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Our first home was in a 7 unit townhome complex with a HOA. Complete opposite problem, we could not get people to vote to raise dues, even though we had a delinquent account and our expenses were 95% of our dues.

Me and my wife ended up having to manage everything, she was accountant, I did snow removal when the snowfall was not enough to trigger the company we hired to come out, vendors contact, etc. It got to be a lot.

We kept looking around and seeing the major maintenance headaches coming in the next decade and the utter lack of savings by the association and it was scary. We ended up leaving and now we have no HOA. We are still treasurer and snow removal though.

My in laws are in an HOA and their board is obsessed with preemptive maintenance. They are redoing siding on every property over the next few years and assessing more than ten thousand dollars a unit. Utter insanity and waste.

I have other friends and family who have no particular feelings about their HOA, so apparently they are not all evil, but man is it tough to believe.

I play the game with SiriusXM to only pay the intro price and listen to that 90% of the time I am in the car. XM has a weird collection of DJs, some are obnoxious or grating, but also after many years of listening to them they feel like people I know.

The local NPR backed station the Current is good but their audio quality is terrible, even their HD stream is muffled and wonky. They also eliminated many of the DJs I had grown to like and I never got that same connection with their replacement, which definitely impacted how I listen.

We watched the Australian Episode of Everybody Feed Phil, and Mel Brooks made an appearance. He seemed a bit old but when I looked him up on Wikipedia I was shocked to learn he was 99. Still working, still funny, what a life.

Haven't encountered that yet, but probably something I will need to solve. I started with just a few newsletters I already subscribed to with Kill the Newsletter that never had that problem, I need to research what the various sending frameworks do to track opens these days.

This looks nice. Ran through a 5 question Go scenario and got 4/5 right. Which feels about right with my current depth of knowledge.

One of the very first pieces of code I wrote when I was figuring out if I liked development was a flashcard program to help me study in college. I really wish I still had that code.

I built my own version of Kill the Newsletter. Been testing it with various newsletters. Learning that a lot of the popular email newsletters are horrific, but if you have any, popular or ones only two people read that you like, I want to know!

I also bought some steel table legs and rebuilt our kitchen table and bench yesterday. The table came with wooden legs that always seemed unstable, I would confidently stand on my table now.

It seems fairly obvious that the "identity" portion of this is more important than the actual cost of providing the storage. Though maybe more folks than I imagine can hit the 5GB limit quickly. I have emails dating back to 2008 and just calculated I am only using 8.5GB. I keep everything so getting down to 5GB would be a hassle more than a challenge.

I would argue that Google really wants to earn your storage dollars. Their constant notifications on my device warning me I was low on space is what drove me to Immich.

The fact that this also shuts off access to many public library Ebooks on these devices should be getting more press. My wife exclusively uses her Kindle for library books and it looks like it will be impossible to get legally acquired library books onto her device from our library system, which is using libby/overrdrive.

My eyes.

This is the way.

I have been using HA to water my garden for 4 summers. I setup a Tempest weather station this fall, and will have some fun experimenting with using rain and temperature data collected in my back yard to make watering decisions.

I would be curious what a $5 hetzner or equal vps could handle. Is pandas docs that busy?

That said, free is no longer free if you have to worry this much about it.