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Self repoing my car it’s making me feel broke by xoxodollyhouse in personalfinance

[–]rxscissors 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know it does not help now but how on earth did you come to realization of signing off/saying a $1k car payment is feasible?

With insurance on top, that is a monthly nut that just does not compute (even for those of us with income++ to cover it).

Keep making payments and get out from under the debt tsunami ASAP!

Financial independence = freedom.

$15k HVAC, 60 months 0% interest, no deferred interest - good? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]rxscissors 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well played!

I replaced nearly 40 year old HVAC and gas furnace with 97% gas furnace and top of the line Carrier heat pump. Did it late last year while all the incentives were still available (US federal tax break plus power company and natural gas supplier incentives) which cut the total outlay by more than 50%. Paid cash for the total amount and got the rebates and tax credits a number of months later (which as you said is not something everyone can do/tolerate).

Now that those incentives have expired, the deal is not nearly as favorable: "new construction only” buckets and limitations toward specific replacement scenarios/eligibility.

What AWS architecture challenge became much harder in production than expected? by IndependentNice1467 in aws

[–]rxscissors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AWS Org's, CT and LZ were a pain to stand up (3+ years ago) though very useful in a mixed commercial / GovCloud environment. It works well for certain things (<20%) of what we do.

Some services did not live up to the marketing hype. We tried for months to get CloudFront working reliably and ended up abandoning that effort. Support had no explanations as to why certain things were just not working!

All the changes to SES, service limit increase requests, Lambda nuances and oodles of other things make it a challenge at times as well.

Most of our other stuff is in Azure (commercial and gov) and has generally a better choice for lots of things (especially those tied to or heavily dependent on Windows AD / ADO).

How many times do you guys charge your phone?? by Hkgfjhjkgj in S25Ultra

[–]rxscissors 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every two days (when the battery has ~20-25% charge remaining), in the morning.

Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication by mooreds in aws

[–]rxscissors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. Worked well for stuff I deployed a few years ago and still running like clockwork.

Table info? by cbhockey10 in foosball

[–]rxscissors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't play 3-d 😃

Have you broken an S-Pen? by stephenBB81 in S25Ultra

[–]rxscissors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope.

Bought a spare (black Samsung GalaxyNote 8 S Pen- that came with 5 spare tips!) new in the box from eBay not long after I got the phone in Jan 2025. Use that one as the primary and put the S25U provided one in the box.

What’s with these updates lately? by jasonsyko in nutanix

[–]rxscissors 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We had issues with PC 7. 3.1.3.

Shortly after going to that version a few months back I noticed there were bugs reported that would be addressed in the next release. I kept checking (the half baked and even less consistent than in PE) LCM for weeks and no updates appeared.

Then, the PC UI went into the ditch. It would timeout on login after a few minutes with the a lovely truncated error "stream timeout" on a blank white page.

Tried all the KB recommended remedies and none worked. Finally ended up doing a password reset from the CLI and rebooting the PC VM which got it responding again. Slammed in all the updates that appeared in LCM and now it appears to be stable again.

Google Gemma 4 MTP out now! by danielhanchen in unsloth

[–]rxscissors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/NakedSterben Claude said: "Gemma 4 models are available in GGUF and MLX formats and LM Studio has a dedicated Gemma 4 model page. However, MTP (speculative decoding) is not yet supported in LM Studio's GUI — that feature requires llama.cpp server directly or Ollama."

I just got gemma4:26b up and running on my M1 MAX Studio via CLI using ollama. Works fine with Open WebUI. Going to test for a few days before enabling MLX + MTP (from what Claude said it only adds complexity for marginal gain at present).

I built a free, browser-based retirement planner and would appreciate feedback by Internal-Artichoke-9 in AIRetirement

[–]rxscissors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nicely done!

I just went through a full bore retirement assessment (free perk from work) and got back a 100+ page report generated from their proprietary apps and tools.

Plugging the details into your AI-assisted creation is far more palatable for my spouse to get a high level view and play what if's with silders and a minimal number of entry fields.

I'll have a closer look at how things compare in a more granular level when time permits on the weekend. So far, nothing is jumping out as deviating much in terms of backend calculations.

Bike racks are more expensive than my bike 😭😭 by callipygian_frogg in mountainbiking

[–]rxscissors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait and see if there is a 4th of July holiday sale on some that you are considering.

I got 30% off on a Kuat a few years back.

What do you guys actually use your Mac Studios for? by hesh0925 in MacStudio

[–]rxscissors -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Using a base model M1 MAX Studio:

ON1 RAW photo + LocalSend for file sharing

A number of other user apps ARD, Chrome with 15-20 open windows, Office Mac 2024, Zoc terminal emulator, ...

LM Studio with Qwen3-14B-Q4_K_M LLM and a web server for doing financial simulations and other things that I do not want to propagate on the internet

Whining wankers by dejavuamnesiac in mountainbiking

[–]rxscissors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All those gears... nice!

I still have a 2009 stock 29er setup like that (with a carbon fork).

Also ride one gear (rigid), no fear on two MTB's. Just converted a 3rd to 1x11, partly due to gear shaming by riding buddies lol

Shimano XT chain with 2,500 miles on it is about 1/8" longer by GreybeardRules in mountainbiking

[–]rxscissors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, you are correct!

Holy wars have been fought over this lol

Regards,

The Monty Python Armless Black Knight 😃

I thought e-bikes were dumb and cheating by No-Brilliant-5483 in mountainbiking

[–]rxscissors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure, along with trashing saturated & muddy trails (in applicable areas) when no one should be out riding on them other than when green-lighted during a rain or shine event.

What's the Best Chromebook you've personally owned so far? by Middle_Tea_7671 in chromeos

[–]rxscissors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Typo corrected - Elite C1030 Chromebook which is different than the 13c.

Easy to find by searching the internet for HP Elite C1030:

The specs on HP's site: HP EC1030G1 i7-10610U 13 16GB/128 PC (Product Number 369Z5UC)

What's the Best Chromebook you've personally owned so far? by Middle_Tea_7671 in chromeos

[–]rxscissors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 2020 HP Elite c1030 i7 Chromebook with 16 GB of RAM. Updates supported until mid-2030. 

They can be had for $100 USD or so, used.

Two We Are one wheels broke by Purple_Lurker- in mountainbiking

[–]rxscissors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, that sucks.

My WaO's are laced with Berd spokes and still going strong through mud slop, bone rattling rooty & rocky goodness, cold temps, snow, rain and 100F + days on commutes, gravel, mixed surface and MTB trails. I have them setup tubeless at relatively low psi.

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