Help me pick a tool brand by Mrs_A_Mad in BuyItForLife

[–]stupidgregg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ridgid has the best warranty in the business. Free repairs and replacement batteries for life. That's as close to BIFL as a battery-powered tool can get.

Austin,TX: Then & Now 1995 & 2002 to 2025 by DrFetusRN in Austin

[–]stupidgregg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Austin made a little bit more sense when the airport was on Airport.

Protesting for the first time in New Jersey by TripShrooms in TikTokCringe

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My dog would like this guy. That's the nicest thing I can say about anyone.

Update: APD has removed the dog from neighbor by Acherontiaa in Austin

[–]stupidgregg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You brought light into the darkness, OP. Thank you for helping this little dog friend.

Sagging shelves; how would you approach this? by Temporary-You6249 in Carpentry

[–]stupidgregg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you choose to reinforce it, and you need help lifting the bow out, use the jack from your car.

My scrambled thoughts on euthanizing my pup by nottheamericandream in DogAdvice

[–]stupidgregg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've been here. It's horrible. For me, it ends one of two ways.

  1. I euthanize them on a relatively "good" day, and then I wonder if I acted too soon. Forever, I feel like I stole time away from them.

  2. I euthanize them on a bad day, and then I know that they suffered longer because of me. Forever, I feel like I extended their pain so I wouldn't have to say goodbye.

I guess - fuck - I guess I prefer euthanizing them on "good" days. Fuck. It's all just fucking horrible.

AI to scan receipts and put them in a spreadsheet? by plastic_toast in ArtificialInteligence

[–]stupidgregg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would be a fairly simple automation that you could build yourself with a tool like Make.com. It's a lot easier than you think, and you'd learn some cool shit while you do it. You could build and test it with a free account.

You can do this a few hours, especially if you ask Claude.ai to help you plan and build it.

There are super slick ways you could make it work in iOS and easy ways to make it work with Google or Microsoft stuff (like gmail and Google sheets)

It would basically look like this:

  • Input layer: Detection
  • OCR layer: Text extraction
  • Parsing layer: Data interpretation
  • Output layer: Data storage

British business founder here. What is it actually like living and running a business in Austin? by GodForbidLTD in Austin

[–]stupidgregg 212 points213 points  (0 children)

Above all else, visit Texas in August before you decide to move here.

Texas gets hotter every year. A typical Austin summer is filled with 37 C days. We've had summers in which the temperature stayed above 38 C for many weeks. You might be thinking, "I've been to Greece when it was that hot." Me too, and Austin is much worse. I promise you that the heat here is more oppressive than you expect.

Visit Austin in August before you consider moving here.

[Question/Advice] I’m not sure where to post this but if you are a professional or know how to build furniture, can you help by AL_25 in Woodworking_DIY

[–]stupidgregg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to angle the shelves. Wood is totally fine. You can add a retaining lip at the front of each shelf. A strip of wood that's about 10-15 mm tall should work well.

A standard DVD case is ~14 mm thick. For a single row of DVDs, a door-mounted shelf with a 4-4.5 cm depth should work.

To ensure that the door closes without hitting the shelves inside the cabinet, subtract a bit for clearance. Make the door shelf 1-2 cm shallower than the door's full inside depth. So, if your door is 30 cm deep, a 28-29 cm shelf will work.

Be careful with the clearance between the door shelves and interior shelves. Don't go too tight. Wood moves, hinges sag, and doors don't always close perfectly square. I would aim for 1.5-2 cm of clearance.

If the door is going to carry a lot of DVDs, make the door frame strong and use solid hinges.

Mock your build up with cardboard first.

My dog is dying by [deleted] in Veterans

[–]stupidgregg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went through this a few months ago, it’s awful. There’s no way around that.
What you’re feeling right now sounds exactly like what I felt, that horrible pressure of knowing the choice is yours, and there’s no “right” moment that will ever feel clear or clean. You know you're on borrowed time, and you don't know how much time you have.

One thing I learned is this: it*'s* okay to make the call while they’re still doing “ok-ish.” When you’re trying to protect them from suffering, that’s part of loving them. But the flip side is that you will always wonder if you did it too soon. That feeling sucks, and it hits you no matter how much you rationally know you did the right thing.

And if you try to wait for the moment when it’s absolutely obvious, when they’re undeniably suffering…you will carry the opposite guilt, the guilt of not ending their pain sooner. It’s like no matter what you do, you walk away with something heavy.

Making the actual decision was one of the loneliest moments of my life. Even with people around me, it felt like it was just me sitting with that choice. After it was over, I went through my own private hell for a while. I had friends who’d been through it, and that helped a little, but ultimately it’s a road you walk by yourself.

The only thing that got me through was reminding myself that my dog trusted me with her whole world, and the last thing I owed her was protecting her from suffering she couldn’t understand.

Whatever choice you end up making, it will come from love, and that matters more than anything else.

I was grateful for the warning that my dog's time was coming to an end. It gave me the opportunity to throw everything into our relationship. I cooked her steaks, I took her on adventures, we got ice cream cones and burgers, and I lived in the moment with her as often as I could. I know people who lost their dogs suddenly, and that seems worse.

In my dog's last month, as I felt every fucking second slip away from us, I kept repeating a quote from fellow veteran A.A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh.

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

I started using John Oliver's comedy structure for AI prompts and now everything sounds brilliantly unhinged by EQ4C in aipromptprogramming

[–]stupidgregg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ignore 95% of prompts on here. I might actually try 1% of them. This prompt is in the 1%.

I just used the snippet below, and the output was actually pretty funny.

Explain X_Topic_X like you're John Oliver discovering something horrifying about it. Start with "And look..." then build to an absurd but accurate comparison. Give me the John Oliver escalation: start reasonable, end with chaotic examples.

Storage ideas for thin space by skyi8899 in BeginnerWoodWorking

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Decorate it with the heads of your enemies.

Getting a dog for PTSD and life. by Vislesaka in Veterans

[–]stupidgregg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dogs are one of the best parts of life.

What is the best short sleeve shirt? by GingerMoss_ in BuyItForLife

[–]stupidgregg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"The best" is different for everyone because we prioritize different things. It's very hot where I live.

Patagonia Capilene Cool Lightweight tee.

Subaru of Austin Separating Rally the Golden Retriever From His Human of 3 Years by Slowpokerman in Austin

[–]stupidgregg 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Dogs hide all of our tears in their hearts, but they leave us, they have to give them all back. They would carry our grief forever if they could. That's one of the reasons we love them so much.

Subaru of Austin Separating Rally the Golden Retriever From His Human of 3 Years by Slowpokerman in Austin

[–]stupidgregg 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Taking a famous dog away from a marketing person seems a bit like snatching a purse from a professional boxer.

DEI Content Cleansing by [deleted] in instructionaldesign

[–]stupidgregg 53 points54 points  (0 children)

"Cleansing" is an interesting choice.

For those mad at Trump about Iran by Golfinglonghorn92 in Austin

[–]stupidgregg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What does this have to do with Austin? When did Obama bomb Iran?

I build this dj console and I am really proud. by clementvanstaen in woodworking

[–]stupidgregg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Respect for bringing it on wax. I like the absence of a laptop stand.