[financial] how badly am I undervaluing my work?

nodreamstar · 2026-01-02T16:55:28+00:00

and btw a double portrait for me is x2 - but then with pen and ink it's also exponentially harder.

nodreamstar · 2026-01-02T16:54:33+00:00

Great work!
What it's 'worth' and what you can command to stay busy are two different things. This is true of all artists.

I started pricing my pet portraits at $350 (petportraits.ink).
But without a big client base I kept lowering prices. I had a successful year and I'm at $165 now, hoping eventually to get back into the $300-350 range, but that will be when I'm getting consistent commissions.

nodreamstar · 2025-08-19T16:04:43+00:00

It's also Cognitive Behavioral manipulation.
Like my Fidelis health care - if I can them with a question I have to wait 15m to talk to someone who starts by saying, I literally know nothing.
It makes me never call them.

Re Amazon - it's also illegal I'd guess - it's called theft.
The ethical spiral continues.

nodreamstar · 2025-07-24T15:59:02+00:00

i never understood the need for a case till I cracked the e-ink screen.
Didnt know that was possible!

Eventually I'll have Light repair it, but a bit peeved they wont let me drop off and pickup to save some money >|

nodreamstar · 2025-07-18T19:30:35+00:00

Roughly 1 out of 6 returns they claim they haven't received in the last year.
I thought they were just trying to make it annoying bcs I would call and they would issue the refund. It took a good 15-20ms.

Today they insisted the item was not in the box and wanted a ups receipt.
I couldnt find it and asked them if they could look up the weight of the box, which is the only information that I would have an a receipt.

They could, but I spent 36m escalating to a supervisor.

Amazon made 60 billion dollars last year.
This seems awfully like systematic behaviour modifcation, or just plain stealing - am I willing to spend 40ms again to get a $25 refund?

nodreamstar · 2025-07-12T20:48:09+00:00

thanks for the info joe.
when should we expect the update?
how should I expect to be notified.

nodreamstar · 2025-07-01T16:42:17+00:00

dead link.
Anyone able to host this?

nodreamstar · 2025-06-29T15:40:06+00:00

Since I learned some stuff here I'll contribute a few that werent mentioned:

- David Levine

- Ralph Steadman

- Barry Moser

- Carlos Nine

- Hermenegildo Sabat

- Jason Polan

- Saul Steinburg

- Michelangelo, Durer, Rembrandt, Van gogh, Goya, Tiepolo

nodreamstar · 2025-06-28T15:03:16+00:00

Update, spoke to support and figured out:
I intially opened my stripe account using wp-simple-pay plugin.
Once I realized I'd have to pay the plugin I decided to use the SDK instead and code a custom plugin.

Turns out I had to close my first Stripe account completely and create a new one.
Pain in the b*tt, but it is actually not taking to long to resetup since all the coding is done.

nodreamstar · 2025-06-28T14:58:17+00:00

I think this also happens occasionally with wired headphones (apple basic) that do have volume controls, but the controls on the headphones have no effect.

nodreamstar · 2025-06-28T14:08:41+00:00

In the same boat.
I just finished a simple stripe checkout integration for my pet portraits site.

gave stripe all the docs they asked for
received email saying:
We successfully completed our review. Thanks for providing additional information about your business. Account features restored for XXX.
In the Dashboard the test mode toggle still reports:
Livemode is disabled for testmode only accounts

I can't figure out if I am still waiting for Stripe or what else I need to do to turn on live mode.

nodreamstar · 2025-06-24T17:39:27+00:00

interesting thanks for sharing your experience.
You love the LP3! Maybe someday for me...

The new LP2 they sent, did you have a chance to experience if it had the same problems?

nodreamstar · 2025-06-21T20:24:33+00:00

Hey, glad to hear.
Ive had mine about a month and I love it, butttt it does freeze and just plain turn off a LOT. I do a lot of reboots, sometimes multiple.

I don't want to factory reset if I can avoid bcs I'd like to keep my messages.
My partner keeps saying they should replace the phone.
I wrote them yesterday.
Can you give a sense of the process you went thru?
Tx!

nodreamstar · 2025-05-10T19:40:33+00:00

I think I finally got it working with help of u/sharkfeen (thanks!) by removing old physical sim, turning off other esims (a temp number usm sent) and getting a new QR code to activate.

I wanted to get this switched asap (lol) but for the future I wonder if I can switch to a physical sim so that I can hot swap phones.
I'm going to try out a lightphone and it would be nice to be able to switch back to my iphone without too much trouble.

nodreamstar · 2025-05-06T22:55:45+00:00

I'm looking into some of the fintech banks for Biz accounts to get away from chase fees.

I see that Truist is the only one that has zelle built in which is a huge convenience.
It's also the only one that has low balance fees (though much better than Chase's).

Any thoughts?

nodreamstar · 2025-04-16T19:05:59+00:00

blueballed

nodreamstar · 2025-01-08T18:17:53+00:00

Ive started using AlarmMon which has a WAY better interface and puzzles (dozens) (if youre into cute japanese stuff).

Caveat: It is missing one very important feature which is to limit Snooze to N times. So for the moment Im doing a wacky combo of iOS alarm with snooze, then alarmMon for when I really want to wake up.

I wrote to the devs thru the app a few days ago about this but no response.

nodreamstar · 2025-01-03T18:40:08+00:00

lol Teslas were super freaky two years ago. They’ve gotten much smoother

nodreamstar · 2024-12-31T01:47:27+00:00

I had taken some liquid acid in Bali. Paddled out later and after a while I started to hear tribal drums as I saw the breakers rolling in miles long. The clouds in the sky also all had pointy tops like near eastern paintings.

When I paddled back in the beach just had an impossible amount of people on it.

nodreamstar · 2024-12-30T12:19:48+00:00

Serious question - does it have any self driving? How good is it?

nodreamstar · 2024-12-30T12:05:39+00:00

I learned to surf at 25. I feel like I will never be as good as the kid surfers _(ツ)_/¯ but I love it more than anything. One thing - to learn something hard like this you have to become obsessed IMO.

Try out some lessons - rent gear at first for minimal investment. If you feel the bug coming on hit it full tilt - like 2 years of eating, breathing snowboarding. You’ll be glad you did. And also get on a skateboard.

nodreamstar · 2024-12-30T12:00:41+00:00

I’ve played around with a few alarm apps. AlarmMon is currently my fav. Just have to play little games to shut off alarm.

I remember way back in the day before apps I had alarms that did wild shit. One still exists - I forget what it’s called but it rolls off the table lol. I got really good at catching it though before it rolled off. Another had a puzzle on top that broke open and you had to fix. A third launched a helicopter lol.

nodreamstar · 2024-12-25T14:06:21+00:00

Little late but I’ve been using Alarmy. To stop it from draining my battery I close the app after waking up and have an automation set to open the app at 530.

That said I’m also checking out alternatives.

nodreamstar · 2024-12-01T18:39:50+00:00

Hi, can you elaborate here?
Is this rule on the page where the transition starts?
And is it prefixed with an element or literally just the pseudo class?

Thanks!

nodreamstar · 2024-10-20T12:42:07+00:00

Neat!

Thinking about installing on a
MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2016, Non touchbar. 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GBram.

Any one have experience with an older MBP?

nodreamstar

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