coys25 @ coys25 @lemmy.world

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This was it! Thanks - makes much more sense now. Thanks!

I find that they're great for headings, titles, dates, etc - a little emphasis in my notes. With that said, my pilot metropolitan's stub nib has also always been really scratchy too, and hard starts a lot. It's always been one of my most disappointing pens.

One of my favorite stub nibs is a Jinhao 80 (Lamy 2000 clone, usually sub-$10). I swapped out the Jinhao nib for a Lamy 1.1 stub, and it writes like a dream!

Nice - I had misread this as Diamine Earl Grey at first, and was very confused ("I've used this before and don't remember any orange tones!"). But it does look beautiful!

Saddle Brown also looks very nice and versatile. Do you think that you need a medium nib to get the full spectrum of shading? I've sometimes been disappointed with browns that are too light with an F nib (bought a sample of Robert Oster Caffe Crema, but it really was too light for my daily use unless in an M, B, or stub).

The Diamine guitar inks just generally look like nice autumn inks - nice!

That is a pretty fascinating ink - seems to be a totally different color depending on nib and paper...

Yeah, I barely use quick tap. The swipe down was so intuitive, and with a bigger phone triple tapping requires you to rebalance the phone in your hand, etc.

Do you have Quick Tap enabled? I have mine set up to show notifications (I miss the old ability to swipe down on the rear fingerprint reader), but yours might be set up to play/pause media.

Is it just the "blowhole" described here?

https://fountainpenchronicles.blog/2022/06/27/breathe-just-breather-tube/

I don't have one of these, unfortunately, so don't have a comparison...

Follow-up - I bought this and it works great! And yes - it is really thick. I think the reams of the usual printer paper at the office are going to develop an inferiority complex. Thanks again for the recommendations!

Mostly Leuchtturm, mainly because I really like their notebooks and the variety of them that are available. The paper is fine, but not like tomoe or anything like that. I mostly write at work during meetings etc., so the notebook is equally important to me. Open to other suggestions though!

Great tune, and my favorite jazz musician of all time, bar none. Also, the quality of this video is outstanding. I'm not sure I've seen any Bill Evans trio video recordings from this era that are that clear. Thanks for posting!

Nice! I do often miss the days of my 120 GB iPod classic with an album collection that I had carefully curated over the course of decades. There is a lot that is convenient about the streaming era, for sure, but I feel like that set of hundreds of albums that I listened to over and over again was a really unique and personal set of music, and having a bunch of favorites on Spotify just isn't the same...

Thanks for this! This is a blast from the past.

I remember finding this CD (and a few others from the collection) amongst my dad's music collection, right as MP3s were becoming a thing in the mid 90s.

I ripped them and they made their way onto my computer / Winamp playlists, followed me to college, and were on every generation of iPod that I used. With the switch to streaming services, I tried to bring along as much of my collection as possible, but some things just got lost.

The whole collection is incredibly curated for a very precise late-night vibe. The Billy Holliday one is great too - remember that one.

There is !reddead@lemmy.world, but it's pretty quiet. You could try posting there to get some of that content going. It's a bit of a vicious cycle, though - the lack of content drives people away, leading to less content.

I will say that even in smaller communities I find that people are quite helpful here with questions, which is great.

It does seem like the post reddit boom of interaction and growth has waned, thought, and many of the communities that were starting to grow are now much quieter than they were a few weeks ago. I think that the lemmy.world downtime for so long really drove people away, which is a shame.

Makes sense - thanks!

Hmm interesting - might give this a try. I also will eventually need to figure out how to do this for work trips, medical stuff getting reimbursed out of an HSA, etc, so I will probably need to set a relatively high amount in this category. I guess that that makes sense, though, since I'm in essence extending a line of credit to all of these people.

So, in your system, do you feel like you get a good view of your spending in these categories? Or is everything just sucked up into the pluses and minuses of the reimbursement category (which may not be a big deal)?

Hmm, yeah - thanks! The first option is what I'd considered, but I wanted to make sure that we were able to see the actual net amount we are paying for our own phones, like you mentioned.

The second idea seems like maybe an ok way to go. Some of the family likes to pay a few months at once (ahead of time) so we would likely always have a buffer. I don't like the risk of being on the hook without budgeted money if someone falls behind, though...

I did reach out to YNAB support. I guess I just don't understand why- as you said- the needed for spending doesn't take the inflows in that category into account. If I wait till the end of the month, I guess that will roll over?

Yeah, even though slow motion makes it look worse, I was shocked that it wasn't given in real time. But the commentary team was convinced that it was just a natural body position. I continue to have no idea what constitutes a handball in the box.

1. Wake up
2. Fall out of bed
3. Drag a comb across my head
4. Find my way downstairs
5. Drink a cup
6. Look up and notice I am late
7. Find my coat
8. Grab my hat
9. Make the bus in seconds flat

If you don't like it, don't pay for it and use something else?