I have spent a frustrating 'day' reluctantly doing two main tasks:
1/ Purchasing/speccing parts for an experimental electrical build.
2/ Working with the suppliers of a failed piece of electrical hardware to get a warranty replacement commissioned and working as required.

In both cases I have been dealing with Chinese suppliers because the price &/or availability makes them the only real option.

In both cases the documentation is woeful and so I spend too long in back-and-forths. "How do we do x?' 'What is Y?'. 'The old one had these same settings and worked, what is not right here? How can we even tell?'.

This is the price of cheap. It is not because it is Chinese but because it is cheap and that is sadly what we value. Cheaper is not better value.

I am not a coder but I feel this is what coders are worried about with the advent of AI code. Stuff that seems cheaper but is a joyless pain in the butt to maintain & work with.

#Value #Price #CheapNotGood #YellingIntoTheVoid

Me: Enters search terms with one, "cbox" in quotes in Google
Google: Did you mean "xbox" and shows pictures of Xboxes

If I put it in quotes, why not trust me and show results for what I typed first, then say "did you mean <other thing>" and I can click it if I did make a typo. Don't assume the typo and make me click another link to get what I actually searched for.

#yellingintothevoid

If you view owning real estate as a financial investment, you are either bad at economics or an evil selfish hoarder. Also, you either negligently damn everyone younger than you or you do it on purpose.

If that makes you feel a tense defensiveness build up inside, ask yourself why you feel that way.

Having the rights to a home or farm/land you actually use is wonderful, but there is only one planet. Profiting off of real estate beyond your own use can only result in a few people owning everything. This is a mathematically inevitable type of feudalism so grotesque that even the lords of old would revolt.

No, renting is not for your own use, in case some deranged landlords got lost here moving between twit and bsky.

#yellingintothevoid

Growing tired of this 3 to 5 business days crap when it comes to companies giving you refunds/ deposits on stuff. Why can they empty my bank account in minutes but drag their heels for days about putting it back.

#capitalism #yellingintothevoid

It feels like it's going to be one of the days where the intrusive thoughts win and I feel as though I'm just failing at everything.

#depression #mentalhealth #yellingintothevoid

We really need to move, my hick neighbors have taken to calling my children half breeds under their breath.

#yellingintothevoid #racism #mutualaid #housing

it's the strangest feeling to not be financially doomed enough to be drowning, but also not financially stable enough to be doing okay.

#yellingintothevoid