Same. Being not active is probably just as bad for their reports as is not on the platform. They’re both costly (as in costs something, not as in expensive).

Lamb: “F&ck me, you’ve gone full Stockholm … Scrabble?”

OliveTree. Excellent app for study. They have literally everything including devotional. It’s the power app for study.

Same. Easily the best quick burger.

Police as in law enforcement. That’s been around a long, long, long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police

Britbox has a category called Cozy Mysteries. They’re all formulaic and easy watching.

Death in Paradise
Beyond Paradise
Murder in Suburbia
Father Brown
Sister Boniface
Agatha Christie’s Marple
The Mallorca Files

Right, on fiber at home I hit 1.7TB on average/month. This doesn’t include me working 40 hours on the company network either.

Totally agree. It’s BS but at least Mint’s is fairly high. I stream all my music daily and watch whatever I want and typically it’s below 15GB/month. I’d have to be downloading Linux ISOs to hit 40.

US Mint Mobile $30/mo unlimited data, texts, calls. One of the best unlimited rates in the US. I use north of 12GB/mo so no limited plan is going to cut it for me.

It’s really not. I have one on my work laptop and have never plugged an Ethernet jack into it. That stays permanently in my dock and gets transferred to the laptop via USB-C. All other non-desk work is done via … WiFi. Shock! Literally can’t tell the difference when making money.

Not to mention discord channels you have to be invited to.

Ones that will last will cost you. Oelo Lighting Solutions, Jellyfish, and Gemstone are all great but $$$$.

None. We have made politics a taboo subject at dinner. We know we don’t agree (older generations vs younger) and would rather converse about things we enjoy like the grandkids etc.

Probably need to see a speech therapist.

When I want a quick bag, sure do. Kirkland (Costco) popcorn is great and dirt cheap.

But when I want great popcorn we use our popcorn popping machine with some coconut oil, flavocol, and butter topping. This is the recipe the movie theaters use.

Panasonic inverter microwaves are the best in the industry for residential. They’re the only ones that can control the microwave power level without cheapening out and turning it on and off only. The over the range microwaves aren’t any better unless they’re an Advantium type that cooks with light and convection fan.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work well in either a) dry climates and/or b) high altitude. We have to add about 45 secs to the popcorn mode or it stops short for us. Took a while to get that right.

Fortunately, this is normal at high altitude. Normal cooking rules don’t apply and always have to be modified. Lol.

iCloud since I’ve been all in on the Apple ecosystem since … 2004ish (Tiger was a great OS).

Pros:

• Super fast
• Doesn’t need to backup system files
• No limit to # of devices, only storage size
• Reliable
• Restore process is arguably the easiest out of any solution
• Priced fairly (despite people complaining, yeah their free tier is useless)

Cons:

• Only backs up Apple devices.
• Relies on connection speed alone, no shipped hard drive option

If I had to pick a platform agnostic one it’d be Backblaze.

Pros:

• Solid
• Light on resources
• Fairly priced (last I checked) and unlimited is reasonable
• Can do shipped hard drive restores if needed.

Cons:

• Limited backup controls
• Must provide key to decrypt on restore
• Restore process sucks

The scary part is they’re actually getting damned good at it. IT support at my company is almost solely run out of India. If I put a ticket in and set it to high priority they’ll have it fixed in under an hour. A lot of times it’s 5 minutes. They don’t hide their true names (which I respect) and communication is fantastic. They need to reach out to me a Teams chat is initiated. If I’m not available they try calling. Not sure who they’re paying but they’re good.

American support is slower and less engaged overall. We’re definitely getting out paced.

Eero Secure does a pretty decent job by itself but addresses can be blacklisted as well (hi Roku). If I had more money, time, and could figure out my double NAT, I’d probably switch from Secure to a Firewalla device, probably a Purple. Overall the eero’s have been a great, I don’t have to think about it, mesh system. Of course you have to be okay with Amazon owning them.