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Frugal @lemmy.world

What do You Buy In Bulk to Save Money?

  • It's not necessarily a solution, but my Garmin watch can still hold some of my cards, so I don't need the NFC payment on my phone to duplicate that functionality. Do you wear or carry any other devices that can stand-in?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    I've seen hype around the Minisforum n5 Pro NAS but I'm not sure how much is marketing. What does the community think?

  • This is so whack. I don't get it, but it strikes me as true for many people 5-10 years younger than me. I'm the opposite. I want to use my desktop for everything and I'd sooner use a dumbphone/laptop combo than a smartphone with no computer. One thing I will never do on a phone is game. Sure, snake in the doctors office is one thing, but mobile gaming is so trash and scammy and bullshit that I just can't have any fun.

  • Interesting username. Are you a fellow student of Internet Comment Etiquette?

    I know at least some of my containers use Postgres. Glad to know I inadvertently might have made it easier on myself. I'll have to look into the users for the db and db containers. I'm a bit lost on that. I know my db has a username and pass I set in the docker compose file and that the process is running with a particular GID UID or whatever. Is that what your talking about?

  • I miss this from cloud hosting. It's helpful to be able to save, clone, or do whatever with the current machine state and easily just flash back to where you were if you mess something up. Might be too much to set up for my current homelab though. My server does have btrfs snapshots of everything directly in grub which has let me roll back a few big screwups here and there.

  • I've replaced the battery on my laptop twice. Didn't recognize the brand (might have been Dentsing or something like that) but it outperformed the stock battery in it's flattening state and maybe even when it was new! I watched it pretty closely for a while though and I'd NEVER buy a battery off temu.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Docker Backup Stratagy

  • I use Linux on desktop and I've been excitedly watching the various projects to bring FOSS Linux to mobile, but for me personally, it can't be a daily driver yet. Hopefully by the time I'm done degoogling and severing other app dependencies mobile Linux devices will be more evolved and have a better cost/feature ratio more on par with mainstream devices.

    I'm mostly disappointed because the way Ubuntu teased a phone that docks to become a PC hasn't really come into full fruition yet. I'm not a Ubuntu user, but I do have a strong preference for working on a full sized screen. Being able to dock my phone to a display and get a non-phone UI means I could just carry a folding keyboard instead of a tablet.

    If the EU sponsored an open source OS to reduce dependency on US tech, that could be a saving grace.

  • If there is a donation button and its a project, media item, service, etc that I use enough that I would buy it, I often donate. The amount depends on how badly they need the help. If I they try to steer me to recurring donations I don't donate at all (having the option as an opt-in is okay).

  • I'm a Buddhist/Atheist. There is far less to fight about here than between Christians/Atheist. I'm sure I'm a "bad" Buddhist too because I take the philosophical bits that make sense to me and leave all the deities and supernatural stuff alone, but Buddhists don't seem to mind and most atheists don't either.

  • As a former evangelical Christian, who also dabbled in atheism, antitheism, etc, I settled into something that's probably closest to Zen Buddhism mixed with atheism. I've been on dates with people, many of them I probably never knew their religion, but the gung-ho Christians and the Mormons showed their incompatibility very quickly. Funnily enough, ex-catholics dig me and I like them. :-)

    I don't see myself dating someone who is theocratic, doesn't believe abortion should be allowed, or wants me to go to their church with them. I sometimes tell the story of the time I was figuring myself out and ended up going on a date with a girl who didn't believe in dinosaurs. I call her dinosaur girl. I wish her well, but man did I dodge a bullet!

  • I don't have an answer for you, but I, and probably a lot of the other silent up-voters, will be watching closely for an answer. Tablets haven't gotten as much attention as phones. My own is still on a stock OS, even as I've removed more and more google stuff elsewhere. I'm not sure when/if the leap will come.

  • Interesting fact: due to the thin air at altitude, gas cars have less power here than at sea level. I did the math once and my car loses 30-50hp from sea level to Colorado. This feels great when I'm in Georgia or so, but then I get my slug of a car back when I climb back up to 6000+ feet.

    I don't think electric cars are impacted by this, and I've never made that connection before. Perhaps this adds to their popularity in CO?

  • Nowadays I run a dual 4k monitor setup with the left centered in my FoV and the right one alternating between portrait and landscape. My laptop usually sits under the primary or to the bottom left. I connect over thunderbolt so I can easily swap out my work and personal laptop on the dock. Effectively I get 3 screens: my main focus, my distraction, and my comms on the built in display. If I'm gaming on the desktop I toggle the left monitor to another input. I used to have more screens but things are a lot more ergonomic now.

    I do feel like I could switch to right monitor dominant, bit I think it would not be ideal considering sloppily moving the mouse to the top left on the primary would cause the mouse to jump to the secondary screen whereas on a left monitor dominant layout it would hit the border. You could offset the displays slightly to catch the mouse, but it's not worth it.

  • I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying "normalcy". Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn't have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.

  • Not sure about the UK, but here in the US, you could buy an ebike for every day of the week for the price of a mediocre car that will still require a few thousand dollars of work over the time that you own it. Guess who doesn't have money? Young people!

    Ebike $2000 x 7 = $14000 An average used car is way more than $14k

    If you rarely go further than 15 miles from home and it's safe and reasonably temperate where you live, you are throwing money out the window by not using a bike or ebike. And cars keep getting bigger, heavier, and more expensive.

    My ebike has probably kept 5-10 thousand miles off my car and city miles cause worse wear than highway miles.

  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca

    Question About Trail Safety in Indianapolis

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml

    Would you consider this an expensive bike share?

    Retro Technology @lemmy.ca

    VHS Video Data Recovery

    Fitness @lemmy.world

    How do you get continuity in your fitness tracking across devices and services?

    Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck.

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    If you knew the internet was going to be shutdown, damaged, or colossally enshittified what software would you archive for use locally and use for a neighborhood/town mesh network? Why?

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Testing vs Prod

    Cities: Skylines @lemmy.ml

    How would you describe your average city build? What are the key signs that a city was built by you?

    Cities: Skylines @lemmy.ml

    Ore Industry

    Cities: Skylines @lemmy.ml

    University or Tech Cluster?

    Cities: Skylines @lemmy.ml

    Shift Change at the Lumber Collective

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Secure Storage That Won't Die With my Server

    Cities: Skylines @lemmy.ml

    Train Station Upgrade

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Seeking Feedback on My Remaining Proprietary Apps and Other Questions

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Where can I find out if the HP Scanner/Printer I found in my MIL's office has hostile firmware updates that tie me to HP ink and do other sketchy HP stuff?

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Will any UPS work with Linux?

    Android @lemmy.world

    Who are 2024's best phone case manufacturers?