lumberjacked

joined 1 year ago
 

I'm currently using SuperNormal to taking meeting minutes for all of my Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom conference calls. Is there a workflow for doing this locally with Whisper and some other tools? I haven't found one yet.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I do B2B hardware and software projects. I hate sales and advertising but I will post something I'm working on about once a week on my personal LinkedIn. It's amazing how many customers reference that stuff when I have my first meeting.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I really wish it was MediaWyrm. I want something where I can share, rate, and track books, movies, tv shows, podcasts, etc

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Each has their place. I use Pixelmator, Affinity Designer, Sketch, and occasionally Gimp and Photoshop. Canva is really good at doing things like throwing together a flyer. I used to create social media posts for a pre-school and Canva was super easy to create templates that lay folks could edit. Virtually no learning curve.

Affinity is my vector tool of choice currently but these space seems to be a field with lots of options.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Awesome. Thank you. How often does the average person dink with that? Seems like I'd find a happy spot, then just make an adjustment in those edge situations?

 

My suspension has Pedal Lock Out and Low SPD. When would I want to have pedal lock out and what's the advantage of the Low Spd settings?

I just upgraded from an entry level hardtail to a used carbon fiber XC bike I picked up for a steal. All the components are much nicer than what I had before. My goal now is to get fast on flowy trails. I'm not a gear head and mostly just want to have fun while exercising.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

How much of a delay on the light sensor for the automatic door.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I bought at the peak myself to have stable housing while raising kids.

If house prices just stayed flat until wages caught up and then only increased similar to match wage increases (not inflation) that might be a reasonable compromise between the middle class who have a house and don't. Those who own will still be paying down a mortgage so increasing your equity that way without being decimated if you have to move. Unfortunately at this point, that could take awhile before wages caught up.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I'm not arguing in favor for house prices going up but just wanted to point out how a lot of people use the value of their home. You can pull out money from your house and your interest payments don't change when the value of your house goes up.

I'll give the example of my neighbor. They bought their house 10 years ago at about $250k. Interest rates were around 4.5%. We're in a location that got really hot during the pandemic and the house value jumped to about $700k. At that moment, they had the same payments as 10 years ago. Then interest rates dropped down below 3%. His balance on the original mortgage is probably about $175k and now he refinances the house with a mortgage of $325k, pays off the old loan, and pockets $150k out of the house. But due to the lower interest rates, his payment is the same as it was 10 years ago. He just has $150k in his pocket. Meanwhile, I'm the schmuck who had to buy the identical house at $700k at 5% and pay 3x for the same house.

 

I like the idea of Hey.com but honestly, I struggle with the idea of paying $100/year and I've had my Gmail since 2005. It's almost like an archive of my life.

Are there any systems, apps, or something similar to Hey that don't require me to leave Gmail? I know I could do Gmail forwarding within Hey but thought I'd just poke around first.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Working for me.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For the same reason there are McDonalds everywhere. They are familiar and convenient despite almost always being inferior.

 

The Winds and flooding can do so much damage with modern construction. Seems like it would wipe out entire villages if they were more primitive.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I lived adjacent to a neighborhood like this. It was much quieter than middle aged neighbors with Harley’s. Little Cessnas and Pipers are not that loud.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree.

Also check out Greenlight which has a built in parents interest feature.

[–] lumberjacked@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

This was my mom. Lots of therapy and 20 years later I’m good now. One major thing I do differently as a parent is apologize to my kids when I screw up.

If you do something against the rules then you have an appropriate punishment. Yelling and berating is never an appropriate punishment. If yell at my kid because I’m mad I always apologize. Hopefully it will lessen their therapy bills.

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YNAB vs Buckets (www.budgetwithbuckets.com)
 

I've been using You Need a Budget for family budgeting and I like it but it is expensive. I've played with Buckets a little bit and looks like a contender. Anyone move from YNAB to Buckets?

 

I'm relatively new to MTB. I bought an REI Co-op DRT 1.1 hardtail about 2 years ago. It's decent but I ride with guys who have full-suspension Santa Cruz or Cannondale bikes and they can manage to get up more tricky terrain. I find myself walking my bike more than I'd like.

I've seen some 6 or 7 year old seemingly better bikes on FB marketplace for $600-800 like a Ghost Kato FS 7

Is that decent upgrade from a hardtail while on a budget? What's the best options for upgrades under $1000?

It's mostly rocky hilly terrain and some gravel narrow tracks in central Texas.

 

I have an app for programming my chicken coop. My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants.

These should have been mobile friendly webpages.

 

Right now I do free weights a couple times of week, a little bit of yoga, and then a fair amount of cardio. Now that I'm in my late 30s I seem to be injuring myself a lot. Little stuff like pulled muscles, tendonitis, joint pain etc. Yoga has definitely help and I've adjusted the cardio I do. Any recommendations for a strength plan that focuses more on mobility, flexibility and not injuring yourself?

 

I'm trying to assess if this is worth it before talking to contractors. I've done a lot of DIY remodels and hired out some but never anything of this magnitude. I want to build an addition on top of the garage and connect to the rest of the 2nd floor. Here's some assumptions I have.

-The slab foundation appears to have same construction as the rest of the house. Let's assume the footings are good for a second floor

-The joists and walls in the garage do not appear to be structured for a second floor. Will need to reinforce garage walls and add joists.

-This project would coincide with an already planned new roof and HVAC upgrade. So HVAC could be sized for the new square footage

Houses are going for about $275 square foot in our area. This will add about 250 square feet to the house. So if this could be done for $60k or less I won't lose equity.

  1. Any success or horror stories with this sort of thing?
  2. Any one tackle something like this as your own GC?
 

We use Google Docs in my company for all of our documentation, notes, etc. I don't hate it. It's come a long way.

Personally, I've jumped around way too many note taking apps and I'm currently using Notion (until Anytype gets a little more mature).

Half the time, I start a note in my personal tool and then copy and paste it into a Google Doc so I can share and collaborate. I'm not going to get the entire organization to move over to whatever tool I want.

My biggest problem with Google Docs is that it's organized into directories with the rest of GDrive. I really want to be able to organize it like notebooks in most note taking app. Where I can have a hierarchy and relationships. Notes on a project might be in a directory with 25 other files and I don't want to see all of that. I spend a lot of time hunting for the note I need in the hundreds of Google Drive folders.

I messed around with Rainbdrop.io which is a bookmark manager and gets me close to what I want but it's pretty slow. Anyone have any novel ways to organize Google Docs?

 

As an electrical/software guy i really appreciated this.

 

I would really like the ability to create my own algorithm. For example, I follow communities for my local sportsball team and memes. Memes, I really just want to see what's "hot" for the last day but my sportsball I want to see everything posted for the last week.

And the real dream would be to tweak this algorithm across fediverse services.

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