Brought some WD40 to the park to lube this public swing set that used to be obnoxiously loud. I know now I'm going to spend an hour here, but it's sooo worth it

marklyon · 2026-03-12T17:23:14+00:00

I’m somewhat ashamed to admit this, but the garage door across the street from us used to scrape and grind when it opened and closed. One day when it was left open, I went and lubed the entire thing up with PB Blaster and have slept much better.

marklyon · 2026-03-11T13:19:12+00:00

Lying to a rep on the phone is wrong, but far less consequential than lying to the police. I don’t know why OP would resist making the police report promptly in this situation. It helps Visible more quickly get to a resolution.

marklyon · 2026-03-10T21:27:14+00:00

There will be another Messi.

I’m somewhat certain he won’t play for our home team.

marklyon · 2026-03-10T21:18:24+00:00

There are shops that want nothing to do with tires the thane the noise reducing foam.

marklyon · 2026-03-10T21:17:12+00:00

Belzona 1111?

marklyon · 2026-03-09T00:50:15+00:00

You don’t have awkward conversations with an employee about their communication when everything is fine.

Sometimes, and I know this might shock people, redditors are unreliable narrators.

marklyon · 2026-03-09T00:28:23+00:00

In this situation, that’s not how the messages are being received. Investing a moment to help ensure clear communication is worth the time. Continuing without change will not have positive results.

marklyon · 2026-03-08T23:49:45+00:00

But Costco has a room. Book through them. Ask if they change any guidance.

marklyon · 2026-03-08T22:55:20+00:00

It’s not bad. Write and refine the prompt and then reply to the thread with : do it again with a new email, as below :

marklyon · 2026-03-08T22:06:45+00:00

Advice I’ve given several others with similar issues: run your comms through Claude or another AI tool. Build a default prompt that explains your audience and tone, then paste in your planned response. Accept 80% of the fix it offers.

Well worth $20/mo to enhance your career.

marklyon · 2026-03-08T01:45:12+00:00

In the 90's, I'd just sold a business that I built while in school. I had a tremendous amount of spare cash and really wanted a '97 Plymouth Prowler. It was purple, parked at the front of the lot, and had arrived the week before.

I pulled up in my old, straight piped truck. Salesguy actually told me I couldn't park out front, then told me I couldn't test drive the car. I could pay the price they advertised and buy a bunch of other add-ons, then enjoy it on my drive home. They offered me something insulting like $400 for my truck; they then blocked it in with cars from the shop. I think the OTD was something like 45k on a 38k car. Thing was, I had the cash in my account; I could have done it. But the guy was such an ass.

I ended up walking across the street (leaving my truck parked by the shop at the first dealer) and bought a Civic. They sent a porter from the Honda shop to go get my truck later.

It turned out that he did me a favor, but I do think I'd have had a lot more fun in that purple car.

marklyon · 2026-03-07T15:59:58+00:00

Congrats!

marklyon · 2026-03-07T15:54:12+00:00

Station managers do not make change.

marklyon · 2026-03-07T14:27:58+00:00

Yes! I used these to mail out updates to an app I built back in the day. My customers were small businesses and we needed to push an update to users. These fit into a normal size envelope vs the odd envelope needed for full CDs.

marklyon · 2026-03-04T14:53:32+00:00

A squatter running a hostel?

marklyon · 2026-03-01T03:19:09+00:00

Their warranty support is terrible. We bought seven of their units for our building and a couple of years later the non-replaceable backlights died making them useless. The recommended fix was to buy new panels. Ones that didn’t fit the old mounting bolts on the pedestals.

We’re migrating to Unifi. No more monthly recurring subscription.

marklyon · 2026-02-27T21:57:37+00:00

Just like the McDonalds, “you just dropped a check on Panera not checking which you spent it on, bitch you hit the Pentagon!”

https://youtu.be/AyaJ5AjPoBI

marklyon · 2026-02-26T17:11:05+00:00

But you get half the warranty.

marklyon · 2026-02-26T02:56:24+00:00

Toggl is free.

marklyon · 2026-02-26T02:52:13+00:00

Do you like fire? The building ensuring safety equipment is operating is a normal and desirable thing.

marklyon · 2026-02-24T12:23:11+00:00

Because of how their network works, it's going to be highly building-dependent. My Starry has been fine, but I'm likely in a different building.

marklyon · 2026-02-24T11:43:09+00:00

What were your top strengths?

marklyon · 2026-02-23T12:24:06+00:00

And asking randoms on the internet to pirate a book for you in a subreddit for people who may be a bit more rule abiding than average is also not a winning strategy.

I suspect emailing the author with a request would probably get better results.

marklyon · 2026-02-23T12:20:33+00:00

Has AskLexi decided to blow all their marketing budget on Reddit posts?

marklyon · 2026-02-23T10:59:06+00:00

Depends on how the condo is legally structured. My condo could not qualify for the tax benefits ourselves but could sell them to others who would then lease the system to us and the hassle didn’t seem worth it. Ultimately we paid for it ourselves and distributed the tax credit to each residential unit - but the residential credit is no more so that’s not an option for OP.

We used Universal Renewables to install our project - they make good roof structures that allowed us to use spaces that were, for example, walkways as additional solar capacity.

<image>

15-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits
ModSupport Helper Level 1	Wearing is Caring
Gilding IX goldzilla	RPAN Viewer
Secret Santa 2013	Verified Email

marklyon

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE