RaoulDook

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think one of his worst pieces of advice is to pay off debts before saving for an emergency fund (if I remember correctly)

Saving some kind of emergency fund first is more important than not having any debts. Having money on hand is worldly power in your hand basically. If you're debt free but broke, then you can't deal with an emergency that requires money.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here's a website about those kinds of fake shows

https://nestflix.fun/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They finally invented the face-storage device seen in the John Woo masterpiece Face/Off

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah the wristband is some bullshit. When I was a kid and on the free lunch for poor kids program, all they needed was a fucking list at the checkout. I took my lunch tray to the checkout lunch-lady and said my name, and she'd check it on the list and we were done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Have you read the source code for the programming for those chips? Do you know exactly how they work?

Voice recognition is highly subjective, and some of you actually trust billionaire's companies enough to take their word that their devices will only listen for certain special words? Ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No politics in this post, only business

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in the USA and I get 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, and 2 "personal days" which are also PTO, and more sick time than I am ever able to use up. I think I have over 200 hours of sick leave PTO accrued.

This is not a basic entry-level job though, it's after climbing the career ladder for years. It would be much nicer for our country's folks if everyone was allowed as much PTO by all jobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I bought a cylinder head pressure gauge from HF and took it home, didn't work at all. When I looked at it closely I could see that it was completely missing the core valve that is supposed to be in the bottom. It was just a hole instead of a valve. Took it back for a refund next day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No it was quite a lot more than "a marketing guy" - there were pages and pages of details about their Active Listening program on their website, investor presentations etc. They went far into detail about how much they could listen to and what they could do with all that audio data.

Here's the Internet Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231116115055/https://www.cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg-active-listening

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a BS reason. I have 2 members of the Baby Boomer generation in my Signal contacts, they use it all the time with no problems. It's no harder than iMessage to use. They would like it better when they see that Signal doesn't gimp the image quality between Android and iOS phones unlike iMessage

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem with closed source apps is you don't know what else is going on in the background and what else it might have installed or connected to, unless you have debug logs for everything it did and know how to interpret all of that. I wouldn't install any app from the facebook company on any device I use

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wouldn't even call Ryobi the cheap one, they are good quality and cost more than many others. Harbor Freight is what I'd call cheap - my rule of thumb is that very simple hand tools from HF are OK but anything complex is probably not

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