Indiana price increase in 2025 ~20% (I believe the new rates went into effect in November, and this does not include a base increase for having your house connected to the grid. I believe it was $10/mo increase making that % even larger.

100% this I do everything I can to ignore shorts

Our bowl works pretty well, and is not tracking our data!

This would be pretty cool, if you build it I’ll come :)

I moved away from Strava when they first started putting stuff behind a paywall, and just keep everything inside Garmin. But can’t stand that they’ve come up with connect+ BS

Ya, I get it, and anything smart now needs to be able to work with home assistant locally.

If we had to do it over again we’d have likely gotten something different, but the features you do get can be useful!

Ya, hard disagree here, while 100% the new features could have been kept in device, vs cloud but the difference between our (770?) that just bounces around until it runs out of battery (and gets stuck in the SAME place Everytime it hits that spot vs. the newer one vacuums the whole floor and can be told to avoid the problematic area(s) is pretty huge.

Now, the new one has a host of its own issues but when it works it’s a much better product that produces much better results.

All that said I think the software has gone to crap over the years and the newer (i7) actually is less reliable than it was the first 6-8 months we owned it.

No, we don’t buy breeds, we generally rescue our pets, our current two came from SAAP.

Guess the food in their bowls will sit uneaten or when they get fed junk (human) food they’ll just not be interested?

Obviously there are exceptions but that’s not driving fat drugs for pets.

Or stop feeding them so much? I’ve had pets my whole life. A cat and dog now, but multiple cats and dogs since I was born . My parents had cats when I was born.

Not one was ever fat. This doesn’t seem complicated.

EVERY COSTCO around here could use a few less visitors!! I don’t even understand how they keep items in stock there.

It took me 20 minutes just to return my vehicle battery core for a whooping $15

I mean I don’t wish that on them but that place is always packed around here.

I struggle with typing on the Futo keyboard so far but it might be an option for you, I want to like and use it. It’s on my phone but just not quite there “for me”

I use Facebook behind as many adblockers as I can, I use social fixer on top of that (browser extension that helps prune FB even more)

On my phone, in the app, this doesn’t prevent them from suggesting friends, suggesting reels, suggesting random people or pages to follow

I use fb mostly for groups not just telling everyone what I’m doing or caring about what everyone else is.

But I make it to 1-3 things I have to hide (x out of) and I just bounce, close and pause the app

Like if I open fb and I immediately see a post asking me to follow something I just get out and open lemmy…

Screw meta

I run PiHole in my house I VPN to my house when away to get that sweet ad blocking I run unlock origin I run social fixer

I don’t see actual ads in FB just their BS they want me to interact with over my actual feed

Helps with my Disney cancel anyway, now lower my bill and keep them off yttv

Sweet, will my bill go down?

as opposed to those friendly sanctions?

Should be pretty easy for those 600k people to find other living wage jobs that will allow them to keep buying stuff off Amazon.

/s

What if they just ask your age as step 1 of the setup?

Luckily I live out where nobody rings my door bell :)

Unless it changed recently if you already have 3rd party cameras, it’s all but useless for any of those features. I am using Blue Iris/amcrest cameras and when I upgraded to a UDMP I was excited to try it with the new 3rd party camera support, but I can’t really do anything but record. No detection stuff. Ended up only adding one camera and giving up.

And their cameras, are damn expensive. I have 6 cameras outside covering most of my house. Entireity, swapping over to unifi ones is not in the budget.