[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 53 points 3 weeks ago

Amazing, but isn't it a parody account?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by EveningPancakes@lemm.ee to c/parenting@beehaw.org

Hi! Tired father of a two year old here! I'm the primary caretaker of our daughter after preschool ends at 2:30. My wife and I both work during the day and really struggle with finding the time to make dinner at the end of a long work day. Does anyone have any recommendations on meal box services that aren't overly complicated? We tried Green Chef and another one which I can't remember, and while we liked the idea of cooking at home more, the recipes were too time intensive for one of us to be in the kitchen while the little one is running around the house. I often found their prep/cook time estimates to be incredibly inaccurate. Usually add on 15 additional minutes to what they quoted on the recipe cards.

Are there any other services out there that are more simple in their prep? Bonus difficulty, I'm a carnivore and she's a pescaterian who hates anything with carbs. I don't require meat for every meal, but like it from time to time.

I'm sure most parents here will understand the delicate dance that is walking the dog at 4, start dinner at 5, bath at 6:30, bed by 7:30.

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 262 points 5 months ago

All you need to know is that he labeled himself as a consultant. Which reminds me of this joke.

Once upon a time there was a shepherd tending his sheep at the edge of a country road. A brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee screeches to a halt next to him.

The driver, a young man dressed in a Brioni suit, Cerrutti shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, Jovial Swiss wrist watch and a BHS tie gets out and asks the shepherd: "If I guess how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?" The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the sprawling field of sheep and says: "Okay."

The young man parks the SUV, connects his notebook and wireless modem, enters a NASA site, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms, then prints a 150 page report on his high tech mini printer. He then turns to the shepherd and says:"You have exactly 1,586 sheep here. "

The shepherd answers: "That's correct, you can have your sheep."The young man takes one of the animals and puts it in the back of his vehicle. The shepherd looks at him and asks: "Now, if I guess your profession, will you pay me back in kind?" The young man answers: "Sure." The shepherd says: "You are a consultant." "Exactly! How did you know," asks the young man? Very simple, answers the shepherd. "First, you came here without being called. Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew. Third, you do not understand anything about my business and I'd really like to have my dog back."

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Netflix absolutely enforced this in the US last year. I was sharing an account with my sister and we started getting notices about choosing a "home base" for our devices so Netflix could register it on their side to enforce if anyone outside of that initial IP began leveraging it.

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes I am registered, because I ride motorcycles and I won't need my organs if I'm dead.

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 42 points 8 months ago

TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.

Maybe in the middle of nowhere America. Meanwhile my wife and I make well above that in Los Angeles and we can't afford the monthly on a two bedroom house in a sketchy neighborhood.

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

Are all of the department heads in the video talking about their perceived benefits of RTO standing in front of a green screen? Doesn't that seem a little tone deaf?

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submitted 9 months ago by EveningPancakes@lemm.ee to c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml

Has anyone figured out a good solution to remote wake a PC from the Steam Deck? Seems silly this wasn't baked into the UI, considering this could be done from the Steam Link hardware back in the day.

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"4. Doesn't live with an HOA that has banned solar roof panel installation (Source: My parents HOA in South Carolina)

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 49 points 10 months ago

This is going to do fuck all.

Geico decided to raise my monthly insurance rate by 129%, despite nothing on my end contributing to that (no tickets, no accidents). When I called them to make sure this wasn't an error, essentially I was told "Sorry, parts got more expensive. Fuck off."

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by EveningPancakes@lemm.ee to c/parenting@lemmy.world

For those unaware, Miku baby cameras are now charging a monthly subscription for features that owners previously had access to such as remote access, live breathing monitor, nightly statistics, DVR of movement through the sleep. We originally paid $400 because it was advertised as a product that would not require a monthly subscription, and we've been using it that way for the past 14 months. As of this month, the only functionality that exists without a subscription is video monitoring, but only on your local network. Everything else requires you to pay.

Likely what led to this was due to the fact that they released a buggy firmware earlier this year that bricked everyone's cameras and they were on the hook to replace cameras. A few months after this they declared bankruptcy, only to be purchased by someone who has instituted the monthly subscription (rumors it's an investor of Miku trying to make their investment back).

I didn't get an email about this change, only saw some chatter on that other site about it. Anticipating this change, I blocked the app from updating on my Android phone and all apps from updating on our iPad. I know it was a long shot thinking that would work, betting that it would be a server side change as opposed to client side.

Looks like the change went live a day or so ago, people are pissed, however I still have access to features. Looks like the subscription block is a client side update based on the screen shots I've seen.

Long story short, how can I pull the .apk from my phone to distribute to others? Fuck this company.

EDIT: Figured it out, here's the update from May 2023 with features still intact - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sOOCY08j8nxvfXJd1SU7Kll-uMjiRftm/view?usp=drivesdk

EDIT 2 - I figure this company only has a few months left, we'll easily just transition to a cheap Ubiquiti camera that records on my local network. Fuck this remote recording approach.

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Ducati being bought by Audi. Maintenance intervals got better, instead of doing valve adjustments every 7500 miles. It did make the brand move away from dry clutch to a wet clutch, losing some of their iconic sounds ("I dunno man, should the engine sound like that when idling? Sounds like two metal wrenches hitting each other.")

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haven't they been saying this shit for years? I'll believe it when it happens. Toyota got a late jump on EV's from what I understand, placing a bigger bet on hydrogen but that never really took off.

EDIT: I should learn to RTFA

[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

Photography.

I started to really get into it back in 2015 with a Sony A6000 and a kit lens. Then you buy more, higher quality lenses. Then you buy better camera bodies with full frame sensor, then lenses that are full frame compatible. Then the various odds and end accessories. Then trips around the world to take pictures of things.

I have taken a break from photography recently, on account that having a kid doesn't allow me a lot of opportunity to edit my photos anymore. They say the best camera you have is the one that is on you. That has proven to be true while I try to be as present as possible around my daughter. I can quickly take out my phone, capture the moment and it will take care of most of the post processing edits that I can share with family later.

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Not sure what was alleged but right move by the rest of the band members.

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I have two pi-holes on my home network, but I'm noticing that when I open links using Connect's built in browser, I'm being served display ads when I normally wouldn't be. When I open the links with an external browser no ads are displayed. Is the app using a hardcoded DNS server when making requests to the links? Is there a way to stop that so it instead uses the DNS server configured on my home network?

Yes I realize I could set up a DNS Masq rule. I just didn't like how the reporting ended up being I pi-holes dashboard.

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