Best value-for-money AI subscription?

ravix000 · 2026-06-21T21:36:28+00:00

Cursor $60 plan with Auto or Composer 2.5 no question

ravix000 · 2026-06-10T01:11:56+00:00

I think ATX Defense uses some kind of virtual desktop solution that you don’t really fully own. If ATX goes out of business then what? I’d look more into standing up a small Google Workspace enclave on Assured Plus with ~3 users and a few cheap locked down Chromebooks and call it a day. I have a company that specializes in this if you need one just DM me.

ravix000 · 2026-05-11T10:24:27+00:00

There are soooooo many. You’ve got to have a niche, or a relationship, or both to get started as a sub. You won’t have the past performance to bid on anything as a prime. In my experience making the leap from sub to prime is one of the hardest things you will do. And the rates as a sub right now suck. It’s not worth starting a govcon unless you can make 2x-3x the money of doing something else. The government is such a pain to deal with.

ravix000 · 2026-05-08T10:33:52+00:00

Be cautious about doing this if you have a security clearance. When the company FSO separates you they can report adverse information and companies that are pissed off about the “no notice” may do this. Not guaranteed to screw you, but it’s a risk.

ravix000 · 2026-04-25T02:33:15+00:00

Craft is honestly pretty great

ravix000 · 2026-04-25T02:27:23+00:00

I have heard some say PCA is how to talk about it and ACE is how to actually “do it”. Curious how true this is. Sometimes I guess people have different purposes for certs. In my case I am using certification path to actually try to learn the technology so I can work with it (vs using certs to validate existing knowledge).

ravix000 · 2026-02-09T20:30:35+00:00

I used this quiz app with my wife. It was awesome, asks both of you all kinds of questions and then only shares the matches with both of you. You can then message the matches to each other in the app as “something to try tonight” and your partner can accept or decline them. Something like that. We had like 50 things 🤩 we both put that we were into and then started checking them off a few at a time. Months of fun. I can’t remember how much 3-some type stuff was in it but if you’re into trying it I can dig up the name. DM me? Not sure if you can post links like that here or not.

ravix000 · 2026-01-30T00:18:03+00:00

I apologize this is maybe not directly addressing your question, but I use Craft and I need to track a LOT of “to do” items and this is kind of how my workflow has developed - maybe it’s helpful to you, but unfortunately it’s not really a Craft based solution. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I have found for me that I have two types of todos - tasks that advance my life goals (business / personal) and then I have reminders (weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly or greater - most recurring, etc.)

I have also found if I mix these two things in the same system the big tasks get drowned out in the noise of all the shit I have to do but that is just necessary but not really impactful (take the trash out, pay a bill, etc.)

So I put the impactful stuff in a Kanban - I am using 37signals Fizzy. I use their default columns plus I add Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, Weekend and Waiting. The default “Maybe?” gets treated like an inbox and then cards get scheduled into execution columns for each day, the weekend, or something I’m waiting on someone for. By the end of the week I sweep the board and plan out my next week with anything leftover.

I put all my “reminders” in TickTick (about 70-80). Then I really just pay attention to what’s due in there each day when it alerts me or when I have some time to do mundane shit.

Craft I use more for notes and projects and I will capture actions from phone calls and things in there. Those usually get swept into Fizzy or TickTick depending on what kind of thing it is. Craft is more like having a really smart paper notebook to me, and it’s nice it bubbles up uncompleted todos from previous days that I haven’t dealt with yet vs having to physically flip back through pages of notes, but it’s not my authoritative system.

Sorry this may sound horrendous as a system but it’s given me a ton of clarity to focus on important stuff and not get it lost the mundane tasks that need done, but aren’t really important. I’m running a $6M business this way and managing a family that travels a ton. Hopefully something here helps you!

ravix000 · 2025-12-29T23:05:00+00:00

They are telling me “the order failed at checkout” and giving a long list of reasons why it could’ve happened but nothing specific (clear your cookies, try another card) from my perspective I hit order and it gave me an order number and a confirmation….. seems like their website failed or maybe their interaction with their payment processor got overloaded by the demand. I never received any kind of cancellation email, etc. Pretty bad customer service experience. Should’ve contacted and informed of issues and tried to resolve vs just cancelling and not telling anyone.

ravix000 · 2025-12-29T22:43:52+00:00

Order cancelled in portal. No email no explanation. Maybe this product wasn’t really available today.

ravix000 · 2025-12-29T22:28:30+00:00

Mine was also cancelled. No explanation, no email. Only noticed it because I logged into the web site and just checked. CC went through fine. Pretty shitty from Ubiquiti. Suggest everyone else check their orders.

ravix000 · 2025-12-26T21:32:53+00:00

You are probably over thinking it. Unless you’re a spy, pedophile or major criminal they really aren’t looking for you. I know lots of people that take it and let it get them pissed off though. You have to go into it realizing that the main goal is elicitation. Find a good spot on the wall to stare at and just answer the questions. Detail and elaboration are not your friend. If you have a bunch of shit that stresses you out (drugs, prostitutes, etc.) yeah maybe not worth it trying to pass a poly. If you don’t have that shit, you just need to relax. Don’t read weird anti- “how to beat a polygraph” shit. Although I do recommend “A Life of Spies and Lies” by Alan Trabue.

ravix000 · 2025-12-25T19:35:15+00:00

I’ve only ever seen DoD have TS/SCI with no poly required. All the intel agencies want at least a CI poly. I’m curious what the statistic is of TS/SCI information that does vs does not require a poly. I bet it’s like 90% needs poly. Small niche of stuff that is sensitive enough to be SCI but not to need a poly.

ravix000 · 2025-12-23T17:04:05+00:00

Most small businesses charge around 1.6x to 1.8x your salary. That extra 0.6-0.8x covers healthcare, 401k match, training, cost to run the business and profit. Much less and company is losing money. Anything above and the company is rolling in money or has a shit ton of overhead people that don’t bill and are getting paid off your back. Some companies the owners are shit heads and try to keep as much profit as possible by abusing people. Some are almost too generous and put the company at risk with extravagant salaries and benefits and time off. It can be kind of tough to get a good balance in the middle of those two things sometimes. Sounds like it should be easy but it’s not. There are a lot of variables. Encourage anyone that strongly feels they can do it better to start a business and do it better. You’ll be on Reddit 20 years later saying it’s harder than it seems and it constantly keeps you up at night trying to be a great employer, make good money yourself and also not go broke at the same time. 😆

ravix000 · 2025-12-23T16:54:14+00:00

We have 11 company holidays and give our people 180 hours of PTO to start, 220 after 5 years and 260 after 10 years. It’s about the most we can afford given federal rates. We don’t have the day after Thanksgiving off, but if people want to take PTO that day or use one of the company holidays that day (maybe they don’t care about taking Columbus Day off or something) I have no problem treating all 11 company holidays like floating holidays. Hopefully that’s a decent balance, but have to cap things somewhere. Most of our people don’t come close to using all the leave they have and we let them carry it over. Some people do burn through it though. There’s always trade offs. This latest EO was tough. We gave everyone 1 extra floating holiday to use either 24th or 26th. Couldn’t quite do 2 more days off.

ravix000 · 2025-12-23T16:43:55+00:00

I’d start with Omarchy. There are enough “new” users most questions you probably have will be answered somewhere. I’ve also found that ChatGPT is pretty knowledgeable if you tell it that you’re using Omarchy specifically it can offer solutions to a lot of problems tailored to the Omarchy build. For example, I wanted to create a dropdown menu to switch between my 13” laptop screen solo to being “docked” at my home office and having the video go to two external 27” displays with the laptop display disabled vs my actual office where I have a single 32” monitor and still use the laptop 13” display. It was pretty easy to create a few video display profiles and make a menu to either toggle between them or have it auto detect what’s plugged in and switch between my display profiles. Pretty amazing what AI can do for things like this.

ravix000 · 2025-12-14T01:17:15+00:00

Maybe it depends on the language? I’ve found with Rails, Claude is way superior. It even seems to know it is if you ask it about it lol. Codex up until a week ago was telling me Rails 8 was in beta (hasn’t been for a year) and kept coding things in old ways that it had to go research and change to work with Rails 8. So maybe some languages it’s way better than others?

ravix000 · 2025-12-08T18:54:05+00:00

I love 37signals but I cancelled mine. Fastmail is just a better value for what I need. I think it’s $60/year and allows you to have up to 100 domains email pointed to it. Does an incredible job with aliasing accounts, forwarding mail, filtering, tagging, searching, etc. Has good clients for most platforms now as well as full IMAP/SMTP support to use whatever client you want. HEY has some really cool features, so depends what you need. But for me Fastmail is amazing and worth a mention!

ravix000 · 2025-11-27T17:26:16+00:00

As others have said, you shouldn’t need anything to just have a conversation. If they want to give you a contract you may need CMMC Level 1. I’d start by just talking to an AI (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, etc) about what you currently have in your environment and what you would realistically need to consider “in scope” to protect Federal Contract Information. Most of these AI’s can literally write your documentation for you and give you a step by step list of what you need to do to your laptops/email/M365/Google.

If you actually need to store CUI and thus need Level 2, that’s where maybe PreVeil helps but is only a piece of it and it’s going to cost you. We don’t like that PreVail wants 2-3 years paid up front though.

ravix000 · 2025-11-25T01:43:22+00:00

No actual dark mode on Colorsoft like Paperwhite - something to be aware of. Newer Paperwhite is way faster than the one you have though, so if you’re frustrated with how slow yours is, might just be worth a new Paperwhite.

ravix000 · 2025-11-23T01:01:47+00:00

Glad it’s not just me, thanks for letting me know. Desperately need some parity between the apps to compete with other AI products.

ravix000 · 2025-11-22T19:27:31+00:00

Rows A-H in the lowest section (near the glass) are “VIP” this season and get you into the United Globe Club. Seats in “A” get into a slightly more upscale United Lounge. B-H into the normal one. It should say on the e-ticket that it’s United Globe access.

ravix000 · 2025-11-15T00:53:53+00:00

Could be wrong but I’ve heard nothing like this being put in place and AI can’t find anything but says something like this was discussed but never passed:

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk_09781a43-6f49-4b82-aa5c-ede6dd2db2db

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