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after getting owned by intuits bs 2 years in a row, I went to an accountant. $70/y, he does EVRYYHING, no gotyas or bs. I walk in or drop off all the papers he needs, he asks me a bunch of questions, files everything, I leave with all my federal, state, and local taxes filed. he guarantees a backup, I get a envelope with everything in it labels nicely, and if I ever get audited, he guarantees that he will handle all of the audit procedures as part of the cost, no extra cost.

that type of easy service and peace of mind is just toooo good for only $70. blows my mind that everyone doesn't do it.

yup. lfp can cycle every day for over 12 years and still retain 80% capacity. there are a number of home battery vendors doing 5 year 5000 cycle/80% capacity warranties for their LFP batteries already on the market.

I feel like TX is doing more to push for energy independence than any other single organization in the country. the grid incompetence, and governments unwillingness to resolve, is the best driver for household battery and solar I can this of.

I don't live in TX, but if I didn't have 1day battery storage, coupled with solar capability to charge that battery to full in a single day, with a generator as backup, every ounce of effort would be going to that.

as one of those people, it sticks to drove 30m one way to get to a ups store. I already avoid Amazon because returning items is such a hassle, and about 1/3 items has to be returned because damage, false advertising (getting a product other than what was listed/depicted), or wrong measurements listed on product description or any of the other many issues. most products people won't do pickup at my house already, ups stores are a pain. I hate the whole Amazon return ecosystem.

how do does the federal government calculate all your deductions? do they have every transaction you make every year on file?

not sure what TurboTax charges, but I pay $70 for fed , state, and local prep and filing.

you do not have to pay. you can do it for free by yourself. there is just a lot of papers, and the language used is confusing to people and they choose to get assistance.

it's not commercially available yet, but I imagine 5d storage would be best data density.

why not a multiple of the poverty line. there is already a mechanism in place to have this updated annually and accounta for inflation.

I have had the exact opposite experience. googlefi was terrible coverage and more expensive than t-mobile. I switched from Google fi to Verizon, 2 years of Verizon was HORRIBLE, the. I switched to att for 2 years, then I just switched to t-mobile this spring and it's been sunshine and roses. costs me less each month, unlimited everything, and the best coverage of any cell carrier to date.

I exclusively shop using the prime label. even then, I still never get my stuff on time and half of it is junk / not what I bought. I think MAYBE 1/5 packages come within 2 days. it's also frustrating because Amazons estimated delivery is always 2 days, and some times it arrives on day 3 or day 4 or day 5, and they never tell me or update the estimated date. when I buy 200$ worth of stuff, I want to make sure it isn't out in the rain and sun getting destroyed, but they can't even tell me when it arrives.

I expect this change will only make it worse.

I don't see it. I looked into moving this year, house prices have stayed flat in my area and haven't gone down. rates are double my current, and house prices are huge. a move for me would mean nearly 30% increase in monthly payments for a comparable home in a comparable location. we opted not to move and will try again in a few years

I use kubuntu as my daily driver for work for a little over 2 years now. I still run into daily issues that just make me not want to use it for my personal desktop os.

I fret Everytime I update, yet I must update due to work. but I have to schedule and plan those updates so that when the whole thing takes a shit, I can spend 2 or 3 hours fixing it. Just using the built in update utility, or apt upgrade, or really anything runs about a 10-20% chance of shit breaking. (I didn't do the math)

audio experience is terrible all around, and Bluetooth and wifi use out the box, is meh at best for range and stability.

I've tried a dozen distros to see if the grass is greener somewhere else, it isn't, and I have to work, I don't have an hour every day to fiddle, I have to bill clients.

good support is almost non existent, IF you get help, it's from some greater than thou righteous asshole who suggests you just rewrite the drivers yourself and create a pull request.

while I agree it is close, there is a still a LOT of 'polish' that needs to come where I will feel confident that hitting update doesn't ruin my day, and that when I'm done with a stress filled day of work, I'll be able to boot up and play my games without having to troubleshoot for an hour first.

wish for and expect are two different things. I wish the war in Ukraine would end tomorrow, I don't expect it will though.

while China invading Taiwan is not a guarantee, it is certainly highly probable. this risk should be taken into account by the us government

you don't have to break even on implementation. you will get billed every single year, so if you can have two dudes solve this in 3 months, you can break even in 3 years and every year after that you saved money

because they don't have to be. when you own 20% of the entire Internet, you can just do whatever you want, very few can compete

these reasons, and not having full control over hardware are why I haven't been able to make this work for me. I wish there was a better ecosystem for Linux phones that do give you true root and full control over your phone, os, and hardware

I love and use discord daily. I totally understand why it is "winning".

I just wished it used an open protocol, and allowed its content to be indexed. I dislike proprietary as a principal, and I get that discord isn't going to open it's secret sauce, but at least allow the discord moderators to click a box that will index text channels for search engines and future people trying to solve the problem that's pinned on you faq I. your discord channel without having to join your discord channel. (mostly for when that discord channel goes away in the future, lal that knowledge isn't completely lost"

I have one of these and they work well, my only issue is display support is limited. running this with a secondary display isn't currently support, you will have to write that yourself. also, window scaling and resizing of windows is not fully supported and you have issues with normal daily use at a screen that size.

if you are 100% sold on a single 3.5" screen and no gui, then it will work. outside of that, it's a novelty item

I am really close to buying the astro slide for this reason. they plan to support debian, and I'm just waiting for the day that they say debian is fully supported to buy one.

so let me get this straight. One of the world's largest targets fell victim to one of the world's largest, best resourced, and practiced state sponsored groups, and they kept the dwell time down to ONLY one month?

who the fuck does this senior think he is saying negligent. if they were negligent they would have ignored the tip of, or would not have been able to find them, or not be able to give them the boot with confidence, or not be able to identify scope of impact.

if anything, this makes me MORE comfortable storing my shit with MS

while I agree that fines for breaches should be more frequent and severe, it's impossible to guarantee security

I want. a search engine that remembers my preferences, and I can then click an ignore entire domain option, and never see that domain in search results even again. is there such a thing?

current home owners who sell, end up buying another home most of the time. there isn't any significantly less inventory. housing shortage comes from more.people wanting to buy homes, and new inventory lagging the increase in want to be buyers

I'd hardly say they have been having success in engines either. they can't get working engines to ULA and they keep exploding on the test stand. they also can't seem to hit a deadline they set for themselves.

an honest manufacturer would advertise the fuel economy you can expect day to day, rather than the fuel economy of a perfect test scenario.

car manufacturers have been overstating range/fuel economy since the dawn of time. people are tuned to look at those numbers and think "in perfect lab conditions." and no one expects these numbers to be their day to day numbers

most battery tech dies at the "can it be manufactured en mass" stage.

they implement features.only supported by chromium. see google meets blur background.

I use chromium for one reason. work requires Google meets as our meeting software. I require the ability to blur my background. I hate installing third party plugins. therefore brave is my browser

it has been my experience that this isn't true. I worked at a fortune 100 that dumped millions into GCP, and they did not offer any type of support for GCP. we had to purchase support through a third party.