Someone resurrected a 2023 thread. My homeowner's insurance went up 60% for 2024. You would be hard pressed to find any homeowner in the Minneapolis metro area that didn't get at least a 25%...
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Someone resurrected a 2023 thread. My homeowner's insurance went up 60% for 2024. You would be hard pressed to find any homeowner in the Minneapolis metro area that didn't get at least a 25%...
I never add sealant when the fitting already has sealant on it. I haven't had a leak with a fitting like that in my memory.
A teacher when I was in parochial school was naturally "big boned". She looked overweight no matter her actual weight. She ate almost nothing because she didn't want to look fat. She ended up...
My mom always packed lunch for the family when we went on family road trips. We always did vacations via car. I don't recall ever being on a plane as a kid except when my father was transferred...
I don't know who finished the basement in my current house. Probably a previous homeowner. The electrical had all kinds of issues. I've probably pulled more electrical permits myself than since...
The usual modification is to put rubber flaps on the impeller that sends snow out the chute.
It is very common for businesses to pay by the page for printing. That has been a thing since copiers got popular. Businesses can buy the equipment and pay a fee for toner and maintenance for each...
Five Guys has been expensive for a long time. It was already $10 for a burger before COVID. I haven't been in years, but my co-worker and I would share the fries as they are a huge portion.
One failure of a product does not mean there is a widespread problem. I would report it to the CPSC. There is a reporting link on the home page on cpsc.gov. They will have the...
Non-competes make sense in a few positions where the employee is likely to take a lot of the businesses' customers with them if they leave and get a job nearby, but those are very rare use cases. I...
The good news for me is the Xerox chipped toner cartridges seem to print until the toner actually runs out. One or two of my toner cartridges are from when the printer was new over a dozen years ago...
Laser printers definitely have chips too. I had a chip fail in a generic cartridge in my Xerox color laser printer. The cartridge manufacturer replaced the cartridge, but the second cartridge...
The reason for no PO Boxes is almost always because the company doesn't use USPS for delivery. Fedex, UPS, and the others are not allowed to deliver to a PO Box.
I live semi-rural and luckily the...
I requested a text message when a critical package was delivered by USPS. I happened to see the mail truck when it stopped at my mailbox. The mail truck hadn't moved more than ten feet when I got...
The first HP Deskjet printers became available in 1988. They were intended to provide higher print quality than dot matrix at a lower price than laser printers of the day. I started college in 1990...
I was buying the Microsoft wheel mouse optical every five or six years for long after Microsoft discontinued them. I really liked them and bought my last one still in the box on EBay. I know what...
I pay $25.30 per month on my cable bill for broadcast networks. It seems crazy that I can watch broadcast TV for free with an antenna, but it costs me $25.30 for broadcast TV just because I have...
My parents got basic cable in 1991. This included just the broadcast stations plus QVC and the like. The broadcast stations still had commercials. I think when people say cable originally had no...
It wasn't a training class on how to use a Mac. It was a training class on a software product that can be run on Mac, PC, or a Linux server. They used Macs as the clients for the training class. ...
The Apple mouse currently being sold could technically be considered a single button mouse. All I know is when I took the training class about a decade ago the Macs used did not have a way to right...
Amazon doesn't really count for those wanting to ship something. Amazon only ships for companies that sell through their platform.
The issue with EBay is once the tracking number is attached to an order EBay marks it as shipped. If you print the label through EBay's shipping system the tracking number is automatically added to...
It isn't that Mac doesn't support right click. The older single button mice had no way to easily do a right click like with a two button mouse. You had to so something special to do a right click. ...
A big difference between the Windows and Mac interfaces is a lot of the stuff is reversed between the two. The window control buttons are on the opposite side of the window. Someone who can close a...
I have had an EBay seller create a label with Fedex and not actually ship the item for over two weeks. Many EBay sellers will rush to create a shipping label even if they don't actually ship the...