I hate to say it, but I almost appreciate the honesty that comes from multiple different alphabet soup brands selling the exact same item often with the exact same photos. Additionally, unbranded items aren’t always poor quality.

I’ve actually got some unbranded Christmas light strings I bought because I just wanted to put some lights on some columns at my wedding and wanted to spend less than $100 doing so, and those light strings have outlasted every commercial Christmas light string I’ve purchased. Heck I have a couple of those strings which have been on for 3+ years straight.

Most unbranded items are made by factories that do OEM and ODM work for actual brands that we’ve all heard of, so they know how to make quality products and they can get more ongoing orders if they make products that are worth restocking. Sometimes you get burned but far more often than not I end up with something that’s relatively decent quality and fullfills the need I have for the item

I do genuinely wonder if some amount of vaccine skepticism comes from a place of just not wanting to get a shot.

Would a safety deposit box at a bank be an appropriate option for your off-site backups?

So I recently looked at both Girlscouts and Scouts of America for my daughter. Honestly when I tried to compare with Scouts of America the folks from Girlscouts were very sexist and very quick to bash on their competition while Scouts of America was just like “yeah were gonna go hiking and make pinewood derby cars and have a good time” both organizations have their problems but Scouts of America was noticably the less toxic of the two at this point

Nebula is cool because every creator on the platform becomes part owner, so it really gives creators on the platform good control of their content. I just wish that there was a way to federate video content between paid platforms so you can have one pane of glass to view stuff scattered across the web

Rising tide raises all ships!

Something something the cloud is not a backup

Once you have stuff running on an old computer you’ll get to know what you actually need and can spend your money more intelligently. If you do buy anything, buy an ~8 year old corporate desktop. They’re cheap as chips because they’re close to ewaste, but 4/6th Gen Intel systems have enough performance to really do a ton with in the homelab scene

I was going to reference Valentine as well with the hats. Trump gives some serious Velntine vibes asthetically

I mean it does reduce the value of the content that users created on reddit if a ton of random comments were deleted in protest. Every time you hit a thread like the OOP it reduces reddit 's value to the individual, and in aggregate it reduces reddits value

Oh man that just unlocked a memory! When I was in elementary school we’d have a world culture day every year and there were a couple of moms who’d do that on a table each year and I was always in awe at the intricacy and fragility of the design

It could be they were in the process of relocating, but didn’t want to committ in a new city until they had a feel for it, renting the house in the old city while you rent an apartment in the new city until you decide on where you want to live is a very economical way to handle such a relocation, then you can be pickier about the new house purchase and you have more flexibility in buyers for the old house if you don’t have to sell the old house before you can buy the new one

I might do something similar for my upcoming move. Although I would much prefer to make it a $20 deposit to tour. Structure it as “if I have to deny you I’ll keep it, but it will be returned upon approving your application” cuts out the bullshit but doesn’t cost honest renters money ultimately

A client at work which is a local property management company (big enough to have 2 part time employees and one full time property maanger) lists all of their properties on Craigslist as well as many more commercial sites, so it’s not just mom and pops on there

Edit: another option is to call up a given property during business hours to ask about availability. Chances are your call will go to the property management company and they’ll have more properties than just the one building you saw the number on

Another idea I forgot to share is potentially just creating a worksheet that you can send to a printing company for paper forms. There’s tons of printing companies which you can just provide a PDF or even just a logo and some info and get a custom pad of paper printed with that, so it’ll have your logo and the fields you need then just rip off each sheet after it’s written out.

Otherwise if you really need this info digital, a spreadsheet or something in saltcorn is probably your best bet, but really you want to keep it simple at the scale you described (hence the custom printed pads of paper idea)

The UK recently passed a law requiring submitting a photo ID to access adult content. It’s also super unclear on very important specifics

Yeah at that rate if you actually should be involving a computer you’re best off in a spreadsheet or maaaaybe a database frontend like saltcorn.

You mean they didn’t just turn off the firewall on all client machines and rely entirely on a single firewall at the network gateway? Because that’s what I’ve seen way too much of…

When I’ve used Prime Video before it worked flawlessly in Firefox with ublock, but that was on a laptop

Yeah I’ll frequently pop a private window when watching something I don’t want mucking with my recommendations and I’ve only ever been prompted to sign in for age verification

Good catch! Something something mobile formatting