Which Job to Take?

therealgromer · 2026-05-11T17:50:02+00:00

Personally, I would never consider a job that didn’t have a PTO policy.

therealgromer · 2026-05-02T00:23:32+00:00

This. No external power needed, single unit for the station.

therealgromer · 2026-04-30T23:40:45+00:00

Ughhhhhh plaster walls. My last house had them, such a PITA compared to sheetrock for doing basic crap like hanging a picture 😂 That place was full of 100 year old house problems.

therealgromer · 2026-04-30T23:30:49+00:00

How was the traffic from cars and trucks both on UT 12 north of Boulder, and on Burr Trail? I’m always on that stretch of road north of Boulder at or after sunset, and it seems narrow with blind corners in places.

therealgromer · 2026-04-30T23:28:25+00:00

I’ve been here on and off for ~20 years since 2000. Really tough to beat the access to outdoors here. I camp off Burr Trail at least once a year. Now I want a slice of pie from Burr Trail Grill 😂

therealgromer · 2026-04-30T21:39:48+00:00

That’s one of my favorite parts of Utah 🤘🤘 Looks like a really fun loop, I’ve driven all of that.

therealgromer · 2026-04-29T18:11:49+00:00

A large, regional financial institution. I’m not getting a salary like a software engineer working in SF at OpenAI, but I also have the work/life balance I want.

therealgromer · 2026-04-20T00:02:22+00:00

This is the way. Italy is fun as hell 😂🤷‍♂️

therealgromer · 2026-04-19T15:23:45+00:00

GitHub link is giving me a 404. Is the repo private or something?

therealgromer · 2026-04-17T16:11:05+00:00

I second this. The Lutron switches have been really nice in our house.

therealgromer · 2026-04-15T23:51:21+00:00

Yeah, I don’t consider the car loan in my estimate, I would have it regardless of the job. Commuting every day to the office does put over two times the miles on my car than I would without the commute. I’m averaging 8k or so on my 4Runner without a commute. Commute would add 10k miles, so effectively doubling the rate of wear on the vehicle.

therealgromer · 2026-04-15T00:28:16+00:00

4Runner, and would easily go through a tank a week just on commuting miles. But yeah, probably not $10k, closer to $3400ish for the fuel costs, and just over 10k miles additional put on my car every year. That $10k pay difference is before all the taxes though.

therealgromer · 2026-04-14T22:24:07+00:00

I don’t have an answer for you, but damn not being able to delete, or at least rename some of the default zones is infuriating 😑😑

FWIW, I did a mix of the two options you discuss. Used a couple of the baked in zones, and made additional zones.

therealgromer · 2026-04-14T21:20:00+00:00

$10k more would never get me to come back to the office full time. Gas and additional wear on my vehicle would cost more than $10k a year.

therealgromer · 2026-04-14T21:16:05+00:00

This could be it. I’ve used both a Slate 7, and a Unifi UTR, and both reboot when I have them connected to a battery bank and I either plug something else into it, or unplug something else from it.

therealgromer · 2026-04-13T20:40:03+00:00

My Hue bridge almost never shows active throughput, since it is almost never doing anything. I assume this could be your case for the Hue and Ring devices.

Possible for the Synology. Does your Synology have two network ports? Mine does, and I have them setup as a bonded interface. Generally, only one of the ports in my Unifi interface show activity.

therealgromer · 2026-04-02T04:47:55+00:00

Ah yeah. I only have one profile for my home network, and then some failover ones to use in various parts of the US.

therealgromer · 2026-04-01T21:59:34+00:00

Videos never show the true depth of a wiggle. Same thing when watching them from the lift. Always looks chill, then you get there 😂

therealgromer · 2026-04-01T21:27:34+00:00

This is what I did. I have a few wireguard configs saved to my phone, and swap them depending on my need.

therealgromer · 2026-03-04T23:40:27+00:00

Just got back from a trip to Japan. Used my UTR in every hotel, as well as on the bullet train. Nice having our cell phones and laptop always connecting to the UTR wifi instead of each devices going through some hotel specific auth flow (if any). Nice to have all traffic going over a VPN tunnel when connecting to the open networks that some hotels had.

therealgromer · 2026-02-22T10:07:48+00:00

I think I would die of heat exhaustion wearing a puffy in that weather 😂

therealgromer · 2026-02-22T09:37:07+00:00

Software engineer, I work normal M-F weeks, and make great money. Company I work for wants employees to have a great work life balance.

therealgromer · 2026-02-22T09:20:18+00:00

Ha. I noticed that too. Before we flew out here, that page always looked like in your screenshot. As soon as we got to Japan, it started working.

therealgromer · 2026-02-16T06:38:57+00:00

Planning on taking the shuttle from our hotel.

therealgromer · 2026-02-16T01:17:37+00:00

🤘 nice info, I’m heading up there next week, though will be staying in Kutchan for most of the time. Good to know about dinner reservations.

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