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5bolts··on Ask HN: How often do you reboot your computer?
work: daily - windows 10 Home: Plex server - once a month or when there's a power outage - windows 10 Home: main machine - every few days - windows 11 Home: HA Server - power outages - linux home: PiHOle - power outages - Linux
5bolts··on Ask HN: Bookmarks for Hacker News?
instapaper - already has integration within the site (may need to tie the 2 accounts together, dont remember back when i set it up)
5bolts··on “Food Bank” type charities could be overhauled
but the banks are just distributing the donations they have available. it could be cereal today and green beans tomorrow (thats what i helped package when we volunteered as an org). they're not setup to store a truck load of frozen greenbeans just hoping that in the next day or 3 they get the rest of a meal.

and i believe its to supplement the recipients pantry not be a one stop shop for groceries. hey we got cereal and greenbeans this week from FoodBankXYZ. saves us from having to buy cereal and vegetables with our snap this week!

5bolts··on Ask HN: I have 24 hours to prepare for a job interview – advice?
but sadly they are probably 2 of the most common interview questions asked (across all industries) so knowing how to answer them is a good thing.
5bolts··on Ask HN: Wanna use Job offer to get a raise
just have her move on. banking would be more stable, apparently pays more. she wouldn't get the 75k match in your scenario thats what a 50% raise using your numbers? Company is probably hard limited to say 3%-10% max raise by HR policies.

If she did get the raise they know she's been looking so she'd be the first to be cut in the future anyway.

5bolts··on Musk Warns Twitter May Lose Billions in 2023
isn't that just his problem now?
5bolts··on Dear grocery store owners: I don’t work for you
mostly hate it when things scale up. I work next door to a neighborhood walmart. so i tend to visit almost daily.

SOMETIMES they have a legacy lane open, mostly its yellow vests (customer service?) hovering around the self checkouts. I go in grab my 2-4 items i need for lunch or dinner that evening or both...

all the tiny self checkouts are clogged with people with an entire cart full of shit and they scan one item, slowly, bag it, grab another item... it takes forever - simply because they're not familiar with the flow. These types of customers also don't know how to bag groceries ending up with 2 or 3 items per bag spread all over the floor because their cart is still full. (taking another 5 min after checkout to put back in their cart) This is where an experienced cashier excels.

the Card only / cash only lanes also suck. at least a couple of times a week someone goes there because its open and has the wrong form of payment. slowing things down even further.

I don't mind doing my own work at the up to full hand basket level. once it gets into grocery cart scale - expedite things with a human!

5bolts··on Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)
haven't used a dedicated installed program in ages - as i browse on different machines at different times of day... Newsblur ticked a ton of boxes for me, moved from inoreader.
5bolts··on Neo P1, a houseplant engineered to clean the air
and its just marketing spiel.. for a product they're going to have available in 66 days? can't even get it out for XMAS in this climate (financially not actual weather)
5bolts··on Pebble, the OG smartwatch that may never die, updated to work with Pixel 7
my current gen garmin watch lasts a month - color screen lots of complications/updates/notices.

Granted if i turned the GPS on it could go down to as low as 24 hours depending on how often it updates.

5bolts··on Workers with two jobs – is this a problem?
not even close to the same thing
5bolts··on He scoffed, but Alex Jones defamation debt will dog him for life
he wasn't expressing an opinion, he was lying about a factual event for profit, and calling the parents actors.
5bolts··on The four-day workweek works
not for my industry. we're operating 7 days a week - lucky to get a 5 day work week...

and privately owned by some of the previous generation. we were lucky to get 1 day a week WFH during covid..

5bolts··on Lufthansa Says Passengers Can’t Use Apple AirTags to Track Checked Bags
other than active blocking what can/could they do to stop it?
5bolts··on Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old?
some people prefer their caffeine cold? Lots of people talk about drinking tons of coffee - but when you watch them make a cup its half dairy and sugar anyway... could be the same with Tea (builders tea for example)

and it could just be their guilty pleasure - better than the "normal" coke

5bolts··on Ask HN: Any good consumer wireless webcam solutions?
in your situation i'd just repurpose an old cellphone. Easily portable, easy to keep charged, probably already have one sitting in a drawer someplace. if you forgot it outside and it got ruined you are less likely to be screwed.
5bolts··on Show HN: Media Hoarder – media front end for data hoarders and movie lovers
looks like it only covers movies at the moment?

Looks to be more of a Movie filtering interface instead of a bulk media organization tool. No topics about any other kinds of media (cbr, ebooks, pdfs, images, music, adult?) appears to be in its infancy, got a long way to go to compete with plex / jellyfin or even just a well organized file structure.

no forum posts, and have to be approved by the site admin to even gain access.

sure the movie browsing experience seems well built - per the youtube video but personally i'd prefer a movie poster interface and maybe put the meta data in a details window when i hover/click on the poster. don't need the constant clutter when trying to find something.

5bolts··on No, YouTube, I will not subscribe to Premium
Been red / premium since it came out, think i've only ever seen 1 attempt at family account?

but its all via roku/xbox rarely use the website via a browser. YT Music on phone mostly.

5bolts··on Large-Scale Collection of Cell Phone Data at US Borders
you'd hope. but its probably all sitting in a database somewhere waiting to be sent through some deep search by a 3rd party =/

guess i'll get a burner phone if/when i need to leave the country.

5bolts··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a good Bluetooth travel keyboard?
honestly you're just going to have to start buying and trying. even if it ticks a lot of boxes on paper it might not feel right.

on the logitech front i've tried all of their bluetooth multi device keyboards, the MX series is the only one that felt right. but they're heavy. (im in banking so needed the 10key version. 10key less is going to be lighter but probably not enough to want to drag it around with me)

5bolts··on Ask HN: What do you think of salary cap?
plus in your sports example, thats just what the team can pay the player. the player has several side gigs without a cap - so if driven they can make 100x more in say sponsorship deals than the team actually pays them. so no "Real" cap in play, just a cap from one income stream. (and thats only there to prevent one super rich guy like Bezos from buying up all the best players for each position and stacking the deck. No one would watch if the same team always won... so realistically its a marketing thing)
5bolts··on Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money
i didn't do college and i ended up in a pretty nice position. House paid for, car paid for, rv paid for, plenty of money for food /bills / fun. Could i have ended up in an even better position? maybe, but i could have ended up worse too.

I had some crap jobs sure, but i got the experience to move up and on. Call centers, warehouse jobs, tech support - ended up a system administrator without any class work or even any certs.

There is nothing wrong with the blue collar jobs either, they tend to make more money after 4 years experience than a recent college grad. And lots of them end up being their own boss!

5bolts··on Etsy demands some sellers submit banking credentials to Plaid
Plaid isn't really all that sketchy - as this twitter post is complaining about.
5bolts··on Ask HN: What's the worst innocent mistake you've done at work?
Rebuilt a banks statements (was a vendor helping with an upgrade) without purging the previous file - caused the wrong check images to go to customers... eg i am supposed to see my deposits, i saw say my neighbors.

but i got a couple 1000d people free credit monitoring for a year from my company...

5bolts··on Ask HN: Why are phones from the future in movies transparent?
because it looks cool on film, and changes the angle that the shot can be done at while the phone still provides visual clues.
5bolts··on Ask HN: What are folks using to track what shows/movies they’ve watched?
Plex. won't go to theaters anymore so everything i watch is on plex
5bolts··on Ask HN: How can I see all of my Amazon transactions?
even on the US site, i've submitted several requests over the last 6 months and i never get a download link.
5bolts··on Ask HN: What is your job title?
senior systems administrator - but really not that fancy, i am only over a small set of systems and even then im not the guy patching, maintaining... more of an application specialist.
5bolts··on Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
i use it to clone my work badge onto the chip in my hand... and to have all my amiibos in a nice easy portable package for switch gaming on the go.

haven't explored anything else

5bolts··on Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
depends on what you need scope wise. several traditional looking ones on amazon in the 150 range.

hantek handheld for 190.

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