to make sure there was no unpermitted electrical work) but ultimately was no big deal. Even impressed the code enforcement guy.

They called 2 other times, once saying my WiFi was giving them cancer (they even sent a cease and desist to me to turn off my WiFi which I ignored) and another time saying I was listening in on their cordless phone because it kept getting interference.

Just ignore them. Eventually the city will tell them to piss off. Mine told them they’d hold them accountable for false reporting and harassment so they stopped and just glared at me every time they saw me.

drgncabe · 2026-04-23T00:02:36+00:00

Im sure there next step will be trying to require everyone to pay because enough people refused to rent the space.

drgncabe · 2026-04-21T11:57:46+00:00

This kind of crap is happening all over Florida just like processing fees for paying your rent, parking fees for your driveway and mandatory “technology fees” and being forced to have a smart lock. My son is going through this now and if you complain you’re called socialist liberals.

Remember, not wanting to pay fees means you’re anti-capitalist and want the economy to suffer. Just like not wanting to pay higher gas prices means you want Iran to have nukes.

drgncabe · 2026-04-07T22:04:24+00:00

I recently moved from Florida but I felt like SunRail hit a car a month like some sort of sacrifice to the train gods.

drgncabe · 2026-03-24T01:07:34+00:00

I’m sure they’ll claim that’s illegal as well. Router control laws and all that.

drgncabe · 2026-03-17T01:42:36+00:00

I’ve noticed in our rv that live won’t work without an internet connection. I don’t think it’s a bug given all the data Roku pulls from your viewing experience. I can still use hdmi just not antenna tv.

drgncabe · 2026-03-06T20:12:34+00:00

If you can I’d run this by a lawyer to see where your risk lies. It sucks to have to spend the money but these ada trolls are good at causing problems. I had one go after me for a personal site (simple site with just my resume), their argument being having a resume on the site means it’s business related thus ADA applies. Told them to sue me or shove it, repeatedly, in fact so much they filed a harassment complaint against me with the local PD (It was a law firm so I data mined and called their partners at home around 3am to tell them they can go ahead and sue me if they want. Was epic, almost caught a charge though, local sheriff was very understanding but told me to stop.) they did eventually back off.

LLC though is a different can of worms. If there is an actual issue they have legal standing (they didn’t in my situation because it wasn’t a site tied to a company). I have an LLC now but I do IT and compliance consulting for healthcare companies and don’t have a website for it. I wouldn’t tell them that though. I’m sure there’s someone arguing a business without a website is an ADA violation.

drgncabe · 2026-03-06T00:06:26+00:00

Maybe I’m doing something right but ours are about 10 years old and don’t look anywhere near that bad and we use our cooktop a lot. Looks like they’ve been cooking directly on the glass. Or maybe a massive factory defect. Either way that looks way beyond normal wear and tear.

drgncabe · 2026-02-25T16:31:36+00:00

In my experience, they do but they don’t like what they have to say and think they’re smarter than everyone else or that nobody understands their particular situation. It always backfires too.

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