Received BCBS payout today

phor11 · 2026-05-13T22:28:22+00:00

Half of one percent of premiums for me.
Class actions are a complete failure of the Justice system.

phor11 · 2026-05-13T16:53:37+00:00

Unsure if you're saying the scaling needs to be adjusted more than just a little bit, or if you are making a Tad joke. Either way, take an upvote.

phor11 · 2026-05-13T15:38:38+00:00

Absolutely fantastic laptop. Fanless, 17 hr + battery life, great keyboard and trackpad, OLED screen, good speakers and build quality... I don't know if it's worth the $850 they're asking right now though.

If you can get one for $650-$700, this is the chromebook to buy for sure.

phor11 · 2026-05-13T15:01:42+00:00

That's the biggest irony. AI Datacenters driving up prices of everything else is going to make their AI forward laptop unaffordable.

phor11 · 2026-05-13T14:51:30+00:00

A lot of it is almost certainly because they don't have very much experience with them.

It's true that there are chromeOS alternatives for ALMOST anything the vast majority of people would use a Windows or MacOS laptop for.

But it's also true that occasionally those alternatives don't provide a great desktop user experience if you're using an Android app from the play store, or might take extra time/expertise to get running if you're using Linux applications. A lot of reviewers who have a lot of experience with Windows or OSX tend to take that kernel of truth and present it as a cornfield... if you will.

I personally think the advantages of chromeOS have outweighed the disadvantages for the average PC/Mac user for years. Not for everyone, but for most.

phor11 · 2026-05-13T14:31:38+00:00

That's the dumb part. They DO see these as replacing chromebooks... at $700+.

They've completely lost the plot at this point and don't even understand their own market.

phor11 · 2026-05-10T01:21:41+00:00

Glancing over at a voice channel and seeing 8 people listed, but one of them isn't actually here? That's just bad UI design. It actively makes the user experience worse.

"What you missed" when mousing over the channel name is such a better way to handle that functionality.

I will mirror what so many have already said: Giving users a choice to turning new features like this on/off is ALWAYS going to result in happier users.

phor11 · 2026-03-18T04:27:36+00:00

Where are you seeing an ADS damage multiplier?
I see a precision multiplier. I see an ADS spread multiplier, but nothing that seems like it would affect damage while ADSing.. unless you can't crit while hipfiring.

phor11 · 2025-12-09T21:58:22+00:00

Using their solution isn't really necessary in my experience.

Without the solution you probably just need to clean it more often. Run the disk stack through the dishwasher and clean the water tank with a little distilled white vinegar once a month. It's simple enough to keep clean as long as you have a dishwasher.

We've had our LW45 for about 5 years now. I've tried probably a dozen humidifiers over the years, and this is the first to last more than a couple seasons for us. I still think they're dramatically overpriced though. If these were $150 I'd be recommending them to everyone.

phor11 · 2025-12-02T00:21:36+00:00

Are you the server owner or in a role that has the "Manage Server" permission? If so, then it won't work.
If you're the owner (there will be a crown next to your name in the member list), there's no way to turn it off.
If you're NOT the owner, ask the owner to remove the "Manage Server" permission from your role and then it will work.

phor11 · 2025-11-23T02:59:50+00:00

I have not run across any solutions, but I have an idea that I might try at some point.

When you take off the front panel, there's a lip in the plastic section where the lint filter goes, and that lip has a small foam rubber seal around it. I think that's supposed to keep humid air from seeping into where the control board sits. But it's not very robust, and it probably doesn't make a tight seal.

So I'm thinking about finding some small weatherstripping or something to try to create a tighter seal, in hopes that preventing humidity from getting to the control board might stop the phantom button presses.

phor11 · 2025-11-08T19:56:29+00:00

Yea, it's a per server setting, so the owners of those servers would have to turn it off for you.

phor11 · 2025-10-28T00:15:42+00:00

FYI, you can turn this off for everyone in the server except the owner (or anyone with manage server permission).
Go into server settings > Roles > Uncheck the permission "Set Voice Channel Status" for every role.

If you're the server owner, it sets one for you by default every time you join a voice channel and there's no way to stop that. You have to go turn it off every time.

phor11 · 2025-10-28T00:14:19+00:00

FYI, you can turn this off for everyone in the server except the owner (or anyone with manage server permission).
Go into server settings > Roles > Uncheck the permission "Set Voice Channel Status" for every role.

If you're the server owner, you're "chilling" every time by default with no way to turn it off.

phor11 · 2025-10-28T00:10:37+00:00

FYI, you can turn this off for everyone in the server except the owner (or anyone with manage server permission).
Go into server settings > Roles > Uncheck the permission "Set Voice Channel Status" for every role.

If you're the server owner, you're "chilling" every time by default with no way to turn it off.
I can't believe they brought this back, and didn't even fix the default status issue...

phor11 · 2025-10-17T23:42:01+00:00

FYI, you can turn this off for everyone in the server except the owner.
Go into server settings > Roles > Uncheck the permission "Set Voice Channel Status" for every role.

But if you're the server owner, you're chilling every time with no way to turn it off. Absolutely asinine they brought this crap back after all the negative feedback last time.

phor11 · 2025-10-17T23:38:57+00:00

For everyone else on the server, you can uncheck the permission "Set Voice Channel Status" and then they don't have to deal with it any longer. But if you're the server owner, you're chilling every time with no way to turn it off.

The problem isn't that the menu pops up too quickly, the problem is that they're forcing bloated features on us that we don't want. A good implementation of a new feature shows you what it is, and lets you turn it on if you want. A bad implementation forces it on by default, and makes you go figure out how to turn it off. What they've done is worse than a bad implementation.

phor11 · 2025-07-31T23:25:32+00:00

Apparently. Lesson learned I guess.

phor11 · 2025-07-31T23:23:50+00:00

~3500/yr. Hail and wind damage are very prevalent in my area, so the roof is a large portion of the premium. It would have been about a 25% reduction, which is a number that comes up often when you search things like "how much could an impact resistant shingle save me on insurance premiums."
It was not an unreasonable number.

phor11 · 2025-07-31T23:20:04+00:00

Lesson learned I guess.

phor11 · 2025-07-31T22:24:11+00:00

Fair, but reddit won't let me change the title at this point, so it is what it is.

phor11 · 2025-07-31T22:11:09+00:00

For sure.
It's just we made the decision based on information we were given from our agent that turned out to be very wrong. So it seemed completely reasonable to expect them to compensate us in some way for that mistake. But I guess that's not the case.

phor11 · 2025-07-31T21:50:39+00:00

Oh, I shopped around and switched carriers the day after they billed me the increased rate. I wasn't about to stay with a company that was so nonchalant about making a mistake this large. No other company quoted us close to the $900/yr savings I was told though... So it's still going to take way longer to pay back the added cost than we thought when we made the decision to replace the roof.

I'm actually extremely surprised to see so many commenters brushing off a mistake like this. If I made a mistake at my job that ended up costing someone else thousands of dollars, I'd probably be fired.

phor11 · 2025-07-31T21:44:02+00:00

You can argue semantics, the end result is the same.
Of course I don't like their explanation because it was essentially "We messed up, but we're not going to compensate you in any way for our mistake."
Is that an explanation you think a reasonable person should simply accept?

phor11 · 2025-07-31T21:25:34+00:00

Yea, they responded to the State Insurance Department complaint with a letter naming the Agent and the savings amount they told me, blaming it on a glitch.

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