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  • falinter falinter 2 weeks ago 83%

    I hope tab groups gets worked on soon 🤞🏼

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  • nottheonion Not The Onion Landlords Throw Party to Celebrate Being Able to Evict People Again
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 66%

    Housing Providers should provide houses to the Unhoused.

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  • sciencefiction Science Fiction What are you Reading (September 2023)
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I'm on the third book in the Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers. It's excellent 👌

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  • aboringdystopia A Boring Dystopia Welcome to the 'nepo' housing market: 40% of homebuyers under 30 get family money to cover their down payment
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Obama (or Illinois?) gave me 10k down payment in 2009 and I got a tiny townhome at 23 right after I got a job outta college. I stayed in it for 10 years and traded it in for a bigger house like a crab after I got married.

    I was not money conscious at the time but my dad pretty much forced me to get a house if I had the means. I'm glad he did.

    So I guess I was also gifted my down payment from my parents and other tax payers parents.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What temperature do you keep your thermostat at?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Western suburbs of Chicago, IL. Summer it's 77-79f (25-26c). Winter it's 65-69f (18.3-20.5c).

    In summer we open the windows at night and let the cooler air in and when the sun comes in I close the windows and run a dehumidifier to quickly bring down the relative temp upstairs especially. Helps a bunch.

    When our new kid comes I will have to def adjust these numbers much closer to 72f (22c).

    I was talking to friends who live nearby and essentially keep it at 72f (22c) year round and almost never open their windows they were using like 1040kwh-1600kwh per month last month where we were using 309kwh or about 50 bucks a month. This was for July. I think we may be the weirdos and we will have to get more on their level with a newborn.

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  • news News Bob Barker, longtime ‘The Price Is Right’ host, dies at 99
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Other than the same memories you all have of being sick and watching during elementary school, when I was older my friend and I had off campus privilege in high school and we would go to her house quick where her grandma would make us sandwiches and we would watch him the price is right.

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  • askmidwest Ask the Midwest feels like 117...? 95
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Aurora il is 115 feels like. 2nd floor is a bit too hot.

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  • technology Technology YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    jokes on them i use an extension that removes the home page and any recommendations on the site.

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  • announcements Announcements We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. *Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST*
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I use jeroba and I would at least love the option to turn off infinite scroll

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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I think it's just generally another super terrible roll out. Some people are getting them some aren't yet. By the time everyone gets the ability to make a route all the routes will be made.

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  • tech Technology YouTube Premium individual plan now costs $2 more for all subscribers in the US | TechCrunch
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    its like $2 in some territories and even thats almost not worth it. $14 is definitely not worth it

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy *Permanently Deleted*
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 80%

    midwest.social is chill

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  • games Games What are some good browser-based games you've liked?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Yep. Browser is also where you can play the beta patch when it's going on and you can play as a guest.

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  • technology Technology DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    i would use this but some of the channels i watch the most number their thumbnails and dont do clickbait like this. if i could pick and choose per channel somehow it would be more helpful to me. i do agree with the sentiment though!

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  • games Games What are some good browser-based games you've liked?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Super auto pets

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    "Money I got, time I don't."

    My dad said this offhanded joking remark to me 30 years ago and it lives rent free in my head. It's a privileged view point for sure but I took it to mean save and be prepared but don't be frugal toa detriment. Spend on things you love and spend away on things you hate. Don't waste time if you can afford not to.

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    fatherverse falinter 1 year ago 100%
    open source baby activity tracking app https://lemmings.world/post/65320

    im a soon to be dad and was looking through those apps and was disturbed by how much some of them cost or require subscription for features. this looks simple and easy enough to start out with when the time comes. hopefully it helps someone else too.

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    android Android Baby Journal - Open source app for tracking baby activities
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    This super relevant to me. Just looking through all those apps in the store and how annoyingly they push subscription and in app purchases of dozens of dollars for basic features. Thanks for this. Hopefully more new parents find this.

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  • politics politics Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Is it possible to share the content

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  • fediverse Fediverse 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    not a lot of midwesterns i guess (im on midwest.social)

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  • science Science Satisfaction with online dating app depends on what you're looking for
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I hated using a dating app back in the day. I can't imagine using it for fun or validation. At least okcupid had fun dumb quizzes.

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  • gaming Gaming Recommendations for short session games with materialistic progress made with each session
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Super auto pets!

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  • memes Memes Every time I type "r" in my browser
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    yeah its taking a while i auto complete reddit then stop and hit midwest.social instead

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I had Lake Michigan water in Chicagoland for 30 years and i can only recall once when i was kid having a boil water notice from the town for like less than a week it was a pain to boil water to drink. now im further out west a bit so we dont get Lake Michigan water anymore but it comes from near by fox river. it tastes the same to me out of the tap but its much more expensive.

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  • technology Technology Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    This is too easy to hit on accident. If your phone freezes and you try to turn on the screen too many times in rapid succession - boom 911

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  • technology Technology Google Pixel devices finally have a real default weather app
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I hope it comes to the pixel phones soon. Though I enjoy wunderground it would be nice if that weather widget was more helpful.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's your favorite memory from the early internet?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    It was like 92 or 93 and my dad brought home a computer and didn't know what it could be used for so they just let 7 year old me mess around on it. My year older cousin told me that we could use it to talk to him using instant messaging. When I showed my parents they were blown away.

    Also when I realized the computer they bought had bundled with it DOOM. That was great!

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What music genre or artist changed your life?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Jrock, specifically The Pillows, which lead to dozens of other jrock band discoveries. I don't listen to it much anymore but it defined me and my friends from the years 16-26

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What do you use for a domain registrar?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Is googles renewal price typical across these options in the comments? I think I'm paying 12 per year for my one domain. It's just a .com but I'll also be moving it.

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  • startrek Star Trek Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x02 "Ad Astra Per Aspera"
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I really enjoyed it even knowing the laws wouldn't change in the end since Bashir was still persecuted in ds9 but it's always fun to get a court room trek episode

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  • videos Videos Economist Fact-Checks Johnny Harris
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Thanks for posting this. Its really interesting, I find some of Johnny's videos engaging but I didn't know there was some push back to his methods or conclusions.

    I do like the idea of peer reviewed YouTube videos and this econ professor was really thorough.

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  • gaming Gaming Steam code giveaway
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    I think I have most of these from humble or epic free. But thanks for being so generous .

    Edit: maybe rise of industry

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  • technology Technology The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Just using firefox android's Add Site To Homepage button for lemmy has worked pretty well for me. i have jeroba but i like the web app a little better. i am open to trying newer lemmy apps as they come out though.

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  • games Games [VERGE] Overwatch 2’s new story missions will be paywalled
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Honestly I would prefer they paywall the pvp and f2p the pve.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What podcasts do you recommend?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    The skeptics guide to the universe and The Omnibus are two of my favorites.

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  • fatherverse fatherverse let's kick things off with a meme
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Does this daddit-like community encompass predaddit as well? First kid is due in oct.

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  • fatherverse fatherverse Father's day plans?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    My first thought would be busse woods in elk grove or a similarly large and fun outdoors forest preserve. I live out near Aurora these days but busse was always a fun place to grill, bike, and rent a paddle boat or something. Similar vein, Naperville riverwalk. Tons to do and eat.

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  • gaming Gaming What are you playing this week?
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    Diablo, overwatch, RimWorld depending on if friends are available or how much free time I have

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  • technology Technology I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
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  • falinter falinter 1 year ago 100%

    plus it felt like a lot of stuff got curated and posted by super users around the big subreddits. it felt like there were like the same 20 peoples posts getting most of the attention. at least here theres the potential for more diverse view points and posts from different instances.

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